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BBOWJiWOOD TEXAS MONDAY .TANUAIir 8r 1M.
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He Was Good Mixer.
There used to be a popular minister
in Indianapolis who was well known
in Louls'ille. He was pastor of one
of the leading churches of the city.
He was built n the plan of the late
Henry George whose motto was. 'I am
for men." This Indianapolis preacher
was what is called a "good mixer."
One day he stopped in a blacksmith
shop to chat with the workmen. Dur-
ing the visit a florid faced man of
prosperous appearance came into the
shop. He and the minister began
chatting but neither knew the other's
line of business. They became good
friends In a few minutes. Finally the
florid faced man produced his card
which announced that he was in the
saloon busiuess on West street
"Come down to my place any time.'
he said "and I'll show you a good
time"
' "All right." replied the minister
"and by the way. I'm running a pretty
good place myself. Come and see me.
and 111 show you a good time."
'Til sure do that." said the other.
"But by the way where Is your joint?"
"My joint." was the reply "is the
First Presbyterian church. Just In
quire for Myron W Weed the pastor
-and I'll be at your service." Louis-
ville Times.
The Military Salute.
All salutes from taking off the bat
to presentinisl'arms originally implied
respect or submission. Of military sa-
lutes .raising the right 'hand to the
head Is generally believed to have orig-
inated from the days of the tourna-
ment when the knights tiled past the
throne of the queen of beauty and by
way of compliment raised their bands
to their brows to imply that her beauty
"was too dazzliug for unshadedeyes to
. gazeliipon.
&2oSicerNs salute with the sword
has a double meaning. The tirst posi-
tion with the hilt opposite the lips is
-a repetition ?f the crusader's action In
kissing the cross hilt of his sword In
token of faith and fealty while lower-
ing the point afterward Implies either
submission or friendship meaning in
either case that It is no longer neces-
sary to stand on guard. Raising the
efeend to the forehead has also been ex-
plained as a sign that the weaponed
handvis empty and In an inoffensive
position but this reason does not seem
so convincing as the others.
A Toothsome Revenge.
During the reign of Charles II.. the
age of .gallantry it was the custom
-aTnpRg .gentlemen when they drank a
lady's health in order that they might
' do her still more honor to destroy at
the same time some part of their cloth-
ing. Upon one occasion Sir Charles Sed-
ley was dining in a tavern and had a
particularly fine necktie on where-
upon one of his friends to play Llm a
trick drank to the health of a certain
lady at the same time throwing his
necktie In the fire. Of course Sir
Charles had to do likewise but he got
even for not long after that dining
with the same company he drank the
health of a fair oue. at the same time
ordering a dentist whom he had en-
gaged to be present to pull out a re-
fractory tooth which had been trou-
bling him. Every one else wasobliged
in this manner to mourn a molar.
Great Forests.
Canada owns a forest larger in area
than the whole of England. Scotland
and Wales all put together. The great-
est length of Britain is GOS miles and
Its greatest width 325 miles while a
Canadian forest in the Hudson bay
and Labrador region is 1.000 by 1.700
miles in extent. Another big forest
stretches from Alaska to Washington
state. The Amazon basin South Amer-
ica comprises about 2.100 by 1.300
miles of forest while Central Africa
has a forest region 3.000 miles from
north to south and of unknown width
from east to west and the pine larch
and cedar forests of Siberia are 3.000
by 1.000 miles in extent.
Logic
"What a boy of your age doesn't
know the parts' of speech!" exclaimed
the schoolmaster.
"o. sir." replied the pupil.
Haven't you ever heard of a noun?"
"Oh. yes. sir!"
"Well what comes next?"
"I don't know sir."
"A pronoun." said the master. "Now
remember that. Then comes the verb.
Now wliat follows that?'
"A proverb please sir." London
Scraps.
Doing Very Well.
"How's your sou making out In busi-
ness?" asked the first capitalist
"Very well indeed." replied the
other; "he's got a quarter of a million."
