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OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY, DKC. 15, 191 1.
29th YEAR.
No. 41
Orejg- Historical
City Hall
Portland, Or p.
REOON
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T O I IP D
I I J V V II II
PLAYING THE
BUCKET
SHOPS
Today's Christmas Little
Less than a Gamble.
A BLUFF, RAISE AND CALL,
Christ's Birthday is Overlooked
in the Modern Speculation.
You men who have "satin" draw
poker games, had the other raiss and
called can appreciate this little
Christmas comment, and perhaps you
bridge playing hdits may appreciate
it, too. It's a gambling story, and
yoa know there isn't a heap of differ
ence between draw poker atid some y
bridge.
Twenty-five years ago Christmas
meant something and it cost littla.
Today it s a gamhle and crowds one
to the credit limit to play it -
Twenty-five years ago two dollars
would make the whole faml? happy
and if a youngster came out with a
half dollar's worth of toys he thought
he was flying.
In those days appreciation hadn't
been Beared over. It was keen, im
pressible, and the boy was grateful
from ins hat band to his toe nails.
Yon fellows around the fo'ty mark
and over, take a ran and juiii.j tack
25 years, and see how little- yon got
in that Christmas and how much gun
nine happiness' yon got ont ot it.
See that little" ol" sled your father
worked hoar on the sly to make for
yon, oat of old boards around the
plaoe, and the barrel hoops he pnt on
for shoes. Mother knit yon a pair of
mittens, perhaps a cheap book could
have been afforded, yoa got i nickle's
worth of candv. a handful nf nuts,
lots of popcorn aud'tliat made up a
Christinas yon will never forget.
And the spirit of these old Christ
mas days seems to have . tinttmi away
from as, and there is nothing to it
now,
Christmas has been stretched ont
until the real spirit has been almost
stretched out of it. It now includes
outside triends, other families, mere
acquaintances nud our 1U11 Christ
inas has now become a whole let a
matter of speculation
"If I send Genevieve a sterling
spoon I wonder what she will send
me."
Isn't it the truth?
You buy such nnd such perrons
presnls because you exppct they are
going to send you something they
. did last year Yoa can't afford it.
yoa don't want to do it, bat yoa don't
wait to appear "short," so you guess
and guess about what the value of the
present to yon will be, and then you
take a ol auce.
Did the dealer ever leave the price
tag on, and did yoa ever raise the fig
ures? ( This question is entirely lead
ing and circumstantial. You need
Electric Christmas
Gifts Are Popular
They still possess that element of novelty dear to
the American heart and thus solve the problem of
giving Christmas gifts that are ''different''.
Imagine how pleased most men would be to re
cieve an electric shaving cup or electric cigar lighter,
instead of neckties, socks and handkerchiefs 'as usual'.
A tea kettle for grandmother, a samovar for Mad
ame's five o'clock teas, a chafing dish for the college
girl or batchelor maid, a disk stove for the batchelor, a
flat-iron or sewing- machine motor for the practical
housewife-all these novel and useful gifts will be ap
preciated by whoeverjeceives them.
It should not be forgotten that these electric
Christmas gifts are all useful gifts. Each of these de
vices is designed to do some one thing better than it
can be done any other way, whether it is to percolate
coffee, toast bread or furnish the power for runuing a
sewing machine.
The line of e'ectric Christmas gifts is po compl.te
that in it will be found a suitable gift for every mem
ber of the family.
not answer).
It's all wrong dead wrong. I don't
believe in-the system and " .don't
practice it 8
Because a friend gives me a present
this year 1 dou't credit him and bal
atice his'acconnt with an equal pres
ent next year. He may keep on giv
ing them, and if he does, after a time
I will think he did it out of his heart.
If 1 give a friend a little token 1
don't want him to come back at me,
for that spoils it all nuts me in the
market and lists my gifts.
Yonr wife buys a present and lays
it -away.' Of coarse she Jibs it charged
to you, for she hasn't any other way
of getting it yoa stingv thing. You
try to pet a line on the buy, and when
yoa find Out about horV much the cost
has set you back, then you buy her a
present and have it charged
And Chistmas morn jou both try to
look pleased while you wonder how
vna are goinu to make the pay on the
charged Christmas gifts.
- Don't ran Christmas into a bucket
shop.
Confine it to your family and con
finh it to yonr means.
