Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 46, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 29, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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THE BJtLL OOf WTY MBMOCRAT
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Bell County Democrat
■tfsMiak** is i*ft.
P«MUM Br
ftcMcrit riMlsfelai Company.
(Incorporated)
DIRECTORS:
B. M. Ray, Pre ., W. S. Hunter, Vtco
Pres., C. B. Smith, Sec-Treas.,
O«o. W. Trier, T. W. Cochran.
W. M. WOODALL, MtUffr.
SUBSCRIPTION, «oc. PER YEAR
Entered at th« Belton Poctoffice a* Sec-
ond Claw Matl Matter.
Democrat Stock Holders.
W. S. Hunter
J. D. Law
M. P.McElhannon
T. L. Means
J. Z. Miller, Sr.
A. M. Monteith
J. Z. Miller, Jr.
J. C. Preston
S. M. Ray
J. H. Reesa
Hosea Robinson
C. B. Smith
N. K. Smith
M. A. Stamper
B. R. Stockinf
Geo. W. Tyler
Dr. W. A. Wilson
V. K. Austin
Frank Baker
K. C. Clabaujfh
T. W. Cockran
Geo. W. Cole, Jr
T. A. Cook
A. L. Curtis
W. P. Denman
Coleman Eads
K. R. Ereratt
J. P. Elliott
G. M. Felts
Roy Hammersmith
Dr. C. Freeman
C. S. Fisher
J. M. Frazier
J. H. Head
Thos. Yarrell
Notice To Sabicribers.
When ordering an addrem changed from one
poatottce to another it in absolutely nece**ary
that the former addresa be given before the
change can be made. Please keep thin in mind.
Commercial Clnb Banquet.
Arrangements have been com
pleted for the banquet to be giv-
en by the Commercial Club. The
committee having in charge the
details have everything well in
baud, and it is expected to be an
occasion of much pleasure and
profit. The affair will be differ-
ent from the usual, as the club
has decided to invite the ladies
whose husbands, fathers and
brothers are members of the
club. There will be some splen-
did short talks on Belton's past,
present and future, beside many
imuromptu toasts, and in this
connection it is proposed to place
on the program some of the lad-
ies, and of course this will be the
special feature of the evening.
It was originally intended to
have the banquet on the night of
January first, but there being so
many other counter attractions,
the directors of the club have de-
cided to change the date to Jan
which will be next Tuesday
night.
Dr. J. M. Frazier will be mas-
ter of ceremonies, and Judge X.
B. Saunders will de've into the
past and tell of the many ups
and downs of the town and its
people during ttye last quarter of
a century. Hon. Jno. D. Robin
son will give a short address on
Belton's present, enumerating
the attainments which go to
make up our commercial life.
Belton's future will be turned
over to the club at large and that
is the.subject which will be the
most interesting of all. Lewis
Cox will haye his orchestra on
hand and dispense sweet strains
of music to the delight of all
present.
It is well to remind the people
in this connection that the t c-
casion should be given right-of-
way, and everybody give atten-
tion to the success of the ban-
quet. Don't make any arrange-
ments that will conflict, as it is
the desire of the club to make
this the key note to a prosperous
year in the commercial history
of Belton. _
the country, and it mnst have
roads. The utility of the machine
has proven itself so thoroughly
that the country merchant, the
farmer and even the stockman
have adopted the "clean and
quick" way of "getting there and
getting back."
Well, every pother's son of an
auto user is ,swearing by the
good roads movement which i
few "fool, wheel-rollin' fellers'
put on foot a third of a century
ago. About a decade ago there
was a wheelman's good roads
organization, having members in
every state in the union—some
two hundred and fifty in Texas
which numbered a quarter of
million of the livest young and
middle aged men of this country
The campaign for good roads
which they set on foot is the
same campaign, grown to such
magnitude, that is now sweeping
al. over the United States.
