Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 73, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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DHITA FALLS TEXAS JULY
Shortly after an angry looking couple
flounced out of the chapel the pastor
of an uptown church presented a per-
plexed countenance before the busy
sexton.
“As you know," said he, “I am now
in this parish and new in the city
Perhaps there are a few things I ought
to know. Why, for instance, do ae
many people who never attend service
fa this church wish to be married
“Because our church,” said the sex-
ten, “has the name of turning out the
youngest end handsomest brides in
New York. Our reputation for good
works to dwarfed by our reputation
for beautiful brides. To My that a
woman to married here is equivalent
th saying that she is a ‘good looker.'
- We are not supposed to deal in brides
of any other description.”
"No wonder.” groaned the pastor,
“that that plain looking woman went
away in a half. I earnestly advised
' her to be married is her own parish.”
—New York Globe.
Wonders of a Japanese Hamlet.
Perhaps the most astonishing presen-
tation of "Hamlet" ever seen on any
stage was a Japanese version given by
native actors at Kobe. The Kobe Her-
ald describes it as “a wonderful mix-
ture of the beautiful and the gro-
tesque. With an Ophelia sometimes in
graceful kimono and sometimes in
western evening costume and a king
who at one time appears in the ple-
turesque costume of a Japanese noble-
man and at ot hers dons a silk bat and
a swallowtail coat, the effect to so
kalsidoocople that a spectator has the
sensation of being perpetually trans-
—one-her 923 AV A sMPMCF #
Hamlet himself, who in the earlier
arenes wears the uniform of a student
of the Imperial university. In the third
net makes his appearance on a bicycle,
clad in a bright blue cycling suit and
' striped stockings, and at the finish to
seen in conventional evening dress
with a fiower in bio buttonhole.”
, The Sixteenth Century Carver.
At the formal banquet of the six-
teenth century the man who curved
the meat wan bound with the red tape
of precedent. When earring for dis-
tinguiabed guests he had toremem-
bar that certain parts of the birds or
deat must be see notde. m-emvig
for his lord and indy he was expected
to exercise great discretion in the
size of the pieces he sent round, “for
ladies will be soon angry and their
thoughts soon changed, and some lords
are seen pleased and same not, as they
be of complexion.” He was expected
to hare the rules both of the kitchen
and the peerage at his knife's end.
A pike, for instance, must be diebed
up whole for a lord and in slices for
commoner folk. The rank of his din-
ers, too, determined whether a pig
was to be served up whole, sliced,
plain or with gold leaf or whether
new bread or bread three days old
should be eaten.
DETECTIVE STORIES
Little Things as Aida In Solving
Problems in Crime.
THE VALUE OF SMALL CLEWS
0
irth’s Money Losing
A Hungry Rabbit.
“I do not think 1 waa ever so nop-
plused in my life," Mid a conjurer,
“as once when performing my card
and rabbit trick. 1 ask a member of
the audience to tear a card Into small
pieces and give them all to me except
one. Later in the trick I produce a
rabbit from a box, and ttod round its
neck to a card with a piece missing. It
to then found that the piece which the
member of the audience holds exactly
fits and completes the second card. On
this particular occasion I allowed the
rabbit to remain in the box too long
and when I produced blm found that
he bad chewed the card round his neck
to bits. Needless to My, the laughter
when the audience grasped the trick
the animal bad played on me was loud
and long "________
Her Sorrow.
“P-papa,” sobbed small Sadie, “m-my
canary to d-dead!”
"Never mind, dear,” replied her
father; “I’ll buy you another one.”
“Ob, I’m enim now,’rejoined Sadie,
“but when I first MW the poor little
thing I cried like a child.”—Exchange.
After the Race.
“So your horse was distanced, was
her
“Yes.”
"Did you have anything on him?"
"I thought I had a jockey on him,
but it seems I didn’t.”
Times to Laugh.
A.—Is the old man always so glum
as this? B.-By no means. He laughs
twice a year, spring and fall, when
the new women's hats come in.—Flle-
gende Blatter.