Be liberal with vour boy and gir .
for to them Christmas ia,yet the r"al
goods, and they will nover be elm ji
again, but don't hluw yourself for
friends and acquain'ances aud then
afterwards hold yonr nose on the
grindstone. "
Now yon merchants, don't be on
easy about this gong ringiug Advice
is thu easitst thing iu the world to
give. But it won't bi heeded
The fellow will buy Gwendoline a
spark solitaire; yon will buy wifey a
diamond sunburst (if yoa are newly
married) ; she will ooine back with
diamond enff buttons, while you will
all blow yourselves to your friends
aud acquaintances aud make the next
three mouths miserable by paying for
them.
Poultry Prices Wrong.
A business man asks the Courier to
make a correction of the Oregon City
market reports en poultry, published
in the Enterprise for a month past,
quoting it at 8o to 9c. He states that
Oregon City is paying 13o aod 13o,
that the Portland papers quote this
nr'oe, and that it simply drives the
farmers to Holland with their poul
try, and incidentally other produce.
Fun at the Masquerade.
Saturday night of this week Oregon
City Houeslead No, Brother
ho d of Aroen'oui Yoemen, will Rive
a niamnerade ball iu W. 0. W. hall,
to which meinlers and their friends
are cordially invited.
' Those iu charge of this party are
working hard to amlte it a great sue
eras Good musio ban t'een secured
and a flue time is anticipated.
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We'll Print Them Next Week.
Several letters. on different topics,
all good Btuff and interesting reading,
have simply been crowded over nutil
next week on account of the holiday
rush. They will be published Decem
ber 22.
Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company
ELECTRIC STORE SEVENTH 2i ALDER,
PORTLAND
THE LI
T
That's the Way Football
Teams Win Out.
PULLING APART WON'T WIN.
Not Enough Docks to Give Every
Business Man One.
Down iu Med ford the other day the
Commercial Club UNANIMOUSLY
voted for public market days.
In Oregon Oity we hum oer it
week after week aud then lot it slide
In Medford there was not a dissent
ing voice against trying out this
trade-drawing idea.
Now Commercial Clubs the world
over are largelv made op of business
men, and circumstantial evidence
tends to show that the business men
of Medford are guilty of palling to
gether. The result is that while Oregon City
'oonsiders," Medford does.
This isn't a big slam on the Com
mercial Club or Live Wires They
have done much lor Oregon 0 ty in
the past four years. This is jost a
little slam to keep 'em moving op
closer together.
For illustration, when yon try to
round ud the sentiment for a public
dock for this city yoa find every bus
iness man in favor of it
BUT pretty nearly every one wants
it in bis nwu prepared site.
An pulling apart doesn't get any
body anything bnt the steamboats.
railroads aud eleotrio lines,
We can't build a dock at the end of
eveiy street that runs down to the
liver to please every business man.
We have got to get together on ONE
dock, the one that is the most natural
and. least expensive, hide jealousies
and pull for the oity's good.
Nurs'ng grooches won't get tilings
talf as fast as nursing air castles.
The Medford-way is better.
And again yoa will hear a man
raise the very silly argument that
"Portland is too near now. Let's not
bring it any nearer."
1 could never see the use of butting
one's head against a brick wall It
may be a tine exhibition of bulldog
saud, but it is a silly demonstration
of judgment.
It is but a question of yetrs when
we will BE Portland, be inside its
oity limits. Yon can't stop it and
you might better face it and build
FOR it make the Oregon Oity end of
it the biggest end of the coming great
city.
Our city has something verr few
oities ot the state have, a wonderful
water power, ancient as the sun, bnt
only an infant in its power and value.
It will always be here. As long as
water reus down hill Oregon City
will bave that whioh absolutely guar
antees a business permaneuoy.
Don't worry about the shadows cf
OGETHER
Portland. Let them come. Go after
more Portland, open the gates to its
P'ople au'i get a part of its great
business while she is getting a part of
vour trade.
Team work wins ball games. Indi
vidual playing lotos them.
Play ball
NO PLACE FOR IT,
City Park Should not be Made
Public Sporting Ground. , w
A few weeks agi we had a little
looal protesting against the uusightlv
teunis court in tint city park. And
later on we had some local protesting
anaiuet we nwu ny tnose who enjoy
tenma tney iionung tnera was no
harm in a tennis court in the park.
We will grant the argument that
there is no "harm in playing tennis
in this park, or any other park, bnt
we hold that It. is as ont of place there
us would be a dog fight at a prayer
meeting.
There would- le no "harm" in put
ting up a cage or chicken wire n the
park and having a municipal poo ltry
conp, oat it woniuut ue any more the
proper thing than the present teuuis
court, or any more unsightly.
