Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 186, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 22, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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THE DAILY BULLETIN
KHey Tims' Discovery.
Hiley Tims was an observer of na-
ture. And although Riley rarely did
an observing in his fields It was be-
cidentally noticed that the crab grass
Brew two inches while his cotton
grew only one. Of course that was
all the fault of the cotton. Whv
couldn't it grow four inches while the
grass was growing two? If it couldn't
then it could go to blazes. That was
Riley s verdict Accordingly he fish-
ed and hunted while the crab grass
continued to overtop and twine about
the- slender cotton stalks. .
Riley Tims be it said had latelv
aspired to the matrimonial estate hav-
ing sought to acquire the hand and
me Jieart of Milly Googe .of the adja
SATURDAY MAY 22
too was averse to perspiring unnec-
essarily. "Well well Riley" said Josh
"You've got a longer head than 1
thought ye had. That's puty sharp
of ye. I don't mind if you an' Milly
do git hitched pervided mind ye
pervided I git the loan of that flock
to work out my Crop. You're sure
they won't eat the crop?"
"Sure they won't" said Riley "and
or course you can have 'em. Any
thing I've got you're welcome to Mr
Googe."
That afteroon Mr. Tims and Miss
Googe visited the parson and were
married. The same afternoon Josh
Googe drove the flock of geese into his
field where the Johnson grass was
getting the best of his young corn
cent farm. But old Josh Googe hadf After Josh had put in the geese
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iad said the word and put his brogar.
down on It all to the effect that "Ri-
ley Tims was just too trifling to
breathe;" and he could not marry Mil-
ly until he had proved himself by get-
ting his crop out of the grass. How-
belt Josh was not overburdened with
energy himself.
A few days after Mr. Googe's speech
aforenamed Mr Tims sat in the shade
of a tree and gazed dreamily across
the little field where he had planted
his cotton. There wasn't any cotton
to be seen now. It was a meadow
and the grass was so tall that it rip-
pled in the wind. It was hot and the
sun-rays danced down there in the
field. Riley watched them and thought
How utterly Impossible it would be
for him to go down and contend with
the ' enemy the grass. He'd like to
have Milly but old Josh was asking
too much. Why did he want to try
a fellow so? The thought appeared
to produce a drousiness for Riley
yawned stretched himself at length
and pulled his hat orer his face In
preparation for gentle slumber.
But the sleeper's rest was harshly
broken by the honking and squawking
of his large flock of geese. That is
after the manner of geese and there
were two hundred of these. They
were Riley's property because of the
fact that they had watered fed and
propagated without any attention
whatever from their worthy owner.
He sat up now and reviled them with
such choice epithets as came easilv
to his tongue without the exertion of
thinking. One old goose stalked along
the- fence that surrounded the field.
The gate that barred the entrance to
the field negligently had been left
open; this the goose found and en-
tered. Riley saw her. but made no
. move to chase her out
"Go on you old rogue" he said. "I
guess you'll have to get a search war-
rant if you find that cotton." He
watched silently for a few minutes.
Then he got up and going over to
the fence leaned on it and watched
the nibbling goose more closely.
. "By jimminyi" he exclaimed "that
bird ain't got no hankerin' fer cotton;
won't eat it; but watch the grass go-
in' down her neck!"
Mr. Tims having made this discov-
ery rounded up the whole flock and
drove it into the field. And as the
two hundred geese fell to clipping the
grass never touching a stalk of cot-
ton Riley sat in the shade and cackled
with great delight.
A goose's appetite is hard to satisfy
and if it is satisfied it doesn't stay
that way for more than five minutps.
So those geese ate and ate all through
the day and most of the night. Th?
most time they lost was when Rily
turned them out at the gate to get
water.
. In -a week's time Mr. Tim's meadow
had disappeared. The straight rows
of spindling cotton stood out in full
relief. Josh Googe seeing Riley's
crop so suddenly emerge Into light
came over to find out what it all
meant Riley explained to Mr. Googe
that geese is agriculturists" and
that he didn't see any use of a man
perspin' when he had a flock of
geese ready an' willin' to do the work."
3Ir. Googe was deeply impressed. He.
he went fishing. That field of corn
had been worying him a good deal
and he was glad to have it off his
mind. It was not until the next morn
ing that he went down to view the
work of the agriculturists.
