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Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-10-30
Simply a Matter Of Industry.

Gonzales county has some indus
trious, well-to-do and prosperous
eolored people. They stand well IN
their community and with people at
large. They are prosperous, con-
tented and surrounding themselves
with not only the necessities CT lie,
but some of the luxurics. One OF
these prosperous colored men Is \.
C. White. living on Elm Slough,
about three miles east OF town.
Nokc brought to the Inquirer OIL
fee Saturday can OF sorghum
syrup made by him of cane grown
by him. He SAYS he will have about
25O gallons and is also making
syrup for his neighbors. The syrup
is of good quality and equal to any
you can get in the market. He says
he can find ready sale for it at ~
cents per gallon. He also has
shout half acre Of sugar cane ne
will work up later. He SAYS the
zane is of fine growth this season
and he expects TO increase his acre
age next year. Noke SAYS raising
,nes own syrup beats buying 1t,
and especially during hard crop
,ear. What Noke is doing for him
,elf and his race Others could do if
hey would.-Gonzales Enquirer.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-10-30
They Have Come to Stay.
Lexington, Oklahoma

Farm and Ranch charges Prof
W. D. Hunter. in charge OF the boil
wecvil investigation by the depart
ment of agriculture. with having
knocked another prop from the cot
ton growers hopes. 1t has been
widely published. and as widely be-
lieved. that the wecvil is a migrat-
ing pest, merely passing over the
country. and as it cncroaches upon
new territory towards the north
and east, disappears from the sec
tons first attacked. Prof. Hunter
recently sent an assistant to invest
igate this matter in Nueces county,
one OF the first counties ravaged by
the pest, and oftenest alluded to
as being now free from boil weeyils.
From Corpus Christi to Sharpsburg
many fields were examined and
weevils in abundance found. In
fact, they proved to be more num-
erous than for several wears. lheir
apparent disappearance Is explained
thus: Long periods OF dry weather
are unfavorable to the wecvll.
When two or moro dry wears follow
each other. the wecvil becomes per
ceptibly scarcer. Recent droughty
years had that effect and produced
the impression named. Prof. Hun
ter saws: The wccyils have not
left Nucces county or that vicinity.
Moreover in Mexico. where the pest
has been known for nearly three
quarters of century. no indica-
tons of its diving out have been oh
served in any locality that it has
once reached. In the light of our
present knowledge there seems no
possibility that the Texas cotton
planters are ever TO be aided by a
migration of the pest" Therefore
it is the part OF wisdom for farmers
to ponder deeply the subject of
crop diversifcation. There are
many crops that can be grown that
are more profitable than cotton,
and surer to produce under untay-
orable conditions.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-10-30
For Sale or Exchange

ApsshS
one Two-story Brick Hotel with
Z, store rooms on first floor building
7sxIo5 feet. Location on corner
Broadway and Main street, in the
prosperous little city of Lexington,
Oklahoma of 1900 population, To-
Gated one mile from SantaF e depot,
Frisco R, R. survey just completed
through the town which will build
at once. This Hotel has p rooms
besides the Office, dining room,
kitchen and sample rooms, is now
running and doing splendid bust
ness; the combined building is
bringing $4,000 per month rent or
1850. 90 per year; it is the best
piece of property in town, it is new
and cost $4,000. Will sell for
cash or exchange for Plains land.
Prefer land near Canyon City,
Hale Center or Lubbock; must be
smooth and we'll grassed. Prefer
unimproved land. If you mean
business, address
LOCK BOX 27o,
Lexington, Oklahoma.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-10-30

Attorney General Grove Of Mis-
,ouri, ms instituted an inycstiga-
lion into the methods employed by
Tol. X. G.. kerens TO secure the Re
publican nomination last January
Tor the Office Of Unitde States SEN
itor.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-10-30

TO TRADE FOR FEED:-A
4x5 Camera and outfit;a breech-
loading Shotgun; % cal. Win
chester; Il good stock saddle;
an Avery pillow and several other
farm implements, at this Office.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07
SERVANTS IN ECUADOR.
When You Hire One, You Must Take
 Her Family, Too.
Philadelphia Record.

