The Tribune. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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STEPHENVILLE. SEPT. 29
Rats? Not a Bit of It; Only Big
Cockroaches.
We all have our troubles. Over,
in China the great Yang-Tsc-Kiang
River for 700 miles on either side
overflowed, destroyed all crops,1
drowned 100,000 people, and others
arc dying from pestilence. In Sicil 1
Mount Etna is belching out lava,1
cinders and ashes, destroying crops, I
on the mountain slopes, and people
have fled panic stricken from their
homes. The stream ol lava, red hot
from the bowels of the earth, burn |
every thing it touches. Hewn here
in Tex a-, we have had the Texas)
legislature to contend with, and
it has been about as destructive to'
human progress as a plague of
locusts, or its devastating influence)
might be likened unto the horrorsj
of the Yang-’l so-Ktang or Etna
The legislature adjourned, thank)
the Lord, hut, horror of horrors,
Tom Campbell still lives. He is
the man who caused the lax rate
this year to be increased.
This accumulation of evidence
showing the necessity for .improved,
roads and the value of such roads
to the general public lias been so
rapid that there is a general move-
ment all over the county looking
to the establishment of roads which
will reduce the cost of hauling and
bring the country districts within
easy access to the markets and
railroads.
Texas Industrial Notes.
It is estimated by San Angelo
wool men that tin' fall clip which;
is just beginning to cotue on the)
market will be 1,500,000 pounds mak
ing the total production of the San;
Angelo country for I til 1 -1,500,000
pounds.
The city of Austin by a vote of;
6 to 1 has decided to rebuild the
Austin dam. The dam 'will cost'
$1, 720,000, and will form a lake 27)
miles long. The dam will be sixty;
five feet high and is to be
equipped to (produce 7,200 horse
power.
The Texas commercial secretaries
and business men’s association wi t
hold their annual meeting in Dallas
on October 5, in the auditorium of
the Dallas chamber of commerce
All matters of material interest to
the development of tile state will
be discussed, and an interesting an
instructive program will be carried
out.
HE SCOLDS WIFE AND COOK.
Man of tho House Angry That tho Wo-
men Had Boon 8cared by Rodents.
Has Unpleasant Experionos In Collar,
but 8tands by His Guns.
By M. QUAD.
[Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary
Press]
evening two weeks ago Mr.
M ■ Bowser came home from the
% W office to find Mrs. Bowser seat-
ed on the ptano and the cook
standing up on the sofa. One was
armed with the broom and the other
with an old curtain pole, and on the
face of each was a look that she would
sell her life dearly.
“What In thunder does all this
mean?" shouted Mr. Bowser as he
paused in the door of the sitting room.
"Rats!" answered Mrs. Bowser.
“What sort of an answer Is that?
Come down from that piano! By the
great John Henry, has my house been
turned into an insane asylum?"
"Mr. Bowser, there are rats In the
house," explained Mrs. Bowser as she
got down. "Cook saw three of them
in the kitchen an hour ago."
"And one of 'em snapped at me like
a mad wolf.” added the pride of the
kitchen ns she also reached the floor.
“I don’t believe a word of tt! There
isn't a rat within a mile of the house
and hasn't been for twenty years.
Come right downstairs, both of you.
Now, show me a rat. Go right at It
and show me a rat!”
“I think they came up out of the cel-
lar,” said Mrs. Bowser. “I didn’t see
one myself, but I heard them pattering
across the floor.”
Sure There Were No Rate.
Pattering uothlng! Cook never even
saw a mouse. She might possibly have
seen a cockroach strolling about, but
I doubt that. Get dinner on the table
within ten minutes or there'll be some-
thing worse than rats around the
house! By George, but wbat fools
■women can make of themselves!”
At the dinner table Mrs. Bowser
said:
“I am sorry you talked so bluntly to
cook. She isn’t a girl easily frightened,
and 1 am quite sure she saw at least
one rat. She says three. She came
running upstairs and said they were
after her, and so I got scared.”
“Mrs. Bowser, didn’t you hear me
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“I have a world of confidence in
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for
I have used it with perfect suc-
cess," writes Mrs. M. I. Basford,
Poolesville, Md. For sale by all
dealers. 35-5t
Binciham Kino. Don Kino.
KING & KING
Lands, Abstracts and Loans
Kfitahlinhed 1KK0. Tinder this manage-
ment Mince 1H9.1
L. G. OXFORD.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office up stairs over Neb-
lett building, offers his pro-
fessional services to citzens of
„ Stephenville and surrounding
country. At night he can be
found at the Cumberland
hotel east of Neblett building.
