The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1905 Page: 4 of 4
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WAYS or THE DRUMMER.
New meat market in town.
(jhe cyj/inatrei Skow and Cake IkJalk.
February
T. IV. Carlton
Hook at this it
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GUYING RUBIES IN BURMA.
>e Stuarts throne.
tiie change of man*
Low Rates to
LOW COLONIST TICKETS
Will l»e on Sale Daily via
Southern Pacific
Louis,
r;. p. a.
NAVES OF TENNESSEE TOWNS.
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POINTS
deceased was a
thetruck at the
PA
r sawmill, at Me-
Pa.Meager 1 rains in and Out of Alvin.
The plant
Office in Woulfe Buil ling.
Anglkton,
Texas.
EXTRA TRAINS—SUNDAYS ONLY.
men
Santel Fe
AO-
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COLONIST
TICKETS
pre-
and
About thirty jui’ors left Alvin this
week for AngletoU.
is completed to
d the street com-
a little startling because we are not
use to it. Though I am told that
The sick in and around town are all
reported getting better.
W. W. Sammor.s is out again after
a severe attack of grippe.
are kept going
iy. All the lum-
1 rains leave Alvin for Houston at
8.00 a.m., 9.60 a.m.. and 10.50 p.m.
Trains leave Alvin for Galveston at i
9.6o a.m. 5.55 p.m., and 9.40 p. m.
SUNSET
ROUTE
X
eople la
with
go
T. J. ANDERSON, G. P. A. JOS. HELLEN, A.
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
Ask the Santa Fe Agent for Particulars, or address
W. S. Keenan, G. P. A.. Galveston, TexaS
I iClICRADE
FFEE
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CALIFORNIA
For Sale By
ALVIN MERCANTILE COMP'Y.
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Irish Potat-jes, per bushel................. Hoi-
Red Gravy Ham, per pound................ 12c
Gold Band Ham, per pound................ 13c
Smoked Bacon, per pound.................. 9c
8. C. Bacon Bellies, per pound............. 10c
3 lb Clipper Tomatoes, per dozen........ $1.00
Our buyer is now in St. Louis purchasing a 1 irge
and well-assorted Spring stock and we must l ave
shelf room for the goods when they arrive, S3 it
will be to our customers' interest to aid us making
the desired room.
, if the choir in- Prei
singing; should join in a
Strength of Elephants.
The elephant is great as a traction
power. Experiments have shown that
a horse pnlL about one-sixth of ts
own w-ight. whereas an elephant can
pull its entire weight. This might be
emphasized bjr the fact that an ele-
phant is six times as big as a horse.
In India, for centuries, it has been the
custom to utilize elephants to push in-
stead of pull wagons, but now it has
been shown that they are unequaled
as pullers. Two of them, in carefully
arranged contests, raised 6,500 pounds.
Electric Line is Assured.
A special telegram from Houston
to the Dallas Times-Herald says: “It
is asserted that the Houston-Galves-
ton electric line is now assured.
President Scott and the other pro-
moters say that the financing of the
project is practically completed. The
line is to run the bay route via Sea-
brook and La Porte to Galveston. A
causeway is to be built across the
bay and it is understood this work is
to be done jointly by Galveston coun-
ty, the tailroads and the electric line.
It is to be made wide enough to ac-
commoc ate all interests and will be
far mor) stable than abridge. The
width ii yet to be determined, but
will be more than a hundred feet. It
will be I. solid embankment of earth
between walls of piling. Draw bridg-
es will te near the center.”
• price.
i Cost no
;--F R O M----
TEXAS COMMON
---TO---
CALIFORNIA
---ON SALE---
MARCH 1st TO MAY 15th, INCLUS IVE
' The
Steaming Codlee
Tut that contains
Chase & Sanborn's
Hijfh Grade Coffee
is certainly nectar
it ha* that clear, atnbwr
\ _<>lor ar ’ rich ar- ma
X that nu ..-« it he V ing
I of coffee*. A delight
E to drink, mom'ng,
noon or night.
What Some People Believe.