This campaign is the livest is-
sue before the people. Of course,
the wheelman and autoist is
working for himself, but after
all, the campaign for good roads
is of much greater import to the
man who lives on the road than
it is to the man who occasionly
passes that way. There is hard
ly a product of the farm which
does not cost considerably more
to get it to the railway station
than it costs to g3t it carried
across the continent by the rail-
ways.
The merchant, while he has a
smaller financial gain in view
from the improvement of the
highways than the|rural resident,
must take up the educational
campaign. He has opportuni-
ties to meet and talk to people
every day and every hour, and
opportunity carries with it re
sponsibility.
Are you into the campaign for
a higher civilization, and a great
er enjoyment of life for all of us?
COOPER AND THE RAILWAYS.
Prominent Citizen of Hillsboro Gives
Views on Railroad Situation.
MAKING A TIGER SIT DOWN.
Methods Used to Train the but far
•haw Purpesaa.
Fifteen feet of slack rope were
rmitted the animal as the trainer
S
" WEST FOISTS MIL
Ta Make the Best Citiaans as Wall aa
the Best Seldlera.
The cadet of today has to learn
a good many more things than did
reefed him once more to the seat, j his predecessors. He is not merely
The Good Roads Movement.
Texas Triuli Review.
Way back in the seventies, the
old ordinary bicycle stirted an
agitation for good roads which
never let up, but which, for its
very magnitude, has moved slow-
ly. In the first place, the cost
of good roads to the then sparse
population was positively prohibi-
tive. But the wheelmen, no-
thing daunted,"kep eve •lasting-
ly at it," and as the safety came
on, the agitation took on a nation-
w de scope, and the fact be an
to be recognized that civilization
offered but little to the commun-
ity which was not largely nullifi-
ed by bad roads. Following the
safety bicycle, which has become
a beast of burden which must be
reckoned with in every part of
the country, came the 'automo-
bile. For the past decade the
multiplying hosts of autoists
have been wagigg a coasoless
warf ire against thepo o.1 roads.
When the auto became to be rec-
onized as a necessary factor in
our stage of advancement, and a
force in the commercial and fin-
ancial world, not to say in the
material advancement of the na-
tion, its argu nent for the better-
ment of public highways, added
to the cumulative pounding of
the wheelmen, has brought the
people all over the country round
with a jerk. It is now the day of
auto-propulsion for the business
man's and the tourist's carriage.
In the cities, the use of the auto-
car has been found one of the
greatest sanitary movements yet
made in the advance to more
sane environments. Then, too,
the smaller room in which a car
with one or a dozen people may
quickly move about, has settled
the status of the machine there.
The city machine wants to go to
Permit me to quote from the
Austin correspondent to one of the
great dallies of the country of the
Sih Inst.
The correspondent says: "If all the
railroad projects now on foot In Tex-
as there will be several hundred
miles of new track built in this state
during the coming year." The ir-
eiatlng "if" will be noted. Why
should the correspondent feel appre-
hensive lest these 'railroad projects'
may not be 'carried out.'. Other
states about Us are building railroads
and erecting manufactories, why not
Texas? Why should the nauseating
"if" potrude Itself? Let me call the
attention of the people of Texas to
the fact that there are now fifty-five
counties in this state with not a
mile of railroad in them. There are
fifty other counties with less than
twenty miles of road each. A citizen
may have his home in Texas and be
one hundred miles from his nearest
shipping point.
Certainly, it does appear that Tex-
as Is an inviting field for the Invest
ment of capital and building of rail-
ways. If ever a state stood In need
of railways it is Texas. One half of
Hie state is practically without rail-
way f.ieilitles, Some of the roads are
scarcely paying expenses while oth-
ers are being operated at an actual
loss. Rut what do wo hear? We
hear of one per cent tax on the gross
earnings of the roads which, however,
by an Intelligent coure has been rele-
gated. We hear of an Intangible tax
on railways that Is a tax on some-
thing that may or may not be enesse,
tlT« apparent purpose of the law be.
hip to make money rightfully if it
an, but If not to make money.
