The Omaha Breeze. (Omaha, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 12, 1908 Page: 1 of 4
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By "W. C. AV^lliams. OMAHA, MORRIS COUNTY, Texas, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12, 1908. YQX^ XII. 45
50 CENTS A YEAR RAID EST ARYAISTCE.
Both the democratic and repub-
lican state conventions are in ses-
sion this week, and we may bet
there is something doing in poli-
tics. Besides W. J. Bryan will
receive his formal notification to
<lay. _
President H. H. Harrington ot
the A. &. M. College of Texas
tendered his resignation last Fri-
day and the board of directors at
once elected Col. R T. Milner
to the place made vacant. We
will not say “ I told you so,'’ but
we certainly thought if he did not
resign, that he was seriously im-
pressed that there was no other
place for him.
It would seem that the board of
directors of Texas A & M College
purposed stopping hazing in the
school or burst the school, but
now matters are in position for a
new turn of affairs and if the new
president happens to be the right
man for the place, hazing will be
restrained, interest will grow, and
the school will build up right
along.
Thoughts of Mother.
The Germans say:, “A moth
er’s love is new every day.” “He
who will not mind his mother will
have to mind the jailer.” “Better
lose a rich father than a poor
mother.” “A father’s love is only
knee deep, but a mother’s reaches
to the heart.
Watermelon Problem.
One of the greatest problems in
this country is to get the surplus
of the producer to the consumer
at a price he can afford to pay for
it. While, for instance, the swel-
tering North and East are hungry
for watermelons, thousands of
cars are rotting in the Texas and
Georgia fields.—Southwestern
Farmer.
Why not the Texas and Georgia
farmers arrange to feed the waste
to some good hogs? There is sac-
charine matter enough in ripe
watermelons to do hogs quite a
little good; saying nothing of the
kernels of the seed.
Chicago Special.
Chicago, Aug. 8.—Women were
advised by Mrs. Florence Rich-
ards of Ohio, in an address at the
Lincoln Temperance Chautauqua
yesterday, to go on a strike until
they are permitted to vote.
“If we refuse to do the house-
work and take care of the cbil
dren,” said Mrs. Richards, “we
would be led to the polling places
on our husband’s arm before a
month. Then the saloon doors
will cease to swing. No man
wants to cook and do housework/’
6aid the speaker, “and a universal
strike will bring them to time.”
Great Privileged Duty.
Voting is a duty as well as a
privilege, and that the man who
neglects to do either shirks an
obligation of citizenship-Exchange
First Striking Clock.
The first striking clock was im-
ported into Europe by the Persians
in 800. Abdallah, king of Persia,
sent it as a present to Charle-
magne.
Missionary Spirit.
The Methodist churches of Nor
folk and Portsmouth, Va, are try-
ing to raise $20,000 for the Meth-
odist university at Foochow Chi-
na.
Truly, True Sentiments.
Pride goeth before a fall, though
the right kind of pride will keep
you from falling.—St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
A truly, proud, high-minded
man or woman will go a long time
before falling, and if they do fall
they will not fall far nor very
hard.
Reckon So.
Of course there are men who
can’t be flattered—but they are
all in asylums for the deaf.—Bach-
elor Girl.
Bachelor Girl may know, but
there are things she does not
know, and, of course things she
would not say if she did know
them. Hey?
Passing Strange.
It seems strange that the coun-
try should clamor for labor while
jobless people are hunting work
in the cities and towns; that is, it
seems strange to people who do
not know the reason. The reason
is that the 5-cent shows and the
smell of back alleys are great at-
tractions to some people. Some
people, too, like to be jostled at
the park and to spend their mon-
ey on sights and sounds that are
not to be seen and heard in the
country.—Exchange.
Library Paste.
Four tablespoonfnls of flour,
one teaspoonful of powdered
alum, six teaspoonfuls of glycerine,
one teaspoonfal of oil of winter
green, and one and one half pints
of water. Mix water, flour and
alum to a smooth paste and boil
until it thickens, but not allowed
to scorch; take from the fire and
add oil and glycerine and mix
thoroughly by heating. When
first made, it is too thick to be
used; take a little oat and thin
with water. After it has stood a
while, a clear water will rise on
top, and this should not be thrown
away, as it preserves the paste.