There would be 10 "harni" in turn
ing the patk over to a base ball team,
and let them lay out a diamond and
erect a big wire backstop, bnt it
wonld be far from the proper thing.
The tennis court simply tuiiis the
beauty of the whole park. The wire
fence is most unsightly and every
blade of grata is tramped out.
The many handsome trees have now
readied an age Where this park could
be a beauty spot, if it were kept
mowed and slicked up, bat yoa will
never see a dozen people in it daring
the long lammer days aud nights.
simply because it is not attractive.
There are so many lots iu the city
where tennis oourts could be .laid cut
that there is no oxouse whatever for
the city to allow this park to be
rained by pnblio or piivate tennis
grounds.
PREACHING WORTH WHILE.
Writer Pays Rev. Edwards, New
Minister, High Compliment.
Editor Courier: Statistics show
that eighty per cent of the men of the
United states never Bee the inside ol
a church. The writer, "although os
tensibly an Episcopalian, may be
olassed as one of them. !.; He rarely
takes the time or trouble to. listen to
the conventional sermon, generally
made op of impractical suggestions,
weary platitudes and seutimeural
"gash." When he does, he leaves
with the feeling that the time was
wasted and could have been more
profitably employed in his own library
communing with the master spirits or
the ages. Uuriosity, as in the case or
thousands who went to hear Oipsy
Smith, prompted him last evening to
attend the Congregational ohoruh and
listen to the new minister, the Rev.
Sir. Edwards. He expected nothing
more than the ordinary, aud assumed
a dtcidedly critical attitude. To say
that he was most agreeably disau-
pointed and pleated hardly expresses
his feelings. The sermon, to use the
pet phrase of the reporter, whs neith
er "classical nor profound," that is
not above the level of the ordinary
church goer, bat a simple, plain,
heart-to-heart truth, beautifully ex
pressed and eminently calculated to
hold the attention of the moet indiffer
ent hearer from first to last.
From the woman's standpoint and
the audience was as usual largely
feminine Mrs Sohultze exactly ex
pressed the feeling it produced, when
she remarked that it was the sweetest
and most touching sermon she had
heard for many a day.
It certainly deserved a much larger
audience than the sprinkling present,
and it goes without saying that unless
the Congregational church ot this city
rises to the occasion, such a speaker
will soon be transferred to a larger
and more appreciative field.
Mr. .Edward has a pleasing and at
tractive expression, a finely modulated
voice and radiates a sympathetic in
fluence. The writer's tesitnony will have
more weight when it is understood
that he by no means accepts many of
the doctrines of so-called" orthodoxy. "
W. 0 HCHULTZE.
JUST SCARE TALES.
City Council Isn't Going to Start
Fight Training Quarters.
The voters of Oregon Oity were not
at all fearfu tint O. B Dimick
would tarn the city over to the gam
blers and looters when they made him
mayor and the newspaper stories
( with politics 'stioking ont between
the lines) don't appear to make them
any more fearful.
These stories that the oouuoil is
organizing against Mavo '-elect Dim
ick, and making it appear that 1912
will start out with all kinds of heavy
tronbls is rank nonsoune.
The inooming couucilmen and the
hold-over councilmen are not going to
declare war in Oregon Oity. They
are not going to stick political pins
mtosnytoly, pull anybody's h st
oats oat of the fire or act as any
body's Congr ssional Aid Society
The Courier knows the 1913 oouncil
is going to gut on the job tor Oregon
Citv, and not promote prize fights.
There are many matters that will
need keen, sound Judgment to meet
next year. There are franchises to
consider, street improvements to be
decided on, municipal wharf to he
taken up, sewer problem, sidewalk
problems, oiled streetp, and many
olhtr matters of pablio improvement
to a growing city to be tken care of.
A wairing conn il can't get away
with these pioblems and there won't
be any warring council.
Forget it,
Yoa will find that druggist every
where speak well of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. They know from
long expeiienoe in the sale of it that
in oases of coughs and colds it oan al
ways b depended upon, and that ic ii
nleasant and safe to take. For sate
by all dealers.
E
ARE LIVE ONES.
Splendid Move that Oth
ers Should Play. '
AND THE BOYS WON'T LEAVE.
How a Few Clackamas Farmers
are Working out Problems.
Here's a little story with an objeot
lesson so long that every farmer iu the
state of Oregon should read it, com
mit it, and then see how quick he oan
he one of many to help make another
story.
