The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1911 Page: 2 of 15
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RAHAM LEADER, GRAHAM, tEXAS, OCTOBER 13, 1911
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FREE!! FREE!!
VALUABLE PRIZES
and many other useful presents
TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY THE LEY HE PIANO COMPANY
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$350 SMITH & BARNES PIANO
$25 Elgin Watch, Ladies' Size
$25 Elgin Watch, Men’s Si*e >
1 Gold Locket ^ *
—Z Gold Plated Cltcka J^
1 Pair Roller Skates
5 Ingersoll Watches
1 Ladies’ Fancy Purse
^ 12 Fancy Gold Stick Pins
To the 25 persons sending in the nettest correct answers to the contest outlined below
we will give the 25 prizes listed above, the first prize being a beautiful mahogany piano
made by the oelebrated Smith a Barnes Piano Company of Chicago, 111. In addition
to the 25 articles, every person sending in an answer will receive a prize; something use-
ful. . Get busy to-day and send in your answer Read the directions carefully, then act
promptly. It is worth the trial..
Texas Needs Great Men
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~ "/Read These Directions Carefully _
Outline ob this or a separate sheet of paper twenty objects in the above picture whose
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The person who sends in the neatest correct answer will receive
second prize, and so on. And EVERY person sending an answer will receive a prize of
value. Winners will be notified by mail. One prize only to a family. Write name and
address plainly, and give the names of three of your friends who need pianos.
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names begin with “B A'\ for example, ‘'Earn.'1 Also write out your list of names; the
lames of the articles.
the%eautiful $360 Smith A Barnes Piano; the second neatest correct answer will get
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Contest Closes November 1st, 1911.
Leyhe Piano Company
B. HEYER, Vice Prest. & Mgr. ' •; 1009 Houston'St./'FORT WORTH,TEXAS.
....., The Largest Piano Concern in Texas
Steinway
Weber
STATE DISTRIBUTERS
Steck Wheelock Stuyvesant . Pianola Pianos
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The HfMtorlal Campaign. j
The bare possibility of the elec-
tion of. a^ man like Jake \Voltera to {
represent Tezas In the United State#
Senate. U a poeelbility from the fowJ >H MHHWHWWHI 1 I > »
contemplation of which all decent ^ _ ,, . lifTCTA VPQ
Texans should turn Vrith a shudder.
It h^a.sad commentary upon our
pollm^^ll'ryavlon tha| a man like
that has even the tepierity to run
for this highest gift of the people ofl^'h* Mohammedan government ordered the world’s greatest library1
the state. We say this advisedly. Alexandria burned and the followers of the prophet are to this day bound
it is the right of every man to run tn fetters of ignorance. The dark ages were the result of nations tight*
ing back the tide of civilization. Sinr& the beginning of government,
some of the leading statesmen of all countries have become badly fright
ened at the processes- of civilization.
fSTHE statesmen of -Chipa have fought back civilization for foul
W sand years and today it is the most benighted nation of the
for office if he wants to it is true,
but the fact that thlfe man has
enough encouragement to make the
race, is the sad feature of - the
matter. And we do not say this
hai-jiuss Jak-c m* nn *ntt and" the
leader of tbe Texas unties in their
retent race. We say It because
he waa the distributor of a corrup-
tion fund, the sources of which he
was ashamed to give to his fellow
Texans and he dared not tell Who
were Its beneficiaries. Every man
in Texas knows..that if the campaign
fund of the anties in the late elec-
tion was an honest fund and was
honestly spent, by an honest , man,
that man would have hastened to
the legislative committees, as Ball
did, to tell , them all. about It and to
show himself innocent of corrupt
practices. But Jake did not do
thia. On the contrary he dodged
as artfully as he could and when at
last he was put to the bat he re-
fused to “come across” ^and -was
ttommitted 'for contempt rather Hum
tell an honest people w her**' he* g t
the money and what h? d.'d wuh i .
