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The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-29

er. There is just one way to do
this, and that is by demonstra-
ton. There is money in demon
strating. 1t pays the man who
does the demonstrating and it
convinceS the man who sees what
has been done. Up in Hale
county there is a big fruit orch
ard. 1t has always been a big
revenue producer. Some time
ago it sold for a big sum. a nice
fortune. Not long since a prom
inent real estate man told me
that that orchard had been the
means of selling thousands of
dollars worth of land in that sec
ton of the country. Prospectors
had seen it and had been con
vinced. Take in any country or
community, and what is the first
thing the real estate man does:
He shows prospectors the finest
farms and the best crops. The
trouble is in no country are there
enough of these kind of farms
and crops and in most places
none at all. Is it because the
land will not produce: No. 1t
/ is because the land is lying idle,
Uncultivated and not given a
chance. How are we to remedy
this? The first thing is for the
people to come to full realization
of the fact that the farming in.
terest, the poultry interest, the
truck and fruit growing interest
the dairying interest, and every
interest andagriculture industry
to which this country is adapted
must be demonstrated. When
the people have come to fully ap,
preciate this fact they will work
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-29

Patronize the business men
who advertise in this paper, you
will find they are the live ones.
Their stocks are up to date, they
watch the markets keenly, buy
their goods at the right time and
consequently sell cheaper than
their 18th century" brothers,
who cannot see the value of ad-
vertising. Everything comes
to him who waits" was never
meant to apply to business. The
merchant who sits behind the
stove waiting for business to
come in without making an effort
to get it will soon have to close
his doors.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-29
Usery-RudOlph

Mr.. Dan X Usery and Miss
Winifred May Rudolph were
married Tuesday afternoon at
$50 at the home of the brid e S
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Ru-
dolph. The wedding was a quiet
affair, and besides the members
of the family, only few intimate
friends were present.
While the wedding march was
played by Mrs. Waddill, the
couple took their position under
the wedding bell, made of cosmos
carnations and ferns, where
they were married with the
pretty ring ceremony, impress
sively spoken by Rev. a. w.
Waddill.
Immediately after the cere-
mony and after the guests had
extended hearty congratulations
the young couple repaired to the
depot and boarded No. for
Canyon City, where they will
make their future home. They
did not get away however, with
out getting a liberal portion of
rice thrown on them by their
friends.
The bride is the Oldest daugh,
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. f.. Ru-
dolph, and is a we'll educated, re
fined and attractive young lady,
and Mr.. Usery is to be cOngrat-
ulated in winning her for a part
ner through life. The groom is
an honest and industrious young
man. We know it for he spent
nearly two years on the Star
force, and was always at his post
Of duty. He resigned his posi-
tion here a year ago to accept a
better one on the Randall Coun-
ty News at Canyon City,and now
has full charge of the mechan,
ical department of that paper.
May God Is richest blessings
rest upon them is the wish OF
the Star. Stratford Star.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-29
Big Watermelon Given Taft

The Chamber of Commerce
saw that a big 20 pound melon,
taken from the exhibits at the
Dallas Fair, was placed on the
Presidents car with the follow
ing letter:
Dallas, Texas, Oct. %, 1909.
Hon. William II. Taft, President
of the United States:
Dear Sir: On behalf of
Knox County, Texas, the under
signed representatives of the
Knox County Exhibit at the Tex
as State Fair, desire to present
to YOU Georgia Rattlesnake
watermelon, grown in Knox Co
unity. This melon weighs a
bout seventy (7O) pounds, and
was grown without irrigation,
under the very adverse circum-
stances which Texas has under
gone this summer on account of
lack of rain.
Il. +. Goree
\. J. Glasgow
Committee.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-29
EPW0RTH LEAGUERS MAY HAVE NEW CAMP
Northwest Texas Conference Will Take Matter
Up at Annual Meeting at Stamford

