The Arlington Journal. (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1907 Page: 6 of 8
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THAT BRASS IDOL INDUSTRY.
WHIN MELBA POSTED BILLS.
PAPYRUS FOR BANK NOTES.
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speculators
the ‘culture’ of the Bostonian.”
EVER READY TO OBLIGE.
WEDS ARMLESS PATIENT.
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if I had
BOTH PERISHABLE.
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Prospective Bridegroom
really your coat-of-arms at all?”
change her name.
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tBMdlng Motorists Saved Thousands
of Dollars In Flnoo.
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is No Longer Lucrative.
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•“* ThPTT '"f?ffr7’amera clicked, and,
with a sweeping how, the roblier re-
mounted his horse and dashed away.
JUST A CROPPER.
| TOYS THAT REFLECT HISTORY.
Birmingham Finds Their Manufacture Children’s
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They had reached that stage of
■' the-engagement when there is du-
ally more or less speculation as to
* the future on the part of the bride
1 to be.
“It doesn’t seem, Tom, dear, that
“I suppose you are rich beyond •
the dreams of Monte Carlo,” said the * 1
envious friend.
“Monte Cristo!” echoed Mr. Dus- j
tin Stax. “Why, sir, compared to '
the modern trust magnate, Monts J
Cristo was a poor relation.” __I
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Since our lastl
I has got down I
are considering I
of every kind, al
Mr. Kennedl
Strikes a blow I
trust in. Texas!
house. If it bcJ
printing trust vl
easy sailing as I
tofore. I
Mr. Gaines hl
bill making it al
able by a fine of]
for cock fightin
. cock pit.
A bill has bee
fining what sha
, lie stock yard
duties of the p
j operating the si
. ting charges t
j viding penaltie
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House bill N
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interesting to p<
......liin districts <£h
follows: “To i
ing, giving or
spirituous, vinot
liquors to any ;
age of twenty-o
the written con
ent or guardian
some one standi
or stead, and
causing of or be
in any such sale
and to prohibit
express com pan
rier from knowi
gale, gift or deli
Uy the same to be <
g terested therein
1 penalties theref
“Never, sweetheart!"
Tom, stoutly.
“But, dear,” she persisted, “if—•.
mind I say if—if some morning the
. atea^ should be burned and the cof-
*Yee coM. and you were tempted to’
be just a bit—just a teeney wee bit
cross, what would you do?”
She looked up into his face anx-
iously, and he felt that his reply
must be one that would fully reas-
sure her. After a moment's
thought he exclaimed, triumphant-
ly: “I’d go down town and get my
breakfast.”—Puck..
No MORE EXPERIMENTING.
The excursion train was on its
ret.tfrn trip, tilled with tired and
sleepy passengers. It had come to
a stop, b'ut to those virho looked out
)Kal Staff, tY.fput. #hW3e.?>
[shin be- <rouP of frantic relatives were wait-
ned' into Tn^^»iray■-ynfttps/ -----
A SUGGESTION.
A remarkable romance has just
been associated with the accident
hospital at Widnes, Lancashire,
England.
A young man met with a ter-
rible accident at the railway sta-
tion, \\ nines, in September, which
rendered it necessary for his arms
to be amputated at the shoulders.
He was tenderly nursed by a pretty
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am^llie feelings of fnepji
The mania of city people to keep
chickens,as soon as they move to a
suburban section, even if the neigh-
borhood is well built up, is aptly
illustrated in a block of new houses
in Mount Airy.
With great ideas of-the charac-
ter of people he was going to sell
his houses to, the builder provided
deep back yards with a wide alley
in the rear. His avowed object was
to enable the purchasers to erect au-
tomobile houses in the yards and
to run the machines in by the al-
leys.
The houses are now all occupied,
and, while not a single rftitomobile
shed appears, nearly half the yards
contain chicken houses and the barn-
yard feature is the most conspicu-
ous in the new section.—Philadel-
phia Record.
IT HAS GROWN. **
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“I can’t imagine anything mor© ■
unsatisfactory,” remarked tlw'diron- ■
ic kicker, “than a meal at our board- ■
ing house.” , » f‘* fl
“No?” replied the sentimental
youth. “Evidently you never get a 1
kiss from your best girl over the tele-
phone.”
A DWINDLED CELEBRITY.
tween Them gradually^ripened mto
love.
