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Wasco
VOLUME 1.
VELASCO, TEXAS,
MORNING. MAY 5, 1893.
NUMBER 129
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THE DAILY TIMES
OO,
It Pays J£o Advertise.'
Like Bli Mother.
"I wm bom in ludían?," say* a stranger lank
and slim.
As us fellers in the restaurant was kind •'
guyln blm,
And Uncle Jake was slidln him another pun'kin
pie
And an extra oup o' coffee, with a twinkle in
his eye—
¡ "I was born In Indlany—inore'n forty yean
ago.
And I hain't been back iu twenty—and I'm,
workin back'ard slow;
But I've et in every restaurant 'twizt here and
Santa Fo.
A ad 1 want to sute this coffee tastes like (fit
tin home to me!
"Pour us out another, daddy," says the feller,
warmin op,
A-speakin 'erost a saucerful, as uncle tuck his
cup.
"When I seed your sign out yonder," he weal
on to Uncle Jake—
" 'dome 1 u and get some coffee like your mother
used to make' —
"I thought of my old mother and the Posey
county farm,
And ine a little kid ag'lu a-hangin on her arm
As she set the pot a-bllln-broke the eggs and
poured 'em In"—
And the feller kind o' halted, with a tremble
in his chin.
And Uncle Jake he fetched the feller's coffee
back and stood
As solemn fer a minute as an undertaker
would;
Then he sort o' turned and tiptoed to'rd the
kitchen door, aud nest
Here eoines his old wife out with hiiu.a-rubbin
of her specs;
And she rushes for the stranger, and site hol-
lers out: "It's him!
Thank Uod, we've met him emulo! Don't you
know your mother, JiuiV"
And the feller, as ho grabbed her, says, "You
bet f hain't forgot"—
But, wlpln of his eyes, says he, "Your coffee's
■nighty hot."
—James Whitqomb Riley.
HE KNEW ABOUT if,™*""
PERRY & NORTHRUP
-THE-
OLDEST REAL ESTATE MEN
AT THE NOUTH THE BRAZOS RIVER.
Ten choice 10-acre trai ts, one-halt mile from Velasco, for fuits ami vegetable.
Soil rich, mellow, Handy loam ; At $60 per acre; one-third cash, balance one and
two year .
THE TIM.ES PUBLISHING CO.
Aa Anecdote Illustrating the Scope ol
Gladstone's Knowledge.
An anecdote is told of Mr. Gladstone
which illustrate* strikingly the versatility
ami breadth of knowledge of that remark-
able man. Two personal friends of Mr.
Gladstone once laid a plan to amuse them-
selves, anil play rt joke upon him.
They were to discuss In his presence some
subject of which iut might be prest mad to
be ignorant, and tluut, having pretended
to disagree decidedly, to appeal to ,Mr.
Gladstone to settle the point. The fun was
to come when he was forced to confess that
there was one subject which he had no*
studied.
This plan they carried out, but it was
not so easy to find the topic ou which Mr.
Gladstone nuiKtconfeaa himself "stumped."
At last there was discovered in an odd
¡newspaper an article on Chinese chess.
The description of the game had been
(Copied from a well known magazine. This
laeemed promising.
The couspirntors studied the article as-
siduously until they had become thorough-
ly ¿uruiliur with it. Then they waited for
their opportunity. It came wheu they
were invited to a dinner where Mr. Glad-
stone was to be present. Seated ou each
«ideiof their intended victim by arrange-
ment with the host, they began to put
itheir scheme in operation.
Mr. Gladstone had maintained his repu-
tation throughout the evening for being
(thoroughly acquainted with not only the
heading questions of the day, but every
«ubject whidh ,had been thus far introduced
iby those around him. His neighbors on
either aide beganito discuss games of skill
aad chance generally.
Every few minutes one or the other
would appeal to Mr. Gladstone to clear up
some particularly complicated point or
disputed question. Between their, they
akilifully led the conversation up to Chinese
eh esa, and soon found their opportunity to
argue «eme what warmly in regard to a
certain matter connected with the game.
They had studied the article so closely
that they repeated much of it almost ver-
batim. Mr. iGladstoue seemed interested
but said nothdag. The two jokers, inward-
ly congratulating themselves for their suc-
cess, continued the conversation with more
animation than «ver.
The host, who hud been taken into the
secret, was an amused spectator of what
he thought waa his honored guest's em-
barrassment.
When they had finished their mock
battle, Mr. Gladstone, who had not uttered
a word, took a sip of coffee, replaced the
cup in the saucer, and remarked pleas-
antly:
"Gentlemen, I observe that you have
ibeen treading an article on Chinese chess
in The TteView, Which I wrote!"—
Yonrtfa's Companion.
An Earthquake at Sea.
Two distinct quakings of the earth
and consequent disturbances of the
sea were felt by the schooner Charles
¡L. Mitchell on Monday night, three
miles southeast of Cape Henlopen.
The Mitchell arrived at South street
■wharf from Cuba with a cargo of
sugar, and Captain Frost told the
story of his experience. His vessel
-was slowly beating her way up the
coast under "easy sail, when she fell
in with the tug Munn and was taken
in tow for Philadelphia. The wind
at the time was light from the north-
east and the atmosphere hazy, but
overhead. Captain Frost had
taken in all but a few light sails and
the vessel was heading aorth, with
both canvas and steam, toward .her
port of destination
Suddenly two terrific reports, like
explosions wore heard, then a rum-
bling sound, us if the vessel was
g her bottom out on a shoal,
e trembled and spun about on her
keel as if about to ba lifted bodily out
of the wuter by un unseen jiower. It
was first thought she waa fast on a
rocky shore, but it was found that
the observations were correct, the
vessel being well off shore and in the
deepest water. Those on the tug
Munn thought that oue of the bulk
Oil carriers had exploded, but the
rumbling noise and the period of
time through which it extended after
the first explosion proved conclusive-
ly that the report was of a different
character, doubtless from earth
quakings.—Philadelphia Record.
