The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1908 Page: 6 of 8
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Sappington’s Spring Garden.
Deep down in the bosom of ev-
ery ablebodied male American
citizen, who has been raised on a
farm, is the desire to plant gar-
den seed at the first approach of
spring. There are two kinds of
gardners in this world—the the-
oretical and practical. The the-
oretical gardner does all his gar-
dening of cold, winter nights
while sitting around a cheerful
tire surrounded by loved ones,
while the practical gardner goes
forth in the early spring, armed
with a hoe and plants two bits
worth of garden seed, kills a few
grub worms, throws a few rocks
at his wife’s hens that have come
1 never owned but one real gar-
den in my life, but that one was
sufficient to last me as long as I
live. When I pull aside the cur-
tains of the past and review ray
past life, there stands out that
garden to mock me. I had been
married about five years, when I
decided to transfer my garden
from its comfortable winter quar-
ters to the cold, damp ground.
My wife begged me to not plant
that garden, claiming that it
would be both a waste of time
and money, but I was determin-
ed to raise a garden or “bust.”
It will not interest the reader
to go into unnecessary details;
suffice it to say that in the full-
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in at a crack in the fence, abuses j cess of time, joyous spring came
his wife and children for walking < n apace with its sunshine and
on his cabbage bed, and closes' singing birds and butterflies
his labors by throwing his hoe at
the family cow that he di»< overs
chewing the tail off his coat that
he had left hanging on the fence,
while planting said garden.
For several years A was a the-
oretical gardner, be file I turned
my attention to practical garden-
ing, and have raised all kinds of
vegetables—by the tirl. I have
raised beets two feet long, cab
bage that weighed twenty pounds
and snap beans that I iad to be
broken in two, to gefi hem into
a wash kettle—by thit re. Some
of the finest vegetal! > that I
ever raised, grew whel the mer-
thiry ii> rar tluunoeter~wa| just
above zero. I have sat for hours
at a time around the family
hearthstqpe while the wind came
snorting from the north, enjoy-
ing the artistic twist of a turnip,
and fragrant flowers, and the
gentle rains and warm south
winds soon wooed my garden
seed to burst their tiny shells
and peep forth their little heads
from the ground. I beheld all
of these things and saw that
they were good and I was a hap-
py man with chtn whiskers.
While it is true that every
cloud has a silver lining, it is also
true that every joy has its tinge
of sorrow. The warm sunshine
and gentle rains that, wooed my
early York csboage seed into
peepwfi forth from Mother
Earth, also wooed several billion
goose grass, thistle and other
wild seeds into poping their
darned little heads up. The
same gentle influences that call-
ed into life the little grass and
radish seed also quickened into
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rought to my beans
____ o'hens and a roos-
flew over the fence and ate
last remaining bean. Of
course, I killed the trio with a
but that didn’t* bring back
,8 nor keep my wife from
calling the an idiot. I proceeded
to replant my beans, chop grass
and kill grub worms, but I did
so with a'heavy heart. I was no
longer the cheerful, free-care
gardener that I was when I
pitched my garden; in fact I
became a morose taciturn man.
Just a few weeks after I had
planted my garden I began to
receive annoymous letters
through the noatoffice asking
about, my garden and how I had
succeeded as a gardener. I bore
all of these indignities in silence
and continued to kill bugs and
worms and fight goose grass.
But to cap the climax, some
low-down cur came at the dark
hours of night and sowed my
garden down in millet seed and
tacked a card on the gate saying
that if I chopped the millet down,
when it came up, that he propos-
ed to sow it in Johnson grass. It
came a rain the very next day
after the millet seed were
sown and in a tew days
it came up as thick as the
whiskers on a Kansas Populist,
and for fear that the cowardly
tiling would carry out his threat
if I chopped it up, I let it grow
unmolested.
I had been the proprietor of
this garden for about six weeks
when I threw it up, but in that
brief time I had killed at least
five thousand cut worms, three
chickens, crippled our cow, quar-
reled with my wife, got seven
big corns on my hands and lots
of dirt in my nostrils, had spent
$7.25 on garden seed and never
got as much as a mess of greens.
After I quit working my garden
the sunflowers grew fifteen feet
high all oyer it, and it kept me
busy all that summer pulling big
cards off the garden fence that
my enemies would tack up of
nights bearing this and similar
insertions: “Joe Sap’s Garden. ”
“Look Out For Snakes!”—Sap
pington’s Remarks.
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The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.