It was also the next morning that
Riley Tims saw a furious man in the
person of Mr. Googe bearing down
upon him with menacing fists
"You-you'" spluttered Josh "you
said they wouldn't eat the corn. Nary
blade of grass did they eat but they
tooK up- ever stalk o' corn bv the
roots. You you whelp!"
"I didn't say they wouldn't eat corn'
asserted Joshs son-in-law. "I said
as how it seemed a gose didn't have
no tooth fer cotton. But I didn't
say nothin about corn. Why man
corn is tidbits fer 'em."
"I was a fool for lettin you have
that girl" said Mr. Googe; "and as
fer them geese there ain't nothin' go
m 10 De imDits rer em -any more.
I've twisted their necks ever' dod
gasted one of 'em."
Take a Kodak with you.
Groceries
"We are still running our
BARGAIN-
COUNTER
and offering real bar
gains from Lfc asl well as
good values' iromj our en-
tire stock which! is one
of the byest selected in
the city
! Respectfully
W.H.StevensoniCo
Phone 96
Communication With Mars.
A contemporary suggest a giant
wireless apparatus located on a Hima
layan ' peak to send electric waves
through the upper ether and to es
tauiish communication with the planet
Mars.
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wcau a narvara proiessor an
nounced that with a. capital of ten
thousand dollars he could periect a
scheme whereby the ' inhabitants of
Mars could be brought in close touch
with the Inhabitants of this sublunary
sphere and though their language
might be totally different from ours
a system of signs and signals might
be arranged for intelligent communi
cation.
The Harvard professor assumes
that the Martains are a superior race
of people to those of the earth of a
more far-reaching ancestry and a
much riper civilization. The progress
we have made in the last hundred
years substituting the steamship for
the dugout the railroad for the ox
cart the electric light for the tallow
dip the telegraph the ocean cable and
the telephone for the slower methods
of communication of ancient times
and the thousands of other improve-
ments in all practical lines have only-
brought us to an approach to what the
Martains have accomplished a million
years ago.
it is only within the last thi
two years that
thing more about
than we did about
only since the discov
led to an investigat
they were of natural
artificial construction. By the aid of
powerful telescopes scientists have
been able to obtain more and more in
formation concerning these canals and
existence of life on Mars. They have
found according to their own testi
mony that Mars has an atmosphere
capable of sustaining life that It has
a mild and eauible climate that ft
supports vegetation and Is perhaps
peopled by a superior race
Of course this latter is merely an
assumption. for even the most power
ful glass has not yet been able to
discover any of the inhabitants or to
make out any buildings or civic Im
provements that would indicate the
highest attainments of civilization.
Nevertheless Mars may have her. pub
lic and private buildings her legisla-
tures jails and other paraphernalia of
government and railroads as well as
canals and of course her wireless
telegraph system. Assuming that the
Martains have a civilization so much
'oldpr than ours and that they are so
'murh In advance of us In intelligence
lit is only reasonable to suppose that
they have perfected their wireless
tPipgraph system far beyond our mod-
est achievements and that as soon as
they discover that we are making
efforts to communicate with them they
will met us more than half way.
The distance between the earth and
"the red planet MarB" is only about
three million miles according to the
estimates of the astronomers and that
ought to be covered without much dif-
ficulty by co-operative effort on the
part of the two spheres assuming
J Mars to be a sphere. Somebody ought
Ho give the Harvard professor the
necessary ten million dollars with
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one of which is a splendid value at V
the price. They are exceptionally well $
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These suits are made to fit perfect- 4
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tall slim or stout we have a suit for V
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will tit you better than any tailor-
made at double the price. It will x
take but a moment to try on a few y
coats. We would be glad to have
X You steP fa n inspect them. Our
X clerks will take pleasure in showing
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Gents Furnishings
We are exceptionally well prepared j
A X to taKe care oi me iraae in vjents
Furnishing: Collars Ties Hosiery
Shirts Hats Shoes Underwear odd
Vests Suspenders Handkerchiefs
odd Pants etc. We buy the best
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ATTRACTING A
TfENTION
Part of a Clean-Up Made on Property of Big
Enterprise Mining Company's Claims.
Worth Investigating.