There are probably more
the world to-day who bellt ”e
Prof. Lowell that Mars is ir habited,
and also that it will be reac >ed some
day by some kind of wire ess tele-
graphy than there were a hundred
years ago who believed tjfcat--
would ever travel at the rate of thirty
miles aa hour.
Curious Tra of Ants.
In the proceeding »f the Ph’ladel-
phia academy Miss .»!. Fields re-
cords three instances ,t curious traits
displayed by ants kept under observa-
tion in the laboratory at Wood's Holl,
Mass. In the first case the r ctlons re-
corded suggest something akin to hyp-
notism, while from the third there
seems a possibility that these insects
may be able to remember and recog-
nize individuals of thetr own kind af-
ter a separation of several years. The
reactions of ants to vibrations is the
subject nf another article in which it
is trged that it I? misleading to
ascribe or deny bearing to these in-
sects. They are very sensitive to the
vibrations of solids, but not tv these
of air.
The new sidewall
the school house ar
mlssioner is putting in the crossings.
The new sidewalk is a credit to our
town and a monuthent of honor to
the ladies of the Ciiic Improvement
Society.
The remains of Mr. John Baur,
who died in Galvestou, were brought
to Alvin Thursday and buried in the
city cemetery. Th*
brother of Mrs. A. 2 erwick, a former
resident of Alviu, jut now living in
Galveston.
Some one appropriated a ten-gal-
lon can of milk off the truck at the
depot last Saturday night. The milk
was brought in from the Moore dairy
to be shipped to Galveston. Mr.
Moore got the can back, and the ex-
press company wilj have to pay for
the milk.
Expert Opinion by One Who Evident-
ly Knows ye Species.
Ti e penth > a is called the
II i- ft- Jath Ahoie ban !
There
i tIh wb-n
In- is around. 'JjfCwhe is gone the
mus c is of an^WT'- brand, for the
man who has boug a bill of goods
that he didn't wan. frequently says
things.
Tie drummer is
Sometimes he
three towns in a dtj.
think while he
Mould make a few
never satisfied x
he finds along the
I^et us be kind to the drummer, re-
meir Bering that h»- is human and fre-
quently has a wife and family at
Well. I home, although all of the pretty girls
that he meets on his travels do not
find it out—Illinois State Journal.
a
Marell 1 to May 15. 1905
Pullman Tourist Sleepers from Washington,Cincinnati. Ch.rag »,
Atlanta, and every day in the Week from New Orleans.
ners gone;
A stranger fills t
And so we note
ners and customs,of the olden time.
What would thp church-going peo-
ple of to-day thick,
stead of f’
dance and for th<* edification of the
congregation go through the sinuous
evolutions of the jwaltz, <>r the intox-
Hov/ an Editor is Made.
First thing, he is born; than after
running the gauntlet of measles,
mumps and chicken pox, he enters
school. At the age of 10 he is a red-
headed, freckle-faced boy and the
terror of the neighborhood. At 12 he
is an apprentice in a printing office. Phal and Attorn*
":» for the term eif two vears.
F. M. Phipp-* ii hereby appointed
to act as presiding officer of the said
election.
Witness my hand and seal this 23d
day of February, 1905.
A. C. ABRAHAM, Mayor.
Official:
FRED A. SMITH, Secretary.
Railroad Schedule. £lmer p. Stockwell,
---—------ ! Lawyer.
a great builder,
makes as many as
One would
wn s at it that he
tibtels, for he is
h the ones that
Santa Fe Specials.
Dallas and return $9.45; on sale
February 2H and 27; limit to march 5
for return.
Colonist tickets £o California points
at reduced rates, March st to May 1.
Mallory line r*jservat ons to Key
West and New Y$rk.
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Laugh and Grow Fat.