We hear of a desire upon the part
rf some i Mitleman of prominence to
reduce the passenger rate from three
to two and two and a half cents per
mile. Pome of these gentlemen, are
of course, candidates for office, or
will be in due season, possibly can-
didate for governor. T.et me say this
to the people of Texas, that the night
mare of this state today Is the result
of a surfeit of policies and demagog-
ues. The people emerge from one
political stadium to enter hopelessly
tfe gateway of another, and the tur-
moil, unrest and .bitterness never
prase. The politicians do the exploit-
ing and the masses foot the bill. We
have too much politics. We have too
much legislation. The legislature of
Te::as ought never to meet only on
a call of the governor by and with
the advice and concurrence of the
htads of the departments.
Meanwhile, taxes Increase, while
values decrease. What this state
needs is more steel rails and less po-
litical railway: more corn and less
•Mistical cant; mora poultry and less
•lollilcla'in: more steam whistles and
'<-fs political calliopes: more Poland-
Chtni hog and less political hell.
L. X. COOPER.
Hillsboro Texas.
and once more he failed to under-
stand. Then, says a writer in Ev-
erybody's Magazine, the order to
hoist was given, and as the men
pulled the tiger felt the collar tight
en about his neck. His head grad
fially was lifted up until his fore
legs Jeft the ground, and he pranced
on his hind paws. With the fear of
strangulation and the instinct ol1
self preservation, his brain became
a mental mud puddle. He beat the
air with his fore paws, whirled
squirmed and wriggled in a vain ef-
fort to get out of the collar that
clutched his throat. Every 'move-
ment of his body brought him near-
er to the seat over which hung the
block and tackle. When he reach-
ed it an assistant grabbed his tai
through the bars of the cage ant
pulled him toward the little stool,
while the trainer punched ^him
against it wkh the iron bar.
"Swing him clear of the ground,
he called. "We'll make him take
that aeat. All together now!" And
as the men laid their combined
weight on the rope the big cat was
hoisted until his hind legs dangled
two feet above the floor, dancing a
madman's jig. The helpless, chok-
ing brute fought the useless fight
of a fish out of water. Had not the
muscles over his throat been like
solid rubber tires he would have
strangled as he curled hia body into
a coil, trying to escape the weight
that hung from hia own neck.
With much pushing and hauling
the struggling beast finally was
landed on the seat. But the mo
ment he felt support under his feet
he leaped for the floor. He was mc-t
by the trainer, who walloped the
sore, sensitive nose with the hick-
ory handle of his whip and follow
ed this up by firing the burning
powder of a blank cartridge straight
into the nostril. The tiger turned
to run, but the trainer yelled, "Lift
him, boys!" And as the crew threw
their weight fin the rope the beast's
head and fore legs were yanked
from the ground, nnd he pranced
along for a few steps with only the
claw3 of his hind feet touching the
l>oards. When the momentum of
his own body had carried him clear
of the floor he swung back, sus-
pended in the air, more like a life-
less tiger skin .than a blood filled
beast of flesh and sinew.
Tragedy of a Kite.
He had not known her very long,
>ut as she stood in the ^noonlight a
white dress and a blue sash sot off
ler figure so well that he thought he
had never see.n a pretfier pictyire.
And then he did an awful thing—
he kissed her. The innocent girl
shrank from him in horror, and the
young man realized that he had
gone too far. Indeed, as the pant-
ing girl strove to collect herself suf-
ficiently to express the scorn surg-
ing in her bosom the young man
thought of the beating he must en-
dure the next day from her father
and brothers and of the long ac-
counts of the fight that would ap-
pear in the newspapers. Fortunate-
ly he had his hat in his hand and
turned to go. But the girl struggled
to speak. She would express her
contempt for his action though it
killed her. "When," she said in a
low, faltering voice, full of deep
seated hatred, "are you coming
again? —Atchison Globe.
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the face, ne^k, shoulders, and arms.
Benefits and softens the skin and pos-
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pink and brunette. At ail druggists
25c. Sample Free.
