The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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OliTer C. Bivens, a pioneer milter
of North Texas, is dead at Sherman,
aged 78.
‘ The people of the Grandview In-
dependent School District have vot-
ed a special school tax of 89 cents
on ths $100 valuation of proper-
ty for maint&inence purposes. *
Nineteen cars of pipe have been
received ' at Plano* from Pittsburg-,
Pa., for the Texas Company, which
wil btgin laying pipe through that
plaoe in a.few days.
Mrs-. S. £. Butts, sped about G5
yeara, waa run over Wednesday by
a switch engine at West, Texas. She
lived only about thirty minutes. She
wag the mother of J. C., Butts, man-
aging editor of the West Times.
,ij Garfield Thompson, a negro, has
been appointed gauger for the Scott-
Pieroe Distillery, at Chattanooga,
Tenn., and the dissatisfaction is so
■great that the distillery threatens
to shut down, unless he is removed.
The 6-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Honea was so bad-
ly scalded Wednesday by a vessel
■of boiling water being accidentally
turned over on her that she died
-4hat-night. ---——------------
A negro was found on the streets
of Sherman with a well-developed
case of smallpox Thursday. He said
he was from Denison, whereupon a
-strict quarantine was instituted
against the Gate City.
S. W. Lindsay, Henry Fuller, J.
Lindsayand T. B. James of Laurel,
La., have given out the information
that they nave decided to establish
« hundred thousand-dollar wagon
factory at Shreveport.
W. P. Elmore, who lived near
Clarksville, Texas, died suddenly
Monday morning at the home of his
eon, F, H. Elmore, three miles south-
east of detroit, from heart failure.
Deceased was 77 years old.
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Judge Pollard has decided that
those who can sell liquor under the
new law must have been residents
of the county two years, as the new
law specifies, notwithstanding the
fact that they may now be in the
business, y
The Commissioners" Court of
Limestone County has ordered an
election to be held Saturday, June
2:*. to determine whether or not the
-vale of intoxicating liquors shall be
prohibited in Limestone County.
This county has been in the dry col-
umn for nearly firo years.
G. W. Matthews, who was sent
to the penitentiary from Lamar
County six years ago, charged with
killing his wife, has been pardoned,
the defeq^ant was a farmer near
Howland was nearly 70 years
old at the'time of the killing. His
wife was 22 years old.
The State Railroad Commission
lias issued an order approving the
•plans and specifications of the Inter-
ternational and Great Northern
Railroad Company for the new pas-
senger depot, to cost $15Q,000, which
that company has been ordered tt
erect at San Antonio.
Several Sherman business men
who have interested themselves in a
canning factory for Sherman, have
bought the machinery, which is now
en route there, with which to put
up all kinds of fruits during the
ipresent season.
The Baptists of Hill County have
raised $5,000 with which to finish
* ward in the Baptist Memorial San-
itarium at Dallas, to be dedicated to
the memory of Dr. Rufus C. Burle-
son.
It is estimated that the Secretary
of State has issued approximatey
5,000 certificates to notaries. The
State received $1 for each certifi-
cate. There wil be over \6,000 no-
taries public in the State, as the last
of these qualifying have been slow
America secured another cham-
pionship at the International Horse
Show in London, Auditor B. A. B.
Me Lay's chestnut gelding, winning
the cup presented by Sir Kowles for
Brumby has
rning to county
officers over the
upon them the neces-
iking sanitary precau*
keeping diseases out of
XIMATE.
of asphaltum was
at Zephyr, ten
in a well,
sinking a shaft
extent of the find,
; to be very large.
has deter-
to 25 ses-
it has
Haw tha Lowly Mosquito la a Magical
Transform#!-.
. The mesquite, scrub oak* and ce-
dar,’whose plenteous growth on’the
numerous open spaces of the Ed-
wards plateau in the western part of
Texas is a common sight, although
•hitnerto unnoticed by the casual ob-
server,-have .interested the officials of
the Department of Agriculture to
Such an extent that they have re-
cently issued a beautifully printed
and artistically illustrated pamphlet
telling of the important part which
that clans of vegetation is playing
iir'changing the climate and of plant
DK,
—However useless the mesquite has'
been considered in the past, the
planter, cattle herder and lumber-
man must hereafter treat it with
great respect, for, according to this
recent report, it is tending to work
wonders in the Lone Star State. As
the results of the investigation
which the bureau of forestry has
been conducting for some time, Col-
laborator William L. Bray comes
forth with the statement that the
mesquite growth is changing bar-
ren and arid slopes into green fields.