The nurse haa just married her
armless lover. She has some small
private means and intends to work
f^r herself and her husband.
DODGING THE QUESTION.
“I wonder how it feels to have
so much money you don’t know
what to do with it.”
“I was that way once.”
“Come off!”
“Sure I was. I only had so much
and my creditors were demanding
as much again.”
HIS REAL OBJECTION.
“O!” remarked the first fox-hunt-
er, “you should have seen Mr.
Nuritch take that high hedge.”
“You surprise me!” exclaimed the
other. “I thought the horse he rode
wasn’t much of a jumper.”
“0! the horse didn’t take the
hedge. Mr. Nuritch did it alone.”
HER ONE CHANCE.
lUevful as Escorts for Lons Womirf^M I
•fiB Bubstltirtso far Nursemaids.
Berlin has just adopted ths di»«^
trict messenger. The boys wear
jaunty polo caps with leather straps
under their chins like English in-
fantrymen.
Their uniform is blue with red
pipings and red stripes down the
seams of the trousers. The coata fl
are military blouses with stiff, braid- ■
ed upright collars. There are six fl
buttons in groups of two so arranged
that both regular and shoulder belt*
may be worn. The latter has a regu-
lar cartouche case for the safe keep-
ing of letters or small parcels,
j Oddly enough, it is not so much
in a business way that the system haa .
attracted the Berlineee. They have
taken it up as a kind of social and
domestic auxiliary.
The boys are already in request as
escorts to lone women; this is a spe-
cial boon in a city where a respect-
able woman can hardly stir out of ...
doors after dark without either es-
cort or chaperon.
Many households are also saving
the expense of a nursemaid by call-
ing a boy to trundle the baby’s per-
ambulator for an hour or so or .per-
haps to romp with the larger chil-
dren in one of the parks. Boys are
also seen giving French poodles their
airings and Berlin lover* are said
to have found them a more trust-
worthy medium of communication
than the mails.
The peaceful Berlinese are not yet
accustomed to the novelty and as the
boys go about the streets on their
various errands crowds jitand to gaze
at them. The boys are rigidly
drilled, especially in politeness.
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, PLEASED THE BOSTON MAN.
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Vieuxtcmps, the famous violinist,
used to tell the following story:
When crosair|g London bridge
one day, he wig suddenly brushed
aside by a wretshad tatterdemalion
who climbed the parapet and
plunged out into the river. The
foot passengers crowded around im-
mediately to watch the unfortunate
man as he rose to the surface, and
in a tridfe some one shouted: “I’ll
bet he drowns!"
“Two to one he’ll swim ashore!”
was the answer. The rest of the
pedestrians joined in the betting.
1 Meantime Vieuxtemps rushed
down to the river bank, secured a
waterman and rowed out to the res-
cue. Just as the boatman was
about to reach forth to grasp the
poor fellow, who by this time was
floundering about in the water, hav-
ing lost his desire -for death, the
spectators above cried out: “Leave
him alone! There’s a bet on it!?
The oarsman drew back into the
boat, and the unfortunate wretch
sank before their eyes.—The Sun-
day Magazine.
“Here, you!” angrily shouted
the beginner at golf, “quit-laughing
at my game. If I hear any more
impudence from you I’ll crack you
over the head.”
“All right, sit,” replied the cad-I
die; “your deek is de best stick to1
use fur dat.”
Ethel--Jack says that when we are
married he will give me all the money
he earns - -■ -
Maud—Did he say anything about
the money he doesn t earn?
WHEN LOVE IS YOUNG.
make it plain that here once more
down before the conquering Amer-
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The manufacturers say that there
used to be j trade in idols, but
that competition has “killed the in-
dustry .in Birmingham.” “We make
brass images,” said one of the idol-
founders of the city, “and really
they are so beautiful that I don't
wonder the heathen falls down and
worships them."
A curio dealer who stocks idols
said that idols are still made in
Birmingham. There was a certain
demand for them, but it was a
small one. They were made for
curio dealers and were sold by them,
not to the heathen, but to Christians
interested in missionary work, who
liked to have on their mantel pieces
a “real” heathen idol. Years ago
brass images were freely made for
foreign agents, and. Bishop Thorn-
ton notwithstanding, 1 fear they
-would be made to-day if an order
came for a supply of them.
HAB NO ROOM FOR MONEY.
