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MR. TOM WATSON
A Sample Menu
TYPEWRITERS
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Shipment Channel Catfish Due Today
Sold, rented and repaired by
Also Boaton Haddock
Denton Typewriter Exchange
the
Plenty of Good Fat Hens and Fryers
Your Business Appreciated
We
East Side Square,
TURNER & GRAHAM
BALL BROS. MARKET AND GROCERY
Phone 780.
be-
♦
Phone 25 or 925.
Phone No. 9.
We Are Only Too Glad
—to render any service we may to our friends and
,'iistoniers.
The Grand Leader Co
W. L. YARBROUGH, Jeweler
PHONE 610
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GREAT
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Oliver Battery Co.
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THESE
HOT
AFTERNOONS
Be sure
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Bread is your best food.
July Clearance
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Eat more of it.
ahead.
BIG DANDY
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PHONE
SALE
80 OR 47
Examlnat loti
Fresh Air
Phone 992.
NOW IN FULL SWING
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WOODSON A. HARRIS
The reason?
The
ACCURATE PRESCRIPTION SERVICE
East Side Square.
Eclipse Lawn Mowers
Denton. Don't take
word for it
-come see
our
COOK'S
AND INSTANT DELIVERY
Compare our prices with others.
• foi yourself.
$11.50 to $23.00
Garden Hose
Damask,
58
Any Length.
FISH
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33c
47c
Produce
BROOKS DRUG STORE
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Postal Substation.
Phones 29-39
We Deliver
ft
24c
97c
TALIAFERRO & SON
$1.79
FOR SALE OR TRADE
Phone 171.
va-
$1.29
87c
AUTOMOBILE
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27c
RADIO NU-SHU
INSURANCE
We give terms.
We trade.
We Appreciate Your
Old shoes made t
look
Business
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tin*
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—and kindly words. To
A BANK OF SERVICE AND FRIENDLINESS
Factory demonstration tod^y.
17c
pleasure
to us.
ui.t
FREE!
PHONE 24
FIRST STATE BANK
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By Purification
Fresh st
the time.
— Are at our store on the northwest corner of the
square, and we want you to see them.
Pure Linen Damask, 64
inches wide—
Silk Georgette, all desir-
able shades—
You like fish?
Big order of fish for—
30c
at
We have
grinder that
lias made our Prescription business the best in town.
It’s true—we fill the most prescriptions every day.
Smith-Hamilton Motor Co.
118 So. Locust St. Phone 268.
(>ne 6 1 Cadillac (dupe
One 1923 Chalmers Touring
One 1924 Dodge Sedan
[Printed Organdie, beau-
[ tiful designs ,tub fast—
Spoyt Satin in the want-
ed pastel shades—
Black shoes made blonde, blonde shoes made
black or any color.
A new shoe coloring,
like new.
Printed Flaxon, guaran-
teed fast colors—
An'*.
I nt «i
hull • breed
Hardware and Sporting
(ioods.
No Mtute organization that rater* only to the
affluent, but a democratic institution of real service
to those in many financial walks of life.
Argentina proposes to upend up-
wards of >l,60nj)00 for a national
aviation gchool at Buenos Aires, an
air port and various operations ol
the new civil aviation bureau.
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three
wood
the
Is Headquarters
For Fresh Country
w hen
from
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liastoned
49c
Plisse Crepe, solid col-
ors in pink. blue, orchid,
maize and white—
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Th* next <U>. TINKV.
I wo-year-old orphaned i
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White or fancy colors
Oil Cloth—
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chiseled
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hinged
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East Side Gleaners and Dyers
Phone 31.
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It I. Well, Then, to Leurn the Im.
portun <■ of flood Elimiruilnin
prings
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42x72 Axminster Rugs
<><■ k id' groceries all
ot escape hut a-aln falls,
of Ifnvml arrives.
Arc You
“Toxic?”
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We will give away free a beautiful Axminster
Rug the following days: Wednesday, July 13th, Friday, July
15th, Monday, July 18th, at 4:00 P. M. Come!
Good grade Bleached
Domostc. soft finish, 36
inches wide—
Table
inches wide—
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it
revolving
around It trijs a key
uh a ’
flew t
relief
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tlini rfl
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We urge your patro^W®, large
fcr you a real banking service at al
the tone had widened. ghoit
dtotanc* flying uuUwrlUeJ here say.
u single sending apparstn. would
suffice.
DENTON GAFE
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Thu
two of
Ixtter work
ii ventilator
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Fresh \ rgetablcs all
the time in season.
Plenty
hens.
