The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 275, Ed. 1 Friday, April 3, 1903 Page: 2 of 4
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MINERAL WELLS, - - TEX A*
Original of “Little DorriL*
kin. Mary Ann Cooper, th«
•rifinal of Dickens’ Little Dorrit.
is still living at the age of 90 years.
Mrs. Cooper's home Is in South*
fate, osar London. Her family
Bved la Johnson street. Clarendon
square, exactly opposite the home of
the Dickens family, and she and
Charles were acquainted from early
youth.
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Foreign-Born Senators.
Senator John P. Joins, of Ne-
vada, who says he will retire from
public life after March 3. has serv-
ed his state in the United State*
senate for thirty years. The sena-
tor is one of the five members of
the tapper house who are not natives
ot the United States. He was born
in Herefordshire, England. Sena-
tor Patterson was horn in Ireland
Senator Nelson in Norway and
Senators Willard and Kearns in
Canada, while Senator Wetmore
eras bom in London, while his per-
flate were abroad.
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HappeCs Narrow Escape.
It eras announced the other day
that Admiral Sir Henry Keppcl, of
the British navy, who is taking a
winter holiday in sur.ny climes, had
arrived at Singapore Not many
v people bom as long :igo as June 14,
1809, manage to get so far from
home. Sir Henry is the more to be
congratulated on his long and still
active life in that he began it rather
Inauspidously. It w.is supposed
that he was dead when be wras born,
•nd preparations were made for his
burial, when a nurse discovered
some signs of life.
All tha Fault of the Dog.
A Parisian clothes dewier kicked
a dog out of his shop. The dog
•hot out with iouta rapidity and
knocked over a woman with a jug
of milk. The woman broke the jug
and upset an elderly gentleman, and
the jag cut both of them. At that
moment a cyclist arrived and was
thrown off Ws machine by the pros-
trate figures, and simultaneously a
cart came up and smashed the bicy-
cle. The magistrate blandly ad-
vised the entire squad to proceed
against the dog, and they are now
looking U* it.
1 Genesis of a Humorist
It has been generally believed that
humorists are bom, not made, and
that fate, not accident, is to be
Mamed for the existence of "funny”
men. The New York Times raps
these theories by declaring that
Channcey M. Depew became a hu-
morist by accident. Early in life
Quunccy was squashed under an
omnibus upset by impact with a
wagon loaded with bottles of ink.
When dug out he was asked how he
felt, and he responded: "I. feel as
though an inky bus had been remov-
«d from my breast."
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King Edward** Double.
The physical counterpart of King
Edward startled a great many ob-
•ervers in Washington last week
hi the person of William Ross,
member of the Canadian parlia-
S mint, and a resident of Port Perry,
. Ontario. He was escorted to the
•mate chamber by Dolivar, of Iowa,
and was warmly welcomed. He eras
men a piece of informa'tion in re-
gard to a matter then under dis-
A difference of opinion had
aa to whether cloture
! in force in any of the.
parliamentary bodies. If r.
no sack rale era* known
loaae of parliament in Ot-
Ifr. Hoar thereupon aa-
Mareeal ae a Boy.
All great men were boys once,
and the world likes to believe that
they were dull boys. Marconi,
although a young man, is old
enough for a legend of his youth
to make its appearance. Some
one has found that he went to
school in Florence; indeed the
teacher who guided his infant
fooeteps in learning has been dis- j
covered. Signora Luisa Caval-
lero is a fine old lady of 74 years,
who says the chief recollection of
her younger days is teaching
Marconi. "Who would have
thought,1* she says, r‘that the In-
gleetno (little Englishman), as we
used to call him because of his
slight figure and sedate manner,
would have turned out a genius!