G. T. Hunt, a road supervisor of
the upper Garfield country, was in
town last week attending the good
roads meeting, aud in talking with
hiin'about'tliat section of Olarkamas
county, he told the Courier editor thin
Mtle story (or rather very large story)
in a few words :
Last August hn and three other men
wert workingin a vrain field. The
day was hot and the work hard. At
the end of the'field they sat down on
a log and started something.
The men talked over the monotony
of tarm life after the day's work was
done, of the absence of holidays, the
want of amusement for the bovs and
alrls. Then they DIDN'T pass reFO
lutious and .adjourn the way the
most of them do. '
They sat on that Job an hour and
started the "Garfield Country Club--"
a club that is every day growing and
ao organization that means something.
And as soon as they started the club
they .started a work too back it up.
They found a pretty plaoe in a grove
on the creek's bank and built a fine
dancing pavilion, with a splendid
double floor; they built a baud stand,
a kitchen, brought out cooking oteu-
s Is, made the place a pleasure lesort
and a place ror dancing, picnics, pub
lic meetings, oi.cn. and free to any
body and everybody.
They have had dances there with
uiuBio famished by Portland orches
tras; they have had family gatherings
and picnics there that nave brought
the people together, made them ac
quainted and close neighbors; they
have f urnislied no end of enjoyment
to the young people; Portland and
listacada people come in bunches to
these dances and picnics, aud this
little sooiety, started by three men sit
ting on a log, bids fair to become a
16' manent amusement place for thai
part of Clackamas county.
I have out short the many intona
ting details or how the movement
was worked out so successfully, be
cause I want to make some vigorous
comments on this splendid movement.
It has cost the members of this club
one dollar apiece and a little hard
work to bring about this movement
Every week brings iu new members
and t'he club has no end of improve
ments in sight for the future.
It has an orchestra of its own and
the many pl asant gathenugs cost
hardly anything. Every dollar re
OBived from membership or proceeds
of entertainments will go into im
provements, and there is every pros
peot that this pleasure rnsrrc will
have a county wide reputation.
Now yoa farmers who work 15
hours a day and wouder win oor
boys and girls leave home, and whv
farm labor is hard to gel, you read
thiB over and THINK it over.
The trouble with farm life todu) it
its monotony its waut of clmii o ud
entertainment.
It is natural for men aud women of
this age to bunch up, and this cull of
the crowds is becoming a menace to
farm life
Why don't you sit on a log and
study out a si heme like this Gurlibld
Country Club?
xour boys aud girls yearn for di
version and entertainment. They are
going to have it. If yoa dou't pro
vide it, they will hunt.
And yoa farmers aud farmers'
wives yoa live iu too small compass
and get too little oit of lite.
Follow the Garfield men and wom
en. Make farm lite attractive and
take away that corse of lonesomness
Mix up, have good times, dancing,
picnics, publio meetings, and learn to
know each other and work ont the
many problems that the farmer is up
against because he goes it alone
The Garfield dab has set an exam
ple to every raral community in Ore
gon.
Starting New System.
On the rcommendatiflu of Mayor
Browned, the oounoil has made a
change iu the city engineer's depart
ment, ordering a new and modern
book-keepiug system, ordering that a
committee make an investigation of
the department, that all unnecessary
help be dispeused with, aud that
hereafter 'he power to hire help for
this department be vested 111 the
street committee.
K, O. Haokett, an expert account
ant, has recommended a modorn mttli
od of account keeping, and Council-
men Hulmao, Myers, Htipp and Hack-
ett were appointed a committee to in
stall the system.
City Engineer Noble says he does
not know why this action is taken, as
he has ouly two men working under
him, one receiving I'JO per month and
the other fiSO, and that lie invites the
taxpayers to come in, inspect the
books and his system. He says the
talaries of the two men, who are sup
ervisors of streets as well as ngi-
ueers, are less than formerly paid,
that the books aud accounts are in
perfect sliaie, aud that he will make
report at the next meeting of the
council that will bear oat these state
ments.
SANTA PLEASE NOTE.
Here are Three Christmas Or
ders for Sure Delivery.
Following are three little ktt tt
written by time little people, to
n
FARMERS
whom Banta (Jlaui Is bigger than
Fourth of July ever thought of being,
These little tots cling to the old
theory that St. Nioholas comes down
the chimney once every year, and they
take tins means or letting him know
what they wapt. They should not be
disappointed:
Oregon Oity. Nov. 28. 1911.
