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WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA PALLe, TEXAS, DEC. 20, 1010
WICHITADAILYTIMES
Published at
The Times Building, Corner Seventh Street
and Scott Avenue
Published Daily Except Sunday
The TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
Printers and Publisher)
officers and Directors:
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Si Howard.............General Manager
G. D. Anderson...........Bec’y, and Treas
T. a Thatcher. J. A. Kemp. Wiley Biair,
W. L Robertson.
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moterea at the Postornce at Wichita Falla
as second-class mat matter.
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FDRAMA
PRIVATE WHITE, U. 8. A
Dallas Times Herald.
Edward Douglass White yesterday
became the chief justice of the su-
preme court of the United States.
Forty-five years ago the civil war
closed and the. South was desolate:
Many of its heroes were sleeping their
last sleep. The walls of orphans and
the moans of widows tilled the land
with lamentations. Poverty had suc-
ceeded opulence and chaos regined
where erstwhile all had been peace
and order.*'
> Suppose forty-six years’ ago, some,
body had told Pirvate White, C. B. A.
trudging along, ragged and happy and
’ shoptits at the United States flag
‘ whenever he saw it, that he would
XenerCid DMSE
Wichita Falls, Texas, Dec. 26, 1*10
ITHE COMMERCIAL SECRETARY
. AS A PRE86.
Twin Falls, Idaho, is on the map.
This achievement has been accom-
“plished by the secrotary of the Com-
mercial Club of that enterprising city
through the simple expedient of send-
ing a box of Irish potatoes to Presi-
dent Taft and another just like it to
Gov. Hadley of Missouri. The spuds
are intended for their Christmas break-
fast——one In Washington, of course,
and the other in Jefferson City.
Robert W. Spangler is secretary of
the Twin Falls Commercial Club and
NEW COTTON PICKER.
(Florida Times-Union) .
Labor is the chief element in the
cost of cotton production, under pres,
ent conditions. To secure, enough
pickers when the fields are ripe‘with
the harvest “becomes a serious prob-
lent with the planter sometimes, and
always the cost of having the Mint
picked makes a big item on the debit
side of .the grower's ledger. The news
that, at last, a mechanical picker
has been invented that actually, per-
forms the difficult and delicate task
of picking only the contests of the
ripe boils and without doing injury to
plant or foliage will be received with
great satisfaction by all cotton grow-
ers. The majority of growers will be
disposed to incredulity, but an illus-
trated article In that responsible
magazine, The World's Werk, is de-
voted to an account of the genesis of
the machine, recent demonstrations
live to be appointed chief custice ok
the United States supreme court by a
President from Ohio and a Republi-
can. Napoleon used to encourage his
men by telling them that every pri-
vate carried in his knapsack the ba-
ton of a marshal of France; but no-
body ever told u private of a hostile
army that he had in his head the
chief justiceship of the greatest and
most responsible court on earth. This
question was asked by the Roanoke
(Va.) Times. Really the chief jus-
ticeship is a higher place than the
presidency. It is the place Mr. Taft
coveted and - for which he tried to over at least eight acres a day; that
avoid being president. Yet the Con it
federate private, the Democrat gets pick over 100 acres with the machine
it from the -Republican President and once and $150 to pick the crop of that
is confirmed by a Republican senate area twice, and it can do the work
unanimously, except lor ths chron-
ically and constitutionally and uncon-
stitutionally absurd Heyburn.
It is one, of the wonders of our
modern progress and development. It
of the powers of the perfected ma-
chine in Texas cotton fields, one of
which was attended by 1500 or more
farmers, who left the scene satisfied
that the mechanical picker had at last
arrived, according to the writer, Ar-
thur W. Page, and to considerations
of the cost of its operation and the
benefits to follow its advent.
Mr. Page says the-machine can go
would cost" approximately $75 to
the advertising that he has accom- comes as a beautiful Christmas gift to
plished is a good deal like that per-
petrated by Secretary Carrington of
the South and to the former comrades
of Private White. C. 8. A., a mes-
the San Antonio Chamber of Com- sage of peace on earth and good will
merce two years ago when he secured
the manufacture of a pair of “pants”
for President Taft from the fleece of
one big Angora goat. It is not the
incident of the potatoes being sent or
and justice to all men in this country
—men of all sections and parties and
creeds. Men used to have horrible
fears of a Roman Catholic as Presi-
dent. Here is a Roman Catholic
of the trousers being given that con- rather higher than the President, ap-
stitutes the gravamen of the offense
against the advertising managers of
the various newspapers so much as It
is the manner In which the proposi-
tions are handled to seduce the news
instinct to supply first page positions
under news heads without cost. In
the potato incident the letter of the
secretary is the feature of the affair.
