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4. STAYER. A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO STOCK-PA RMING. VOL VI. CANYON CITY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1902. NO. 7. K Y i R. M. Land CANYON CITY, Handle Large and Small Ranches and City Property. Several choice valley sections with running water on them and adaped to Alfalfa for sale. Solicit your business. Oscar Hunt & Company carry a full line of caskets and all undertaking supplies. An ex pert embalmer is always ready to answer calls promptly. It will be remembered that something like a year ago, at the invitation of Governor Sayers and the legislature the Merchant's Association of New York and the Chamber of Com merce sent a committee consist ing of thirty representative business men of that city, to visit Texas in order that they might become better acquainted with our people and possibili ties with a view of investing more capital here and helping to develop our state. The report of this committee has been published and is brim full of intensely interesting reading matter. We quole be low some things said of our ed ucational institutions: "What struck your committee most surprisingly during their visit wan the high Htiite of al vnncemcnt noticed in many of these schools, so that as regards scholarship ami ed ucation in nearly every branch the schools throughout Texas compared very favorably with the schools of our Northern States. It is also evi dent that the general advancement is far more rapid in Texas than In the North, so that it seems not at all improbable that, with their mag nificent school fund, they may soon even surpass In excellence our schools in the North. The State School Fund of Texns is very large, and, in fact, there Is no other state in the Union that can compare with it. The amount of this euormous school fund, as taken from the ollicial and authorative State Department of Kducation approximates $12,0 10,001) . Of this amount about one-half Is In vested in bonds and other income bearing investments and about one half is represented by land owned by the School Board an area of about twenty millions of acres, exceeding that of the entire state of Pennsyl vania. "Texuns have every reason to be proud of the immense school fund, which guarantees free education to every boy and girl throughout the State. It might be well, as it seems to us, if during childhood education was compulsory in Texas, as it is now In the Eastern and Northern Stntes. Possibly, owing to the fact that the children mature at an earli er age In the South than in theXorth, the limit should be from 7 to 12 in Instead of from 1- to I t as It is In the Xorth. Hut we doubt not this will soon be the case, and it well may be, for she has a fund for this purpose. "We found the School Board and the trustees and members of the school committees always ready to assist and aid us in our endeavors to get at the educational status of the State. They are deservedly proud of their fine showing In regard to school-houses, the vast array of good school-teachers and the grow ing interest displayed by all those connected with education through out the Stato. Indeed, It Is not too much to say that the school fund of the Lone Star State Is greater in pro portion even to the size of the State than that of any other State of the Union, and it must bo remembered that the State of Texas is a vast em pire In itself, larger than all New England with New York and Penn sylvania combined. "Daniel Webster. In his great speech of the 7th of March, 18.r0, by a bold figure of speech, speaking of Texas, declared It "so vast that a bird could not fly over It In a week." This State alone Is five times nslarge as the entire British Isles, and equal to thirty-four States, each the size of Massachusetts. It Is larger than the whole of France, and, Incredible as It may seem, it Is nevertheless true that If the entire living popula tion of the globe fourteen hundred million was divided Into families of five persons each all of those familk j PEELER, Aient, TEXAS could be accommodated In the pres ent State of Texas not after the manner of our city dwellings, crowd ing a house or two house upon a lot 25x100 feet, but allowing each family a housi'lot of one-half an acre, and then there would be a surplus of more than than seventy million of lots uutakeii. The mind Is almost bewildered in cansidering so large a question as the educational status and progress over so immense a territory." Only the very best woodwork ing material carried in stock, and it is unpainted so you can see exactly what you are get ting at Harter's. Mr. II. W. Key, formerly of the In dian Territory has come out to Fau chon to live. He will take charge of Mr. Jeff Key's mercantile business that is now at Enaction and move it four miles north. Jeff will go back to the farm. nr i i DRY TREAD WELL BEING SHOD WELL Sellers-Cofer. On Sunday April 20th at Can yon City, Texas, Elder Denson spoke the words which joined in marriage Mr. Lucian Sellers and Miss Lena Cofer. The ceremony was at 3 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Davis, the bride's sister. The groom was attired in the regulation black and though somewhat nervous ne oore up bravely. The bride was costumed in white organdie and all over lace beautifully decorated with white carnations and roses. After congratulations the hostess led the way to the dining room where a grand feast was spread. After partaking of the