Oct. % (SpeciaD Panhandle
MethOdism will be thrown into
a cOmmotion when Rev. c. n. n.
Ferguson's scheme to establish
a second Epworth Leaguer's
camp in Texas is generally
known. Rev. Mr.. Ferguson,
formerly pastor of the Polk
street Methodist church in Am
arillo, and the builder of that
structure, now financial agent
for the Clarendon college, is the
originator of the proposition, and
is one of the committee compos-
ed of one from each presiding
elders district to present it to
the coming meeting of the north
west Texas annual conference
which meets at Stamford, Nov.
10. Rev. Mr.. Ferguson has been
interested in this proposition for
more than year, but only today
made the announcement of his
purpose to present the same be-
fore the coming conference. He
states that this camp will in no
manner be a rival to Epworth-by
the Sea, near Corpus Christi,
but that the state is large enough
for two camps. 1t is believed
that the scheme will meet prac-
tically the undivided approval of
the conference. Dallas News.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-29
Payton Sisters Company will Return.

The Payton Sisters will re
turn here for Monday night, Nov
lst. and will play at the Thomas
Opera House, The way uf the
World The way of the world
is a comedy and when we say
comedy that is what we mean.
From the rise of the curtain TO
its final fall it is one startling
funny situation after another,
all blending into a cOnglOmerate
mass of entanglementS for the
unfortunate husband who so far
departed from the ways of the
world by telling the truth to his
wife. The plot Of the play is
not revealed until the laStminute
of the piece, and when the cur
tain falls, the audience is left
speechlesS with laughter. That
this bill made a decidep hit in
Amarillo is sufficient guarantee
of its merit.
The same specially artists are
with the company including Al
Philips, the dancer whom you all
remember.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-29

guiding star of mans existence.
He was ruled by her dictates,
her whims and her teachings.
The old teachers. Socrates, Aris-
tOtle and most of the brilliant
minds, which moulded sentiment
and character in that old, ancient
civilization, lived satisfied lives.
All, yes, and the ancient Chinese
civilization, was self-satisfying.
Confucius and the pupil which
followed, Mencius, eXpounded
the doctrine of righteousness
many centuries before Christ
was born in Bethlehem. The
antumn brings thought to the
realization that modern civiliza-
tion is far from self satisfying.
There is something not obtained
it is not lacking, perchance,
but not grasped. Present-day
conditions are far more different
than, when the old masters held
sway. The way has been point
ed out, the satisfied way has
been made known, but then the
fruition of the state has been.
blanketed with other conditions.
Conditions, which go far in salts
flying worldly ambitions, have
taken the place Cf what old mas
ters would have us live for. The
ego in man is expended in other
fields than preparing for the
period of existence, which comes
after the evil of death is parted.
What does it profit a man if his
whole life and energy is eXpend
ed along certain lines, which do
not uplift the human race, nor
give posterity anything of bene-
tit? Is he really satisfied: Mod
ern civilization certainly has up
lifted the man, but has it uplift-
ed his condition, as regards his
relationship to the masses and
himself:
The autumn period breeds
thought. 1t is symbolic of the
dying and the dead, and mans
condition in the world. The in
dividual is the ruler of his own
actions, but when the idea of
self predominates in the thought
of the ego, is he beneftting pos
terity: Rather did not the primi-
tive man enjoy his existence to
greater extent than the man of
today, who is so beset with
thoughts of selfish ends? But
the way has been pointed out for
satisfaction for that. which man
Graves, but it is thorny and
frought with many priyations.
and the other, that of living for
self's gIoritication is the easier,
and is chosen by the multitude.
H. H. W.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-29
Thoughts

