The Daily Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 70, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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THE BAIL! BULLETIK.
FRIIMY, 4AKITART 17. IIR
ROMANS had many SLAVES |
•■ •«*»• He— hold* There Wsrt
Hundred* of (ervanta Who** Du-
liM War* Manifold.
Tbe Roman deprived himself ol
many private comfort* that he might
make a rich display before hit guests
Tb* wealthy man's dwelling was very
laaga; the ao-called House of the Faun
at Pompeii occupies an entire square;
that of the Roman noble usually cov-
eted a far greater area.
car* of a lordly residence re-
qtdMd the service of a multitude ol
slave*; we hear of a man who In the
coontry and city together employed
naor* than four thousand. They were
organised somewhat like an army, In
dMslona and companies under their
several overseers. Each servant had
as his special duty some minute part
■of the household work. Many were
n*eded for the ceremonies attending
the admission of guests, many for the
care of the baths, bedrooms, kitchen
and dining rooms, as well as for the
wardrobes, toilet and personal serv-
ioe of the various members of the
family. On going out the master or
mistress was accompanied by a
throng of servants, whose number and
splendid livery advertised the rank I
and wealth of their owner. Other
companies of slaves spun wool, made ;
clothes, kept the house in repair, and [
cared for the sick. There were some
whose task was to enforce order and
quiet among the rest We could hard- j
ly believe that so many persona In a
single household could find employ-
ment or that the processes of labor
could be so minutely portioned out.
did we hot take into account tbs gen-
ius of the Romans for organisation.
On the country estates were plow-)
men, herdsmen, vine dressers, gar- [
deners. keepers of bees, poultry and
fish and many other classes of labor-
arm.—Hotaford.
WHY
Do You
Pay More?
The OmUmim
Cartyt* said of Robart Burma that
there waa no truer gent lams a In Hto-
rop* than the plowman poet It w*a
because ha loved eferythlng- the
mouse and the daisy, and aU the
things, great and small, that God had
' made. Bo with this simple paasport
he oouM mingle with any so Maty, and
enter oosrrte and palaoaa from hi*
ltttte cottage on the banks of (ho Ayr.
Too know tbs meaning of the word
“ganttamaa.” It means a gentle man
#1.44 Per Sack, best soft Wheat Flour —« "*» ***
1H lbs Standard (insulated Surer #1. ^J* *hoU
«*•*■»'"»■«"»- *... — "•usrr’.rS'
| gentle, an ungentlemanly thing. The I
ungentle soul, the Inconsiderate, an-
l sympathetic nature cannot do any-
Master of
Sir Charles Eliot, the now principal
of Hong-Kong university, la forty as*
an year* old and speaks It languages
fluently. For many years he waa in
the diplomatic set-doe and to every
oooutry to which h waa sent be mas-
tered the language, beginning with
Russia In 1887. In 1889 ha brought
out a Finnish grammar. Durtng his
course at Oxford he had not only
■wept the board of all the dasMsnl
distinctions within reach, but, whOe
still an undergraduate, had woo the
Roden sanakrlt scholarship and the
Syriac prize.
cts per irsllon White Sean Syrup,
idets large Size National Oats.
?•*<•!s for 8 cans best Hominy.
i5 cts for 8 cans best Tomatoes.
25 ets per pk. Irish Potatoes.
’10 Ik Bucket f rust a ....... #1.25
2 doz Eggs for ..........45c
A full line of Best Brands of Can-
ned Good**. Phone its for Prices per
Iloxen.
thing el so.—Henry Drummond.
Free Delivery to all
City.
Parts of the
Cash Feed and
Grocery Co:
Exception.
“How did you find the roads up
around Jinglevtlle Corners ?" asked
__ BUkins of Slathers berry, who had
lust returned from a motor trip.
............. “Oh. I wasn’t particularly stack on
Sins of the Mother*. :hem,” said Shrtherberry.
Discovery that Che hobMe akin urns "Really r said Btlkins. "Wall. I
In vogue fast (jOOO years ago, prompts guesa you're the only man that wasn’t
one to be behef that the sins of the i [ was stuck on 'em for a whole day
mothers shall be visited upon the last year "—Harper’s Weekly,
children of the nine hundred and
ninety-ninth generation. — Amarillo
News.
After a city boarder has spent the j
We have just re-
ceived a new bar-
rel of Sauer Kraut
TERRY
“Sells the Best,
Terry sells produce
i
If a man has any sense at all it
shows up before he gets engaged or
after he is married.
summer in the country he is apt to
believe that the original gold brick
factory is located out of town.
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MADE MATTER OF NECESSITY
According to This, Thsr* la LItti*
Doubt About Colorsd Man's Uk.
