The Fort Worth Record and Register (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 327, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 8, 1907 Page: 23 of 40
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PHE FORT WORTH RECORD: SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1907.
A BATTLE IN THE DARK!
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Receive a Terrific Blow on My Nose.
MAY LOSE FACTORY.
made in
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the secrets of ether peopie
man friend who wrote storlee
papers, and it was not many days ba-
Business Education, a Money Maker
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Interurban
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Nelson & Draughon Business College
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City Ticket Office,
704 Main Street
‘The Famous avorite Foldins;
Go-Carts; a big shipment just
received.
Prices From . . $3.50 to 125
days
struc-
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These
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Prices
$32 80 CHICAGO
$21 80 KANSAS CITY
$28 30 DENVER
And low rates to a!! impor-
tant resorts in America.
V. N: TURPIN. C. T. A,
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symp-
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langer
potash
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your old Fur-
niture in ex
dark golden color, and one of the handsomest de change for
signs on our sample floor. ” 9
Special
Cars
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D. J, BYARS,
city Teket agent.
PHONICS 333
Looked Under the Bed to Find the
Burgiar.
The Direct Une to
Marlin, Waco,
Austin, San Antonio
and Old Mexico
GENEALPASSEGERAGT FORT WORTH. TEXAS
FOR _____________________—
Louis than etewhere
On th. weNeir” hoet of Chemnpeak.
gentia-
for the
PHIL A AUER.
G. >. * T. A Fort Worth.
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Ferocious Encounter With a Window Curtain and Other :
Furniture in a Midnight Assault.
-Excursion
• FARES
my MP was eonstantly concentratea
•n ths fact that I had money haden in
the house and it was no wonder that
every little souna l -heard on the nagnt
l speak of mart, me jump and nqulrun
out of my aleep. I always made the
round, of the house and locked and
boiled the doors and windows, but,
still I could not rest as soundly as I
.ary
A. there have been no ebark In that
{Advertise in THE RECORD. I
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We are the recognized leaders of the
installment Furniture Business in the
South today. Why?
Because we sell a strictly highgrade
line of goods on easy payments, at a
lower price than you would pay cash
Mt-K
Fought Terribly and Long
0 “d
retired and .h. waa soon off in dream-
land whilst Pay and atared into the
aarkness of the celling for what .cm «4
to me to be hours I must have dropped
Is
producing mine, on earth are
there, and a visit la them will
never be forgotten.
g In addition to neb renowned
resorts at Colorado Springs.
Tloulder. QHnwod Spring,,
tkmr, etc. Colorado bat in-
numerable other point, of eguol
interest and attraction, each of.
offered by the Temple buminere men.
who are alfve to the advantagen of
such an enterprise to their town. The
mbseet has been token up by the
wentherfora 20,000 club, however:
end M will probably be met by that
orzanization on forcefuny and effecta-
ally as was ths Interurban eltuation.
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should have done.
"The night in question on which the
incident occurred that gave such • Jolt
to my confidence in women’s ability to
keep a Merit was in the month of A-
gust and was one of thone exceeaingiy
hot and sultry nignts Junt preceding a
storm Our hleepine room became so
ovpressively hot that I ventured to
pull the upper part of the window down
a few inees in order to ventnte the
room and to give us a breath of fresh
pain, .
n of
eked,
' and
XOTICE.
we want-ver me-mnteuzd,‘13:
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mportant-This
Enouncement is changed
constantly. Look for it every
day. It will save jou money
Corpus Christi andreturn. .$16.20,
Rockport, Tex., and return.$16.60
Kerrville, Tex., and return.$14.80
Galveston, Tex., and return.$13-50
Queen & Crescent Route
Snortest une and qunckest time to Nor-
folk. Atlanta, Birmingham, Chatta-
noon. Knoxvme, Weshington, ete.
Through sleeping and dining cars.
T.M. HUNT, T. P. A.,
•M Siguehter HUg. Dalle- Tessa.
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for elsewhere. How carac do this?
Bear in mind we own and operate
48 turniture stores and in many in-
stances handle the entire output of a
factory, thus enabling us to buy at a
price which otherwise would be im-
possible to get. You cannot fail to
This soid goldenok.Writ- 6.75 see: point. Why not avail your-
In t Desk, nicely polished . VVsNW P . a . >
SI.00 Cash and 11.00 ■ Week self of the opportunity it affords?
Aca
Hekets on Sale Sep. 1 to Oet.
$4, 1907.
Tourist sleeping car privlleses
in connection with above ticket*
at less than one-half regular
Pullman rates.
E. P. TURNER,
General Pasnenger Azent,
Dallas, Texas.
