The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 2, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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THURSDAY, APRIL a. 190V
THE BEbL COUNTY DEMOCRAT
1 Ganderbone's April Forecast.
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J. FRANK FOUCHE
DRAHATIC ARTIST
REPERTOIRE
Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice
Julius Coesar
A Mid Summer Night's Dream
MacBeath
A Blot in the Scutcheon—Browning
Cyrano de Bergerac —Rostand
Enoch Arden—Tennyson
Peer Gynt—Ibson
The Lady of Lyons—Lytton
And Misbellaneous Programmes of Humor, Pathos,
Comedy and Tragedy.
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
Saturday Evening, April 11th, 8:30
Tickets 50 Cents, at Belton Drug Company
Benefit Library Piano Fund.
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THE REASON WHY
Our Repairing is better than others, as our man does
nothing but repairing and isn't interrupted while doing a
job on Watches or Jewelry.
HUNTER & FREfc-MAN
Will appreciate your patronage and give the very best service
in a Hair Cut, Shave, Shampoo, Massage, or
Anything rn Tlx Tonsorial Line.
At the same old stand with his first class white artists.
East Side Square, Belton
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A Positive
Pleasure
When entertaining guests
it is a relief to know that
your meats are the very
best. A nice, tender roast
with delicious brown drip
gravy is relished by all. We
cater to refined tastes and
can furnish all the market
delicacies.
WALTER WILSON
PROP. EAST STREET MARKET
THE
SILVER KING BAR
The Pure Pood Whiskey House.
JOEL B. FRAZIER and
KENTUCKY COnFORT
The Purest of Kentucky Whiskey.
WARREN & FURNACE
HUNTER & FREEJTAN
STICK PINS
Some beautiful ones just in
stock. 75c up, New designs,
and you are sure to bo suited.
HAT PINS
Sterling Silver 25c to fi5c, Rolled
Plato 5()c to 75c, Gold Filled
$1.00 to $1.25. The best that
can be sold for the money.
Belton - Texas
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BURN EUPION OIL
If you use coal oil, buy the best. The genuine Eupion oil
is recognized as the best the world over. It can be procured
from the following merchants:
5AFLBY BROS, THUS. A. COOK,
STAMPERS WILES' F. K. AUSTIN,
T. W.COCHRAN * CO., REESE * CO.,
BELTON TRADINO CO., OOOUSOE * CO.,
S. TIMS, J. J. STOVALL.
J, H. Juw * Sou
Sold and^fuaranteed by the
waters-pierce oil commry
HI. F. LACKEY, Agent,
PHONE 835 BA&T AVBNUB
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The April rains will put a bit
Of Irish in the lawn,
And a new and brighter augury
Will paint the oust ut dawn
The songs of birds will (ill the day
And the ni«ht be full of frogs,
And every time h cloud Mows up
It will raiucats and dogs,
And water newts, and other brutes,
And also poliywogs.
The brown thrush will return
to sing its song at even- hush,
and the kind-eyed cow will
moult and rear a new and redder
plush; the young man's thoughts
will love to dwell upon his lady
love, while he is not the one at
at all that she is wotting ot.
The railroads, meanwhile,will retrieve
Their spirits and elate
Upon the knockout blow the courts
Have dealt the 2-cent rate.
They'll rebait their hooks again,
And drop them in the pool.
And when T. R. gets after them,
They'll all cry "April Fool!"
And then there will be doings
in the presidential race, for ev-
erybody in it. will accelerate the
pace. The hoofs of Mr. Johnson
will put up a cloud of dirt, and
Mr. Bryan will put up a most
terrific spurt. The presidential
bee which has been up in Bill
Taft's hat will be removed by
Roosevelt from that high hab-
itat; and when it seems the field
behind imperils Teddy's bets,
the bee will be slipped in the
seat of William's trouserettes.
Whereat the very earth will rock.
And sod and bits of ltfam
Will obfuscate the sky each time
The sting is driven home;
And while to all the others' once
They pass the grand stand twice,
Bill's T. and B. will blandly ask
"Whom shall we run for vice?'
