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The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
How to Make a Commode.

An empty packing boN does not cost
anything and makes good commode
or dressing stand If fixed in this way:
Get n large packing box turn same
upside down: knock the board out Of
one side for the door; nail in wooden
brackets and fit in wide board for a
shelf; then cover the top and sides of
the box with black five cent lining.
lacking in neatly around. Stretch Il
hay wire across the top OF door and
slide on curtains of red cotton or any
material desired; then hang up n large
mirror, which will improve the looks Of
the stand.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
BUSIN ESS LOCALS
u q ~. AH u y
$3.50 - y - u

1rH rHHH H1TT ~ Y y
See the Canyon Coal Company
for fresh maize chops.
Bryan'S Commoner and The
News, both one year $50.
Phone Al when you have an
TEN of local news.
You can always find fresh
fruits at Cowart's Confectionery.
Aldrich does only the best
cleaning and pressing. Phone
1873.
For SaIe-Good piano, used about
one year. Enquire at this office.
3l-tf
For Sale. Seventy head of shoats
averaging about 30 pounds.
Phone j. A. Wilson's ranch.
30 3tp.
Celery fresh from the garden,
crisp as a new spring radiSh and
as fine favored as any that ever
grew, at the Hauter place.
Parties having land joining or
near town and desiring TO sell
same for bonus purposes to rail
way committee should see
If L. g. CONNER, Chairman.
For Sale A pure bred Silver
Spangled Hamburg cock and hen
or cock alone and a pure bred
barred Rock Cockrel-all fine
birds. John Hibdon.
The railway committee is or
will soon be in the market for
some town lots TO use on bonus.
S 60 l.. G.. Conner. Chairman. If
Just Arrived Wednesday after
noon, "A shipment of ladies' silk
and net waists which we place
on sale at $3.50 to $1,000. The
I.eadcr. 36-1t
For SaIe-A 80 h. p. Pope-Toledo
touring car. Has just been com
pletely overhaulcd: tires new and
car guaranteed to be in first
class condition. Will demon
strate. Has gable horn and
speedometer; good road clear
ance; 36-inch wheels. First check
for $1,000 gets car. Reasons for
selling. Runabout answers own
cr's purpose better. Let me
show YOU this car. Address, p.
/ o. Box Is, Amarillo. Tex. 36-4t
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
Picnic at the Canyon.

A number of the young people
of this city spent Thanksgiving
day of last week at the Devils
Kitchen on the Palo Duro, TAX
ing with them the festive turkey
and other good things to eat, re-
turning that afternoon tired but
well pleased with the days out
ing.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
How TO Polish Cows Horns

To secure the fine lustcr on COWS
horns when they are to he exhibited
first scrape lightly with n piece Of
pumicc stone until the surface Is
smooth They are then polished by
rubbing with n flannel rag and busted
with powdered pumice stone. Some
times a little alcohol Is rubbed over
them to dry the surface Of the horn
so that 1t will take n good polish
The horns OF some animals are so soft
that it Is impossible TO give them high
polish
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
How to Remove Shiny Spots.

To remove shiny spots from black
wooden garments place the garment
whether coat. trousers or dress, on an
ironing board. Wiring cloth from
water, spread carefully over the gar
ment. then pass hot natiron back and
forth just above the wet cloth rs close
ly MS you can without touching 1t. The
nap will rise and the shine disappear
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
Odd Fellows Lodge.

The Odd Fellows Lodge of this
city meets every Monday night
at 7:30 O'Clock and all members
as well as visiting brothers are
requested to attend. The offic.
ers are: b. G.. Taylor, n. g..
James Dawson, V. G.; A. n
Henson, Sec; j. Frank Smith,
Treas.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
Civic improvement Association.

A regular meeting of the
membership of the Civic I'm
provement Association will con
vene at the court house next
Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
which time business of import.
ance will receive consideration
and it is desired that every mem.
Der as well as the friends inter
ested in the work, be present.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
Rotten or Ripe.

