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VOL. xxvi , BROKEN BOW , OUSTER COUNTY , NEBRASKA , THURDSAY , MAY 28 , 1908 , NO 51
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HAVE YOU
SEEN OUR
NEW'WALLPAPER ?
Then you haven't seen
x You May See the best ever offered in
i * . this town for the .
Out on the world In a new way money.
with my glasses.
What you have seen may be only Comejand let usjjnatch
a hint of what you may sec.
" several of the most
"Seeing a thine with your own up
eyes" Is not always conclusive
evidence that you see correctly. popular patterns for you.
You see through the window , hut
the window glass soiled. may be Imperfect or the We also have all the
You see with your eyesbut their
Paints Oils Varnishes
refractive power my be fautiy ; , , ,
thus you see but half what you
might , with properly adjusted Stains , etc. , that you can
glasses-my kind.
My business Is to remedy eye need.
defects
which If neglected may
prove .serious.
JS , & J.FBaisch
Graduate of the Chicago Onthalmlc
Colleeo. DRUGGISTS.
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SPRAYED VEaETABLES
Radishes. Green Onions , Lettuce , Tomatoes , Beans
Fresh Dally
Our sprayer throws , fresh-water in a very fine mist ,
keeping the vegetables crisp" and fresh as the hour they
. catne from the garden. Phone your order to No. 5 or give
the order to our solicitors.
i We Buy Cream Every Day
Van Dusen's Extracts
'Are the best. They are used by the United-.States i govern
ment because of their superiority over other brands both
in strength and purity. '
v H PHONE No. 5. NORTH SIDE , BROKEN-BOW , NEBR.
TUADK
Pure Old Cider Vinegar
MA UK
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THE REAL
GOOD KIND
Skeppard & Burk
Phone 125. S luth'Side Square
Through the
Sunny South.
Continued from II.IHI Week
Well , here we are ready to go
in the auto and all scats filled at
just 130 ; p. m. My place from
choice was in the hindmost scat
and on the outside. I didn't
want the old thing to run over
me if I got dumped out. I guess
I felt a just little larger than 1
ever felt before , for this was my
first automobile ride , and since I
come to think I haven't got
it yet. I just thought if the rest
of the boys could stand it I could
for I wanted to get even with
that smart set. After Mr. Phil
lips , our chaperon , and that
other fellow what is it you call
him , I give it up , anyhow it's
the fellow that pulls the critter's
nose and makes it snort and tear
around and act mad and' some
times makes a wicked jump al
most right from under you well
I'll name him the next time I go
down to the Rio Grande. After
they got in and this last fellow
braced himself and grabbed a
wheel and commenced winding
it a little and opened some kind
of a breathing place and the
thing began to act up again and
this fellow looked around at some
of us fellows and laughed. I
thought it was me and I said , ,
without thinking how it sounded ,
"let the old thing go , I'm ready. "
And for a fact he turned it loose
and I wasn't so sure about being
ready. I had my note book and
pencil in hand ready to sketch
everything we passed by , but I
soon found out I had no time
for book keeping on this crazy
thing jumping stiff legged and
every other way.
We passed down Wild street a
short distance , then turned upon
Medium street , following this a
quarter of a mile , then passed
out on Cactus street. By this
time the engineer , I will call him
I can't think of that other name
yet , and if I did I could neither
spell nor pronounce it without
taking another look at the fellow ,
for I can't just remember the
color of his eyes , by this time he
uau inis JLUXUS
under control. I said to myself
I bet 'those other fellows are feel
ing bad ; for we fellows just
silently and deliberately stole a
march of them , ' they expecting
us to accompany them over to
old Matamoris Mexico. But you
remember I told you I would get
even and I did too. And one
fellow told me the next morning
he felt bad all afternoon and I
just acted like I felt bad because
; ie fell bad but I didn't * I was
ust getting even.
Well liere we are away out in
the country before we realize it ,
ooking at this fine tract of
15,000 acres of land that Mr.
Phillips brought us out to see.