SAMOSTZ MFG. CO., Sin Antonio, Tn
Breaking the lea.
Beautiful Ella came into the
room and drew her low seat so close
up to her father's big armchair that
he looked up from his newspaper to
see what was the matter.
"Mr. Wilkins likes you, father,"
she said its soon as she saw that she
had his attention.
"Well, I have beer under the im-
pression for some time that ho liked
some one here," remarked the old
gentleman, "but I've never seen any
indications that I was the one."
"Well,you will-t he very next time
you see Mr. Wilkins," said the beau-
tiful girl, with conviction.
"What's he going to- do?" de-
manded pa.
"lie's going to ask you if you wll'
consent to be his father-in-law,"
explained the beautiful girl.
Expert Evidence.
At the courts a case concerning
motor driving was being heard,
when the chauffeur declared that
when driving at. forty miles an hour
he could, if necessary.pull up in ten
or twelve feet.
"I'm!" said the jndjp>.
Then the next witness—an ex-
pert—gave his evidence.
Said his lordship, "If a motor car
were traveling at forty miles an
hour and the brakes could be put
on in such a manner as to stop it
within ten or twelve feet, where
would the driver go?"
"Depends very much on the sort
of life he'd been living," said the ex-
nnrt.—IOrrnhi'v
Notice.
All M. W. A. are requested
to be on hand first Wednesday
night in January that being the
6th, for the purpose of install-
ation officers and other important
business which will conic up that
night. J. E. Robeuson.
V. C.
G. A. Vandykk.
Ch rk.
marched about the parade in smarts
drdls, dressed in tight uniforms, as
of yore, but has to go out on prac-
tice marches in full campaign outfit,
to groom horses, harness pack mules,
carry light artillery up mountain
sides for artillery practice, dig
trenches, live in shelter tents, quali-
fy at the target ranges, make topo
graphical maps in the field, visit the
great arsenals, practice with heavy
guns at the seacoast forts, work out
tactical problems under arms—ad-
vance guards, outposts and minor
tactical maneuvers—all this practi-
cal work in addition to the regular
drills, field engineering, pontooning
and signaling. In his academic study
he has had to learn a great deal
of electrics, ordinance construction,
sanitation, new engineering meth-
ods, mapmaking and building con-
struction that had no existence in
the old course, and his studies are
being remodeled along the lines of
the most advanced* technological
schools, but with special reference to
military requirements. Then he must
learn to read and speak Spanish,
besides acquiring a good knowledge
of French and of technical drawing.
He must know military and consti-
tutional law well and something
about common law, about chemis-
try, the laws of mechanics, accous-
tics, optics and astronomy, and, of
course, this means a good founda-
tion in mathematics.
But, above all, the academy seeks
to make a man of him—a sound,
healthy, high minded, well disci-
plined citizen and soldier—and, like
the Greeks and Romans of old,
West Point esteems the making of
character, together with the vigor
and discipline of the body, as of
equal importance with mind train-
ing. It undertakes that he shall
be kept away from dissipal:ons and
shall have a healthy, well developed
body, that he shall be held respon-
sible for every act and word, that
he shall understand the laws of his
country and his duties as a citizen
and that he shall know hie job as a
soldier. "The corps" sees to it that
he is held to the traditions of honor,
truth telling, courage and fair play,
which are its heritage from the
past.—Colonel Larned in St. Nich-
olas.
Fresh Coffee Cakes every day
at Graves City Bakery.
Memory, Not Mystery.
"Memory can play the strangest
of tricks," says a specialist, "and it
it resjymsible for not a few super
stitious fears in sensitive people.
"A lady once told me that she
found herself at times in places
where her surroundings seemed to
have been known to her before,
though she knew that she had never
been there previously. Probably
you Mill recognize this experience,
which is common enough. How
many people, when reading or lis-
tening to a conversation, become
vaguely conscious that they have
read the passage or heard the iden-
tical words in 'the dim, long past!'
