The Batesville Herald. (Batesville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1906 Page: 3 of 4
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expert, has executed and presented to
President Roosevelt an illuminated
copy of the combined escutcheons of
Nicholas Longworth and his bride.
The Longworth arms show on a sil-
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ver shield, three black dragons’ heads.
The Roosevelt arms are three red
roses on a green hillock. The crest
is a boar’s head, holding in the mouth
a sword.
TEXAS RAILWAY EARNINGS.
Mileage, Operating Expenses and Fixed
Expense.
The following statement by the
chairman of the Railroad Commission
is a clear and forcible presentation of
railway conditions in the State, and is
indeed worthy a most careful and un-
prejudiced analysis and consideration
by all who may desire to deal fairly
with the subject:
“When we take into consideration
the many things that a Railroad Com-
mission must consider in making a
freight rate on the largest tonnage
producing commoditive in the state, and
the comparatively small amount of
tonnage they have in the aggregate to
haul, and the unfortunate absence of
any great variety of kinds of commodi-
ties to haul, it will be seen how diffi-
cult it is to make a radical reduction
of the freight rates on the principal
revenue producing commodities in
this state; if we desire the roads to
keep up steam and render better
service than they have been doing for
the last twelve months.
“The fact is our last annual report
shows that the entire tonnage hauled
by all the roads in Texas for the
year ending June 30, 1905, wa3 but
30,653,070 tons. Of this lumber pro-
duced 5,750,103 tons and six commodi-
ties, including lumber, produced ,17,-
020,953 tons, which amounted to more
than one-half of the entire tonnage of
State.
“The cry is coming up from all
parts of the State for - better roads,
SOME (OSTir BANQUETS
Many Thousand* of Dollars
Spent by People of Wealth
for Single Repasts.
Three hundred dollars, half a year's
income for hundreds of thousands of
clerks, for a single meal! Such was
the regal hospitality with which Mr.
and Mrs. John Hanan entertained
forty of their friends at a house-warm-
ing dinner in New York a few weeks
ago. The dinner, we are told, was an
exact reproduction of a banquet given
in Paris during the seventeenth cen-
tury by the Duke of Alva in honor of
the birth of the Prince of Asturias.
The forty guests at this Lucullan
feast dined off plates of solid gold;
and for souvenirs of such a memor-
able banquet each lady carried away
a small clock of gold and each man
sported a gold flower-holder in his
buttonhole.
Such costly hospitality as this
raises the interesting question, "How
much of the $300 per guest was spent
on the food alone?” and the answer
is rather surprising. M. Escoffier, a
chef of world-wide reputation, says:
“As far as the food itself is concern-
ed, and apart from wines and decora-
tions, you could not make a menu
cost more than $15 a head for four
people without being eccentric.” Such
a menu, which would satisfy the most
exacting of epicures, would include
the most costly delicacies the world
can supply, such as swallows’ nests
from China; oursins, a kind of cray-
fish caught in the Mediterranean;
caviare from Russia, sturgeon from
the Volga, and terrapin.
Another famous chef fixes $20 as
the cost of the most expensive din-
ner he could provide—in food alone.
“In any dinner in which common
sense is taken into account,” he says,
"the food alone would not cost you
more than $20 a cover; that is, with-
out wines, decorations or attendance.”
It is thus clear that any one who
is prepared to entertain his friends at
the cost of $15 or $20 a head could
provide for them as good a dinner as
the man who counts his fortune in
tens of millions of dollars, and that
any expenditure beyond this relative-
ly modest figure is, apart from wines,
lavished on externals, and principally
on decorations.
Thus, at a dinner which cost $50 a
head, given not long ago by a million-
aire to celebrate a remarkable run of
luck at Monte Carlo, the walls of the
dining room were surrounded by
peach trees and vines, from which the
guests gathered the growing fruit for
dessert; and in the center of the ta-
ble a fountain of rose-water plashed
in a veritable orchard of dwarf fruit
trees.
At another dinner of eighteen cov-
ers, which cost in all $13,900, or over
$720 a cover, the dining room was
converted into a natural grape arbor,
from which the fruit hung in hundreds
of tempting bunches. There were
dwarf trees from Japan, each bearing
its burden of seductive fruit, the rar-
est exotics from all parts of the world
and fountains in which fish swam.
