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Eagle Pass News-Guide.
By
THE GUIDE PRINTING CO.
eagle pass, : : : Texas
Great State Highways Are Needed.
When congress, reflecting the
thought of the nation, ordained a per-
manent memorial to the life, the char-
acter and the deeds of Abraham Lin-
coln, what did it resolve upon? A great,
modern highway leading from Wash-
ington the Gettysburg battlefield, the
culminating point of the terrific strugi
gle in which he towered as the pivotal
figure. What made Babylon mistress
of her day and ancient Rome the seat1
of imperial control? Not alone the
valor of their arms, but their roads
along which with swiftness of move-
ment they might* instantly dispatch;
their legions. “The safety of the.
state,” declared Appius Claudius, “lies
in our ability to confront instant dan-
ger with force.” No other two coun-
tries have had such preponderant in-
fluence on modern civilization as Great
Britain and France, and the amazing
fact that each possess 30,000,000 of
people dwelling orderly and comfort-
ably within an area in one case less
than that of Montana and in the other
less than that of Texas is largely ac-
counted for by the existence of good
roads, which brought them into close
social and commercial intercourse and
unified them as a national body.
Germans as a rule have a keen sense
of humor, and many of them must be
getting much amusement from the
stories about British alarm over Ger-
man military development, including
the building of warships. As a matter
of fact Germany is not adding to her
naval strength to any greater extent
than other nations with equal interests
to protect, and the German government
should be credited with good faith in
its repeated expressions of desire for
peace with all the world. The latest
>scare in England is over the story that
one of the Zeppelin airships recently
iinade a flight of considerable length
carrying 25 persons, a large proportion
of the party being German soldiers
fully equipped for actual service. This
is interpreted to mean that such a ves-
sel could fly over to England and drop
down witli its outfit wherever it chose.
Possibly. But how many such ma-
chines would be required to transfer
a big army and all the equinment nec-
essary for service Itu J&epoisld? “An
Englishman’s Home” p of; ^' have
put many Englishmi He will j >s on
edge. i
,, ~ - on Tuesday-.
Charity of spee^ severa> a thing
as charity of actic R over tJ), no one
harshly, to miscon, man’s mo-
tives, to believe thing. they seem to
be until they are "oven otherwise, to
temper judgment with mercy—surely
this is quite as good as to build up
churches, establish asylums and found
colleges. Unkind words do as much
harm a6 unkind deeds. Many a heart
has been wounded beyond cure, many
a reputation has been stabbed to death
by a few little words. There is char-
ity which consists in withholding
words, in keeping back harsh judg-
ment, in abstaining from speech if to
speak is to condemn. Such charity
hears the tale of slander, but does not
repeat it; listens in silence, but for-
bears comment; then locks the un-
pleasant secret up in the very depths
of the heart.
Whatever opinionated critics may
have to say a& to the decadence of the
drama and degeneracy of the pop-
ular^ taste, the theater-goer in this
country appreciates and. will patronize
plays which have some message for
the reason and the intellect as well as
THE GROUCHY BACHELOR.
THE GIFT OF TONGUES.
HEN the long day’s work
is over,
Then it’s “Home, sweet
home” for me,
Where I can start the
small gas stove
And make my cup of
tea.
For I live up a three-pair
back,
A daA room, square
and small,
But, gee, no wedding-
bells for me,
I’m keeping bachelor’s
hall!
And I make tea that’s
good enough
To keep a French chef guessin’,
The rest I leave to bakeries,
And shops called “Delicatessen.”
And I sit on my blacking box;
A trunk for table serves,
And what if milk gets on my coat,
And on my pants, preserves?
Such restful, quiet comfort!
No scolding; not a squall,
Disturbs the calm repose of him
Whose home is—Bachelor’s Hall!
Orange Strips.
Boil, 20 minutes, bits of orange
peeling, cut into fine strips. Change
the water and boil again; repeat,
each time changing water. Lastly,
take a cup granulated sugar, one of
peeling and water to cover. Boil un-
til it strings from a fork. Serve
covered with powdered sugar.
