Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 305, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 8, 1907 Page: 2 of 7
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The Daily Bulletin
MAYES PRINTING COMPANY Proprietor.
entered at the Brownwood Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter
OUR. PRESIDENTS
Subscription Per Month ..50c
WILL H. MAYES Managing Editor.
H F. MAYES Business Manager. C. A. TL'NNELL. City Editor
E C SEITZ Daily Circulator. E. E. KIRKI'ATKICK. AttobiaM Editor
W. R. DULA. Foreman Mech Dept.
MARKETING PECANS.
The Texas Nut Growers Association is to have a meeting in
Austin this week to consider its interests and especially to take
some steps to regulate if possible the marketing of pecans.
There is no question but that Texas has lost hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars from lack of system in handling this valuable
crop. It has usually been sold by the dealers as though it had
no real value to the growers who readily took whatever was
offered for the nuts. The first pecans marketed are nearly al-
ways sold by boys and other parties who have stolen the nuts and
who readily take whatever price the local dealer is willing to give
them without any price having been fixed. These sales in a way
fix the opening price and by no means represent the value of the
nuts on the market. Then the system of giving nut gatherers
a part what they gather for gathering the crop throws at least
the part going to the gatherers on the market at whatever they
will bring. The whole marketing system will have to be changed
before growers get values for pecans. It will probably require a
number of years of co-operative work to bring about the changes
needed but if pecans growers will give their co-operation even
this year better prices can be obtained. Pecans can be stored
and kept for many months in good condition. As it is the en-
tire crop is now thrown on the market at gathering time is
bought up by a few dealers in St. Louis Chicago and New York
who store them and distribute ithem according to demand
throughout the country and along during the season obtaining
in many instances four or five times the price which are paid the
growers. This great profit does not come to the local buyers as
they almost invariably sell to thefce large eastern dealers as fast
as they get enough to fill cars f he Nut Growers Association
will likely advise that no pecans be sold for less than ten cents
A pound and that fancy nuts should command fancy prices. So
far as possible the nut growers of Texas should assist this
sranization in obtaining proper prices for this valuable crop.
or-
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
The Utird presiile.it of the I'uited States was burn at Sh.nl well Va.. In
1743. and died ut Mutitieello. Va. on tbe Fourth of .Inly. iv';. .John Adams
whom he succeeded as president iu ISOl. dying on the same day. .Jefferson
was eleoted as a Kerublican that party being tlie forerunner of the present
Democratic party. He served two terms. .Jefferso was the author of the
Declaration of Independence. He also drafted the Virginia statute for religious
freedom and founded the I nlversity of Virginia. He is regarded as tbe
founder of the Democratic party.
THE FALL RAINS.
The rains have now been pretty general all over Texas. At
Brownwood and throughout this immediate section there was
nearly four inches of rainfall which is enough to place a good
sowing season in the ground. Farmers should take advantage
of it to put in good grain crops and to get the ground ready for
next year. Every foot of land should be turned as soon as possi-
ble afterjthe present crops can be gotten off. Land that has
been in cotton for a two years or more should by ail means be put
to grain or be made ready for corn next spring. Every farmer
should try to have some wheat if only ten or twenty acres for it
will bring in some money in the early summer that will be need-
ed. Then there should be a few acres at least to oats and to rye
and to barley every crop of which is a valuable product of thi3
country. The land that is not put to fall grain crops should be
plowed deep harrowed immediately and kept stirred with a har-
row until planting time next spring. Then it will get the ad-
vantage of whatever rains may come this winter and next sprinar
and will start in with a season that will help far along towards
making the crop and with a large part of the cultivation already
done. If our farmers will only work to take advantage of all
the rainfall which we get much better crops will be produced
mnd farming will be made much easier too.
MESQUITE GRASS PASTURES.
The farmer withja mesquite grass pasture that has never
been broken is in pretty good luck. Land in this section is too
valuable to be used altogether for pasture but a good pasture of
mesquite grass properly used is worth its room yet on every
farm in this country. The fact that the land is rocky is to the
advantage of the small farm pasture for the rocks protect the
grass from being tramped out in rainy weather. Rocky hill
pastures can be used in rainy seasons when otherwise the stock
would have to be kept up in lots and heavily fed. A good mes-
quite turf on land of this kind is always ready for stock of any
kind. The only danger to this grass is in over-pasturing. The
farmer who is careful to avoid this can usually have the choicest
rich grass in spring early summer and fall up to frost and a dry
grass pasture in midsummer and in winter that is unsurpassed.
Every farmer with a good mesquite pasture should value it highly
and should protect it in a way that it will afford him the most
pasturage when it is most needed.
BAILEY'S CHALLENGE.