$27.15
Ticksis on sale Sept. 20, 11 and
11—Limit IS Gay.
For particulars address
JOHN ROTNSAYILLI,
Phem-. m CRT A
fore I saw a story on the front pag"
of our Hills country paper.. «ivin«. 1"
details and additiohaf „mmatter, r:*ara;
Ing the vantent tight ! had he4rwi2
the window curtain. It wae at brenK,
fast that I saw the item and I nolemnz
folded the paper, gave it to my wife,
and walked out of thoroom I.
ten minutes she followed me, .ber
‘b«k. were aflame, but she owned up
and promised that she would never tel
rd, B— any more secrete. However,
I never tell my wife any now, and
when the boys have a joke on me, I
don’t tel her. seer" _____
com, o them imbedded in soapstone
In ths bluffs. thirty feet below th. tand
surface And ihirty feel above high tide I " ' w", N.. and ww-k,
ftae engineer of th. power houme atitreaument oc.opumAean
cmapk" beach who ha. eeen a its t . have our 2°3 °wJ Co ? At.
resident IMr. for nine zent taformea frer, it Boe 117. 2a 0n wi de
m. that in .seeling for th. railroad anua. da’ »«»
to that resort tan years ago, thoueanan “ent yo
felt gunsured wouta each am and marm
as blows ne’er klll-d and ma’med be
, fore. At every blow I could hear
| something fall with a erash f-am the
—__________ ‘wolis of the room and I continued to
range to ship the funds sr remit it to fight until t was exhagsted and could
headquarters. At auch timee I hid no longer wield the club.
the treasure in any old place that I ’Tor a moment T st pped to listen
thought would not be easily discovered stepping backward and tripning tw
or thought of. an old shos or a creek my shoes which were by the side of the
behind the mantel being my favorite bed. I fell with a mishtv crash, and
- Nesdlen to state that ss T went down I grabbed the waet-
- bowl on the stand and pulled the pitch-
You may largely iner-nneyour earning cepece buobrezntge 4 nthine
• doiar you can juet •• easily earn tvowiththesme,c,fot, wZl aneted biASness life. Get in line with
who can read the .ters nor for thy society smib. Neither ta there a pines r ir $ov amtsea top note her
w*i pou S0“ ,.Ot^".*du^^’~~»
you wish to get to the ver, forefront and are envious to fit vourzeit.ren !to I mar me. for
#22-Wzosreznrk.ztncusan2 "EtU’ar Em you day: A good palci .. g—*
teed to every graduate. Call or addrees.
bay for many years and an these shrrk
teeth are an pient!ful now as they worn
ten year a ago, the question •• to thelr
origin la often asked
I have Juet returned from a few
dare* outing at Chesapeake beach, and
the. shark teech Aueationsinerested
me My family gathered up 1,000 oT
these teeth on the beach Me,'Mund
them.
•We eat on the edge of the bed and
talked. U over. rne adamages were
light, the curtaln. wnile ruined by my
vicoroua blows, was an old one and
easily replaced, and my nose had -tom-
ped bjeeing and was only slghtiy
swollen. We swore, escn to the other,
that we would not say a word about it
to anyone, then we rearranged mat-
ters and retired.
"Now. it so happened that my wife
had a chum, a female of great ability
blood v from my bleeding member and
where blogd was not, water wan. My
wife could not eit down with her 82:
custcrned ease becuse of that firat
blow struck at the burglar and the lit-
tle worsted motto, "od Bles5 Our
Home, which hung over our bed. Was
smashed and shattered beyond repair.
"1 suggested that we take the lamp
and look for the burglars, and this we
did. Every door and window in the
house remained as we had left them
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of shark teeth were found fifteeq
miles back from tide water.
The sea is now cutting into then4
bluffs, or promontories, and the re,
mains of grent sea animals, sheila an/
shark teeth are found.
These facts indicate that, agen if
the past, the prenent hills near $ hesa-
peaks bay were mountains that bavd
since washed into the sea and covered
up the shark teeth and other remalnsj
that the sea level was then at least
slaty feet higher than new and thal
the erosiona of the sea are now uncov
ering fheme shark tooth, whih art
almost as endurable as granite.
Uh Aug XT corn went above «0 cent.
Chicago markets. That crowns my
second recent great victory at iout
range weather forecasting. Mia wont hl
ago, when corn wae 42 cents, thesi
bulletins advised farmers not to oe^
till it reached €0 cents The Krea.
apeculators tried every device.to dra
the corn into the market from thi
farmer*, but the tatter bald becauseo4
my advice, and tm11i1 ne of dollars bav<
thereby been saved to them.