The bunch of gold nuggets placed even
in the Armstrong Jewelry Co.'s show
window this morning by the Big En-
terprise Mining Co. I3 attracting much
attention. The nuggets are just a
few that are left from a "clean up" on
the Placer grounds in doing assess-
ment work -They are In their rough
shape just as when washed out of the
sand and gravel. The largest Is worth
about $21. The Placer-grounds from
if
enormous machinery Is in
stalled.
This company owns every foot of &
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"wie is uu mueDieunesS' on
the property. The shares are non-as-sessable.
You are not helping to buy a.
mine when you take stock in this one.
You are helping to pu machinery on a
property already bought and paid for
and proven to be -beyond the experi-
mental stage. It; is so entirely differ
ent from most o the mining proposi-
which these nuggets were taken lies! Hons that you have seen offered
along the valley at the foot of the
ledges composing the claims of the
Big Enterprise Co. This "company al
so owns sixty acres of these placer
mine grounds thaiNhas never been
worked. The placer mines are formed
by erosion of the hills. Through
countless ages the elements have worn
away the mountains andVashed the
particles down into the valley called
Boise basin. Rivers have v chaneed
their courses and their old heds'are
rich with the accumulated wealth of
ages of flood debris.
Along the Boise Basin at the hea of
which the Big Enterprise Mining
owns properties there has been moT
than two hundred and fifty million of
dollars worth of gold taken Jrom
placer minds in the past and thesame
ground is now being re-worked with
big steam dredges. All the wealth in
these placer sands was undoubtedly
On nearly any business nronositfnn
that you engage in you take a bigger
risk than' on. this. Your mercantile
business depends on crop conditions
advertising competition personal
popularity and a multitude of con-
ditions and environments. This min-
ing proposition depends on one con-
ditionsplacing machinery on the
grounds and operating on a large
scale. We know and you can be con-
vinced that the ore is there that it is
jhere in more than paying quantities;
mat tne property is the best naturally
located and equipped that you have
ever investigated; that the men who
are behind the property are men of
e highest Integrity; that they have
never been connected with anr other
tbastrictly legitimate business enter-
prises that they would not place their
money $n large sums into a propo-
sition thatthey were not reasonably
once embedded In the quartz and gran- i certain would pay big returns on the
te ledges at the head and along the InvestmenL There is no competition
sides of the basin.
In the claims of the Big. Enterprise
j in the mining business. There -Is a
steady market for every nugget or par-
J' I and buy in large assortment's so that
Co. everywhere that an opening has j tide of gold that you take out of the
been made there has been found plenty ' resisting hills and river-beds.
of ore containing gold. It is now only e are selling shares to men who
question of installing machinery are among the most conservative in-
The bigger the machinery the better vestors in Brownwood. The shares
will be the dividends. If one hundred (can be bought now for 10 payable on
tons of ore can be handled dally the J easy terms. They can never again be
profits will be more than double what . bought for that price nor perhaps for
fifty tons would yield because It can be . any price after this sale closes.
handled cheaper in proportion. In BIG ENTERPRISE MIXING CO.
the property owned by this company rt. E. KIrkpatr?ck Sales Agent of
there is enough ore to last a century shares.
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The Store Where Ycur Neighbors Trade f
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which to begin operations and as
soon as communication with the Mar-
tains has been successfully established
we may learn enough about canals to
be very helpful in carrying out the
work on the Darien Isthmus. San An-
tonio Express.
Eddy and hisDad have re-opened
tneir snop on Jvast uroauway with a
new line. of flxufes. Prices as before
Hair-cut 2fc i dlSG
Water coolers refrigerators ice tea
glasses cream freezes etc.
dlS7 Jaclrepn-Hughes Co
Little Valeen Voelkel of Sherman
s in the city visiting her little friend
Miss Irene Crawford.
1'ESTEItDAY IS GO
SHORT TOMORROW
COME. GET BUSY NO
LIKENESS OF YOU
WIFE YOUR BABY Y
OR YOUR FATHER TA
T IS TOO LATE.
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HERE IS RELIEF FOR WOMEN.
If yoa have pains In tho back Urinary Bladder
or Sidney troublo and want a certain pleasant
herb relief from Womcn'a Ills try Mother Gray's
"ACBTKAL1AN-LKAK." It is a Bare reliable
regulator and relieves all Female Wcakneanc
Including inflammation and ulcerations. Mother
uraya Ausiraiian-jjoai is soiaoy tiruggisuor
scnUby mall for 80 cts. Samplo sent PRES.