The autumn season in all its
glory, is upon us. In many ways
fall-when all nature prepares
itself for the wintry blasts and
frigid temperatures lis the most
beautiful of Iowa seasons. But
then, with all its varied color
schemes, pleasing to the eye, and
its invigorating climatic condi-
tions, it is a time, to the thought
ful mind, fraught with many
lessons to mankind. 1t is the
time of decay and death. How
Symbolical it is of human exist
ence. Man, born, fouriSheS for
a day, and then dies and is for
gotten. They are analogous; both
represent a species of existence
placed here by the guardian of
destinies. The beginning and
the ending, the alpha and the
omega of all things remains to-
day as mucn a mystery, as when
man groveled in the mire of
thought many centuries ago.
Civilization has advanced, until
mankind, today, has reached the
loftiest pinnacle of his existence,
but is he nearer the shrouded
mysteries, of his beginning and
MS ending? He comes and he
goes and no man can fathom
natures secret
Nature is dying; the autumn
period, in plant life is but a re-
minder of mans transition. The
autumn brings human beings to
a full realization Of the fact that
they will sooner or later pass out
of life's activity, and enter that
mystery, which we term death.
What is then left? What heri-
tage can man leave to pOsterity?
Better by far a good and noble
life than hoardedriches, influence
honor and all. These cannot be
carried through the veil, which
separates us from the present
and the hereafter. How much
better are we off than the ancient
savage, the barbarian. All are
on a similar basis. He was sat
isfled: but. there is that some
thing in the civilized man that
remains to be satisfied, the ego
Graves for worldly attributes,
which savagery knew nothing of.
The primitive man is not worried
with questions which perpleX
the great minds of civilization.
Life to him is similar to that of
the lower animals, but then is he
not happy? Are we? The race
that lives close to nature gains
much. The old Grecian civili-
zation was perhaps the most self
satisfying of any the world has
ever possessed. Nature was the
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-29

w. F. Hendrix of Tulia, Texas
was in Canyon Thursdy.
Miss X. Slade of Amarillo,
Texas was in town Thursday.
B. Paff of Tulia, Texas, was in
town Thursday.
Geo. Craig is expecting to
leave Sunday evening for back
yonder" Ohio to visit his folks
and spend most of the winter
with them.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-29

Phone Brock to clean your
clothes. He will get them and
return them.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
10

w ITH the trout season at its height
w California probably affords
w greater sport to the angler who
is fortunate enough to go astream than
any state in the west. From every
camp and river comes reports of mon
ster trout caught and splendid creels
of the beautiful and gamy ra1nboWs.
The sporting columns of The Los An
geles Herald carry daily the stores
of catches and these reports SEND many
a hard worked man from his office OF
shop into the wilderness for day
splendid sport among the speckled
beauties. Every man has his favorlte
fly-or, more properly, his best nan
dozen. The choice of fly fishermen IN
Southern California does not embrace
a large variety, and in every mans col
lection will be found the brown hackle,
the MAY fly, the white miller, few
small coachmen and few others with
the short hackle and light wings. How
ever, the lowly worm, known tacetlous-
lv as ''barnyard hackle," will always
he found in the trouter's outfit. All
California anglers know the delights
of mountain fishing, but there are
thousands of them who treasure in
their memories the pictures of the
brooks in fatter countries in the east.
Let the old fly fisherman sit down and
begin stories of trout taken in the days
of wore and he will ramble on and the
story runs as smoothly as a meadow
brook shimmering along in its sandy
bed beneath the alderS on New Eng
land stream. Why not let A. w. L.,
who has written in Forest and Stream,
tell it?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
DELIGHT

The bed of the stream is fine yell
low sand, broken here and there by
pieces of water-logged drift. The cur
rent shifts from bank to bank, as the
curving course directs, and at each
sharp turn there is a deep hole under
the overhanging turf. AS we near the
end of the meadows the ground be-
comes more and more spongy and the
brook winds in ever wider curves until
at last it loses itself in the mill pond.
So far the brook has been silent, but
now a change comes. In the pond the
waters reach their full volume, and
with the rush over the dam and
through the sluices the brook finds the
voice with which it clamors in many
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23

assumes a canal-like regularity, like
those streams one sees in the salt
marshes when the tide is out
The brook contains trout. Why else
should an angler describe it? And es-
pecially is it a delight to the fiy-fish-
erman, for so much of its course lies
through meadows that casting is easy
and yet lest it be over-easy there is
ample opportunity for difficult work
on the wooded stretch below the dam
Thus there is scope for every device of
the gentle art.
The brook is known and loved by
many anglers, but among them all
there is one who has known it longest
and perhaps loves it best and so de-
serves the title of The Angler. At
least that is what his friends call him,
and 1 suspect that there is a bit of
envy in it, for he is certainly first in
the affections of the brook if substan-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23