JOSEPH J. MULL0Y, M. D.
PUYSICIAN>nd SURGEON.
Office over White I>rug Co.
nuiiMus I Office No. 111.
PHONES j iteaidencfe No. 59.
Mil. BOWSER WAS BATTLED.
say there wasn’t a rat within a mile
of tills house?” demanded Mr. Bowser
ns he knocked on the table with the
handle of his knife.
“Yes. but’’—
“There are no huts about It. What I
su.v about rats goes. <'ook saw water
bugs or cockroaches. They might even
have been grasshoppers that Jumped
in from the back yard.”
“But other houses have rats. Mrs.
McLain was telling me”—
"Mrs. McLain and Mr. Bowser are
two different persons, madam. If Mrs.
McLain has rats In her bouse she ts
welcome to them. I have none In mine
und never had and never will have,
and if I come home and And another
circus performance going on somebody
will suffer!"
Agrees to Whitewash Cellar.
“I’m sure that cook"— began Mrs.
Bowser, when he cut in with:
“1’hat will do. The subject is closed,
f nave told you wbat will happen if
any more ruts are seen around here."
A week passed without another rat
being seen. Then two made their ap-
pearance, hut disappeared before the
cook had time to get scared. On the
next day there were four rats and on
the next day one. Not a word was
■aid to Mr Bowser until the other
evening after dinner. Then Mrs. Bow-
ser carelessly asked:
“Don’t you think the cellar ought to
be whitewashed again?”
“Might be a good thing,” wan the r»
ply.
“Would you pay a man $3 to do tt?"
“Three dollars I Three dollars! Not
by the tomb of Allah! The man that
rharges $9 for such a little Job Is a
kerse thief nnd n swindler."
“Bat if tt takes him a day and a
htlfr
•‘lie ought to do It In four hoora. • I
did tt In three. I’ll go down nnd taka
• look at things, nnd If there la need
of another coat I’ll pot It on tomorrow
Mrs. Bowser had accomplished a part
of the conspiracy she had entered Into
with the cook. She had got Mr. Bow-
ser to go down cottar of his own ac-
cord. lie got a match and went dowu
nnd lighted the gas nud went looking
around for the whitewash outfit. He
Whs heard to whistle a few bars of a
popular air. He was beard to bum.
He was heard moving about, then u
long, wild bloodcurdling scream—such
a scream as a woman utters when she
is thrown over a precipice 6.000 feet
high because she will not marry the
leading man In the Boston Ideal Com
edy company.
A rush and a fall on the cellar stairs
—another yell.
Then Mr. Bowser, with face as white
as the dead mid his eyes rolling.
"Will you tell me what on earth Is
the matter?" asked Mrs. Bowser as
she came forward.
“I—I saw something down there!
Some—something ran over my foot!”
he gasped.
“Oh, something did. eh? Well, you've
been told there arc rats about.”
“Of course there are rats.” added tho
cook.
Would Net “Own Up.”
Mr. Bowser had taken a decided
stand on the rat question. He bad pos-
itively denied that there were rats
about. He must now own up or bluff
It through. Mr. Bowser is a man who
has never “owned up” over three times
in his life and was then sorry for It
within five minutes. He had got a bad
scare, but be got hold of his nerve and
turned on Mrs. Bowser to shout:
‘'Eats! Idiots! Lunatics! What I
saw down there was some stray cat.
She took me by surprise and rattled
me for a moment. Kitty, kitty, come
up here. She won’t come, hut she's
down there.”
“But If It should be rats?” queried
Mrs. Bowser. I
“If it should be Satan himself, why
don’t you usk? You are Just like all
other women. When you get n fool
Idea Into your head nothing can drive
tt out I say it’s a cat.”
“Then you ought to do down nnd
shoo her up. We can’t have a strange
cat down cellar.”
’’I’ll have her out tn five minutes.
That is, we will leave the door open
and she will come up und take a
skip.”
“But If there are rats they will come
up.” .
“Woman, haven’t I said there wasn't
an Infernal rat within four miles of
the house?” whooped Mr. Bowser.
“Yes, but”—
Finda Big Cockroaches.
He turned about aud went down cel-
lar. It was the only thing he could do.
He must hunt the cat or let the ruts
hunt him. The gas was still burning,
nnd he nrmed himself with the fur-
nace poker and went scuffling ground
and calling out “Kitty” and “Shoo
there!”