many good things the party returned tothe parlor where Bro. Denson entertained us a while with his many comical sayings. Many beautiful and useful presents were received. The happy couple left on the 5:18 train for Dallas to take in the Reunion. The groom is a prosperous hardware merchant at Pan handle, Texas and the bride is one of Virginia's fair daughters, loved and admired by all who know her. A happy and prosperous life is the wish of One Present. From a careful reading of the report of the committee on "Labor Conditions in Texas It is very questionable if the very high state of development of resources would be best for the great masses. We quote two paragraphs below from which it can readily be seen that 'it will be necessary to se cure (wnat we consider a very undesirablecondition of affairs,) cheap labor, before much head way can be made in the manu facturing enterprises. "More constant and powerful fac tors are the lack of foreign Inimigra tion or the artisan class and the at tractions offered by t he protlts to lie made from cheap lands. These tend to an Insiifliclent source of labor sup ply on the one hand and to steady depletion of the artisan class on the other, as well as to a high rate of factory wages, in accord with the fundamental law that cheap and pro ductive land, yielding an easily earned livelihood, promotes land develop ment and retards the development of manufactures. "The worklngof this law lias borne heavily upon the infant manufactur ing industries of Texas. The genial ity of the climate, the cheapness and fertility of the land and the oppor tunities of profit from its apprecia tion in value have caused a steady drain of local capital and labor from GOODS and GROCERIES J IN ALL OUR LINES THE QUALITY IS JUST AS WE REPRESENT THE VERY BEST. OuR PRICES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. SPACE HERE WILL NOT PERMIT ENUMERATION AND WE WOULD LIKE AN OPPORTUNITY OF NAMING THEM TO YOU. SMITH, urban to rural pursuits. To main tain a labor supply for the new fac tories It has tieen necessary to bring factory hands from other sections. and these in turn have gradually abandoned the factories for farm and ranch. Only by frequently im porting new hands has the factory quota been passably maintained." In this connection we would call the attention of the re marks made at Gainesville by Col. Metz, a member of the New York board of education regarding the school children and school houses of the two states. "I have been much Impressed by the vast mineral and natural re sources of your State, but to my mind you have one resource that surpasses all the others, and that is yiur school system. I have been connected with the school system of my home city and have been interes ted, for that reason, particularly In school work, and do not hesitate to say that the school system of Texan compares favorably and Is equal to that of New York. You have a magnificent school fund, while we have none. Some of you gentlemen from New York may not know it, but It is nevetheless a fact, that there are 43,000 children in our own Borough of Brooklyn, which Is only a small part of the City of New York, who are attending school on half time, because we have not schoolliouses and seating capacity enough to allow them a full days at tendance, and have not the available fund to provide for them. "Texas has magnificent school buildings, und In many towns they are large eneough to meet ttu re quirements for years to come, which iseinlnentty proper. They are splen didly lighted and ventilated. The curriculum for the public schools is quite up to ours, as is also the quali fication for teaching. It has been our privilege and pleasure to meet many of the ladies of the State, and I am sure that with such mothers and with such schools Texas Is bound to have good citizens. I am also pleased to see that the schools of Texas are managed in a prac tical, business-like way and are kept out of politics; that the men of Texas are vitally Interested In their schools and are giving .them their best thought and attention. "I congratulate the people of Texas on their advanced position in the matter of public education. Have we any assurance what ever that cheap labor and an over crowded condition would not bring in Texas what it has brought everywhere else? A few people very wealthy, highly educated and refined; all the granduer that wealth and education can produce, and magnificent and imposing structures for religios, vano us educational and commercial in stitutions, all of which are very desirable; but who can find these things without finding by WALKER & CO. Be sure to get our prices. it all of the other extreme, the greatest poverty, want, misery, vice aud crime? It does seem to us that by the comparison that this report makes, that the masses of Texas are in much better eondition and much hap pier than those of New York or any other overcrowded country oet your old buggy nxed up like new. Harter can and will do it right for more or less, ac cording to the amount of faxing it needs. Information tor Baptists. We appreciate that it is perfectly natural for you to want all the ac commodations obtainable, if a long trip is anticipated, and that you may have the best we trust you will find it convenient to use the line of The Texas & Pacific Hallway Com pany to visit Ashevllle, N. C. to at tend the Southern Baptist Conven tion to tie held at that point May Sth to 15th, 1902. We give you choice of routes via New Orleans, Shreveport