IIlIduelpllld Record.
 If you were living in Ecuador and wish ed to hire servant you could hardly get one by himself or herself but would De compelled to take up with a drove or them. probably far communicating your own family For example. with cool, you would have to receive her husband and children, and perhaps also her father and mother, into your house to bed and board, and each would bring along all his or her portable property, consisting mainly of domestic pets. such as pigs, chickens. rabbits, dogs and other Tive stock"
 The husband may have some trade which he follows during the day, but at meal times and when night comes he re- turns to the bosom of his family and yours It would be considered downright tnhumanity to refuse them food and shelter. and not a servant in Ecuador would work for so mean a master or mistress. The children of your cook may he utilized for light service. such as run ming errands. weeding the garden and tending the baby. but the numerous brood is apt to he light fingered" and certain to be lousy, dirty and probably diseased. There is no help for 1t, however. because
 eI costumbre" has decreed that for ev-, cry servant you hire you must expect at least dozen extra mouths to feed
 Nor Is this the worst of it. Occasion ally the cooks relatives from another village come to pay her a visit of fortnight CT two-lasting as long as you will tolerate it. men. women and chil- dren, bringing more dogs. pigs. chickens. etc. to be housed and fed Fortunately they are not accustomed to "downy beds or ease or sumptuous living, but con- sider themselves in clover if plentfully supplied with beans. cornmeal and po- tato soup. and will sleep contentedIy on the stones of the patio or the straw of the stable. The danger Is that some Of the stranger hangers-on may not be as honest as the cook herself is supposed to be. and cases are known where thieves and even murderers thus gained admis- sion to the inside of the casa. with dis astrous results.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07

hands of his brother, Max Herzka, of 1so Broadway, for exploitation in America Max Herzka made trip to Germany and brought back with him several sam pie instruments. and the inventor. The later speaks not word of English, but he got his American patents in Novem- Der. 1902, and arrangements were at once begun to have the thing made and put on the market in the United States.
 A company has been set on foot with headquarters In the offices of Thomas F. Fftzhugh Lee, counsel for the com rany, as well as one of it's controlling officers. Whether they will make the ap- paratus and put 1t on the market them selves is stn uncertain. They have re- ceived already several fattering offers from some of the few capitalists who nave heard of the invention. So far it has been kept pretty quiet. But the cap italists naturally want to buy the Amer ican rights outright and Messrs. Gruhn, Herzka and Lee are by no means cer- tain that they care to relinquish their interests in what promises to prove a gold mine. But whoever develops it. as it doubtless will be improved. it is go- ing to be a big think for business men to be able to record telephone converse tions, and 1t is going to add tremend- ously to the already tremendous utility of the telephone in business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07
he plans that were formulated a year

the plans that were formulated a year ago can be carried out. Indiana need pay no attention of the Coal Trust, and man. ufacturers need not worry if natural gas suspcnds business. In the northern part of the State arc great swamps. and in these swamps are immense beds of peat and it is declared that the coming fuel of America is peat. Chemists assert that 100 pounds of peat are equal to 95.15 pounds of anthracite coal in heat-giving units. The claim is made for 1t, also. that it Is the cleanest, hottest fuel in the country.
 The peat Is taken out of the swamps passed into conveyors and carried to dry kilns. It is passed through heavy crush CTS. which grind it to a fine degree. and then it is taken to the dryers. About co or 70 per cent. of the stuff is water, and before 1t can be of use this water must be taken out. Up to this time no ma chine has been made that will economi- cally remove this water, but an inventor has one ready and experiments show that 1t will do the work. After the water has been squeezed out the dried peat Is sub mitted to a hydraulic pressure of 4oo00 pounds, and is turned out in small cakes of one-half pound each, in a hardened condition, and is then ready for the mar ket. f
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07
HER WEIGHT IN GOLD.
An Ordinary Woman Isn't Worth Sc
 Very Much After All.