Not long ago a western millionaire
entertained thirty of his friends at a
banquet for which he paid $8,000, at
least fifteen times the actual cost of
the dinner itself. One charming fea-
I ture of the meal was a centerpiece of
I 3,000 American Beauty roses nestling
among maidenhair ferns. Each rose
| of the 3,000 cost the host 75 cents.
A notable dinner of this extrava-
gant type was given at Delmonico’s
some years ago by a Mr. Luckmeyer
In the, center of the table was a min-
iature lake with islets, among which
swans floated. The dinner consisted
of nine courses only, but they com-
prised the rarest and most costly deli-
cacies the whole world could provide;
and the cost of the feast was $12,500,
or about $166 for each of the seventy-
five guests.
BATH GOOD FOR HUMAN LUNGS.
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As Necessary for Health as Cleansing
of the Body.
Returning from the theatre via the
Subw'ay, Dr. Henry Russell of the up-
per West Side, with hi3 wife and a
neighbor whom he had met on the
train, walked over to Riverside Drive
at the physician’s request, to “take
a lung bath,” as he expressed it.
“Our lungs, quite as well as our bod-
ies, need baths,” said he. “Especially
do they need a bath after we have sat
for three or four hours in the impure
an dstale air of a theatre or a church.
Then, if we could see them, our liings
would look as unsightly as the face of
a coal heaver looks after a hard day’s
work.
“Air, pure air, i3 the cleanser of the
lungs, and to bathe them the head
should be thrown back, and through
the nostrils pure, fresh air should be
inhaled, till the lungs are distended
to their utmost limit. About twenty-
five of the deepest possible lungsfuls
of pure air should be slowly inhaled
and exhaled. Then the pure air rushes
like a torrent through all the dusty
crannies and hidden, grimy comers of
the lungs, and it carries out with it
every impurity.
“After a long sitting in a theatre’s
stale air, try a lung bath. You will be
amazed to find how it will cheer and
strengthen you.”—New York Press.
Russia Stiil Aggressive.
Russia is stealthy and tireless.
Even while its armies were being de-
feated in Manchuria and its throne
was shaken by revolt it was secretly
fastening a firmer grip on ports of
the Chinese empire. The fact that
Russia ha§ a line of military posts
across the northern part of the Chi-
nese empire has been kept secret
from the world. It wa3 revealed by
an indiscreet publication in a Rus-
sian provincial newspaper. Russia’s
purpose, beyond the satisfying of its
old lust for dominion, can not be de-
termined. Whatever it is the powers
interested in maintaining China’s ter-
ritorial integrity are directly affected
—Cleveland Leader.
African Park for Elephants.
A society which calls itself “The
Elephant’s Friend” has been founded
in Paris. It has for its object the pro-
tection of the African elephant, which
is threatened with extermination by
the hunters who now swarm the no
longer dark continent.
It is proposed to found in the center
of the African continent a sort of
park which would serve as a range for
wild game, the regulations concern-
ing which will be founded upon those
existing in Yellowstone Park.
Not only elephants will be accorded
shelter, but asylum will also be giv-
en to giraffes, zebras and other harm-
less creatures.
Some Consolation.
The woman sits in the calmness of
despair. Her modiste has failed to
deliver her new gown in time for the
dinner she is to give. and. more than j
that, her cook has resigned in wrath i
and left the dinner unprepared.
To the woman it seems to be a 1
world of dark, dank gloom, and for a
time she gives herself up to her mis- !
erable reflections. But suddenly a ray
of joy breaks into the somberness of
her meditations. She smiles.
“Ah.” she exclaims, “I never
tuought of that. Fate evens all things.
Every dressmaker has to hire a cook
and every cook has to fret with a
dressmaker.”
Undergo Many Operations.'
New York at present boasts of a
man on whom the surgeons have op- [
erated thirty-two times. But Milan,
taly, has one who has been operated
upon thirty-five times, though he is
only forty years old; while Pem-
broke Dock. South Wales, believes it j
holds the record with a woman who
has undergone forty-eight surgical op-
orations. ]
Not So Silly.
Weary from the chase, the ostrich
of the desert had stuck his head in
the sand.
“You silly bird,” said the hunter,
coming up, “do you imagine I can’t
see you?”
“You mistake my purpose.” replied
the ostrich, with dignity. “Of course,
you can see me; but, you miserable,
feather-stealing egg-hunting land pi-
rate, I thus relieve myself of the
necessity of seeing you.”
