The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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FOR HIGH GRADE
FURNITURE
AT LOW PRICES, CALL ON
BASE BALL
NEWS FROM MEMBERS SOUTH
WEST TEXAS LEAGUE.
Published Daily As Authentic is Pos
sible to Obtain.
Members:
KEEP BOYS ON FARM
English School Plans to Arouse
Interest in Farming.
DECLINE OF TASTY TERRAPIN
Prediction Is Made That- Delicious
Reptile Will Soon Be Exterminat-
ed by New Methode.
SHORTER DAY WORKS WELL
Has Naturally Been Coincident With
the Adoption of Labor-Saving
Machinery.
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V m. W alker
BAY CITY, CORPUS CHRISTI, BEE
VILLE, BROWNSVILLE, VICTORIA
AND LAREDO
Twenty Youngsters Selected to Work
en Half-Acre Plot Are Happiest
and Proudest of Whole
Institution.
Ripley, England.—With a view to
Just unloaded, one more carload consisting of
IRON BEDS and BED SPRINGS
in all grades
Southwest Texas
League—
Bay City .......
Play. Won. Lost. P.C
Beeville ...
46
. . . 47
Brownsville ......47
Victoria .........48
Laredo ..........47
Corpus Christi ... 47
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My Stock of Crockery and Glassware
is complete
Yesterday’s Results.
Phone 101
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
AND EMBALMER
Bay City 6, Victoria 0.
Laredo 2, Beeville 0.
Corpus Christi 4, Brownsville 3.
Where They Play Today.
Brownsville at Corpus Christi
Bay City at Victoria.
Beeville at Laredo.
Phone 51
PUBLICITY AS CURE OF EVIL
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Power No Wrong-Doer Can With.
Stand, No Matter How Rich He May
Be or How Strong His Pull.
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SAFETY FIRST
LIBERALITY NEXT
"Publicity as a Cure of Municipal
and National Evils" was the subject of
a strongly Interesting address given
by Thomas E. Dockrell before the
graduates of the course in advertis-
ing of the Twenty-third Street Y. M.
C. A. at their sixth annual dinner
- The speaker said that in the earlier
days of our country, when the cities
were small, candidates for office were
personally known to the most of the
voters Their fitness for the several
keeping them on the land and pre-
venting their entering the overcrowd-
ed clerking and allied professions in
towns, the school children of Ripley
are being taught to work on the land
as part of the school course.
The happiest and proudest boys in
Ripley at present are the 20 who have
been chosen out from the rest of their
fellows to work on the half acre of
land which the Dowager Lady Love-
lace has let to the local village school
authorities.
Twice a week these sturdy, bright
faced youngsters—all of them between
the ages of eleven and fourteen—take
their spades and forks and measuring
instruments and go out and work on
their plots under the superintendence
of their head master, William Blax-
land.
These embryo farmers and garden-
ers have already fenced in their
ground, dug most of it up and por-
tioned part of it off into square rod
allotments, have sowed the seeds and
planted the roots which will hence-
forth be their special pride and care.
"This work has been made a regu-
lar and serious part of the school cur-
riculum." Mr. Blaxland said, "and its
object is to give the boys an intelli-
gent and. we hope, useful interest in
what should be their true sphere in
life. -------------
"We want to keep them on the land,
to prevent them further overcrowding
those already hopelessly overcrowded
occupations of clerking and serving
in shops.
“To a boy taught young enough and
properly trained there is more money
and a better life in farming and gar-
Philadelphia.—Warning comes from
Baltimore that the public must not
be deceived by the sudden plenty of
terrapin in the markets. They are in
abundance now, but the sad prophecy
is made that pretty soon Bre’r Terra-
pin will be no more found on the
tables of even the richest epicures. A
new method has been found for bar-
vesting these delectable reptilea
which has caused the sudden plenty.
