Burleson County Ledger and News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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W. W. RANKIN, Nnnnter.
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Spring 1011 Millinery at Fa-
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Texas Industrial News
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The £75,000 electric light
plant which has been under con*
«traction for the past year in Pe-
cos, has been explotad. The
.greater portion |>f the power
generated will be feed to supply
electricity for running pumps in
the irrigation district.
Waldorf f 2.50 Shoes at Fagan.
Spur will hold an election on
April 3rd to vote for school
bonds to the amount of f18,000,
The Stamford Waterworks
Company is having a mammoth
reset voir constructed with a| ca-
pacity for storing tour hundred
million gallons of water. It will
have a drainage area of about
five thousand aeree. The new
•reservoir is being constructed
at a cost of $20,000.
Queen Quaiity Silk Hose and
Shoes at Fagun.
San Patricio' County, of which
Aransas Pass is the county seat,
lias voted $100.000 worth of
bands for good roads, 120,000 of
which is to be used on an auto-
mobile road from Aransas Pass
to Ingleside, 6 miles south.
The Brady Commercial] Club
is working for a $75,000 rood
bond issue and a $-40,000 bond
nsue for city waterworks.
Waitt Over Shoes at Fagans.
The citizens of Llano county
are constructing a graded road
from the city limits of Llano
north to the San Saba eounty
line; the work is under the su-
pervision of the Llano Commer-
cial Club and the approximate
cost is $25,000.
Bonds have been approved by
the attorney general for the
$100.000 road bond issue at
Sweetwater. A government ex-
pert will superintend the work
of building tfce roads.
Embroideries—a tremendous
assortment at Fagans.
Lamar county, of which Paris
is the eounty seat, is to have an
«lection soon to issue $300,000 in
bonds for the construction of
good roads..
Abilene has just completed
the paring of fourteen business
blocks and is making efforts to
extend the paving into the ÍÜÍ
denee section of the oity.
Groveton, the county east of
Trinity county, Is erecting a new
t house at a cost of $55,000.
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Love and an Up-
to-Dafte Cottage
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By C C BASK
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(Cowrie bl. dm bjr AluciaUd UtWiijr PimO
When I came of age I stepped into
as nice a little fortune as any yonng
man need wish for, and said to my-
•elf:
"I have enough of an income to
live a life of leisure. I shsll enter
into no business now snd lose the
best years of my life for enjoyment.
When tired of amusing myself I
•hall take up some employment—as
a pastime.
"Why should not man make busi-
ness a pleasure, just as he does
travel, music or yachting?"
At the end of my first year I
found that I not only had used up
my income but had also cut off a
generous slice from my principal. At
the end of three years—and I never
was dissipated—I had come to my
last $6 bill, and when I spent it,
wrote across its faee, "Good-by, Bill.
You are my last" Then I began to
look about me for the business that
wss to be a pastime.
I hsd always been firmly eon*
vinced that if a man really wanted
to work, he could find it But,
strange to say, when I started out in
search of a position, I found none
waiting for me to step into. My
friends all gave me good advice.
They did not know that my fortune
was gone and I took particular pains
not to enlighten them. I hsd thst
much worldly wisdom. I did not
want either their# sympathy or their
cold shoulders. Their advice was al-
ways to the effect fhat no one could
really engage in congenial business
without investing money, snd they
advised me to do so. They even
went further and brought forwani
schemes in which to invest
At last I settled down as a real
estate agent That, I thought
would bring me Qmong none but
pleasant people, or if it did, I could
easily get rid of them. I took out a
license, rented an office, and actually
found myBelf engaged in a business
entirely my own—and without in-
vesting money. My friends, as
usual, were kihd. They all listed
their property with me, whether they
wanted to sell it or not But even
here there were some uncongenial
things which did not suit me. There
was Jones, for instance. He had a
delightful piece of property, but his
lowest price was 510,000, while my
friend Brown, who wanted to buy it,
would not pay more than $4,000.
When I grew wiser, I learned that
the property was worth only $5,500.
At the end of my first month I
pawned my gold watch to pay office
rent and my boy's wages. At the
end of the second I began to dispose
of my wardrobe and speedily reduced
it to one suit. Then I requested
my landlady to allow me to occupy
one corner of her garret and began
living on two meals a day. I also
let out half my office to a man who
could afford to pay rent At the end
of his second month he fsiled with
the requisite rental snd offered to
tske the place of my office boy as
payment. So my office boy went.
In the course of time I got down
to extremities; slept in my office and
ate when and where I could. I also
learned tailoring—so fsr as keep-
ing my aolitsry suit in repair.
But things took a turn at last 1
hsd s beautiful cottage on my list,
snd one dsy s handsome carriage
stopped before my door, and in came
a widow whom I had slightly known
in my moneyed days. She wanted
that cottage—wanted it badly—but
af er looking over the terms, ssid:
"Mr. Seville, I must hsve this
plsce. But I cannot psy cssh unless
yen csn find s purchaser for my
brown stone house on Madison sv >
nue. If I could mske sn exchsnge
with the owner ef the cottsge I
would pay you almost anything yon
might ask." ** 1
there ever anything s yonng
estate agent would wish for
mere than a chance to become sales-
o(A brown stone msnsion en
lbs moil ^¡enable avenue in the
dfty? I" proiplsed Iter a Bnyer within
a week, and—kept my word.