The Pessimist growls, clouds
hide the sun, the world is dark,
pie tits his digestion, friend
ships are false and everything
is rotten.
The Optimist carries his own
sunbeams, hears the music of
busy machinery, of laughing
flowers, notes the good points
of Fulton Lumber Co.'S. build,
ing material, and everything is
ripe
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
Phone Aldridge at No. 1873 if

Phone Aldridge at No. 1873 il
you want cleaning or pressing
done.
For Sale-40 pigs and shoats,
some good sows with pigs by a
registered male. See Bob Eos,
ter. 334tp
You have noticed that the most
extravagant claim made by
others is that their lumber is as
good as Fulton Lumber Cos.
You have noticed that.
Flour has advanced 20c per
hundred but we will, for the next
ten days, sell our flour at the
same old price.
CANYON MERCANTILE Co.
For Sale or exchange for unin-
numbered land a clean, fresh
stock of drugs and fixtures. Adj
dress w. ID. CLEVELAND,
35-5tp Canyon.
Dressmakng. I am now prepared
to do first class dressmaking Of
every description and at fair
prices. Call at j. +. Hawley's
residence.
33tf. Mrs. +. w. WEST.
Just Arived-Wednesday after
noon, "A shipment of ladies silk
and net waists which we place on
sale at $3.50 to S10.00.-The
Leader. 36-1t
All men are made of the same
kind of stuff; the difference is in
the way the stuff is put to-
gether." BE an early and APP
preciative customer. Do IT NOW.
FULTON LUMBER Co.
We desire TO state that +. l..
Gano has just finished threshing
our kaf1ir corn and TO say that he
thoroughly understands such
work. He is competent in the
management Of the threShing
machine and we recommend
him.
KEISER BROS. e PHILLIPS.
Nature has borrowed the tintS
of the rainbow to remind us the
procession is passing and the
months glidding by. Only a few
weeks remain and 1908 will be a
matter Of history. Now is the
time to make the year a good
one. Fulton Lumber Cos. lum-
Der will give enthusiasm to your
effort.
For SaIe-A fine German Coach
stallion, IL - hands high, weighs
400 pounds, gentle to work and
ride and sound as a dollar. Seal
brown in color. Must be sold at
once and is "A big bargain. See
G.. Friemel, owner, or Leo
Stokes, Umbarger, Tex. 36-4t
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
How to Preserve Finaer Nails.

Before working in the garden, polish
Ing the stove or doing other rough
work rub your finger nails over piece
of soap This will prevent the earth
from getting in under the nails, and
when you wash your hands the soap
VIII come out easily. This Is recon-
mended to people who find it hard TO
do garden work with gloves on their
hands.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
How to Clean a Sweater.

If you wish to wash sweater make
suds of warm water. white soap and
borax Move TIE sweater up and down
in the wafer until clean: then rinse In
warm water. adding little bOrax. In
regard TO drying, always tie the article
tall in bunch) In towel or cloth,
knottlng the four corners; then pin it
to a line out Of doors, where the wind
will blow through it, The towel should
be opened from time to time and the
article shaken, then replaced. When
fairly dry the process may be com.
pleted in the house by laying, still in
heap, over the register or any place
where it can get thoroughly dry. Pull
into shape during the drying. and the
garment will be found soft, fluffy and
very little shrunken.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
How to Quickly Tighten Machine Belt

When you are sewing In a great bur
ry and the machine belt becomes loose.
do not stop to remove it in order to
tighten 1t Simply put drop Of ma
chine oil on II, turn the wheel few
seconds and proceed with frightened
belt.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
How 10 Make RESISTING Cement.

A. cement which will resist the action
of hot aud cold water and which Is
most useful for mending coarse cracks
and holes In iron and tin kettles and
pans IS made by mixing litharge and
glycerln to the consistency Of thick
cream or putty.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher Rogers
who have been spending Thanks
giving with the family of j. Il.
Holland in this city, returned to
their home in Hereford last
Monday.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04

Just Arived-Wednesday afte T.
noon, shipment of ladies' silk
and net waists which we place
on sale at $3.50 to $1,000. The
Leader. J6-lt
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
For Sale At a Bargain

A saddle and set of single
buggy harness for sale cheap.
See them at Hicks Feed Store.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
Mules for Sale.