"Why. you started him with a mil-
lion didn't your
"Yes. and It's two months now since
he started operations In Wall street."
Catholic Standard and Tiros.
A Choice of Calves
-trim nmpiiirtfs the earlv Virginian
colonists had with their live stock Is
curiously Illustrated by the fact that
In the colony of Massachusetts Bay a
red calf was cheaper than a black one."
experience having shown that the for-
mer was more likely to be attacked by
wolves owing. It was thought to the
wolves'mistaklng it for a deer.
CAUGHT THE MOOD.
The Incident That Helped Verdi With
His "Miserere.''
Men of genius are confessedly crea-
tures of mood. Grief and adversity
have often been a real help to them
rather than a hindrance. Poo. It Is
said produced "The Haven" while sit-
ting at the bedside of hi sleeping but
dying wife. Many similar instances
might be cited but an aiicrdotc of
Verdi told by Carlo Cocearelli. will
suffice.
On one occasion when Verdi was en-
gaged on his well known opera. "U
Trovalore." he stopped -short at the
passage of the Misrrr.' being at a
loss to combine notes of .snllleient sad-
ness and pathos to express the grief
of the prisoner. Maitrico.
Sitting at his piano in the deep still-
ness of the winter night his .Imagina-
tion wandered back to tlit stormy days
of his youth endeavoring to extract
from the past a plaint a groan like
those which escaped from his breast
when he saw himself forsaken by the
world. All in vain!
One day at Mllau he was unexpect-
dly called to the bedside of a dying
friend one of the few -who had re-
mained faithful to him In adversity
and prosperity. Verdi at the sight of
his dying friend felt a lump rise In his
throat. He wanted to "vyeep. but so in-
tense was his grief that not a tear
Bowed to the relief of his anguish.
In an adjoining room stood a piano.
Verdi under one of those sudden' Im-
pulses to which men of genius are
sometimes subject sat down at the In-
strument and there aud then Impro-
vised the sublime "Miserere" of the
"Trovaiore." The musician Had given
utterance to his grief
QUEER JEWELRY.
Telegraph Wire .Necklaces and Insula-
tors a3 Earrings.-
The aesthetic and decorative -uses to
vttfeb tNirbaritiiis will turn ' objects
which- to civiliKed races re things f
the humblest utility are amsi.xiijj.tj U
lustnifrxl by this "fashion note"" lro; .
West Africa t.ikeu from .n lt.i1i.io
newspaper:
For some time the utflclats of the
German colony j:i Suutlmot A Trie
noticed that the telegraph whv.4- and.
other accessaries 'of the electrical plant
disappeared as by ma -fit- immediately
after they had !een put up. The most
diligent Inquiries remained frutticss.
From other pans uf the German pos-
sessions .came j-ejports of si rouge pfc-
dilections for articles .of German com-
merce as for example rubber heels
garters buckles aud so forth things
which the natives of those countries do
not generally use.
The governor of the colony gave an
entertainment one year In honor of
the emperor's birthday and invited tie
chiefs of the different trihes to It.
What was his surprise when ho saw
these native gentlemen- appear with
his stolen telegraph wires twisted
round their illustrious necks. The
higher the dignity the more rings of
the wire were round the neck.
Inquiries were soon .started in tho
outlying villages and it came to light
that the white china insulators of the
telegraph poles had becomo earrings.
A young lady of the highest distinc-
tion in native society wore a rubber
heel hanging from her hose and a
young man who was a well known
dandy wore dangling from his ears a
pair of beautiful pink silk garters.
"A Nine Days' Wonder."
The memorable reign of Lady Jane
Grey Is said to havo given rise to the
phrase "A nine days' wonder." Lady
Jane was proclaimed queen of Eng-
land July JO 1553. four days after the
death of Edward VI. After the lapse
of a period of nine days on July 19
she relinquished her title to the crown
thus terminating her reign In the short
space of a week and a half. A noted
English historian says "Thus we come
to the end of the diary of that short
and troubled reign that from Its
length is said to have given rise to tho
now (1G20) popular phrase A nine
days' wonder.'"
