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The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24
Report Of Confederate Home

Austin. Tex, Oct. %. In his
biennial report filed with the
Governor today. Major r. X.
Lyles, superintendent of the
Texas Confederate Home. re-
quests that the home be enlarg-
ed. He says the home is over
crowded and that unless addi-
tons are built it will be a long
time before any more inmates
can be admitted. The death
rate for the home for the past
two years was 127 per 1000,
based on daily population of AIS
inmates. The average of those
who died during the past two
years was n.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24
Suspended Sentence Act Valid

Austin, Tex, Oct. II. BY re-
fusing a motion for a rehearing
of the Lonnie Snodgrass case
from Erath county, the Court of
Criminal Appeals has declined to
reconsider its opinion. rendered
about a year ago, holding un-
constitutional the suspended SEN
tence act Of the Thirty-second
Legislature. The opinion was
written by Associate Justice
Harper. Presiding Justice Dav-
idson and Associate Justice
Prendergast concured.
The suspended sentence act
permitted district Judge to
suspend a sentence where there
was a conviction for the first
time and the jury so found, the
suspension being conditioned up
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

on good behavior. 1t applied to
minor felony cases.
1t was the opinion of the court
that the legislature had not the
power to confer unpon the trial
court authority to remit punish
ment after conviction and the
penalty had been assessed by
the jury, finding that in a way
would be a conditional pardon,
while the pardonening power
rests with the governor of the
state.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24
Treatment FOR Consumption

Treatment For Consumption
Ireland. which has the honor
4 originating the outdoor cure
Or consumption and all tnbercu
ar affections. now comes for
hard with a direct specific for
he disease. a thing which ply
icians have despaired Of finding.
DR.. Minchln. Of Dublin. has
discovered that garlic Is Of great
|alue in treating the dread
white plague.
He declares that garlic is not
Il value after other treatments
lave failed. but that It'll highly
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

DR.. Bennett. of Austin, called
at our Office while in town last
week. DR.. Bennett owns quite
a lot of land in Lubbock county,
which he was here seeing after.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24
Cause Big Loss in Oil

Tampico, Mex, Oct. H.
Wild ducks are causing losses
aggregating many thousands OF
dollars to the oil operators of the
fields in the Tampico territory.
Offhand, it would be hard
matter to guess how these fowls
could hurt the oil Business.
This is the way they do it.
With the first beginning of the
cold season in the more northern
portion of the United States
myriads of wild ducks took their
fight southwark, millions of them
continuing far down into Mexico.
Owing TO the inadequate steel
tankage storing facilities, many
of the OIL producers have been
forced during the last several
months to build earthen tanks to
care for the big output of crude
oil. Some of these earthen res
ervoirs contain as much as g.
600, 900 barrels of the product.
When the present wild duck
season opened il was found that
the fowls were apparently unable
TO distinguish the lake of oil
from water and as a result they
settled upon the placid surface
of the oil reservoirs in great
numbers.
The oil is of such thick.
heavy character that the ducks
were unable TO fly when their
feathers became saturated with
the fluid.
As a result the trapped ones
have died by the thousands.
greatly impairing and in some
cases running the quality of the
oil, il is said.
In order to keep the fowls
away from the open reservoirs,
most of the producers maintain a
guard at these places day and
night, even with all the Shoot
ing" the Mexicans can do it is
impossible to prevent the
ducks from lighting upon the oil
in large numbers.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24
More Hay And Better Hay For Texas

Washington. d. c., Oct. Ii. =
A report issued today by the
United States Department of
Agriculture shows that the total
production Of tame hay in Texas
this year was approximately 542. :
900 tons which is an increase
over last years production of
l63, 09O tons or 43 per cent. The
yield per acre this year Is lao
tons as compared with / ton last
year and the quality of product is
40 per cent better than IN 1911.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

