The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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H. MWRON, BOITOW.
’« pity
youraelt. We admir. the younc
sler who when he falls end bumps
hie head, scramble*. to his feel
-iti — with “Oh, lhal didn't hart." He
«l M IWBkX M Gr.h»m.- ^ ^ tfuoh tO CTJ.
" “00“S'0,*“ m*11 rbet’e the eplrit with which (6
meet the defeats and the bumps
fate gives once in awhile. 8elf
pity is cowardly and a waste of
energy and time. Don’t waste
anvkhhiceiieiits.
Subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic Primaries next July.
For State Senator 20th District:
—i ‘ ' W. A. Johnson, ~
'r "■" 'v of Hall County.
For Representative 104th District:
R. B. HoMpmuey.
of Throckmorton county to all the un-
oxpired term of Hod. D. J. Hroobeeoq
in the,Mat-ae well as for the full term
to the 32nd Legislature.
For District .Judge:
P. A. Martin.
R P. ARNOLD.
For District Att’y 30th Jndieial Diet:
~8r-Mr FPstes.
A. 8. MOS8.
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For District jsndGounty Clerk:
H. Dr<jW8WELJU
M. w; SOCTER.
-* E. R Norman.'
• D. D CUSENBARY.
For County Judge:
E. W. Fry.
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fbr .County Attorney:
—--------- PiUfiP T. ARNOLD.
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Tor County Superintendent of Public
Schools: i •"
• \b R Lindsey. * ■ 1
Fc - County Tiwseuireir: , •.
. F. M. Burkett.
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F. Herron.
.1. B. Padgett.
Tor County Tax Assessor:
O. D. Hinson.
C. W. Rasi’kk.
C. O. WOOLFOLK.
7- W. H. (Pike) arms.
Tor Sheriff and Tax Collector:
— WAMStCto ■ r-—
_ " ■ O. E Brown. 1 -
Fbr County Tax Collector: ,
J. E. Parsons. ~ M
For, Justice of Peace Precinct No. L
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If we could visit the great libraries
of Europe we would tind the Biblical
IP . ,, ____ , treasures of all ages almost from
- progressive toUow tewyeler*. ThU is ike mu. of
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Tor Public Weigher, Precinct No. 1:
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O. W. Allison. _
For Commissioner PrecfnctFo. 1.
Gao. F. PARfUDNS.
A. H. (Art) Jones.
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We are in receipt of Volume
One, Number one, of the Olney
Enterprise. It is a five column
gBarto, neatly printed and well
gotten up, and la chuck full of
interesting local news. Mr. Bhuf
flier, the editor, shows by this is-
sue that he intends to keep up his
high standard as a newspaper
pan and will give to the Olney
tfeCtple a paper that'Will ever
work for the beet interests of
Aha town and surrounding
country and place before the
Outside world its many advant-
ages in a manner that will assist
the place in its rapid growth.
Be is fall of energy, a splendid
writer and a booster from the
. Tillage, and deserves the very
heel from those he is laboring
|or. We-predict success for the
gFEnterprise and gladly, place
It on Cfor exchange list. '
Wr.
- Bey* will he Bays. -
gad are always getting scratches, cuts.
Sprains, bruises, buraps," Tbttrha or
SSSlds. Don’t neglect such things—
dhty may resplt serious if you do.
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Applj Bs11srH*« Sijow Liniment ac-
OONllng to directions right away and
f| trill rdiSTV the palp and heal the
Wouble. Price 25c, 50c and fil.Ofc
gold by all Druggists.
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When the trees begin to blos-
gom, and the vioietg to bloom;
when the bullfrog in tbemeadow
Warbles boom-ah boom-ah-boom;
When ducks are flying north
Wardwnd^ighh; butterflies are
ont* and when the h>bias go
lipase-keeping ip the broken
Water-spouts; when grasshoppers
gre bopping, and black bats
oome out at night, and venture
iB your bedroom attracted by
the light, when birils fly down
lbs Zchimney and hens walk
* I® the door, ‘ beetles hold
sonventions in the center of
tbd floor; when the mud
Ji o’er your shoe tops as you
gross the new ploughed land—
fos may count on it for certain;
jweet spring is nsar st hand.
one minute being sorry for your-
self. Grit your teeth, hoM up
your head, look fate square In
face without flinching and with
an *tit-didnVhur^M attitude.
Many a dissatisfied woman is
spoiling her life by cpddllng her
discontent and pitying herself,
when maybe she has a whole lot
more good things than she de-
serves. Cheer up, change your
doleful tune inty a marry song.
If you are deprived of some
things you greatly desire, being
unhappy will not bring them, so
why not be happy without them?