A Social War.
"See here old man every time my
wife orders a gown your wife orders
two gowns."
"Yes?"
"Whereupon my wife goes your wife
one better."
"Well?"
"Can't we arbitrate this matter?"
nttsburg Post
That Kind of a Flower.
Ella That red headed girl is always
on tho go. but she Is the flower of the
family. Stella A sort of "Crimson
Rambler." New York Press.
Money In Moving Picture.
"I am going to embark in some sort
of business and want to know whether
you think there Is much money in
moving pictures?"
"There was for a fellow who moved
a half dozen of ours." said the flat
dweller. "He charged' us $10." St
Louis Star.
Genius .begins great works; labor
alone finishes them Joubert
s
DAY: Willi' RULES TODAY
Crop of Fifty Degrees in Temperature Re
ported at Various Places
in the State.
Special to Dally Bulletin:
Fort Worth Texas; 3an. .5.r A drop
of fifty degrees lit six hours was re-
corded by the United States weather
bureau here today. Yesterday the city
experienced real summer weather the
thermometer registering eighty de-
grees. Today the thermometer stands
at thirty and bids fair to go still
lower as a cold norther is blowing
now with a promise of snow tonight.
The big drop in temperature is report-
ed to be general over North and West
Texas.
W. A. Butler took suddenly 111 Sat-
urday night and is still in rather a
critical condition. It has not been
fully determined whether he has pneu-
monia or not.
ATTEMPT TO DITCH
COTTON BELT TRAIN
Crosslles are Placed on the Track Hut
Failed - Accomplish
Pu t pose.
Special to Dally Bulletin:
Waco Texas Jan. 3. An attempt
to. at reck the Cotton Belt train west
bound twelve miles from here 'late
Jast night was evaded when the en-
gine skidded the ties for several hun-
dred feet but did not jump the rails.
The officers are today making a thor
ough investigation and will do all the
can to brine the guilty ones to justice
COMMISSION EILS COURT
CREATES SCHOOL DISTRICT.
The commissioners court In session
last week created a new school dis-
trict which will be known as th
Brewer school. This district is com-
posed of parts of the Antfooh ami
Jenkins Springs districts. The peo-
ple of the new district will erect a
building- this spring or summer and
will be ready for school next fall.
The building will be erected some-
where near the home of J. M. Belard.
HKJ TCRKEV DLWEIL
J. H. Miller the genial tax assessor
for Brown county is wearing a smile
that won't come -off today beacuse he
had the pleasure -of eating a turkey
dinner on Sunday with Ms frieni.
Henry Cannon. .Mr. Cannon went
hunting New Year's day and succeed-
ed in bringing down a big gobbler.
We have Miller's word for It that the
turkey was fine.
Deputy Sheriff John Champion pick-
ed up a couple of negroes yesterday
afternoon - for' fighting and after
spending the night In jail they entered
pleas of guilty and were released.
Geo. Walshe returned last .night
from a week's visit to relatives at
Abilene. His wife who accompanied
him on the visit will remain for .i
more extended stay.
Mrs. Bryant arid daughter who have
been in the city as the guests of Mrs.
F. S. Abney the past xveek left Sun-
day morning for their home" in Fort
Worth. Miss Bryant Is a teacher. In
the Fort Worth public schools.
Misses Ida Stroud and Bertha Wil-
liamson have returned from a very
pleasant- visit to friends at Comanche.
B. R. Mason and son Herbert have
returned from a visit to Waco and
Elgin. They 'report a very pleasant
Christmas.
Claude Eacott and Miss Douglas
Fox of Goldthwaito spent Sunday In
the city the guests" of friends.
Mrs. C. A. McCutchon has returned
from a visit to friends at Bolton and
Austin.