Now he wants to L’ :«.*uaiOiT and
has the temerity to ask for the
suffrages of the people ir\ the next
election fof* that high., office. He)
is not even ashamed of what he has
dpne but is" rather proud of the fact I
that he has so far evaded the giving
of the Information asked Of him. |
How would, such a man look as a
Accessor 6f- Reagan, * Coke, , and
Maxey in the highest .^.legislative
body in the world,?...... ~t
AGENTS WANTElWEirst Class ,'
j for this and surrounding counties.;
jfqr the **NEW STANDARD 1910 Ce
-sus Atlas of-the World.*’ Agents
j making $-40.00 ro $60.00 per w eek.
I Bes 14> f. tenu>...A1 smAgeuta-fot 4i>w-
prlced, easy'selling JUVENILE and
‘4’HOLtDXY Bodks. Combination Out|t
fit 'postpaid only 20 certs. 50 per
cent commission to agents.. Full,
particulars free. Address A. B,
Kl’HLMAN, Publisher, 136 . West
Lake St., Chicago III.
MOHAMET’S MISTAKE. •
_ The smoke oi a factory hag been distorted into the visage of a tef-
rible'~f>gre; the whistle of a locomotive has been mistaken for the wnr
whoop of an Ilirliati and the ajtproiicli ol cuipital has seared many ot
"l,r amateur statesmen into fighting a duel with civilization. Texas needs
leaders who will not -become frightened at the torch of knowledge or
stampede at the foiVes of progress. Texas needs great mvn. ---—
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Reach.
It is only natural that . the am-
bit lori‘"bf-every young lad should be
to make a success in life and ittXoU,lnK *9 out of Vour
is just as natural *tnat his • idea A 8tory handed down out of dim
of success is alwayk baaed on — a [ xl^ait of the past has a moral tn It
foundation of ,‘money. From an that you can most profitably “take
early-age he has It hammered Into
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THE LEADER
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
fer~
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Spates of bubzcrlptlon.
C*neCopy, One Year, j_ 01.00
One Copy, Six Months,...... __^50
£nterc<. me r*o*u> files at Graham,
Paxas, a*t «econd-cla£s mail matter.
home” to yourself. i
bring, with It honor, arid that no’ >ld » Sp.rt.n joutb to hi. moth
matter what may be the record of er« sword isn’t long^ enough
works, the lack of money stamps cto reach the enemy.” “Then,”
him that the posesaion of/ dollars? •'
honor.and that no
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pripple the Comptroller# department. • It Is the season_ of .^be -year when
The attorney General and the Com- maQy of Young- county’s- young men
troller have had to fight back in ! _ . ■ , . ___ .
_A*. . and women are going to points aw:f . , . ^ .
self defence, and while they have ,__ . _ . . 4 . ' ship and It i« far
.__,__from home in order to round out
been uniformly gnccessful In their • _____
■ ... _ , ... . . _ . their- educational careers. With
battles with Colquitt, he doe# not; . .. .. _
seem to have sense enough to know ' e t e r
rftwm b* to whipped, "but beep. «t tomw trom
right on lighting thriii in the- eou rpi *P1^ Ih^WT
time they will be a’l at sea In the
absence of counsel and the ready
SWANK H. BOWWON, ■DITOW.
“Peace and Rest at Austin.”
Gov. -Colquitt's promise to the
people of “peace and rest ’ has turn-
ed out to be the biggest joke in the
history of the state. There has not
been such a thing as peace at AukCW
since hie election for he began even
before he was Installed in the office
of governor to fight tbe other de-
partments of the state government
aad the fight still continues with
and out of the- courts.
His conduct and his conduct alone
mad. It fnr Judge Barn- “rn,,Ml,hy whl,'h «•>*)' ,lw*y' found
nay to run for Governor again.'! him. °" Up ln tb* hom*' B,lt lf .‘h*
right stuff is in them they will be
all the better for their absence
If Colquitt had made even a pass-
able record as governor of the state,
the people would have cheerfully
given him a second term; but It
is the prevailing impression of think
ing people that the state cannot
f>tand .two more years of Colquitt
at all.
and the benefits will not be entirely
gained from books or In the class
rooms. They will be the gainers
if they profit by the standards aet
up by the composit student at col-
lege and they will be the gainers
by being compelled for a few years
to stand by themselves before they
are forced to take up their real
;.k.