Dyspepsia If claimed to be sys-
tematically cured .by laughter. It Is
stated that a Par^s doct< r, in return
for a large fee. admits i atlents into
his private institution, where the
mirth treatment Ip administered. A
few dyspeptics sit -around a room and
begin to smile ati each ither. Thi*
smile, once begun., must never be al-
lowed to fade away. On the contrary,
it must be developed by will power
into a grin, and th? grin must become
a guffaw. Then the patients must g<
on laughing until Bheir sides ache. A
course of a week er two of the treat
went at the rate of a couple of hours’
giggling a day is qaid to be sufficient
to cure the worst pasts of dyspepsia
The minstrel show and cake walk, I uncivilized to the most enlightened,
given under the auspices of Ladies’ fhe people havei enjoyed the dance.
Civic Society Wednesday night, was : They haVe w°rshipp<‘d their gods in some ministers d<» now occasionally.
, . . . . r jdance; have celebrated tl eir g<xls of during their devotional exercises.—
one «yf the best amateur performances H. i .. ,. .. .
. war and their gods of peace, in dance; just by way of diversion, perhaps,
ev.rlpulkd ott in Alvin, nnd , they hnve danend to manifest th.ir I and to keep the audience from going
honored w it h one of largest and most delight at the annual re< urrance of ' to sleep—show their hearers how to
appreciative audiences that has ever the harvest mid the vin age; they | trip the “light fantastic toe.”
ass. mbled in the Alvin opera house. [celebrated the mar- However, many of the ministers
It would be entirely out of order i
to undertake to give any special men- little children of all nations instinct-
tion, as the cake walk for the prize
was so closely contested, that it took
the judges, Messrs. F. E. Leason, 8.
M. Ashby and A. J. Birchfield some
time in which to make their decision.
But they finally awarded the prize,
which wa; a large and beautiful cake,
to Mr. Frank Perkins and Miss Flora
Dana, anc the decision of the judges
seemed to meet with unanimous ap-
proval of the large audience present.
Judge H. Grass was called upon to
present the cake to the winners of
the prize, which he did in a neat and
catchy speech, characteristic of the
Judge, in which he has no superiors
and few e juals. Below we give the
speech in full, which will have to be
read to be appreciated.
The ma idolin and guitar music by
Mrs Maybelle Wadley and her sister
Miss Camille Scott, was heartily en-
cored anc very much enjoyed by all.
The negro songs by Miss Flora Dana
were exceptionally good, and she was
called back to the front several
times.
All the boys in the minstrel show
acted their part well, and created
much merriment with their original
jokes.
All in all, the show was a grand
success in every way, and Mrs. May-
belle Wadley deserves much credit
as it was under her training the en-
tertainment was so successfully pre-
sented.
The proceeds amounted to some-
thing ove r $5d, which will be used by
the Civic Club in beautifying and
improving our city. This society
should have the hearty co-operation
and best wishes of every good and
enterprising citizen of our town, in
the nobl i work thsy have under-
taken.
JUDGE GRASS’ SPEECH.
The cut tom of dancing is as old as
the existence of mankind. In all
Paul Hellmann unloaded a fine
new piano at his home this week.
J. B. Mings fronii Haistings, Michi-
gan. is a prospector here this week.
Special price on!Colorado potatoes.
65c per bushel. Alvin Mercantile Co.
Truck growers are all getting ready
to plant as soon as the ground dries
out.
Otis G. and C. G- Simpson from
Kansas are hom< seekers here this
week. _
Sam Steven haa> returned from St.
Louis, where he has been for several
days buying good .
A phone meeeagte from E. Win-
ston states that ti»e Fairview school
will open next Monday.
Mrs. Kate Edwards left Thursday
for Alexandria, La., to visit the bed-
side of her sick mother.
Don’t be buncoed into paying more
than ftoc for potatoes when you can
buy them at that fririce. Alvin Mer-
cantile Company.
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THIS IS A PICTURE OF ALVIN S AGNIFICEN’T PASSENGER DEPOT.
■rs from Washing
•very dsj’ in the Week f
Write for Pamphlet, giving full
Trains leave Alvin for Houston at
9.00 a.m.,2.20 p.m..5.55 p.m.,7.15p.m.
8.23 p.m.
1 rains leave Alvin for Galveston
at 7.15 a.m., 7.45 a.m., 8.40 a.m., 2.20
p.m.. 8.25p.m.
drains going north on Main Line
leave Alvin at 8.40 a.m.. 7.10 p. ni.