- tat rhe Record xe ' iitoraou
AOR only a few dollars cash, and tiie remainder in sma l weekly or monthly
— payments your home can be made as neat and comfortable as that of a
prince. Our new fill stock is full ot everything that goes to the furnishing of a
well arranged home. We extend you a cordial invitation to come in and look
over our new stock, whether you are ready to buy or not. ___,
U ott to the flour. It did not breal,
but If flooded me with water, which,
being warm and tepid, I thought It was
blood flowing out of my arteris. Fur
a moment I lay there, thinking It was
all over and. tbat l waa a dead pB».
When the stillnesa became Bensible I
raised np on my arm and called my
wife. She answered from somewhere
in the depths of the bed cloths*. 1
struggled to my feet, my Mf«-blool
dripping from my maimed and chopped-
up anatomy, and went to the table on
1 which stood a lamp and matches. H1-
I nally I succeeded in lighting the lamp,
and as the flame rose higher and higher
and the state of affair* in the room be-
came visible, my jaw dropped In amaz-
I ment. You shonid have seen that room!
; I had knocked every picture from the
; walls. The window curtain which ha l
i blown down bringing the curtain pole
I with it. had been my antagonist and
the pole had scored one with a fir* t
whack on my nose. My nightgown was
bay thousands of man-eating aharK
teeth are picked up on the beach
where they are washed up by the
waves rhese teeth are In excellent
copdttloa. and so hard that, to make
holes in them a diamond drill is neces-
"ehhbe
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off to Bleep, however, for I suddenly
, became conscious of my wife's volce
i in my ear, hoarse and trembling from
. fright, screaming her mightiest for me
. to get up and go after the burglar that
was in the room. Before I was well
. awake I sprang to my feet with no
. well defined plan of campaign in my
muddled brain. If you have ever at;
! tempted to stand up and walk in bed
> when you are half asleep, then you
know what happened to me. I fell
, over my wife first thing and in falling
' over her and out on the floor I re.
reived a violent blow on the tip of
! my nese that made me think the burg-
lar must have struck me with baseball
: bat. I saw a thousand stare, mor* or
less, and by their allver fIsshes 1
thought I saw a big and burly burg’ar
• standing over my helpless wife with
’ that same club and with a mask over
his features whilst, on the other side
; of the room I thought I saw another
- man with a knife in his band ready
’ to spring upon me.
"A thousand thoughts chased them-
•elves through my befuddled brain
whilst the tears ran out of my eyes
, and the blood from my no so. the slight
est blow never failing to make that
member of my facial makeup blee.
Desperation made me brave and I
grabbed hi the dark for anything yVl-
Ine to my wife who was sereaming
with the ease and plerelne regularity
of a steam whistle on a fire engine. In
my rumblings I erasped what I tonl
to be the club and desperately
wrenched it from ‘he onwillipe • ends
of the burglar. Whirling it around 1
accidentally struck my wife who was
just then on her hands and knees en-
deavoring to disentangle herself from
ethe sheet* of the bed I did not strike
her on the head. Again she started
screaming at the top of her voice I
called to her to keep sill, that I would
soon have the burglars killed an
routed. I fought on as though there
were a thousand men after me and
landed here and there blows that I
ma UJ •
u
ntcrested
ling may
Jie to do
nd mind
i of the
e in Mr.
od queen
mt of his
in her
iter from
he result.
: and
ane the KhinE if the wind wa» tne
3,855224.
oreaking of the storm, had eauaed the
window curtain to flutter, awakening
my wire, oausine her to think a bur-
Kiar waa in the house. She a routed me.
With the resuits aa I have recounted
Weatherford, Texas, Sept. 7 — (8pe-
une M HOI aasu MR Cf. six —' Mats streeta, r*** Worth Tu"
$25
CALIFORNIA
VIA
C. A. BRIGGS, C. r.»T. hn
(M Mala street. Both Phonen No. ea.
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CrHERB is no fairer country
I ar more deligbifr.l clinde
on earth than that of Colorado
during the heated term.
< Hundreds of places of interest
to the sight seer engage his at-
tention and interest him, while
at the same time he is fanned
1 by cooling breems, rich in life-
I giving ozone, fresh from the
| realms of perpetual snowo.
q The entire State is a mass of
D picturesgne scenery, affording
I an endless delight to those nho
I are interested in the sublime
’ vagaries of Nature, for in Colo-
E rado Nature seems to have e-
D bousted herself in the produc-
| liznoflhesublimeandbeantifnl
q The lofty peaks of the far-
11 famed KpcUes, forming the
I sContinenlol Divide'lower shy-
| ward and streich away, snow-
I capped, in the wendanme viebn.