New York Mail and Express.
 The weight of money is very decept- i've" says an employe of the sub-treas- ury. For instance: A young man came in here one day with a young woman. I was showing them through the depart ment, and happened to ask him jokingly if he thought the girl was worth her weight in gold. He assured me that he certainly did think so, and after learn ing that her weight was 106 pounds We figured that she would be worth in gold coin S2S641 The young man was fond enough of her to think that was rather cheap.
 Another thing that deceives many peo- pie, he continued. "is the weight of pa per money. Now. how many one dollar bills do you think 1t would take to weigh as much as a five-dollar gold piece?"
 On a guess the writer said fifty, and the clerk laughed.
 T have heard guesses on that" he said. all the way from fifty to 5o0 and from men who have handled money for years. The fact of the matter Is that with five-dollar gold piece, on one scale you would have to put only six and one half bills fin the other to balance it."
 The question afterward was put to sev- eral friends of the writer and elicitSd an swers ranging all the way from twenty To LuOJ, the majority guessing rom NO to 800
 Taking the weights of gold coins and bills given at the Sub-Treasury. it was figured that a 1ve-dollar gold piece weighs ,29j of an ounce. avOrdupois. The employe at the Treasury who handled the paper money said that loe bills weigh four and one-half ounces. That would make one bill weigh .e1 of an ounce. ana between six and seven bills would bal ance the gold piece.
 On the proposition of how mach money one can lift, figures were obtained at the where certain numbers of coins were placed in bags and weighed as standards. For example, the standard amount for gold coin Is 5000. which weighs IS 1-2 pounds. Five hundred sil- yer dollars weigh 36 1-2 pounds. while $2O0 in halves. or 40J coins. weighs Il pounds.
 Two hundred pounds of coin money of various kinds is made up as follows: Silver dollars. s26l7; half dollars. S,63S; quarter dollars, SS,657; dimes. $.61S.So; nickles Ssl7; pennies. s2e5.
 In one-dollar bills the same weight would amount to S71.l11.
 Many a young mans ability to get along
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07
MONT TGOEnERY GETS THE IMMENSE PAIN PRODUCTION
 Five Nights, Beginning Tuesday Closing BASEBALL ASSOCIATION GROUNDS
PRODUCTION AIMS $ $$$:$: LAST 0oz' oz POMPEII'' I''
FIRE w0R K $

That have been the crowning fea- ture at every important Exposition, Worlds Fair, etc., in America and Europe for years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07

The Kaiser has issued a decree which is the death knell to the black overcoat of the Germ1N officer. After April | only the light gray ove-coats are aGmisS iblc These are worn a good deal already, but many officers still prefer the black coat with its near red collar ana cuffs Ills Majesty decides upon the uni- forms of all his many regiments a but ton or inch of gold braid but has the Kaissr'O consideration and sanction or disapprovaL
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07
FIREW 0RkS Finest and Greatest
 in the World

At the dedication ceremonies of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis recently, MT. Henry ]. Pain again distinguished himself, personally experimenting the larg- est and costliest Fireworks Dis play ever given in the history of pyrotechnics, the cost of which was $55,ooo. Some of these fea- lures will be seen in Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07

Many a young mans ability to get along without brains is due to his fathers money.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-16
PRESIDENT CHARLES W. EI1oToF HARVARD.

PRESIDENT CHARLES ". ELIOT OF HARVARD.
tional methods. There were many OBJ
jections raised to the election of the
young scientist, then but thirty-five
years old, as the head of the college.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, then on
the faculty of the medical school,
wrote in a letter to Motley, the his
torian, regarding the new president:
'Our new president has turned the
whole university over like n fiapjack.
There never was such Il Embarrassment
as that in our medical faculty.
1t is so curious to see n young man
like Eliot, with an organizing brain. a
firm will. grave. calm, dignified pres
ence, taking the ribbons of our classic
al coach and six, feeling the horses
mouths, putting a check on this ones
capers and touching that one with the
lash. turning up everywhere, in every
faculty q belong to three. on every
public occasion, and taking it all as
naturally as if he had been born presi-
dent"
That President Eliot's force of char
acter is fully appreciated in his native
state is illustrated by the following
story: When Governor Crane was chief
executive of Massachusetts he was APP
preached by a delegation of business
men who asked that President Eliot
be appointed one of n commission to
report on the proposed construction of
a dam across the Charles river. The
governor demurred.
"Would you mind stating your objec-
ton to President Elliott" asked the
spokesman.
well" replied the governor, 1.-THE
law says that the commission shall
consist of three men. If 1 appointed
President Eliot there would only be
one"
Dr. Eliot is tall, erect and of courtly
dignity. Years have not robbed him
of the noble bearing of his earlier
years. Outdoor exercise has given
him in his old age the figure and car
rage of youth He is still n poor man
after thirty-four years as head of Har-
ward. He receives a salary of $4,000
and the use of a house and stable. Yet
he holds position which even the pres
ident of the United States aspires to
and which many milIionaires would
prize above wealth. 1t is the reward
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-16