The Twin Falls man sends the pota-
toes for breakfast and tells how they
should be cooked and served. Now
the idea of baked potatoes for break-
fast must be a peculiar Idahoic propo-
sition. But this is what Mr. Spang-
ler suggests: "A baked potato should
be brakes—not cut—a small piece of
butter and pepper and salt put on the
half, and then after the first forkful is
eaten, a little team added. Use the
potato skin as a cup and eat from it.
You will find the Idaho potato a trifle
.sweet and it has a flavor peculiarly its *
pointed by a Unitarian and voted for
by men of many beliefs. And we had
a Jey in the cabinet until he declined
further service. In all of which there
is material for some deep and sol-
emn and joyous thought. We are get-
ting away from bigotry and narrow-
ness and sectionalism and prejudice
and old disturbing antagonisms, and
getting away very fast.
Mr. Justice White has achieved and
attained by force of brains and char-
acter. Vet he would not have reached
where he is if the American people
had not elected as President Cleve-
land, the Democrat, who put him on
the supreme court bench, and Taft
the Republican, who elevated him.
We congratulate the Democratic par-
ty and the Republican party, the
South and the North. President Taft
and Private White.
in 25 days. Nor need the machine
be altogether idle between picking
seasons, it seems, for the picking ma-
chinery may be taken off, says Mr.
Page, and a plow or other farm Imple-
ment hitched to the 29-horsepower
tractor, which is actuated by a gaso-
line engine. It makes for intensive
culture, among the other many bene-
fits promised, for it would cost as
much to pick over an area producing
only one-half bale as it would do the
same work on one producing two
bales.
Like the cotton gin, this machine,
which seems destined to effect a revo-
lution In the cotton growing states,
is the invention of a Northern man.
The Inventor, a pattern-maker of
Chicago. Angus Campbell, first began
to work on this idea 25 years ago. One
machine after another was constructed
and brought South to be tried in cot-
ton fields at picking time and its de-
fects noted Many a machine proved
a failure, but Mr. Campbell struck to
It with true Scottish persistency. At
test he produced the machine which
has been tried with entire success.
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W
ateCI
othing Sal
We want to reduce our Winter stock of cloth-
ing to the lowest possible amount, and have
decided to give our trade a saving of from
$8.75 on the best grades, down to $3.75 on
cheaper grades, on every suit or overcoat in
the house.
All $1.25 and $1.50 Eagle Shirts - - $1.00
All $1.75 $2.00 and $2.50 Eagle Shirts - $1.50
These prices will only -be allowed on cash pur-
chases. (
Collier & Hendricks
Men and Boys Outfitters
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ways with cautious deliberation ex- v
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enemy in the next room.—Boston ------------------------------------------------- 69
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own.”
The novelty of telling a man how to
rat a potato—the food of all the com-
mon people in the world, and the
world has more such than it has of|
governors and presidents—is where
the artistic press agency work is
found. It is the little joker that has
placed Twin Falls upon the map for a
day; because it gets Twin Falls upon
the first page of many newspapers for
a day. It is the touch of genius that
makes the value of the modern com-
mercial secretary, the press agent of
- the budding metropolis.
The Ban Antonio proposition was
similar and equally effective and has
the merit of being earlier and there-
fore more creditable to the genius of
the Texas commercial secretary who
is also doing a little press agenting on
the side. There are more elegant An-
gora goats In Texas than in all the
erst of the country But when one
was found with fleece heavy and long
enough to make a pair of handsome
, gray “pants" for the small man
who was inaugurated President two
years ago, it struck the genius who is
secretary at Ban Antonio as a mighty
big advertising scheme. Photographs
of the goat, the mohair, the pants and
Yes, our Virginia contemporary is
right. Forty-five years ago the sol-
we are assured, in Texas cotton fields, , Like Her New Home.
Sunshine Colony, Lagos. V. C., Mex., 7 '
Dec. 21., 1910 —Wichita Daily Times.
Wichita Falls, Tex.—Gentlemen: Iam69
a .Mexican.* one month old today, and
am sure 1 like the country, the peo- 9
ple, the land, the sunshine and the
showers.
