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THE HOWE HERALD
E. A. PRIEST, Editor and Publisher
HOWE,
TEXAS
NO RULES FOR LONG LIFE
Simple Habits Undoubtedly Tend to
^ That End, But Cannot Be Re-
, < lied On.
The majority of the centenarians
bave been poor people who led a
very simple life.- A few rich men, as
Sir Moses Montefiore, who lived to be
101, have reached a very high age,
but they are very exceptional. In
spite of the enormous difference in
numbers of the rich and which makes
comparison difficult, one may never-
theless affirm that wealth does not
tend to promote a long life. Poverty
carries with it sobriety, especially in
old men, and it has been settled that
sobriety tends to prolong life, and
that most centenarians have been men
of yery sober habits. They have not
all followed the example of the fa-
mous Cornaro, who ended by consu-
ming only 12 ounces of solid nourish-
ment and 14 ounces of wine, and who
in spite of his poor health lived to
be 100 years old. A nmber of cen-
tenarians are known Indeed to have
been drunkards, as the Surgeon Polit-
man, who died 110 years old in 1795,
and who “was in the habit of being
drunk every night after spending the
day performing difficult surgical
operations.” Another example is the
Irishman Brown, who lived 120 years
and who had the inscription placed on
his tombstone that “he was always
drunk, and while in this state looked
so terrible that even death was afraid
of him.” From all this it is seen that
when you are tempted to attribute
long life to a certain factor you dis-
cover your mistake as soon as you
look into a sufficient number of cases.
It is, nevertheless, certain that a good
constitution and simple habits pro-
mote long life, but there is besides
these some mysterious hidden factor,
—-------
123*-■ Michael Bruce.
A descendant of Michael Bruce is
wanted to appear at the Poetical din-
ner. Michael Bruce? Yes, he was the
poet who nearly lost his immortality
at the hands of a robber, and, though
dead, was saved from oblivion by John
Bright. Bright had recited the “Ode
to the Cuckoo” at a literary gathering,
and spoke of one Logan as the au-
~tbpr. By and ly_(ioubts arose, inn wiry
followed, and in 1S72 Bright paid a 1
pilgrimage of penitence to the grave
of Bruce.
Michael died in his twenty-first year,
and soon after Pastor Logan of Leith,
under the mask of friendship, ob-
tained all the poet’s unpublished man-
uscripts from the bereaved parents,
promising to publish a memorial edi-
tion for their benefit. After years of
delay a beggarly brochure appeared,
of which the old folk received six
copies as their “benefit.” In due
course Logan published the bulk of
the remainder as his own, and people,
for a time believed in him!—London
Chronicle.
RAILROAD BUILDING
IN STATE OF TEXAS
/MPORTANT EXTENSIONS IN FAR
WEST AND SOUTHWESTERN
PORTIONS OF THE STATE.
AN OCEAN-TO-GULF PROJECT
Building Two Lines In State to
Shorten Distance From Pacifio
to the Gulf.
Not Washington's Legs.
"Apropos of nothing,” as the novel-
ist says, Champ Clark, with his back
up against a desk in the house and
facing a full-length portrait of Wash-
ington, painted by John Vanderlyn,
whic-h hangs to the right of the
speaker’s chair, said: “Sims, do you
know that the legs of that picture are
not Washington’s legs?” Sims, a Ten-
nessee congressman, did not know.
Sims doesn’t assume to be an author-
ity on either art or history—especial-
ly the history of Washington’s legs.
Continued Clark: “Those legs' be-
longed to Gen. Smith of Maryland.
Washington didn’t have very good
legs, so when the artist came to that
part of the picture he used Gen.
Smith’s.” The picture shows Wash-
ington in knickerbockers and stock-
ings, with gold buckles on his pumps,
as was the fashion of his time. It was
the first time the men in the group
where Champ Clark was talking had
'heard that the Father of His Country
ever had to borrow a pair of legs.
Dallas, April 13.—The Santa Fe is
at present the foremost Texas railroad
in regard to the extent of new lines
being constructed. So many different
extensions are being planned that the
exact plans of the company are con-
fusing to many. West and Southwest
Texas are to have important exten-
sions, and it has glmost been defin-
itely decided that there will be two
routes across Texas that will serve as
“clut-offs” for the Pacific Coast-Gulf
transportation business. The Coleman-
Texico cut-off is well known to the
average reader, but the other line,
which can serve as a short cut, has not,
been generally discussed, although it
will open up an important undeveloped
territory in the Southwest and far
West. This line will extend northwest
from San Angelo to Sterling City.
From this point on there is lack of re-
liable data regarding the exact route.
