The Arlington Journal. (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1909 Page: 5 of 8
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Contract for the Fisher county court
house at Roby has L-en awarded
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eople
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Wantad Harmony.
Soda Fountain Attendant—What tin
vor. please? Silly Young Thing—Have
you anything In pink to match this
gown?—Harper’s Weekly.
to t»e good to me."
But
hot t le
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Good"
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acre;
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IN THE HOUR OF DEATH.”
ipdpsg. and
volrds. lean
Then he sud
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long
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age that have descended from father
to sou. from mother to daughter,
through the years.
The old myths repay research
i Tha Way Binks Triad It on Hia Sig-
months-old Baby.
Biuks had sent Mrs. Binks on a visit
, to her mother, and be was on the job
They do not look so < >
But ;;
r are. < >
le be- * ’
Domlnus tllumlnatlo mea.
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of death.
went that of a summer
bend and wife, returning
borne from the theater, entered a Fifth
avenuy stage far downtown ami for
many blocks were the only occupants I
A little above Fourteenth street, bow
ever, the stage came to an abrupt
atop, the door was opeued, and three
young men entered. One of the three
had evidently been drinking heavily.
Automobile
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Arlington Printing Co.
pointinent ones.
<7. F. Earms was badly burned by an
explosion at Hillsboro of a mixture of
varnish and gasoline.
Lubbock Light, Power and Ice^eotn-1.
pany, capital stock •26.000, has been
authorized to transact business.
Rud Wise, a negro well digger.
shot and killed at Marlin. F. P.
Giffin was placed under arrest.
A human aktdfUiu intact waa found
in a Dallas county gravel pit.
Com crop of Bowie county is a
•rd-breaking one this year.
, Waterworks company at Palestine?
has brought in its fourth well/” |
Fire destroyed at Reagan the elegant
residence of Dr. 8. D. Davidson.
Taxable values of Gaines county are
•he gratifying figures of »2,873,156a
Sixty-two eighty candle power lights
will replace the present firefly ones.
Quite a numlter of residences are l>e-
ing erected at Bronte; more to follow.
Crane company will erect at Dallas
at cost of •xo.ooo »ix-story warehouse.
Jacksonville public school enroll-}
went is largest this year in itvhistory.
For Only 1500 New Subscriptions 1
We orint anything that is print-
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,ed with type.
We will save you money on good nrinting
Help a deserving young man
unable to get around on his feet
make a living.
"My Dear Sir—Having lately been < »
at the funeral of a most dear relation. P ’
I was there again (in a dream) last < >
night and heard mourners sing the ’ J
None cf yer
Just ’ay and
A Tragedy of ths Olden Days In New
' Yerk City.
4 good many years ago. long before
skyscrapers and rapid transit were
thought of and New York was Just st
big growing town, they ussg^to tell a
story tbat waa ghastly enud^i to cur-
dle the blood of the most skeptical
and to keep people of nervous temper
ament awake of nigbta.
The tali
* Onw w ■■ vriiiiny.
He—Do you know that as long as I <»
bnve jrnown >’ou 1 have never seen you ] J
Pressed In white? She—Indeed! Are ,<*
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to his father’s stubby cheek, gave a
long, quivering, satisfied sigh and slept
I for six unbroken hours.
[ As Binks lay there, afraid to etir lest
1 he disturb the little one and feeling
like a horse.tbief because be bad let
the love hungry infant cry bls bean
out. be aegmfd tceqgreQtly:. ..
••rfflft'lplfne f>e~ hanged!” — Chicago
News
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Mrs.
dt to
nday, A
yd er,
hold
"ting
will
Is right, anyway. He took up that
baby, and the baby stuck to bls daddy
|!l*zv flex r.ntizir L'lirfhnr ottnmnfo f r\ lav '
him down were futile. He wanted" no
food but heart food, no milk but that
of human kindness. So tbe big man
laid that baby beside him on the pll-
ITS.
will
lent,
>und,
xture
i and
than
pany
Help
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xeept
shite
lead-
a sans ' >i ui ■ eit w<m 11 a i u a r i i t rti ai
San Angelo from Sweetwater Satur-
day. Jt was warmly welcomed.
R. E. Kitchen waTacquitted at Bi-etj-
A charged w ith murder of Felix Grundy. Everybody knows it is unlucky to pass
a horseshoe on the road without pick
house at Roby has U-en awarded for ing It up. It is a luck emblem of the
•65,000 to W. C. Whitney. Beaumont, greatest power. We are indebted for
General Mwnager Simmons of the Elt this statement to old tales centuries in
Paso railway denies the report that
his road will extend to Pacific coast.