“In AN My Experience,” Says Police
Sergeant Cuff, One of Wilkie Col-
line’ Creations, ‘I Have Never Yet
Met Such a Thing as a Trifle.”
If you ask some London publishers
they will ten you that no book sells so
well as a detective story and that peo-
ple still find a fascination in the
achievements of Edgar Allan Poe’s
Dupin, Gaboriau’s Lecocq and Tabaret
and the redoubtable Sergeant Cuff of
Wilkie Collins.
These moo were the forerunners of
Sherlock Holmes, and their feats of
criminal tracking were as remarkable
as those achieved by the famous char-
meter created by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle. Perhaps the least known is
Cuff, who figures in “The Moonstone."
Cuff looked for clews in trifles, Io-
vestigating a smear on a newly Mint-
ed door, he was told by the saperia-
tendent who bad the case ia band that
It was made by the petticoats of the
women servants. The superintendent
said petticoats were trifles.
“In all my experience along the
dirtiest ways of this dirty little world,"
replied Cuff. "I have never met such
a thing as a trifle yet We must see
the petticoat that made the ameer, and
we must know for certain that the
Lecocq. the beau ideal of the French
detective, was wont to expiate bis de-
ductions to assistants, just as Sherlock
Holmes did to his friend Watson, la
the story of “File No. 113" a safe has
been robbed. There ia a scratch on
the door of the safe which seems to
have been made by the key slipping
from the lock. But Lecocq explained
that the paint was hard and that the
scratch could not have been made by
the trembling band of the thief lotting
the key allp.
- He therefore had an iron box made,
painted with green varnish, like the
safe. As Lecocq inserted the key be
asked the assistant to endeavor to pre-
vent him using the key just as he was
about to, insert it in the tock. The as-
sistant did so, and the key held by
Lecocq, pulled aside from the lock.
Just Nine Days More and It Will Be Ove
Losing Money on Every Dollar’s Worth of Clothing, They Must Go
heT
We have over two hundred
light and medium weight suits
on hand which must go in the
next ten days, and we will sell
every one of them at a big loss.
We cannot offer you a fabulous
discount for we don't mark our
goods high enough for that,
but we want to tell you con-
scientiously, that we lose
money on every piece of cloth-
ing we are selling you in this
sale. We want you to compare
our suits with other stores'
goods and see for yourself who
is the cheapest and best.
In a Few Days Our Shoe Depart-
ment Will ■• Open.
The REGAL SHOES will be handled
exclusively by us. Prices $3.50, $4 and
$5. One dollar better values than in “
any other shoe.
Open Until 10 p. m. Saturday
MANHATTAN SHIRT SALE NOW ON
A "Grouch”
Smokes
all-Havana cigars all the
time. He doesn’t give him-
ah
self the opportunity to be
cheerful. Wise smokers
choose the light, soothing,
domestic
■lipped along the door and traced upon
it a diagonal scratch from top to bot-
tom, the exact reproduction of the one
shown In a photograph of the safe.
Thus It was proved that two persona
were present at the robbery — one
wished to take the money and the
other to prevent its being taken.
In the play Sherlock Holmes, the
detective, with the aid of an accom-
plice. raiaea an alarm of fire at the
house of the Larrabees, during the ex-
citement of which he is able to Inves-
tigate the mystery of the purloined
documents. '
A somewhat similar incident occurs
in Edgar Allan Toe's "The Purloined
Letter,” when Dupin, having obtained
entrance to the' house of a minister
of the state who had purloined a let-
ter of great importance from a lady,
wished to take it from its hiding place
—a card rack over the mantelpiece-
and substitute a facsimile. While
Dupin was talking to the minister
there was a sudden report of a pistol
beneath the window, followed by fear-
ful screams and loud shouting. The
minister rushed to the window, and
while his attention was thus distracted
PHONE
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UNION STORE.
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OPEN 7 a. m.
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CLOSE 6 p. m.
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T. J. TAYLOR, President.