The Fort Worth Record takes the position that the Bailey
question should not be raised inTexas in the next election ex-
cept in those districts where the representatives in the last legis-
lature thought that Bailey was guilty of such wrong doing as to
warrant them in voting against him. In tnese districts ac-
cording to the Record efforts will be made to defeat those
men who voted their convictions after the Bailey-Waters-Pierce
oil developments came to light. In other words these men should
be punished and should be made to see that Texas will not stand
for interference with Bailey's rights in representing the oil inter
ests while ostensibly serving the public. Where the represen-
tatives quietly accepted Bailey's dual service as a senatorial
a i .
prerogative tne Kecord would not have the issue kept alive. As
the Bulletin views it. no man in Texas can afford not to make it
an issue in the next election if he believes that Bailey has been
wrong for the senator himself went before the legislature and
defied Texas to elect any man to any office in the state from con-
stable up who stands opposed to his practices and since then
has gone into a large number of the counties of the state in the
same defiant attitude. In other words Senator Bailey said that
Texas shall not elect an officer who does not have his endorse-
ment and to submit to such an ulltimatum without resistance
would be most cowardly conduct on the part of those who can-
not agree that his senatorial conduct has been above reproach.
Every legislator opposed to Baileyism ought to be a candidate
for re-election on that issue and in every district in the state the
question should be fought out now while it is fresh and settled
forever; and to insure this Bailey's challenge should be accept-
ed all along the line from constable up.
Rates Ft. Worth and Return
FAIR AND RACE MEETING
Via
-. eWfttee
$5.10
$1.50
I On sale Oct. 7 to 17 in-
i elusive limit Oct. 18th.
On sale train leaving 6 :80 p. ni.
Oct 12th; limit leave Ft. Worth
' v4-r p. in. Oct 13tb.
W. O. SoRELLE. Agent.
BENJAMIN WEST.
How the Great Painter
a Revolution
Before the days
Orainsborouirh and C
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ought About
Art.
f Kevnolcb.
stable Eng-
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Pure Food Dairy Phone 164
We have installed a nteam boiler our oans rind bottle
are thoroughly sterilized they are cleaned with red hot
steam and are kept bright and wpct. We milk Fortv-five
Jersey cows. We feed for quality and rich milk and oream.
We are here to stay. We want your orders. Phone us day or
night. We are always ready.
To your boy or girl who is
away at school. If you have
friends or relatives who are
interested in the happenings
of Brownwood send them
the Daily. They will ap-
preciate it because it's like
a letter from heme every
dav.
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dont know how to write it? Let the
Bulletin ad man help you. Phone 22.
fish artists did not expect any one
to pay such prices for their picture-
as for those of foreigners or even to
buy anything but a portrait. "Wh.-.
could I do with it?' an Knglish co;:-
noisseur is said to have replied to
gentleman who had asked him wh
he did not purchase a historical pic-
ture he greatly admired. 'Yo
surely would not have me hang up
a modern Knglish picture in my
house unless it was a portrait!"'
The cause of this low estimate of
English art may be seen in the facta
mentioned by Mrs. Bell ra her I.iii
and Works l I homa- (iain-hor-
ough." She saye that the fiist at
tempt mad.' in England t represent
a modern historical event exactly as
it occurred was made by Benjjam ;i
West in his famou.- picture of the
"Death of Wotte" exhibited in
ir: i.
Such was then the rage for
mythological subjects that when it
was rumored that West wa paint-
ing a picture in which the acton
were represented in modern (--fame
George MI. the archbishop of
Canterbury and memberi of the
Boyal academy d -tared that they
would hate nothing to do with t: t
bold innovator.'
Sir Joanna lolvneldi and the
archbishop visited West in his stu
dio to urge him to clothe Enjglbd
and French soldiers in the costurm
of. antiquity. Wot refined savin:
that the event to be commemorate
happened in the year 17.18 in i
region unknown to tne iireeks am
Romans and when no warriors wl
wore classical costume existed. Hi-
visitors went away but returnet
when the picture was finished.
Kevnolds seated himself befon
the picture examined it for half an
hour and then nsine. said to th
archbishop: "West has conquered
He has treated the subject a i:
ought to be treated. I retract nr
objections. I foresee that this pie
tare will not only become popular
but will occasion a revolution it
art."
The picture turned tbe t:d-
against the classicism which ha
prevented the English artists fron
producing original pictures.
Even portrait paintert exact
uainsoorougn alone represente
ttic;r Afters as ftychea and Cupid
Diana- and Junes the (iraces an
the Fates. One arti-t painted tic
portrait.- of a lady and daughter m
wriue anti neautv acnhcing t
Diana."
The Liquor She Floated In.
a i : : i (L tir t 1
vn meir arriva: in .ew .eaiano
a party of Knglitdi people drank tin
1 I A L I ! 1
iieaim oi me vessel wnicti nau
brought them safely to their desti
nation. One of the gentlemen h
was asked to join in this ceremonv
replied :
"No; 1 am a teetotaler but I'll
vuiiogtv urinK success to tne sti:p
in tne li.juor she lloats in.
A friend disappeared and return-
ed with a glass of water.
After a complimentary apostro-
phe to the ship the recipient to- j
tbe water oft at once but i mined. -ate
v spluttered :
Th ah oh is is oh
what that tn earth is this?"
