The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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MEW LEGAL
There are'doubtless mu. „„„.
tjunktlmtC0IlaideringtheaotM. m
mru . ^ business and the many and
ltnPortent financial transactions
«f the present we have already
enough legal holidays.
I he man in whom the specula-
te and commercial interest is
dominant, and with whom the
making of trades is as his very
vital breath, is not very apt to ap-
preciate the sentiment connected
with the setting apart of a day to
do honor to some man whose life
was lived along different lines.
Fortunately, however, such
considerations do not control and
influence legislation, because
they are not the sentiments of
the majority of the people.
The people of Texas have set
apart June 8 as a dies non, be-
cause it is the anniversary of the
birth of one whose memory they
profoundly cherish, and whose
deeds are indissolubly linked
with all that is noblest and best
in the annals of a great people.
He whose memory they thus
honor gained no distinction in the
field of commerce or finance, be-
cause he never sought these for
distinction, but tried always lof-
tier levels.
The noblest and most enduring
of virtues is fidelity to conviction
and duty and unselfish devotion
to principle, and it is well for the
people of a great state to turn
aside once a year from the rush
and hurry and stress of commer-
cial life to think upon the deeds
of one who in the loftiest degree
exemplified and illustrated this
virtue.
The world grows better by the
contemplation of such a cliarac
ter.
To do honor to a man whom no
gold could purchase or no power
awe, who did his duty as he saw
it, recking not the consequences,
who passed without murmur or
complaint from the seat of high
power and exalted distinction to
a dungeon’s depths and a prison
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town as usual in his buggy and
hitched the horse in the alley at
Jno.
the rear of the Bond-Turner
Hardware Co.
Soon after Mr. Turner*hitehed
his horse a couple of traveling
men,E
ens, got into his buggy and drove
off, thinking they were,getting
into a buggy belonging to/Robt.
E. Cooper, an employe of the P.
H. Neal restaurant. These two
gentlemen are traveling out of
Hillsboro for a few weeks and to-
day related the circumstances as
follows:
“We had been in Mr. Neal’s
restaurant and had engaged
horse and buggy belonging to
Mr. Cooper. We had driven Mr.
Cooper’s rig before, but he told
us that he had traded his road
wagon for a top buggy, and that
we would find the rig hitched in
the alley, and he pointed toward
the alley. We went out and saw-
horse and buggy standing
hitched there, the only one in the
alley. Quite naturally enough,
we saw that the buggy had a top
to it, and got in and drove down
to our hotel, and then over to the
postoffice after our mail, staying
there several minutes. We then
drove out west of town and our
intentions were to stay a couple
of days, having hired the horse
for that length of time from Mr.
Cooper, hut about the middle of
the afternoon Mr. Moore was
feeling badly, and we decided to
come back to town. We came in
town about 6:80 that afternoon
and stopped first at a feed store
and bought feed for the horse
that night and then we drove up
in front of a soda water stand
and were getting out to go in
when Mr. Turner met us and
told us that we had his horse.”
The gentlemen promptly ex-
plained the affair to Mr. Turner,
and of course were willing to
make good for any charges for
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• of February
and June.
Mr. Justice Brewer, of the United
States supreme court, in lecturing to
his law class, at the George Washing-
ton university," says the American
Spectator, told the following story:
“I knew of a case once where two
darkies swapped mules. One of them
was an old hand at the business, and
in making the trade... he represented
his mute t(T be seven years old, add
told of the many good traits the ant
mal had not. Thfs was in February
About two months later the other
darky began to realize that he had
been victimized In the bargain and
that the beast was fully 12 years old.
So he decided to go back and tell the
swindler he had lied to him About the
animal. However, owing to It being
the busy season of farming, he was not
able to go until about the middle of
June. He finally did go, and told his
man what he thought of his rascally
misrepresentations about the mule.
“You say,” said the other fellow,
“dat when you got de mule In Febru-
ary he was seven years old, and now
it’a June and he’s 12 years ol.d?"
“Yes, I do!” was the angry re-
sponse.
“Well, aah. tlm? sure do flv.”
LOW WAGES IN SAXONY.
Ike Coat of Feed Za Oenenlly Higher
Than X* la Im Tide
Gauntry.
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Welcome Address...............Dr. J. W. Oxford
Address on “Woodcraft"........Hon. C. M. Cureton
er’s chain, and from wealth to the use of the rig or for any dam-
poverty, and who, denied citizen-
ship, was set apart as cursed
amongst men, yet bore himself
with patience, kingly dignity and
heroic fortitude, and to his people
and his principles was faithful
even unto death, is worthy any
people, and they do honor them-
selves in honoring his memory.
