The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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‘HEW TO THE LIKE-LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY."
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5AIRFIELD, FREESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS, JUNE 9, 1899.
STTB3CHirTX01T, 1 SO
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. F. E. GREEN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Fairfield,.... Texas.
Special attention given to diseases of
the Rectum. Oflloe over Dr. J. B. Gor-
don’s Drag Store. jy22-97
W. K. Boyd, H. N, CoroptoD, J. O. Andenon.
BOYD, COMPTON & ANDERSON,
Lawyers, Land Agents and
Abstracters.
Fairfield.............Texas.
Will praotioe in all the oonrts. Civil
business a specialty. Are familiar with
the lands and land titles of. Freestone
county. Furnish abstracts on short no-
tice. Are also prepared to transaot any
business coming under the new Bank-
* ■ laws of the United States, and
in this line. Notary
augl9
iptcy ]
olicit
solicit business
Publio'in office.
▲. G. Anderson. W. B. Moeee,
Anderson & Moses,
LAWYERS.
All kinds of Land business soliolted.
W e now own the abstracts of Land
titles 'of Freestone county, formerly
owned by Kirven, Gardner A Etheridge,
and are briuging it up to date, and are
prepared to furnish guaranteed abstracts
of title to any lands in Freestone
county. Examination of Abstracts
ft2 50; oharge for index, 25 cents for
each transfer. Offioe on east side of
public square. apStf
WILL D. ANDERSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
and Notary Public.
Fairfield,.....Tex.
Prompt attention given to all business.
Offioe with the County Attorney. 1-98
, General Directory Column.
I. & G. N. Passenger Schedule.
Trains Pawing Buffalo.
North bound 6:22 a. m. 8.08 p.
West “ 608 “ “ 10;43 “
Passing Onkwcsd.
North bound 701 a. m. 8:41 p.
West . “ 6:28 •* •* 1004 «
COURT DIRECTORY.
District Csurt, 18th Diet.
L. B. Cobb............Distiiot Judge
O. 0. Kirven........District Attorney
Meets on the 6th Monday after the 1st
Monday in January, and on the 6th Mon-
day after the last Monday in July.
Term limited to four weeks.
Poisons in Our Food.
If the people of this State, and
every State ia the Union, could
bat see the startling array of arti-
cles now in the office of Commis-
sioner of Agriculture Waiting, at
Albany, which are used in the
adulteration of food, they would
rise np en mass and ory out for
deliverance from this, the greatest
corse ever visited upon them.
In glass bottles of various sizes
are displayed 125 different sub-
stances which enter into the com-
position of various kinds of food
today placed npon the market.
These have all been collected with-
in the last twelve months by Mr.
Wheeler, chemist of the depart-
ment, acting under instructions of
the Commissioners, and' we are
told that even this surprising dis-
play by no means exhausts the
list; that farther and close investi-
gation would disclose even greater
resalts than have yet been reached.
Iq half a dozen of these little
oans are- to be found what seem
to be coffee beans. Sometimes we
think that we are able to recog-
nize true coffee when we see it in
the bean, and sagely ask to see
samples of the berry before it in
ground for onr nse. ..Foolish mor-
tasl! Here are bits or dongb press-
ed into the exact shape of ooffee
beans, creased on the sides sides
and all baked and stained to resem-
ble the true article. The coffee we
buy might be one-half or three-
quarters made op of these dough-
beans and we be none the wiser.
Some of the samples have been
analyzed. No one knows what they
may contain
other cheap grains enter into the
ground ooffee we bay.
Here is a can of tomato oataop,
very perfect in color and consist-
ency. Ground pumpkin mixed
with a few tomatoes and all colored
with aniline, which ia not fit to
take into the human etomaefa— this
ia our oanned tomato catsup.
Here, too, is a oan containing
plaster of parie taken from a sam-
ple of floor, while near by are jars
of tale or mineral clay, ooming al-
so from floor. Here is tea whioh
Encouraging Democratic Gains.
Oomanohe Chief.
Now and then a republican pa
per is found that is honest enough
to put political facts before its
readers if for no other reason than
to warn its party against overcon-
fidence. The Boston Advertiser ap-
pears to be a journal of this kind,
and its standing in its party can.
not be qnestioned. In ooe of its re-
oent issues it points out some nota-
ble democratic gains since 1896, as
disclosed by State elections. The
figures are interesting alike to
men of all parties. The Advertiser
says:
“A mong the important democrat-
ic gains since the conclusion of the the community” does the eminent
Is it Malaria or Alum?
Popular Science Monthly.
