The Clarksville Times. (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 28, 1908 Page: 4 of 4
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(K't*ur» /or
Couch’* “DelqcU
the more common f<■,m ia to cur
or “to cut up dido*.” Til* word i*
• dietiojiary one. Dr. Murray *ay*
that it ia ‘United State* slang.”
.’He define* it ea • prunk, a caper, a
disturbance, a roar, u ahindy. He
quotes, a* the earliest use in Eng-
lish literature, this sentence from
.“8am Slick In England” (1843-4):
“Then Italian singers recitin' their
jabber and cuttia’ didoe* at a pri-
vate concert." He aaya that the ori-
gin of the word i* uncertain.
Bnt Hali burton used the terra
in “The Clockniaker” in 1885, and
fyotessor Joseph Wright in hi*
nglish Dialect Dictionary" aaya
n in lrela
hat the terra i* known in
nd,
Kent, Isle of Wight, Cornwall and
also in the United States. Halibur-
ton used it with reference to a Nova
Scotian: “I met a man this, morn-
ip' from Halifax, a real conceited
lookin’ critter, all shines and di-
does.” Profeaaor Wright gives as
tyt. first definition a disturbance,
noise, fuss, as in the speech heard
onIsle of Wight, “He kicked
up o middlen dido about it;" then
piural — tricks, antics, eccentric
feats—as in Kent, “Dreckley ye be
bapkturned, there he be, a-cutting
all manner o’ didoe,’’ and, lastly, a
plaything; also used as a term to
denote articles which do not give
satisfaction to the owner, as trim-
ming on a dress or bonnet.
Yet the learned Professor Wright
does not venture to explain the der-
ivation of the word; he docs not
suggest a possible derivation. Did
the term come from the fuss made
by Queen Dido after the pious
Aenas left her? An obsolete word
“dido”—a thrice told tale may have
been originally “a tale of
Teit in his “Quanteynioa” speaks
of a Didonian curve, with reference
to the story of Dido, who bargained
for aa much land as could be cov-
ered with n hide and then cut the
hide, into a long and narrow strip.
Why not say glibly that “to cut ap
didos’’ is Jto cut up as Dido did?
Lit us honor thg name of that no-
ble^ dame in «Vi
Transcript.
very way.—Boston
One Kind of Economy.
“Some people have queer ideas of
economy, don’t they?” said a Wall
street man. “The other day I was
waiting with a man on an *L’ sta-
tion to go downtown. He saw
friend on the opposite platf<
called over to him to com<
and go down with him to hit office
on a matter of business. The man
•aid he would, and after asking the
ipper to pass the word over
fare
orm and
come across
ticket choi
that his fare was'paid he handed
out1 A cigar to the chopper and came
:»opper
He wi
greeted
sho had
over to our side. He was
with a laugh by the man wl
called to him and naturally asked
. What it was for. 'Didn’t you give
that ticket chopper a fifteen cent
cigar?’ asked the friend. The man
admitted that he gave the kind he
usually smoked. 'Well,’ said the
othir, 'why didn’t you juat come
across without saying anything
about it, pay your fare and save a
dime?' The man rubbed his chin
and looked serious. He had become
so' accustomed to tipping everybody
for any sort of favor that he never
thought of the other plan."—New
York Press.
i act-
ivity
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' On the Map.
Two women chanced to meet on
a street car in Chicago. “Why, ho*
do yon do, Mrs. Thompson?” ex
claimed one of them. “1 called at
your house one day last week, and
there was nobody at home.”
"We’ve moved, Mrs. Giles,” said
the other. “Didn’t you know that ?”
' “No. When did you move?”
• “About two weeks ago. We got
tired of living in all the noise and
bustle, and we went away out in
the suburbe.”
“What direction?”
“Northwest."
“And where are you located
now?"
“It’s a new neighbe-hood, Mrs.
Giles, and I can’t describe it ex;
ly, but if I had a map of the
here I could show you. We live
just about half an inch outside of
the city limits."—Exchange.