Misses Georgia and Nina Madison
have returned from a delightful visit
to their aunt at Temple. "
Mrs. L. D. Hallonquist and children
have returned from a delightful visit
to relativeY at' Loiheta': ' v
BURGLAR LEAVES BLOOD
' STAINS ON WINDOW
SILL
Was Fired On as He was Making His
Escape Through a Window
tnls Morning.
Fort Worth Texas Jan. 1. Chas.
Dunklin a dry goods clerk fired oa
and wounded a burglar who entered
his home early this morning. The
burglar had secured a gold watch
diamond ring and twenty dollars In
money and was crawling through the
window when discovered by Dunklin.
He made his escape but blood stains
were left on the wjndow sill.
TESTIFIES HKFOKE COMMISSION'.
Diu'erentlail Kate Being Heurd by Com-
mission Today.
Special to Dally Bulletin:
Austin. Texas Jan. 3. Secretary
Haines of the Galveston Chamber of
Commerce again took the stand in
Judge Wilcox's district court this
morning when the Houston-Galveston
differentia) rate case wsa resumed.
Haines- declared that the railroad
commissioners' failure to make the
necessary orders . confirming the
courts decree in the rates for the
shipments between points on the
Brownsville road and tJalveston caus-
Led.SM railroads to refuse all claims
' for refund of overcharges on 'rotton.
even when threatened wnn prosecu-
tion. Haines alleged that the commis-
sion refused to give a hearing to em-
brace and review the differential rate
dispute.
O.VE XECKO KILLS ANOTHER.
Quarrel Near Atudln and One 1'ses a
Shotgun With Deadly
Effect'
Special tr. Dally Bulletin:
Austin. Texas Jan. 3. Napoleon
Taber is tinder arrest here following
the killing of Melvln Teague. at Creei-
niore late Saturday night. Both part
ies are negroes it seems that they
had quarreled and Taber went to get
a sKotgun. Returning to the house
where Teague was. he sent a load of
buckshot through his head killing
him Instantly.
Miss Lizzie Lttsie. of Fort Worth
who holds one of the highest positions
in the public schools of that city has
been spending the holidays visiting
with the family of Rev. W. T. ?illi-
van. She returned home today. Miss
Lltsie is an accomplished young wom-
an and- her visit has been a delight
to those with whom she visited.
Walter H. Caldwell who has been
taking Christmas In Brownwood re-
turned this morning to his home a;
Menardville. Walter says. It Is slmplv
great to come to town about twice a
year. He is coming again on July
ith.
A M. Martin of Bishee Arizona
was in the city this morning enroute
to Brady -where he will be connected
with the light and power plant. Mr.
Martin is a brother-in-law to B. R.
Mason of this city.
.
Dee A. Hfse is hehe this week serv-
ing on the grand jury.
MIsa Carrie Reeves of Bangs 1b
spending a few days in the city with
Mrs. G. S. Howard.
Miss Gem Wright has returned to
her homo near Mullen after a visit
to her sister Mrs. Edwin McGhee.
Miss Beulah Kirkpatrlck has return-
ed from a pleasant visit to relatives at
Anadarkq Oklahoma during the holi-
days. WEATHER HE PORT.
. Tonight and Tuesday un
settled weather; colder
to-
night.
t-g. K'M .
COLOSSUS OF RHODES.
"
One of the Ancient Seven Wonders of
the World.
The ancients succeeded in making
that alloy of copper which is. known as
bronze. Among the seven wonders of
the world was the famous statue
wholly made of bronze historically
known as the Colossus of .Rhodes. It
represented Phoebus the national del-
.y of the Ithodians. It was begun by
Chares a pupil of Lysippus the sculp-
tor and was completed by Laches 2SS
B. O. The popular belief Is that it
stood astride the harbor of Rhodes
that It was 105 feet high and that
ships could easily sail between its legs.
Pliny said that few men could clasp
its thumb. It was cast on metal plates
afterward Joined together and this
process occupied twelve years. In the
interior wns a snlral sta ise reach
ing into its head and in MP-ror
suspended to fts v d
the coast of Sj
to Egypt.