President Stillman of the Na-
tional City bank of New York was
bom in Texas, but is a clean cut
Yankee from Connecticut. As
president of the National City bank
he is almost as powerful as
Rothschilds are in Europe.
Said one of his intimates recent-
ly: “There are no fireworks about
Jim—just plain ordinary get there.
And he carries the queerest lot of
truck in his pockets,
some of us
collection.
“He had a couple of penknives,
a buckeye, a shoe buttoner, a rab-
bit foot, two or three rubber bands,
a silver pencil, a bunch of keys, a
cigar puncher, a gold watch, a
leather washer, a corkscrew, a seal,
a memorandum book, an elevated
railroad ticket, some theater passes,
three safety pins, a box of .matches,
and a newspaper clipping.”
“You haven’t mentioned money.”
“Money ? Why, the man didn't
have a cent.’1
“Smoothers is exceedingly care-
ful never never to let a woman get
any strings on him.”
“That’s right. Not
point to a thing he has
Waitress—You needn’t make such
fuss about a fly in your tea.
Customer—But there are two, I
her; he never sends anything but object to mixed bathing in. my cup.
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<’ I After a year of mourning the
widower was ready to go up against
- the matrimonial game once more.
• “Dearest,'” he said, addressing the
prospectiye_.No, 2, “are you..sure
you can be content with love in
cottage i ”
“Yes, indeed,? she answered, “I’ll
be contented as Jong as love lasts.”
“Um—yes,” said the man, whose
experience had endowed him with
some wisdom, “I guess we had bet-
ter wait until 1 can afford a regu-
, lar house.” .
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' Ctitick—Yes, D’Auber is home
from his trip to the Rocky mbjin-
tains. • He put* in most of his time
mountain
a lot of
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"Yea,” said Woodby, “this is my
coat-of-arme.”
“By .thg may,” remarked Oaddie,
“do you know that Sneerwell has
been telling everybody that it’s not goods I thee endow.
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Here is a curious little story
about Sir James Simson, the man
who introduced the use of chloro-
form into surgery, and a peril which
he escaped, as recorded by Lyon
Playfair Simpson, when busy with
his researches into the subject of
anaesthetics,' called one day on
Playfair and asked if he had any-
thing new likely to produce anaes-
thesia. Playfair had just prepared
a liquid winch seemed worthy of
trial. Simson, who knew no fear,
prepared instantly to test it on
himself. This Playfair refused to
allow until it had first been tried
on rabbits. Two were procured and
placed under the effects of the an-
aesthetic. Next drfy Simson pro-
posed to try it bn himself. “We
might as well see how the rabbits
have fared,” said Playfair. They
found both the animals dead.
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It Was In Australia and the Wanted .
to Give a Concert
Who would ever imagine that
Mme. Melba once went forth armed
with a pail of paste in one hand, a
paste brush in the other and-a roH
of bills under her arm? asks the
Grand Magazine.
Buch a thing, however, actually
happened in the early days of her
career, when she was hungering for
opportunities to sing in public.
While Nellie Mitchell, as she then
was, was still a schoolgirl, holiday-
making at Sorrento, in Victoria,
she got up a concert in aid of one
of the local charities.
She asked her family to help her
eke out her own meager savings,
which she intended to devote to the
purpose; but her father, in spite of
the fact that he was very fond of
music—and still has a fine voice
which he loves to use—did not care
to encourage his daughter in the
enterprise. In the hope of stifling
her leaning toward a professional
career, he refused any aid whatever.
This check, however, did not
daunt the plucky little songbird in
any way. She determined, having
pledged herself so far, to carry the
matter through, coat what it might,
without any assistance. Unfortun-
ately all her own savings had by
this time been swallowed up in the
preliminary expenses, and-there was
not a penny left to pay for posting
the bills on which she relied to ad-
vertise the entertainment.
Having tried various ways of cir-
cumventing the difficulty without
success, sh$ determined to be her
own bill poster. She went straight
to the hotel kitchen and persuaded
one of the maids to make her a
quantity of paste.
Then she borrowed a bill poster’s
brush and as soen as it was dark set
.off on her adventurous round and
posted up every one of the bills she
had had printed. The result of her
enterprise was a big house and a
neat sum of mmey.
LEFT M4> TO DROWN.
The following story is often told
Among the old pioneers and more
enlightened Indians of
though it has probably
peared in print.
At the time the Hudson Bay com*
pany was founding the city of Port-
land in the early fifties, there was
party of Bostonian speculators lo-
cated farther up the Columbia river.