J. i. COOK GROCER
. • a ox/ i i ix» i «X7> **.» nix
Fokker plane kept receiving
letter T, the navigator knew
1 1 as In the air lane to Hawaii
lie got too far to the North he
<ived the letter N and if too
to the south the letter A. so
could shift his course accord-
incly and get back into the lane
The object of having a .wndlng I
apparatus at each end was to keep
tl.e .Ignats strong as the plane
s|x'<l out and because of distance
Wish I could leach fur one of toy
etgarets. he said genially to the eld
who had rolled close to li s . ..
"But since 1 can't, I II tali: • * “
b- cheerful Won t nlI^"111 t)H. sky ,(r bllrns
dt nth it.s h
rie fne
M. A. GAY
Tin Shop
219 W. Oak. Phone 710
Printed Voiles, big
riely of colors -
, j or B19A1I, and of-
at all times,
FIRE and
TRANSPORTATION
THEFT
TORNADO and
HAIL
JnjBLIC LIABILITY
PROPERTY DAMAGE
COLLISION or
UPSET
PLATE GLASS
please you is a
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If NCTTOHAL inactivity of
the kidneys permits re-
tention of waste jxiisons
blcx^i Symptoms of this toxic
condition are n dull, l im ui.I
feeling, droway headache s . nd.
son < ficnci^ ftoxic back « he : nd
dizzc - ss That the kiclii. • .re
not f in. tinning as th. y <
is often shown by s
burn ng passage of s<
Many leaders have
the value of Dpon
stimulant diuretic to th.
neys, in this condition I.’
everywhere endorse Doan
AsA ) our nqiHibvi '
- y’rWyF-At--
TKACHKR8* TESTS
FOR AUG. 17 13
teachers’ examinations will
be given on August 12 and 13, ac-
cording to J. L. Yarbrough, county
tuperlou ndent of public ins true-
I lion, and not on August 5 and ti
| as was formerly aimounced. ,\ppli-
cants who wish to take the exam-
inations mpst file their application
with the county superintendent on
or before July 20
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Try-outs for both boys and girls
of the Teachers College were given
for life saving badges Saturday at
the college swimming ‘pool. Boys
who passed tile test were: Oncl
Malone. Emmett Merrett. Of nn
Witocii Delma Ligon. W. C. Cuxn-
mings. Elmer Tampke, Lloyd Da-
vlr„ T. B. Davis and Artie J Lynn.
GUIs wlu> were successful in the
test included Misses Alice Adele
Wilkjrson. Noruic Brewer. Leta
Brewer, Janice Yarbrough, Virgie
WUeman, Dora Copp. Gladys Wil-
liamson and Mary Ruth Pearson.
of Maui. Hawaii
Directional Signalx
' >.i c c tional radio telegraph sig-
.!■. .cent out for each station cov®
But ci:!.1 a narrow V shaped area.
. , , I Al' i / the northern arm of each
tn the blood i , . .........
And I. too. have mu1 v lhe au-sh :ind 401 of the let“
All in •)).• > tei < and along the other went
to J the not and dash of the letter A.
A . the N and A blended it made
the letter T so that as long as the
let us | gt cat
yyu He
after a hard morning's work tier
housewife deserves rest, recitation
Dainty and comfortable < lollies are
necessary for the enloymcnt ot um-
cner's play You can trust vour fin-
est and daintiest dresses and g. wns
to us for cleaning
Receiving Device
The signal is received by a wire
iiungmg from Ute plane, weighted
down by a three-pound weight.
The signal to transmitted auto-
matically at intervals of a second
or two An electric motor keeps a
cylinder revolving continuous!;
Half wav around it trijs a key
which sends out the letter N. An-
other half revolution and it trips
a key which sends out Ute letter
A.
The mechanism is much the
same as is used in the radio com-
pass.
Printed Silk Crepes,
beautiful patterns and
colors—
SAN FRANCISCO, July. 13.—
When an airplanes radio receiving i
set iunctions, the pilot can follow |
im ecn beacons across the ocean |
This was indicated in the first
practical test of the radio beacon
system of guiding planes at sea
Except when Ute receiving set of
the army plane that spanned the
Pacific from Oakland to Hawaii
fulled, the flyers were able to fol-
low invisible lanes of safety chart-
ed for them by wireless stations
1 he method developed by the 1
| s Signal Corps under Paul 8. Ed-
)<i,sc. wards at McCook Field. Dayton,
employed. Radio beacons
ven installed at Fort Miley near
San Francisco and at Paia on the
»(>w|,l'lc! of Maui. Hawaii
F Carefully Planned
Lk When the In well |
ne<| by •* t rum,
|M»M H11» 111 t V
ii n<l «* r n t it n<l I n g
rf r»» I n—»n
m hr r«t u r
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nirnt.