Mrs. Nat G. Turney.a noted literary
writer and wife of a well known Dallas
attorney, died suddnly at that city.
. Poseidon as the fortune giver through
| his springs. They gave blm horses, his !
ihirty-tive| beasts, and they adored the j
an alfalfa, footprints of horses when they found I
| them, for they might be the very foot-
prints of the god himself
When tbe horses came to tie shod the
An Old Myth That Goaa Back to tha
Graeka and Thair Baa God.
Of all the emblems for good fortune
the hour
whim.
When the heart beats low, and the eyes
grow dim.
And pain has exhausted every Hmb.
Ed Young, a prominent young bu'si-
ness man of Brownwood, passed away
at that city.
Memlwrs of the First Baptist church
of Quanah will erect a •2UJMM» house
of worship.
A^ proposed 1100.000 sewer and also
street "improvement bon<l Issue is tc
be vot(‘d on by Amarillo taxpayers.
Oct., I several Texas fourth-clasu
Finally (maybe he set it forward a o
bit who knows?) Binks’ watch
mrnneed the arrival of bottle time
went to the icebox for tbe food, heated <>
it and took it to his now faintly styb o
bing infant son. < ►
Didn't Believe In It.
The Squire—That’s a splendid horse,
streets of Kansas City every day — Giles I suppose you feed It daily
Kansas City Times with punctuality.
j Giles—Naw. z,ur. None o' yer noo |<(
} fangled foods vnr me. Just ’ay and < >
} oats—oats and ay.-Tx>ndon Telegraph. J J
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tuTned questionlngly and asked him And
why he Insisted on their getting out I
First Orient railway train arrived at of the bus so far below their destina-
tion. —•» —M-
"Because." he replied, "that young
man’s throat was cut from ear to ear.’’
ham of the charge of taking the life at --------
" HORSESHOE LUCK.
after thia life's
She—indeed!
' you. then, so-partial to tbe color?
I —Not exactly that, but whenever 1 see .< >
a girl dressed in white 1 am always J [
tempted to kiss her. She—Will you < ►
excuse me for a quarter of an hour? ' ‘
Bill tbe Infant son could not take the
He < linked on the first swal <►
sen all rain comes, and to the sen all ltw|1 |n|t 1|p h|s halnl9 and re <»
I newed his wordless plea to the big o
man he could see dimly through bis
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For even tbe purest delight may pall; <>
The power must fall, and the pride must " ’
fall. i < ‘
And the love of the dearest friends grow '
small Io
But the glory of the Lord is all In all.
-R. D B In Memortam M F. G.
— London Athenaeum.
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I THE MAN IN THE STAGE
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> Happenintt of Intoraat Rotated
A , la Brief Way.
' Jacksboro creamery is a success.
’ Town of Edtm, McCulloch county, is
growing at a rapid rate.
Over 2, WO paplle enrolled at Bronte.
■ Considerably gtaidence building is
■nder way at Rotan.
Marlin is to have anoteer deep well I
•f the mineral variety. 1 *dghl a bui
r-y ' New Baptist church at Kosse cost
, |« Jf •51,006 to constract.
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trow-
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n for
ector
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milk
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Obeying the Autocrat.
»* That fine old New Englander. Dr.
Oliver Wendell holmes, laid down the
rule that tbe law of the road entitles
a man to two looks at every pretty
woman.This fair and proper limit
provokes no complaint in Kansas City,
and It is not commonly 'exceeded,
though we would have to go far afield
to find a locality with more women
worth looking at than are seen on the
| lines Inclosed, wblbb impressed me so < >
that I was able to write them without ’ ’
chflnge of a , word this morning. I o'
never heard or read them before to
my knowledge. ’
well on paper is they sounded.
If you like to print them here they
only please do not print my nam«
i yond Initials or send me money for
them With all good wishes to Mrs
a , Cook and yourself, very Truly yours.
It. D. BLACKMORE.