Many Appellations Taken from ti-e
Good Book.
When it came to naming her towns
Tennessee did not forget the Good
Book. She put an Ark in M dgs coun-
ty, a Noah in Coffer a Gensis in Cum-
berland a St. John at.d a St. Luke in
Jack a>n. a Joshua here and a Caleb
there, here at. Elijah and there a Sam-
uel. Ruth and Naomi were not for-
gotten. and two Ebenezers were raised
up. one in Knox and one in Hum-
phreys county.
But Tennessee did not !a> too much
stress on scriptural names. On the
other hand, looking at the map one
may readily ascertain that in the nam-
ing < f her towns Tennessee played no
favorites. From mythology she ob-
tained Juno, Venus Vulcan. Bacchus,
Diana. Hercules, Neptune. Olympus
and Delphi; ir m Shakespeare Rome)
and Othello; from the Greek alphabet
Alphi, Beta and Omega; from the
church Methodist. Bapt'st Priest,
Pope. Friar and Tabernacle, from the
family hearth Mamy. Bud. Aunt,
Home and Family: fro u the poets
Dante. Milton and Homer.—Indianap-
olis Star.
Sawmill Always at Work.
At the big Goodye:
d’x Run, Id Elk cou ity, logs are con-
sumed at aa amazini: rate.
is equipped with a i and mill and set
of gangs, and they
twenty-two hours a <
ber is handled by machinery from the
time it is lifted from the pond until It
is piled in the yard a few minutes
later. The process c|i manufac'ure is
continuous and ther[) is no halt be-
tween start and finish. When run-
ning at full speed the factory «»ts up
a log in something lew than forty sec-
onds and three rrairis are kept busy
between the pond and the woods to
keep up the supply. Hemlock is the
only timber being ! cut.—Wellsboro
(Pa.) Advocate
Boys’ $1.75 8uits, age 7. now..........$1.25
Boys’ 2.60 Suits, age 6, now ..... 2.00
Boys’ 1.00 Suits, age 11 now 75
Boys’ 1.00 Suits, age 10,now. ..... 75
Many other size Suits for Boys equally low as the
moted prices. Ladies' Black Satine Underskirts
duced 20 per cent. We have a few pairs of large
size Oil-Grain Work Shoes for 90c.
A short month. Only four weeks in which to
pare for Spring. We carry no goods over
I prices are made to move them quickly, .'ivtery-
thing pertaining to Winter will be sold at a reduced
We need the room you need the goads,
object. Profits cut out.
and seller then
very peculiar method
bargaining by Signs or rather grins, in
perfect silence. After agreeing upon
the fairness of the classification, they
join their right hands, covered with
a handkerchief or the fl-p of a gar-
ment. and by grips and pressures
mutually understood among all these
dealers they make, modify and accept
proposals of purchase and sale. The
hands are then uncovered and the
prices are recorded.
Languages of India.
Among the 145 distinct languages
spoken in British India are some pos-
sessing only a few hundred words,
others rivaling English, as Dr. Grier-
son says, or Russian, as I would say,
ir their copiousness; some in which
every word is a nonosyllablc, others
ir which some a*e elongated by ag-
g utination till they run to ten syl-
lables. like ca-pa-i-Gcho-akaE-taken-tae-
tin-u-e—a Soutail word meaning: ‘ He
who belongs to him who belongs to
me will continue letting himself be
made to fight.” Some of these divers
tengues lack verb and noun, others
are as complex and systematic as
Greek and Latin.—Nineteenth Cen-
tury.
A Full Line of First-Class Groceries.
Houston Prices on all Orders Exceeding ft.
Bring Your Houston List with You.
^AivinNlercantileCo.
A EDWARDS BUILDING.
W. W. Lawrence and family left
Wedneunay for Houston where they
will open a boarding house.
W. L. Haley locked up his store!
Monday morning And left for Angle-
ton to serve as juror in district court.