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SCHMITZ undertaking
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Prompt A... l>.. In n.-r s.-rrlr-y
NOW BBOIN THE STOHY
CHAPTER XLI
, . Through the apertures in the
stones which served os windows VI-
*lak and Nunnally could look down
"oDxfhc court through which they
I ‘had passed a moment before a court
I - ♦ aMkwed by a ruined colonnade or
[ ' ' **Rr'oni it rose the gigantic stone
) tiglire with the fire before it which
< th«y had noticed from the mountain
‘ a Wtore which on this closer view
seamed to be grotesquely carved in
* *Ne shape of one of those fantastic
^Nguma so common in the art of
ifller'civilizations, half human, half
Ind. with short arms and cIaw
retching ;out to the east
On either side rose two shafts of
r- . mone. On one ot these was I)xed a
J rusty Spanish arquebus, on lhe other
| J parts of a Spanish rack
| « At the foot Of the great figure VI-
I now perceive a smaller
■ J one. About the size of a man. It wn-
< obetouily a crude and rec ent at tempi.
| 4 to copy the Impressive stone figure
' ovetshadowlng it. It had none of
I ! the state Egyptian-like dignity of the
| outer. its head was uncouth, with
wide-open mouth like the ne-
” gTO fetiahes from the Zambesi
had but a single roughly c"-’
arm, tk’hlch began at the chi
apdaged to be clumsily
», ao that pressure would
f at down
* flat hand had no fingers
whet were apparently
|>-pdirU*d nieces of
ns we.» thruft into
1. Radis ting out of thia figure
was a series of fist, table-hke stones.
tMcentral one the lergesf being <11-
reotly under the outstretched
BmprZI this burned the fire
Vllak drew away from the window
Mr half an hour he lay silent,
thoughtful-. The Chinese cast of his
eym accentuated At last he spoke
K^iYoyr Light* Go Out
At night, phone 1194-W.
Glad to fix ’em.
The Electric Shop
YERBY & BLAIR.
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! Mnnih more and
Let us !ilstall
fan nl your shop
They carry nwnv smoke «nd
odors, leaving ‘he air Irish aud
clean.
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Any ph;
I "PerJc<^ 1
tein is
Perfect 1
Tlirrr inoru (Im*, ainh’o** Thru
altar of tin flrr-L’od to await Dir
|fI8 HAN IIAPTENHII
mpttf Ua*r been niadr on
I Of ELIMi: M AKBtKKI an
an girl waning consldera-
>pert> near the little town
— . --1TO VRRME. in west < en-
trsl Brazil. Several mysterious
deaths have tx-curred. but tn the
■bmwdness of her cousin and
metecj-T. VII.AK. u curious mix
ntfr of SmrrtcHfi slid Oriental
Mend and u student ot crlmlnol-
•*yilak has Ihmii trying to |>ec-
’* suade Elise to leave Porto Verde,
letting him Ma* hrliind with
Ids friend, IJNCOl.s M SMI -
VY, and elderly American < lirin-
“‘Jrt. to oohr tile mystery. Mie
Mhaliy agrees, but her departure
Is prevented bi threat of floods.
22Jteaaaa<ers ride through the
"WMBtryside. warning the nathr*
Vllak suggests thev go tc> flee
hatiM* of GAYLOKH PKEVFIiss.
• •>a recluiw and a forbidding man
•nd an enemy of El|se'« ahoin
khe suspects of a knowledge <>t
the conspiracy against her. She
agrees it Is their duty.
Vllak learns the flood aarnlng
Is a ruse to get Prentiss out of
,£7- - Informs him.
by an
lower
t link
fire
Without, the one he would swift-
man. who had rolled close to h * , .... ., . .
side "But since I can't. ill tah: » ‘l“ l>He > he other is a force
Might as well be cheerful Won t 1 ><>ea.sion kills him as light-
help Elise or any of us bv worryme ,l,e sk> !’r b;lrns, h"n
Look out that window and sc- u ,s ‘‘ >g Oles or prai-
rie fire Besides tire does him enor-
i mou, s< rviees. and he concludes that
..... a god that bed be'ter try to pro-
| pit i.i ’<■
"If you watched any of the sol-
i dters .‘.ho came from the front where
l tliev suffered
you'd
stand
hours,
not ..
‘ had a
I psy. liology
, )t (------
ah's ....
lhe (
act tled
w 1; bout
“ A 'WktlVe reports Prentiss
been seen with a baby,
trail lead* Into the Jungle mid.
•"-yHtn native trackers, they pur-
ime. Calamity overtakes them
...flpieir natives are hurt, or desert.