Dear Santie, I wish you would fetoh
me a knife and a near of cloves nnd h
1! lddle afJU some candy aud some Nuts
and Oranges aud Bauauias and
French harp and a horn. I am 7 years
old. well l guess that will be all so
good buy ERNEST LEEK
Jennings Lodge, Ore., Doc 8, 1911.
Dear Santa Clans, I am a hi tie eirl
nve years old. 1 live at Jeunines
Lodge I am glad that Christinas is
coming because I expect to get a Ted
dy bear and a doll bed. Lovingly
yours, MrtKX JAJNJli f AlJNTOJN.
Jennings Lodge, Or., Deo. 8, 1911.
Dear Santa Clans, I am glad that
you are coming soon. I am ten years
old. I wish for a ring and a postoard
aiouni ror unnstuias.
Lovinglv vour Daughter,
DORIS PA IN TO f .
Thanks, ef sTake It.
A tcnefnl Wiord was struck at, the
meeting of the Live Wires last Tues
day, by one of the nienihers, when it
was tngsesied that the water poWer
in the Willamette over what is now
being taken nnd 4iich belongs to the
state, might be acquired by Oregon
City, and a municipal plant for light
aud power b ereoted, and that this
power was in all probability the very
power that the Hawley Pulp ai.d
Paper Co. was iuteuding to use in the
future and upou which was based
their exorbitant claim for damages iu
the canal and locks proposed iy the
government.
The question was immediately
helped along by the magnificent offer
ot H. E, Cross, mayor-eleot of Glad
stone, when he offered free of oharge
the power now unmed, at his proper
ty on the Clackamas river, almost
within the counties ot the latter citv.
aud within about one milo of this
oity.
As long a Mr, Cross makes this
oner there is no use cf Oregon City
negging ror juice, and it stands to
reasou that should this municipality
fail to take advantage of this offer,
some other lucky city or individual
will take the matter up, and years
after we will regret onr slowness in
grasping legitimate things',
Long Needed Coming.
We believe there is more rnuilo 'to
t)ie fquare foot iu Oregou City1 than
will be found iu any oity : the same
size in the West. The strange part ot
it is, the talent has until -recently
been scattered It remaiued for the
Philharmuuio Sooiety to oement the
aggregation and to develop the talent
into a tangible form and produce
what the oity has long needed, a con
oert liRUd, orchestra glee clnb, quar
tettes, etc This is being accom
plished through the efforts of the Ore
gon City Philharnionio Society, whioh
is now under full swing with most
competent instructors and manage
ment. The society is now meeting in
the banquet hall, Masonic building,
the rehearsals being hold the first and
third Tuesdays and the second and
fourth Mondays of each mo th. The
minibership is climbing rapidly
towards the IfiO mark and all musio
lovers and those with any talent
should get in before the society closes
its books, which la proposed Decem
ber aoth.
Death of Former Resideut.
Mrs. Anna Dodgo, a former resi
dent of this city for 15 years, then
Mrs. Charles Wright, died in Ballard.
Wash., December 10, and the body
was brought here and the funeral ser
vices held from the Baptist church,
Wednesday, Rev. Hayworth oflloiat
ing. Mib Dodge was 63 years old
and loft this citv six years ago. She
is survived by two sons, William D.
Arnold, ot Crook comity; 0 R.Ar
nold of Soli wood, 'and a daughter,
Mrs. Kate Feunimore of Portland.
She was born in Joseuhine county,
her maiden name being Anna Gil
more. She was a charter member of
the Women of Woodcraft of this city.
Burial was made in Mountain View
oemetery.
There's a Frost in Ohio.
The newspaper poll of Ohio, takeu
by the Toledo Blade and Cleveland
Leader for president gives Roosevelt
71 per cent, and Taft 11. This is the
President's home state.
MARQUAM
Mr. Frank Ridings went to Port
land last Thursday on basiuoss.
A banch of Marqamn young folks
attended the basket sooial at Glad
Tidings, which was given by the
school. The affair was very enjoy
able. P. Jones is bosy logging for Fred
Mortensou's sawmill.
Mr. Roy Ridings went to Portland
it week and purchased a new baggy
Mrs Gladys Olson will go to Salem
to the hospital, where she will un
dergo an operation for appendicitis.
Remember the Red Cross.
In your Christmas purchasing dou't
overlook the pretty little Red Cross
stamps, liny a nnantity or them so
that when you
write a letter to a
friend yoa can at
tach oue to the
back of the enve
lope. Or if it is a
package, ; pnt one
of the stamta opon
........ it- lhey are an
ornament, and at the samo time yon
will be contributing something toward
the efforts making to stamp oat the
great White Plague in onr land.