"It is not a haunting mystery, but
just a way that memory has. In-
numerable impressions of the most
trivial things are stored in the brain
and will cone out when called upon.
In the lady's case she had probably
seen a picture of the scene at sorr*
time, and a view of the actual p'.ice
produced memory's feeble effort to
recall it."
They Kept Large Collars.
One hot day in the summer of
1901 ex-Spcakcr Reed was in Ports-
mouth, N. II., and, having to wait
over for a train; he decided to make
an impromptu toilet, changing his
collar, etc. So he hied himself to
the nearest haberdasher's and began
a general survey of the collar dis-
play in the store.
'Waited on, sir?" queried one of
f na PlPf IfC
'Not yet," responded Reed. "I
would like a collar."
"What size ?"
"Size twenty."
"We don't keep collars so large,
but 1 think you may be accommo-
dated three stores above."
Reed went to the third' store
above. It was a harness shopi
Only a Watchdog.
A man was excitedly relating to a
friend the harrowing details of a
burglary in his house the night be-
fore.
"A mo*t daring robbery," ex-
claimed the outraged man. "It was
still early. My wife and I had not
retired, and Susie and her young
man were in the parlor. Our dog
was in the dining room. Despite
all this that crook had the nerve to
enter the dining room and rifle it of
every bit of silver we had. Not sat-
isfied, he even stole the clock off the
mantelpiece. What do you think of
that?"
"Well," said the friend, "I don't
see what else you could expect. Fido
is only a watchdog, you know."—
UnltimnrA American.
Turkeys and Eggs Wanted.
Whether you hold or sell we
will pay you as much as anyone.
We guarantee 9 cents per pound
for turkeys this week.
J. R. Donnelx. & Sons.
At the Creamery, Belton, TexasJ
A * t
Dime Saved
IS TWO DIMES MADE
I
Removal Sale
As a Reminder We Will Offer
For The Next Ten Days
One
Flour
Sack Good
$1.25
8 Pounds Good Coffee
$i,oo
Call And See Us For Anything
in the Grocery Line.
You Save a Little on Every Purchase
Shine & Morgan
Bolton - Texas
JAS. F. HAIR
attomemt-uw
Practice in All The Courts Ex-
cept Recoreer.
Office Over Safleys Belton, Texas
Dr. Tom Batte
DISEASES OF WOMEN AND
DREN A SPECIALTY.
CHIL-
New Phone No. 187 Old Phone No. 8
DR A. B. GRAIN
Physician And Surgeon
Office Over Hunter & Freeman
Residence Central Hotel
i)ld Phone 312
New Phone 137
E.C.Clabaugh
& Co.
(incorporated)
Real Estate, Loans
Abstracts
«■' We have a Complete Abstract
of Bell County Land Titles
BELTON,
TEXAS
J. M. FRAZIER, M. D.
Uni. of Penn.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office hours from 2 to 4 p. m.
3otli Piiones Over Howell's Drug Store
Oeo.'W. Tyler
Wallace Tyler
Tyler & Tyler
Attorneys andCouncellors at Law
Bf Iton, Tuxas
Practice in A!i The Courts
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This remedy can always be depended opnn and
is pleasant to take. It contains no opium or
other harmful drug and may be given as confi-
dently to a baby as to an adult.
Wee 25 cents, large size SO cents.
Miss Mary Vick, of Lampasas;
is a Christinas visitor in the
home of her sister Mrs. Nate
Ensor.
For Sale by Henry Howell, Druggist
EARLY RISERS
The famous little pills-
It has become necessary for us
to move from our present location
to the Ferguson Building on East
Avenue on Jan. 1, and it is onr
desire to reduce our mammoth stock
in time for moving itf and have de-
cided to sell all of our Clothing,
Shoes, etc.
AT COST
for the next fifteen days. This is
an opportunity to buy seasonable
merchandise at sacrifice prices,
and everybody should take advant-
age of the chance.
500 Gallons Pure Ribbon Cane
Syrup just received and will be sold
at a Special Price. Place your ord-
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