—Woman’s National Daily. - ^
A Nam father
is Rood turned to s sad one if be baa
to .walk the floor every nigbt with a
cry inf baby. McGee’s Baby Elixir
will make the child well,—soothe its
nerves, induce healthy, normal slumb-
er. Best for disordered bowels and
soar stomach—all teething babies need
contains no harmful drug*. Price 25
and 50,cents per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists. JLI......
Be progressive. Do not wear
your life away struggling along
in the old ruts that your fore-
fathers cut so deep by continual
travel. While they are good in
their way and no doubt consider-
ed safe, yet the wheels pit yonr
vehicle turn so slowly that you
are left far behind by your more
Paper Read Before the Ladies MissU
April 8tb. 1910, and Rublisbed by Reqi
of this Society^
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Tbs Bible is the book of inspired
literature whose uwilinf* spread out
over many oenwrles
•Qwfr Wtro mt’suudii ti«wis'wwd-tn>
divers manners spake in times past
unto the fathers by p* prophets hath
ip three last days spokan unto us by
bis Son. ” Bab. 1-2. t T
Bsgipning with the writings of
Mosas about 1500 B. C. and closing
with the prophesy of Malachi, the
Testament was more than a thousand
years ia formation. The thirty-nine
books composing it were not given in
an unbroken series. Thirty or more
writers Of the Old Testament and eight
of the New, few -of whom. were con-
temporaries, wrote st “sundry times”
as they were inspired by the Holy
Ghost. - '-l ;___: f''\7r
The seventy-seven books of the New
Trstament were written in the first
The Bible therefore was a growth
of about Rlxteen oeidturies at the hands
of about forty writer*. - Portion* of
U came by di
from God, as in the oase of Moses;
part as messages through angels, as
to Mary; part as visional* to Daniel
came the “learned Bede; along w
King Alfred’*' translations of t
PslsmV; but let us not forget Win. the
Oonqsefm' who waged fonr yekri Tif
‘The Swift udto the Severn runs,
The Severn to the sea
audible revelation* So shall Wyoliff’s Bible* spread
Wide as the waters be. ”
About1 one hundred years after
WycliH’s death thtne arose Tyndale,
and John. To Uie prophets came by the great master of seven languages,
the Holy Ghost communications.
8ome of the books of the Old Testa-
ment were compiled from the sacred
annals of the Jewish Nation, but all
were *,Ootf Breatfacri“ in flhsl re viriuu
for does not Timothy tell us “All
Scripture is given by Inspiration of
God. To the New Testament writer*
rnent but not without persecution, but
he said “I'defy the pope if God spare
me I will use day make the boy that
cihie Special divine IttuntDttton* drivel the ~pfof Know more Scripture f .
prompting and directing their writings:' than the Pope.” He was exiled, im
Keep a moving and a-pushing
and a-crowdingtoward the front.
You’ll not much more than hold
your place in the procession the
best you can do. The men at the
front, these days are those of
brains and energy combined.
You have a place there if you
will bustle for it. If you don’t
The Old Testament grew up about
the historic and religious life of God’s
chosen nation, as out of it should
come his Son. The New Testament,
in its record of the ministry of Christ
manuscript and material accessible to
scholars for the purpose of Bfble
revision.
Three separate heap*—stained and
torn old,parchments—books of^ faded
•purple lettered with sliver, bundles of
fine vellum yellow with ege, bright
even yet with the gold and Vermillion,
laid on by pious hands of a thousand
years ago. Manuscripts, versions,
hustle your place will be taken
by the
*Hve-
fellow who does. Be
fgMere Him Three Decades.
Foley’s Honey and Tar has been
household favorite for- all ailment* of
the throat, chest and lungs. For in-
fant* and children it is best and *af
esaas ft contains no opiates and no
harmful drugs. None genuine but
Foley’s Honey and Tar in yellow
pericsge. Sola by Graham Drug Co.
We woulll be afraid to leave
our baby with a stick of striped
candy (.round a man who to so
short he will not work in
harmony with the other cittoens
n building up a town and the
ilorther development of their
country, who ait back and wait
for some one else to do the work
and spend their money and then
reap tbeir share otTjthe spoils.
We said we would be afraldr to
leave them with our baby if the
baby had a stick of striped
f -.w ,
In the formation and re vision of our
English Bible from these ancient
candy, for when we returned wel .manuscripts our sympathy extends
know the candy would be missing,
and the baby can’t eat candy
yet.- Tahoka Reformer.
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is a pretty hard thing to accomplish
when you are blue, bilious and out of
sorts. There is a sure cure for all
kinds of stomach and livercomplafnte
—constipation and .dyspepsia. Bal-
lard’s Herbine iA mild, yet absolutely
effective in all cases. Price SO cents
per bottle Sold by all Druggists.