Addrees Tbo Mother Gray Co. Lo Boy N. Y
Mrs. John Clinton of Beeville is in
the qlty this week visiting her sister
Mrs. E. B. Garner on Mayes street.
Take a KodarcWith you.
ODAY IS
NEVER J
AVE THE
LF YOUR
MOTHER
BEFORE
Studio.
Mrs. W. A. Butler accompanied by
her mother Mrs. M. J. Martin will
leave tomorrow for a visit" to relatives
and friends at San Marcos and Lock-
hart. !
A fresh shipment oiish just receiv-
ed at the Pullman Cafe.
Mrs. M. J. Martin hak returned from
a visit to her daughter Irs. G. P.
Vatsbn of Zephyr .
JOINT RECEPTION COMPLI-
MENTARY TO SISTER.
Mesdames Urban Y. Smith and Will
A. Bell poured tea on yesterday after-
noon to a large number of friends com-
plimentary to their sister Mrs. W. F.
Lyle of Fort Worth. The guests were
greeted at the door by Mesdames Smith
and Mallow and Mrs. Bell Introduced
to the guests of honor Mesdames Lyle
and Van Zandt. Mesdames F. R. Smith
and Mary Bell showed the way to the
dining room where Mesdames Jen-
nings Jackson and Conway and Miss
Smith served tea and condiments. Next
the guests were taken into the music
room where Mrs. Abney Miss Ruby
Smith and Mrs. Earl Bell entertained
while Mrs. Carpenter Mrs. McKee and
Mr. Sturdlvant rendered sweetest mu
sic. The guests were simply charmed
from the time of their entrance and all
went away feeling fortunate indeed
to have been included in the number
of Invited guests.
The Smith home on this occasion
was most testily decorated in roses
ferns marguerites arid poppies.
Didn't Pass It.
A missionary In Trinidad once asked
a negro sitting in idleness by the road-
side how he managed to pass the time.
"I sit in df sun. massa. and let de
time pass me." was the quaint and
philosophical reply.
BK0WNW00D BOY IS
APPOINTED STENOGRAPHER.
The Bulletin has just learned of the
appointment of Floyd A. Cooper son
of C. C. Cooper of this county to the
position of court stenographer of the
Parmer county district court at Far-
well Texas. This Is a fine position
requiring considerable ability to han
dle it and the right man has bean
secured.
Tommy's Choice.
Fond Mother Tommy darling this
Is your birthday. What would you llk
to do? Tommy. Darling (after a mo-
ment's refleuion) I think I should en-
Joy seeing the baby spanked t Pari.
Figaro.
The highest manhood resides In dis-
position not In mere intellect Beecb-
An Exception.
She Do you suppose a man ever
spoke the truth when he told a woman
she was the only one he ever kissed?
ne Well. I don't believe Adam lied
about it to Eve. Boston Transcript
I)l. CHANDLER PAYS
VISIT TO iiROWNWOOD.
Dr. S. E. Chandler former presi
dent of Daniel Baker College is here
today from Austin on a visit to friends
and students of the college. Dr.
Chandler will remain over Sunday and
preach the commencement sermon at
the First Presbyterian church. Dr.
Chandler as president of Daniel Bak
er and a citizen of the town was most
universally popular and of course he
is being given a-cordial welcome.
Hopeless.
"He ought to turn over a new leaf.
"Gee. that wouldn't do much good-
He could turn over a whole library
and not have a pood start toward be-
mj; decent Exchange.
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Fresh fish at the Pullman Cafe.
Miss Curry's
Tuesday night.
vpest entertainment
At Howard Pay
sion Monday and
music and exnres
jrLesday nights.
usic and expressjan will reign su-
)rjfme Monday andj Tuesday nights at
Htlward Payne cbaPl. 25 cents ad
mission.
Thrvi
Sleeper
to
Denver
commencing
JUNE 1st
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Leaves South Texas afnight.
North Texas next morning-
Arrives Denver following doy.
Vacation fares very low this
year to Golorado California and
Great Lake Region. Harvey
meals enroute. Write for vaca-
tion booklets.
k W. S. KEEN AN G. P. A.
? Galveston.
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