T. C. THATCHER, Cashier .
711 Indian
Avenue
SATURDAY, 10 p. m
J. T. MONTGOMERY, First V. P.
J. F. REED, Second V. P.
FARMERS BANK & TRUST Co.
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS
CAPITAL $75,000.00
I SURPLUS $ 5,000.00
Tom Moore
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Mild
10c Cigar
Dupin took the real letter and substi- ‘
tuted the false one which he had pre-
pared. Needless to say, the diversion
had been created by Dupin’s assist-
ants. N
Although “The Adventures of Sher
lock Holmes” somewhat overshadow
the etorlae of other detectives which
DIRECTORS:
• M. C. KARRENBROCK
P THE SOUTHWEST CIGAR CO., Dal-s, Texas, Distributor
appeared in the Strand Magazine, one
should not forget to mention Martin
Hewitt, investigator, and Dick Don-
J. F. REED \
CHAS. W. BEAN
JOSEPH MUND
T. J. TAYLOR
J. T. MONTGOL ERY
R. M. BUTER
ALEX. KAHN
T. C. THATCHER
ovan.
Both these detectives worked alone
and were past masters in the art of
solving robbery mysteries, murders
and the crimes of secret societies.
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T. W. ROBERTS
J. A FOOSHEE,
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With total resources of nearly ONE QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS,
And the value of noting trides. par-I - we are in a position to meet the reasonable needs of all customers.
NOT ALWAYS CHEAP, BUT ALWAYS BEST.
WE CAN PROVE IT TO YOU
The cheapest electric work I very often expensive. Tour lights
get poor and you finally have t to fix. Get it right The cheap
fan is troublesome. The poo grade of trona soon scale off aad
cost more in the end to buy current than a good one will to start
with. Remember one thing-we absolutely guarantee anything from
this office. -
W. L. KEMPER -
Phone 515. Back Wilson Hardware Co.
ticularly in detective work, is striking-
ly illustrated in "The Case of Mr. Fog-
gatt." The latter had been murdered
in his chamber, which waa situated at
the top of the building in which Hew-
Itt had an office. Hewitt wao the first
one on the acene. The doer was lock-
ed. and when he got inside the room
he found Foggatt lying across the ta-
ble. Shot dead. There was a sheer
drop sf fifty feet outside the windows.
Hew had the murderer got in, and
bow had be escaped?
On the sideboard were the freshly
bitten remains of an apple. Hewitt
noticed that It had been bitten by a
person who had lost two teeth, one
at the top and one below. He also
saw that the dead man had an excel-
lent act of false teeth, with none
missing. He observed, too, that sa ae-
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REFRIGERATOR
: Rather than carry them over to another season we offer them to you as follow
Those that we sold at $20.00 are now________$16.10
:
Ward & You
REAL ESTATE
Fire, Tornado,
Hail, Fidelity.
Accident and Live
Stock Insurance,
five young man could, by standing on
the window sill, draw himself on the i
roof and thus escape. Thus Hewitt :
comes to look for a tall, athletic look-
ing young man with two teeth miss-
Ing. He finds him, obtains by a ruse
Those that we sold it $18.00 IN now.
Those that we sold at $17.50 IN now.
$14.75
Those that we sold It $16.00 in now. _$12.70
Those that we sold at $15.00 IN now.
$13.60 Those that we sold at $12.50 are now.
$10.85
$8.75
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Ns.’AV WTRE
another apple which he has bitten’ :: Some of them are white enameled inside. This is an opportunity
self with a good Refrigerator at a very low cost. 1 *
compares the two and ultimately ob
tains the startling story of the mur- .
der from the murderer himself after
the coroner's jury had returned a ver- : ' I
dict of “‘accidental death.” - London *
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Fire—INSUR ANCE—Tornado
REAL ESTATE AND RENTALS * •
H.J. BACHMAN, Notary Public.
Phones—Ofee, No. 157: Residence No. 109. Room 10, Jackson Bldg.
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It is the little pleasures which make #
life sweet, ae the little displeasures
may do more than afflictions can to
make it bitter.
Confide a secret to a dumb man and
it will make him speak.—Livonian.
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