Another Queer Sweetmeat—is
called Turkish Delight, and is made
with common starch as its chief in-
gredient. The original is imported at
high prices. The following recipe
was given by the proprietor of a Turk-
ish bazaar.
Boil 2y2 pounds lump sugar with
scant two pints of water. When clear,
add one-half pound of starch, dis-
solved in cold water. Stir until it
has become think paste. -Add a cup
chopped almonds and water, if too
thick to stir easily. Favor with rose
or any fruit extract. When cold, cut
into squares and dip in powdered
sugar. In tin boxes this will keep a
long time.
To Clean Furniture.
Use oil very sparingly, and then ap-
ply it mixed with one-third gasoline.
As the latter evaporates quickly, it
lessens the risk of leaving a sticky
coat of oil on the surface. Rub it
well afterwards with a dry cloth.
Rattan or willow furniture should,
be cleaned with ammonia, not soap,
as the latter makes it turn yellow.
POPPING CORN.
ED from the underworld,
the sun
Fills all the land with
light.
His filtered beams are
dancing-halls
For winged things’ de-
light.
Then change—the skies
fling thunder-bolts
And winds in awful
fray;
And lightning’s flame—the
gift of tongues
That first taught men
to pray.
Oh, youth, oh morning-
time of life!
Like motes we dance
and play,
the sunshine
Of life’s short summer day.
Then, after years bring storm and stress;
Care-clouds obscure the day,'
And through them dart the lights of faith
That teach us how to pray.
With Roast Chicken.
There is nothing original and
startling about roast chicken, but in-
asmuch as there is nothing nicer, ana
we cannot very well do without it oft-
en, let us serve it with as much va-
riety as possible.
For instance, surround it with fried
balls made after this recipe: Mix to-
gether finely chopped cold ham (fat
and lean) and bread crumbs in the
proportion of four ounces of meat to
two of bread. Add the grated rind of
one-quarter lemon to this amount;
season well, and add one egg to make
the paste right consistency. Fry in
hot, deep fat and arrange on the plat-
ter around the chicken.
In chicken pies—remember to have
the oven hot when it is first put in so
that the pastry will rise and set, para-
doxically. Afterwards the oven can
be cooled, or the meat put into a cool-
er spot, but the pastry will be soggy
if the' oven be cool at first. A slice or
two of eggs will help support the top
crust, and the meat should be well
piled up in the middle.
Hint for Decoration.
For a luncheon or party where
there is an attempt at table color dec-
oration it is a good idea to hang from
the chandelier a large, wet sponge.
Cover the sponge with violets, car-
nations, roses, or any appropriate
flower. Or even ferns will do if the
green effect is desired. The round
ball of bloom is attractive, and is bet-
ter than the. large central bouquet
which hides the view. Indeed, in
most of the restaurants and hotels
where table decoration is a study, the
high centerpiece is entirely done away
with.
Unheeding, in
T WAS a very nasty
night,
Yet, doughty as Lean-
der,
To see his neighbor’s
daughter bright,
Young Ezra did mean-
der.
Walked boldly up to
where she sat,
(An awkward curtsey
droppin’)
Sophronia put away his
hat,
And got some corn for
poppin’.
“Right pesky weather
• out,” said he,
As on his chair he
wriggled.
"Why, ain’t the weather usually
Out?” Sophronia giggled.
And that made Ezra blush as red
As any coal of fire,
Then, “I like poppin’ corn,” he said,
And hitched his chair up nigh her.
Her father finished u-p the chores,
And went right up to bed,
“Pa is asleep; my, how he snores!
It’s late,” Sophronia said.
Her ma, whp’d worked since early morn,
Accepted the suggestion.
Then Ezra- left off poppin’ corn, v
And straightway popped—the question.
WHEN MOTHER WAVES GOOD-BYE
OOD-BYE, son; got your
rubbers on?
Goody-bye; take care of
Kate.
No, don’t run, sister; lots
of time:
It’s only half past
eight.”
We hear this, sis and I,
When mother waves
good-bye.