It appears that about this time of year
the diamond backs come up out of the
deep mud in which they have hiber-
nated to rest awhile on the upper stra-
tum before beginning the season’s ac-
tivities. A Yankee genius has invent-
ed a sort of rake which sweeps the
bottom of the sounds and rivers and
thus gathers bushels of the animals;
into the steam dredges which are now
at work. But we are solemnly in-
formed that three seasons of this sort
of work will make an end of the spe-
cles.
It is not a great issue, but it Is in-
teresting to that small body of per-
sons who consider terrapin the most
delicious dish that can be served on
the table. Some cannot abide it; oth-
ers pay willingly the high price de-
manded. Many persons do not like
reptile food at all. In the south rattle-
snake is considered a great delicacy.
If one can forget his prejudices it
must be admitted that the flesh is
tasty and quite as refreshing as dried
codfish, for instance. Many persons,
too, like terrapin simply because it is
costly and has a reputation.
An ancient colonial law of Maryland
has just been dug up. It shows that
slaves were not treated as well as
they deserved, particularly in the mat-
ter of food; hence it was ordered in
council that no slave should be fed
on ‘terrapin more than four times a
week! Think of that, ye epicures who
have to be content with a few portions
each season! Tilings have changed
mightily since terrapin was consid-
ered unfit food for slaves as a steady
diet. It seems likely, however, that
The shorter workday has been
adopted by practically every litho-
graphic establishment in the country,
and the lithographers, with the help
of the new "Cost Systems," which' are
being pretty generally adopted In the
trade, are busily engaged in trying to
figure out just how much more their
work must cost their customers in or-
der that the expense of the adoption
of the eight-hour day will not fall di-
rectly upon the lithographer himself.
That it will cost more to do work
on the eight-hour-a-day basis than it
did when the men worked nine hours
is but reasonable to suppose Just
how much more the c s a
question that will require some study,
because man is not a machine and
will not be capable of doing as much
work in the ninth hour as he does in
the eighth, for ft stands to reason
that a certain amount of fatigue will
have to be contended with.
So far, throughout the civilized
world, the adoption of shorter work-
ing days for men has been coincident
with the adoption of labor-saving ma-
chinery. In the type printing indus-
try, for instance, the adoption of the
type-setting machine resulted—or oc-
curred at the same time as—the adop-
tion of a seven-hour day on newspa-
pers. This is but one of many such,
incidents.—Exchange.
SNIP-O-GRAMS.
If you can’t keep straight in the
company you keep cut out the com-
pany
He is a friend in name only whose
influence is not a good one.
Business secured by the loss of self-
respect is poor business.
The test of friendship is an empty
purse.
The man whose debts do not worry
him is generally poor pay.
If your wife la the better saver she
had better be the banker.
‘ The pool shark s not, as a rule, the
plugger in business.
positions was a subject upon which al
Both are essential to successful bank- *
ing. If you “are satisfied with our:
Platform, come and see us.
First National Bank
Bay City, Texas
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Our Best References are Our Sat-
isfied Customers
We have pleased others when they were troubled
and would like to have you try us.
FELL & WAINNER
Automobile Specialists
With BARNES’ GARAGE, Bay City
N. GUSTAFSON
AMON
GUSTAFSON & CO,
CIVIL ENGINEERS
Phone 125
Surveying
I Subdividing
Drainage
“Irrigation
. Drafting
Blue Printing
OFFICE, BAY^CITY BANK & TRUST CO. BLDG. Bay City, Tex.
Toner Doing Well.
Toner, the Bay City recruit to the
Broncho’s pitching staff, made his dc-
but Friday and pitched a strong game.
If he maintains that pace throughout,
he will undoubtedly go higher The
main question is whether Toner can
stand prosperity. He looks as though
he is not the sort to get the enlarged
dome over a little success, which has
ruined a lot of beginners. If he can
keep his balance, he will win through.