tumbling white over some rocky bar
rier, now murmuring about the curve
of a pebbly rifle or glooming black
beneath some ancient windfall. And
ever it fills the wood with the many
voices so dear to the heart of the
angler.
But again comes silence. At the edge
of the woods the brook glides quietly
into another meadow, and yet, as
though loath to relinquish utterly the
grateful shadows of the wood, it draws
with it a fringe of sheltering alders.
The meadow grass reappears, the
ground becomes more and more soggy,
and detached pools of stagnant water
appear, from which an occasional duck
rushes upward in startled flight or
a red-winged blackbird noisily pro-
claims that her nest is hard by The
current of the brook is perceptibly
slackening and deepening, and soon it
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23

tones for more than half mile below
the mill. Rocks withstand it's steepen-
ing course, and brooks, like some men,
are driven to cutlery by obstacles in
their paths. The hills that stood aloof
on the margins of the upper meadows
now lose their reserve and draw close
on either side to the water. With the
hills come the trees-poplars, naples,
balsams, even an occasional white pine
fortunately spared because it's position
by the brook gave it knotted trunk or
because it rang hollow to the AK of the
lumberman. Alders and birches lean
over the wat~r and the barks are soft
with MOSES and ferns. Through the
cool shadows the brook races on, now
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-05-07
Spring Horse BUYING.

The spring horse-buying rush has
struck us again this year. Everybody
seems to want a new team of horses
or mules at this time of the year. The
man who has any to sell does not
have to go out to make sale. Horse
buyers make beaten path to his
door. The man who is compelled to
buy at this season of the year must
pay the highest price in order to get
what he wants.
1t is an undisputed fact that the
growing of young horses and mules as
a side line to general farming is prof
liable business. Colts have come to
be as good as cash at any time after
weaving. Every farmer ought to keep
at least team of mares and breed
them every year. With careful han
ding they will make full team and
grow two good colts with very little
extra care and cost. Young horses
are not all profit. They cannot be
grown for nothing; yet every pound
( young horse or mule flesh repre-
sents probably more clear gain for
the amount of food consumed than that
of any other animal grown on the
farm.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-05-07
TO COMBAT HOG CHOLERA.
Discovery of a Serum That Will Pro-
tect Swine from the Dread
Disease.

The discovery of the bureau of ami
NAL industry of the department of ag-
riculture of a serum that will protect
hogs from cholera has been taken ad-
vantage of by several state agricult-
ural departments and appropriations
have been asked for from their legis-
latures for the purpose of providing
farmers with the preventive. With but
few exceptions no welldefined or or
ganized plan Of operation has been
adopted by any Of them to secure to
the farmers within their borders the
benefit of the governments discovery.
If the greatest good is to be accom-
plished, the farmer should not be con-
tent simply to reduce the losses from
hog cholera, but should undertake sys-
tematic efforts to eradicate the dis
ease.
Most farmers and stockmen are ia
miliar with the course which hog chol-
era usually takes when it appears in a
neighborhood. A herd develops the
disease, which may not be recognized
as hog cholera for several weeks after
it has made its appearance. Following
this the neighbor's hogs will become
infected, and then rapid progress is
made until finally the losses in a sim
gle county may be enormous.
1t is evident that in order to con-
troll the disease there must be some
means of confining it to the original
infestions. This has been attempt
ed by the British government
through the quarantine of farms
where hog cholera existed and the
slaughter of all infected animals, but
these measures have not always been
entirely effective. In this country
such methods would not be suitable
for, aside from the enormous expense
involved, it would be impracticable to
disinfect against such carriers of dis
ease as dogs, crows, buzzards and the
like.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-05-07