Free Scholarship.
An unparalled proposition made
by the Tyler Commercial College
of Tyler, Texas.
We teach the famous Byrne
Simplified Shorthaud and Praoti
cal Bookkeeping, systems so vast-
ly superior to others that the
claims we make for them seem al-
most incredible. We make this
free scholarship offer to convince
the most skeptical that the Byrne
simplified shorthand, practical
bookkeeping and business train-
ing, are all that we claim. We of-
fer a free scholarship to anyone
who will find a single individual
who ever finished the Byrne Sim
plified shorthand, then laid it
aside and took up another system
aud became a successful writer of
the latter in preference to the
Byrne. Hundreds have aban-
doned Pitman, Graham, Gregg,
Cross, etc., for the Byrne.
We will teach any young person
with a common school education
who will attend our school and do
good average work for three
months, to write legibly 150 words
of unfamiliar matter, court report-
ing, to the mminute, in the Byrne
Simplified Shorthand, and tran-
scribe same neatly on the type-
writer or make no charge for the
course. If you will find any oth-‘
er school in the U. S , using any
other system of shorthand that
will do this, we will make you a
present of the course.
With the Byrne practical book-
keeping and business training, we
make the student a more proficient
accountant and business man in
half the time required with other
systems in other schools. Our
work is ali taught on the plan of
of “Learn to do by doing;” our
school room is a miniature city
transacting business in a business
way; our students are using the
various books and records, notes,
deeds, drafts, mortgages, etc., just
as they will use them of practical
business training and not theory.
For catalogue that will convince
you of the wonderful superiority
of the famous Byrne systems, ad-
dress the Tyler Commercial Col-
lege, Tyler, Texas.
Four Days Picnic.
Mt. Pleasant will open a four
days picnic next Tuesday, the 18th
at the famous Red Springs.
Everything will be grand and glo
rious there for the four days, and
Woodmen day on the 20th will be
a record-breaking day. They’ll
have able speakers and everything
else essential to entertainment and
amusement for all who may go.
Patting it Straight.
“Vote for Taft and improve busi-
ness,’’ is the way Eastern papers
put it. Now, who has been doing
those things that leave so much
room for improvement?—Okmul-
gee Democrat.
Do not ask such embarrassing
questions. Itannoysthe present
administration to hint that it emp-
tied the dinner pails it made such
a noise about filling.-Dallas News.
Calms generally follow storms,
and while the dinner pails were
all full things moved along quite
smooth, but it seems that, admit-
ting the government had to do with
filling them, the same government
by the same people in power let
them run empiy.
In Close Quarters;
Winnsboro can just at present
come forward with a distinction
that no other town in the State
can assert. She has two demo-
cratic nominees for the office of
county judge. One is G. E. Cow-
au, the nominee for county judge
of Franklin county, the other be-
ing the editor of The Free Press,
nominee for the same office in
Wood county. Both live within
the corporate limits of Winnsboro,
within a few blocks of each other,
the county line separating them —
Winnsboro Free Hress.
It’s a little singula r, but can’t
be helped that the city of Winns
boro embraces a portion of Frank-
lin county and furnished material
for a county judge in Fraukliu
county, but guess Judge Cowau
will move to Mt. Vernon.
How to Can Corn and Peas.
Shell the peas, put them in jars
and cover with cold water. Place
the jars in a deep vessel with per-
forated wooden bottoms, or thick
cloth folded several times, in the
bottom of the vessel. Fill the
vessel with cold water within half
an inch of top of the jars, put
over the fire and boil an hour.
Then remove from the fire, tighten
the tops, and when cool tighten
again. Wrap with brown paper
and keep in a cool, dark place. If
the water has boiled out of the
jars before removing from the fire
fill with boiling water.
Cut corn from the cob, fill cans
full pressed down. Take a boiler
lay some sticks in the bottom for
the cans to sit on; then lay the
covers on the cans loose, till the
boiler with water so that it will
come half way up the sides of the
cans, put the corn in the boiler
and boil for three hours briskly;
take out and put the covers on
tight—Cor, Farm and Ranch.
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