The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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NO SMALL CHANGE 0 0PP0R11JNITT P0R H1M
NICKELS AND DIMES UNKNOWN
IN ALASKA.
PROFESSIONAL.
T. J. McCamant. M D D. C. Carrington, M D
Brs. McCamant & Carrington
Physicians and Surgeons
Surgical Work a Specialty
OFFICE:—Will Marrs Drug Store
WM. JORDAN, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon,
Office at Aspermont Pharmacy
ASPERMONT. - TEXAS
A. A. ANNIS
... Dentist...
Office over Rollins' Store.
Aspermont, Texas
R. M. REED
Lawyer and Abstracter.
Abstracts of Title Furnished on Short
Notice to any Land in Stonewall Co.
Office up-stairs
Lee Building
ASPERMONT.
TEXAS.
W. J. Arrington
Lawyer
Practice in Stonewall and adjoin-
ing counties.
NOTARY IN OFFICE
Office N. W- of Courthouse.
Aspermont, Texas
JAS. P. KINNARD,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW
Will practice in the Courts of Stone-
wall and adjoining counties
Haskell, Texas
A. T. ROBINSON
Contractor and Builder
STONE & BRICKWORK
A SPECIALTY
Plans and Specifications fur-
nished on short notice.
ASPERMONT, - TEXAS.
Their Use, the Mirters Say, Would
Mean Smaller Wages—Why Rob-
bers Have Small Chance to
Escape Capture.
'No pennies, nickels and dimes go
in Alaska," said John Hoover of Pair-
banks. "When I first went to that
country I saw bartenders look curi-
ously at a dime that some tenderfoot
had tossed on the bar and then sweep
It off on the door with their hands.
I wondered at this contempt for real
money and asked some questions
about it, discovering that no one ever
took nickels or dimes and that noth-
ing could be bought in the Klondike
for less than 25 cents.
"Take the ordinary sack of tobacco
for instance, which we get here for a
nickel. There they cannot sell it for a
quarter hardly, so they make it two
for a quarter, but will not sell one for
15 cents.
'It is common cause among those
people up there. They do not want
nickels and dimes introduced, for in-
troduction of small change would
mean lower wages and lower prices. ¡
Ordinary shovelers get four dollars or ,
five dollars a day now and other labor
is paid in proportion. They do not
want to receive lower wages.
"Of course it is true that they make
money on the side, almost every work-
er does. There is a tendency in mining
to follow the rule that nuggets belong
to the man who uncovers them even
if they are found on the claim of the
employer. I have seen men pick ou
nuggets worth from, an insignificant
sum to $108 in value. The game up
there is worth playing. I have had
this bag half filled with gold dust sev-
eral times—and lost it; but I expect
to keep right on till I make a strike."
Mr. Hoover has with him one of the
leather bags that the dust is carried
in in Alaska. It is about 12 Inches in
length and flat and . is about four
inches across. It ties with a thong.
"This looks as if an elephant had
stepped on it,"* he said, "but it has had
the dust in it up in the Klondike all
right.
"There are mighty few robbers in
Alaska. It doesn't take more than
four years to try a criminal and give
him proper punishment up there; and
besides, he can be caughL There is
only one way out and that is guarded.
Besides, gold dust is as easily identi-
fied as different kinds of cloth or cat-
tle. An assayer or a banker in Seat-
tle, for instance, will tell you whether
your gold is from one creek or an-
other. There is sometimes ten per
cent, difference in the value of the
gold streams running parallel on dif-
ferent sides of the same mountain.
A holdup man who acquires gold dust
would have to account for it when he
went out, and it cauld be traced easi-
ly."—Des Moines Register and Leader.
St. Peter's Explanation to Rapacious
Business Man Who Would Have
Entered Paradise.
When the man saw ahead a gate
of dazzling white, the thought Occur-
red to him that he was dead. He re-
membered that in his youth he had
heard of a gate of such construction.
; To be dead did not worry him much
except that he felt a pang of pity for
the people left on earth. But he com-
forted himself by recalling that other
men had died, too, and people had
not suffered greatly.
"Well," he said, "I must not be loi-
tering. It's up to me to get the other
side of that gate."
As he approached he beheld a digni-
fied angel on guard.
"St. Peter," he remarked blandly, "I
have heard of you."
"I've heard of you, too," responded
the guardian. "In fact, we understood
that you were coming, and looked up
your record. We found you to be a
thief and murderer."
"Wha-at? Say, you've got me mixed
with some other Jones. I never stole
a thing or killed anybody. Your sys-
tem of records is faulty."
"We have had the books experted,"
was the cold rejoinder. "They are cor-
rect You dealt in ice and coal. When
the weather was so hot that babies
had to have ice, you raised the price
so high that many a mother had to
stand by and see her child perish. If
that was not theft and murder, what
was it And in winter you—"
"Oh, come, now. Business is—"
"You confirm the records. When re-
buked for your crimes you used to say,
! 'Biisiness is business.' So It is, and we
I know ours."
The man stood mute.
"Now," continued the guardian,
! "there is no opening here for either
| branch of your industry, but I can di-
rect you to a place where the demand
for ice is ever greater than the sup-
ply, and you might do something in
coal."