There is a disease prevailing in this
country most dangerous because so decep-
tive. Many sudden
deaths are caused
by 'it—heart dis-
ease, pneumonia,
heart failure or
apoplexy are often
the result of kid-
ney disease. If
Jciuney trouble is
al lowed to advance
the kidney-poison-
_______ ed blood will at-
tack the vital organs, causing catarrh of
the bladder, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Bladder troubles almost always result
from a derangement of the kidneys and
a cure is obtained quickest by a proper
treatment of the kidneys. If you are feel-
ing badly you can make no mistake by-
taking lir. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the
great kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
It corrects inability to liojd urine and
scalding pain in passing it. and over-
comes that unpleasant necessity of being
compelled to go often through the day,
and to get up many times during the
night. The mild and the extraordinary
effect of Swamp-Root is soon realizfcd.
It stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases.
Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is
sold liy all druggists in filty-eent and
one-dollar size bottles. You may have a
sample bottle of this wonderful new di.
covery and a book that tells all about it.
both sent free by mail. Address. I)r. Kii-
uier & Co.. Binghamton N. Y. When
writing mention reading this generou-
offer in this paper. Don't make m:.
mistake, but remember the iiame.Swaiiiil-
Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the
address, Binghamton, X. Y., om every
bottle.
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of these courses, they are worth
over 100 ceqts on the dollar. The
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while in this bradtical school will
be used throughdutlife. Shrewd,
far-sighted business men are de-
siring T. C. C. graduates for
their offices, for they realize their
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Write for 102 page, beautifully
illustrated catalog containing
convincing facts of the superior-
ity of the systems and methods
and methods used in qualifying
our students for the best posi-
tions and of placing our gradua-
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Tyler Commercial College,
Tyler, Texas.
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“ALL DEALERS
the sturdy pose of a squash, and hjfe the meek and lowly grub
the sunset tints of the tomato as j Worm and the sluggish cut
were so truthfully portrayed on I worm, and when I went forth
the outside of the live cent pack one morning soon after my gar-
ages sent out by the good and j den had come up to a stand and
honest seed dispensers from: saw that slaughter had been
away up north.
Henry Lockett
Sells Insurance
wrought to my onions and black
| wax bean, by said worms, and
how thrifty the grass and weeds
were, 1 saw rigl^i straight that
it was not g<xxi and said so to
my w-ife, in a loud tone of voice
and smote a cut worm with my
heel. The very next day after I
had discovered the havoc the
Valued Same as Gold.
if. G. Stewart, a merchant, of Cedar
View, Miss., says: ‘‘I tell my custo-
mers when they buy a box of Dr.
Kingls New Life Pills they get the
worth of that much (fold in weight, if
afflicted with constipation, malaria or
billiousness. ” Sold under guarantee
at Price & Mitchell’s drug store. 25c.
Purchase of Forty-One Pianos.
Waco, Texas, May l. A pur-
chase of forty-one pianos has
just been made by Baylor Uni
versity, to be used in the music
department. Eleven of these
will be used by teachers, and the
other thirty will be used for
practice by music pupils. It is
thought to have been the biggest
purchase of the kind ever ac-
corded in Texas.
Kings Little Liver Pills for billious-
ness and sick-headache. They clean
the system and clear the skin. Price
25c. Try them. Sold by Price &
Mitchell. (May)
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Feed
Wagon Yard
Two Bridges will be Built.
Commissioners contract for
bridge across the Bosque and
also for one across Honey Creek
at old Hico—Bosque bridge to be
raised.
The County commissioners of
Hamilton county met in this city
Monday and Tuesday of this
week for the purpose of deciding
on plans for and letting con-
tracts for the erection of a
bridge across the Bosque river
to take the place of the one wash-
ed away during the high waters
two weeks ago.
There were present Judge A.
E. Scott, Commissioners A. L.
Carter, A. J. Wilcox and H. J.
Feagin. After looking over the
situation carefully they decided
on replacing the Bosque bridge
with one the same length and to
raisS the same three feet. This
will require a change in the
road on the south side of the
river, and to make this change it
will be necessary to cut a corner
off the city park, as the approach-
es to the bridge will be longeron
account of the increased heighth,
and as the road now runs just
along the bank of the river
something like thirty feet will
have to be cut off the corner of
the park. The price paid
for the bridge was $2395, the
contract being let to C. Q. Hor-
ten, of Austin. Mr. Horten has
done considerable bridge work
for the county and his work has
always been highly satisfactory.
He promised the commissioners
to push the work to the earliest
possible completion, but requir-
ed until August 15th in which
to complete the bridge.
Tuesday afternoon the com-
missioners went out to Old Hico
to look over the situation there
and decided to have a bridge
constructed across Honey Creek
at that point. The road will be
changed and the bridge will be
about one hundred yards above
the present ford. The 'contract
for this bridge was als^ let, it tp
cost $1575.—News Review.
It Reached the Spot.
Mr. K. Humphrey, who own a lurge
general store at Omega, ()., and is
president of the Adams County Tele-
phone Co., as well as the Home Tele-
phone Co., of Pike County, O., says
of Dr. King's New Disoovery: ‘ * 11
saved my life once. At least f think
it did. “ t seemed to reach the spot
the very seat of ray cough when ev-
erything else failed.” Dr. King’s
New DiscoAerv not only reaches the
cough spot: it heals the sore spots
and the weok spots in the throat,
lungs and chest. Sold under guaran-
tee at Price A- Mitchell’s Drugstore
50c and 91.00. Trial bottle free.