The advent of Toner again calls to
mind the fact that out of the South-
west Texas League are emerging some
pretty likely youngsters. The Texas
League clubs slowly are beginning to
realize this fact, and with the gradual
development of the talent there will
come an improvement in the older or-
part of the duty of the slave was to
hustle for his terrapins after working
hours, and this may have been the
greater part of his injury It may be
considered by some in the nature of a
and when they begin to see some gastronomic calamity that the terra-
thing coming out of that digging they pin is to disappear. As a fact, most
should be keener still. persons find snapper just as good, or
dening than in the town work into
which he would probably drift.
”1 think we shall succeed in our
most anyone was qualified to speak, aim, too. At any rate, all the boys are 1
because of a knowledge of their ca-tremendously keen on their digging,
reers.
Today, when the cities contain great
throngs of people, men are nominated
| for office who are absolutely unknown
to nine tenths of the population. The
only way these candidates can hope
to win support® is through the news
papers. By a liberal use of advertis
ing space they are able to present
"But it is not so much the ‘how' of would if it only cost enough. Imagi-
farming that 1 hope to teach them, but nation has a lot to do with our likes
rather the why' . and dislikes even in the fashions that
" Most of the fathers here can teacir. pertain to the things we eat.
their sons the ‘donkey work,' but what |
few of them can teach is the why and
sound reasons why they should be wherefore of things
elected.1 “The reasons of seasons, the science
It is not to be denied that the gen- of manuring, the-rotation of crops—
| eral public has never taken So great these and similar matters are what
i an interest in the administration of few parents can touch on to their
| government as at present. This is
boys. Indeed, most of my pupils al-
ready know more about the theory of
farming than their fathers do.
“At first we shall devote most of our
in office, no matter what party may be attention to vegetable growing—road
due to the earnest and effective work
of the newspapers, whose editors are
constantly on the lookout for rascality
in power. Never have public officials beans, runners, peas, onions and so
been made to feel so keenly that they! on.
must be honest and work conscien- "Then there will be flowers and
tiously for the common good, । fruit boarders to attend to and, later
-Publicity is a power no rascal can on, several of the boys will have hives
withstand, however rich he may be of bees under their care.
“The twenty boys who have been
or how strong his pull. It is a search-
light that reveals corruption where
ever it may exist. When the public
learns of its presence it is not slow
DANGER IN FEATHER DUSTER
Doctor Tells Chicago Medical Society
That It Is One of Agencies for
Spread of Germs.
Chicago.—
The public drinking cup.
The common house fly.
The feather duster, a
These are the best known agencies
| for the spread of tuberculosis germs,
according to Dr. Ethan A. Gray, who
| gave a stereopticon lecture the other
night before the Chicago Medical so-
ciety.
The rim of the drinking cup was
picked out on account of their ’bent’ pointed out in the pictures as one of
for the work are the envy of their the world’s greatest disease dissemi-
schoolfellows” nators. The common house fly and its
Those of the twenty young agricul-deadly work was shown in the same
turists who intend to remain on the 1 manner. The feather duster was os-
land were asked to hold up their tracized: forever from the household
■ administer public affairs shall be gov hands. . and » common, ordinary rag urged as
erned by the Golden Rule. You can Twelve unhesitatingly and enthust a substitute.
never cure an ill until you know that astically signified their intention of Dr. Gray called attention to the cru-
it exists, doing so, while several of the remain-I sade against the cup of death." He
-----------------' ing eight were emphatic in their in-said that it had already been abolished
****************** tentions to “have gardens” when they ′ several schools and that ft would
4• be ousted from all others before the
campaign closed.
"Whatever you do, don’t forget to
swat the house fly," he said. Kill Mr
Fly if you have to shadow him for an
opportunity. He is one of our worst
citizens.
"Another instrument I would ban-
to act. Decency is stronger than In-
decency. The majority of the people
are honest, and believe that those who
Power In Quietude.
There is a potent charm In being
serious. And nowhere is seriousness
so charming as in a business office.