and coloring is reflected in his poems
~Fishing In the Withlacoochie" and
'"The Farmers WILL
Because of his delicate health Ousley
was educated at the A. and NJ. college,
Alabama, where the military features
provided exercise. Here he received Il
classical training. He intended to be
q lawyer, but changed his mind and
struck out for Texas and taught school.
firing of this. he began newspaper
work as n reporter, finally becoming
editor of the Farm and Ranch.
Two years later Mr. Ousley was
made managing editor of the Calves
ton News. In 1898, striking out for
himself, he purchased the Galveston
Tribune, an evening paper, and under
his management that paper became
enc of the most profitable and infuen-
tial afternoon dailies in the state.
After building up the Tribune Mr..
Ousley accepted the managing editor
ship of the Houston Post though still
holding his proprietary interest in the
Tribune. In the larger field covered
by the Post Mr.. Ousley has established
an enviable reputation among newspa-
per workers and managers.
Although having few hours of lei
sure. Mr.. Ousley has given to the
world some charming verse. He is at
his best, perhaps, in his songs of sim
pier things. Among his well known
poems are adam and Eve" in which
he gives a beautiful description of the
garden of Eden. Another poem that
is full of homely sentiment is ''The
Old Man" ''The Little Branch Road"
''Smol1e In His Eyes" and "a Hundred
Millions" are poems that denote the
thinker and dreamer.
There are many moods in Ousley's
verse. He is at times Homeric; at
others he pitches his key to the tune
with which Eugene Field won human
hearts. But in every phase he por-
trays the beautiful, the good and the
true. He is unmarried.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-16
TOOTHBRUSHES.

Booker II. Washington Says That Is
the Tusl<egee Gospel.
al preach the gospel of the tooth
brush You can't civilize without it.
When at our school at Tuskegee after
second and third disappearance the
toothbrush is replaced. as it were, by
it's own motion. we know that saliva
ton is assured. 1 don't care how poor
a man is, when he comes to Tuskegee
he is required to purchase a tooth
brush"
With this statement Booker T. Wash
ington opened his address before the
Women's club in Chicago the other
day, says the New York World.
ITS like the old colored man who
came to me and said: Mr.. Washington.
there's hardly any pig stealing left in
this neighborhood any more, sab.
They've all learned to raise pork, so
they don't have to steal
ave must teach my race the details
of living. We must teach it how to
sleep, how to eat, how TO spend money.
You can find plenty of girls down there
that can locate Picking and the Sahara
on the map, but can't find a carving
knife and fork on n dinner table. You
can go in to many a cabin and find one
fork on the table and n sixty dollar
organ in the corner. They don't know
how to spend their money. They'll buy
an expensive clock when there isn't one
in the family that can tell the time"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-16