pieces inches by inches and 6
feet long are for sills; Q pieces 2
inches by four inches and 6 feet long
are for ridge and plate.
If this plan is used it will be found
much more satisfactory than, plain
A-shaped house. The door in the roof
can be opened when the sun shines.
Sunshine is the best tonic known for
little pigs in early spring, and the
door is essential when the SOW needs
attention at pigging time as means
Of entrance and as is sometimes
the case very hasty exit. We lose
very small per cent. of pigs far
rowed in these houses.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-05-07
1--WE E[a0ss.ssgg6 ass.ssgg6
Gs Gs4Sk 4FsSS eSAsA''~t
MENAcEs CATTLE AND SHEEP
Larkspur Poisoning One of Serious
Problems Western Rancher
Has to Face.

Larkspur in my neighborhood here
on the Laramie plains does not seem
to be disastrous to either sheep or
horse raising interests but proves
serious menace to cattle interests
every spring until all the plants have
finished Towering. Cattle seem par
ucularly fond of the weed as it is al
most the first new green forage of the
season and while the loss from this
cause in native cattle is frequently
negligible 1t is apt to lead to the death
of entire herds that are shipped in
from other regions where the weed
is not abundant, says r. e. Cox, in
Denver Field and Farm. Larkspur
seems to flourish best in sandy soil
or on flats in preference to the hills
Whenever possible keep the cattle
on the hills and away from sandy
pastures until after the weed has bios
somed. Cattle poisoned by larkspur
bloat rapidly, become unable to re-
main on their feet and unless attended
to promptly are soon beyond aid
In mild cases clipping an ear so that
the blood flows freely is frequently all
the action necessary for a cure. In
more aggravated cases raise the ami
mails tail and cut the vein on the un-
derside near it's roots. When convent
ent small handful of baking soda or
saleratus thrown into the animals
throat and a half pint of vinegar
poured in while holding the head up
causes enough fermentation to relieve
the gaseous pressure upon the stom-
ach.
In extreme cases the trocar and ca
nula seems to be the only remedy but
it should be used only as a last re-
sort save in the hands of an expert
enced person. A we'll vouched for pre-.
scription for either larkspur or death
camas cases is the following: Thirty
grains of potassium permanganate and
80 grains of aluminium sulphate dis
solved in a quart of water. 1t is mis-
take to presume that alkali water is
the cause of death in cases of this
kind. The reason for this presump
ton is due in large degree to the fac
that whenever animals are poisoned
from various weeds they Immediately
strike out for water and are fount
after death lying adjacent to watel
holes, springs and accessible streams
The danger however was done will
the eating of the poison plants ant
the journey to water is only the nat
ural impulse of the afflicted animal
when they feel their temperature ris
ing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-05-07
Watering Hard-worklns Horses.


Relative to the watering of horses
while doing hard work Colorado vet
erinarian says
After long, continuous exertion the
system is greatly depleted OF fluid.
Nature calls for its replacement, and
his is the cause of thirst which is
so intense that il the animal is not
restrained at this time he may drink
much more than he needs.
The general custom almost univer-
sally followed of giving the morning
neal before water is not very objec-
ionable, either theoretically or prac.
hcally. At this time there is no de-
,letion of fluid; consequently the
morse is not very thirsty and does not
drink rapidly or excessively, aud ap.
oarently very little evil results from
this method. However. it is prefer.
able that the horse should have an
opportunity to drink before the morn
ng meal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-05-07

Then is the time for the shepherd to
cultivate the virtue of patience.
The eve and lamb should be shut
up together in a small pen. out of
sight of the flock. She will at first
have to be held for the lamb to suck,
but as the little fellow grows stronger
he will usually help himself, If the
eve is driven into corner.
Sometimes when there is trouble at
birth and the lamb has tc be taken
away the eve will walk off and pay
no attention to it, but confinement
with it a few days usually solves the
difficulty About the most hopeless
case is where one of pair of twins
is disowned. A remedy is to shut the
eve up with her disowned lamb and
only let the favorite in long enough
to get the necessary nourishment.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-05-07
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