"That:-" said his friend. "Why.
you've drunK s'lceess to our noble
ship in the identical lujuor she
Moats in." London Tit-Bits.
of
He Rested
A clergyman uh has a srnal
farm was walking round superin
tending when be came up to .
plowman ivhu was Mstmg hi
horses. The clergyman said:
"John could yon not bring an o!ii
sickle and cut away the weed-
this corner while you rest tin
horse- f"
John said:
"Master. ouldn't vou take a b
of them mixed seeds into the poo:-
pit wi' yoi and sort 'em while
they're' si' gmg v"
John always breathed his hors- -as
well as himself after that with
nothing said. London Answers.
Hie Forethought.
Fogg- lew men like Profes-t
Pedwood in an emergency.
IV.ss As for iii-tance?
Fogg lie was walking by the
riverside when a man fell in. With
out the lots of a moment the pro
fessor sent his valet home to get
book Winch tells how to Itlliijuils.fi
persons apparently drowned.
Bass Bat probably the man
drowned long before the valet got
back.
Fogg Yes. Wasn't it too bad '
If it hadn't been br that the bri
fesor's forethought would ha.
saved the man's life. Boston Trar
script.
Disappointment.
"TTer marriage was a great dis
lppointment to her friends."
"Indeed"'
"Yes; they all predicted it would
turn out unhappy and it didn't."
FOR THE LITTLE ONES.
What the Scientist Hava to Say Aboi
Falling Asleep.
. Boys and girls have all beard
the boy who went to bleep the ro'-
ute his head touchy! the pillow -dead
tired was luut those indei:f
igable knowledge seekers the scien
ti-ts tell us that even in a case o
that kind the falling asleep is t
matter of degrees; that the sen.-e
do not "drop off" simultaneously.
The eve lids begin the work by ob-
scuring sight; the sense of taate
follows and then smell hearing and
touch in order. Touch sleeps more
lightly than any other MtM and
therefore is more easily aron-'
Hearing comes next. Smell is on
of the first to fall aleep but it
the last to wake. Some parts
the body go to sleep before others
too. The sleepy intluence begins at
the feet and works its way upward
to the center of the nervous ifttem.
That help- to explain why it is so
bard to g t to sleep when our feet
are cold. The scientists find out
lots of queer things don't they?
Chicago News.
The Dog Days.
The almanac makers do not agrep
as to the time of the so called "dog
days." The period covered by the
term is from four to six weeks be-
tween the early part of July and the
early part of September and baa
been made to begin variotsslv on
the 3d the 6th the 1 tth. the l!tb.
the 23th and the .'loth of Julv. Prop
erly the term means the hot a: !
6ultrv days of midsummer. Thf
name ''dog days" originated in ti;e
belief of the ancients that it w.n
the conjunction of Sirius the dog
star with the sun that caused the
increased beat at that time. They
believed that Sirius being the
brightest star in the heavens added
an appreciable degree of heat to
that of the sun when they rose at
the same time. Of course that be-
lief had no foundation for the heat
of Sirius does not reach the earth.
A Floating Island.
Among the many wonder:..:
things that the great west can Ina-t
of is a floating island firm enough
to build a bouse on. It is in Hen-
ry's 1 ; i k . Idaho a picturesque body
of water in Targee's pass on tic-
Rocky mountains. Tbe lake has r.n
area of about forty square miles and
is surrounded by snow capped peaks
some of them the highest in the
Iiocky mountain range. The island
is about 30 feet in diameter and
has a base of matted rooto so dense
and firm that it supports heavily
growing trees and a great deal of
underbrush. Over the roots is a
layer of soil several feet in thick-
ness. Some parts of the island are
firm enough to build a house on
and every part of it is strong enough
to support a horse.
The Latest In Spelling Reform.
A colored man at Isle of IIop
near Savannah (ra.. has improved
upon the proposed methods and
combined loth the characters of
the alphabet and the numeral.-.
This Isle of Hoie darkv recently
built a smalf sailing sloop of about
six tons and named her the hxtenu-
ate. Maritime law reouires that the
- m
name of a vessel be painted on the
tern so Evans applied to the cus
tom house to have his sloop measur
ed and to obtain a recister. When
the surveyor went to Isle of Horn
to measure her he was dumfound-
ed when he discovered painted on
her stern. "X-10-u-rt."
Clever Tom.
Tom txniKht aume heky-poky cream
A peony's worth h- K"t.
Put through a manirijig gl
It wrms an awful lot:
Sting the Monkey.
The boys draw lots as to who
shall take the art of monkey. The
one to w hom it falls is fastened up.
given a large piece of balk and the
rest then proceed to attack him
with knotted handkerchiefs.
As thev dance around him hit-
ting at him with their handker-
chiefs he tries to mark one of them
with the chalk. If he succeeds that
boy becomes monkey and the first
is set free.
The boys should be careful not
to hit out too viciously and espe-
cially not to hit the monkey about
the head and face.
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Mayes, Will H. Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 305, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 8, 1907, newspaper, October 8, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth345116/m1/2/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.