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At a meeting of tne Jefferson
county, Ala. Good Roads AsSo
elation the following resolutions
were adopted: Realizing the
great value of good road* for the
industrial m advancement and
general uplift of the state, and
beiiving that the time has come
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Porchester county. Md. has
petitioned to bold an election to _ ___ _
Mine $60,000 for road improve- fine modem roads under the di- planing to tosue $ 10,000 in good
The oldest Bible is known as the
Vatican Manuscript. This has been
kept for the last five hundred years in
the Vatican Library st Home. This
manuscript consists of about seven
hundred leaves of the. finest vellum
about a foot square- bound in book-
form. While this is nearly two
thousand years old it is perfectly
legible* Bach page contains three'
columns and the writing is in capitals
without any divisions "Between the
Words. .
The Sibaitic Manuscript was hidden
from the world until about fifty years
ago a German scholar, who had spent to value our Bible more,
nearly all his life in search of ancient
manuscript found this in the Convent
at foot of Mount binai.
haps written by Thekla, the martyr,
is a great treasure .in the British
Museum. " s* '
No other book from the ancient
world at all compares with our Bible
in number and reliability o! translation
ami manuscript copies containing the
original texts kt-
long and bloody war in defense of
nation against the Homan church.
Hut in the hearts of lhem people the
spirit of religious freedom thrived un-
til in the fourteenth century God raised
up Wyoliffeto-dpea Hue Scriptures and
make them plain to their understand-
ing. Woefully hindered by lack of
Bible material, deprived scholarly
help, persecuted, yes persecuted to
the end of bis life. Yet his bible when
completed won its way info the affec-
tions despite all efforts to destroy it,
Altho his body was burned, its ash-
es thrown into the little river Swift
yet there remain one hundred and
fifty copies of his bible so the1 “Morn-
ing Star ol the Reformatioh” still
shines. And so beautifully did the
poet sing: ^,7 . ;/ ■ ;;; • . 1
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the distinguished scholar of Oxford
and Cambridge. ■ Assisted by the
printing press all the Hebrew and
Greek MSS. he translated one
thousand-copter ~of the New Teatw
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prisoned, strangled, burned at the
stake, praying at the last "Lord, open
k 'Waterways
jho»,h «h. .).e. pt *. kte, of Eng- Ij. h„e ^ of cot,t
____, , , ... . 2000 mites of inland waterways »u*
Coverdale’s Bible was perhaps the ceptible 4o navigatien. The cost .
first entire English printed .Bible, and transporting freight over the wau
Matthews the first authorised versior. wuyt i, 3 mm* per ton per mile.
Oranmer’s bible bore the title of
the “Great Bible” but the Geneva
was the first distinctly Protestant
Bible.
In lfill came the authorised version
which for three hundred years has
been the flower and fruit of classic
and English scholarship. It has in it
the life-blood of kings, scholars, re-
formers and saints.
King James appointed forty-seven
greet scholars of England to translate
and revise so after five years of con-
tinuous service this scholarly con-
struction with its purity end dignity
of language known as the King James
Version was given us. t
The bringing to lights many ancient-
MSS. the increasing number of obso-
lete words and the advancement in
Greek and Hebrew. Learning con-
spired to bring about the American
Revision. The eminent scholars of
England with a corresponding .com
mittee of American scholars oomplet-
ed the revision with prayer and thanks-
giving in May 1885 after fifteen years
of pain* taking and prayerful stud
Now that we have followed thesto
of the Bible from the old record chest
to the revised version let this Ifolp us
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It is not .without purpose that God
has so wonderfully r preserved His
Word and it is not without purpose
. The. Alexandrian Manuscript |»er- He has raised up His workers to
search out the precious Manuscripts
from the dusty libraries of convents
and cathedrals to collect end compare
them: together with such toil and care the product , of the oil and gas tve’.
and then to render into clear graceful
EnglisiYfor us the very Tries sage which
hrst to (Caedmon whose metrical
phamphrases of Bible history so
charmed the simple farm people, next
he sent to earth thousands of years
since to comfort and brighten human
llfa.”
served for us His Word to grant u*
t Mills Per-Ton Per Mile.
This method of transportation
cheaper than either* railroad cr \rS' '
highways. The principal cost of • ~
lie. highways i*, in constructing
maintaining the roadbed, and tl:e r.
applies to railroads, but nature -i.r
nishes a level roadbed for the vc;**
and the government maintains . t
waterways. The improvement cf <
rivers and harbors will greatly l<».
the cast of- transportation.
Pipe Lines.
We have 1,500 miles of pipe line .
transportation Service leading fra
the oit^JfikkLjffl^snc refineries, ilc J
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teveril hundred mile's of pfpe lines i.
the refinery yards.