Our old friend John Shaw was
in to see us last week, accom-
panied by his son-in-law, w. T.
Beasley, of Hazleton, Mo. Mr..
Beasley was here prospecting
and is well pleased with the
country. He expects to become
a citizen of our country as soon
as he can dispose of his holdings
in Missouri. The Avalanche
will go to him every week to
keep him posted in the mean
time.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

j. B. Stone returned Friday to
his home at Perry, Oklahoma,
after a week spent in Hereford
on business. While here Mr..
Stone sold his pretty little home
on East Third Street to Walter
Bennett. who with Mrs. Bennett,
nee Miss Ida Beach, will occupy
It the first of next month. =
Hereford Recorder.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

by this standard and you
will discover what real
paint economy is. For
once dry, our paints retain
their color longer than and
do not scale or crack like
inferior grades. Ask us
for proof.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

Julian M. Bassett. Of Crosby
ton. passed through the city
Friday on his way TO Kansas
City. where he goes on bus mess.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

PLEASANT TASTING LIQUID
Acts as Quickly as CalomeI, Takes
the Place Of CaIomeI, and is
Absolutely Harmless.
Dodson's Liver Tone is the
name of the new vegetable tonic
which the Red Gross Drug and
Jewelry Store yecommends as a
perfect sJbS)(dte tor calomel.
Without 9dsing any restriction
of habit G diet Dodson's Liver
Tone starts ne liver to--working
and cures<efnstipatioI, bilious
nsssr IXscf ith @utfTarmful
4' TRs I faff 1ionel is
mercury haseVpt many people
who are a&aid of mercurial
poisoning from using it. Gallo
mel is good thing to let alone.
All persons can use Dodson's
Liver Tone, whether they have
been in the habit of taking calo-
mel or not, for it is entirely veg
etable and cannot do harm.
The Red Cross Drug and Jewelry
Store will give the money back
to any dissatisfied purchaser.
Price fifty cents.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

BE sure you call No. Ia, if you
know anything in the way of
news. We wish to tell all the
local happenings and with your
help we will be able to do this.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

Mrs. E. 0. Mitchell of Plain
view. who has been visiting her
brother, w. S. Posey, of our city,
left Friday for her home.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

efiidacious in all cases where the
feet, hands and joints have been
affected. and that amputation
has, in number of such cases,
been avoided by the simple use
of garlic. IL il also recommended
that the patient eat garlic. raw.
at least once a day.
As is perhaps natural. the
medical profession has question
ed DIR. Minchin's discovery. but
further Investigations seem to
fully confirm his findings.
The scientific name for the
active principle Of garlic is allyl
sulphide, which Ia a powerful
germicide. For this reason,
who are in the custom of eating
garlic are far less subject to any
form of tuberculosis than those
who refrain the ordorous vege-
table.
The garlic treatment" is not
designed to supplant the out
door treatment. for the two COM
pliment each other. Garlic is
the specific for the disease and
living out of doors is the treat
ment.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-10-24

Mr.. and Mrs. T. +. Micheal
were pleasant callers at the
Avalanche office last Friday and
were shown through the me-
chanical department. Ii is al
ways a pleasure TO show our
friends and others through the
Avalanche.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