Everything is green and beautiful 9
with flowers in bhemn, and birds and
bees plentiful. • - 49
We planted garden, commencing
with month of December and planted
up to December 20th. Everything is
up, except the last day's planting. 2
Set out sweet potatoe plants and
they are doing fine. . A
We have fine apples, pears, onions,
garlic, lettuce, radishes, turnips,
mustard, five kinds of beans, beets, wa-
ter melons and tomato plants, all up
and growing but the last beans.
Would like to have a picture of our
this season.
It is practically impossible to con-
sider in detail all the benefits Immed-
iate and remote, the South would de
rive from such an Invention. That It
is now at hand will be regarded by
many a planter as news “too good to
be true.”
dier lad in his jacket of gray, trudg-
ing home from Appomattox, had no
inkling of the great honor in store
for him in the womb of the future.
Political passion is dead in this re-
public and political prejudice, born
of a cruel war, has been buried. A
Republican President tossed the last
shovel of clay on its coffin.
This is not all. Religious bigotry
Is dying out. Crucifixion of conscience
is not popular and men- of all creeds
and no creeds are coming together
in this land of the free.
William Howard Taft made an of-
fering of peace and good will to the
American people of all sections and
classes and conditions. As it grows
older the world is growing better and
Merit Is winning where erstwhile
Mammon und Mendacity and Intoler-
ance lifted their ugly heads.
AS OTHERS VIEW IT
Superstition Dies Hard.
The arrest in New York of a notor-
ious occulist formerly of Boston on
the charge of -doing a superstitious
woman out of many thousands of dol-
lars accentuates the fact that even
the great American centers of civiliza-
ion furnish a rich field for the opera-
tions of such charlatans. It would be
hard to name a pagan superstition, new home to send you, but could not
however old and butworn, that does
not find believers in every great city
of the United States. Boston, we may
be well assured, has its hoodooists.
There are parts of the city where one
may not crack the knuckles without
making somebody uncomfortable, and
places where the crossed fingers ex-
cite uneasy- public comment. The
modern German equvilant of the
planchette is astonishing little com-
panics in the drawing rooms of Wash-
Ington, and seers of every degree are
fattening upon the credulity of dupes
abundantly able to pay. Only a few
of us dare ask our friends to sit
The county attorney of Wichita
county has printed a warning to sell-
ers of tobacco that hereafter he will
prosecute all who violate the law by
selling to children under sixteen years
of age. He also notifies the pool hall .
owners that he will prosecute them if T
thirteen, at table, and many house-
holders are uncomfortable in the pres-
ence of a broken mirror. We are as
atavistically superstitious as the dog
get it developed in time.
Just got our new native house done
today, and will move in in a day or
two.
We have a 77-acre lake of line, soft
water, within half a mile where we
can go bathing any day in the year.
Plenty of game birds and fish. There
is corn being planted now and cot-
ton about knee high. Oranges, bananas,
lemons, grape fruit, papayas, planta-
nas, etc., on the trees now. We have
a good breeze most of the time and
it is certainly a delightful climate.
The soil is dark sandy loam, mostly,
and water can lie found from 10 to
26 feet; one man found water at 6
feet.‘-, .
We get our mail every day from
the east at 9 a. m., and from the west
they allow minors to remain in their
places in violation of the law. The
best way in the world to break up
these Illegal practices is to Indict and
great many newspaper offices, to- prosecute the violators. Every one of
the President found their way to a
aether with a good story of the goat them knows he is violating the law
and he needs no warning to put him
on his good behavior.—Bonham News.
the goat industry. San Antonio, the
home of the goat, Texas the State-that
has San Antonio as one of its me-
■ tropolises, and the pants, made by the
President's own Washington tallor.
The result was a first page item. It
helped to locate San Antonio, Texas,
and the Angora goat Industry,
The country will not fail to admire
both the enterprise or the Twin Falls
secretary and his ability to make good
reading and good advertising out of
the common or garden variety of.
Irish potatoes even if he has given in-
structions that all the common peo-
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and north at 6 p. m. The train tonight
had baggage and six passenger cars,
also ten freight cars. They only haul
full cars of freight.
There is absolutely no fear on pur
Thia Date In History
... .December 26.__part or any Mexican revolt and every.
Mason their survey com- t thing is peaceable, and we find the
pleted their survey of the Mexican people kind, joyous, peace-
boundary line between faithful people
Martend and Pennsyl- ' "- and mitnrui people
vania.