However, south from Lubbock a line is
being built to Tahoka, in Lynn Coi^ty-
and Lamesa, in Dawson County, two
counties now entirely without railroad
facilities. There are many conjec-
tures regarding the route to be taken
In the gap between Sterling City and
Lamesa. Lubbock will be the converg-
ing point of the two cut-offs. From
this place the line to Texico is being
built. Another Santa Fe extension
is being built from Lometa, a few
miles north of Lampasas, to Brady.
The route beyond Brady has not been
definitely decided upon, it is claimed
by a Santa Fe official, but as the Santa
Fe has purchased the Miles-Paint Rock
road, the connecting link to be built
is between Brady and Paint Rock.
This extension reaches an important
cattle country, which can also^be con-
verted into a strictly agricultural coun-
try.
The enlargement of the Temple
yards and the building of a new de-
pot and eating house indicate that the
Santa Fe expects to make prompt use
of the Texas-Coleman cut-off for
through freight and passenger busi-
ness from ocean to Gulf.
The Gulf, Texas and Western, a new
line building westward from Jacks-
boro and now operating about fifty
miles of track, is expected to tap the
Santa Fe in the Plains Country. This
line, by a traffic arrangement, would
serve as a fourth Texas “cut-off” for
the Santa Fe, giving it a short line
from the Pacific Coast to the Dallas
trade territory.
STATE CHEMIST ON NEW FLOOR
Hoping for the Best.
“WThat is it, Jonathan?” asked thi
wife of the multi-millionaire, when
'he had finished reading the telegram.
“Nothing serious. Willie has run
away from school and married a girl
who is six years older than him.”
“Merciful heavens! What will we
do?”
“I dunno. Let’s wait till they get
here. Mebby she’ll be scared when
i she sees that lots of children run in
'our family.”
A Stupid Man Servant.
“Chawles,” he drawled to his new
/man servant, as he settled himself com-
jfortably in his library armchair for an
‘after-dinner siesta, “you are to waken
jme whenever I am thirsty,” tossing off
|a Scotch highball as he spoke.
“But how shall I know, sir, when
jyou are thirsty?”
I “I shall be thirsty whenever I am
froused, of course,” with a look of good-
inatured pity for the new man’s stu-
pidity.
TO BUILD ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM
After Condemnation Proceerings Gov-
ernment Going Ahead.
El Paso: Six weeks after hearing
the testimony and the arguments in
the condemnation proceedings insti-
tuted by the Government of the United
States against the Victorio Land and
Cattle Company, involving the land to
be covered by the waters of the Ele-
phant Butte dam, the great $7,000,000
irrigation project in which this sec-
tion is vitally interested, the oppon-
ents Saturday filed their final report,
which was made public.
The Government offered the Victorio
Land and Cattle Company $65,000 for
the 30,000 acres of land, which the wa-
ters of the dam will cover. The land
was assessed at thirty cents an acre
for taxes, but the company demanded
$600,000. After the condemnation pro-
ceedings were instituted the company
demanded $1,000,000 additional for a
strip of land 1,200 by 100 feet in size
which would form the site of the dam.
The appraisers assessed the value
of the land at $199,097.25, from which
they deducted $1,380 for land in litiga-
tion to be held in trust and paid to the
rightful owners as found by the court.
They also award the company the
right to water its cattle from the res-
ervoir where it abuts their lands.
Engineer in Charge Reed announced
that work on the dam would be re-
sumed and pushed to completion as
the funds for the work were already
available, and the matter of the land
will now be left to the courts, pro-
vided the company refuses to accept
the prices awarded by the appraisers.
There is great rejoicing in El Paso
and throughout the Rio Grande Valley.
New Military Companies.
Austin: Adjt. Gen. Newton gave no-
tice that the military companies at
Temple, Athens and Crowell would be
admitted into the Texas National
Guard.
This Is Cotton Seed Meal, Especially
Treated, Removing the Hulls.
College Station, Tex., April 11.
That cotton seed flour as manufactured
by the cotton oil mills of Texas can
be used as a human food is the pro-
fessional and scientific opinion of Dr.
G. S. Fraps, State Chemist of Texas, at
the A. & M. College of Texas, who
has just this morning proceeded far
enough with the analyses that have
been in progress, but several of the
tables are yet to be worked out, which
will be used to complete the bulletin
on the subject now in process of prep-
aration.
Dr. Fraps undertook this investiga-
tion for scientific research. Jo W. Al-
lison of Ennis, one of the officers of
the Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association,
sent him the bread, cakes and biscuits
made by Mrs. Dan McCarty of Ennis,
Tex., and setting aside other work
that was pending. Dr. Fraps gave this
important subject the right of way in
his laboratories, so as to prepare as
soon as possible a report that would
go out to the people of the State re-
garding an important product of Texas
and the South.
