The Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1887 Page: 2 of 4
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ntlONICLE.
WILLS POI^IT, TKXAB.
d. YANTI8.
Editor and Pro’r
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I.I8S7.
Stop the agitation.
Thb country needs rest.
Pore leaf lard at Riley’s.
Two public wells in town.
Improvement on every hand.
The artesian well will be yet.
It is not legislation the country
needs. ___
Brino your cotton to Wills
Point __ _
Cotton beginning to como in
lively. -■ ± .... a—
TBz artesian well will bo a real-
ity yeti *’___
No constitutional convention
is needed.
The “Old Reliable has. not gone
under yet.
Wills
The boom
Point sure.
has struck
The college building is in t
near future.
The “Old Reliable” greets you
again as usual.
The Canning Company is a
grand success.
Inhratitudk, ingratitude, how
base, how base it is.
A $10,000 college buiding for
Wills Point is in sight.
It is rumored that the Czar of
Russia has been shot by a nihilist.
All this noise about “reading
out” is from the prohibition pa
pers. _ _
Our merchants are well stocked
up now for the fall and winter
trade. __
Wills Point will give as much
for cotton as any town in Texas;
and sell goods as cheap.
Prohib tion is somewhat on the
decline in this section, judging
from recent occurrences.
Not an unoccupied dwelling
house in the city, and several
wanting
houses.
to rent. Build more
Public inebriety is very un-
seemingly in any one, but espe
cially in a great temperance re
former.
Prohibitionists of Pennsylva
nia and New York have incorpor-
ated woman suffrage in their plat-
forms.
Colorow is now one of the
prominent characters affording
materials for editorial paragraphs
of all kinds.
WiLts Point is the healthiest
location and prettiest site for
city on the Texas and Pacifl east
of Dallas.
Senator Beck’s choice for the
vice pre^dency, in 1888, is Secre
lary of the Interior Lamar,
good choice.
An ex congressman in West
Virginia was recently fined $50
• and sentenced to jail for ten days
for contempt of court.
Prohibitionists ought to keep
sober at least, before demanding
total abstinence of their friends,
who do not indulge to the extent
of inebriation.
A fearless and cRndid express-
ion of opinion is creditable to or
ganizaiions as well as Individu-
als. It elicits rather than repels
commendation.
Repeal many of the laws now
on onr statute books, and rigidly
enforce the remainder without
predjndice or partiality, and the
country will bo happy.
Wirir
democratic nominees in the’last
election because they had been
opposed to local option or prohi-
bition, can truthfully say he is a
good democrat.
One feature of The (Jhkonicle
is Talmage’s Sermom, which we
are furnishing to our readers
weekly, and which should be ap
predated by them. No family
can read the thoughts of this
great divino and not be benfitted
thereby.
The Dallas News correctly says:
“Indecision waakens party ties
courageous action commands the
devotion of the wavering, and
strengthens the faithful.” So
let the democratic party from the
primaries to the State Convention
declare itself on prohibition.
It is stated on good authority
that the old knownothing party
will be in the Weld again with a
presidential ticket in 1888. Gen-
eral Mailer Workman Powdery is
a prominent member of the par-
tv, andhas given utteranoes more
than once to the principles the
new party proposes to stand upon.
The central idea will be the re-
gion of immigration. If the
’Ulonists and female suffra-
mld combine with this
.■] ' its effect in the next
V,'^v*ssh might be
IT RECURS TO CHOP OUT.
The following
Signal, an organ of
U., in its issue
very plainly shoW| tH
in which the moving ‘spftlfj of
that organization are tending:
“ We cannot too strongly urge
W. 0. T. Unions to adopt resolu-
tions iu all their county, district
and State conventions, calling
upon all similar convocations of
the prohibition vqters to declare
for woman’s enfranchisement as a
method of prohibition.”
In another paragraph the same
paper paper remarks, approving
“A call tor a 4 conference of all
reformers,’ to be held in Empire
Hall, Syracuse, N. Y., August
24, has been issued. The call af-
firms 4 belief in God, the abolition
and prohibition of the whisky
traffic, a revision of the tariff laws,
the submission of the question qf
female suffrage to a direct vote of
the people.”
Again it says: |
“Tim attention of our faithful
white ribboners is again called to
the call foi a day of prayer for
the World’s temperance, Nov. 12
and 13. Read the official communi-
cation on page 12 of our last issue.