In this day and time when
there is so marked a tendency in
certain quarters to lower the
standards of commercial honor
and to sub ordinate honor to ex-
pediency, and principle to gain,
all men can profit by feeling in
their minds and hearts the influ-
ence of the life and character of
one who in every time of adversi-
ty and calamity and all the stress
and strain of dire and dread nec-
essity bore himself without fear
and without deserved reproach.
Such a man was Jefferson
Davis, and for this reason the
new legal holiday has a distinct
and peculiar significance and
value.—Houston Chronicle.
age done to it. However, as a
charge had already been filed
with the sheriff, an officer came
up and took the gentlemen in
charge, in accordance with the
law, but they were subsequently
released as soon as the facts in
the case were positively ascer-
tained. f
Coincident with the discussion of
the wsge question in the United Statee,
Consul Pike, of Zlttau, Saxony, writes
that ths wage conditions In his dis-
trict would make those of the United
States seem rather well off by com-
parison. The wor3t conditions are to
be found in the Trzebirge district, in
the lace, trimming, flower and top in-
dustries. Although it is possible in
some cases to And wages ae high as
seven cents an hour, the usual rate Is
2V4 cents, and there are many cases of
half a cent and three-quarters being
paid. The workshop Is usually In the
dwelling, and also constitutes the bed
room and kitchen of the family. The
working hours in many cases amount
to 9D hours a w.eek. and every member
of the family, from ihe children to the
old people, take part in the work. At
tho same time rne cost of food is
higher, as a whole, than in the United
States. The following are some of lha
retail prices: Beefsteak, 26 cents a
pound; pork, 20 cents; bacon, 21; ham,
29; veal, 19; mutton, 18, and butter,
30 cents a pound; chlckenB, 59 cents
each; eggs, 20 cents a dozen; milk, five
cents a quart; tea, 48.95 cents, and cof-
fee, 24.48 cents a pound; flour, $9.04
barrel; apples, $1, and potatoes,
cents a bushel.
DINNER
The afternoon will be devoted to various candidates from
SENATOR TO CONSTABLE LED BY
HON. E B. MAYFIELD
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of Bosque county, while those who enjoy such sports
Base Ball* Gander-Pulling* Potato Races,
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FT ill oe Hept Busy Rot Hr * "^"‘^st south of the grand-stand, and
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If you appreciate the time, place
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and to the east of
.association has an
ETHERIAL BODY VISIBLE.
$ friends desire your presence, it
native Texan and don’t knoww
if
ast booking attrae-
,e amusement depart-
instructions are to
V money and get the new-
Semi-Transparent Mass Surrounding
the Bones Penetrable by
Rontgen Rav3.
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Go to Clifton Bottling Works,
Clifton, Texas, for the best Soda
Water made.
There are but few editors in
our state who have not made a
vigorous and continuous fight
against the city mail order house.
This has been done in the inter-
est of the home merchant, and
without money and without
price. If the editors of the land
had received regular advertising
rates for all they have said
against these enemies of the
country merchant they could
now be wearing diamonds. Now
the dapartment store man ap-
preciates advertising space and
is willing to take all the average
country editor has for sale, and
at a good price. What other
class of business or professional
men would refuse business to
help their friends, especially as
many of said friends never seem
in the least disposed to return
the compliment or even appre-
ciate it?—McGregor Mirror.
Go to Clifton Bottling Works,
Clifton, Texas, for the best Soda
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f Water made.
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ABOLISHING OFFICE OF TREASURER
The commissioners court of
Bell county has reduced the
salary of the county treasurer of
Bell county to the nominal sum
of $2"> a year. This amount he
will receive in addition to his
commissions on the school fund,
which will give him a total com-
pensation of about $850 a year, as
against $2,360 which he has here-
tofore received. The act^n^of
the commissioners of Bell coun-
ty is one instance of a logical re-
sult which will doubtless follow
in all Texas towns and counties
on account of one excellent pro-
vision made by the last legisla-
ture permitting counties, towns
and school incorporations to loan
upon call the funds on hand, to
the person, firm or corporation
offering the highest rate of inter-
est for the daily balances. The
funds so loaned are secured by
bonds of the parties taking and
the duties of the treasurer in
such cases is reduced to only
the formality of making formal
reports to the commissioners
court, city council or school
board, as the case may be, who
have charge of the disposition of
the funds. The new law will
save thousands of dollars in offic-
ial salaries and commissions
throughout Texas and will con-
vert the treasuries or ^depositor-
ies into a source of income rather
than expense.