Next day Mrs. Kent called for
me and we'went out to inspect the
cottage. Incidentally, her daugh>
ter, a vision of lace, loveliness, sun-
ny hair and sunny smiles, wss in the
carriage with ua—a vision which I
hsd known siso, snd dreamed about
in the days of my inheritance.
In wrestling with one of the wiu*
dews which had stuck fsst, I msn-
sged to split my only cost soon sfter
reaching the cottafce, and the' mir-
rors in the room showed seedy vest
and shirt, whichever way I turned.
But no thanks to me, the house was
so delightful that the only question
was if the owner would agree to an
exchange. He did, and I won my
first commission of importsnce.
Next dsy I sat in my office deep-
ly immersed in a meditation upon
the extreme foolishness of squsnder-
ing a fortune which would have en-
abled me to dream with reason of a
fluffy-haired, sunny smiling girl,
when a carriage stopped at the door
and in it the fluffy*haired vision. I
blushed a little as 1 rsn out and
spoke to her. She handed me a
package saying:
"Mamma could not come today
and sent you this by me. And she
wished me to ask if you will not take
tea with ua tomorrow evening T"
I took the package and accepted
the invitation, although I wondered
a little aa to the spectacle I would
present in that dilapidated coat My
tailoring had not been a success in
this instance.
Returning to the office, I tore
open the package and found my com-
mission in bills and gold. I caressed
the strangers. It had been a long
time since they had been calling on
me. Never before in my life had I
known how really beautiful money
looks. A Gprot is nothing by thf
side of the line drawing on a dollar
bill, and when it came to gold eagles
and hundred dollar bills—diamonds
arc not in it with them. I can say
this from experience. I had beef-
steak for dinner that night—beef-
steak smothered in onions.
Among those bank notes was the
last $5 bill on which I had written
my farewell two years before.
"Back again, are you?" I said.
"You won't be so slippery next
time." I felt that I had pot the tail
of my fortune in my hand again, and
pmpoJM to pull it back to mo.
Five years later, as the fluffy
dream and I were seated in this same
eottage, pke asked me for money to
buy rattles, or something, for our
boy, and I gave her that $5 bill. As
her eye caught the lines 1 had writ-
ten seven years before, she ex-
claimed :
"Poor fellow. This is some one's
last dollar. How I wish I could give
it back to him."
"You did that five years ago."
And then I had to tell this story.
GETTING ONE IN.
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"Our family," said the pompous
individual, "fan trace back to fhe
time of the Mayflower."
"Does your family happen to
know exactly what the Mayflower's
tiip* was?" asked the man who pre-
tended to be interested in ocean
records.
TEST OF HIS LOVE.
"Tell me," he pleaded, "what ¿sn
I do to win your love. There is no
danger that is too great, no task
that I will not undertake, to make
you mine.'
"Get me the tail of Halley's com-
et to put on my hat."
MODEL MÁDB OF CORKS.
Charles Hawkins of Peterborough,
Eng.j has succeeded in building s
series of most interesting models, the
chief of whidh is s Urge snd compre-
hensive model of Burghley house,
the historic sest of the Msrquii of
Kseter, nfsr Stamford It took Mr.
Hawkins, in hie spsse time, ten
yasis to complete, during which tims
hs wslked nesrly 8,000 miles in re-
peated visits te ths honss in eider ta
esculo accuracy. Ths msdel, ssjrs s
writer in ths Strand, msssures five
last in kagtfe, four lest la width snd
thrss last in height, and no fewer
than half a million bottle corks wwt
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Rexall and Nyal Remedies
Did you ever notice the guarantee printed on every
package of Rexali Remedies? Here it is:
•'Guauanteb—The United Drug Company
and the Kexall store selling this preparsftioa
gusrantee it to give satisfaction; if it does not
go back to the store where you bought it and
get your money; it belongs to you end we
want you to hsve it."
Could there t e a fairer proposition than that? And re-
member this isn't some irresponsible peddler that is here
this week and may lie gone the next, but this guarantee
is baeked by responsible parties.
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The above guarantee applies to the Nyal line to3. We ¡
have a full line of these remedies, one for every ailment.
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The farmer man no mors is tired,
His work has tornad to play,
For implements hs cnoa did use,
Have all bean laid away.
Ha now goes forth to till ths soil
In joyous frame of mind,
Because the tools ha uses now
Ars of ths MODXR* KIND.
And HE GOT THEM FROM-
A. F. GRABO\^
HARDWARE OROCERIES IMPLEflENT
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CALDWELL. TEXAS
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DELIGHTED!
you will be with the mil
of meats we furnish <£L-
tomf rs. We carry ónlytL
beat and cleanest meats.
both smoked and fresh snd
invite your inspection at all
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Notice to Breeders
TIIAON, my Hamilton '
ion Stallion and KINO in:
fine Jack will make
«eason at my stable t
season at anmc price
nnd $12. Half cash,
ancc when colt i« foal
W. J. Harris
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ATTOÑNKY AT-LAW ANO NOTARY PUBLIC
All businsaa entrusted to my care will receive
prompt attention, Practice in all oourta.
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Burleson County Ledger and News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1911, newspaper, March 24, 1911; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168739/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.