and Mem phis. Our trains carry handsome new chair cars (seats free) and su perb sleepers. Each chair ear Is ac companied by a colored porter to look after the wants of passengers. We will sell tickets to Ashevllle at rate of one fare for the round trip from points in Texas West of Big Springs May 4th, 5th, and Oth and from Big Springs and points East In Texas May 5th, lith and 7th. All tickets are limited for return to leave Ashevllle May 21st, 1902, but anexteutlon, until June 2ml, 1902, WE ARE HERE (aNYON JuMBER ((T CANYON CITY. LOST. Somewhere in Canyon City last week, one square black leather pocket book containing some small change and a plain gold ring that had been broken. Finder can have the money if he will return the book and ring to W. K. Lair, Canyon City, Texas. See ourbeaut lfiil wedding stationery may be had by depositing ticket with Joint Agent at Ashevllle and payment of the nominal sum of fifty cents for each t icket. Any further information regarding rates, schedules, reservation of berths in sleepers, through chair ram, etc.. will tie gladly given upon appli cation to II. 1'. Hughes Traveling Passenger Agent Ft. Worth, Texas. K. P. Turner liencral Passenger Agent T & 1' Ky Dallas, Texas. Notice. To the editor of The Stayer. Will you kindly announce through your paper that the Holiness people will hold a tent or sbed meeting at Plainview beginning July 10th and run till the 20th for which time we have secured the services of the Rev. II. W. Huckabee. Let all get ready, let all come. We want to see many tents on the camp ground. Remember the date, July 10 to 20 and come one come all. Yours in Him, J. P. Moore, Running Water, Texas. We have quoted some nice things the New Yosk Merchants committee said of Texas. Some things said of Texas were not at all complimentary, notwith standing it is true. It very just ly though severely criticises our railroad commission. Anderson wants your trade. FOR BUSINESS. TEXAS. We see from the exchanges that cattle sales are not so scarce as have been beretolorP though not so numerous as in desirable. Steer yearlings seem to be about $16.50 and twos ar.d threes from $ 17.00 to $22.00. Huie & Wallace have for sale now over 700 head of good cattle. See them for a bargain. Till: MASS OF HUMANITY com prises two Classes, those whose In dividual Characteristics enable them to command situations and thosw whom situations govern. The weak er element covets constantly the at tributes uf Preferment. Frequently the liisullicieiit appear to triumph. Title and Uegalla, however, never made a king. Half a doen Conventions occur within a few months, at I os Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Salt Lake City. By reason of Advantages natural as well as acquired, "thk Dknvkk Koaii" is Master of the Situation as to Pacific Coast points and the North west. It simply has the best of it any way you care to figure. One importfiiit consideration Is distance. Distance means time, which Is money. Just for example, would you dclllicratcly choose to ride out N5 miles to a point but 5KH tiflies distant from Fort Worth via "thk Dknvkk Iload." which reaches the place where the Interesting part of the I. os Angeles trip licglfis, with 2IN miles Iss travel, taking Iess time, therefore Ix-ss money, with neither changes nor waiting, too? Why, of course it makes a Difference! It's so will) all other possible com binations of lilies 'twas ho In old Kuclid's time, 'tis so now, always will be, two sides of a Tr la utile must exceed the third. Study the Map Further than this persons of dis crimination recognize and appreciate I lie met that certain Modern Con veniences are of the Necessities of really good passenger service and that many of these "thk Dknvku Hoad" alone provides. Such are: Daily turn trains, models of Im proved, hox-vcstlbulcd equipment; Sleepers with ladles' dressing rooms, large enough for several, With No Locks; Coaches furnished with the most Comfortable high buck seats made; Cafe Cars, meals a In carte, pay only for what yon order; No unctions to wait at, nor nil v change of cars; m matter how small your Party, iThru trains for each, for everybody, Kach Day. Another point, thk Dknvkk Hoad" gives choice of .Six Itoutes from Colorado west, with thru con nections. Yon may view Colorado's (iraiideur going, returning, or both ways, If you will. Study the .Man and Think Twice licfore buying. Ticketscost no more? via "thk Dknvkk Koaii" than over routes where you'd get considerably more ride tint lessactualSatlsfactlon. 'thk Dknvkk Ko.vn" doesn't need to be called "Official." Correspond with us. Fort Worth. Texsa. REDUCED ONE-WAY COLONIST RATES TO CALIFORNIA POINTS. lurlngthe month of April, 1902, the Pecos System will sell Second Class single trip tlcketsto San Fran clsco,Is Angelcsand SanDiego, Cal., and intermediate points in California at greatly reduced rates. For rates nnd particulars call on your local ngent. Don A. Sweet, TrnhV Manager. HOMK8KKKKRH KXCUKSIONS TO CALIFORNIA. On April 1st and 15th and May Gtli and 20tl, 1902; (four ihte only) the Pecos System will sell Second Class Round Trip to California points at rate of One Fare plus $2. Stopovers within 15 days allowed on going trip in homeseekers territory. Final limit for return twenty -one days from date of sate. Tickets to lie ex ecuted at destination for return trip, but not earlier than ten days fr-m date of sale. See your local agent lor rates and particulars. Don A. Sweet, Traffic Manager..