He was always a model for good
behavior, that I will say for him;
but as to his brain—well, the least
said the soonest mended. I am
afraid he got many severe punish-
ments, poor little man ; but he
took them like an angle. Since
he has become so great,” she add-
ed, ingenuously, “my conscience
has reproached me a thousand
or more times!” holding up hor-
rified hands. “At .that time,” she
added deprefatingly, “he could
never manage to learn anything
I>y heart; it was impossible. I
used to think that I had never
seen a child' with so defective a
memory. He will not remember
me, but I think of him constantly,
and hope some time to see him.”
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Lived Up to Education.
There is story about Alaska and
it* people in which is mentioned
a man who chose a bride from
among some of the Indian tribes
up toward the Chilcoot Pass. He
took her to a large city, Montreal,
perhaps, and left her in a splendid
hotel while iie went out to see
spirit one about a dog. She missed
him sadly. She sat at the window
looking out on the street four
stories below. Solitude become in-
tolerable. She decided to find her
husband. There was an elevator,
but she didn’t care for it. Softly
as moccasins could carry her she
issued forth. When she had gone
out a bellboy saw queer marks
on the banisters and door casings.
The Indian bride had blazed her
way with a tomahawk, so that she
could find her way back. The
Indian bride was merely living up
to her education, for it is very nec-
essary to know how to blaze a
trail in Alaska.
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Chioago Man's Remarkable Light.
' A Chicago inventor, Mr. George
Magrady, has discovered a process
of manufacturing a thirty-six can-
dle power light that will never go
out. While experimenting with
photographic chemicals four years
ago Magrady’s attention was at-
tracted by a glow in a small globe.
The glow was caused by a chemi-
cal whjch the inventor keeps se-
cret. Magrady enlarged the glow
and perfected the light by placing
it in an air-tight glass. He says
there is no reason why the light
will not remain brilliant forever,
if it is not broken. A company
has been formed to manufacture
the lights in numerous sixes. A
patent hood fits over the globe
an,d covers it completely when the
light is not needed.
Parental Discipline in Russia.
In Russia the patriarchal spirit
is still very strong. An old man
called Rybalka, residing in Novor-
ossisk, on the Black sea, has jnst
beaten his son Stephen to death,
"for daring to get drunk during
the holidays.” . The son was 30
years of age, and the punishment
took place in the presence of a
crowd of people. No one dared in-
terfere, “because the old man was
the father, and it was hi* bitei
Two flintlock pistols which be-
longed to George Washington arc
the subject of a dispute just now
as to ownership, incidentally to
the settlement of an estate in
Prince William county, Va. The
weapons, which are a perfectly
matched pair, are in the possession
of Miss Monnie Marsteiler, who
lives in Washington. Some time
before his death Genera! Wash-
ington gave the pistols to Mr.
Dandridge. his secretary, r and
when Mr. Dandridge died they
were disposed of at public sale
with the rest of his effects, under
the direction of Bushrod Wash-
ington. The grandfather of Miss
Marsteiler bought the weapons,
and in due time he left them to
his son, Samuel A. Marsteiler, of
Prince William county, Va. Sam-
uel was the father of Miss Monnie,
and when he died, a short time
ago/one of her brothers brought
the pistols to her and said that
she should have them. Other rel-
atives, however, have insisted up-
on forcing a sale of the property
left behind by Samuel, and a suit,
with this end in view, has been
brought in the circuit court of
Prince William county.
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The Champion Mileh Cow.
Utica, N. V ,has recently won
distinction through a Hblstcin-
Friestan cow, Sadie by name,
which—-or perhaps such a cow
as Sadie ought to be referred to
as “who”—is a resident of that
place. Sadie has broken the record
of the world for thirty days of
milk giving and butter producing.
In the thirty days during which
Sadie'was put to the test she pro-
duced a fraction over 2,75 * pounds
of milk, from which was retracted
123 pounds 8 1-2 ounces jf Sut-
ter. In other words, the milk that
Sadie gave during the thirty days’
contest won bl have been sufficient
to drown her had it been tanked
and she thrown in, while her
month’s supply of butter, if pack-
ed in the ordinary bricks, w“*ild
have served to make around her
a wall so high that she could hard-
ly have jumped over it.