In explaining what cotton seed flour
is Dr. Fraps state/ that it is cotton
seed meal which 'a s been especially
treated so as to reinove the hulls as
thoroughly as possible. It is finely
ground, of a bright yellow color and
with pleasant odor and sweetish
taste.
According to the investigations made
by the State Chemist, the following
facts regarding th^^otton seed flour
have been deducted:
Cotton seed flour resembles meat
more closely in its chemical composi-
tion than it does wheat flour. It is
quite different in character from
wheat flour; it contains less crude
fiber than cotton seed meal, in that it
contains less hulls. The flour con-
tains more than twice as much protein
as the meats, which is due to the
water in the meat, but whatever the
cause of the difference, the cotton seed
flour contains over twice as much
flesh forming (not fat) materials (pro-
tein) than any of the meats.
IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL M0VF
Chair of Highway Engineering for A
& M. College of Texas.
L —" — i
College Station: ' One of the most
important movements inaugurated in
educational work in the State of Tex-
as is the action of the board of di-
rectors of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College in establishing a
chair of highway engineering, which
is to be a subdivision of the depart-
ment of civil engineering of the col-
lege. The most important feature of
this new chair is not in its educational
advantage, as it affects the student
body of the college alone, but as it
affects the people of the whole state
who need good highways, and the va-
rious county officials of the state who
are in charge of highway building in
their various counties, because the
professor of highway engineering will
not only teach it in the school, but
he will visit counties and confer with
the commissioners, advise them as to
what to do and how to do it.
BEAUMONT ORANGE PROJECT
Senator Burton Among Those Oppos-
ing Project.
Washington: The Senate Commerce
Committee submitted a print of its
rivers and harbors bill to the Senate,
and at the same rime Senator Burton
and Senator Newlands served notice
that they would file adverse reports
to the measure. Senator Newlands’
objection will be directed against the
general policy of making rivers and
harbors bills and give his views on
the question of a commission for the
systematizing of the waterway work.
Senator Burton, it is understood, will
attack several items in the bill, among
them the appropriation of $200,000 for
the beginning of the work of deepen-
ing the Sabine Lake canal as part of
the Beaumont-Orange deeper water-
way. His objection to this item is that
the committee flew in the face of all
precedent by ignoring the findings of
the district engineer, the’division en-
gineer, the board of engineers and
the chief engineer, all of which are ad-
verse to an appropriation for the pro-
ject.
EXPLOSION KILLS EIGHT MEN
Accident Occurs On Coleman Cut-Off
of Santa Fe.
._ V
Coleman, Tex.: A premature explo-
sion of a blast on the Coleman cut-off
of the Santa Fe about twenty-two
miles from here killed eight workmen
Sunday. Six others are missing and
it is feared that they are buried be-
neath the debris. The explosion oc-
curred near the bridge over Jim Ned
Creek, where the men were working.
They were blasting rock whn the ac-
cident occiyred.
TENNESSEE STIRRED;
COOPERS PARDONED
SENTENCE OF COOPER FOR KILL.
ING CARMACK AFFIRMED BY
THE SUPREME COURT.
FREEDOM COMES VERY QUICK
Patterson Says He Believes Both Con.
victed Men Are Innocent and
Pardons Them.
Nashville, Tenn., April 14.—In the
case of Col. Duncan B. Cooper and
Robin J. Cooper, father and son, con-
victed of killing former United States
Senator E. W. Carmack on the streets
here Nov. 9, 1908, and sentenced to
twenty years each in the State peni-
tentiary, the Tennessee Supreme Court
yesterday morning, by a divided vote,
affirmed the sentence as to D. B.
Cooper. As to Robin Cooper, the case
also by a divided vote is reversed and
remanded to the lower court for a new
trial. While Chief Justice Beard was
reading a dissenting opinion in the
case of Duncan B. Cooper Gov. Patter-
son wrote a full pardon for the defend-
ant, in which he declares:
Declares Defendants Not Guilty.
“In my opinion neither of the de-
fendants is guilty, and they have not
had a fair and impartial trial, but
were convicted contrary to the law
and evidence.”
The reversal in the case of Robin
Cooper is based on assignments of er-
ror in the trial judge’s failing to
charge separately as to Robin Cooper’s
theory of self-defense, linking the de-
fense of the defendants together; ex-
cluding testimony of Gov. Patterson
as to talks with the defendant Robin
Cooper and advice given him as to
Col. Cooper before the tragedy; and
the admission on cross examination
of Robin Cooper as to intent of cer-
tain state witnesses testifying as to
certain incidents.