What was a dean- prairie, whesa
white, unbleached condition met the
observer’s eye a few years ago, is now
almost completely covered with veg-
etation, as the result of the encroach-
ment of the hitherto apparently use-
less mesquite.
When once well started on no mat-
ter what kind of soil, this hardy
plant sends forth its roots to the
neigbtboring ground and gradually
spreads until it has covered a con-
siderable area. The rain C water,
which before had quickly rushed
over the nude grounds, then meets
with a check in its progress, and be-
ing retarded, keep’s the soil damp
for a space of tittle which never be-
f.-pe was experienced. Although ap-
parently stopping^mt a moment, the
rain water stays in the ground long
enough to nourish a minute bit of
vegetation, which in turn springs
forth to offer another impediment
to the rush of its benefactor.
From the mesquits-covered area
one of scrug browth results, and,
as has been commonly discovered by
the department, with a space of
comparatively but a few years the
ground becomes a thicket. A still
more vegetation adds itself to the
area, the rain water is retarded more
and more, resulting in the growth
of more, and again the vegetaion re-
ceives still a larger amount of nour-
ishment, The thicket changes to a
region of still heavier and sturdy
trees, until in time a forest will coV-
er the once barren waste.
When once the timber of a section
becomes grown, a change in the cli-’
mate wil immediately follow. The
transpiration of water vapor which
is constantly going on from the leafy
surface of a forest also operates to
reduce the temperature to some de-
gree, just as drinking water is com-
monly cooled in dry air by suspend-
ing it .in the breeze in an open pail
or in a porous earthen vessel.
No matter how improbable the re-
port appears at the present day,
when It is hard to imagine an alkali
hill changing into a grove of shade
trees, the officials who have made the
statement speak as the result of no
small amount of research and nec-
essarily should know something
about which they are talking.—
THE TEXAS HEN.
sl#ws the mammoth bronze failed in small thing* i NOTHING GAINED BY LYING
turkey strutting proudly around and —---
conscious of the fact that in the fall ev*4Un‘‘> w*8 N*H— WaFMf* MSWSsna, l*
when fat it will tip the scales from _____ I
30 to 50 pouhds ana will net its owrv TJiere Is ■ certain congreuitman
who,, whatever authority he may hold1
er from $3 to $5 par head. ' The
larger breqd oi, chickens are alsc
very profitable, a-woo lieu weighing
from 5 to.8 pounds and bringing
about v7 cents per pouud, or say an
average of 50-oenU. ..........
Eggs are stkple the year round,
but the prices vary mote than they
Should, now’that water glass will^
preserve them for a year 'at a nom*.
inal cost, and that cold .storage can
be had cheaply. It pays the owners
of eggs better to raise more chick-
ens than to market eggs at less than
15 cents per “dozen, but *v-t prirfj.
or better is easily obtainable at sev-
eral seasons of the year. -
The local demand does not entire-
ly consume the local, supply in the
late spring and summer, hut nice,
fresh eggs known as such are al-
ways in demand at profitable prices.
Texas is peculiarly adapted to suc-
cessful chicken raising, and will ul-
timately be engaged in it on a large
scale. At the present time, it is
crowding most of the States for
ond jilace that Tt
In the councils of state, le of com pars
tlveljr minor importance Ip his own
household.- Indeed, ft h’as been un-
kindly Intimated that his wife Is "the
whole thing” in their establishment.
, Representative #nd Mrs. Blank
had ween to Bnittmore one afternoon.
When they left the train ht Washing-
ton. on tbolr return. Mrs. Blank dis-
covered that her umbrella, which had
boon Intrusted to the care of her hus-
band. was missing.
"Where's my umbrella?” she de-
manded. ,
- “I'm afraid I've forgotten It, my
1ear,’r meekly answered the congress-
msn. "it must still -be in the train.”
‘In. ths train!" snorted ths lady.
“And*to thfftTt that the affairs of the
nation are Intrusted to s msn who
doesn’t know enough to take care of a
woman's umbrella!”—Success Maga-
Here’s to the Texas Hen. May shf
increase and prosper.
China wars From Texas.
