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THE RANDALL COUNTY NEWS. DECEMBER It. 1908.
Girls-
t A Stove
FREE!
We are going to give absolutely free a little
"Buck" Range it will cook and bake just like a
big one to the little girl under fourteen years of
age who brings to our store on or before Decem
ber 24 at noon, the greatest number of our ads
containing a "Ruck's" trade mark. So save this
ad and get as many others as you can. You may
be the winner.
Thompson Hardware Co.
Raise More Hogs.
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Advancing WE ENDEAVOR to advance
the business interests of our
customers in every legitimate
Interests way. Jn so doing, our motives
may be somewhat tinctured with
selfishness, for, upon the pros
perity of its patrons hinges the
success of every bank.
Y THE
Canyon National Bank
CANYON, TEXAS.
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Protect Your Property
BY FIRE INSURANCE
Commonwealth Fire Insurance Company of Texas.
The London Assurance Corporation.
Fire Association of Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company, Philadelphia.
The Royal Exchange Assurance.
Philadelphia Underwriters.
Scottish Union & National Insurance Company.
Orient Insurance Company of Hartford.
The New Hampshire Insurance Co. of Manchester, N. H.
W. D. SCOTT, AGENT,
Office in the court house Canyon City, Texas
The "OUTDOOK" Herd
OF REGISTERED
HEREFORD CATTLE
SERVICE
BULLS IN
Strike Twenty No. lUS.H'w (Anxicty-IIesoid)
Winsome Prince No. 172,423 (Hose Stock-Post Obit) Imp.
Armour Dale No. lWi.H-ja (Anxiety-Dale)
FOR SALE
One car load two and three year old bulls.
One ear load yearling bulls.
Ten head two year old heifers with suitable bull.
Ten head yearling heifers with suitable bull.
One hundred head cows with calves on foot.
aiihi:ss
John Hutson, Canyon City, Texas
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THE FAMOUS
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Nigger Head Maltland Coal.
Globe Cattle Dip
Cottonseed Products,
Grain, Hay, Etc.
Crowdus Bros. & Hume Co.
Prosjiects of additional pack
ing houses for Fort Worth are
encouraging. Every new pack
ing house means thousands of
dollars weekly added to Fort
Worth's payroll. It means thous
ands of dollars daily additional to
live stock raisers of Texas. It
means more shipments for the
railroads, more competition
among buyers, more commis
sion houses, more business gen
erally in every department of
Fort Worth's big stock yards.
Yet the most competent pack
ing house ever devised would be
a failure in Fort Worth if it did
not have a steady supply of hogs.
There isn't a single successfnl
packing house in the United
States where cattle alone are
slaughtered. Every packing
house from the smallest to the
largest wants hogs. In fact
they must have hogs in order to
succeed.
More important to Fort Worth,
more important to Texas, than
the addition of any number of
packing houses to Fort Worth,
would be an increase in the hog
supply of Texas until receipts of
hogs at the Fort Worth market
exceed 1,000,000 yearly. There
are a dozen towns in the United
States, none so ideally situated
for a live stock center as Fort
Worth, where the annual receipts
exceed 1,000,000. But at Fort
Worth this year total receipts do
not promise over 1100,000.
True, last vear receipts were
under 100,000, and a gain of 100,
000 is encouraging, but too large
a percentage of the gain this
year has come from Oklahoma.
Texas neither deserves the
credit for it nor, what is more
important, gets the money out of
it.
Until the vast majority of
Texas agricultural population
realizes the importance and value
of the hog there will always be a
cry about the boll weevil or the
worm, or the spinners' trust, or
the cotton exchange speculators.
And yet so few as fifty hogs on
every farm in the state would
make Texas independent of any
combination which may exist to
control the price of the state's
leading staple.
The hog is cheap to raise. A
cow, in a year, produces a can
which, after three years may
fetch StfO. Hut a brood sow will
raise two litters of a half dozen
each in a year aud these pigs at
the end of one year will sell for
$100 on the farm where they are
raised.
The mathematics of this is as
old as the hog-raising business.
It has been tested and proven a
hundred times.
Less than twenty years ago the
middle west found in the hog the
greatest mortgage lifter ever
discovered and since then the
middle west has produced most
of the pork, bacon and hams we
eat.