Ing for Chickens,
In the endeavor to uplift th* raoe, a
friend of ours started In by trying to
smash silly old superstitions/ Our
friend believes that negroes ar« ma-
ligned, and that many of the stock
jokes about them are not founded on
fact. He has, in fact, succeeded la
proving that a number of the old min-
strel standbys are mere senseless
jests. And the other day be inter-
viewed the elevator boy In his office
building.
j “Arthur,” he said, ‘‘there's a silly old
saying that you colored people are
crazy about chickens. I can’t see Kbw
that started. Do you like chicken?"
“Yaaeah.”
"Of course—almost everybody likes
chickens. I mean to say, do you like
It better than anything else In the
world? Do you like It so well that you
would steal It If you couldn’t obtain
It honestly?"
"Boss, I likes chicken so well dat If
I couldn’t git It no other way. I’d buy
It!’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Changed Time*.
Miss Mary Donnslly—“Our Mary"—
the New York suffragist, said aUtb*
suffrage lunch rooms:
“I was walking the other week in
Long Island. The sky was blue. The
crystal air waa pure and frosty. The
trees were painted with autumnal boP
BANDIT IS BOASTFUL
OF DURING EXPLOITS
Mini Mho "Miirk-1 p" firket Office* ori—gold, and pink, and raw red. How
In llslf s Boxen t itle-* Apparent- beautiful it was!
ly l'rond of Misdeed**. "In a meadow a half dozen young
Boston. Mass., Jan 17.-\VUllam J. women wer® *rMtte‘n* PutUa«'
V
HAD TOO. MUCH ELOQUENCE
""
Mr. Chaa* Succumbed to the Foroe
and Lsngth of the Orator's
Argument. -i.
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William T. Evans of Cincinnati la
what might be termed exhaustive in
his oratory If he undertook to tell of
an adventure with a taxicab chauffeur
he would begin with Adam and finally
reach the street crossing whore yellow
taxi No. 41144 hit him.
Mr Evans was one of the principal
speakers on the program of the Wom-
an Peess club at the Waldorf one
afternoon One of the other gentle-
men on the program was William A.
Chase, the dean of American paiuter*.
Mr. .Chase occupied a seat upon ths
platform somewhat to Mr Evans' left.
% "And so." said Mr Evans. “I believe
that my conclusions are Justified. I
am sure that otor dear friend, Mr.
Chase, wlll support pe In this. Is not
that so. Mr. Chase
~~ Sir. Erana turned to gaze benignant
ly upon Mr. Chase. The feminine au-
dience rustled expectantly and craned
tts several rounded necks to behold
Mr Ch2r-'~ -
Mr. Chase, head slightly upon one
aide and eyes closed, slept sweetly on.
"Ah—poo.” Mr. Chase breathed soft-
ly through his parted Ups.—Baltimore
Bun.
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Reductions
Childrens Shoes, sizes
2 to 5. To close - -
Children s shoes, sizes
2 to 5 and 5 1-2 to 8
e, to close---
and 1.50 Children’s
and Misses’ shoes,
sizes 8 to 11 and 11
1-2 to 2; to close
Misses’ shoes sizes
11 1-2 to 2; to
close ------
Misses’ shoes,sizes
11 1-2 to 2: to
close -----
[Monague, who deserted"t:i«- routine of
army life for the career of u "gentle-
| man" bandit, was brought Into court
today and held In *5000 bail. ,
Messages from Pittsburg nul Phila-
delphia tend to confirm the young
man's boasts that he operated success-
fully In those cities. In his daily he
had credited himself, also, with rwo-
berles iu New York. Buffalo, and
Cleveland He visited only express
and railroad ticket offices.
Monague came to town an Tuesday
ahd registered ah a good hotel as
William J. Clayton. He spent two
days looking over the town before
deciding to attempt the robbery of an
uptown ticket offiet His selection
was an unfortunate one, for When he
looked very smart in their trim golf
suits, their skirts of rough homos pun.
and their scarlet jackets. As I watch-
ed them, an old farmer and on* of his
farm handa approached. Boas.' grum-
bled th* farm hand, ‘them glrla In th*
modder 1% scarin' our cow*.’
"The old farmer shook his head and
sighed.
"'Ah. Timothy,’ he said, with fjo*
found truth. *tlm*a la changed also*
11 was young. In them days th* cow*
scared the galan ^ f
Parents Object to (unday Softool-
The falling off In attendance In th*
Sunday schools, which waa th* a«b>
Ject of a discussion at th* coavaattoA
of th* Now York County Sunday
School association, was referred to by
a layman after the meeting had ad-
journed as "a progressive dl*•**•"
and that the Presbyterian 8 an day
entered the place last evening and de- schools are not the only ones
manded the contents of the *afe, there
, were haif a doxen persons present,
one of shorn slipped out a rear door
and gave the alarm.