This party was often referred to fig
“the Boston men” and from ' fre-
quently hearing this expression, the
Indians came to apply the term of
“Boston man” as'their only expres-
sion meaning white man. In further
explanation, the Indian word'foF, g
expressing bad and dishonest ia v
“cultus.”
One day while a number of InJ
dians were sitting by the roadside, a
couple of the Boston speculators nob
versed in the lingo of the Indians^
coming upon them, stopped to sea fl
what they were doing.
.An old Indian looked up
turning to his friends
“Cultus Boston men”
thievish white men).
Then one of the
turned to his friend and said in
amazement:
“Just to think that even these
poor ‘ignorant Indians acknowledge
buildings were in kight. Fully ten
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ed a snowstorm on the summit, re- were wondering where they were or
suscitated two benumbed strangers what the trouble might be.
on the way down, and guided the j Just then a young , man appear-
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? “CracKerjack!!’ he yelled.
“\Veli,”“-W?T passenger fi'pT
front, “it’s some satisfaction to
know where we’re at, anyway.”
A DILEMMA.
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“The idea! Why, I designed it parson, isn’t this rather early to
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Playthings Show
Spirit of the Ago.
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slump in brass idols at Birmingham tion io in its toys. The future his-
torian will have no difficulty in
the British manufacturer ha* gone reconstructing our age if he finds
merely a few toy* in diuty garret*
ican, says the London Dajjy News, or museums. >
Do you know what the little chil-
dren in the early days of the perse-
cuted Christiana played with ? I
have always thought it at once pa-
thetic and horrible; they played
with little toy instrument* of mar-
tyrdom.
. So to-day childhood plays with
the things of science. What w&t
oversea this year from Paris and
Nuremberg were toys of wireless
telegraphy, electrostatic machines,
electric tramways, automobiles,
driven by alcohol or electricity, elec-
trib torpedo boats that plunge and
come to the surface again, cinemato-
graphs, for the magic lantern is
declassed, and chromatropes, that
present colored and moving pic-
tures; these scientific fancies of the
moment and a dozen others.
I looked at tiumi one and all,
and amazement grew upon me.
What kind of a little boy is he
who plays with these somber and in-
tricate toys?
And then I remembered that even
the little twentieth century boy is
one of the wise people; in his un-
tiring wisdom he kpows that toys
—even ruhmkortfvc0ils and geissler
luminous tubes and voltameters—
are best when broken, and 1 foresaw
for him splendid moments, inquir-
ing, destructive.—Everybody’s.
GREAT SCIENTIST SAVED.
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“One moment,” said the affable
stage robber. “The lady with the
camera evidently wants to take me.
Will this do, ma'am ?” and he struck .
a tasty attitude.
The lady smiled. She was a
camera fiend and the chance to hu-
mor her pet fad quite overcame all
thought of danger.- * ' Y
“Look pleasant, please4,’.’ she said.
The stage robber smiled.
“I will give you the pleasant look
of the man wha has just taken sev-
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a few hundreds in loose change, two. _____,
bags of dust, eight watches, four pick up a few mining stocks on th©
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“Have yo uever heard Jiinkins
relate about the time he got half-
way up Mt. Blunc with one of his
little nephews and no guide?” asked
one man of another.
“How long ago did he tell you
about it ?” was, the evasive reply.
“Last March, vfhen he just got
home,” said the first man.
“Well,” said the other, “in the
eight' months since then he has /of the windows no station, or other
climbed the rest of the way, suc-
cored a fainting guide and sustain-
ed a snowstorm on the summit, re-
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SIMPLY OUT OF THE QUESTION.
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Sufferer—Well, what is the matter
with me, doctor?
Physician (brusquely) —Appendi-
citis.
Sufferer (horrified)—Nonsense,
doctor! You don’t know what you
are talking about! I can’t afford to
have appendicitis-.. . . ,
THE OLD HOMESTEAD. | ,
The stern New England father
had just turned his daughter into tho r
eral thousands from the express box, j street. • I :
a few hundreds in loose change, two ( “Fine,” she ejaculated. “I’ll just
})ttcrQ nf illicit nierht wutchoja. falir !
VsA mnrrilv
siTvbf'tn&iTig;
Nell—Mary Jones is spelling her
name “M-a-e” now.