After it ha
-four
Wn by
lay on
years this coIoj
an earthquake
the shore for 02
is. until
JoH by the
be original
A. D. 672 when
Saracens to a d
cost was 300 talent? fit $6000000
and It Is not tooQ to say that a
similar Image mlgv be constructed
now in one-fourth of the time and at
one-third of the original cost Rhodes
by the way must have bad colossus
on the brain for Pliny relates that the
port was adorned with 1000 colossal
statues of the sun.
LONDON THEATERS.
The Ordeal of Getting Past the Aged
Ticket Taker.
The first difference I always find be-
tween going to the play in London and
in New York Is that in New York tho
man who has paid for a seat is made
to feel that he Is a patron of the house
while In London he Is greeted by the
staff of the theater not exactly as on
intruder but as a necessary evil. They
appreciate that an audience Is a neces-
sary evil but sooner than havo one
they would almost prefer to close tho
bouse.
In London for that importantly stra-
tegic outpost of ticket taker an old
man of eighty Is always employed.
You think this is accideot but It Is
not Old age naturally suggests failing
eyesight and when be keeps you wait-
bag in the foyer whila be examines
your ticket mad awtres blraself that It
Is nors'IaurHiry MH-r-oca re-
ceipt you attribute the delay to his old
eyes. But In detaining you he has a
motive. Standing at bis elbow scowl-
ing darkly there always is another
man. apparently a plain clothes out
from Scotland Yard uncomfortably
disguised in evening dress. And while
the aged ticket taker pretends to scru-
nitlze your ticket the lookout man
scans you. You cannot escape his eye
He never sleeps No American no
matter how reckless can hope to pas
that man with a concealed bomb or a
revolver or wearing a white tie with a
dinner coat Collier's.
Flies at Sea.
Tin finding of files and butterllie.-
n lonj; V-uy tit at sea is perhaps to
most readers a fact not very well
known. A recent traveler In tin trvp
les relates that when thlr'y mile
out froth laud a plague of tiles over
took the vessel on which he was steam
Ing The cabin was so full of them
that the beams were blacki-nod. Com
moii black hotisetili' they wi-r fo:
the most part. with however a good
sprinkling of large green tiles. Vher
they could have come from was a niy?-
tery. but they were a terrible nuisance
and. although those on hoard swept off
lumdretls"ln a net their numbers wn
not sensibly diminished. Another sin
gular circumstance was that although
no land whs in sight large dragon
tiles repeatedly flew amiss the ship
and a largo dark butvrrty was observ-
ed to tilt across in the direction of tb
nearest land quite thirty miles away
without stopping to rest on the vesscr
at all. Loudon Globe.
Both Rather Flippant.
There is n itrinus parallelism bt
tween two stori'- told rpectlvely ol
the late Mr Spnrgron a:al of Dean
Swift.
Mr. Spurgeon on hearing of the dev-
astation wrought by an earthquake Id
Essex merely remarked. "1 am glad to
hear that my county Is moving at last."
The dean of St. Patrick'. Dublin
was watching with a friend the roof
of a building on which several men
were at work fixing slates. Suddenly
one of the men vanished. Thereupon
tho dean turned to his companion and
said. "I like to see a man go quickly
ftrough his work."
Egotism of Genius.
When Wordsworth Southey and
Coleridge were walking together and
Coleridge remarked that the day was
so tine "It might have been ordered
for three poets" the gentle Words-
worth promptly exclaimed: -Three
poets: Who are the other two?"
Disraeli when a mere youth wrottr
to his Ulster that he had heard Macau-
ley. Shell and Grant speak "but be-
tween ourselves I could floor them all."
And again be said. "When I want to
read a good book l wrlto one."
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TELLTALE PICT
URES
Paintings That Have Done thti
Work of Detectives.
BROUGHT CRIMES TO LIGHT.
Instances of Where the Canvas of an
Artist Led to a Confession of Guilt
A Woman's Portrait and a Stolen
Diamond Ornament.