Conscious that he had the better of
the argument, the ostrich yielded for-
ty dollars’ worth of plumes without
a murmur.
Foolish Question.
There had been several umbrellas
deposited in the stand near the res-
taurant door. A guest who was about
to leave had tipped the waiter rather
liberally, and that individual hurried
to the rack and asked:
“Which is your umbrella, sir?”
The gue§t looked at him in astonish-
ment.
“Why, the best one, of course!" he
said.
better and faster service, better depot
facilities and more freight cars, while
the earnings of the roads all told for
the twelve months, ending June 30,
1905, over operating expenses, was
only $18,345,629.14, and out of that
the roads paid interest, taxes, perma-
nent improvements and rents, in all
$19,961,400.88, leaving a deficit of $1,*
615,771.74.
“And when we take into considera-
tion the fact that we have recently re-
duced the freight rates on grain, cot-
ton, refrigerating tariff, rough log3,
blocks, lumber for manufacturing pur-
poses, etc., fruit and vegetables,
crates, boxes, ets., amounting in the
aggregate to millions of dollars, and
when we know the further fact that
under the stock and bond law of this
State every railroad in Texas is bond-
ed to the full limit allowed by law,
and that these railroad companies
have no other means by which they
can secure money to improve their
roads but their earnings, we do not
think it is to the interest of the people
of Texah by any acts of ours to so
reduce their revenues that they can-
not improve their roads and render
better service to the people.”
In the light of this statement, it is
indeed difficult to understand why it
was that the rates on cotton and lum-
ber have been reduced. The reduc-
tions so made have not been, and will
not be, to the benefit either of the pro-
ducer of cotton or the consumer of
lumber. It may be stated, upon un-
duobted authority, that after the cot-
ton rates had been reduced by the
commission on the roads, the steam-
ship companies increased their rates,
and that the roads have no interest
whatever in them.
When it is considered that the roads
are tied to the soil and expend by
very far the larger portion of their
earnings within the State and employ
more than 40,000 wage-earners, who
are citizens of the state, and in so many
ways contribute to its prospertly, the
intelligent and unprejuriced mind can-
not but feel that steamships, but few
of which, if any, fly the American
flag or are owned and manned by
American citizens, have been bene-
fltted by the reduction of the taxes on
cotton at the expense of the roads
without any advantage whatever to
the producer.
As to lumber, no one will be reck-
less enough to insist that its cost to
the consumer has been or will be in
the least reduced in consequence of
the lowering of the rate for its trans-
portation.
The statement quoted is indeed
worthy the most careful analysis and
consideration. As to no other subject
can the appeal be more appropriately
made. Come, let us reason together.
JOSEPH D. SAYERS.
Evangeline Merchant Bankrupt.
Shreveport, La. :A petition in volun-
tary bankruptcy has been filed in the
office of United States Clerk Walter
Jackson by Jackson L. Triplet, a mer-
chant of Evangeline, Acadia Parish,
who places debts at $1288, with assets
of $190.
Lorton School and Residence Burn.
Houma, La.: Fire yesterday after-
noon at 3 o’clock, that originated in
the roof of the dwelling house on the
estate of J. B. Winder, destroyed that
building and the Lorton Preparatory
School, with most of the contents. The
school had just been dismissed for the
day. The flames are believed to have
originated from a spark from a kitchen
flue. The loss is about $5,000, with no
insurance.
Monroe Lodging House Burned.
Monroe: Austin’s lodging house, cor-
ner Jefferson and Fifth streets, was
totally destroyed by fire early this
morning. When discovered the fire
was under full headway, and had It
not been for the prompt action of City
Marshal J. Mangham, running through
the building and arousing the lodgers,
a number of them would have lost
their lives. One was reported to have
perished, but a search of the debris
proved this to be untrue.
PERFUMES CAUSE OF HYSTERIA.
Danger in the Use*^f Combinations of
Scents.
Chemists find many interesting ex-
periments in the compounding of
scents. Almost ali perfumes have as a
basis ambergris or civet. And while
they are most necessary, great car*
must be observed in their use, for a
grain too much will make the scent
distressingly irritating to the wearer,
as well as to those with whom she
comes in contact. The same is true of
many combinations of perfumes, and
several separate scents attacking a
sensitive set of nerves at one time
may produce hysteria, though the suf-
ferer may be at a loss to find a reason
for the attack. This in itself is a good
argument against the indiscriminate
use of perfumes. Good taste has long
waged war against the use, but with
small results. Particularly during the
last few years has there been an in-
crease in the offence.—New York
Herald.