Notice the change in T. W. Carl-
ton’s ad this week. Uncle Tim is
making prices oq goods that will
startle the natives,
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Mr. and Mrs. Phipps who have
• been visiting their son F. M. Phipps
for several months left Wednesday
night for their bonie in Missouri.
It is estimated bjr some of our cat-
tle men that the L*ss, or death rate
among the cattle c'aused by the late
freeze, will be about 40 per cent.
Wanted — Mau :o attend 10-acre
pear orchard; treeji 7-years old; half
mile north of Algo.^ on railroad. Ad-
dress S. R. Evans, |Aiutin, Texas.
T. W. Carlton lejft Saturday night
for St. Louis to buj* his spring stock
of goods. Uncle t'im always buys
the latest and best'.in the markets.
There is talk of! more new side-
walks going down. Keep up he good
work, and it won’t be long before Al-
vin will have good sidewalks all over
town.
FOR SALE OR*;EXCHANGE. -
Three 6-room cottages and 9 lots in
Alvin. Will takeisome good work
ir-ules or horses in pfrrt payment; bal-
ance on easy terms; — John Wilburn.
R. H. Young. Wltchita, Texas;
Thos. Smitii Angleton; H. L. Clem-
one, Bourbon, Kyi; W. H. Miller,
Humble; J. K. MpCay and Robert
Friend of St. Louis were visitors in
Alvin this week.
Master George Houser captured
the audience at tne minstrels and
cake walk entertainment Wednesday
evening, with his ‘many songs and
dancing. George ■ destined to be-
come a noted artist.
Very near one tiuindred crates of
vegetables, consistipg of onions, rad-
M ishes, mustard, turjiips and cabbage,
were shipped out ojf Alvin Tuesday
night. Who said til the vegetables
were killed by the freeze.
Grips and Signr Used in Bargaining
for Precious Stones.
The peculiar bus!-.ess methods of
oriental merchants are illustrated by
the manner of bujing rubies in Bur-
ma, says the .Jewelers Circular
Weekly, in the exa- Ination of rubies
artificial light is not used. :he mer-
chants holding 'hat full sunlight alone
can bring uu» the color and brilliancy
of the gems Su es must, therefore,
take place betwen 9 a. tn., and 3 p. m.,
and the sky must be clear.
The purchaser, placed near a v.ln-
dow, has before hir a large copper
plate The sellers come to him one
by cne and each empties upon this
plait his Ii<*le bag of rubles The pur-
chaser proceeds to .rrangt them for
valuation in a number of snail heaps.
The first div’sion into three grades,
according to size; each of these groups
is a;raln divided into three piles ac-
cord.: to color, and each of these
pile'- is again divided into three
piles according to color, and each of
these piles is again divided into three
groups, according to shape. The
bright copper plate has a curious
use. The sunlight reflected from it
through the stone brings out with
true rubies a color effect different
from that with red spinels and tour-
malines, which are thus easily sepa-
rated.
The buyer
through a
O AUFORW/A
Wind and Wave.
God's busy laborers, the wave and wind—
The creeping centuries their lazy
hours—
Tear down the continents, a task de-
signed
Anew to fashion this old world of oura.
The snowy footprints of the oeean blue.
Deep set in everlasting marble, show
The huge ami dark round earth white
gleaming through.
Where ran the sea a million years ago.
Th* sun’s a lantern for the wind by day.
The wave leaps to hei work, the moon
fresh lit;
Y thousand yrars are but their yesterday
And at Niagara's task they laugh a
bit’
j have in all ages [celebrated the mar-
riage with dance and so ig. Under would doubtless say that dancing is
jail conditions of life in all climes, the work of the devil; and they tell
j little children of all natio is instinct- us that Old Nick made all of the
ively and without training, dance for i dance tunes, and that he invented
joy. It seems tp he a piompting of i the violin, and they want to turn
nature to which little children res-> them, music, fiddle and all. over to
pond by natural! impulse in playful him as his own property.