Six yearlings and five mule
colts for sale.
334tp. WILL CAGE.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
Bakery For Sale

VIII sell the only bakery in
this city. Doing good business.
Enquire at the City Bakery.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-12-04
The Presence Of Presents

at and around Christmas
time is natural. The ex-
change Of gifts is usual,
tokens Of friendship and
esteem. For the ladies and
the children nothing could
be more acceptable than a
nice box Of our
Delicious COlfGCtiOnS
They are pure, wholeso ne
and tempting and will m axe
a very convenient and most
suitable present for the
young or old. The quail
ties are superior and yet
the prices are by no means
high.
A. RI. THOMPSON
Leading Druggist
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01
THE AWAKENING OF CHINA
AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

multiplied By two and one-half in the
last three years. Think of the sig
nlhcance of Chinese railroad progress.
The limos multiply and their business
increases still more rapidly than their
mileage Chinese capital is building a
fair share of rev roads. Chinese en-
gineers arc proving themselves able
to do excellent construction work.
On the military side it is agreed that
the Chinese army Is far more efficient
than ever before. 1t is being strength
ened steadily. Arms of the latest pat
tern are being accumulated for future
needs. All parties and all classes seem
to agree thai the national defense
must be provided for as 1t never was
Iii times past.
Most important of all changes. there
is new national spirit, a new desire
10 meet and equal the western powers
on much of their own ground. Students
and observers of Chinese affairs say
that it Is no uncommon thing to see
idols slowed away in the cellars of
temples that room may be made for
schools on modern lines, where the al
tars stood.
China is surely awakening. When
that happens to so huge a sleeping
giant the word may well take notice.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01
THE HUMAN EBB AND FLOW
IN BIO UNITED STATES

cousins would like to know why their
hospitality is increasingly less appreci-
ated. For ourselves we are content to
accept the fact that Americans who
have tried it think there is no place
like home.
The emigration figures are not avail
able exactly. but it is known that the
fetal %as about $50 0no. This was an
proximately double the 2S2, ,068 who de-
parted in 1906, and is increasingly re-
markable because the departures OF
1905 were a decrease of $4,000 from 1905.
In every other year of the century
there had been an increase in the de-
partures, but nothing more than a fair
proportion to the increase of arrivals.
1t is unprecedented that so large a pro-
portion as one-half of the steerage
travel should be outward bound. 1t
is further remarkable in that the home
ward-bound aliens this year took with
them $110,000000. Although the ar
rivals were twice as many, they
brought with them only $27, 293, $50. 1t
will be necessary to keep an eye on the
movement of men as we'll as of mer-
chandise il the figures are to run into
millions in this way.-New York
Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01
THE COST OF WAR REVEALED
BY PENSION LIST FEGLPES

valids, 11,076; widows, 2526; minor chill
dren, 1e2; mothers, S21; fathers. 13a.
brothers and sisters, 5; helpless chill.
dren, s. total 1851. Gain for the
year, 499. TIE number of pensioners
on the roll, large as it may seem. is
the smsllest number since 1893, when
1t was about 1900 less One Thousand
nine hundred and ninety-three more
veterans died last year than In the
previous year, or the death rate in
creased 6.4 per cent, which Is a slight
increase over q few years ago. The
amount bein paid out for pensions is
somewhat larger owing to the service
pension BIZ of February 6, 1907. of
which fno commissioner has been is
suing new certificates at the rate of
lTOO for eac.. working day, a wonderful
record. tt } oldest pensioner of the
dexican war is 9S, while the oldest
pension survivor of the Civil war is
los, and five are 9S, and 1872 are %
years old and upwards. The total
amount paid for pensions this wear
was $12s,c9O, ,S94.22; from the beginning
of the government it is 1851, ,62f, ,7SS. 10.
Let the people that are anxious for
another war digest this and go away
in silence. And then know that there
can be no inventory of pain, limita-
uons ard sorrCw borne by multitudes.
and tbs prema ture death of many
Santa Ana Register.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01

every other business so that all the
time and efforts of the citizens could
be devoted to the relief of the home
less and hungry of our sister city. Why
do these same people act with indif-
ference now and coldly ignore the want
and destitution of the thousands right
here at their homes?
Thousands of dollars and tons of pro-
visions and wearing apparel of all
kinds were contributed, collected and
sent to be distributed to the destitute OF
San Francisco. Why does not the CON-
dition of their fellows at their own
doors appeal to them just as strongly?
There is the same urgent need of food,
the same want of shelter. Wake up,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
WESTERN FACTORIES