The fact and the Emotions.
Habitual worry shows itself in
the action of the facial nerve—the
nerve of expression, as anatomists
call it—producing lines which in
course of time become permanent
The same is true of many other
emotions and states of mind, and
those which are dominant in the
life of the individual will ere long
produce permanent changes in the
face. ’Die secret of the beauty
which age cannot wither is to pos-
sess a beautiful mind. Chin straps
and depilatories and electricity and
massage and cosmetics an peer
makeshifts compared with this.—
PaB Mall Gssette.
A
Four White Wyandotte cocke-
rels. Price $1.60 each. Call on
R. L. Harden, Roaalie, Texas.
24-81*
Far Ma
8. C. Rhode Inland Rada, Bar-
&
by the
puree. The former ia a on
WUOTSl&ri.-
infusion into a creanvof the virtue
of some vegetable. The former is
really the dinner soup and the lat-
ter a lunch affair, ana when a per-
son makes his choice upon these
considerations he leaves out the
question of merit altogether.
But what we want to select out of
all the category of soups, consomme
or puree, is that form of the latter
known as tomato bisque and boost
it up on the pinnacle of dory as the
divinest revelation of the culinary
art You say it is not entitled to
such superlative adulation, but did
you ever taste it at its heat—that
delicious bleml of tomato and cream,
with an alkaline trace in it and
faraway suggestion of mace and on-
ion and bay leaf, all put into a har-
mony as delicate aa a dream of a
loved one ?
There is nothing in all the kitch-
en joys that more completely em-
ploys the soul of good things than
the puree, whether it is of celery or
corn or tomato, for there ia no com-
bination over which the graces of
the cook can more happily,hoycr
than over this viand. We topke of
the tomato bisque. When f6u put
your spoon in it, it blushes up at
you as if it were a kindred spirit,
and isn't it—a symphony in which
all nature joins, where one feels
the ruddy glow of the sunset, the
cream of the clover, the sunshine of
the tropics and the gurgle of the
brooks? All there? Yes, aure, to
the aoul that discriminates and eats
with grace. Anyhow, one will be
able to say—take away the roasts,
the entrees, (the salads—this is the
climax, this is ;the answer to my
prayer.—Ohio State
Journal.
Te Strengthen the Eyee.
Unless one has unusually stroug
•yes one must not read when one'
ia extremely weary. Exhaustion
and fatigue affect all the nerves ol
the body, and the optic nerve is sc
sensitive that it should receive par
tkmlar consideration. Nor should
one ever be guilty of the careless-
ness of reading or writing facing a
window. This, too, ia a cruel strain
on the sight. Washing the e;
morning and night in water as
as it can be borne is a wonderful
tonic for those useful servants
which arc so easily injured. When
we- consider how we neglect their
welfare by using them l>y f;
eyes
hot
r lading
daylight and msumcMOt artificial
light, by forcing them to do work
when
ing them the rest for which they
that they sometimes become muti-
nous anil refuse to fulfill our de-
mands, but that theYfare ever faith-
ful in our service. They will, as a
rule, be as good to us as we are to
them. ' ’
Gathering Knew ledge.
“It seems to me," said Mrs.
Wakeman, pausing on the sidewalk
to let the grade pupils, just released
from bondage, rush by, “that school
must be more interesting than it
was in my time. The children ac-
quire so much general knowledge
nowadays—so much that is use-
ful."
“They do,” agreed Mrs. North-
rop promptly. “Now, here conics
little Johnny Greenfield. We’ll ask
what he learned. Here, Johnny!
Tell us what your lesson was about
today.”
“About octagons,” replied blush
ing Johnny.
“And what,” pursued Mrs. Wake-
man, “is an octogon ?”
“It’s a many sided animal,”
piped the lad, “that grabs you whdn
you go in swimming." — Youth’s
Companion.
Werk With Pile Driver.