Languor, loss of appetite, indi-
gestion and often feverishness are
the common symptoms of a physi-
ological condition termed “mala-
ria." All these symptoms may be
and frequently are the effect of the
nse of alnm baking powders in
food making. There is no question
about the poisonous effect of alum
upon the system. It obstructs diges-
tion, and prostrates the nerves, oo-
agulates and devitalizes the blood.
All this baa been made clear,
thanks to physicians, boards of
health, and food commissions. 80
“highly injurious to the health of
Royal
v Absolutely taRE
Making
Powder
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
movai. wwo rowotn oo.. mw Yom
COUNTY COURT.
Meets on the 1st Monday in January,
April, and July and on the 3d Monday
in October.
H. B. Davies............County Judas
R. M. Edwards,......County Attorney, to all appearances is wbat you buy
for 50 oents a pound. It really
Oosts about 10 oents, and is worse
tban worthless. Glose by is gran-
ulated sugar loaded with flakes of
the most indigestible stuff to make
itoheap. Wbat seems to be butter,
perfect in oolor, is paraffin, or a
residium from petroleum.
No wonder we are a nation of
dyspeptics! 'No wonder our chi!,
dreu grow pale and unhealthy!
No wooder tbe public prints teem
with aooounts of men dropping
dead in the streets or in their
homes. If anything ought to be
free from oounterfet it is tbe food
we eat. Upon that we live or die,
aooorriing »a it fs pure or impure.
The life, health and national repu-
OOMMI88IONEK8 COURT.
H. B. Daviss. Oo.. Judge, Presiding
W. H. Miller, Commissioner Pree. No. 1
J. A. Wright, » “ “ 2
R. W. Durham * 3
R. Y. Chancellor, “ “ 4
Meets on the 2nd Monday in Pebrna-
limy, August and November.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
H.B. Davies........... County Jndge.
R. M. Edwards.......County Attorney.
O. B. Dunagau...........County Clerk.
J. B. Robertson..........District Clerk.
H.H. Powell...................Sheriff.
A. P. Carter..............Tax Asaeaaor.
W. R. T. Drumwright.... .TaxCollector.
T. J. Sima..................Treasurer.
T. G. Blaokmon..............Surveyor
JUSTICE COURTS.
Fairfield, Pree. He. I
Meets the last Monday of every month.
John Terry....................Jnstioe
Watt Walker....... .......Constable tation not only of tbe present gen-
Antiock. Free. Ne.2
Meets tbe 2nd Saturday in every month.
M. A. Webb..................Jnstioe..
b. W. Pierce................Constable
Batier, Free. No. S
Meets the 1st Friday in every month
O. O. Whitt...................Justice.
J. K.Bryan............ Constable
Rehobeth, Pree. Ia 4
Meets on Friday before the 2nd Satur-
day in every month.
T. F. Owens ..................Justice
A.G. Ratliff................OobjUHb
Woodland, Free. No. ft
Meeta at Woodland the 2nd Wedneeday
of each month, and at Wortham the
Sin, Free. Ffe. •
in every
oration, but of tbe generations to
oome, depends upon the food we
oonanme.—New York Herald.
Selections.
Homan natnre in broadcloth is
no better than hnman nature in
rags.
One grain of common sense
weighs more than a grain of non-
sense.
The more a man gets tbe more
he more he wants, and tbe more he
wonts tbe more he doesn't get.
There is more power in kindness
then there is in dynamite, but it
takes longer to find it out.
The men who thinks it is fun to
get drunk has an idea that tbe hu-
morou. side oMit.
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hostilities between Spain and the
United States, and in addition to
the gain of 360,000 votes in New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut,
there may be mentioned a gain of
nearly 40,000 votes in Colorado, and
more tban 77,000 votes in Illinois
and Iodiana, of about 5000 in
Michigan and 25,000 in Minnesota,
and 26,000 in North Carolina, of
about 12,000 in Pennsylvania and
of nearly 60,000 votes in Wiscon-
sin. Id abont fifteen important
States of tbe anion, excluding the
solid Soath entirely from tbe list
—that is, in tbe sections upon
which tbe republican party de-
pends for its votes—tbe party has
lost about 650,000 votes, or more
than twice tbe plurality secured by
President McKinley in 1896.”
Salts Mines in Texas.
The Bulletin maD was talking
with Mr. J. W. Beasley yesterday
Peas roasted, sod an(j the subject of mines and min-
erals came ap. He asked if tbe
Bulletin knew that there ia an ep-
■om salts mine on tbe Colorado
river in San Saba county. Mr.
Beasley stated that these ia a
whole mountain of this medicine
down there, enough to supply tbe
demands of tbe world for a long
time to oome, that parties there
had sent it off for analysis and
found it 95 per oent. pure salts and
of a grade 2 per cent, better then
in any market. A further invest!
gation showed that to get it to
Brownwood and in barrels would
cost about as much as it could be
bought for in Galveston and for
that reason it has not been worked.