city two denominational papers are now published At Claremont, a suburb of Cape Town, they have a college and at Plumstead, another suburb, a sanitarium is in operation. At Kimberly are treat ment rooms There is also a Natal (TransvaaD conference, and mission sta ton In Matabeeland, Somabula, Nyassa-
 land, Basutoland, Barotseland, British East Africa, Abyssinia. Sierre Leone, Rhodesia, German East Africa, the Goid Coast and among the Kaffirs. At all these mission stations tthere are schools for the native, in which Seventh Day Ad- ventists are training thousands of na- tives, many of whom return to their tribes and bring others into the faith. Africa has two large educational institutions, one publishing house and four sanitari- ums There are about 2500 Sabbath keep CTS there, who are paying S2l,ooo yeaHy in tithes and one union conference, two local conferences and 12 organized mis- sion fields.
 Australia was entered in 1885. It was not very long before conferences began to be organized all over the country, in Victoria New South Wales; South Aus traia, West Australia, Queensland, Tas- mania, New Zealand, and mission fields were organized in the Polynesian Islands and the East Indies. Malay Pen | insula and the Philippines. A number of
 cruises were taken from Australia by Seventh Day Adventist missionaries and ! resulted in establishing their work on
 many of the islands of the Pacific. They ! have churches and mission stations in the Society Islands, Samoa, Fiji Islands. In Rarotonga, the Tonga Islands, Nor | folk Islands, on Pitcairn, where every person is a Seventh Day Adventist, in | the East Indies, Maya and among tlw | Maoris. Today in the Australian field
 there are more than 5000 Sabbath keepers,
 paying an annual tithe of $S0,00O; one union conference. six local conferences and ten mission stations. l Seventh Day Adventists began their ] work in India in 1883. Today there are
 about zoo Sabbath keepers there, paying S3000 annually in tithes. with number | of schools and one sanitarium
 l A few weeks ago party of six mis-
 sionaries was sent out by the general
 conference to augment the working force already in India ta
 They entered China with their mis-
 sionary operations in the year 1887. Today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
Daf1defif1e
Stops Falling Hair and
 Destroys Dandruff
Makes the Hair Grow Long, Heavy and Luxuriant and We Can
 Quickly Prove It
If You Wish to Double the Beauty of Your Hair at Once, Just Get 25
 Cent Bottle and Try This

Surely try Danderine Hair Cleanse if you wish to immediately double the beauty of your hair with little trouble and at a cost not worth mentioning just moisten cloth with little Danderine and draw it carefully through your hair, taking one small strand at time, this will cleanse the hair of dust. dirt or any excessive oil-In a few moments YOU will be amazed. Your hair will be wayy, fluffy and abundant and possess an incomparabe softness, lustre and luxuriance, the beauty ana shimmer of true hair health.
 Besides beautifying the hair, one application Q of Danderine dissolves every particle of Dandrun; cleanses, purfes and invgorates the scalp, forever stopping itching and falling hair.
 Danderine is to the hair what fresh showers a or rain and sunshine are to vegetation. goes rlgn' to the roots, invigorates and strengthens them u exhilarating, stimulating and lfe-producng ProPei- ties cause the hair to grow abundanty long, strong and beautiful It at once imparts a sparkling pil- liancy and velvety softness to the har' ana iew weeks use will cause new hair to ssprout all oyer the scalp. Use it every day for short tune; ai'e. which two or three times week Will DC su"'eiei'' to complete whatever growth you desire.
 You can surely have pretty, soft, lustrous nan; and lots of it, if you will just get 2' cent oot.e Q. Knowlton's Danderine from any drug store or tone' counter and try it as directed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

Adventists had their origin.sA A few peo- people, who had been for sometime ear nestly studying the Bible on the subject, began the observance of the seventh day Sabbath. They taught it to their neigh bors. Others came into the faith. Soon there was a good sized company. Then some of them went out to other places, preaching the coming of Christ, the Sab bath and other general teachings.
 Before long number of churches were organized mostly in the New England states. Ministers were then sent out to the middle western states and in the late sos the headquarters of the work was established in Battle Creek, Mich.
 The general conference was organized in 1863 at Battle Creek. At this time there were only about 5000 Seventh Day Adyentists in the world. Tn 1870 they had increased to 5000; in 1880 to 12,ooo; in 1890 to 25OoO; in 1909 to 5o,0oo, and in 1910 to 100,O0O
 It was not until 1874 that Seventh Day Adventists sent out their first foreign missionary, only 37 years ago. This was Elder J. N. Andrews and he opened their work in Switzerland. Since then their foreign operations have grown to an im- mense size, so great, in fact that it re- auires more than sl5O0 a day to suppo1 t them. The first conference organized Tn Europe was in 1880. This was the pen mark conference. By 1898 the number Of conferences had increased to four yn 1901 the European field, including the Levant was organized into three union conferences and two union mission fiNds. All were united in the European General conference At the general European meting in 1904. it was reported that 1-4 new churches had been organized within two years and 313S new members added, making a toal in that year of 11,023 Sab bath keepers. In 1907 the European Gen. eral conference was discontinued, the general oversight of the union being sui ficiently provided for Tn the office of a vice president of the general conference for Europe, with sub-treasurer and as sistant secretary also for Europe.
 In 1910 in Europe Seventh Day Advent ists were operating 95 conferences 21 reg uary organized msision fields and ninr union conferences and had 26,0o0 believers there. 1000 of whom had been added in the previous year. There were also in Europe in this year three large educational lf- sttutions. seven publishing houses and eight sanitariums.
 Russia was not entered by Seventh Day | Adventists until about 1900. When they did enter their work met with much. op- 1 nosition hv the authorities because of the existence in Russa of the established church, the Greek Orthodox. Notwith- standing the opposition they have growi in a remarkable manner, having num- per of conferences there at present and a membership of over 4tso.
 It was in 1886 that Seventh Day Adven- lists began work in Africa. In 1892 the Cape Colony conference was organized with headquarters at Cape Town. Ill thai
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