Hunger in the Polar Regions.
Hunger is one of the trials that ex-
plorers of the polar regions have to
encounter very often. Capt. Scott, in
his recent volume, has this description
of an unpleasant experience in the
farthest south: “My companions get
very bad food dreams; in fact, these
have become the regular breakfast
conversation. It appears to be a sort of
nightmare; they are either sitting at a
well-spread table with their arms tied,
or they grasp at a dish and it slips
out of their hands, or they are in the
act of lifting a dainty morsel to the
mouth when they fall over a precipice.”
HANDS RAW WITH ECZEMA.
Suffered fer Ten Years—Spread to
Body and Limbs—Cured by the
Cuticura Remedies.
"I had eczema on my hands for ten
years. At first it would break out
only in winter. Then it flnaliy came
to stay. I had three good doctors to
do all they could, but none of them
did any good. I then used one box
of Cuticura Ointment and three bot-
tles of Cuticura Resolvent, and was
completely cured. My hands were
raw all over, inside and out, and the
eczema was spreading all over my
body and limbs. Before I had used
one bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, to-
gether with the Ointment, my sores
were nearly healed over, and by the
time I had used the third bottle, I was
entirely well. I had a good appetite
and was fleshier than I ever was. To
any one who has any skin or blood
disease I would honestly advise them
to get the Cuticura Remedies, and get
well quicker than all the doctors ta
the State could cure you. Mrs. M. E
Falin, Speers Ferry, Va., May 19,
1905.”
An Indian’s Lovs For His Dog.
Colonel Holden, of the Fort Gibson
Post, who sympathises with every-
body in hard luck, printed this letter
from Richard Benge, a Cherokee,
whose pack of trail hounds has often
made music among the Fort Gibson
hills: “Will you please let me have
a small space in your paper? I won’t
write much. I just want to tell you
old ‘Drum, ’my good old dog, is dead.
He died of I don’t know what—only
he just sick and died. Poor old Drum
is dead and gone where all good dogs
go. I feel sorter lonesome since old
Drum died, for I’ve only old Spot
and Mues left. Old Drum was the
best. When he barked, you knowed it
was a possum or a coon. Old Spot Is
all right, but he won’t bark, just wags
his tall.”—Kansas City Journal.
A Wealthy Princess.
Queen Louise, wife of the new King
of Denmark, is the wealthiest prin-
cess in Europe. She Inherited $15,-
000,000 from her maternal grandfather,
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands,
as well as the the bulk of the fortune
of her father, King Charles of Sweden
and Norway. Her grandmother re-
fused the hand of Napoleon and mar-
ried M. Bernadotte, afterward Marshal
Bernadotte and King of Sweden.
Many a Slip.
“Politics is extremely uncertain,” re-
marked the man who makes trite re-
marks.
“Yes,” answered the discouraged-
looking citizen: “you read the paer3
in the hopes of deciding on the best
candidate, and then start out for the
polls. And maybe you'll be allowed
to get to the polls. Then, perhaps,
you’ll be allowed to deposit a ballot,
which in your excitement you may or
may not have marked correctly. And
if you did mark it correctly there is
a chance of its not being counted, any-
how. As you say, it’s extremely un-
certain.”—Washington Star.
The man with a grievance is surely
one of the happiest of mankind. He
so enjoys to grumble.—Mrs. Edmund
Gosse.
FOOD HELPS.
In Management of a R. R.
Speaking of food, a railroad man
says:
“My work puts me out In all kinds
of weather, subject to irregular hours
for meals and compelled to eat all
kinds of food.
“For 7 years I was constantly trou-
bled with indigestion, caused by eat-
ing heavy, fatty, starchy, greasy, poor-
ly cooked food, such as are the most
accessible to men in my business. Gen-
erally each meal or lunch was fol-
lowed by distressing pains and burn-
ing sensations in my stomach, which
destroyed my sleep and almost un-
fitted me for work. My brain was so
muddy and foggy that it was hard for
me to discharge my duties properlv.
“This lasted till about a year ago,
when my attention was called to
Grape-Nuts food by a newspaper ad.
and I concluded to try it. Since then
I have used Grape-Nuts at nearly ev-
ery meal, and sometimes between
meals. We railroad men have little
chance to prepare our food in our ca-
booses and I find Grape-Nuts mighty
handy, for it is ready cooked.