Milton Wolf of Chicago, president
of the Frio Valley Railroad, Bpent
the day in Dallas on his return to
Chicago. The Frio Valley Railroad,
which was chartered recently, will
connect the vast kaolin deposits neqr
Leakey, in Edwards County, with
the Southern Pacific railroad near
Sabinal. Mr. Wolf has just returned
from that section where he his se-
cured the right of way and com-
pleted arrangements to commence
active construction on the road. The
entire line has already been surveyed
and located, and the construction
will be standard gauge with seventy-
pound steel rails and jU modern
equipment.
Speaking of the enterprise, Mr.
Wolf said: “The primary object for
the building of this railroad is the
development of the kaolin beds by
the United Kaolin Properties Com-
pany. This clay has been tested by
the foremost potteries of 4 America
and has been pronounced by them
to be superior to the imported clays,
of which Vast quantities are import-
ed every year. The working of this
property will open up a new field of
industry that will mean a great deal
to Texas in the future as undoubt-
edly there will be potteries estab-
lished near these deposits of clay
although the United Kaolin Proper-
ties Company will confine tneir op-
erations to the sale of the clay. -
“The pieces* of chinaware mads
from this clay, which were exhibited
were wonderful examples of the pot-
ters’ art, being pure white in color,
very transclucent, and very light and
fully equal to the finest French
Through the Influence of Qov.
Hughes, the New York legislature de-
cided to make no radical changes In
:he new Insurance law. It was pointed
does not leaiL- Jilt by Gov. Hughes that the New York
taarwas aiFeaffr'accotepUahml Wide-
spread reforms, with proportionate
benefltB to policyholders, and that It
ihould be given a thorough trial be-
May Her Tribe Grow as Sands of
ths Ssa. /, ’
The Fort Worth Star devotes con-
siderable space to singing the praises
of the domestic hen. It shows that
Texas is fast taking the lead in
chickens, and already holds tlie lead
on turkeys. Car loads of chickens
are shipped from Texas points. Only
recently .a car of chickens went from
Lampasas to New York, the car con-
taining 4,000 chickens, worth »t
their destination not less than
$2,000. It may be said the
ies have revolutionized both
chicken and turkey trade in T
They are now marketed
.pound, and when a hen sells for
and 8 cents per pound it pays to _
good rftock and to fatten them be-
fore being marketed. The same ap-
plies to turkeys. Only a few years
ago gobblers sold at 75 cents and
hens at 50 cents as a stable price.
The size was not
question,
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Thle Is For You.
Men I In God’s name! What shall
we leave es a heritage to our boys?
Good or bad? Shall it be said of
us that we were willing to let bad
enough alone? That we rejoiced in
promoting evil influences rather
than giving encouragement to the
better things of life? Do you re-
member the story of foot-prints in
the snow? The father was walking
in the snow End his little boy was
following him. The little boy said:
“Papa, I’m stepping in every track
you make.” This little sermon was
a forcible one. The father said:
“God forbid that my boy follow my
PURIFIED LIFE INSURANCE.
Benefits from New t,aw, Which Re-
mains Substantially Unchanged.
example ;n life. Forgi
will try to so li
be ashamed for
all my future tn
called the man’s n'
kind of tracks arc
you want your boy
Are you not afraid h’
you will lose his balam
farther? Let’s make
regor Mirror.
•ad, Don't DrlV'
are trying to
to set type, but
to the office a
who have nothing ip (T
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tore Any amendments were seriously
considered. It Is estimated that the
cost of the mismanagement of the past
did not average more than 20 cents to
each policyholder, while the benefits
to present and future policyholders
will amount to many times more and'
be cumulative besides. The speed
craze of the big companies and the ex-
cessive cost of securing new business
was the most extravagant evil of the
old managements. Under the new
regime the coat of new business has
already been greatly reduced, along
with other economies.
The showing made-by the Equitable
Life Assurance Society In Its report
for 1906 was a Strong argument
against meddling with the new law.
In the Equitable alone there was a
saving of over $2,000,000 In expenses,
besides an Increase In the Income
from the' Society's assets amounting
to as much more. The ratios of the
Equitable's total expenses to Its total
Income was 19.42% In 1904, 17.88% In
190S, and only 14.48% In 1906. The
dividends paid to Equitable policy-
holders In 1906 amounted to $7,289,784,
which was an lncreasa of more than
9% over 1905.
While the Equitable made a better
showing than any other big company,
all reported radical economies and un-
der such conditions the Legislature
wisely decided to leave the law sub-
stantially as It stinds.
Forgetting Something.