As the Seventh Day Adventists nave ben holding convention in Birmingham many would probably be interested m learning something of their history which is both unique and interesting.
 Since their origin 67 years ago they nave had remarkable growth, doubling their numbers every 10 years. Today their ms sionaries, it is claimed, are operating in more countries than those of any other protestant missionary society and, 1t IS declared they are giving more per capita for the support of their foreign mission work than the members of any other denomination in the United States.
 The distinguishing features of the be- lief of Seventh Day Adventists are their views concerning the second coming of Christ and the observance of the seventh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
DAY ADVENTISTS
 ACTIVE IN FOREIGN FIELDS
By R. I. KEATE A Returned Missionary

day of the week, instead of the first. for the Sabbath.
 To put it in their own language, "The first view we base on the many promises in the Bible of the return of the Savior and the fulfilment of the signs that were given to show when this event was near. The second view is based on the fourth commandment: 'Six days shalt thou la Dor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; i; in it thou shalt not do any work
 Seventh Day Adventists are of the opin- ion that they have been called of God to deliver to the entire world the message of the coming of Christ They consider their sole work to be the same as that of John the Baptist. heralds of the coming King. Seventh Day Adventists have set about the. task of making their dream a reality. It was in 1915 that Seventh Day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

very few of the provinces in China are without a Seventh Day Adventist mis- sion station. and number of them have
 in connection with the station school where the native children are educated
 in the principles of the faith.
 Their missionary operations in Japan were opened in 1896 by the establishment of the Shiba Bible school. The first church in Tol1io was organized in 1897. The publication of a monthly Japanese paper was begun, called Dwarf No Tukuin (The Gospel for the Last Days). A san- itarium was opened in Kobe in 1903 Sev- eral books have been translated into the Japanees language and the work there
 is rapidly growing.
 During 1904 Seventh Day Adventists en- tered Korea '.the land of morning calm . Since then a number of churches have been organized in Korea, schools have been started and treatment rooms opened.
 Central America was entered in 1891.
 In 1887 the West Indian field was en- tered and at present there are about 25O0 Sabbath keepers in Cuba, Jamaica Hayti. Porto Rico, the Bahamas, Trinidad. the Barbadoes and the other islands of the West Indies.
 South America was entered in 1889. Since then a number of conferences have been organized and now there are about 2500 Sabbath keepers there.
 Seventh Day Adventists are also oper-
 ating in Iceland, Burmuda Islands, and the Hawaiian Islands. s | During the decade ending in 1872. Sew
 enth Day Adventists raised by their sys- | tenn of tithe paying the sum of s176.S2s | for the support of their work. During the next decade. ending with 1882, the tithe amounted to $505 l36; from 1883 to | 1892, $lS36,9l5: from 1893 to 1902. s4,342 .193 and from 1903 to 1910 it amounted to | $7.955.2S3
 | From 1863 to 1910 they have given ,fol
 missions $S654,677 in addition to the tithe I In 1910 Seventh Day Adventists had X sanitariums in operation, in which were
 employed 116 physicians and 1889 nurses
 with total assets of $3.3eS,0H Several ot | these sanitariums are located in the south. One is in Orlando Fla. another | in Atlanta and also at Graysvile Tenn. and at Nashville. where they also have I a publishing house and a food factory. 1 They operate 2S publishing houses ant i issue literature in 69 of the leading Ian guages of the world.
 R. l. KEATE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
BRITIANS EXERCISE BY MEANS OF PING PONG