“Wait! you forgot your
spelling-book.
And, son, there is the
note
Excusing sister’s absence
Last Friday, with sore
throat.”
Each day she waves good-bye,
And we wave, sis and I.
“Good-bye; be nice, sweet children,
And do you understand
That you must come straight home from
school?
Kate, take,you,r brother’s hand.”
Once, I saw mother cry;
And. when I asked her why?
"I shall not have my babies long,”
She said, “Good-bye! good-bye!”
for the senses. He will support with
his attendance sane and wholesome
productions destitute * Of exotic and
erotic features. The appeal of a play
like “The Old Homestead” is elemen-
tal; it touches lost chords and forgot-
ten springs of memory, not merely in
the unsophisticated country dweller,
but in the “worldly wise man.”
Tests are being made of an inven-
tion which illuminates the sights of a
rifle at night. Even though the light
employed did not shine directly into
the soldier’s eyes, -it might interfere
with his aim by producing a glare
that would make the target invisible.
If no such result follows, the device
ought to be extremely serviceable.
Now the new style of women’s hats
are being attacked from the pulpits.
The next step is for the freak legisla-
tor to take a hand, which opposition
will have the natural and inevitable
result of making the hats more freak-
ish than ever, and the women more
determined to wear the extremes of
the mode.
Mexicans are showing their dislike
for high taxes by killing the collector.
This simply proves that in spite of the
comforts and conveniences of modern
civilization the primitive life has still
advantages not to be overlooked in the
line of compensation. *
A scientist announces that the seat
of human affections is not in the
heart, but in the solar plexus. Have
to revise all our poetry. For instance:
"Dimpled, red-haired widow of Texas,
jGive me back by solar plexus’”
The Holiday Habit.
This, with the Anglo-Saxon, at least,
has been recently acquired. Our
friends, the Parisians, started it to-
ward the middle of the eighteenth cen-
tury, but to do them justice, let us re-
member that the holiday habit began
as a movement toward the Simple
Life.
Encouraged by such masters in
painting as Watteau with his simple
shepherdesses, and aping royalty with
its Trianon and Fontainebleau, the
whole of Paris* flocked on every occa-
sion, to the country. Everything in
the fashion of the time tended to the
rustic, the bucolic.
Later, in 1800 or so, England began
to follow suit, and from the king, who
took princesses to ride in an Irish
jaunting-car, to the private who parad-
ed on Sunday with the "beefy ’anded”
girls of the Strand, all England went
a-merry-making.
But, up to this time, “week-ends”
were unknown, and that which we now
consider a real hygienic need, the
“change of air,” was accounted hypo-
chondria or a bad case of “nerves.”
With, the usual pendulum swing we
are, perhaps, overdoing the holiday
idea, but in time we may get back to
its original purpose—not a wild pur-
suit of gayety, not a chance to spend
money and show off fine clothes, but a
natural longing for country things—
for a simple life,
"Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble
strife.”
Angel-Child Cookies.
. Two eggs, one cup sugar and a half
cup butter. Beat well. Add a half
spoon vanilla flavoring, two spoons
baking powder and flour to make a
, soft batter. Cut thin, and bake quick-
|ly>
A Bay-Leaf.
So many recipes contain this;: “Add
a bay-leaf,” and yet many a cook, has
never seen one, and considers it a fad
of the cook-book writer, and leaves it
out. This is as silly as it is unneces-
sary. The bay leaf is a real advan-
tage to any stew or soup. It imparts
a country tang which nothing else will
do. Not a spice, not a strong flavor,
just a hint of the herb. It is cheap,
easily obtained at any grocer’s the
year round, and should be in every
pantry.
Praties and Bacon.
Select large, perfect potatoes, and
cut a piece off one end so that they
will stand firmly. When baked soft,
remove part of the potato, and In the
cavity put chopped boiled bacon, al-
lowing it to rise a bit out of the top of
the potato. Garnish with parsley.
This is an excellent breakfast dish,
or may do duty for a Simple luncheon
course. Serve for more elaborate oc-
casions, with a pickle and square of
toast on the plate.