In describing his exploits to the
police today Monague was jmrtlctilar-
tb«re had been a falling off "from 81
to 34 per cent." "To a great extent,"
he said, “the condition la the wmatt
of too much school work. Parents^
say that after a strenuous week et
school the child should have woik off
no kind on Sunday. That's th* SB-
Training Children of Wealth.
Not all wealthy* people are foolish,
although many who Inherit means
may do - foolish things. No mother,
who has to work for a living, has
more sensible methods of bringing up
children than Mrs Edna Reahirt of
Toledo; O., whose flve-year'-old son is
to inherit a miJMcn when he becomes
of age. He is "being taught the value
of money by being obliged to earn the
pennies he would spend Then he Is
being taught habits of thrift by a sim-
ple bank system -Ct his ovi! His
mother is not a stirs tbe courts for a
big allowance anz.ua!ly in'o-der to
bring up the bov uccor*. “* *o his
station.” as If the *•>•»= ion of a
million made the rh’tii from
ordinary children It is •« to say
that he will not xrov . with ex-
travagant, frollah n tl .i* r. ;J that
when th* million Is :»*r In hW band*
b* will not know wiia, to do with It.
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JENNINGS.
ly anxious that they should under- cute of those parents who seldom ft>\
stimd that he was a "gentleman" ban- to church because of golf and motor
dit. He robbed only those who could C4r*—*D<1 there are thownds off
afford to lose them."—N*w York Tribun*.
w.io had more than they needed. For taut part hi sacred or profxik* *«<*»■
instance, in lMttr urg when I h»*ld nn than th* apple, of whlsta Sototoon
an office there an employe told me made good use in his provsrba. “*to4-
rhat the 97 1 had taken from him was en *PP*— sweet." and A word fltly
a’l he had I promptly handed it back #poken U lIke apI*“ r»»d to pte-
to him." tnrt* *aTer-
„ . A good many English doctors wv
Monague said that In robbing an ^ foTelthw the tntZ
office in Cleveland be could find no u*t maul Tb* Dutch *qu1vnkant for
ro;«e nith which to tie the clerk our “two birds with one stoo*" 1%
“I told him to cut out the window “two apple* with one stick." and tbw
cor I.” h.* continued, 'and after he *n *b* saying 'A wlady year.
had ■ .and-.! it to me I bound him se- “ y*ar" ^ck to th* day*
of th* Kortoan
*
surely. \-
In Philadelphia, where 1 obtalne«l Poteno* Into Arctic Clrota.
9127. J sent back fl 27. saying 1 would A rmsUmnll carrier with a dag
lc to make change in the mom- te*m left Edmonton, in wester* Oan-
ing " ada. last week over a route which
Vonagn- is only 22 year* old probeMy la the longest to th* world.
Fostering of Agriculture Has F<
From th* Beginning of Time .
Female Hands.
"fft." v-
Wbat la the favorite word of tiro
'English langtMge? The Germans bar*
thnlr ”acl»lag“ and "ang." v. h.ch oov-
ar many m»u»ning» But w« boat them
Grotesque Names for Children. WORLD OWES DEBT 1 fV\ , •
Certain philanthropic Londoners r -
have proposed a Guild of Godparents
iq sav. Innocent children from tb*
burden of grotesque names. Hundreds
of examples of thla poor form of pa-
rental wit occur In the birth register*
for the past few years ' Noah s Ark
Smith. Sardine Box. Jolly Death.
Judas Iscariot Brown. One-Too-Many
Johnson. Not-Wanted Smith, llovrll
Simpson Merry Christmas Flggett,
Odious Heaton and Anno Domini
tbetlc Illustrations of the smallnero ot
our view.—Prof. J. Russell Smith, to
Harper's Magazine
Phone 8-ltx Bakery wh<*n you want
GOOD BtREAD .—Adv.
H* win jouTMT many haadred s
th* Arottc Clrd*. aad win
until shortly (tear* th* I
aast spates
His mil will h* mad* up off
+ + + + + 4* + + + + + + + *xoh»lv*|y mo Mwipapu* *r
being »nn«yts(l
Sw/
IN HOUSES OF
Agriculture today depends culefly \
upon th* work of the primeval woman
We ar* Indebted to the nomad* elf.
/.
In the on# word—not "poet"—which through Ufa
you might suspect of the supremacy _
of ambiguity—but "e*t" One always
Davla are the names of children prob-
ably living who will have to bear them
Primitive Dwelling
Occupied by th* Poorest Class of
for th* greatest of all economic sen Egyptian Feasant*,
lens. 8h* tamed the young of th* I —
more tamable animals, gave them t< j On the outskirts of Alexandria w*
her savage husband, and mad** of hh paaaed numerous groups of lledoulna.
CORNSTALK +
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Place* That Ar* +
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I.ABIFH* niiim: FAKI.BKS
sh«»: siiim: im-
SIIBKH DYtn 85c
»H0E HTOKF.