Geo, W. Baker, J>resident of the
Dallas Automobile Club, will begin
the organization of automobile clubs responsibilities in life. So far they
unabated fury. The attorney gen-j through -the state for the purpose have been cuddled and petted and
•rai’e department has been his spec- j of promoting good roads in Texas. tjjelr merits magnified by fond prf-
iaJ object of attack, for the very The largest bond ever issued In ents. while their* faaults ' were
simple reason that it was and is Texas In the history of railroad clr- glossed over. They will find It
tbe department which does the ole* was registered in the office of different In college, for there they
most towards protecting the people Secretary of State Friday when a will be judged for what they are
temporary bond-for fl2i«00.90 and
another for $1,600,000 were regis-
tered by T. J. Freeman of the J A
O. N.
With the completion of the
#ur-
agalnst violation of the law. He
has by his -opposition and his In-
tolerable mischief making rendered
that department powerless to pro-
tect tbe state from the trusts and
the land grabbers and the result vey of tbe Necbes River from Beau->
Is that the good work begun in moot to its intersection with the
department, under Davidson, Sablne-Neches Canal and that can-
ty which over two millions of doKal from the river to tbe Sabine Pass
Un were turned into the state the practical work of making—^
treasury, has been discontinued and 26 foot channel from Beaumont to
dfcg true** pursue-their way unterrl-the Guff drill haVe begun. All of
ft “ the work of the survey will have
He has also 4ob* all be- could to been completed this week.
tor no matter what “soreheart” crlt-
Jcs may say,.the college students
have high standards as to moral
and mental worth and to their cred-
it be It said that they are steadi-
ly Insisting on young men and wom-
en measuring up to these Ideals.
Impulsive they may be and often
they do things which the world con-
demns, but ss a rule this cornels not
from any streak of meatmens but
from the bubbling over of tbe spirit
of yoath and We would not have,
them different.
the individual as a failure. No
wonder if 1« then that the acquisi-
tion of the dollar is considered the
all-imporart thing, while the means
employed to secure R. are given
less consideration. No wonder it is
tbe making of money Is given undue
importance, while the building of
character has to take a secondary
place. And yet after all, if you
will but look around you It is easy
to learn that money cuts but little
figure in surrounding u* with the
real treasures of life. It cannot
buy love It does not purchase friend
more apt to stunt
charity, thoughtfulness and consid-
eration than it is to stimulate their
growth. Wisely used It Is a bles-
sing* but -in the mahr 1t-tenda to
make of mankind selfish, narrow
calloused. Its jjofwesaions to often
tends to stimulate greed; the man
who ha# plenty Is to be found grasp
Ing after more until the acquire-
ment of wealth becomes with him
a disease sapping and destroying
all the finer qualities of his nature.
Go into the community where no
man has a superabundance of
wealth and where each and every
one Is putting in an honest day’s
labor in order i to live and there
you will be apt to find the ideal
life. For there is and must be
something finer in our lives than
the mere acquisition of money and
if we are strong enough to make
money-getting a means to the end
hnd will not let it Interfere to the
neglect of family, neighbors and
soolety in • general we may not
have as large a legacy to leave In
worldly goods, but we will . have
lived our lives in all their fulJness
and ‘ will know more of ; the
pleasures whose enjoyment mean*
no resultant pain to our fellowman.
‘add a step to the
said the mother,
sword.” > — r
'• The moral is, lf your ability now
is mot long enough to reach Busi-
ness .Sucess, add to It the step of
Greater Business Training.
There are thousands of crOllege
graduate* walking tie C°Un*y' '» »** <* «**•
^ ham f ho Lill/vu <no A
Goal for Salt.
R. L. S>c&&rd request* as to
ow has controls tit
mines and will de
y part of the
now for jour win-
say that
the Bur
liter coal
oi ty. Arran
ter euppH.
lad. Phoi
hone rings.
empty poekets, and are hungry—
not only for want of food, but are
starving for S ant of a practical edu-
cation, Bitch as they can get in
the BOWIE CftMMKROIAB COL-.