This land is all to be under a
system of irrigation with a
storage canal 14 miles long , hold
ing a sufficiency of water to
irrigate 40,000. This is one of
the big things in this south
country. By this time the warm
sunshine , with its telling beams
of hot , hotter , hottest , had
beg-in to get in its work on our
cheeks that looked , and felt ,
like some tenderioot from
Nebraska , or male blonde from
the good sunflower state of
Kansas. But that umbrella I
bought at Kansas City for the
purpose of keeping off this Texas
sunshine I forgot and left at the
car , just like I did the stamp for
the postal card. However , I
made up my mind , as I didn't
have it with me , I would just
take a little sunshine and a little
less shoe , shine for I was bound
to have this automobile ride if it
did cause tender spots on the
delicate fabric of my homely
physiognomy , I still have those
two accident tickets to fall back
on in case I had rather fall than
jump.
Well everything was just going
fine and every one of the boys
were talking about this , that and
the other , and I made up my
mind to say something too , and
I just stood up , yes I did , and I
jus.t asked Mr. Phillips if he
thought this part of Texas would
ever be settled up , and the fellow ,
well I haven't the name yet but
you .know who I mean , looked
arpuud and saw me standing.
I 'noticed a kind of semi-tropical
laUgh spread over his counte
nance , but before I had time tc
think , he opened up the speeding
ynlvc , and all at once I thoug * ,
it was high school field day in
Nebraska and I was competing
for the broad jump. Just then
Mr. Phillips said , "yes , I think
this will soon be settled , " and
down I went , instead of up ,
before he could finish the sen
tence. About this time there
was hot air enough to run a Hy
ing machine , if 1 could have had
one. I never told those Kansas
fellows anything about this and
I would a little rather you would
not.
not.After
After this I concluded I would
do my talking sitting down.
Well I must tell you of some of
the things I saw after becoming
reconciled to this new way of
traveling. We sure did see lots
of cactus , mosquittc , chappcral
and a number of other kinds of
timber brush galore. Some
cactus bunches four feet high
and four feet across through its
branches , The soil here is a silt
deposit of chocolate loam , depth
of soil 12 to 28 feet deep by
government geological survey.
This soil and climate is adapted
to the citrus fruits orange ,
lemon , figs , banana and many
other kinds. We saw a number
of orange trees loaded with their
precious fruit that looked to be
ripe. Lemons , bananas and figs
are at home here. But the
grandest and * most beautiful
sight my eyes ever beheld was a
large grove of the sabal Mexican
palms , if there is any man or
woman who has ever been per
mitted to see this wonderful
sight of stately palms as viewed
in their natural state and cannot
feel in their soul the ecstasy of
joy and love of beauty , must be
devoid of some of the elements
that bring us in touch with the
Infinite , who is the author of
the beautiful in nature. I am
told by Mr. Phillips that this
grove covers about 100 acres and
has in number about 20,000 palm
trees. They are from 20 to 35
or 40 feet high and many of them
arc , 18 to 24 inches in diaindter.
Can you imagine a more grander
or lovely picture ? Nothing I
havejcver seen will compare with
this magnifiedt place ol grand
eur and beauty in this far south
land. I could not help but give
praise and adoration to the Great
Master of our destinies for this
privilege of being permitted to
behold , with my own eyes this
lovely scene. I shall always have
Sweet thoughts of this place.
It never can be erased from our
memory. It is well worth the
whole cost of a trip down here
to see this place.
Here I saw banana trees , I will
call then 10 inches in diameter
and 15 feet high , | with their
bunches of fruit growing and
making ready for the coming
lay when some human hand
would pluck the monster bunch
from the parent tree , and per
haps send it many hundred miles
away and give a delicious morsel
to some hungry mouth , whose
appetite for bananas has never
been fully satisfied.
Our attention was called by
Mr. Philips to a castor been tree
four years old ; This measured
at the base 29 inches in diameter
and was 25 feet high and loaded
with castor beans. With some
effort and considerable bending
and pulling down we succeded
in getting a sample banana from
one of the trees , and have it yet
as a reminder and in memory of
this day a realization not soon to
be forgotten.