Our county attorney has not been in
office much more than a month, but 1
he has made a good beginning and if
given .support by our citizens and his |
fellow officers, will keep it up through
his term of office.
It is well to remember now that all
men between the ages of 21 and 60
years who fail to pay their poll tax
before Feb. 1. 1911, will be barred
from all elections during the year -
1911. It is almost certain that the |
prohibition constitutional amendment i
ble can improve upon without think- will be submitted to the people
sometime during 1911, and there is
Ing about it at all.—Dallas News.
The death rate from disease in the
United States army this year was the
lowest for more than ninety years.
French wireless experts plan to es-
tablish regular communication between.
French West Africa and South Ameri-
cn., * 4 0
J. F. HOLT
Insurance that Insure
Phone 684
not the least doubt in the world but
that the contest Is going to be an ex-
ceedingly warm one from the begin-
ning to the end Those who will not
be 21 years of age by Feb. 1st, 1911,
but will reach that gage before the
day on which the vote on this question
is taken, will be entitled to a vote
provided they take out exemption
papers which the law says will be
supplied by tax collectors.
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Regalita— Best 10 cigar in the work
190 6t
1791 Canada divided into two -1
provinces Upper end Low-
er Canada.
1805—Treaty of Presburg sign-
ed between France and
Austria.
1806- Napoleon fought the Rus:
"sian and Prussian armies
at Pultusk. >
1811—Theatre In Richmond, Va.,
burned, when the gover-
nor and many other very
prominent citizens per-
ished.
1812—Great Britain proclaimed
the blockade of the Chesa-
peake and the Delaware.
1817—Gen. Jackson ordered to
Our Store is Closed
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We have visited some very fine, in-
telligent Mexican people, and think
vey highly of them.
Our prairie land is gently rolling and
* rich no dgrass is plentiful. The jungle
tend is luxuriant and rich.
We do not regret coming to Mexico
and hope this letter will reach many
of our friends through your colums.
. Wishing all a Merry Christmas and
a happy and prosperous New Year, I
remain, yours truly,
C. H. GRISWOLD.
THE WOMAN WHO INTERRUPTS.
take the field against the
Seminole Indians
1830—Independence of Belgium
recognized by the allied
powers.
1. 1831 Stephen Girard, founder
of Girard College, died In
Philadelphia. Born in
Bordeaux, France, May '
I 24, 1750.
1872—Ship Peruvian lots off the
t Massachusetts coast, and
all hands drowned.1
I 1901—John R. Rogers, fourth
State governor of Wash-
isno
Annoyance to Her Friends and Hin-
drance to World's Work.
Do you know the woman who goes
about this busy world interrupting?
I often suffer frogs her.
Only yesterday, for Instance. I met
at an at-home an old friend whom 1
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had not seen for months. We sat down
on a sofa, which was a little with-
from "the maddening crowd," and be-
gan an animated conversation. But
just when our mutual confidences
were beginning to get interesting, the
“woman who interrupts” spied us.
Across the room she sailed and settled
herself between- us.
Now, then, what are you two talk-
ing about?” she inquired, genially.
4 We did not feel inclined to tell her—
nor, for that matter, did she really
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But will be open and ready for
business Tomorrow
With Compliments of the Season
weare -
Yours to serve
R. E. & C. B. NUTT
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are to know. She had interposed her-
self where she was not, wanted and _________
proken up a pleasant tete-a-tete with- same moment:
I I was deeply engrossed in my knit
out any special object in view; and ting the other day when ‘she came
what satisfaction she can take in into the room. Seeing the puzzled ex-
such an action is beyond my imagina- pression on my face, one would think
tion. ‘she plight have waited-a moment be-
She must have unlimited belief in fore pouring her woes forth. But she
my own brain power, for she expects didn't, because the "woman who in-
me to be able even to count the terrupts" never considers her friends,
sitches in the heel of a stocking andAnd how she worries her maids!
listen to her involved account of her 1 Method is impossible in her house. No
daughter in-law’s faults at one and the sooner have the maids gone upstairs
—4---------, ^ “do" the bedrooms than she calls
them down to see to something in the
basement. Probably hardly have they
begun, when she rings violently NA 9
them to perform some duty on the
first floor. More than one good ser-
vant has left simply because she
couldn't stand her worrying ways.)
Her, way seems scattered with
broken-off conversations and ball-
op uno worm oeo comn’ao iak
1 nipta.”—Philadelphia Inquirer,
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