”K Cook Esqre LL. D."
with the six-months-old baby , ,
In tbe night the baby woke and ' J
i cried. Binks looked at his watch— < >
The three-quarters of »n hour till bottle < J
luck of tbe horseshoe has a most re- time. He said to himself: ’ ’
Potter county grand jury, in session spec-table beginning It Is traced to tbe "l^t blm yell. He's a bealtby little <>
forty-two bills religion of the old Greeks and tbeir sea Indian, and be must be disciplined." J
Then Rinks tried to sleep. ’ ’
But Binks couldn't sleep. Every cry ,,
grew more pathetic and abused and < ►
heartsick and discouraged. Each cry J J
said more and more plainly- "1 have ' ►
no friends or relatives. I’m unhappy ij.
Business. < >
Miss Coy (at the garden party)- Let ; ;
I've only < ,
known you an hour Mr. Hustler <’
(looking at his watcln-Well. (hen. sup- , ,
pose I come around In an.hour and s J’
quarter?-Boston Transcript. <>
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He thsl Is III to hlinself will l>e good , >
to nobody -Scotch Proverb |°
out "only a quarter of an hour.
A, E. Hall, many years head of oue
department in tha Sangerstore at Dal-
las, expired at New York .while on a
. visit. A widow and eight children are
left. He was a leading Episcopalian.
Paul Bean Grain elevator at Howe,
Grayson jeounty,was consumed by fire.
Ten thousand bushels of corn and over
four and a half times much oats were*
burned, entoiting 150,099 loss, with in-
Airancu of alstut •4D,!)0i).
W. H. Lacy, a Dallas priator, put
on his fence a sign that intruders had
'Jsetter beware of a bad dog.
•enirty fews were taken that night. '
*br' night the dog was stolen.
^Jhn Murphy, eleven years old, of
Htnith county, cultivated unaided land
that produced three and a half bales
of cotton. He realized for cotton and
seed •76. In addition the lad earned
working for others $233 this year.
Near Lubbock M. M. Speere was a
victim of lightning. George Wilson
fatally injured, a Mexican knocked
unconscious and three of four mules
kili'd .Speere was holding a scrapdr’s
handles, the Mexican was driving Um
•nul*" and V.’ilson neai by.
Hsd All ths Others.
“Were you ever in love?” asked the
sweet young thing.
"No," replied the bachelor, "but you |
can't mention any other fashionable j
disease that I haven't bad.”—Detroit | you kiss me? Certainly not.
Free Press.
Then that father said. "Discipline be !]*
hanged!" Maybe, though, it wasn't o
1 "lianged" he said, but the vowel sound J J
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like fly paper. Further attempts to lay o
t» I nxxwrs Fufflzs flo 11 < ) ' *
■ s vs x* w ss w v- s w • *• * • • • XX V- vv n Ills, x s si o
11 for his companions Were obliged to
help him to his seah Tbe door was
clodbd behind them, and the stage con-
tinued Its journey northward
About ten blocks farther on one of
the young men rose and. bidding his
I friends good night, stopped tbe st$ge
and alighted. A few minutes later
the second of the three said. "Well.
} good night. Dick." pulled the strap.
stepped to the sidewalk and walked
off through one of tbe side .streets
! There remained in the stage only the
L. Newsom, several years a leading husband and wife and the young man
business man of Jacksonville,is dead. who was obviously under the iutiu
[ ence w»e- liquor and who sat In
crouching attitude In a corner of (lie
; stage under the dim flickering lamp.
After a time tlie busband noticed
that t nr young man's head seemed to
bo drooping as if in sleep, and. fearing
that -tie might be borne beyond his
destination, tie rose, tapped him on the
shoulder and called attention to the
i number of ttie street they had just
?r7-( Tr
' ’ the husband repeated his w<
Ing over as be did so. Then ne suu ,
den I j- straightened up. turned to bls |
wife and said quickly, "We will get
out here."
She began to protest, but lie simply
repea ted (he words, pulled tbe strap
and helped tier to alight. As they
A Not* on the Authorship of a Welt i >
' Known Poem.
7 Tbe question Is often asked In news- ' >
pa|>ers and magazines. "Who wrote H !
the poem beginning 'In the hour of ; *
death, after this life's whim?'”
Tbe answer Is given that nothing la ! !
known of the author. It Is true this ' J
poem was published with only the Ini- < •
tials of tbe writer In tbe University <>
Magazine In 1879. But 1 bold tbe ][
manuscript of the poem, and 1 have <>
also Blackmore’s letter that sccompa
I Died it. Blackmore has been so long '< >
I dead I do not feel that there can be ] ’
I any barm In giving bls letter to the < >.
public. 1 subjoin an exact copy of it; L
also of hia poem < >
AGNES E COOK
"Teddn.. Jan. 5. 1879 ' *
the Roman sea god Neptune.