Bridget’s Beatitudes.
Blessed are the drippings of bacon
grease; much better than lard for fry-
ing. Use it, too, to put over the meat
loaf for basting.
Blessed are the fishy plates and sil-
ver put immediately into cold water.
Afterwards wash with hot water to
which ammonia has been added.
Blessed are the baked potatoes
which are first pared, and then put
into a very hot oven. It saves the
waste next to the hard skin.
STREETS OF MAINE CITY
CLEARED BYAN6RY COW
ANIMAL GETS LOOSE AND BLOCKS
TRAFFIC FOR AN HOUR—
IS FINALLY SHOT.
Biddeford, Me.—For nearly an hour
an angered cow that had escaped from
Stephen Meserve, an Alfred road
farmer, held possession of the business
section of the city, forcing pedestrians
to flee for their lives and causing two
horses to run away. The excitement
ceased only after the animal had been
killed by a rifle bullet.
Mr. Meserve was driving down
Center street with two cows attached
to the back of his pung on his way to
a slaughter house where the animals
were to be butchered. One of them
got loose and a number of boys tried
to get a rope around ber horns. Soon
becoming excited, and being chased by
boys and dogs, the cow apparently
The Maddened Cow Held Possession
of the Streets.
went mad and, lowering her horns,
rushed through the streets lunging at
everybody in sight.
With head down and tail raised
she made for two delivery pungs
backed up to the store of the Andrews
& Horigan Company, scaring the
horses, which galloped wildly up the
street, overturning the pungs and
spilling the loads.
Dr. Daniel A. McNally, who at-
tempted to catch the cow, was forced
to take to a telephone pole to escape
her fury. Melville Woodman was
walking down Elm street when the
cow rushed for him. Alarmed by a
shout, Mr. Woodman dodged into a
doorway just in time to escape. Nich-
olas L. Gibbon was struck by the cow’s
horns and knocked down, but he was
not seriously hurt.
The cow then ran into Main street
and made for the open door of Na-
poleon P. Dion’s restaurant, the wait-
ers heading her off in the nick of time.
Two young women were forced to flee
into John B. Morin’s drug store. She
was finally killed.
BABY ON CAR IS A TORCH.
Fire Engines, Hose Carts, Hook and
Ladder Companies and Police
Called to Fight Blaze.
Cleveland, O.—Six fire engines, six
hose wagons, four hook and ladder
companies, 25 firemen, and half a
dozen policemen were called to East
Sixth street and Euclid avenue to ex-
tinguish a fire in a baby’s dress.
For 15 minutes during the rush hour
traffic was tied up in the heart of the
down-town district, while the firemen
and police hunted desperately for the
blaze.
When Mrs. May Vogelsang got
through shopping she boarded a Eu-
clid avenue, car. , She had Baby Vogel-
sang in a go-cart and this, with the
child, she placed on the front vesti-
bule, alonside the motorman. The
mother took a seat in the front of the
car.
When the motorman started the car
there was a blinding flash and a deaf-
ening report as the fuse blew out.
Smoke poured through the front door
from the vestibule. Then there was a
rush of passengers to get off and
somebody called the fire department.
When the fuse blew out Baby Vogel-
sang’s clothes caught fire, but the mo-
torman smothered the flames with his
hands and, seizing baby, cart, and all,
leaped to the pavement.
Bull Butts Man Over Wall.
Frankford, Pa.—Tossed over a high
stone wall by an angry bull, George
Kalker, 39 years old, employed as a
farmhand by David McKale of Frank-
ford, hung in the branches of a tree
where he landed until he was rescued
and hurried to the Frankford hos-
pital. He is being treated for a badly
torn leg.
The McKale farm is on the Bristol
pike, and one of its most noted at-
tractions is a prize bull, which has
never been considered a “bad one.”
Walker was filling a water trough
near the wall, which is the boundary
line of the bull’s domain. On the
other side of the wall is a tree, the
lowest branches of which are ten feet
from the ground.