Congratulated by Friends. *
Col. Cooper was still at the Capitol
when the pardon was entered in the
Secretary of State’s office. He was
at once surrounded by a crowd of
friends seeking to congratulate him.
was-’as calm and «ven cheerful
through it all as if he had received an
acquittal. The reversal of his son’s
case seemed to interest and please
him to the exclusion of his own fate.
Pardon Called an Outrage.
Memphis, Tenn.: Capt. G. T. Fitz-
hugh, associate counsel for the prose-
cution in the Cooper case, whose
speech at the famous trial attracted
wide attention, characterized the par-
don of D. B. Cooper as an outrage. He
said: “The disgraceful haste display-
ed by the Governor in pardoning D. B.
Cooper before the ink was hardly dry
on the Supreme Court opinion con-
victing him of murder, shocks every
sense of decency. Sworn to execute
the laws as construed by the highest
court, the Governor, without even a
petition from any one, tramples the
law under foot and sets aside the
court’s decree.”
A Minister's
Indigestion
fiev. Fletcher of Tennessee Suggests 9
Remedy Based on Personal Expert*
ence—You Can Get It Free.
There la nothing that Is so much sought
after as a remedy for stomach trouble,
and hence you will be interested to know
how the Rev. A. J. Fletcher of Ruthe**
ford, Tenn., whose
picture we present
herewith, cured his
indigestion. To use
his own words, he
says, in part:
“I received the
sample bottle of Dr.
Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin that I asked
you to send me, and
I made no mistake
In ordering it. I have
been troubled with
dyspepsia and indi-
gestion more or less D
for about sixty Kcv* Fletcher
years, and have taken many remedies,
but Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin has dona
me more good than anything else. I ana
79.”
Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin has bees!
sold in drug stores for twenty years. Th®
price is only 50 cents or $1 a bottle. It
is especially adapted to the uses of ba-
bies, children, women and old folks. Its
purity is vouched to the Government, and
results from its use are guaranteed. If
you have never tried it send name andi
address for a free trial bottle, which wilt
be cheerfully sent to your home prepaid.
If there is any medical advice that yota
want, or anything about your condition*
that you don’t understand, write the doc-
tor. Address your letter. Dr. W. B.
Caldwell, 201 Caldwell Bldg., Monticello,
Every man should have his balance
wheel trued up occasionally.
BIG CONCERN PROTECTS ITS MEN
*
Company Passes Employer’s Liability
Act of Its Own.
Chicago: Ignoring the tardy action
of State and National legislative bod-
ies, the International Harvester Com-
pany has adopted an employers’ lia-
bility act on its own account which
guarantees its employes absolute pro-
tection in the event of accidents and
will profit the workers anything from
$200,000 to $500,000—possibly more—
annually.
Through the operation of this un-
sanctioned legislative act, the Har-
vester concern’s army of 25,000 em-
ployes in every State of the Union
come under a uniform liability act
which guarantees them a given sum
in the event of accidents regardless
of legal technicalities concerning the
responsibility for such accident.
Along with this is a guarantee of an
income of a stated amount in every
instance of complete or partial disabil-
ity of an employe. This also is grant-
ed without investigation of responsi-
bility.
This action of the Harvester cor-
poration is unique in corporate reform
moves in that the corporation has
“passed” of its own volition and with-
out the persuading guidance of legis-
lative enactment, a reform law that Is
more radical than has been asked by
many of the most radical friends of
employers’ liability laws.
Panhandle Gets Good Rain.
Childress: Splendid rains fell over
Childress County. Farmers report
farms too wet to work. Alfalfa raisers
will begin first cutting next week.
Estimate the yield ton per acre.
^THE KEYSTONEj
TO HEALTH
IS
HOSTETTER’S
STOMACH
BITTERS
The first aid to a weak
stomach, sluggish liver or
constipated bowels should
b^jfae Bitters^ because it
has proven its right to be
called “the best.” It is
for Indigestion,Costive-
ness and Malaria. Try it.
Sick Hogs
cost you lots of good money.
You can save the money by giv-
ing them a real medicine, that,
acts on their livers—
BLACK-DRAUGHT'
STOCK & POULTRY
& MEDICINE
fir This is made from pure
drugs, the best we know how.
It has cured thousands of sick
hogs and will probably cure
yours. Ask your dealer.
25C. 50c. and $1. Per Can.
PC 3
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always do
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PARKER’S
HAIR BALSAM
Cleanses and beautifies the hair.
Promotes a luxuriant growth.
Never Fails to Eestore Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cures scalp diseases & hair falling.
SOc, and $1.00 at Druggists
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