III HE need of factories in the west,
where fuel is, cheap and labor is
Il plentiful. is we'll illustrated by the
curious fact that in 1906 115,0o0 tons of
wool from western farms and sheep
ranches were hauled to the mills in the
east-paying the freight-and after 1t
had there been manufactured, twenty
FIVE million yards of it in the form Of
cloth were returned to the west, again
paying the freight. The item OF freight
was not less than $685. II there
were mills in the west capable of con-
verting the raw material into the fin
ished product the freight would be
saved, and the amount OF the saving
is indicated by the figures for 1906.
A saving of almost $4,000 900 per annum
is well worthy of consideration, and it
should be easy to interest capital in a
project that would be profitable as
quickly as mill building in the west.
II we may say so without straining a
metaphor. we might suggest that Ma
homet should come to the mountain,
instead of standing in the far east
and waiting for the mountain to come
to him. The wool industry has been
gradually coaxed and nursed up to its
present development, and it is not right
that its further growth should be in
terfered with. But the American wool
industry will never have a chance of
attaining to full size until the item Of
freight is eliminated from the cost of
the finished product when it is deliv-
cred to the customer. Every westerner
who wears an American grown all-wool
or part-wool suit, helps to pay the
freight both ways, both when the raw
material is being transferred to the
east and when the finished product is
being hauled back to the west. 1t is
estimated by an expert that there
would be profit to wool growers and
manufacturers of s29 per ton, which is
6 per cent on $6,O41. .667, in the saving on
freight. 1t is fair that the consumer
should get the benefit of this saving,
and should thereby be enabled to buy
American grown and American man.
ufactured and American made clothes
at a cost that will be lessened by the
removal of charges for freightage upon
the raw and the manufactured ma
terial. Moreover, the west needs mills.
They would form a valuable addition
TO her industries; and capital could em-
bark in an enterprise Of this kind with
the utmost confidence that the earnings
would amply justify the investment.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01

FIT WAS not for nothing that
6 81 japan borrowed her language,
In it's broader characteristics,
E and many of her arts from
lM M China. 1t is not an accident
that Chinese clerks are pre-
ferred now in Japan, for certain po-
sitions of exceptional responsibility. 1t
is no whin or prejudice which leads
many Europeans and Americans who
have lived long in the Orient to rate
the Chinese higher than their island
neighbors in several important traits
and abilities, says the San Jose Her
aid
Now Japan seems mighty and pro-
gressive and full of promise, while
China locks weak, timorous, backward
and weighed down with crushing in
ertia.
But China is q country TO watch, in
the far view of national and interna-
tional problems and conditions. China
is the land o. the largest possibilities
before any country of Asia. And China
is moving with a tremendous weight
and at quickening pace.
Consider the Chinese postal service.
Its revenues have doubled in a year.
The number of articles handled was
nearly twice as great in 1905 as in
1904. The number of offices has been
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01
A SUGGESTION

HHE announcement is made that
President Roosevelt will take a
years vacation at the close of his
term of presidential service. and that
after he leaves the White House,
March 4, 1909, he will retire absolute
ly' from public life for at least year.
10 sit N the senate as Tom Platt's
successor is a prospect that repels
ather than tempts him. Several times
secentlY the question has been asked,
What shall we do with our retired
presidepts?" The suggestion accom-
panying the Interrogation is that citi-
zens who have served their country in
the office of chief executive form a
class by themselves. This is odious to
the spirit of Americanism. The former
president who divides his time be-
tween leoturing at Princeton and going
on fishing excursions declared that
public office is a public trust. But the
president cannot become a perpetual
public trustee without endangering fair
play, which is turn about in public
office" When his actual term of Office
Is ended he cannot be allowed to dis
turb Influences which guide the desti-
nies Of tho republic by saying or by
doing aught that might lead to the
suppositlon that a former president
believed tina. his experience in the
White House had endowed him with
snfallibiiity At the same time, in a
natsona. crisis. 1t would not be at all
anniss If former presidents could be
called into consultation with the cabi-
net II occasion might seem to justify
this step. This Is a privilege that
could NOT possibly be abused by any
retired chief executive, and a resource
Of which thn president and cabinet
might be glad to avail themselves.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01
USELESS SACRIFICE