Nothing developed for five minutes
Then four big rats' made a dash for
him from behind a barrel. He struck
at the nearest and fell down and rolled
over, and there was auother wild yell
and a scramble up the stairs. The four
rats followed and whisked out of the
kitchen Into the back yard before
either of the women could open her
mouth to scream.
“Didn't I tell you there were rats
here?” asked Mrs. Bowser.
“You did. but where are they?” was
replied. I saw three cockroaches Scur-
rying out, hut where were the rats? I
told you there were none.”
“But why did you yell and
then?”
“To hump ’em along and give them
the scare of their lives, of course.
Now. then, let’s hear no more of
rat matter. I don't propose to hnve
this house turned Into nn Idiot asylum
because four cockroaches happened to
drop In on us for a peaceful call!”
For Bryan.
A movement to secure good roads
for the country around Bryan has
taken definite shape. Plans are
being made to organize a road dis
trict with Bryan as the center, and
to submit to the property tax pay-
ers a proposition to issue $300,000
bonds to improve all the highways
within its limits with sand, clay,
gravel, etc. A mass meeting will b
called at once in Bryan and dis-
cussion on good roads will be giver*
lectures, cost of construction will
he gone over, ami it is believed
that the movement will be carried
out.
Texas prooduces annually nearly
four million hales of cotton ami
two million tons of cotton seed.
She leads all the stales in the pro-
duction of cattle. She can put
almost with any of them in the
production of corn , oats, hay, pork
iron, poultry t>r dairy products.
She produces more oil than she
does milk.
WHERE
Did You
Get It?
Our Experiment Farms.
The thirty-second legislature felt
the mighty surge of progress and
passed a law permitting county cor
missioner's court to appropriate net
to exceed one thousand dollars per
annum for experimental farms.
This legislation has resulted in 2t
counties making appropriations for
experimental work. Some of the
stations airead established have one
hundred and twenty-five farmers
cultivating land under the super-
vision of the director of the ex-
perimental farm, and each station
will conduct experiments and de-
monstrations of personal interest* to
at least two thousand farmers. This
instance serves to illustrate the
possibilities of legislation in the
development of our resources.
There are many sentences in the
power of the legislature to speak
that would create new worlds in in-
dustry. Our mines will open at
their summons; factories will spring
up at their bidding; steel rails will
bound into their place at their'
command, and capital will come
when they call. What marvelous
opportunities await statesmen who
can feel the triumphant swing of
(civilization as it moves powerfully
towards Texas. Texas needs great
men.
vv. w. w.
it* •£.. '..y (j
We mean where did you get
that watch chain? Is it the best to
be had for the money? Did it
come from a reputable dealer?
These are most important questions
concerning any kind of jewelry.
There is no other class of goods
which is subject to so much faking
and deception. The best way to
purchase good jewelry is: buy only
from a reputable dealer,
Be sure and see our stock of
jewelry before you buy. Our
goods are the best to be had and
our stock is complete.
The Old Reliable
TERRY EROS.
Druggists and Jewelers
MOUTH SIDE SQUARE
on Har Sid*.
A little boy who was very
puzzled over the theory of evolution
questioned his mother thus:
“Mamma, am 1 descended from a
monkey?”
“I don't know,” the mother replied.
“I uever knew any of your father’s
people.”—Cotton Seed.
As usually treated, a sprained Judge Collin George is busy this
ankle will disable a man for three week looking after the eonstruc-
or four weeks, but by applying lion of content walks around his
Chamberlain's Liniment freely as residence on Belknap street. If
soon as the injury is received, and others living on Belknap street
observing the directions with each) would imbibe a little of twentieth
century civic pride that street
i could soon be made quite attrac-
A Little Girl's Importance.
Grandma (Impatiently) — Dorothy. 1
do wish you would keep quiet for r
little while!
Dorothy — I’ll try, grandma, but
please don’t scold me. Jnst remember
that If it wasn't for me. you wouldn’t
be a grandma at all.—Chicago Itecord-
Herald.
SO »♦♦♦♦♦♦''*
Many Caught.
Matrimony is like a rainstorm
—only bad when you’re caught
In it.—Detroit Free Preas.
• v— r
Honeymoon Ovor.
Mrs. Xewedd (pouting)—Yon are not
like Kate's husband. He won’t let his
wife do a bit of heavy lifting.
Newedd—But 1 can't alwaya be at
borne when you take your bread out of
the oven.—Boston Transcript.
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Wonder of the nation;
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Takes the whole creation!
Critic* praise on every hand—
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The Tribune. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1911, newspaper, September 29, 1911; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth883124/m1/4/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stephenville Public Library.