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Could ttpaak Only English.
Harry Wadsworth, assistant
clerk of the senate committee on
claims, is a great expert on In-
dian language. He is credited with
being able to converse with all
irindi of red men. Recently he
was appointed Indian agent for
the Shoshone reservation in Wy-
oming. Seeing a band of Nex
Perces Indians the other day on
a steer car, Wadsworth commenc-
ed to attract their attention by
his signs. They eyed him sus-
piciously, but one, more friendly
than the others eventually crossed
over to the new Indian agent’s
seat. “I am sorry,” said he. apolo-
getically for a red man, “but I
never learned the sign language.
I can only speak English.”
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Dump«d tha Bunoh.
How practically worthless is
much of the mail received by the
famous man, the late Thomas B.
Reed once demonstrated. He had
returned to Washington from a
few days* absence to find a small
mountain of letters awaiting him.
He was not in a mood for the
reading and answering of letters,
but his secretary pressed him to
begin. Thia irritated Reed, who,
taking up the basket of letters,
dropped its entire contents into
the burning grate fire.
"There,” he said, "that is the
easiest way to settle that," and
went off to his work. Three
months later a friend recalled the
incident to him. "Yea,” said Reed
with a chuckle, "and do you know
I never heard from a blessed oqe
of those letters, which shows you
how important a public man’s mail
genera"'
THE COMING EMPIRE.
aa Viewed
by Northern Eyes. -
The opening in Fort Worth, Tex.,
of the big $4,000,000 packing plants
of Armour and 8wift means more
for the state of Texas and for the
whole south than it does for the
companies themselves. Texas is a
kingdom in itself—in people, in
area, in livestock, possibilities and
general industrial energy. Fort
Worth is the industrial center of
the "Lone Star” State, or it soon
will be. Texas has an area of 262,-
290 aquare miles and a population
of 3,400,000 people. The state raises
3,500,000 bales of cotton, capable of
crushing 60,000,000 gallons of cot-
tonseed oil on a 40 per cent crush-
ing basis, 8,821,000 cattle, 1,736,000
sheep and 2,312,000 hogs, or 12,-
86#,000 head of edible live stock.
Why should there not be big pack-
ing houses and lard refineries in
Texas? The two big plants which
Armonr & Company and Swift A
Company opened in that state this
week rise in the midst of grazing
flocks and herds among a prosper-
ous, consuming population. Items
of freight arc eliminated and the
export trade is brought nearer to a
larger consumptive population fur-
ther south. These plants begin an
era of revolution and industrial de-
velopment in the south which will
rejuvenate that section beyond all
present calculation. Texas can well
extend the band to Armour and
Swift and bid godspeed to the com-
ing era which the turn of the fac-
tory wheels at Fort Worth on
Thursday forbodes to Dixieland.
"The importance of these two en-
terprises to Fort Worth may be
judged from the fact that in tho
plants, general offices, shipping and
in the field they will employ nearly
5000 men, who will be paid not less
than $5,000,000 annually in wages.
Moat of this must be spent in the
city where the plants are located.
The plants will jointly buy about
$45,000,000 worth of cattie, $5,-
000,000 of sheep and about $20,-
000,000 worth of hogs, or fully $70,-
000,000 of money annually for live
stock at that point. The value of
the products sent out will exceed
$100,000,000 annually. Project this,
and its full meaning may be imag-
ined. Fort Worth was founded in
Before the citv is sixty years
will be a southern metrop-
politic measure will destroy tha,
friendly interest now felt in T«
project* fa the great money cent
of the northern and middle states.
As Hamlet says when he wains thfl
players against rant and fustian,
"such things may make the ground-
lings laugh, but make the judicious
grieve.”—Austin Statesman.
“Where Thera’s a Will, Etc."