A gang of workmen were engaged
in driving in some piles, and a
crowd was watching the heavy block
raised to the top of the machine,
released and allowed to fall upon
the pile. Among the onlookers was
an old woman from the country
who had never seen such an appa-
ratus Wore and was evidently at
some pains to discover its object
She watched patiently while the
ram made its laborious ascent and
sudden descent for about twenty
times in succession, aqd ’then she
turned away.
"Aeh,” said she in disgusted
tones, “sure, they’ll never get it to
stay upl"—London Bystander.
The Reel Target.
Lawyer—So you want a divorce
from your wife because she throws
things at you, eh?
Ghent — Nothing of the
o throw
intent on making collections
reptiles, insects and wild
Charles Watarson, an Ki
, who in early life had
through many lands as s nat-
uifclist, ii ‘
of) birds,
bedroom where the squire
and also prepared the speci-
in his natural history collet-
waa in the rpof and open to the
ws. Across a stretched rope
ware thrown a striped blanket and
his working clothes. The furniture
was rough, coarse and scanty—an
old deal table, three crasy chairs, a
deal clothespress and a chest of
drawers. Tne floor, deal boards,
was uncarpeted.
Mrs. Byrne, who narrates the in-
cident in her volume, “Soci&l Hours
With Celebrities,” on surveying it
remarked on the anomaly of a bed-
room lacking a bed.
“I’ve long learned that a bed
a useless luxury," said the squire,
drawing from a corner an oblong
black of oak two feet long, ten
inches wide, eight inches deep, hol-
lowed and polished in the middle.
Then he palled down the striped
blanket, rolled it around him and
lay down on the bare boards, resting
his head on the block.
“There, that’s my bedl It’s soon
made, and I’ll answer for it none of
you
For
sleep more
»r thirty J
summer and winter,
a cray head on a portman-
She’s too smart to
kind,
things at
Lawyer—But I thought—
Client (interrupting) — She in-
variably throws at the dog, but she
always manages to hit me.—Chica-
> News. i
'
liicient.
soundly than I.”
ears the block and
i squire’s
u win health
sickness. When traveling, as
couldn’t carry about his timber pil-
low, he used the best substitute he
could devise. Once he was Mrs.
Byrne’s guest in London and,
ostial, retired to rest at 9 o’clock.
The German maid, not supposing
that he had retired at so early an
hour, went into the bedroom to take
in the can of hot water. She gave
a scream and rushed out. The next
morning her mistress asked for an
explanation *
“Ach, veil may you ask I I vent
intb de room, and vat did I see ?
long body roll up in a blanket on de
floor and a cray head
teqn.’ _
Treating Worts.
Children’s hands are often disfig-
ured by warts, and- they can be
cured in a simple way. Get harts-
horn and sweet oil of equal mix-
ture and paint the warts with this
each day. It is slow, yet thorough-
ly satisfactory. Acetic acid touched
to the most tenacious warts will in
time kill them, and they can he
easily removed. Most children,
however, object to your cutting
even the dead part away, since they
hake a fear of its hurting. After
removing warts wash the parts with
a weak solution of carbolic acid,
drop of peroxide ql hydrogen in the
cavity will cleanse all impurities.
Do not believe in such absurd
thingB as superstitious persons <
tertain for the removal of war
for warts are almost as difficult to
remove aa teeth, and the foolish no-
tion which haa ever prevailed of
causing them to disappear through
some magic is not to be thought of
in (his enlightened age.—Exchange.
I ■ ....... ■
The Protectlen ef the Fereete.
Few that fell trees plant them,
nor would planting avail much to-
ward getting back anything like the
noble primeval forests. During a
man’s life only aaplinga can be
grown in the place of the old trees
—tens of centuries old—that have
been destroyed. It took more than
3,000 years to make some of the
trees in the western woods—trees
that are still standing in perfect
strength and beauty, waving and
naming in the mighty forests of the
Sierra. God haa cared for these
trees, saved them from drought,
disease, avalanches and a thousand
straining, leveling tempests and
floods. But he cannot save them
from fools—only Unde Sam can do
(hat.—John Muir.