“To make a long story short, Grape-
Nuts has made a new man of me. I
have no more burning distress in my
stomach, nor any other symptom of
indigestion. 1 can digest anything so
long as I eat Grape-Nuts, and my
brain works as clearly and accurately
as an engineer's watch, and my old
nervous troubles have disappeared en-
tirely.” Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
There’s a reason. Read the little
book. ‘The Road te Wellvilie.” la pkg*.
Farmers’ Co-Operative
Union of America.
Keep the children la school right t Get you a home telephone if you can.
straight along. They may not have It is mighty handy at times and will
the opportunity later on. soon pay for itself. Get in line!
The fruit is much damaged, but the Don't ever refuse to put in a day
ground is still here and only wants to working at the cemetery. It won’t be
be planted in order to yield a world * long until you will meet the “insensate
of good things to eat. clod” there.
Plant anything that you can raise
that you’d otherwise have to buy. It
comes a heap cheaper out o’ the
ground than from the store.
This is not a day of greater graft
than many another. It is a day when
we are all talking graft. Keep your
own door clean and you will as well.
Steer clear of that mor. _,o this
year; get on just somehow. Busy your
brains in finding out how to “just get
along” one year, and then start out
right next time.
The town dramshop can get on with-
out you or your assistance; they nev-
er will help you. Get the gist?
Put in half an hour every few days
putting in something else in the gar-
den. Spring truck is a mighty whole-
some thing and it grows quick.
What we want to unite for is to
make a living easier, or make a better
living out of the same amount of la-
bor. We want what tfvery honest man
wants—a decent living, a reasonable
competence, and a fair amount of
pleasure that comes of reasonable lei-
sure.
Start right now and give the good
woman a day or two’s work fixing up
the chicken department. No other de-
partment will pay so well, and a little
common sense and common decency
about the poultry question is your du-
ty, Mr. Lord O’ Creation. Don’t im-
pose on your women folks too much.
LET’S GO A-FISHING.
Let’s suppose that we produce 15,
000,000 bales of cotton this year. We
may do this. If we do, the bears are
going to make a great hue and cry
about it, and will try to bear the price
below the cost of production. We will
become poorer because we have
worked too hard and produced too
much cotton. Eight million bales will
sell for more than 15 million bales will.
What a terrible system of distribution
we have! Think of it. We have ab-
solutely no competition in raising cot-
ton. It has been tried elsewhere
many times and failed. And yet, we
are not smart enough to get a just
and reasonable price for our cotton.
Why is this? Simply because we have
never tried. We have gone along in
a haphazard way trusting to condi-
tions whatever they may be, to bring
for us a living price for our cotton.
That living price we have been able
to receive only a few times. What,
then, must we do to be saved from
this awful condition of affairs? We
must take charge of our own and, if
we raise too much cotton under our
system any one year, we must lay part
of it aside for the next year, and go
a-fishing if necessary and not raise so
much. This can be done. When we
get fully prepared to do this, when we
get a system or chain of warehouses
all under one system whereby we can
control millions of bales of cotton,
the work will be done. This cotton
will form the very best basis for cir-
culating medium, and the negotiable
warehouse receipts will pass current
CO-OPERATOR CLIPS.
It is an industrial organization and
not in any wise political.
If the wolf is a friend to the lamb,
then Is the bull a friend to the pro-
ducer.
Optional contracts will help us. Do
not make all accounts due Oct 1st or
any other date.
Tennessee on April 3rd. Verily, ver-
ily, we are National. Never be weary
in well doing.
Be thinkers. It is the men who
thinks who prospers. Let’s all think
and all prosper together.
The politician who would try to
“work” a farmers’ organization now
will never be able to know what
struck him.
A negotiable warehouse receipt will
make a very good substitute for mon-
ey, which is no more than a measure
ol value.
“Controlled Markets” is the slogan. I
The doctrine is the same in all the j
States, and is being yreech'-d the same ;
If the bulls never turned bears and
the bears never turned bulls, there
would be no profit in futures. Suck-
ers believe that the bulls are their
friends. Yes, such friends as the wolf
is to the lamb.
Never think for a moment that
gambling in futures will be killed by
Legislation, National or State. Nothing
but a perfect understanding of the
producers can ever do a thing against
this awful curse.