Certainly strange things oan be
found in these parte.—Brownwood
Bulletin.
head of tbe University of Pennsyl-
vania, Dr. Barker, consider the al-
um baking powders, that be Bays
“their Bale should be prohibited by
law.”
Undei these circumstances it
is worth the^wbile of every house-
wife to employ the very little care
that is iecessary to keep so dan-
gerous en element from the food
of her family.
A pare cream of tarter baking
powder, which is the only kind
that should be need, ought to cost
abont forty-five to fifty cents a
pouud. Therefore, if you are
paying mnch less something is
wrong/ if you are paying twenty-
five cents or less per pound, tbe
powder is certainly made from
alum.
Always bear these simple facts
in mind when purchasing baking
powder.
Poll Tax Delinquents.
Artiole 4783 provides that delin-
quent poll tax payers shall be sub-
ject to 'TOfid duty for three days
during the year, and in case the
said delinquent refuses or fails to
obey the summons to work tbe road
be aball be fined as in order cases
for failing to work the reed under
this article, but may be excused on
the payment of 93. Judge Vesey
rules that tbe delinquents, under
the provisions of the act, in Kanf-
man will be turned over to Com-
missioner Boggs and made to work
on the roads ootaide the corpora-
tion, and tbe delinquents in Terrell
turned over to Commissioner Rot-
ledge and worked on roads outside
of Terrell.—Kaufman Herald.
Huntington’s Mistike.
Cotlis P. Huntington, the iiim.ii
who ban piled up many millions
from bis railroad investments, de-
livered an address in San Fran-
cisco a few nights since in which
he took the position that the world
is suffering from over-education
and that too much time is spent in
school. He cited biVown experi-
ence as proof of bis position, and
Bhowed how a poor boy with a lim-
ited education bad climbed from
an obscure clerk to a railroad mag-
nate. Mr. Huntington’s great mis-
take is in making success and mon-
ey getting synonymous terms.
Highly educated men rarely be-
came rich—they have a better and
nobler aim, but it is not rich men
the world needs. A man can no
more be over-educated than be can
be too good. Men can be too rich,
and if education tends to make
them less grasping, to decrease tbe
number of millionaires, is as
good an argument as can be used
against the position taken by
millionaire Huntington.—Honey
Grove Signal.
Athens and Rome were not the
problems that New York and Chi-
cago are. Nineveh nevefr had more
than 600,000 souls* and Rome at
tbe height of its power had only
1,200,000. The modern city has
sprung np like a mushroom. WheD
Thomas Jefferson was president
there were only six cities of 8,000
souls in the United States. The
government of tbe city of New
York alone in a single year costs
more tbaD it does to maintain the
city and State governments of
twenty of the Western States. The
army of employes is greater than
the standing army of the United
States.—Cleveland Plaindealer.
Steward Mill Locals.
The oom promise effected by the
Isthmian canal commissioners re-
sults in their fixing the oost of the
proposed waterway, which is pro-
nonnoed entirely feasible, at $125,.
000,000. It is believed that, with
tbe President's approval, this will
make tbe oonatruotion of the canal
a certainty. It is gratifying to
learn that the members of tbl com-
mission have agreed, after tbe
elaborate and thorough considera-
tion they have given to the subject,
that the last objection to tbe begin-
ning of tbe inter-oceanic waterway
has been sweptaside and that con-
gress may be relied upon to
promptly authorise the work.—Bx.
President McKinley has issued
an order releasing about five thous-
and departmental places from tbe
operations of the civil service law.
The effeot of this will be tbe whole-
sale discharge of that many Demo-
crats who have been bolding posi-
tions by graoe of the civil servioe
commission. Hanna and his lieu-
tenants brought snob pressure to
bear upou tbe president that be
yielded in spite of tbe protests of
the commission. As the Chief bos
always contended, the civil service
law is a cleverly arranged scheme
by which Repnblioans are kept in
office daring s Democratic admin-
istration and by whioh Democrats
are fired bodily when the Republi-
cans get into power.—Comanche
Chief.
Yellow Jaundice Cared.
Buffering humanity would be
supplied with every means possi-
ble for its relief. It is with pleas-
ure we publish the following:
“This is to oertify that 1 was a ter-
rible sufferer from Yellow Jsun-
dioe for over six months, and was
treated by some of tbe best physi
oians in onr city and all to no avail.
Dr. Bell, onr Druggist, re<
mended Electric Bitters; and after
taking two bottles, I was eutirely
cured. I now take great pleai
in recommending them to any per-
son suffering from this terrible
malady. I am gratefully yours,
M. A. Hogarty, Lexingtflto, Ky."
Sold by J. P. Robinaon, Druggist.