Miss Willard desires us to call
especial attention to the fact that
not is this only a call to prayer
for the World’s W. C. T. U., but
also for t he blessing of God upon
our own approaching national
convention to be held Noy. 16 to
21. She also urges that local un-
ions request their pastors to
preach on soiqg phase of the sub-
Gan the above be mistaken?
While the W. C. T. Union was no
doubt organized as a temperance
organization, only to further the
interests of temperance in legiti-
mate ways, yet the above and the
course of the leading spirits of
that organization forthe past few
years go to prove that it has oth
er ends in view. Our Southern
ladies, we are confident, regard it
as a temperance organization on
ly, and we trust that when it
leaves that particular field and be
comes a political party, purely,
they will abandon it. It is the
political bearings of the organi
zation that has already brought it
to be regarded in an unfavorable
light by son^ie of our best citizens.
We believe in temperance organ
zations as such, and believe that
is the real remedy for the cure of
intemperance, but we want no
mixture of politics with it. The
sacredness of home, the peaceful
quiet of the domestic fireside, the
wellbeing of posterity, and-every
sacred interest known to us as
people, call upon us in thunder
tones to resist this innovation of
Northern ideas that are being
brought into our sunny South-
land.
INTERESTING SERVICES-
During the past week, our peo-
ple, and especially the members
of the Christian church, have
been treated, to some fine pulpit
eloquence from Elder J. J. Lock
hart, of Ennis, Texas. He is an
untiring worker, an an earnest,
fluent, polished and truly elo-
quent preacher; and holds his
audience in rapt attention. He
will remain here a week or two.
The church is to be congratula-
ted in securing the services of
such an able, liberal and pleaB
antminister to conduct the meet
ing, and much good will, no
doubt, be accomplished, in the
upbuilding and strengthening of
the church, even if there should
be no great influx of membership
to the organization.
HEAVY RAINS.
Dispatches in the News yester-
day reports the heaviest rains
eVer known in Central Texas on
The great revival at the First
tian Church on Wsihlngtos
conduqfeil by Rev. Dr.
still goo$ on witli onabpted
me good doctor qgnif
here at a time when the passions
of the people were all aflame
with politcal excitement, hut his
wonderful devotion, eloquence
and learning have been such that
h« has forced a Just recognition,
and nightly and daily the beauti-
ful edifice has been crowded with
profoundly interesting people,
-and a great number of conver-
sions have been made, among an
excellent class of oitizens. His
work will result in lifting the
Christian church from one of
the woakest in number, iu the
city, to one of the strongest. A
great preacher has come among
and is about the Master’s
work, leaving alone that of secu-
lar or political workers. A vast
amount of good lias been accom -
plished, and we hope lie will re-
main a long time with us yet.—
Waco Examiner.
They are the preachers who will
save the country. Preachers of
Christ and not politics.
The Rev. Dr. Seymour, pastor
of the M. E. church at Janesville,
Minn., who eloped with the organ
1st of his church, who was the
wifebf another man, and Inen
tion of which was made in a for-
mer-issue of this paper, was fol-
lowed to England and brought
back to America, and on his re-
turn was arrested for - adultery
and larceny, he having taken off
with him $100 of the church
funds. He would have been a
good man to conduct a political
canvass,as he could so easily have
charged honest.men with corrup-
tion, and protected himself by
hiding behind the church.
Rev. J. H. Hawthorne, pastor
of the First Baptist church of At-
lanta, Ga., and a prominent tem-
perance worker, and one, perhaps,
who would charge a man differing
with him on that subject with be
ing bought up by the whisky
rings, has caused a commotion in
his city by being clearly proven
guilty of plagiarism in four dis-
tinct and noted instances. His fol-
lowers deny that there has been
any points proven against himrbut
the deadly parallel column has
been used upon him toJatal effect.
Literary men, journalists and the
public side against the reverend
gentleman.
While the small fry editors of
patent boweled sheets are mop-
ping the sweat from their brows
and firing their puny pellets at
George Clark, that great War
wick is comfortably reposing at
White Sulphur Springs, sweetly
oblivious of the total annihilation
these Lilliputpai^ preparing for
him.— Temple Times.
We should smile.
creeks rose so rapidly houses
were washed down. In one house
a man, wife and seven childreh
were drowned, and it is thought
perhaps that two visitors that
were at the house. The rain was
very heavy at Waxahachie, Waco,
Hillsboro, Ennis and Corsicana.