all get in circulation through the New
York office.
The great trend of the mail is from
east to west and from the large COM
mercial centers to the less populous
districts. How to recover the mail
bags sent to remote sections and have
them promptly returned to the large
centers long ago became serious
problem. This was solved by desig
Mating certain cities, with adequate
railroad facilities and ample storage
room, as repositories for all surplus
mail bags finding their way to offices
in the surrounding states.
The money order division is one of
the greatest of international clearing
houses. Through its machinery remit
tances may be sent all over the world
at the smallest expense and in the SAT
est manner The number of money
orders issued is still, however, much
below the business done by either Ger
many or England. The former country
does a postal money order business
nearly four times the volume of that
done in this country, while England
overtops us at least 200 per cent. The
pOSldl OLIcI nus DCClA Aell IOi1SCA CSteiO
lished in those countries, and there is
little competition on the part of private
enterprises, as here.
The advance of the foreign mail serv-
ice has kept pace, so far as the cOndi-
tions would allow. with the domestic
service. 1t is only since 1874 that the
postal union has existed which estab-
lished uniform rates and conditions.
Prior to that time the mails with for
eign countries were regulated by sep
arate treaties, providing different rates
with almost every nation. Then the
letter writer had to consult numerous
schedules 10 learn how much he must
prepay and what conditions must be
fulfilled to secure the earliest dispatch.
Now, with the uniform foreign rate
as well known as the domestic, he can
drop his letter into the first box he
comes to with the assurance that it
will go by the quickest route to its
destination, though at the ends of the
earth, and all for the sum of ; cents.
The first head of the postal depart
ment was Samuel Osgood of MaSsa-
chusetts, under President Washington
in 1889. 1t was not until 1920. how
ever. that the postmaster general was
considered cabinet officer, when VIII
liam T. Barry of Kentucky held that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-16

President Charles William Eliot of
Harvard university, who is said to be
the only man envied by President
Roosevelt, is undoubtedly one of the
most fearless individuals in American
public life today. Mr.. Roosevelt. re-
port has il, aspires to become head OF
Harvard when the time comes for him
to leave the White House, and as Presi-
dent Eliot is now past seventy the
qualification of the ambition of the
present chief executive of the United
States may some day be realized.
Like Mr.. Roosevelt. President Eliot
is q man of unfailing candor. He has
the courage of his convictions and
never hesitates to express an opinion
because it may be unpopular. 1t is
his attitude of fearless criticism of ma
tional and local evils that has made
him one of the country's most prOmi-
nent men.
Even before his election to the high
est office in the gift of the overseers
of Harvard college the quality of in
domitable courage made itself felt by
In 1853, five years after his gradua-
ton from Harvard. while he was act
ing as tutor in the college, he was
chosen to row at No. 3 in the first six
cared shell, that afterward rendered
the college famous in the rowing world
of the day. While still a member of
the crew the question came up as to
whether the oarsmen should be permit
ted to row on the river on Sundays.
When Eliot was approached he char
acteristically remarked, II myself will
be unable to go, but as a member of
the faculty 1 will give you the assur-
ance that you will not be interfered
with
From the moment of his election as
the head of Harvard the dominant
characteristic of fearlessness so evil
dent in the man has never weakened
or been found lacking. When he was
elected in 1869 he was professor of
analytical chemistry at the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology. Previ-
ouSly he had been for nine years an
instructor in mathematics and chem
istry at Harvard and had spent two
years in Europe investigating educa-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-16

graph, which is a private enterprise
here, and yet the aggregate figures of
the postal business in this country sur
pass both post and telegraph in any of
those lands. The receipts and eXpend-
itures of one system, of combined rail
roads and of the United States Steel
corporation, perhaps, equal those of the
postal service, but the only equality is
in monetary figures and not in the ex-
tent and ramifications of organization
The post office department directed
last year "a, 1924 post offices, mustered
an army of 100000 employees, spent
1924, S69,217, and its receipts were
$121, S4S,047.
The delivery system of letters has
been carried to 4 high state of perfec-
ton. Those residents of cities and
large towns who accept as a matter
of course the frequent rounds of the
gray coated messengers of the post
office find it difficult to recall that
prior to 1868 the letter carrier service
had no existence in the United States.
Rural free delivery is a much more
recent addition to the carrier service,
but is already we'll established. The
estimates of the department are to the
effect that the available territory for
this service embraces about 100000
square miles. The II, $50 routes now
in operation cover about one-third of
the available territory. From this it
will be seen that it will require about
$4,000 additional employees to take
care of this territory. 1t is believed
that within the next three years the
extension of this service will have
been completed.
In connection with the transporta-
ton of mails it may be matter Of in