When the train that conveyed Pres-
ident Roosevelt through -Virginia on
his last trip south stopped at Char-
lottesville, a negro approached the
president's car and passed aboard a
big basketful of fine fruit, to Which
was attached tbe card of a prominent
grower.
In course of time the orchardlst re-
ceived a letter of acknowledgment
from the White House expressing the
president's appreciation of ths gift,
and complimenting tbe donor upon his
fruit. The recipient of the letter was,
of course, greatly pleased, and. feel-
ing sure that his head gardener would
be much Interested in the letter, he
read It to him. The darky who
served In the capacity mentioned !!*•
tened gravely, but his only comment
was:
“Ha doan’ say nothin' 'bout sandin'
back d# basket, do he?”—Success
Magazine. . ,
Text Somewhat Apropos.
The Rev. J. B. Hammlll, the elo-
quent preacher of the Hanson Place
Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn,
was preaching at Sayvi tie, L. 1., from
ths text “Look well to your founda-
tions.” After repeating the text ha
leaned heavily on the pulpit desk,
which gave way and plunged over the
altar rail, nearly bitting the laymen In
tbe front seat and scattering-tbe Bible
and the preacher's notes among ths
holders of ths pews. The aged preach-
er barely escaped a tumble over the
altar with the heavy desk.
lustrates Point by an' Amui
Ing Anecdote. ,
Maufton Maarten*, tl>e iVitah
novelist, wus talking at a magazine
office about realistic* fiction. 1
“If realism is truth,” Ije said,
“then I am fpr it, books,,as in
life, t|je truth is always best. Lies
fail. Lies fail lb books-as they fail
fin life. I know a woman ^rhq in-
tensely desired to have a good photo-
graph taken of her little $pn. But
in the studio the child Itgwled as
though he were going to‘'-bo tor-
tured. It wus impossible to calm
hint, impossible to keep him in the
chair. For an hour Ip- filled the
place with hia howls pnd yells. For
an hour !\e tori tip-inti’ down tlx* -leut uua blown over and 30 people
WENT TO TEA
And It Wound Her Bobbin.
Tea drinking frequently affects peo-
ple as badly as coffee. A lady In Salis-
bury, Md says *hat she was com-
pelled to abandon the use of coffee a
good many years ago, because It
threatened to ruin her health and that
she went over to tea drinking, but
finally, ihe had dyspepsia so bad that
she he<LJoat twenty-five pounds and
no food seemed to agree with her.
She'further says: “As this time I
was Induced to take up the famous
food drink, Postum, sad was so much
pleased with the results that I have
er been without It slnpe. I corn-
room like an itnp.
“‘Sure, darljng,’ said his mother,
‘tbe gentleman isn’t going to hurt
you. Just smile |nd keep still a
moment, and it will be all over be-
fore you know it,’ ...
“ ‘Yes,’ roared the youngster.
‘Yes, I know. That's what you told
ine at the dentist’s.’ ”
MELBA’S BEGINNING.
-luting, Ibe yfitt rs imymediately
preceding my first mnl,-ter-nm, my
most memorable visit to Europe, the
life Marquia of Normandy was gov-
ernor of Victoria. At that time I
was regarded in Melbourne as a very
good amateur pianist, much in re-
quest at private parties, at which I
alwavfl aRd on yerv rare oc-
casio'ns also saiTgT At one of these
functions, given at government
house, I gave some songs between
the pianoforte selections, and the
Marchioness of Normandy, in
thanking me, said, ‘iChild, some day
you will give up the piano for sing-
ing, and then you will become fa-
mous.” That was the simple com-
ment that set me seriously thinking
of a career as a singer. I had al-
ways felt that I would become a
professional in music—pianist, or-
ganist, violinist, perhaps, hut some-
thing in music, at any rate; but
from that moment I knew in an ir-
resistible way that I was to be a
singer.—Century.
. BEST RECREATION.
To some the most restful kind of
relaxation is,to turn from one form
of mental or physical aotivity to an-
other, bringing into play a new set
of faculties or muscles. The man
who has spent hjs working day over
law books or ledgers will take up
with delight the classics or some
branch of natural history or will en-
ter upon the study of. languages or
literature. There is no doubt that
the highest form of recreation is
found in such ways, because while
they furnish rest., and refreshment
they at the same time widen one’s
intellectual range and promote
growth-in new directions. ,.
Postum to b« good, pure.
jgsaV-
“Won't you come tn for a few min
utes?" JjTwi vi ;
"Your dog won’t bite me, will he?”
"That's what I want to find out. I
got him only yesterday."