A Possible Help for Women.
Darning stockings, with the at-
tendant horrors of mending and sew-
ing cm buttons, represents a batch of
work which comes regularly every
week to be done, and is a soro trial
to the woman who longs for the time
it takes that she may give it to better
things. Yet she knows Jliese tasks
are necessary, and that they .must bo
accomplished l'or the comfort and
wáll being of the family in her
cUprg*,
N*w there must surely be plenty
of women who cannot do finished or
high class work, yet to whom mend-
ing and stocking darning, clearing
up of rooms and dusting would be
light and agreeable work, women
who, having ample time, would )>e
willing to «lo such important yet
trivial housework for the'small sum
of money the service is worth. They
need not "be highly educated or very
young women; they need only be
willing, qudek and ready to do well
any «vary ¿rifle which comes up
for someJtfody ¡to do. There are cer-
tainly ploittyof places waiting for
just such worker .
We hear msuch of the women who
are starving ¡in making ;shirts at
three cents apiece and trcresefs at
five cents a pair. The tales ore too
well authenticated to be doubted.
But surely the work ¡above suggested
would be easier, pleasanter and more
profitable to the women who are
keeping aoul and body together on
such a pittance as that.—Harper's
Bazar.
A Tough Tim* for the Police.
"My wife is Wise! '4'he world is coming
toan end!"
That was all the statement the Brook-
lyn police could get* lrovn,crw¿y John John-
son after dragging him /half frozen from
Bushwlck creek.
THE LUNATIC AT HAT.
The officers were mad, disgusted and
JhÍTering. They had good reason for feel-
ing at odds with the world. At early dawn
a platoon was ordered out to rescue and
restrain a maniac, who was paddling about
oa a spar and hurling defiance at the
npeotaton*.
Oa their arrival the bluecoats found the
«reek full of floatlug logs, and over these
they attempted to approach their prey,
One after another slipped from his insecure
footing Into the stream and «polled his new
winter nuiform, while the wild man yelled
with delight a id derision. Had Johnson's
strength held out the chase might have
been kept up indefinitely, but he grew
tired, paddled near shore and was captured.
Nothing of the lunatic's previous history
Too busy.
The Skeptical Aunt—What does lie do,
Dolly, for a living?
Dolly (greatly surprised)— Why, auntie,
lie does not have time to earn a living while
wo are engaged.—Life.
i '
lis
known.
Why lie Wan Married,
Fifty years ago "Uncle Harry" was a
well known resident of a village in theOld
Colony, writes a correspondent. Slow of
speech and action, lie waa reputed to lie
"easy going." lie had lived to the age of
sevent y without a wife, and It was 0|>enly
said that he was "too lay,y to go courting,"
which of course marked him as a very la/.y
man Indeed.
.On* day the village was startled by ti e
WW* .of Uncle Harry's marriage. Shortly
a!Wx.ard the squire, as the one lawyer of
the plac# ,\yas called, happened to lie driv-
ing past U^tle Harry's farm, and seeing
the old man in,the yard stopped for a little
gossip. The bridegroom, visibly "smart-
ened up," was resplendent with happiness.
"You seem so well contested, how did it
happen you never married before!1" asked
the squire,
"I dunno," drawled Unele Harry. "I've
liad marriage feelings come over me lots o'
times, but they never lasted long 'wough
for me ter get anywheres."
"But this time they liistedf"
"Wall, no, not eggr.actly; you see, Mutiles
come along and staid!"—Youth's Com-
panion.
Monstrous Apples.
North Carolina sends to the southern
markets, especially those of South Caro-
lina and Georgia, a magnificent red
applo almost as largo as a good sized
,cantaloupe. This applo isso large that,
it i« said, the greediest óf small boys
could .scarce eat a whole one at one
meal, it is grown in tho mountainous
region .of the old colony, where it re-
quires little cultivation. Ashevillo used
to be a famous iilaco for these apples,
but the influx of summer visitors has re-
duced the output, Before the war the
backwoods farmers would drive iu their
queer old canvas covered wagons all the
way down to Augusta, Ga., which was
then the largest market north of Charles-
ton, with great loads of the big, juicy
apples.
These should have commanded a high
price, but they were so plentiful in that
section that they sold for five cents a
quart. Still, us a quart measure would
,hold only one apple, the backwoodsmeu
4pade a good profit, for the fruit had cost
them nothing save the labor of picking.
—Vmw York Evening Sun. <
Doctor but Not ItcTurtnd.
Dr. Samuel Eliot often apjieam in the
newspaper with the prefix "Rev." be-
fore his other title. A recent mistake of
that kind recalls a peculiar incident in
which Dr. Eliot, ¡Charles W,, tho presi-
dent of Harvard university, was the cen-
tral figure. It was at a meeting of Bos-
ton Methodist preachers, and President
Eliot had finished the reading of an
essay. The meeting was about to em}
when the chairman announced, "The
exercises will close with the benediction
by Dr. Eliot."
The assembled ministers arose, bowed
their heads and waited, but no words of
benediction were . heard. Looking up
they saw Dr. Eliot covered with con-
fusion, speaking earnestly with the
chairman. Tho cause of the delay waa
made clear when the presiding officer
«aid, "Dr. Eliot informs me that he ia
not a clergyman and I will therefore
ask Brother Trafton to pronounce the
benediction."-Buston Journal.
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