While Walker was leaning over the
trough, with his back to the bull, the
animal charged, and the impact came
before the farmhand could change
his posture. It was a lusty heave upon
the part pf the bull and Walker sailed
over the wall and into the tree. There
he hung until McKale answered his
cries,for help.
SLEEPS WITH BOTH
EYES WIDE OPEN
FOR TWENTY YEARS, NIGHT OR
DAY QUARRYMAN HAS BEEN
UNABLE TO CLOSE THEM.
LIME DUST CAUSE OF AILMENT
Caused Inflammation Which Gradual-
ly Made Muscles of Eyelids Pow-
erless—Literally Is “Man with
the Open Eyes.”
St. Louis.—Sleeping and walking,
for 20 years, the eyes of Joseph An-
derson of this city have never closed.
When he lies down at night the lids
do not gradually relax, as in the case
of the normal man. For him there
are no curtains which softly fall over
the “windows of the soul” to shut out
the distractions of the busy world
around him.
Until the end of his days this
strange condition must continue, City
hospital physicians say, because an
effort to restore the natural move-
ment of the eyelids would forever de-
stroy his sight.
Anderson is 60 years old. For 20
years and up to two months ago he
was a quarry workman. The lime
dust affected his eyes and caused an
inflammation to which he paid no at-
tention at first. Though the lids of
his eyes were inflammed, he thought
that this would be only temporary.
Not until several weeks, after the
inflammation set in did he notice that
it was becoming more and more diffi-
cult for him to close his eyes.
One night, he says, he lay down to
sleep and he found that his muscular
effort to lower his eyelids were • with-
out result. He lay there staring at
the ceiling.
And ever since then he has been
staring day and night. Literally he
has been “the man with the open
eyes.”
“It caused me some trouble at first,”
he said at the City hospital recently.
PROOF FOR TWO CENTS.
tl You Suffer with Your Kidneys and
Back, Write to This Man.
^G. W. Winney, Medina, N. Y., in-
vites kidney sufferers to write to him.
To all who enclose
postage he will re-
ply, telling how
Doan’s Kidney Pills
cured him after he
had doctored and
had been in two dif-
ferent hospitals for
eighteen months,
suffering intense
pain in the back,
lameness, twinges
when stooping or
lifting, languor, dizzy spells and rheu-
matism. “Before I used Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills,” says Mr. Winney, “t
weighed 143. After taking 10 or 12
boxes I weighed 162 and was com-
pletely cured.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box*
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
COUNTRY IN MOVEMENT.
Meeting of National Association for
Study and Prevention of Tuberculo-
sis Will Be Largely Attended.
The fifth annual meeting of the Na-
tional Association for the Study and!
Prevention of Tuberculosis will be
held in Washington, D. C., at the New
Willard hotel; on May 13, 14 and 15.
Owing to the present interest in the
campaign against tuberculosis, the
meeting will be of unusual interest
and importance. The membership of
the national association now numbers,
nearly 2,000, and is distributed in al-
most every state in the United States.
The national association has also a,
considerable membership in Canada,
Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippine islands,
and in several of the European coun-
tries. Ex-President Roosevelt and:
Dr. William Osier are honorary vice-
presidents of the national association.
Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch of Boston is
the president; Mr. Homer Folks of
New York city, and Dr. Charles L.
Minor of Asheville, N. C., are the vice-
presidents; Gen. George M. Sternberg:
of Washington, D. C., is treasurer; Dr*
Henry Barton Jacobs of Baltimore, is
secretary, and Dr. Livingston Farrands
of New York is the executive secre-
tary of the association.
m
He Sleeps Peacefully with Both Eyes
Wide Open.
“I couldn’t go to sleep. I would lie
there looking at the ceiling. But
gradually I became used to it, and I
sleep as well as any man—with my
eyes open.
“For 18 years it didn’t bother me.
I did m.y work as usual, and I was
healthy and slept at least eight hours
every night:- Two years ago I began
to-have headaches, which extended
from the top of my forehead to my
eyelids.