Pipe lines are primarily" city build
crs. The pipe lines bring the oil fieJ
to the refinery and the gas well to tl |
city and the ftictory. and reduce
cost of transportation as well as pr ■
vide a feasible method of 4<stribati.v
throughout the State.
Aerial Navigation. • -
We have no airships in transporta-
tion service..jn.Texas. . This character
May it please Him who Bue-SW pre- Of transportItion, while experiment:.!,
is nevertheless important, says tilt
SiLtw^and toreceive ^ wUlT^S 'n 1 Tex19 ConimercialSecretoViCs’' Asso-
affection and to bring forth the fruiti. 1 c^*t*on*
of the Spirit.-
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At a meeting of .rofcd instruc-
tion in Idwa recently, editor
Henry Wallace said, tljat taking
cafe of the water that acouina
late* ia the aecret of Maintain-
ing country roads- That c&re^
for, and the log drag employed,
he made the assertion that Iowa
would hare aa good roads as
any state in the unkp. He said
that the clay road to better than
any other, with the possible elf
oeption of an Mph< paving,
The family that eats
plenty of
Quaker
Scotch Oats
and , the more clay the better as
tong as the road is kept oval,
smooth and -hard, Drainage
for tbeaute to take some definite fint. tiling on each »ide. and a
V
action aud, Whereas, the old
system of building and repairing
road* in the state has failed to
accomplish the results we desire
and has been wasteful of the
mogfly and labor employed, we
recommoad the conrtrocUqn of Fnuiklln ooaoty, TmsMNt 4 dred wllfr
grade that throws water into
the aide#—these are his Ideas
and he said that the mijiy way to
bring this about wfli by use of
the dragt
nctk»of comirtcnt | md* bonds.
:
is a healthy,
family.
The most popular
food in the world be-
cause 4 it doet most
and costs least*
Quincy, III,, will offer gold
prises for the best - pieces of
road dragging in Adams county,
the prlaee ranging from $2. to
$100, aggregating several Hun-
iLi'Ldt
" Y!je . perfection oi the sfrtfdff Will
Ip:t.lTy fcdaCff Ytorcost of tran^portH-
17 n. The atmosohere furnishes the
i navi
rc.:;Ibcd hr aerial navigation and af
f rj* a free and universal distribution
cf trachcxc facilities. All people ar*
interested in inventions. Rob-
<*^W‘uUon, in giving u* the Steam en
t/^^reditced. the cost of transports-
in Terns from 43 cents per ton
'life (public highways) to 1 cent ^er
’on per mile on the waterways,
proved machinery reduces the cost of
transportation in Sit lines of traffic
and consequently increases the value
of production.
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rood will vary from one half
milt lo five miles.
March 10 Obion, Teiui., votes
on $15,000 of bonds.
A bond issue of $60v000 to con-
templated by Sumpter county,
8. C. for good roads* >
The pieces of Gilts county, Tsihl Will hold
4^-
_ *:£,
; 9
$ t ■
Isis
eleotton in August to
$100,000 bonds for good roods.
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Ot Yea Wish tt Make Money?
Making money, as you know,
Is a question of not only finding
the opportunity but of improv-
ing it as well. We can put you
in touch with the v
OPPORTUNITY
to make money if y^i wil
vote a few minutes of youiv
to reading this adyertiaeuSf
and send for our beantif A ill! .
trated booklet telling of the
wonderful money making op-
portunities at Rockport—Uncle
Sam’s New SeaPort on the
Gulf. He who acts is the man
who wins. If you wfsh~^^~t:
in on th
act. You knouts well as
do that prompt action is the
portant element In money tnak*
ing. Our proposition at Rock*
port offers to men of means the
biggest and surest rising market
in America It offers to man of
small means the easiest road to
economic independence open any
where in th^ Uni
oflem to men Q^ alTslShiiS ihe
last chance that will be offered
them in this century to gelf^trpn
the ground floor ptAbe develoo-
ment of one of America’s great
population centers and sag ports.
History repeats itself, i Remem-
ber ,8eattle and Ssa Francisco,
how small investments speedily
turned into princely sums. All
economic conditions Strongly
point to a faster development in
Rockport in the immediate fu
tare than these centers of pop-,
ulation ever dreamed of in ear-
lierhistory. Those who are
quick to grasp an opportunity
will not overlook this one best
bet. We offer you jthe founda-
tion for a fortune at ’ Rockport
and your opportunity
IS KNOCKING.
_„7 Write or call on Geo. G. Har- 1
Tiff, Agent, Care of Graham Drug
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C. 8. Wynne, Looal Agent.
Phil A. Aueb,
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Ft. Worth, Texas!
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Bowron, Frank H. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1910, newspaper, May 5, 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth850015/m1/2/: accessed May 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.