An artist who had suddenly become-
almost famous by his production of a
painting exhibited at the Royal acad-
emy was one day called upon by a
man whose visit was productive of tfl
most extraordinary and undreamed of
consequences.
The picture represented a lonely
stretch of beach upon which the sea.
was beating in long creamy rollers. In
the foreground bending over a dead
body was a man with a wild expres-
sion on his face and with a naked
knife In his hawK A ship's boat evi-
dently just beached was also ia tbe
picture and by the side of ta mur-
dered man was a bag of gold. Tb pic-
ture portrayed the advent of two cast
aways upon a friendly shore. The oss
had murdered the other so that tfee
treasure might be bis.
The painter's visitor was a gray Pair-
ed wild eyed man..
"In heaven's name sir" he gasped
out "how did you learn the dreadful
story that you painted? I see you
know all. I murdered my mate Bill to
get tho money that was his- I threw
his body into the sea. I don't know
what impulse led me to the academy.
The first thing I saw was your picture
representing the scene that took place
thirty years ago."
Needless to say. the picture had been
the outcome of imagination. Yet mur-
der will out and the guilty conscience
of the man who bad killed his comrade
for lust of gold had convinced him
that the painting was no coincidence
but -was indeed the actual portrayal of
a dastardly and unwitnessed crime.
There is probably no picture better
known in England than "The Doctor"
by Luke FUdes yet there are proba-
bly very few people aware of the fact
that that selfsame masterpiece was the
means of bringing to light the per-
petration of a crime that would other-
wise never have been known.
A certain doctor in a large town com-
mitted suicide and among his papers
was a. letter wMckra a follows: "I
have today seen Luke Fildesr 'Doctor.'
The picture represents a medical man
watching by the bedside of a child. It
has so haunted me that I am going to
take away my own worthless life and
make a confession at the same time.
When Arthur's" bis brother's "boy
died I came Into money that my dead
brother had settled on him. He died
as all the world thought of acute pneu-
monia. Yet his life might have been
saved bad 1 acted as Fildes Doctor'
is so evidently doing with the use of
all the skill that lay in my power. I
hastened the boy's end and so got the
money. I can bear it no more.11"
I A-well known artist was commissloa-
ed to paint the portrait of a lady In ex-
alted circles who boasted the posses
sion of a .most unique Jewel In the
form of a pendant The lady was very
anxious that this heirloom should be
Included In her portrait The artist of
course complied with her request
Shortly after the painting had beea
completed a daring burglary was per-
petrated with the result that the lady
lost her heirloom and no trace of the
thief or thieves was forthcoming.
Years passed by and the lady gave up
ail hope of ever seeing the preclotts
heirloom again.
Now it so happened that the artist
who had painted the portrait of the
lady mentioned bad occasion to travel
in India.
In the course of bis wanderings be
came to Bombay and. as every visitor
to that place does strolled through the
native bazaar.
Suddenly his attention was riveted
by a piece of jewelry In a jeweler's
shop that seemed familiar to him. It
was a diamond and ruby pendant
Where bad he seen It before? He ran-
sacked his brain kut could not remem-
ber. He returned to his .hotel and hap-
pened to take from his portfolio a
sketch of the portrait he had made
years ago of the lady with the pendant
In a moment the enigma was .solved.
The piece of jewelry he had seen was
the peculiar pendant that bis fair sit-
ter had been so anxious he should in-
clude in his portrait
He hurried off to the chief of police
and told that worthy what he suspect-
ednamely that the bazaar be had
visited contained the long lost jewel
of the English lady. Inquiries were at
once set on foot with extraordinary re-
suits. The jeweler In the bazaar con-
fessed to having given years' ago a
quite Insignificant sum for the Jewel
which be had bought from a stable-
man In the employ of a neighboring
rajah. The stableman was sought for
and turned out to be none other than
a famous English cracksman who had
apparently turned honest but who.
nevertheless confessed to bariaff.
the thief of. :the. Jewel that
so miraculously dioTtrei! 1
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