-.ItMV* their white friends
are fever victims.
El tee. Vllak and Nunnally n-
• nally emerge from the Jungle,
ntteantiy they come to the out-
Oldrts of a strange city, resem-
btlng lhe old tnca civilization
flere they are nuuie prisoners
They discover they are In the
pan'er of CARI.OS DMI.BEN'TA
■iX whom they had known In
fOEto Verde as an engineer
D’Albentara persuades the ruler
> s ofc the city that \ ilak and N'un-
• MBy should hr killed
the ceiling
The old man was lying near him. •
tossing restlesslv and rubbing a’
the thongs chafing Ills slight bod.'
Suddenly Vllak began rolling toward
the middle of the stone floor whero
the day dishes bearing their sup-
per had lain, and rubbing his long
fingers in drippings of meat fat
which still marked the spot, oegan
coating his bonds with greas»
"Vgnv er why are you
doing that?" the old man whispered.
Vllak continued vigorously rubh'.ug
his fingers against the strips of hide
"To attract any rats which might
happen to be around and let them
gna'yr me free 7 he way the ante dirt
when wo were prtoonara in that
camp near Porto Verde Or perpe]>s
attract the ants themselves Wehr
got to get out of here "
fie coated Nunnally's fetters 'c. the
same fashion All night they lay ,
silent, afraid to speak and so fright-|
en off some chance rat who might
be their unwitting savior. But no
People came; they saw and they bought.
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mmWADAT JtXT u m?
rat and no Mnta cam?.
A purplish dawn 1
•iky and pronounced ,__
meiit a failure That a
tried again Again he fall
the stone structures were unattract-
ive to rodents und the termites, or
the volcanic sod contained salts
which made (tHelr breeding UlXIictU',.
Night after night pnkspd, Hways
bringing with it some new vttemp:
which a few hours ot racking
proved futile
At last when Vllak with hi« fin-
ger-nails had scratched ten marks In
the wall to number the days >t thtlr
captivity. D'Albentara entered on ills
regular tour to see that his prise,n-
ers were safe and casually in for. i rd
them that only three days remained
until the feast of Rayml
"A most interesting feast, rnes*
inte resting, amigos " he murmured
as he wiped his face with i silk
handkerchief newly bought in Porto
Verde "It is to me most bad chit
you cannot think of beholding it
wllli pleasure You know the
of Rayml. is It not so, cgvahiic ro.t?
"It is a feast of the sun. he end
of t lie rainy season, winter, as y< i
cull it when the sun has travel, d
farthest from its children and
to come otck once more
Many are the Indian
Even those In - I
tfie bea.itl ui
Is it not so?
is most picturesque of nil
The African tn the blood
He waited until Jt
vanished before un-
told me you
it from the
wpictou will tell you that
Purification ot the Sys-
Nature's Foundation of
Health.” Whv not rid
[ yourself of chronic ailments that
are undermining your vitality?
Purify your entire system by tak-
ing a tlipropgh course of U.ilotab.i
-once or twice a week for several
weeks - and see how Nature re-
wards you with health
Calotabs are the greatest of a „
system purifiers Get a fannt /'W
package with full directions Old- V
35 cents at drug stores. fAdv.c
■il MinriM* ton will he l.ihl U|M»n
hi oiiii iit for t lie sarrifh e ’’
one dav it fried chick-
- ixjtato aalad. brown beans.
<i.-l peach cobbler that we
« >Kid ready to serve for
- 4 dinner Another dav It
> something else, und today
‘ different again The me-
nu < hanges every dav but it's
.1 ■ ;k\s good, t When you don t
’.’..mt to ckxjk Just phone u«
and ask what we have cooked
plan-
(|H'rl«*nre<l meu, all
of rnnfuwlon, ml«-
ii 11 iinnereeMiry
aarehlrvl. In
n art* p< rmitted to a«-
I (hi«rg<* of Aernngr.
rrry tlrfidl |« hrendlrd
him! Mmnothl,*.
tubbed hlB arm against tfee wall.
"Why does that smaller idol have
that hinged arm? It's quite bndly
done yes BacUy*
Vllak grunted "Badly done. Nan-
ny. 1 agree, but well enough done to
be the cause of our deaths IX we
don't get out oX here beforehand and
:f my theory about it's correct. "
"I think I can see traces ot the
work of some tricky Indian shaman
or African witch-doctor in that. The
chap who's a little bit cleverer than
I fils fellows and rigs up some device
I to keep them impressed They're
I th" original ward politicians, these
witch-doctors and native chiefs.
| Only they frighten the other people
Into voting for them instead ot tkto-
I mg them on picnics and giving them
I five dollars on election day Inci-
dentally. if you remember that stat-
ue looks much like the figure on the
ring I showed you that night I fell
by t,hc railroad embankment "
"Yes er yes So it
does I remember Quite The ring
you took from the half-breed with
the unpleasant nose, who was guard-
ing your oousln Just now . . yes."