Seriousness need not necessarily be
dullness or priggishness. A girl can
quietly and seriously attend to her
work, yet be pleasant She can be
jolly, but with just that reserve that
really is a lure to know her better. A
girl needn’t talk flippantly to talk en-
tertainingly. One can talk about seri-
ous matters, or talk seriously about
1 every-day affairs, yet do it so enter-
tainingly and with such sympathy as
to hold her hearers. And one goes
away from such a conversation with
a far keener sense of pleasure than
from the talk that has been all clever
repartee and nothing else.
There is a happy mean between the
noisy, flippant girl, and the quiet one
who never has anything to say. The
girl who strikes this mean, who knows
how to be charmingly serious, will
have the real liking of every one in
the office, from her employer to the of-
fice boy. And she has a far more
valuable manner, from the purely
business point of view, than has the
girl who is always trying to be smart.
There is no need for the quiet girl
to envy the girl who is always saying
something clever. " The quiet girl has
a greater charm within her power, If
she will make the most of It
MAKE IT HOME HOUR
fected through draft and purchase
from the Southwest Texas League.—
San Antonio Express.
*******************++H1 tentions
i The free ad covers a multi- • grew up.
I tude of fakes. 3 ---*--1----
*******************++++++4 TEXAS ASKS CAR OF BABIES
STENOGRAPHERS DO WORK THEY
LIKE ON TRAIN.
Because They Advertise.
Mary had a little lamb. its fleece
was white as snow; It strayed away
one summer day where lambs should
never go. And Mary sat her quickly
I down, and tears streamed from her
eyes; she never found the lamb, be
cause she did not advertise
And Mary had a brother who kept
a village store; he sat him down and
j smoked a pipe, and watched the open
' door. And as the. people passed along,
[ and did not stop to buy, John still sat
1 and smoked his pipe and blinked his
i sleepy eye. And so the sheriff closed
i him out, but still he lingered near, as
I Mary came along to drop a sympathet
I ic tear.
"How is It sister, can you tell, why
' other merchants here, sell all their
goods so readily and thrive from year
to year?” Remembering her own bad
luck, the maiden then replies: "These
other fellows got there, John, because
they advertise "—Empire Gazette.
People of Fort Worth Send Appeal to
New York Charitable Associa-
tions—Childless Anxloue.
Fort Worth, Tex.—Because the stork
is making few visits in Fort Worth
there is a big shortage In the local
baby market. To relieve this short
age the United Charities association
the other day announced that at the
request of many young married
couplee charity associations in New
York had been written asking that a
car load of infants between the ages
ish from the house and office is the
feather duster. It stirs up the dust,
and in all dust there are germs. Take
a rag and wipe up the dust."
MAGELLAN WORLD TRIP TALE
Story of Voyage Around Globe Nearly
Hundred Years Old is Just
Published In Holland.
Ernest W. Thompson who has been
attending Austin College
Sherman, wind?
Texas, is at home on a visit to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Thomp-
son. Mr. Thompson has finished the
junior year at Austin College and will
return in the fall to complete the
course. He says he finds the climate
cooler here than in the North Texas
city, and is very much pleased with
our little town.
The Lone Star Hotel of Palacios
a Texas hotel with Northern manage-
ment. New, clean, homelike, music
sociability. Ask those who have
stopped with us. Try the Lone star
once and become its friend. That's
ganization. It is a safe bet that a
great deal of the recruiting of the the rule. $1 and $1.25 per day. One
Texas clubs next winter will be ef- block east of depot. .
Modern Building.
Investor—Do you think that new
house will hold together In a hard
Contractor—Yes, 1 think it will after
it’s painted.