Get them early, while the
picking is good.J
THE LAND OF
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Mexico, its Witchery and
its Reality.
LIVING IN LOTUS DREAMS.
Observations of the Courier Ed
itor in the Aztec Country,
Las Yaoas, Ooahuile, Mexico. Feb
ruary 8. It doesn't seem possible that
a nasty, ninddy little river coo Id di
vide civilization from I 'was going
to say barbarism, bnt I stop aud won
der if Maderio will see it. But I risk
it, and let it slide.
Lines as sharp drawn as a fence sep
arate the present century from the
time of Christ, and I go buck to the
donkey and the two-wheeled water
cart, aud pinch myself to know if I
am really teeing it, or whether 1 am
to hear the bell boy pound on the door
and sing out: "Six-thirty train goes
iu 40 minutes; turn on your light."
Ever read Wallaoe's "Fair God."
Prescott's "Conquest," Noll's "Em
pire to Republic, etc? No? Ever
read much of anything about Mexico?
Euow anything about the kingdom (I
shonld say republic) outside, of the
tourist path from Spotfard and Eagle
Pass down to the oity of Mexico, and
across the border from El Paso?
I went' to Del Rio and crossed the
iver iuto the Mexican inland towns-
way back from the railroads and saw
a piece of Mexico and a few of its
people just as they lived and "did
business" hundreds of years ago, be
fore the "tarista" came to pot them
wise to "short change" and buy their
go is and Idols for 25 cents, Mexican
money. They are living out there
today, hewers of wood and drawers of
water living the same life they did
tlfteeu hundred years ago just living.
It doeBn't seem possible that jost a
muddy river oould draw a liue be
tween a white man's civilization aud
twelve or fifteen millions ot black
faces who today live in the far past,
back in dim centuries of roinB and
despotiun, baok in the days of way
side shrines, baos: in the age of 'peon
age and squalid huts, baok to the time
of Egypt.
But I am not writing history. I am
not going to tell yoa a lot about when
this country was inhabited by a peo
ple who built great pyramids and
greater cities aud then dropped off the
map. Yoa don't care for columns of
.dry talk about the Toltacs, the Vik
ings, Cortes, the Aztecs ( 1196), etc I '
am going to tell yoa a little about
Las Vacas, Sau Carlos and the places
where the tourist does not go.
Las Vacas, oim straight street of
business places, perhaps 000. popula
tion and not one soul who cau speak
tne English language. Doesn't a man
think he most be dreaming V
1 tried it alone, without an inter
preter Btarted at oue end of the
street and went down the line, taking
in everything from stores, barber
shops, caloons, hotels, eto.
I wanted some Mexican money, so
I went into a saloon (which is also a
general store aud a meat market)
and bought drinks for four sous of
Diaz who weren't working. I laid
down an American silver dollar and
got in change one dollar and eighty
cents. They got mescal, beer, wines
and some other cf those concoctions,
one of which, mescal, made from the
century plant, Texaus say will make
a rabbit spit iu a bulldog's face and
dare him to fight, aud if a mau takes
ou a few drinks he will fight him
self it there Is no Mexican handy to
kill.
I went to the garrison where the
soldiers were. Not one of them could
speak a word of English, but when I
said New York they fell over them
selves to entertain me. Oue of them
broke off a foot or two of some kind
of a Bugar cane and asked me to chew
it. Some ot them Wore sandalB the
old time sandals of Jerusalem and
how pitiful it did seem to Bee these
soldiers of a great (?) republic march
ing out to target practice barefooted.
Did it make nie think of West
Point?
Recently this little town was the
lively snot in the insurrection. The
Iiipuigents came down the one little
stre t and tnrued looBe ' ou the sol
diers. There are a - heap of ballet
holes in the 'dobies. Fifteen Foliders
weio killed before Diaz could get re
euforcemuuts up from down the pike.
They tell the story in Del Rio
(Continued on Page 6. )
Do Not Forget
The annual opening
of the Jones Drog Co.
thts week Saturday,
December i 6. Souven
irs for everybody.
An interesting house
hold pet, a beautiful pair
of Gold Fish in a glass
aquarium, free with
each 75c. purchase. Or
a fine China plate free
with each 25c. purch
ase. Do not fail to get one
of these handsome gifts.
The Jones Drug Co
Near Suspension Bridge
Corner.
MUN
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