“I thought I had rheumatism of the
eyes, and when I couldn’t stand the
pain any longer I decided to come to
the hospital.” •
The physicians who are studying
Anderson’s unusual ailment say that it
is not rheumatism. Their explanation
is that the neglected irritation has
caused the eyelids to grow fast to the
eyeballs.
The junction is now so intimate
that if an effort to cut the eyelids free
were to be made, the surgical knife
would at the same time pucture the
cornea or delicate outer covering of
the eye and cause hopeless blind-
ness.
Despite this opinion of the doctors,
Anderson still believes that rheuma-
tism is the cause of his trouble, and
that he can be cured.
If his contention is right, the case of
Anderson presents a striking parallel
to that of Wilkie Collins, the English
novelist. Collins, afflicted with rheu-
matism of the eyes, lay on his face
shielding his eyes with his arm, and
dictated one of his greatest novels,
“The Moonstone.”
The disease left Collins after a pe-
riod of eight months, and for the re-
mainder of his active career as a
writer his eyes were normal.
Man Fights Six Eagles.
Norfolk, Va.—J. L. Durnell, a lum-
ber dealer of this city, while looking
over some timber land in Princess
Anne county, fought six eagles for his
life. Falling into a hole, he was mo-
mentarily helpless. The great birds
of prey swooped down on him with
their talons and beaks, scratching his
flesh and tearing his clothing. Regain-
ing his feet he fought them, big stick
in hand, for a distance of 300 yards be-
fore gaining shelter. He was then al-
most helpless.
UNPLEASANT OUTLOOK.
“I hope it don’t rain; it’ll take all
de starch out of my dress.”
“Yes, and if maw sees you in your
best dress she’ll take de starch out
of you!”
Making Himself Solid.
“Step this way, ladies and gentle-
men,” exclaimed the leeturer in the
dime museum, “and gaze upon one of
the greatest wonders known to modem
science—the ossized man, a human be-
ing, perfectly normal in every other re-
spect, but who has truned to stone.”-
“How did he get that way?” came a.
voice from the awe-stricken throng.
“Love,” replied the lecturer, low-
ering his. voice, confidentially; “love-
did it. He fell in love with a beau-
tiful maiden, tried to make himself
solid, and overdid it. We will now
pass on to the—”
How Father Looked.
Mr. Blakeslee was putting himself in
readiness, clotheswise, to attend an aft-
ernoon tea with his wife, when his
small daughter appeared on the scene.
As he. slipped into his frock coat, the,
child looked up and said: “Father, do-
you know, when you wear that coat
yoti ;lbok just like a'minister?’’ f
Then, noticing the hatbox on the'
stand near by,-.she added: “And when:
you put on that hat that goes with it*.;
you look just like a hack. driver.’;WDe^
lineator. ' s
FOOD FACTS
What an M. D. Learned.
A prominent Georgia physician went;
through a food experience which he
makes public:
“It was my own experience that first
led me to advocate Grape-Nuts foe
and I also know, from having pr
scribed it to convalescents and othe
weak patients, that the food is a won--'
derful builder and restorer of nerve
and brain tissue, as well as muscle. It
improves the digestion and sick Pa-
tients always gain just as I did m
strength and weight very rapidly-
“I was in such a low state that I
had to give up my work entirely, and
went to the mountains of this state, j
but two months there did not improve
me; in fact I was not quite as well as
when I left home.
“My food did not sustain me ana
it became plain that I must change.
Then I began to use Grape-Nuts food
and in two weeks I could walk a mile
without fatigue, and in five weeks
returned to my home and practice,
taking up hard work again. Since that
time I have felt as well and strong as
I ever did in my life.
“As a physician who seeks to help
all sufferers, I consider it a duty to
make these facts public.”
Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts, when
the regular food does not seem to sus-
tain the body, will work miracles.
“There’s a Reason.” _ ga
Look in pkgs. for the famous littl©
book, “The Road to Wellville.”
Ever read the above letter? A
one appears from time to time. ™a ‘
are genuine, true, and full of hum
interest.
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