Hens Lay 1,226 Eggs
New York—The wonderful record
made by SO hens owned by Henry
Johnson of Glenville, which laid 1,086
eggs in February, winning a bet for
their owner, has been surpassed. The
hens have kept up the good work and 1
Mr. Johnson said they had laid 1,226
eggs during March. Dr. N. H. Free-
land has come forward with a story
that he owned 14 hens that produced
19 eggs a day, and Alderman Irving
Derevere, also of Tarrytown, said be
owned an Andalusian hen which laid
two eggs a day, one at five in the
morning and one at five in the eve
ning.
Chicago Workers Seem to Have
Solved Problem How to Employ
Time on Long Journeys.
of two months and three years be sent
to Fort Worth. A carload of 66 New The. Hague. Although nearly 400
York babies passed through here in years bave elapsed since Magellan
charge of nurses to Houston, where sailed around the world, the true his-
homes already have been found for tory of th* voyage has been published
them, for the first time Until recently no
The United Charities association published document relating to the
tried to obtain a few of these, but the expedition had ever been found,
demand.In Houston was greater than though It was known that an account
the supply, so Fort Worth has ordered had been written by the Portuguese
a car of Its own. Four months ago Fearando Oliviera, because a later
several carloads of New York infants writer of the same nationality quoted
were distributed at New Orleans, briefly from that work.
Recently the long lost document
many young wives actually besieged was discovered in the University of
the train in efforts to obtain a baby, Leyden library by the German his
While Texas has ousted trusts no torlan, Herr Vogel, who immediately
law has been passed against Stork & published a German translation of It
Co., and his failure to deliver goods in the Marine Rundschau
to this state has not been explaines.
Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, and
Besides
interesting particulars as to ship con-
struction in those days, the document
contains the whole story of the first
Pall May Silence Woman.
Atlantic City, N. J.—Through in- voyage around the world by Magellan.
juries sustained in stumbling in a
boardwalk playhouse, Mrs. W. B.
Smith, proprietress of the Hotel Wal-
lingford, may loss the power of speech.
Mrs. Smith was attending a perform-
ance with several friends, and while
making her way down the aisle in the
balcony she tripped and fell, narrowly
escaping death. Her chin struck the
brass rail surrounding the balcony
with such force as to affect her throat
eo that speech is almost impossible.
Certain Indications make it prob
able that the actual writer of the ao-
count wee a companion of the discov-
erer. As one of the oldest seograph-
foal papers extant it is considered to
be of almost priceless value.
To Hove Biggest Heating Plant
New York.—Bellevue hospital here
is to have the distinction of possessing
the biggest heating and ventilating
plant In the world. The equipment is
to cost practically $500,000.
It would not be considered thrilling
by most girls, but the time that they
spend on the train is considered the
most delightful part ce _
stenographers that come in from Au-
rora to offices in Chicago. They catch
a train that gets to Chicago before 8
o’clock in the morning. This, in a town
the size of Aurora, means getting up
pretty early. During the short winter
months it is still dark when some of
them start from horns. Even in the
evening there is no' time to do the
“homey” things that girls delight In
But these stenographers have turned
the trips on the train into i a home
hour. Some embroider, some crochet,
but they all have a bit of work. With
twenty or thirty of them the cat
which they use present a strange ap -
pearance for a railroad.
How to get time for pleasure and
the rest that is necessary outside of
the eight hours’ work is the problem
of the stenographer. Often a girl will
not take a position outside of the loot
because the only c hance she has 14
meet her friends is during the noon
hour. Many of them are employed
like herself, and they go to lunch to-
gether. Others will sacrifice a better
salary to be near State street for the
noon shopping. Others apply for t
position In a building where there
are spacious rest rooms and mirrors.
"We need such a place to dress in I
we want to stay downtown together or
go to the theater," explained one girl’
Where even pleasure has to be eked
out so carefully, it will be seen than
the stenographer has little chance left
for that "fitting herself for a higher
position" which is part of the advice
given her. Yet there are girls whe
have and are studying for outside vol
cations.—Chicago Daily News.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1911, newspaper, June 9, 1911; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696308/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.