^ Hi tufrintfiridi
“Did I ever say all that?” he ask-
ed despondently as shfi replaced the
phonograph on the corner V the
mantelpiece.
“Yon did "
"And you can grind it out of that
machine whenever yon ch'oooe?"
‘YJertainlyl"
“And^your father is a lawyer?”
the,
yon my
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And that word with ua it
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OLDEST BUSINESS INSTITUTION IN RED RIVER COUNTY.
STATE BANKS
FIRST STATE BANK
' of Clarksville.
"Yea.
“Mabel, when can I place
ring on your finger and call yoi
wifb?”—London Answers.
1. A state bqnk ia under the direct
oontrol of the State of Texas.
2. The laws governing state banks
are strict and exacting.
3. " They are inquired to submit to
the bank commissioner, under oath, an
exact statement of their condition
whenever called upon, though it might
be at midnight—said statement is re-
quired to be published in your home
newspaper.
4. They know not the day nor the
hour when they will he examined and
hence must at all times conduct the
business in a conservative manner.
i. The pltvl stock is required to
be paid in cash and kept available fm
immediate demands.
a. All these sefegjards ire for the
protection of the patrons of the hank,
and statistics show that depositors
have loot less than 83 on every million
left and deposited with state banks.
THE FIRST STATE BANK OF
CLARKSVILLE haa recently paid a
10 per oent cash dividend on the cost of
its stock to ice stockholders.
THEY ARE LOANING CASH
the FARMERS every day on good
dorsed paper or ehattel security. You
do not have to ask your friends to go
On your note. >
*.
Interest paid on time deposits and
General Banking Business transected
in every particular.
The Farmer or Business Man oan
get Cash at this Bank at all time*, and
your business is always appreciated.
CAPITAL... ................. 850,000
Directors:
i. B. Lassiter P. A. Antone
H. 8. Whiteman Andrew Martin
3. H. Wooley 3. A. White
W.D. Mountoastie
THE ALARMING INCREASE Of
BRIGHT’S DISEASE.
'There’s waa thing,” said Cassidy
in (he restaurant, “that’s always
“Only wan thing?” piped Casey
— " _ “AffVaf« Urntr
i whin-’tig made
York Globe.
vmj wan uiingr
sarcastically. “Arw
"I* turtle soupffiah ■
stiffo? veal?”—New T
ALWAYS
For Sale—About 800 bushels
of parity burnt oorn cheap. Suit-
able for hoc feed. Hogs and
shoato for sale. Also good sec-
ond hand wagon.—F. A. An-
lone. lo If
r" v
Far 18k ,
and rake In good oon-
Apply lo John R. Lett-.
TtanaaoflMei
Lama shoulder la nasally caus-
ed by rheumatism of the m
and quickly yields to a few
plications of Chmnberlain’a
Balm. Mrs. F. H. Mol
Bolstown, New Brunswick,
Lies: (“Having been Iron
for sort*' Unto With ‘a pair
left shoulder, I decided 1
< Chamberlain’s Biio Balm
with the remit that I get prom
lef.” For sale by all
“He died of Bright’s Disease.’
Hardly e week passes that this state-
ment is not made in reference to some
prominent citizen.
The increasing prevalence of thia dis-
ease makes the present time seem moat
opportune for discussion in the hope that
some who are unconsciously afflicted
with this dreaded disease may receiv*
timely warning.
A prominent citizen residing in a
nearby town informs na that ha Buffered
for nearly a year from Bright’s Disease,
but that he recently affected a complete
cure.
“What seemed to be the first indicsr
tions of the trouble,’’ wee asked.
“They seemed hardly worth noticing.
My digestion bothered me at times, my
stomach seemed out of order, and I had
occasional backaches, bnt I thought it
waa due to too much work.”