Our time here was entirely too
limited. We could have spent
days and even weeks in this place.
We were * the last one to turn
away from this grand and glori
ous picture that cannot be dupli
cated anywhere in the United
States.
Mr. Phillips tojd us the Com
pany , viz : The Indiana Co
operative Canal Co. , had been of
ered $400.00 per acre for 400
acres. Taking all of this palm
grove , and if sold would be made
into a fine pleasure park. There
is no question in my mind but
this place ought to and should be
made one of the beauty spots o
earth , kept and preserved as at
oasis of living beauty for al
time to come.
Now having arrived at ou :
touring car , the automobile , my
self being the last one , we were
soon comfortably seated for the
return trip and in response to the
driver's touch , this great machine
moved off very quietly and did
not manifest any desire to be
unruly or ugly in its behavior
when we started on the home
ward trip.
As we were leaving this place
these thoughts came to our mind
as we bade farewell to this lovely
scene , our trip thus far has paid
us in full for all it has cost , and
if we should close our eyes to the
many scenes of enchantment and
soul inspiring beauty that come
to onr notice as we travel on and
on in this lovely south land we
have been well paid.
We must now change this
picture as there is always some
thing more to follow , to those
who arc looking for some of the
grand things of this old earth ,
on our return trip we passed
through a sugar plantation where
sugar cane has been raised con
tinuously fbr 31 years , and this
last year there was 33 tons per
acre raised and each ton made
160 pounds of sugar and sold
for 4X- cents per pound. Mr.
Phillips told us this sugar cane
required planting once in seven
years and is one of the best pay
ing crops raised here in this part
of Texas. These sugar planta
tions arc a small town of them
selves. The growing cane is
about 12 inches high at this time ,
March 23. There arc several
sugar plantations in the vicinity ,
of Brownsville , Texas.
On this afternoon -trip we saw
one cabbage patch of 140 acres ,
enough , I would judge , to make
sauer kraut for all the Dutch in
Texas and have some left for
these hungry Kansas fellows ,
too. We saw vegetables of all
kinds galore. I often wondered
how it could be possible to find
people enough to cat the thous
ands of tons of vegetables we
have seen on this trip.
We passed by one small patch
of bananas about one half acre.
There had been taken from this
piece of ground no less than
$382.00 worth of this delicious
fruit the last year. This is a
sample of one of the small crops
with a large revenue * One of
the big little things in this semitropical -
tropical country.
There are some peculiar things
to sec and take note fof here. I
will speak of this one the fellow
that drives the automobile when
it is not stubborn and won't drive.
Just before he comes to a gate he
toots the rubbcr tootcr a few
toots before he gets to the gate ,
and behold , there comes a little
negro or Mexican boy , unlocks
and bpcns the gate and we pass
through and on as a matter of
choice , and this fellow drivejr
never even thanks the little boy
for this act of kindness. We
Cmitlueil on I < aHt
Drug Talks
Worth Heeding
Twenty-two ycnrs Is n pretty
long time to tic iti business con *
timmlly in one place but this store
lint ) Unit record to its credit mid
doing the largest drug business
in town. A safe store to tic to.
OurDrug Store
is n helpful server of the public.
A store to which you can come iu
confidence , getting absolutely just
what your doctor orders and put
together as he would wish. We
can serve you belief thnti any
other drug store can. Prescrip
tions only filed by registered
druggists.
Ed. McComas
Druggist
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BROKEN - BOW
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10 per cent
DISCOUNT
Farm Machinery
Just stop and consider what this means
to you.
Xxa.ertetzi.GO
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I have many other farm tools that I am .giving
the same discount as on the above , which will
make them a great bargain. All of tie } above dis
count prices must be spot cash.
We Carry in Stock
Deering , Mowers , Deering Swing Stacker ,
Deering , Jr. Overshoot Stacker , Deering 4 wheel
Push Sweep , Deering 3 wheel Pull Sweep ,
Deering 2 wheel Pull Sweep.
G. W. Apple
Broken Bow - - Nebraska.