Attorney General Bell holds, cor-
rectly no doubt, that a general state
tax for road building would be un-
constitutional. Hence that means
of highway improvement is pre-
TMltflC ~ •”* ~
But there is no inhibition against
local taxes for road purposes, and
really it is only a difference in de-
tail whether taxes are assessed by
the state and distributed among the
counties or are assessed and collect-
ed directly by the counties them-
selves. Indeed, the local tax is pre-
ferable for some reasons. Commis-
sioners will be more economical if
they must levy the taxes ami be re-
sponsible directly to the taxpayers
of their own community than if
they could draw the money from the
state’s general revenue. Somehow
people forget that taxes in the state
or Federal treasury have come but
1846.
old it
olis.”
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Texas and Taxans Are Alright
The outlook for Texas at this
time is full ot promise., the influx
of capital from abroad is introduc-
ing blood into the arteries of trade
and development New enterprises
and material developments are
bringing in their train the custom-
ary accompaniment of fresh acces-
sions to our population.
More money and more people are
all that we have needed to place
Texas ahead of any other of tha
states and these are now being add-
ed.
It only remains for us to scare
•way these harbingers of state pros-
perity.
The impression has been abroad
that Texas is unfair in legislation
against financial interests and that
its legislature wea prone to pass
cinch bills and oppressive measures
against the men of means who come
to our state in search of invest-
ments in various forms of commer-
cial enterprise. These impression*
have in the past seriously retarded
oar growth as a state, for capital is
portable—it has wings and can flit
et will.
The conservative course of Texas
if kite years has, in a large degree,
iiepellod thia unfavorable impres-
It is earnestly to be hoped
jof their own pockets.
But there is nothing in this rul-
ing to prevent the enactment of the
Standifer bill now pending in the
legislature. It levies no general tax.
It provides that any county ruay
have the service* of a certain num-
ber of state convicts, whom it will
agree to feed aud guard, for work-
ing main line road* leading from
its county seat to other county
feat*. The county itself is to furn-
ish all material apd equipment.—
Houston Post.
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Over in Lamar County.
In a conversation with Mr. A. X.
Wilburn by ’phone Tuesday he said
the ’phone had been a great com-
fort during the bad weather to
country residents who have boxes.
They can’t pay neighborly visits,
but when time hangs heavy they can
hold social converse over the wires.
Mr. Wilburn says the fruit crop
will undoubtedly prove almost a to-
tal failure. There are no blossoms
except a few on tre|^rhich are near
to and protected bj^Eithouses.
He says he has planted cotton on
the 15th of June and gathered half
a bale per acre. He lias planted
corn about the middle of April and
made a good crop.
Mr. Wilburn came from a section
in Missouri that was frequently rav-
aged by chinchbugs, but he says
that a long spell of wet weather
never fails to kill them off. This
level-headed, experienced gentle-
man do«s not view the situation
darkly. He is hopeful.
Uncle Cal Rutherford says that
in 1868 he planted corn between the
10th and 15th of May and gathered
40 bushels per acre. In the seven-
ties he planted cotton on the 4th
of June and gathered a bale per
acre.—Petty Enterprise.
Makers of History in Texas.
While Texas is still in its fron-
tier stage in many respects, it yet
poetesses age as men reckon time.
We are forcibly reminded of this by
the death of William Thomas Byer.
the flrat white child born in Ste-
phen Austin’* colony, San Felipe..
He passed away at the age of sev-
enty-eight For more than three-
quarters of a century, therefore, has-
Texas been upon the active stage
of the world’s political endeavor.
Soon, almost before we can expect
it, the state will hjsve reached thfl
century mark of its existence as a
breeding ground lor liberty.—Fort
Worth Register.
The Catholic church burned at
West Monday morning: The losa
m estimated, at about $10,000, in-
sured for about half its value
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Newton, W. B. The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 275, Ed. 1 Friday, April 3, 1903, newspaper, April 3, 1903; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1038769/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.