"You mean—"
"We never mention it here, but that
is what I mean."
Then the man awoke.
"Well, business is business," he
said.
ONE Y
TO LOAN BY
McCord Realty Company
ON FARMS AND RANCHES
No inspection fee. No attorney's fee. Get your money in
five to ten days after approval.! If you want money quick,
give us your application this week. Absolutely no charges
unless we get your loan. Loans on long time, lew rates and (
fair dealings.
McCord Realty Co.
LAND LOAN AND INSURANCE
Lee Building Aspermont, Texas.
FEED STORE
Feed kept on hand at all
times. Prices as low as con=
sistant with the prevailing
market prices. Whenever
you want Feed be sure to call
and see me at Keen building
on south side of the square
Chas. A. McLaury
Early American Mine.
The first bituminous coal mined in
the United States, states the United
States Geological Survey, was taken
from what is usually termed the Rich-
mond basin, a small area in the south-
eastern portion of Virginia, near the
city of Richmond, says a writer in
the Scientific American.
This basin is situated on the east-
ern margin of the Piedmont plateau,
13 miles above tidewater, on the
James river. It lies in Goochland, Hen-
rico, Powhatan and Chesterfield
counties.
The coal beds are much distorted,
and the coal is of rather low grade
when compared with that from other
districts with which it has to come in-
to competition. The occurrence of
coal was known in the Richmond bas-
in as early as 1700, and in 1789 ship-
ments were made to some of the north-
ern states.
In 1822 the production amounted to
48,215 gross tons. At present what lit-
tle coal is produced in this field is for
local consumption only.
Queer Meal Before Hanging.
Amid remarkable demonstrations of
Joy from the natives of the district,
Camille Favre was guillotined at
Saintes, France, recently. The crim-
inal had been convicted of the mur-
der of a little six-year-old girl and
his execution gave unbounded delight
to the mothers of the town, who
crowded the windows of the houses
in the square outside the prison, and
uttered cries of satisfaction at the
moment the knife fell. Favre spent
the last days of his life, like many a
prisoner before him, in making friends
with dumb creatures. There were lit-
tle birds which flew in and about the
courtyard of his prison, and the man
who had been guilty of the most bru-
tal of crimes occupied himself in keep-
ing sparrows as pets. He caught a
dozen of them, kept them, tamed
them, and began to love them. His
wardens thought that after all there
must be a touch of human feeling in
this man. But were they right? He
loved them so well that he made a re-
quest of the prison governor concern-
ing his pets. "May I have six of
them," he begged, "for my evening
meal? To-morrow," he added, with
the utmost sangfroid—"to-morrow I
will finish the other six." On the
next morning he was executed.
Wreck of the Sarah Sands.
The Sarah Sands, an iron screw
steamer, sailed from Portsmouth, Eng-
land, to Calcutta, in August, 1857,
with 300 soldiers on board. On No-
vember 11, the cargo (government
stores) took fire. By the exertions
of Maj. Brett and Capt. Castle, the
master of the vessel, who directed
the soldiers and the crew, the flames
were subdued, although a barrel of
gunpowder exploded during the con-
flagration. A new danger then arose
—the prevalence of a strong gale;
water was shipped heavily where the
port quarter had been blown out.
Nevertheless the vessel arrived at
the Mauritius, on November 21 with-
out losing a single life.
The Bane of Marriage.
"She is broken-hearted."
"But why should she be, isn't she
just married?"
"It's not unhappínéss with her hus-
band, but on account of the newspa-
per notice of the wedding."
"Was there something jncompli-
Which?
A Justifiable rebellion was that of
Isabel. She was on the grass in front
of the house, playing with the baby,
aged two. Isabel herself, not more
than three times the other's age, was
acting the part of mother to perfec-
tion. Presently along came a young
man, who thought he understood chil-
dren.
"Good morning!" he said, elabor-
ately, taking off his hat. "How are
you ladies to-day?"
Isabel looked at him with dignity
and replied, "Good morning!" and
went on attending to the baby.
The young man stooped down.
"Ah," he said, "and which is
which?"
"I'm Isabel," replied the older girl,
and that's which."
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Treasure in Old Mattress.
An astonishing discovery was made
at Hyde, England, by some lads who
were given a couple of mattresses to
throw upon a bonfire which had been
made in honor of Guy Fawkes' day.
As the mattresses were being pre-
pared for the ordeal by fire they
were noticed to be very old and
mouldy, and came to pieces while
being carried. Then, to the aston-
ishment of the exuberant youngsters,
a shower of yellow coins fell from
one of . the mattresses, and when it
was discovered they were' good Eng-
lish sovereign^ there was a wild strug-
gle for possession. The coins num-
bered over a hundred and the police
failed to trace the owner of the
strangely hidden treasure.
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Sample will be found at the Asper-
mont Pharmacy. Call and get prices and
inspect the sample.
W. G. PHILLIPS
Masonry and Stone Cutting
Estimates given on all work in my line, either by
contract or day work.
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Thomas, S. W. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1910, newspaper, February 10, 1910; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168421/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.