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4* | WACO—An interurban from this
•f> city to Temple is bring agltal«*d here.
+ It Is said a charter will soon be ask-
4»tetl for, and a capital stock of $r>00,-
4* + 5h + + + + + + + »J* + + ,000 la being raised.
thought that “po*t" waa the word that
all thing* and nothing The
should watch the word 'aet.'*
whloh has achieved nearly seventy
•olttsan* to the rvew English diction-
ary & I* a small word, but its mean-
tag* are almost unlimited. You should
set to work on the word, which you
to set down to the number of\
«n to which you have used that
B*r»" you migm ewi «-—
Chronicle.
Portugueee Jury Drew Lota
A new method of administering Jus-
tice was applied recently at Villa
Franca de Xlra In Portugal
A prisoner was charg* '! with coun-
terfeiting. and as the Jury were even-
ly divided and could not agree they
determined to draw lota Two pieces
paper were procured, one was In- ’
scribed “guilty" and the other "Inno-
cent.” They were then folded 'up.
shuffled, and one was then chosen by
IV DappenPQ iu oo uic uuc iuawiifcu
'guilty," whereupon the prisoner was
sentenced to the maximum penalty.
the more ctvfl herdsman who fot
ages followed his flo«ks after the man
ner of Jacob and and Job Th ►
fertile wife of the nomad be<ame »h<
wife of farmers, and she made a farm* i
of h«>r son by placing In his hand the
precious seed of the grains, the pres
ont basis of agriculture, the bread of
man. and the concentrated food of all
our domestic anlmnls.
Where did this, ancient mother get
these precious seeds? In many cases
we do not know, and cannot even
guess.
dtoh^aJal* Out todrh“fftoWs m^nTnd ............ *
women, dre*aed alike In the loose cot-
ton gown of the country, were busily
at work. The fields srerv dottefl with
curious doorless structures made of
cornstalks. They are used as tempo-
rary homes at certain seasons of the
year, as. for Instance, when the crops
are being gathered.
Later on 1 entered one, and found
it to be not more than five feet
square; one could not stand upright
New Rugs Received ||
_____ Bhe ,found some plant with Tb* P1"0” contained nothi:,g
one or two'rich seeds, planted them. but a f"w JarB *nd cooking utensils
and then generation after generation *“ thVwinter tbe ^upants wrap
............. tK-i- n. themselves up to their clothes
Legal Point of Vl*w.
First Lawyer—I waa looking over
my boy's geometry lesson last night.
I waa quite interested in that propo-
sition. that thp three angles of a tri-
angle are equal to two right angles.
Second Lawyer—That isn't very
complicated.
First Lawyer—No, but I was trying
be preciously preserved from the har
ve?i festival to the next spring
nlotifino foativel u-Mrh wn onn, **ll
nastri. nj m*o ptt uvv-oo > vuiuiug uu
through ynknown generations of men.
the pleats became so changed by the
artificial application of Darwin's law
of selection that now no botanist dares
suggest what plant or plants were the
wild forebears of rorae of the present
grains from which the world today ob-
tains It* bread.
We are Indebted to this cave, or
tent dwelling woman. (But shall we
accept her work as final? Can science
do no better than follow along the
path she laid out? Tbe fact that ag-
ricultural science 1* today doing lit-
tle more than_ this 1a one of. the pa-
st
was occupied by a man and his son.
These people, of course, are the fel-
tlan of the poorest clasa—Christian
Hereald
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N*w England's Advantage
Here Is bow the spirits or tbe wise
lit In the clouds and mock u*. "Even
at the risk of arouaing western preju- ''
dice. 1 maintain that New England i!
and all broken, hilly, rocky countries
lave a decided advantage over ro-
llons of great fertility, in that human
ituftldlty and mole-eyed greed can
aev*r wholly direct them of forest*—
that their sterile crags aad steep se-
curities mast mainly b* l*ft to wool
<!\H iret.
MSxlUtK.
U\I2 fret. ‘ V
12x15 fret.
( non* itn*l See fhl» splendid \sMiii*
nient.
See our Bissell rarjH‘1 Swe*^!^.
Tr> Our B Izard Floor Mops: *ls*
our OTedsr I’olUh Mops. Try fhe**e
for several da>< find If not thoronith-
l> satisfactory, bring them hark.
Hf ha»e Baby IValker**, Baby thalr^,
Ha by Jumper*. Baby Hugirie*. Posh
l ari**, lb'll Buggies, Cribs and Mother
(joooe Blanket* for Ihe Baby. Come
in Nind See These.
All kinds of Slain** and Fellshe* for
fleer** furniture and woodwork gen-
erally.
Seieral load** «f Kindling wood for
Sale at #1.«HI per load, Ca«*h on dells -
fry.
Empire Furniture Co.
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