“Did you take anything?’’
“I did not. Later, my strength failed
me, I had severe pains in the back and
noticed some irregularities ai the urine,
I couldn’t sleep well at night. I then
used some simple remedies, but without
benefit.”
“Did you realize that your trouble was
Bright’s Disease?”
“I never thought of ouch a thing. Fi-
nally, my condition become serious. My
back ached all the time, I had Shooting
pains in my joints and a weak tired feel-
ing at the knees, a little work played me
out completely. I then began doctoring
for kidney trouble but did not improve
very much.”
“Did yon have any trouble with your
heart?”
“Yes. I had spells of heart throbbing
and a nervous faint feeling. I thought
I had heart disease and treatod awhile
for that. Nothing seemed to help me.
I had to give np trying to work.”
“How did you slept a cure?”
“A friend of mine persuaded me to try
Prickly Ash Bitters. I bought a bottle
of my druggist. After taking it a week
I began to feel some better, my urine be-
came more natural and there was a grad-
ual lessening of my misery. I kept on
taking Prickly Ash Bittern for several
weeks and I could feel my strength re-
turning—slowly at first—but Increasing
daily. I am now entirely cured of my
trouble end able to do e fell day’s work
without the least iatlgoa. I consider
Prickly Ash Bitters the grand oat kidney
medicine in the world.”
Thousands of people attest in Ilka
manner to the wonderful benefit derived
from Prickly Ash Bitters. It is s time
Vied end successful remedy for Bright’*
isease or any disorder of the kidneys.
Prickly Ash Bitters ia in every sense a
system tonic and regulator. It pomes sea
properties for curing ailments
of the stomach, liver and bowels in ad-
dition to its great power in the kidneys.
It la a valuable article to keep at borne,
a dose or two can be taken when-
■eded. When need for any dieer
der in the kidneys, stomach, Ihir os
it ia the right medicine In the
Oat the gamins wf
L. C. Utiles, President A. M. Graves, Cashier
Db. B. A. Dinwiddie, V. President M. L. Sims, Jr. Asst. Cashier
RED RIVER NATIONAL BANK
OF OLAMKDVILLE
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS- - - -
$200,000
DIHBOTOR8.
J. M. SlVLSY
tv
A. M. Graves B. a. Dinwiddie
J. M. Butcher
Stiles Dave Watson
J. L Rbkd, President
C. D. Lennox, V. President
E. M. Boyers, Cashier
J. R. Latimer, Amt. Csshlpr
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF OLARKSVILLB
CAPITAL and SURPLUS - - - $150,000
DIRBOTOBS
W. M. McElkoy
. H. H. Lennox
G. D. Lennox
W. J. McDonald
E. M. Bowers
J. L Reed
G. B. Dean
fete
NICE DRIVING RIGS
Can always be obtained at this barn—I keep no other bind
New buggies and stylish horses. I will board and oare for
yonr horse by the day, week or month. Am also prepared
to do your hauling and solicit a share of same. My stable
is on Bast Main at., next to Longe’s furniture store,
phone Number 18—2 rings.
Tele-
T. H- DOOLING.
Insurance
FIRE, TORNADO and
LIFE
BEST COMPANIES
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DtoltUt
Mss ton drift Natal rind
Both PtionM N§. 90
A graduate of the Baltimore
college of dental surgery.
Practiced dentistry in
McKinney 22 yrs.
V-W?1
s from Bagwell,
ikivation. Two i
For a email
> rent will
DR. J. C DURRUM
Physician and Scboeon
Office st L E Goldberg’s drug
store. Can be found at night at
residence. Telephone In oonneo-
I tion. ^ Dr. Durrum offers his
professional services to the peo-
ple of Clarksville and surrounding
country. Rectal troubles and dto
urn of women specialties.
Office hours 2 to 4 p. m.
R.8. FARRIER
DENTIST
> confined to white pattenh
Only.
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