To Poseidon horses were sacred, and ,
to him they were sacrificed Poseidon
was believed to bnve created tbe first gaid more and more plainly- "I have
horse when tic struck the ground with | no frjends or relatives. I’m unhappy |J*
his trident mid a horse sprung from Hn(j uncomfortable and want some one < ►
the hole, w liicb afterward [became n t„ t,e gO()d to me."
spring. The sen god was the lord of Bu, Blnkg th<> stubborn and stiff
springs. io him nil springs were ; necked, stuck It out. though each cry
asuibeti. In the shn|>e of a horse he j stnbbed-him clear through
sometimes wandered by the shores of
liis ocenii domain, and where he struck
Ids hoofs deeply there the waters gush
cd out mid permanent springs were
found This is the reason why horse
shoes are n-ckoned lucky. Going to the
root of the matter, one sees a nature )
myth as the root principle. From tlie
at Amarillo, returned
of indictment. Alaiut 300
were ts-fore the body.
Robert Bautch whs badly bitten a|
Galveston by a water moccasin? It is
said the serfient 'after biting tbe man
followed him 200 yards.
Katy railway is putting in a reser-
voir. pump and large tank at F.moi-y
in Rains county. That place is sur-
rounded by inexhaustible springs.
A twelve-story building, to cost liali
>4 million dollat's. is to be put up at
Dallas at southwest eornerof Poydras
and Main streets at an early date.
District Judge Seay admitted Mrs.
Fanny Flanm-y, charged at Dallas
with killing her husband, to I><T( 1 in
• 10,000, which was promptly given.
When the steamer < assell arrived
at Galveston after her last ocean trit
r*|>l i V VN V pi I I1JU I Ml 1^4 I II
she hail on board 4o* immigrants am) rfl|n frpsh wnlPrg.
returning l-.ut-opean tourists. All but’
eleven were permitted to disembark.
A erunpnny with •45.000 capita I will
construct nt Balmorhea, in the Toy ah j
valley irrigated district,
miles southwest of Pecos,
mil) at an early date.
It was not Peary but Lieutenant A.
W. Greely. who made An unsuccessful when tbe horses came tone shod tne
attempt to reach the, North Pole, who transition of the luck emblem from the j
had charge of the weather statton at} footprint itself to the shoe mark, prnc- }
Denison from 1874 to 1877. »tically the Mme thing, was easy. |Ow? the baby put one rose petal hand
San Saba county commissioners al Pegasus, the winged horse, from ! —»- ---j. _
meeting last week elected Mrs. N. S. whose hoofs the water springs gushed f
Oliver county treasurer to till out the] copiously when he cama to earth,-has
unexpired term of her late husband, [ l»een credited with the origin of the
wfio recently departed this life. ' horseshoe luck.
Tom Wilson, a neigTyi. wAsconvicted I . TJy horseshoe waa a specific against
at Newton on charge of killing (NirwryVa^tbquakea. It would keep a bouse
out only a quarter of an hour. ' Poseidon was the shaker of the earth j
Gnappel Hill of JohnJ^'arjisle.
At Jaclfsonvilla if. H. Moses while;
driving came in contact with an elec-
tric light wire and lost his life.
Fifty years was the verdict of thejury
/'t Linden in the case of Henry Face, horseshoe stands among tbe first
el; a r><ru> I uit k i ■ »• zx/ i ■ t 1 • __ ... ...
springs” OWc primal origin, and to rhe
...... ...... .... .............. sea derived,
we owe all fertility on earth
The old Greeks therefore worshiped }
“'rxe/xIHihi fhn rdvor thrnnrrh
j his springs. They gave him horses, his
alfalfa
grow dim.
And pain lias exhausted every limb. < k
The lover of the Lord shall trust in him. ! < ►
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When the will has forgotten the lifelong ' ’
alm. | *
And the mind can only disgrace its iame J J
And a man Is uncertain of his own name < >
The power of the Lord shall fill this < >
frame < >
’ 111 !<>
When the last sigh Is heaved and the last ,
- ( tear shed. o
stood under the corner lamppost she j And the coffin is waiting beside the bed. o
A..J the widow and child (orsaKe the ' '
dead 1'
The angel of the txird shall lift this head.
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Bowen, William A. The Arlington Journal. (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1909, newspaper, September 24, 1909; Arlington, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1308405/m1/5/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Arlington Public Library.