Tbe first oar of oigar leaf tobacco
that was aver sold on the market in
Houston was sold to an eastern
bnyer there last week. This tobeo-
oo was Texas raised and brought
30 oents a pound. Thus you see
that Willfe is away ahead in tbe
amount raised and the prioee se-
cured for $«xas
Willis Index
grown tobeooo.—
It is estimated that the inorease
this year in Bell county of wheat
is 25 per oent, oats 15 per oent,
oom 12 per-oent and the decrease
in ootton 10 per oent. The above
is about tbe average throughout
tbe ooonty.—Belton Journal.
J uue 5tb, 1899. t
Mr 8. J Lake we leare waa:
quite sick last week. With that
exception the health of the com-
munity is good
We would be glad to see a rain
as corn seems to be needing it
badly.
Dr. E. Bonner visited Corsican®
last Thursday and was accompa-^
nied home by Miss Bell Bonner,
who anticipates spending some
time in our midst.
Chas. Watson and mother visit-
ed Mexia Saturday, returning
home Sunday.
Rev. J.'W. Holt preached an en-
joyable sermon last night, after
which we had communion ser-
vices.
Mrs. Carter Kirven, of Fairfield,
ia visiting Mr. G. T. Bradley this
week.
Mr. A. T. Watson left for Fort
Worth today.
Some complain of having a very
small crop of fruit this year, while
others have a very fair average.
Mr. I. H. Bonner and family,
formerly of this place, but now of
Corsicana, will spend several
months visiting bis brother, Mr.
J. L. Bonner, of this place.
Misses Mary and Mattie Lake
are attending preaching in Fair-
The law-abiding sentiment of
Texaa will most heartily endorse
the setion of Gov. Sayers, not only
in offering rewards for the brntal
murderers of old man Humphries
and hia two sons in Henderson
county, but also in his action in
lending tbe Attorney General's de-
partment of the State to aid in the
prosecution of the oaseu All praise
to the Governor for bis aotion.
Every resource of t^e Stste should
be used to bring tbe guilty to their
merited punishment.
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Tbe women of Alabama have de-
cided to present Miss Annie
Wheeler, tbe daagbter of General
Wheeler, with a handsome silver
set as a testimonial of her work
among tbe soldiers at Santiago
during tbe war with Spain.
A Booth Bend, Ind., manufac-
turing oompany have contracts ag-
gregating about $1,000,000 for au-
tomobiles—horseless carriages.
Awarded
Honors—World's Fair/
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W CREAM
BAKINS
POWDBt
MOST PERFECT MADE.
A pun Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Pm
(rain Ammonia, Alum or any other adulteraW
VftAES THX fTAMDARD.
field this week.
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Uncle Ike.
. Tbe present legislature baa pass-
ed two important laws affecting'
county government— one forbid,
ding commissioners’ oourts to ex-
pend over $2000 on public im-
provements nnless sanctioned by
a vote of tbe taxpayers, and anoth-
er prohibiting tbe nse of tbe sink-
ing fands, under pens! ty.—Gon-
zales Inquirer.
L a G. N. Excursion Rates.
To Waoa—
Account Y P 8 0 E and Real
Estate Dealers Association, on
sale June 12 to 18, limit June 17th;
very low rates on distance plan.
To Austin.—
Aocoant University Commence-
ment Exercises, June 10 to 11,
limit June 16tb. One and one
third fare.
To Richmond, Va.—
Account B. Y. P. U., July 13 and
15, limit July 31. Arrangements
for extention to August 15th. Rate
one fare plus $2 00.
To Indianapolis, Ind.—
Aooount International Conven-
tion Epworth League, Jaly 20 and.
23. Rate one fare pluB $2.00.
To Los Angeles, Cal.—
Aooount National Educational
Association. July 11 and 14.
Rate $5200. More complete ar-
rangements announced later.
To Detboit, Mich.—
Aoooant Christian Endeavor,
July 2 and 3. limit Joiy 15th, with
arrangements for extension to-
August 15th. Rate one regular
fare plus 92.00.
To 8t. Louis.—
Aooount B. P. O., Elks; on sale
June 18 to 19, limit June 25th.
One regular fare plus 92.00.
To Mexico.—:
Aooount Cotton Seed Crashers
Association. On sale June 13 to
14 to 15; limit to Monterey 1G
days, to Mexico City 30 days; stop-
over in Mexioo at pleasure. Very
low rates indeed.
Sommer Tourist Rates to all
summer resorts will be in effeot on
and after June 1st Any agent
can give foil particulars, or ad-
dress
D. J. Price, G. P. A T. A.,
Palestine, Taxes.
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