Don't wait a minute about getting
a horns. It doesn’t make much differ-
ence about how big it is or how fine it
is. If it is yours, you can find plenty
of ways to make it as big and as fine
as your necessities may demand.
Peanuts for profit or peanuts for
pleasure grow all over this country
with no effort at all. Peanut hay is
the finest coarseness in the world,
ranking along with alfalfa. Cut 'em
and cure ’em like hay, then turn in a
lot of the rooters and watch ’em grow.
A small patch of broom corn and a
little common sense makes a sweep-
ing proposition out o’ sight. Anybody
that can raise sand can raise broom
corn, and anybody that can load a
wheel-barrow can make a broom.
Don’t worry about some little spats
the officials are having. The places
are new and the collar will warm up
by and by. In the meantime sunshine
and rain will be coming right along
making us all feel good if we have
each attended to his own business.
Don’t let your Union lag because
you are too lazy to attend. Pretty
soon the meetings are to be changed
to the afternoon. If you have the right
sort of a Union, it will pay you physi-
cally, mentally, morally and financial-
ly to put in three or four hours a
week co-operating with your fellow-
workers. If you are smarter than
they, you can help them; if they are
smarter than you, they can help you.
as money. The cotton will remain in
the warehouses until the minimum
price set by the National Farmer’s
Union is reached. It will never be
sold below this price. By this means
we will not only be able to get a just
and equitable price for our cotton, but
we will also be able to make a staple
price for it. We will thus be able to
sell our cotton, if necessary, before it
is planted, thus fixing an absolute
price on it before we plant it. What a
great thing it would be if the cotton
raiser could know absolutely, before
he plants his cotton, what he is going
to get for it, and that the price is a
just and equitable one! The time is
coming. It is almost here.—Co-Oper-
ator.
There is going to be a whole lot of
cotton planted this year in new terri-
tory. This will make it necessary for
those in the old cotton-growing dis-
tricts to cut the crop the “red.’*
The cotton belt is gradually stretching
up into the Panhandle and into Okla-
homa, and some new land is constant-
ly being added to the area in the old
states. Better cut ’er mighty close.
The older generation thought t
much of work and too little of m:
agement. Tim younger generation
combining the two and making t
work theory subservient to manaj
ment. A little knowledge may sa
much labor. To be a good manager,
possible for any bright young m
who who has given his life’s work
agriculture.
way. Nothing can prevent our suc-
cess. Enemies without or within can
not prevail against us.
By the terms of the Waco Constitu-
tion, our State Lecturer, becomes al-
so State Organizer. Brother Neill is
certainly the right man in the right
place.
The other fellows have learned not
to come into competition with each
other. When the producer learns this,
he will be the only truly wealthy man
in the world.
If you can grow all the nitrogen
needed in your soil free of cost by
planting cowpeas, why in thunder
don’t you do it? After the nitrogen
is placed in the pround, then the pea-
vine haystack is a mighty good forti-
fication for the mules to stand behind
when rough times and March winds
o line along. Mortgage mules are said
to like town hay best, but good Farm*
eis’ Union men don’t believe it.
Wealth belongs to him who creates
it, or should belong to him. Does he
get it? Why is it he does not? Only
because he comes into competition
with his neighbor, his brother pro-
ducer.
Jf the producer does not get up a
proper plan for the distribution of his
products, no one will do it for him. If
the other fellow does our thinking he
will surely get our money.
The postoffice will have to get ready
to serve the public in a broader car-
rying capacity. The people demand a
parcels post, and they will have it.
A few merchants are afraid that the
big city stores will dig them up, root
and branch, if a parcels post system
is adopted, and the Express companies
are fighting it to a finish, but the peo
pies’ demand is for parcels post, and
though it may take a little time to
get it, it will come all the same.
' Every class of people manage to
pull together but the farmer, and the
time is now at hand when the farmers
' must get together and run their busi-
1 ness just as the merchant, lawyer, doc-
tor, in fact all professions have a fixed
price and manage to keep the price
the same by regulating of the produc-
! tion.
It takes a woman to weep to show
her happiness, and to laugh to hide 1
her grv.-f.
GREAT SCOTT.
The Biggest Man of Addison County,
Vt., Tells an interesting Story.
E. C. Scott, meat dealer, Vergennes.
Vt.. Past Commander of Ethan Allen
Post. G. A. R., says: “A severe attack
of typhoid left me
with weak kidneys.