V
 London. February l0.-Special. )--Ping pong has returned, and one firm alone
 In despair of finding any cheap in- door game sufficiently good and in- teresting, people of all ages and all sta tions in life have gone back to playing the table tennis game which had such a wonderful vogue for three winters at tie beginning of the present century.
 Never since Ping-pong langushed and went out of favor in 1903 has any one invented game to approach it today
 There is no doubt that the first fac tor in a game S. success is a ball; all the best games are ball games. Ping
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
JAPAN WANTS MORE
 INTEREST IN CHINA

Tokio, Japan, February 10.-The nation- alists in the Japanese diet yesterday put up a strong plea for the acquisition of fur ther interests in China by Japan, urging that the present was an excellent oppor- tunity.
 Viscount Uchida, the foreign minister, in reply, declared that everything pos sible under the circumstances had been done already. The government. he said. had extended assistance to Japanese who were seeking to acquire interests in Chi ma, but. that policy would have to be abandoned now otherwise it might lead to trouble over the question of neutrality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
Have You Tried This?
Simple Prescription Said to- Work
 Wonders for Rheumatism

This has been well known to the best doctors for years as the diuckest and most reliable cure obtainable for rheu- matism and backache. It has been published here for several winters and hundreds of the worst cases cured by 1t in short time. From your doiggist get one ounce of Toris compound Gin of syrup of Sarsaparilla compound. Take these two ingredients home and put them into a half pint of good whis- spoonful before each meal and at bed . time" Results come the first day. If bound in stock he will get it in few hours from his wholesale house. Don't be Influenced to take some patent med icine instead of this. Insist on having the genuine Toris compound in the original one ounce, sealed. yellow package.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
ong has now emphatically returned t

pong has now emphatically returned to favor.'
 Inquiries made at several large game shops bore this out. There is at pres ent very big revival in the game, " said the head of an indoor game de- partment
 "The boom first showed itself in No- vember and at Christmas and the New Year it was obvious that the game had gained very strong hold on the public once more.s
 ''So marked is the revival, indeed, that should say that we have sold more ping pong things since November than we did altogether in the previous nine years or so. Bats and balls are in the greatest demand. On an average at present we are selling a hundred bats and twelve hundred balls a day.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-11-20
GOSPEL of ForoetfuIness.

The gospel of forgetfulness is now
being strongly advocated by persons
interested In various new-thought
movements. The theory is TO get rid
Of your troubles by forgetting all
about them-by substituting. happy.
hopeful thoughts for the sad, despair
ing ones. The adherents of this gos-
pei go so far as to claim for 1t a phys
ical potency. They declare that Ill
ness can be cured by forgetting all
about IT,
This doctrine. like all the other doc
trines that assume the control OF mind
over matter. is a splendid one when
not pushed TO the excess to which
fanatical adherents are liable. Like
the other doctrines. too, is as old as
the human race, and has been put in
TO excellent practice In all periods of
history. Proverbs and eplgrams have
been written about il. IVORY killed
cat" "Let the dead past bury its
dead" Things past redress are now
with me past care" I'VE are never so
unhappy as we imagine" and the like,
and in his "Cure for Heartache"
Thomas Morton. the dramatist. ad'
vised, Push on-keep moying."--In,
dianapolis Star.