dance. I want to say, that if the devil is the
In the early history of the church-1 author of all of the dance tunes that
eg, it is said tha{ the priests in their he is a musical genius; and that if
religious fervor danced at the altar Jie invenu ii the fiddle, that he is a
during service; gnd the chureh choir i professional mechanic, for it pro-
danced to the nieasure of their own i duces the sweetest of all of the liar-
singing; and iti is also matter of monies,—the most soul-stirring
church history that the bishops led [strains of all the musical instruments,
in the dance on [feast days. As late Even if he is the author of the dar ce
as the middle of jthe Eighteenth cen- tunes, and the inventor of the fiddle,
tury.it is said that ther • were still di is patent on the fiddle has run out
traces of religious dancing in the and the copyright on his tunes has
cathedrals of Spain and Portugal. expired, and they are public proper-
We are told that not only do the ity Besides, I a in opposed to giving
living dance, buj. the sp rits of the : all of the good things to the devil,
departed dance,! also. You remein-| any way; the devil’s no better than
ber the Poet Burns’ descr ptiou of the we are. why give him choice of all of
dance of the witches witnessed by the good and enjoyable things?
Tam’ O. Shunter-:in the old deserted In all of the dances indulged in by
church “Kirk ^loway." He tells' the people of earlier times, they
how Tam’, unobserved came up to danced for pleasure, or through a
ihn nhnw.h whowo sense of religious duty, and not for a
prize. But the incentives and mo-
tives which induce modern dancers
to thus enjoy themselves have some-
what changed and it is now more a
matter of pleasure. However, in
this particular kind of dance—a cake
walk—there seems to be a slight ino-
vation upon the general rule, and the
main question appears to be who will
“take the cake.”
Who would not dance for a cake
like this? and try hard to surpass all
previous efforts in the mazy intriea-
i sies of the cake walk. Why I be-
lieve I could make a good effort my-
self, if I bad a fine cake set before
the church where the w itches were [
dancing and says:
“Tam - saw an unco sight —
“Warlocks and witches i j a dance,
“No cotillion brbnt new fra? France,
“But hornpipes,! jigs an I reels, put
life and met:i!l in their heels.”
And this statement of the poet’s,
that the witchfs danced, is fully
proven by the fact that the old church
which they used- as a dance hall is
still standing, and many pilgrims ev-
ery year visit this shrine of the
witches and besjr testimony to the
fact.
But times ajud customs have
changed. You remember Sir Walter ,
Scott laments t^e change of times me ks a prize,
and manners in h}s poems. He says: But lest I forget. I want to com pl i-
• Old times have changed old m*n J ment you dancers on your gooti lo..ks
--------- ° I as well as on your graceful dancing;
••: and if you ladies should live to be
widows* I would advise you during
theperiodof mourning to wear black,
it is becoming to you an 1 matches
i your complexion. I think I never
! saw vou look so well, besides, under
_ jaldent Roosevelt’s administra-
tion, black enis to be a fashionable
color, an»l you might as well be out
of the world as out of the fashion.
It is an old expressage to say that
such a person “took the cake,” but
icating whirl of (he Virginia reel, or . here we have a practical demonstra-
the measured and statelv step of the }*,)n *’r adage;—rhe judges
, /. • . i I. have decided that Mr. Brank Perkins
minuet: and if <he minister should and Migg Flora Oana took the cake,
lead in a cake wajk down the aisle of an(| j am a^kPd to present to them
ages, among all people from the most the church, it wopld no doubt seem , this beautiful prize.
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
By virtue of tlwe authority vested
in me as Mayor ot the City of Alvin,
an Election is hereby ordered to be .
held at the city hall on X PR I L 4th.
1906, for the purpose of electing a I
Mayor, two Alderman, Assessor and
( Collector, Treasurer, Secretary. Mar-
shal and Attorney, same to hold of •
<)tf two v ei
hereby
officer ol
At 18 be acquires two cases of long , flee
primer a id an army press, and is the ‘
editor of a country newspaper. At
20 he is married. At 30 he is bald-
headed, stoop-shouldered and the
father of a large family. At 35 he is
a corpse in a cheap pine coffin, and
as GO) delinquent subscribers file past
his bier for the last look, they are
heard to say, “He was a good fellow
but he couldn't save his money.
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