April was named for Venus,
Roman Goddess of spring. She
was the mother of Aeness, and
attended the first mothers' con-
gress with that young man in
her arms. She was a very fash-
ionable woman, and invented di
vorce. She was at different
times the wife of Vulcan, Mars,
Mercury, Adonis and Anchises,
and held the matrimonial record
until Lillian Russell. The planet
Venus was named for her, as
was the city of Venice. She
was also the heroine of "Three
Weeks."
The baseball player will resume
With letters on his suit,
And the fan will sit out in the sun
And violently root.
His supper will grow cold and stale,
His wife will swear a bit,
And the cook will make a chalk mark on
The kitchen door and quit.
The straw hat season will
come in, and the oyster will go
out; the last 1 ew flocks of buck-
wheat cakes will sort of hang
about; the spring election will
reflect red fire against the sky,
another good share of the earth
will suddenly go dry, and the
congress will debate upon relief
laws for the losers, and lay a
revelation out for our unhappy
boozers.
The program for All Pools'
Day will be more elaborate than
usual. Mr. Roosevelt will give
a dinner at the White House to
those who think he is not going
to run again. Mr. Rockefeller
will give a banquet at Cleveland
to those who think he is going
to pay that §29,000,000 fine. Sen-
ator Elkins will give a barn
dance on his country place to
those who think they have any
notion of letting the duke of
Abruzzi get away. Mr. Harri-
tnan will give a pink tea at the
Waldorf-Astoria to all persons
who think he is licked. Mr.
Bryan will give a huge lawn
party at his home near Lincoln
to all persons thinking he is
going to step aside for Mr.
Johnson. Other fools will be
cared for in various other ways.
The milliners will meanwhile show
Those gorgeous Easter hats,
With large soup bunches pinned to
them,
And various ding bats;
And while the ladies dance for joy
Before this line of goods,
Their lords will pack an extra shirt ■
And light out for the woods.
The national convention of the
populist party will begin at St.
Louis April 2. Wags have been
asking why it was set tor so
late in the month. The moon
will look like Taft on the 16th.
The big leagues will soon be un-
der way. The American and
national will brain about the 15th
but the anti-saloon league will
get started a week earlier. Eas-
ter will occur on the 19th and
the 20th will be devoted to dis-
cussing what everyone had on.
Persons who didn't have any-
thing oh to speak of will, of
course be unmentionable.
That sweet Elvira will to church
In rustling silks and tulles.
Which she will lift up to lu r knees
In passing little pools:
And just bspause a few men look.
No one commits u sin.
For else it were not known her clothes
Are new clear to the skin.
After the 28rd, April will be
under the influence of Taurus
the bull. Wall street, which has
for so long been under the in-
fluence of Teddy the bear, will!
be emancipated. Mr. llarriman
will give a dinner at which he
will make public the details of
his plan to lock all square deal
fanatics up in round houses.
Persons born under Taurus
are bull-headed and have double
cowlicks. They are suspicious
and think the gas meter is fast.
They are self-willed, but their
wives can make tliem vote dry.
They are very intelligent and
understand railroad timetables.
The children will take Kaster eggs
And play upon the Moor,
And the baby will down one made
green
With H2S04.
The doctor will come on the jump,
And lighting, sprain a leg,
And the whole household will weep
and pray
Till baby lays the egg.
And then the buds of May will
ope their fair and fragrant eyes,
and a promise of the coining
June will glimmer in the skies;
the crickets and the katydids in
sweeter songs will join, and the
mint will put "In God We Trust"
upon our wicked coin.
Gandeubone.
FREE! Igorrote's Puzzle FREE
To introduce, we will give
away five thousand of these Igor-
rote's Double Cross puzzles,
made of Phillippine mahogany.
Difficult and fascinating. Write
quick and enclose four cents in
stamps to cover cost of mailing,
that's all. Address
Dominocauus Co.,
1807 Chouteau Ave.. St.Louis,Mo
A Woman Tells How to Relieve Rheu.
matic Pains.