Belle—Let her. That’s about
the only -chance she’ll ever hays to
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The couch was probably intro-
duced into Greece by the Assyrians,
for it appears .in the Parthenon
frieze in the British museum, and
the vase room there and in the
Louvre give frequent illustrations
of ancient Greek couches, which
were made of bronze instead of
wood, and also of the stuffs used
in upholstering them. The Greeks
in their turn taught the Romans the
use of the couch, for Greek artists
hnd workmen were employed in
Rome. During meals men reclined
on couches each njade to hold three
persons; a low rail protected the
back, and three rtf these seats sur-
rounded the table at an entertain-
ment, leaving tlie fourth side open
for service. Couches were also car-
ried and usejl as litter*.
’ 80ME SATISFACTION.
In only one place in Europe i*
the papyrus plant still to be found.
This ia on the upper reaches of
the little river Anapo, In Sicily,
near the mouth of which Syracuse
i* situated.
Pwpyrus cultivation was a very
important branch of agriculture
with the antique and classic works,
for it was from the pith of this
eeraiaquatic plant that the material
was made upon which the ancitnt*
wrote; a material similar to tough,
thick, whitey-brown paper, which
moderns caM'papyrua
It was the writing paper of the
world for over 2,000 year*—a long
period for any manufactured article
to command the market and suc-
ceesfully defvall competition.
Now the Italian minister of
finance is planning to utilize the
papyrus plant again. Its cultiva-
tion is to be undertaken by the min-
istry of agriculture, and a state fac-
tory for the manufacture of papy-
rus paper is to be erected.
A law is to be passed declaring
both the Cultivation and the manu-
facture to be government monopo-
lies, and the papyrus paper is to be
■t A* the automobile tore down the
I toed a man leaped from behind a
I Aedge and hopped back and forth
i .BR one leg.
/ With a serious look the driver
allowed down.
I "Tlie motor cops are timing u’a,"
l*e said. “I’d have been rim'in for
II i£ai>t speeding but for our friend
I ’then* ” * ...
“Who is he, and why did
hop?” ’
“He ia a -servant of the club. It
I duty to patrol this road and to
auttunobilists warning if he
they are being timed by mo-
cops. The warning must be given
signs, otherwise the warner
T would be run in for obstructing
justice.
“Every club has different signs.
|For instance, in Connecticut you are
‘warned by a man who throws hi*
hat in the air and catches it. In
•California the warner makes circles
in the air with both hands. In
‘Massachusetts he shakes his fist at
“So* it jgoes, and by these warn-
ings autoinobilists are saved the
payment of thousands and thou-
sands of dollars in fines” ( employed exclusively for the pur-
NOT HIS WHOLE INCOME.
' '..yJ. snaking sketches of the
peaks. He showed me
them.
Ascum—How were they?
ural? *
Critick—Well, they’re certainly
rocky.
ALL HI8 OWN.
Cortland F. Bishop, the
president of the -Aero club, was be-
ing interviewed on aeronautics.
“Is it true,” said the reporter,
“that you get airsick up in a bal-
loon the same as you get seasick
on the ocean?/
“That is only true,” said Mr.
Bishop, “of fidgety, highly sensitive
persons, like the old lady on the
train. -
“She said to the conductor as he
punchi^ her ticket:
“,‘Conductor, is it a fact that the
locomotive is at the rear of the
train?’
<MYes, madam,’ the‘conductor an-
swered. ‘\Ve have a locomotive at
each end. It takes one to push and
one to pull to get us up this grade.’
“‘Oh, dear, what .shall I do?’
moaned the old lady. ‘I’m alwavs
trainsick if I ride with my back to
the locomotive.’ ”
poses of the currency.
Bank notes printed on papyrus
paper would, under those circum-
stances, be really inimitable. In
Italy—the note forgers’ paradise—
this would be of incalculable advan-
tage to the government and to the
public.
CROOKED WORK.
Mrs. Benham—Do you love me as
much as you did when you first
married me?
Benham—You talk as
married you more than once.
THE BRIDEGROOM’S QUESTION.
Kb
elet
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who* we could ever speak a cross word
about to,.4ach other, does it, dearest?”
s»—^|r*he murmured from his coat lapel.
'’Never, sweetheart!” declared
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ever given j
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Stanberry, William M. The Arlington Journal. (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1907, newspaper, February 7, 1907; Arlington, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1313665/m1/6/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Arlington Public Library.