HRADE crossing accidents, like that
tT which wrecked Brooklyn Heights
~ car, with injury to human life and
limb. should be out of date in the
United States. 1t is forty years since
Charles Dickens in his book. "Ameri-
can Notes" pointed out that Ameri-
cans, in the van of civilization in many
things, we're careless as far as human
life was concerned, inasmuch as they
refused to substitute viaducts or
bridges for grade crossings, or "level
crossings" as he called them. In east
ern American as well as in British cities
grade crossings have been abolished.
Nothing surprises the visiting Briton
more than TO see locomotives and
trains crossing American thorough
fares on the level of ordinary trafflc.
The United Kingdom is by no means
immune from railway accidents; but
accidents and deaths at places where
a railroad crUsses a street are un-
known in the island of Britain, because
by an act OF parliament railroads are
compelled to build their permanent
ways either over or under the high
ways and streets that they encounter.
In Eastern Massachusetts,, in spite Of
the fact that the population is denser
than in any other part of the American
continent. there are fewer grade cross
ing accidents than in any other state
in the Union, Lecause there are fewer
grade crossingsi
In the deplcrabIe collision at the
Macy street bridge, where a railway
servant lost his life, two others were
bruised badly, and three passengers
were injured. it may not be possible
to prove that there was on the part of
any one any negligence, either direct
or contributory. But grade crossing
accidents, as long as they are physical
should he cont ary to law, even as it is
contrary to the teachings of oft re-
peated experience, to run street cars
across level railroad crossings, or rail-
road lines across street car tracks.
Roxbury crossing in Boston for time
claimed on an average nearly one vic
tim daily until it was abolished legally
and actually. The statement may be
made positively that the mortality rate
Of the city OF Boston was affected for
the better when that deadly crossing
was done away with. Indeed, wherever
there is a glade crossing there is a
death list. and the familiar Look Out
for the Cars" signs might well be sur
mounted by skull and cross-bones.
The gentlemen of the city council,
who spend hours in haggling over mat
ters that are relatively trifiing, have
probably never given this subject seri-
GUS attention. A grade crossing is a
constant menace to life. Civilization in
al it's complexities is responsible for
enough hazards without encouraging
an obviously removable extra risk.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01

Combined psychosis is the latest sci
entific name for species of alleged
emotional irrationality which i'm
PEELED orc human being to destroy the
life of another human being. 1t is a
pity tha. the latest addition to the
neology of neurasthenia had not been
invented in time for use by the friends
of young Mr.. Thaw. In it's potentiality
for impressing a jury it excels every
term invented by the eastern experts.
Brain storm," or even stuporous mel
ancholia although descriptive, signifi-
cant, and in suggestion Wagnerian,
they ara not scientifically convincing,
like combined psychoslsI''
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01
NO ''. =.
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IN,E :. WIRE.
One Born Every Minute

According TO the Kansas City Star
a professional CRATER reached Fort
Scott the other day. He went to a
grocery store and bought 40 cents worth
of cheap laundry soap. Then he whit
tied the bars into small pieces, wrapped
the pieces up in tissue paper and sold
them for a peculiar soap that would
clean frost stains and accumulations
on windows. He cleaned up about $40
on his 40 cents investment.
They say there are a lot of them here,
but it's doubtful if they are so easy
as that. even at Corona or Whittier.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-01

Two or three months ago all of the
constituted powers and authorities of
Idaho declared, nay, clamored, that
tLey we~e eager to infiict upon the men
guilty OF the murder of former Gov
ernor Steunenberg the doom that JUS
tice demanded Harry Orchard claims
that he is guilty of that murder. When
Is he going to be tried and convicted? q?
And, If not, why not?