"I hasten to correct yon The jtng
1 took from D'Albentara "
| The wasp returned again to the
i old man s arm
had once more
| swering. " You
toe k 'ook
i half-breed
"I told you that to keep you from
a time when
have been wise
finger
1 liner”
got
add
"Yes. It Is most regretful that you
cannot see it as my guests I i
many ot the most interesting,
say pectacles. v .11 occur when
are (lead Or dying, amigos Which
is not pleasant for you Nor for
me cavalhelros. though tills you
will not believe Much would I pre
fer to hold you as my cherished
friends But business, always busi-
ness this wll not permit
"I liree more days, amigos. Then
at sunrise you will be laid upon tin
alLar of the fire-god to await the
momc nt for the sacrifice Which
may be the first dav of the feast or
which mav be 'he last But which
will surely, amigos, not be long Use ,
well your time "
H" strode out smiling, pulling the
ends of his mu-tachc
I To Be 4 ontlnued »
Vllak tries another desperate plan
ot escape but a-ain fails. The feast
___WITHOUT THE KNIFE.
|>T I pHrR<ll«ll»IMl, BLINNFBLEEUING. In from 2 to
I ■ 14 Weeks Without pain, cutting, burning. sl<Hlgh-
■ ..J Ing or detention from work. Fissures, fistula and
A ot lu-r rectal diseases. i:\ainlnatlon without
< hai
DR. Rs W. ZILARt Chiropractor.
1-2 BI<m k South Chevrolet snlrarootfl.
a lawn mower j
sharpens mow-
ers just like they com© from ,
factory.
We deliver.
Phone 125.
until they died They
bit of the fire-worship
That's exaggerated, but
gives you my idea, which is prob-
h your own ax wecl '
old man winced as a wasp
on his arm It flew away
i slinging. With relief lie
his house anti m>
The party Is 'besieged
armed force in a si one
i. ww to Prentice*' house.
disperses the enemy tn dynamit-
ing a dam and causing a real
... fload When the water recedes
. tbry dtsewer Prentis* lx gone.
■f>e next day. T1NKY. Elise's
two-year-old orpluuu-d nephew,
t» kidnaped tor the sex-omi time.
-------- ..—has
The
tin i>
w arm
tubes who have it
dtnns of the great
North America'-
here it is most
amigos
not so?
improvements
of business " lie
getting suspicious at
suspicion wouldn’t have been
I took It from D Albentara's
when I caught his hand in falling'
"Have you still er
It?"
"Leading question. Nanny
answer "
An hour afur the sun bud set, the
t./o ncyrlto-llke guards brought
food, untied them while they ate It.
then securely bound them once
more. That night both the prisoners
slept the sound sleep of exhaustion.
But the next night hour* after their
guards had depa led und deep still-
ness had settled on the city which
lay unseen below the shlnglng walls
v hlch marked their horizon. Vllak
was still awake flat on his back, hts
Mongolian eyes gazing dreamily at
out that window
what I said about these jieofile
ing a corking treatise on primitive i J"?'"’
religion Isn't true The big figure s a
and the stone shafts are Inca that
Imitation of the statue Is absolute-
ly African, and tiic ruck and arque-
bus t.re European, of course
' Perfectly natural Unit they 'hou'e
worship them The rack and I lie ar-
quebus were two of the most ■ rnel
and oppressive weapons the conquls-
tadores had. anti all the names
thoi pht they weio magical The ar-
quebus part iculni l\ would, s<
a nation of fire■ worshlpjfers
XJre-worshlp is certainly one
thing willed these poor
c'evils have made their c
"It's to be expecied of a people
living near nn extinct volcano which
ktlll has hot springs and smoke to
show that It Isn't so terribly extinct
after all. Besides, sun-worship or
11re-vorslup chc v're the same -I
the most wide spread of tiny of the
savage religions it's the first The
most conspicuous obi'ct In the sav-
age's life In lice daytime is the sun.
which gives heat. light, and food
the most conspicuous at n.ght
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I fmm en
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i
> mil'll front tli— cold,
know what I mean They'd
In front ot an open fire for
loklngly tearing they would
leave it until they died
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Edwards, W. C. & McDonald, L. A. Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 285, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 13, 1927, newspaper, July 13, 1927; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1335239/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.