Cleburne Enterprise: The En-
terprise does not understand
why a man who would not walk
into a dry goods store and ask
for a paper of pins or a spool of
thread gratis, or ask a grocery -
man for an apple, will coolly
walk into a newspaper office, ask
for a paper and walk out with a
“thank you.” It costs money to
produce a newspaper, and every
one represents just so much out-
lay of cash, brains and energy.
A newspaper is run for protit,
and not to accommodate those
who agree with its policies on
this or that issue. This is writ-
ten in all kindness, for the writ-
er presumes that those who call
for newspapers in such manner
do not realize that each paper
has an actual intrinsic value in
white paper, ink and labor, be-
sides the investment necessary
to produce it.
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The World's Best Climate'
is not entirely free from diseases, on
the high elevations fevers prevail,
while on the lower levels malaria is
encountered to a greater or less ex-
tent, according to altitude. To over-
come climate affections lassitude, ma-
laria, jaundice, billiousness, fever
and ague, and general debility, the
most effective remedy is Klectric Bit-
ters, the great alterative and blood
purifier: the antidote for everry form
of bodily weakness, nervousness, and
and insomnia. Sold under guarantee
at Price k Mitchell's Drug Store.
Price 50c.
FEELING
UVER-ISH
This Morning?
TAKE
First class Restaurant in connection. Short orders. Oys-
ters at all times. Give us a trial and pou will be our cus-
tomer. The*Wagon Yard is now in the best of condition,
with all kinds of good feed for stock. When in town drive
in and make this yard headquarters. Buy and sell second-
hand buggies, wagons and harness. Buy, sell and trade
live stock. Come see us when in town.
Fres hFish every Friday. Fresh Oysters all the Time.
L G. Phinney, Clifton, Tex.
KIDNEY CDRE
Cures Backache
iniumri i nwr
Do not risk having
. cure any case of Kidney or Bladder Disease not- Bright's Disease
beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more. or Piab<
A Californian's Lubk.
‘‘The luckiest day of my life was
when l bought a box of Bucklen's
Arnica Salve,” writtW Charles F.
Budahn, of Tracy. California. “Two
2tte boxes cured me of an annoying
case of itching piles, which .had trou-
bled me for years and that yielded to
no other treatment.” Sold under
guarantee at Price & Mitchell’s drug
•tore.
Rapid Rise.
The rapid rise of the Tyler
Commercial College in public fa-
vor is shown by the tremendous
number of students enrolling
from over half the states in the
Union. Graduates of this fam-
ous institution holding good sal
aried positions are receiving
enormous dividends on the mon-
ey they paid out only a few
Last Appeal For Awhile.
There are a great many people
in Clifton losing the chance of a
life time to get electric lights so
cheap. On account of our source
of power we have made very low
lighting rates; ol course there is
some uncertainty as to the lights,
still however, our patrons are
paid for any inconvenience by
the low rates. There will be a
time, if Clifton ever grows any,
when a steam plant will be ne-
cessary in connection with our
plant. Rates then for lights
will have to be higher. So start
now, before you become gray and
'old, and enjoy a cheap household
necessity. Our customers are
wide-awake, and know the above
are facts. We want others.
CLIFTON ELECTRIC LIGHT CO.
Mrs. S. Joyce, 180 Sullivan St.,
Claremout, N. H., writes: ‘‘About a
year ago l bo ght two bottles of Fol-
ey's Kidney Cure. It cured me of a
severe case of Kidney trouble of sever-
al years’ standing It certainly is a
grand, good medicine, and I heartily
recommend it.--C. R. Walton & Son.
Out
West
There is more undisturbed
creation than in all Europe.
Now is the time to plan your
summer trip.
Grand
Canyon
And the purified Forest.
They are reached by the
Santa Fe only, All the way
Harvey meals
Mayjl send you
our illustrated
booklets? A
post card will',
bring them.
W. S. KEENAN,
Galveston
KILL the COUGH
and CURE THE LUNGS
WITH
Dr. King’s
New Discovery
s
PRICE
Mo A $1.00.
Trial Bottle Froo
AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES.
FOR C8H&1
GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY]
OB MONEY REFUNDED.
BLDE FRONT STABLE
Morgan, Texas.
Belcher Irotbers, Proprietors.
Wagonette meets all trains. Call
on us when you need anything
in our line.
Womack Bros.,
—Proprietors—
Livery Stable and Trans-
fer Line.
Meridian, Texas.
Our WaitOMlles Meet all Trains
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1908, newspaper, May 8, 1908; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775338/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.