Texas raises food for hogs
more cheaply than it can be rais
ed anywhere else in the United
States. Alfalfa and forage crops
will finish hogs as well as Iowa
corn. Proof of this may be had
from a hundred farms in Hale or
Lubbock counties.
The hog business is not a sine
cure. It has its good years and
bad years. Hut year in and year
out it is a steady, profitable busi
ness even for those who devote
their time to nothing else. The
farmer who uses hog-raising as
only a side line avoids the risks
of those who venture everything
The things we don't know are
many. But among them all there
is none that stand more para
mount than the caprices of that
little member of our anatomy
called the tongue. It stands as
the most uncontrolable thing
that man has to do with. Its
capabilities are great for good or
evil. It can speak the word of
consolation that will lighten the
burdens of life, or by its insinu
ating utterances it can make ex
istence miserable. It can inflict
a wound or it can heal one. It
can so parade the virtues that
vice seems to have entirely van
ished and one can only breathe
the ethereal atmosphere of holi
ness, or it can trillionize a single
vice and so besmear every possi
ble virtue that one seems only
fit for the hottest corner in the
hadean world. It can do all this
and more. We as a race, with
thousands of years behind us;
with a history portraying the
events of a wonderful past a
past tilled with great advance
ment in every line of industrial
economy in the art of war, of
navigation, of transportation, of
the diffusion of knowledge, and
of husbandry in all the sciences
that have delved to the earth's
core and reached to the sun's
center; with the fruits of every
research that has essayed to ex
plore the mysteries of the phys
ical, mental and spiritual worlds
about us, have thus far failed to
remove the tongue's relish for
gossip, slander and venomous in
sinuation. The press has brought
within our reach, in a classified
and convenient form, every fact
relating to the different depart
ments of human knowledge. We
have easy access to this store
house a structure that the cen
turies have evolved. Hut with
all the advantages afforded us by
the genius of invention and
science we still allow the tongue
to emit its exhalation of moral
poison. Shame on us! We have
the will power to conquer and
utilize every force of nature
can harness the lightning and
use it to transport us hither and
thither throughout the breadth
of the land and carry our mes
sages with incalculable speed to
the farerest ends of the earth
can convert the barren waste in
to an Eden of productiveness and
beautycan even conquer grav
ity itself and leave the earth's
surface to explore the ethereal
blue, yet, when we approach
that little member, the tongue,
our will power hoists the white
Hag and attunes the ear to listen
to its operations as it weaves the
threads of slander and enmity
and binds the soul to the goddess
of hate. Can we conquer it too?
Let us try. Vidette.
The Mail Order House.
Just at this season of the year,
and possibly more so than at
any other the mail order houses
of the large cities are sending
out' their bulky, illustrated cata
logues to catch the eye for the
Christmas trade from the small
er cities, towns and farming
communities, these people they
think to "hoodwink by their de
scriptive matter and price quota
tions. Experience has proven and
continues to prove that, taking
all things into account, to buy of
such houses costs more and
causes less satisfaction than to
buy of the home merchant, the
man who invests his money in
your town, takes your produce,
extends you credit when you
most need it and becomes one of
you, a citizen who is ever trying
to upbuild your town and coun
try and at the same time sell
you goods at liye-and-let-livo
prices.
Money sent out of town to
these houses for what can be
bought equally as well at home
is just so much check to the
growth and prosperity of the
home town, and of the farmers
and others who find in the town
a ready market for their eggs,
butter and other produce,
Think it over; you may be con
templating placing an order with
one of these houses and consider
whether it is just the proper
way to go about benefitting your
self, town and community. How
long do you think it would take
a dollar sent to the mailorder
house to return to you? Do you
think you would ever get posses
sion of it again? No sir; the dol
lar you send out of town for
things that can be bought at
home you may as well bid good
bye. Memphis Democrat.
Tho Value of Good Roads.
A good country road is always
to be desired and is a source of
comfort and convenience to every
traveler. Good roads attract
population, as well as good
schools and churches. Good
roads improve the value of the
property, so that it is said a
farm lying five miles from mar
ket, connected by a bad road is
of less value than an equally
good farm lying ten miles away
from market connected by a
good road. A larger load can be
drawn by one horse over a good
road than by two over a bad one.