1 have been a very great sufferer
from the dreadful disease, rheumatism,
for a number of years, I have tried
many medicines but never got much
relief from any of them until two
years ago, when I bought a bottle of
Chamberlain's Pain Balm. I found
relief before I had used all of one
bottle, but kept on applying it and
soon felt like a different woman.
Through my advice many of my
friends have tried it and can tell you
how wonderfully it has worked.—Mrs.
Sarah A. Cole, 140 S. New St., Dover,
Del. Chamberlain's Pain Balm is a
liniment. The relief from pain which
it affords is alono worth many times
its cost. It makes rest and sleep
possible. For sale by all druggists.
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WE OFFER ^ #
The Largest Stock in The County
BEST QUALITY OF GOODS ON THE MARKET
Low Prices, Liberal Terms, Courteous Service
and Ask Your Patronage.
"JOHN DEERE" CULTIVATORS, PLANT-
TERS AND HARROWS
Are Now in Demand and Ours Have All 1908 Improvements
BU G-G-IES!
A Look Will Convince You that Our Store is The Place To Buy.
We have Corrogated Roofing, ciarb Wire. Hog Fence and
Poultry Netting in Large Quantities and
Our Prices Are Right.
@ Beginuing April 1st, 1908, Our Store Will Close at 6 p. m.
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How Indiana Tan Deerskin.
The skin dressing of the Indians,
both buffalo and deer skins, is general-
ly very beautiful and soft. They
stretch the skin either on a frame or
on the ground, and after It has remain-
ed there for three or four days, with
tlie brains spread over the fleshy side,
they grain It with a sort of adz or
chisel. After the process of graining,
though the skin Is apj)areutly beauti-
fully finished, It passes through an-
other process—that of smoking. Foi'
this they hang the skin ou a frame
in a smoke proof house or tent. V he
fire is made at the bottom out cf rot-
ten wood, which produces a SuX'"8 and
peculiar smell. The fire must be smoth-
ered to make the smoke. The grained
skins must bo kept In the smoke for
three or four days, and after this the
skins -will always remain the same,
even after being wet, which dftes not
belong to the diessed skins in civilized
countries.—"Life Among the Indians."
The Partitions of Poland.
There have been three partitions of
Poland. The first was In 1772, when
Trussla took the palatinates of Mal-
berg, Pomerla and Warmia, a part of
Culm and a part of Great Poland. Aus-
tria took lted Russia, or Gallcla; a
part of Podolla, Sandomlr and Cracow,
and Itussla took White Itussla, with all
the part beyond the Dnieper. The sec-
ond partition was in 1793, by which
Prussia acquired the remainder of
Great and a portion of Little Poland,
and the Russian boundary was ad-
vanced to the center of Lithuania and
Volhynla. In the third and final par-
tition, In 1795, Austria had Cracow,
with the country between the Pilica
and the Vistula. Prussia had the cap-
ital, with the territory as far as the
Niemen, while the rest went to Russia.
—New York American.
A Dramatic Author.
Like most actor managers, Macready
was pestered by would be dramatic au-
thors. An ambitious young fellow
brought him a five act tragedy one
morning to Drury Lane.
. '"My piece," modestly explained the
••'author, "is a chef d'oeuvre. I will an-
swer for its success, for I have con-
sulted the sanguinary taste of the pub-
lic. Sly tragedy Is so tragic that all
the characters are killed off at the end
of the third act"
"With whom, then," asked the man-
ager, "do you carry on the action of
the last two acts?"
"With the ghosts of those who died
In the third!"—Cornhlll Magazine.
Man and a Carpet.
Clara—I'lJ give you a conundrum.
Why is a man like a carpet? Tom—I
give it tjii. Clara—Well, he's no sooner
down ilian people walk all over him.
Tonj/Oh, pshaw! Man is totally un-
llk^n carpet, for the more dust he has
less likely he is to get the shake.—
^illustrated Bits.
A Very Mad Dog.