LEGE, which wiR enable them to
reap rich returns in, a business ca-
■__ii 11nii "*"** !’-■ #
reer. \
Young ladies who ar^ equipped
with either a shorthand or busi-
ness education, or both, possess 'a
more profltabtriiufesTmerit than mo
ey invested in city lots, or bank
stock. This knowledge is not tax-
able nor chn It be lost or stolen;
and besides, it places, young wom-
en In a position to protect their own
Interests, as well as to fit them
to earn thhejr own livelihood lf
necessary. No young lady / can
fortell the future, and a business
education will serve her excellent-
ly, no mater In what sphere of life
she maybeplacced.
Now, YOUNG FRIEND8, there Is
no flowery road to success; some
paths are better than others, and
in the end you will find that you
have saved much time and money
and have built a foundation for a
bright future by taking & course in
a reliable school. Thousands of peo
pie are side-tracked in-llfe simply
because they have heeded the claim
of some “patent medicine” school.
Make up your mind that you WIL>
succeed—and that you will assure
success for yourself by obtaining
your training in our college. At
least Investigate our school In every
possible way—we will risk the re-
sult*.
BOWIE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,
Rowle, Texas.
SHERIFF’S SALE/ "
_ 8TATE OF TEXAS, County of
Yotin^‘ By virtue of an order of
Sale issued out of the Honorable
District Court of Tarrant County,,
on the 7th day of October, 1911
by the Clerk thereof in the case
of M. G. Mi (laugh versus E. 8.
Gruy and W, Gray No. 31866, and
to me, as Sheriff, directed and de-
livered, I will proceed to sell, with-
in the hours prescribed by law for
Sheriff’s Sales, on the first Tube-
day ln November A. D. 1911 it* be-
ii % the 7 day of aald month, 'be-
fore the Court House door of said
ham,. the following described prop-
erty, to-wiU.T’ ■>
160 acres wof land lying on Dry
Creek a tributary of the Bravos
River about 4 1-2 miles East
Graham, Beginning at a pile
rock a P. 6. 12 in dia. brs, N- 10
W. 7 vrs: a do. 7 in dia. brs. N.
34 1-2 E. 5 vrs. the S. W. Corner
Of this Survey, which is 416 v vrs.
E. and 173 yre. S.^-of tbw Tf. , E.
•Cor. ef-100 SAue Bui vdy nfor Ni J
Terry: Thetice 10. E. 300 ws. el
prong of Dry ('reek 950 vrs.
of stoite, u, P. O. 7 in dia. brs.
W. 6 Vrs, a B. J. 6 in dia. brs.
38 E. [ft/ vrs: Thence §„?80 E.
vrs. a pile of stone in W. B. line
of Survey No. 4 T. & N O.1 R. R.
Co. 130 vrs from its N. W. Cor. a
P. O. 13 fn. brs. 8. 10 W. 6 vrs;
Thence 8 10 W. with W line of
said Survey No. 4950, 960 vrs. a
stone, a P. O. 10 in dia.- brs. N. 6
W. 10 vrs: a d© 7 In. dis. brs. N.
80 w. 3 vrs. Thence N. 80 W. 100
vrs. cross another prong of Dry
Creek 950 vrs. to the place of be-
ginning and being the J. E. James
Survey, Abstract No. 1328,
levied on as the property of E. S.
Gray and W. Oray t© satisfy a
judgment amounting to $204.60 in
favor of M. G. McG&ugh and cost#
of suit.
Given under my bend* this
of October, 1911.
O. H. Bnwt, Sheriff.
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WANTED—Canvaslng Agents at
once for the sale of “Compendium
of Everyday Wants.’ the book Ntf,
general necessli/y, price $1.60; ajeo
for "THE DEVIL’* BRIDE”, a won
derful. religious allegory, price $1
» ....--outfit sent postpaid for 10
September of last year of $189,297. Wast Lake St, Chicago, 111.’
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Bowron, Frank H. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1911, newspaper, October 12, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth849925/m1/2/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.