Good roads encourage the great
er exchange of products and
commodities between one sec
tion and another. Olney Oracle.
NEW BARBER SHOP
WILL open a new
barber shop on the
south side of the square
as soon as the building
can be made ready
for me. :-: :-: :-:
WILL BAILEY
MRS. B. MANLEY
Trained Nurse
Will nurse cases in town or coun
try under direction of any regu
lar practitioner. Long distance
calls promptly answered.
Phone 173 rings
Canyon, - - Texas
THE COZY COKNEU
can be made extremely attrac
tive at a very little cost if fur
nished from this store. Couches,
rugs and pillows are here a
plenty at remarkably low prices.
FINK FURNITURE VALUES
always prevail here. Our c zy
corner specialties are only a
sample of the opportunities that
pervade the entire store. Come
and make your home snug for
the winter. It's not very far
off now.
THOMAS BROS.
The Quality House.
Not Worth the Offer.
Cattle
RESTAURANT
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Take The News and Keep Posted
If your grievance is such that
you cannot bear it; if the govern
ment fails to give you justice; if
you an! bound down by oppres
sive laws, until you cannot make
a decent living for yourself and
family by hard labor, or, if the
government under which you
live fails to give you relief from
any oppressor, under its control,
start a rebellion. Lome out in
the open; organize your forces;
j get your guns and get busy if
I you think you must, and we will
send a small posse of deputy
sheriffs and have you arrested
and put where you belong. Hut
for the love of all that is decent;
for the sake of the honor of the
race; for the sake of those who
have gone on before and spilt
their life's blood for your com
fort and happiness, don't be a
i -the kind that mother u.sed
j make at reasonable prices.
! A trial will convince you.
to
J lie-opened under new inanage
I was standing out in front mont an(j supplies tho best lunch
one night," said a theatrical es and meals in the city at all
l mtie hours. Pics and Cakes of all kinds
urchin came along with a dog
under his arm. The dog was a
yellow cur of the mangiest var
iety I had ever seen. ! Opposite the Depot
" 'Are you the manager or tjThG Cattle King Restaurant
showy'" asked the boy. j
"I told him I was. ;
"'Well,' remarked the lad, 'I
want to see the show, but I
hain't got no money. I'll tell
you what I'll do, I'll give you this
dog if you'll let me in.'
"I looked at the boy and then
at the dog, and my heart melted.
'You can go in,' I said, 'but
never mind giving me the dog.
Take the dog along with you.'
Hie lad went in with tlie yel-
they have in one direction and at snake in the grass; don't be a
sneak thief and a coward, and
show it by slipping up to some
body's gin or other property and
sticking tire to it; or by going in
superior numbers and taking
charge of one man by force and
maltreating him. If you think
you are mistreated and can get
no reparation otherwise come
out in the open and light. We
have a contempt for the coward
who will destroy property and
endanger lives that he may re
ceive some imaginary selfish ben
efit. Exchange.
the same time shares the profits
He is an an intelligent diversitier
and he makes money.
And so long as Texas continues
paying from $10,000,000 to $ir,
000,000 annually for pork,
hams, bacon and lard produced
out of the state we have room for
a great deal more such diversifi
cation. Texas Stockman Journal.
W. 11. Aid ridge is now located
in the I'ader building and is
prepared to do all kinds cf clean
ing and pressing. Phone 13.
low cur under his arm. After
the performance I was standing
out in front and happened to see
the urchin come out.
" 'Well, sonny,' I remarked,
'how did you like the show?'
'"Oh, pretty well,' he said,
'but I'm awfully glad I didn't
give you the dog.''-Philadelphia
ledger.
Quito a Shock.
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to t-: on
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fore know
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,t what our
"I dreamed last night that I
was in heaven."
"See anyone you knew':"'
"Yes; I met you there."
"What did you do then?"
"Nothing. Surprised me so
that I woke up." Ex.
customers want in this line ami
We Supply Ttiem
with the very best meats that
can be bought.
We Are Now in Our
New Location
in the Smith v.v. Monroe build
ing, south side of the square.
CITY MEAT MARKET
JIM TOSTICK, I'rop.