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They say they have seen the ether- j
cal body, one of man’s subtler bodies'
interpenetratim; the dense physical!
body. The orientals have long;
claimed to have seen It with a higher |
vision and the occidentals are now j
seeing it by the aid of Instruments.
In being able to see the skeleton of a .
live person by Rontgen rays wo have j
gone far to surmounting difficulties ini
making out the shadow of the eth-!
ereal.body. A hazy, semi-transparent |
mass surrounds the hones In a skla-!
graph which secmA to invite definition
by simple methods of research requir-
ing little more than a better under-
standing of the offices of the different j
^rays of light to give us a glimpse of j
the man that survives tho mortal case- j
ment. The ethereal body, erroneous;'
ly termed the soul, seems to he a com-
pound of those electric corpuscles of
which matter Is supposed to consist,
with the unknown principle of animal
life, and it is obviously a connecting
link between mind and matter. A dis-
covery of this sort is calculated to rev-
olutionize the mental sciences and cor-
rect many erroneous ideas. It partic-
ularly Is important to ascertain how
the ethereal body acts during life.
Many doubt the existence of any In-
ner form of this kind. But it is an
established belief in the east, especial-
ly In India, handed down from ancient
days. It is difficult to see how their
knowledge could have been so com-
plete, even Including the fact that the
ethereal body never grew old after
attaining maturity, unless they had
been able to catch sight of the Inner
form.
For any information address p# g gQ]
“Shagreen.”
The shark’s skin when dried is
hard and smooth, and is called
shagreen. It-is used for covering
wliiphandlcs and instrument
cases. It is also used by cabinet
makers for polishing fine woods.
Sharks’ tins are made into a glue
thut is largely used by silk rnanu
facturers.
s£TS!
Children Taught to #111.
Among the wilder tribes of tlje
Caucasus every child is taught to
use the dagger almost as soon as
he can walk. The children first
learn to stab water without mak-
ing a splash, and by incessant
practice acquire an extraordinary
command ov<t the weapon.
Engagements in West Africa.
In some parts of West Africa
the girls have long engagements.
On the day of their birth they are
betrothed to a baby boy a trifle
older than themselves, and at the
ageof 20 they are married. The
girls know of no other way of get-
ting a husband, and so they are
quite happy and satisfied. As
wives they are patterns of obedi-
Shower of Fishes.
A remarkable phenomenon of
a recent thunderstoi in was seen
in the state of Queensland. In
the midst of the rain there sud-
denly fell from the skies a largo
number of young fish: The fish fell
at first in twos and threes, but
subsequently came in dozens, un-
til a large area of ground was
strewn with live fish measuring
from one and half to three
inches. It is thought that the
storm generated a waterspout in
one of tbe rivers, and that the fish
were sucked up by it and carried
by the wind some long distance
before being dropped.
ence
and the marriage# usually
turn out a success.
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Meeting of One.
Tbe chairman of the Oo|d Coast
Concessions, Limited, attended
the company’s annual meeting in
London in splendid isolation. He
could not form a qoorum by him
self, so be had to declare the
ering” adjurned.
Hounds and Fox Imprisoned.
- A curious incident in connec-
tion with the Tipperary foxhounds
is related. Two of tbe pack went
to ground'with a fox iti a deep
culvert and were imprisoned for
50 boors. They were found 30
feet below the surface, complete-
ly exhausted and badly injured.
One died soon afterward. The fox
was discovered perched on a
ledge just out of reach of the
bounds and at once bolted on re-
ceiving his liberty.
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COLD DRINKS AND CONFECflONEk
I have opened up a first-class Cold Drink and
Confectionery Stand and am prepared to furnish
the public with all the latest drinks. I carry
line of Bananas, Oranges, Apples, Candies,
In building recently vacated by the postottict
B. F. HOTCHERSON, CLIFTON,
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S. J. Tennison’s Rock Stable
Best Rigs, Courteous Treatment all the time. We soli-
cit your business and assure you that your interests
will be properly taken care of. First-class Float line in
connection. Ring us up when needing our services.
Tennison & White Proprietors
To Our Friends.
We are headquarters for all kinds of fresh Beef,
Fork, Sausage, Barbecotfand everything usually
carried by any first-class Meat Market. Rem-
ember we are at the Ross Standefer old stand
where We yrill be pleased to see you.
Remember Everything Is tlrst-Class. N /
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Ragsdale Brothers.
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1906, newspaper, June 15, 1906; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth797429/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.