A little girl came running to tell
about a mad dog she bad seen. "We
saw a mad dog!" she gasped, but the
words seemed too tame to do Justice to
the situation. "Oh, he was mad, mad!"
she added, frowning and pumping her
lists. "He was furious!"—Harper's
Weekly.
A Thinking Part.
The Old One—In adopting a theat-
rical career you are entering a touchy
and Jealous profession. Keep guard
over your tongue. The New One—Oh,
I've found out that I'll have amplo op-
portunity to think beforo I speak I—
Puck. _
Gray Versua Brown Camels.
The length of a stage varies through-
out Persia, depending on the character
of the country, and is reckoned in far-
saks, the old Greek parasang. The far-
sak Is a most elastic and uncertain
measure, and as animals are paid for
per farsak as many as the credulity of
the traveler will allow are crowded
into each stage. "How far," I once
asked an old Kurdish muleteer, "is a
farsak?" "As far as one can distin-
guish a gray from a brown camel,"
was the discreet answer. They aver-
age about four miles and the stage
about six farsaks, or twenty-fire miles.
—Atlantic.
Thought He Could Buy Them Cheap.
Elderly German (as he calls at a
■lodging house door)—Glnd lady, I saw.
yes, der advertisement In der evening
paper dat you have a pair of pajamas
to sell, yes? Boarding House Mistress
(Indignantly)—Pajamas! You old fool,
do you think this is a department
store? Where Is the advertisement?
Tho German (producing the advertise-
ment and reading It aloud)—"For sale,
ton almost new bedroom suit, cheab!
Gall and see Jt"— Bohemian.
COTTON SEED HULLS
COTTON SEED MEAL
BELTON COTTON OIL- CO.
A Much Appreciated Present.
Our old friend, Peter McGann,
called on the Democrat Saturday
and showed us a very much ap-
preciated present, which was
presented to him by H. G. Van
Doren who has just returned
from Buenos Ayres, Argentina,
in South America. The present
is a walking stick brought from
Ireland by Mr. Van Doren as he
returned home. Mr. McGann
said the stick is an Irish growth
something similar to our black
locust and is used in growing
hedges in that country, and also
said that the Irish cut their walk-
ing stick from this growth and
call the stick "Irish Shelala."
Mr. McGann is proud of his stick
as it came from the old country,
and especially proud of the source
it came as a present.
EUREKAI
Yes, I Have Found It at Last.
Found what? Why that Chamber-
lain's Salve cures eczema and all
manner of itching of the skin. I have
been afflicted for many years with
skin disease. I had to get up three
or four times every night and wash
with cold water to iallay the terrible
itching but since using this salve in
December, 1SKK1, the terrible itching
has stopped and has not troubled me.
Elder Jonn T. Ongley, Rootville, Pa.
For sale by All Druggists.
Found.
A lady's gold watch. The
owner can get same by cal' ing at
the Silver King saloon, describ-
ing property and paying for this
notice. R. L. Furnace.
AN ORDINANCE.
Be it ordained by the city coun-
cil of the city of Belton:
That any person who shall un-
lawfully or willfully throw, cast,
place or put any confetti, talcum
powder or any other substance
or substances, or any rubber
ball, or any other object into the
face, or upon the head, back or
face, or any other part of the
person of any other person upon
the streets, alleys, sidewalks or
square, or other public place
within the corporate limits of
the city of Belton, he shall, up-
on conviction therefor, be fined
in any sum not less than $1.00
nor more than $10.00.
Whereas, there is to be a
street carnival to be held in the
city of Belton within the next
few weeks, and there is now no
ordinance upon this subject pro-
hibiting the throwing of confetti,
talcum powder, and rubber balls,
and the same has become a
great nuisance, Therefore, the
rule requiring ordinances to be
read on three several days be
and the same is hereby sus-
pended and this ordinance is
herenow put upon its third and
last reading and final passage.
Approved March 23rd, 1908.
D. E. Patterson,
Mayor of City of Belton.
E. W. Ferguson,
Secretary of City of Belton.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the
famous little liver pills. Sold by the
the Belton Drug Co.
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