This bed complete with a 304
Cotton Mattress, an oil tem-
pered Steel Spring, 2 feather
Pillows, all for
em. This chum had a
BY W. H PHALEN.
~Umphr said the Old Boy, looking
out of the window and taking •ever*’
Losg pulls at his pipe. "I cannot agree
with that young and callow youth who
has just left me. We have had an ar-
gument about the ability of women o
keep secrets, or. to put it better, th*
ability of one woman to keep a gerret
I He says that they can, but when he ar-
river at the tender age at which I cut
my wisdom tecth, he’ll find out bet-
ter." And the Old Boy leaned back
in his chair and became remniscent.
“You see, it was several yea re ago.
and I lived somewhere else. Fort
Worth, with its blessings and great-
ness, was atm a futurity for me. I
held a position of trust and handled
daily thousands uL dollars. In some
instances it was ecessary for me to
carry home with me sums of money
varying from a few hundred to .thou-
sands. and if sometimes happened that
a night would pass before I could ar-
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AN every side there is some-
U Uting to interul and inspire
f the beholder; the richest gold.
its own, and each, alone, being
worth far mor^ than the cost of
transportolion to the state to see.
qVis Colorado now, 'the land
of gold,' 'Iha land of health'
and the Usd of glorious scenery.
q HoteU are legion, and the ve-
calionid con ohmys find oc-
commodatio - a price to suU
his pocket boos.
■ 1 ha principal points of titter
est are guidty andcoeieemantiy
nochedma 'The Denver Head,'
the great thoroughfare to 'Cool
Cedorodo.'
(Copyrighted, 1307, by W T F^l xgxerctntheprafrop m™'
Washington, V. C, sept. 4 —Lmi ale weex at Meptember la espected to
bulletin guv forecaata of eleturbance be about normal, but it will 12 «r
11» the territory witkin 200 miles at fit.
to croon continent sept. 6 to 9, warm
wart 4 to ». c0o1 wav 7 to II Next
dfntrbance will reach Pacific conet
about 1#. erosa West of Rockten coun-
try by close of 11 Kreat central val-
l*ya 11 to 14, eaatern atutes Warm
wave will rrow want of nocktes about
10, treat central v.llaya 11. eaatern
atatea 14. Cool wav will crow wet
of Rockien about 11. treat central val
leya 11. eaatern atate 17.
Thin aisturbance will follow a Iona
, . ... tn period of very cool westher, and will
cia1.)—Announcement —»» made bring a return to eanonahle terapera:
The Record a few day ago that w- tures and moderate change. But about
$ Tate and Claude Buster were pre- and following Hept, 14, look out for
N-n to erect a fetory here for the fough weather and vevere ntormna.
parinK to erect A rnoi ry T. wenther feature connected with
purpose of. bullding.douhi2,460K A. thio Gteranee and moat to ba tenrea
presses from a model tnat wan i»a i northern seetiona will reach mer4-
I "peclal invention ot the flrut rumrs lap 90 not tar from 16, and froata may
2ndieman provided that a au table be epetda in place where frose
Eun eni be netured A factory mometm occur at that neason.
site.cou1a coat not lean than 110,006 immediately fonowinz Sept. 7 a
bulldint to cont not icon . .... ‘wave of excesaively cool weather in
war to bebutnt, andaiosether *. expected tomove across the great cen
600 invested in the entererie. tral valleys and eastern states. It win
whole enterprise now seems to be cause alarm an to frost in northern
about to fall through and be lost to states, where crops are not mature, an I
Weatherford owing to the fact that ------------------------------
the site cannot be procured. Mr Tata ___________________________ _
thought he wae sure of a certain
piece of real estate near phe raliroads
but another person slipped in nhend
, of him and bought the coveted nite
! while Mr Tate was inventigating the
I title* Consequently the factory will
I very probably go to some other point
I un!e*« influence can Le brought to
1 bear upon the situatlon by the Board
I of Trade, and bueh » move is already
i being agitated Mr. Tate to in cor-
l respondence with Kansas City people.
! who have offered him Inducements to
locate his factory there, and the Board
at Trade of Temple, Tenas, haring
read of the proposition a few days
ago, have come forward and are now
offering unusual inducements to Eet
the factory. Bomia and a fine site are
CALIFORNIA
POINTS
Daily Until Oct. 31.
Tourist Sleeper to Los An-
geles Every Tuesday
Night.
T. P. FENELON, T. P. A,
710 Main St. Phone 5593.
For private parties, elube,
lodges, ete., can be necured at
gnatly reduced raise over recu-
lar tarn Phone for rutes
W. C. vonness, G. P. A.
(DALLAsSrrwoRm)
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