SAD RAVAGES OF TIME
Circus Man Tails of'RsmarfcaWw Cly
cumatance in Chnnactlt* with -
4 Accident. / < •'
-— /
“The late Gov. Higgins,” said a *
New Turk man: “was talking sadly,
ou<«.Memorial day, about time’s VaV" ,
ages among the yftor old veterans
the civil war. .All of a sudden hn
'smiled quaintly. Ho Sairl he was re-
minded of. a dung lliat hap pc
once in Stanton, the Michigan t<
where l/1 was in business for Borne
yean*. - He wislicd that this thing
would apply slightl^to bur veterans,
but it wouldn’t. . V v
“A circus man told bun the story.
The man visited Stantons’lit* early
days, and in the midst W^ii* per-
formance u storm arose, the great
ill!, I
were injured.
“ ‘Well, 20 years af tor ward,’ said
the circus man, ‘I returned to Stan-
ton with tut show. —I>
the accident that had attended my
former visit, and I announced that
all.who had been injured by the fall
of the tent would be admitted to the
first performance free.
“ ‘But alas for time’s ravages,’ the
circus man ended, ‘of all those 30
injured, only 270 had survived.’”
* —--------- i i .. .... ... ■ ’a
IGNORANT OF INITIAL*.
raft |
I. I
MANY CENTENARIAN*.
In the German empire, with a
population of 55,000,000, there are
only 78 persons who are more than
100 years o|d. In France,, vyith a
population of less than 40,000,000,
there are 213 persons who fiave
passed their hundredth birthday.
Switzerland has no centenarian.
Spain, with a population of about
18,000,000, has 410. Servia had
573 persons whtf are more than 100
years of age, while Rumania has
1,084 and Bulgaria 3,883. Bul-
garia holds the record for old age,
having a centenarian for every 100
of it inhabitants. (
■. ;-■■■——---
EXPERIMENTAL.
“One of the strangest things to
me about women,” said a student of
the eternal feminine “is the way
women may Ik* associated witfi one
another in church work or cluba
and not know each other’s initials. I
have known church workers who
have seen one another every week
for years and years who are abso-
lutely ignorunt of whether Mrs.
Smith is Mrs. A. B., or C. Smith,
or whether Miss Jones’ first name is
Maria or Daisy. Sometimes they
say, ‘Why, Mrs. Smith is the Mts.
Smith whose husband is a banker,
you know,’ but they have ho knowl-
edge of the hunker’s initials. I have
run across cases where some club
members knew only the last name of
their club president, and they didn’t
think it at all necessary that they
should know their initial*. Men who •
are together three days 'soon find
out one another’s initials, but wom-
en seem to think seeking such knowl-
edge savors of unfriendliness.”
— ■ - ■ — ■—.i.... » t y
WANDERING LAKE IN ASIA. V
There are several “floating”
islands in existence well known to
scientists, but the only “wandering”
lake ever heard of is Lake Nor, in
the Gobi desert, in Asia, which phe-
nomenon was recently accounted for,
by the fact that the Tarim river, en-
tering the lake from the west, brings
down during the period of high
water late in summer a great quan-
tity of silt, which has the effect of
driving the lake, lying on the level'
floor of the desert, toward the south-
east. But the summer wind, drift-
ing the surface sand and darkening
the heavens with dust, blows gen-
erally from the northeast, and it,
too, tends to drive the lake before it.
The combined effect of the urging
by the wind and the river is to force
the lake southward.
TOO PRONOUNCED A SUCCESS.
“I met Erminie yesterday, and
she was awfully melancholy,” re-
marked Edith. “You know she’s
the girl who married young Wil
to reform him.”
“Did she succeed ?”
Ethel. . "vSfM
“0, she reformed him *11 right,”
replied Edith. .. “That’s why she
was melancholy. She thinks he isR
the most tiresome and uninteresting
thing in the world.”
HI* ONLY “HAUNT."
Miss Mattie Nsy—In your
theatrical experience L
you’ve seen life in all the big
Now, what’ is your favorite
Hi Tragerdy—Well — <
see, “haunts” are not my
although once I did play the
in “Hamlet.”
A SLAP BACK.
*‘So,” said jDr,
one of these osteopaths, <
“I am, sir,”, replied Dr.
“Ah! and you
to throw phyaic to the
MEAN THING TO SAY.
The Cynic—What are you think-
ing of, Mary? _
dogs.”
No, indeed. I’m very
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