Every night I had to
get up frequently to
pass the urine, which
was ropy, dark and
very painful to void.
I had no appetite, but
drank water continu-
ally without being
able to quench my
thirst. Terrible headaches and dizzy
spells oppressed me and my back
was lame, sore and stiff. A month’s
treatment with Doan’s Kidney Pills
rid me of this trouble, and now I am
strong and healthy and weigh 230
pounds. I give the credit to Doan's
Kidney Pills.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Euffaio, N. Y.
The Costliest Diadem.
What is probably the most valuable
diadem in existence is the gift of the
women of Spain to Our Lady del Pilar,
whose shrine is situated near Sara-
gossa. The diadem is an Imperial
crown surrounded by a Gothic wreath.
It is composed of solid gold, but such
is the number of precious stones that
hardly a square inch of gold is visible.
There are 6000 large diamonds, of
which the finest is the, gift of the
queen-mother, and 3000 smaller ones.
The remaining stones are emeralds,
saphires, rubies, pearls, turquoises,
opals, topazes and amethysts.—New
York Evening World.
Dog Buys License.
At police headquarters, Paterson.
N. J., recently, a coach dog walked up
to the license clerk, wagging his tail
and holding in his mouth a $2 bill,
the license fee. The policeman took
the money and spoke to the dog,
which wagged his tail more than ever.
Soon after that a young man appeared
and explained that the dog was the
property of a feed merchant. The li-
cense was inclosed in an envelope and
placed in the dog's mouth. The aui-
mal then left for his home.
God never calls you from larger
things to smaller.
GET RID OF THE GAS
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Strengthen
the Stomach and Enabia It to
Do Its Work.
When the stomach is feeble the food
lies in it undigested, decays and throwi
off poisonous gases that disteud th«
walls of the stomach and cause inter-
ference with other organs, especially
with the action of tho heart and lungs.
These gases have other ill effects. The
nerves and tho brain are disturbed
and discomforts such as dizziness, hot
flashes, sleeplessness, irritableness and
despondency originate from this source.
Experience shows that these troubles
vanish just as soon as the stomach is
made strong enough to digest the food.
In other words, it needs a tonic that will
rouse it to do the work of changing the
food into nourishment.
Miss Miuerva C. Ladd, of Ipswich,
Mass.,snys: “I had a weak stomach
from the time I was a little child.
Whenever I took hearty food it would
cause terrible faintness, and I would
finally vomit what I had eaten. At
times there would be the most intense
pains through the upper part of my
body. For days in succession, I would
have to lie down most of the time.
The distress was often so great that I
could hardly bear it, and the frequent
and violent belching spells were very
disagreeable, too.
“ Mv doctor’s medicines gavemelittls
relief and it was not until I tried Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills thut I found a cure.
Within three weeks a decided improve-
ment was noticeable. The belching
spells were less frequent, the pains
through my body were not so intense,
my food was retained and after taking
the pills for a few weeks longer I found
that I was altogether free from the
miseries I had so long suffered.’’
Every dyspeptic should read “ What
to Eat and How to Eat.” Write the Dr.
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N. Y., for a free copy.
Produced Desired Effect.
At a recent political meeting in
Brighton, England, a speaker, finding
that the point of one of his Jokes had
missed, sorrowfully remarked: “I had
hoped gentlemen, that you would have
laughed at that.” A plaintiff voice
came through the silence—"I laughed
mister." Then everybody laughed.
Love is not getting, but giving; not
a wild dream of pleasure and a mad-
ness of desire—oh. no, love is not that.
It is goodness and honor, and peace
and pure living—yes, love is that—and
it is the best thing in the world, and
the thing that lives longest.—Henry
van Dyke.
Wheat Cakes.
Mix two teaspoonfuls baking powder
with about three cups flour and a little
salt; beat one or two eggs and add,
with enough milk to make batter.
Another Bond Issue.
Tom—What's that? A two-dollar
bill! you told me this morning that
you were broke.
Jack—Well, I want you to under-
stand that Japan isn’t the only one
that can borrow money.—Somerville
Journal.
A man never blows his own horn
until the. silence has become more
than he can bear.
It is a wa3te of time to argue over
an order which comes from headquart-
ers.
Luck is the first word on the lips
of the loafer.
The greatest truths were first con-
ceived in doubt.
DODD’S
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