Great damage was done to fenc-
ing.
OUTRAGE.
Some savage scodndrels in Wal-
ler couqty, on the 26th inst., en-
tered the house of an old couple
and demanded their money, and
on refusing to give it up, the old
couple were beaten over the head
with pistol, tied and covered with
oil and it set afire. The old man
was left for dead; the woman will
recover. The robbers got about
$30. Two of them have been cap-
tured.
There are eight contested elec-
tion cases for seats m the next
congress, ns follows: Lowry vs.
White, Indiana; Small vs. El
iiott South Carolina; Glover vs.
Frank, Missouri; Worthington vs.
tost, Illinois; McDuffy vs. David
son, Alabama; Thebe vs. Carlisle
Kentucky; Bqllivan vs. Fenton,
and Lynch vs. Vandever, Califor
make nearlylOjOO^paget.
A full assortment of PICTURE
frames at Alford’s,
A Methodist preacher, so Bays
a special from Wilkesbnrre, Pa.,
precipitated a riot near that place
among the miners, in which there
were many broken and bruised
heads. Some women were even
mixed in the fray. It grew out of
the minister and his congregation
objecting to the merchants set
tling with the rimers on Sunday.
The News has evidently thrown
Rev. G. W. Briggs upon the de
fensive, and he, it seems lo us, as
well as his church, owe it to the
public to vindicate him, if it can
be done. He is too brilliant and
great a man to have the imputa-
tions made by the News resting
against him, if they cannot be
sustained.
The Board of Examiners
Met on the 26th at Canton to hold
the first examination for 1887-8.
There were thirty candidates
present, of whom the following
lie ueililirstcd t
N. B. Campbell,
W. I. Cowles,
A. N. Cowles, “
L. W. Johnson, “
J. W. Payne, “
E. J. Thomas,
Miss Lizzie Florence,
“ May McOhesney.
“ Nannie McChesney,
•* Charlotte Simmons,
“ D. J. Harden (col.),
N. A. Gentry, 3rd
First Grade.
NOW IS THE TIME I
BEN WHEELER.
liter ChhuMIOls:
We had a fine rain here last
uight. It did not extend very far
north of here; I do not know how
far south.
Prof. JaB. F. Davidsou is sick of
slow fever.
The wife of Win. Matthews
died of typhoid fever on the 19th
inst.
Mr. Thos. Usrn and Miss Lou
Calhoun were pinrned the 21st
inst., at Mr. T. N. Calhoun’s.
Sam Truss and Doss Sides have
returned from their western trip.
Richard Castleberry has also re-
turned. He is satisfied with Van
Zandt.
Rev. McClisky is carrying on a
revival at Hamilton church, near
Marion Cox’s.
The people are preparing for the
oampmeeting which comes off
now soon.
Cotton will he short.
Merchants report trade dull,but
they are receiving new goods and
preparing for future trade.
Quite a calm here after the
storm. But we should not sleep
loo sound, ior another, one. will
burst out ere long.
May good luck attend The Chron-
icle and its many readers.
Aug. 24.J Eclipse.
STONE POINT ITEMS.
Mr. Editor: •
If you will give mO space I will
give you a few dots from this por-
tion of the country.
We had a very fine rain the
24th inst, It was much needed.
Now is the time to sow turnips to
have fall greens. Cotton crops
are cut very short by the hot, dry
weather. It is hoped that the re-
cent rains will stop cotton frbin
opening and let the bolls mature.
Mr. W. W. Shaw has been down
some-time with slo^v fevar. Mrs.
J. A. Groves has the same fever.
A child of Wm. and Carry Gray
died the 23d inst., of diptheria.
AuntSallie Harrison lias been
very low for some time, but is
some better now, She has been
down eleven weeks.
We still hear a little prohibi-
tion. It is not dead vet, it seems.
I think they have done devilment
enough, and it is now time to
stop.
I send you a new subscriber for
your valuable paper.
Yours truly,
Aug. 29.] Chiselfist.
Very Probable.
A Methodist minister, who is
an ardent prohibitionist, has been
arrested iirTennessee for selling
whisky without license. The
Kansas City limes suggests that
perhaps the good man, despair-
ing of ever being able to prevent
sale of liquor, thought he could
dispense it more circumspectly
and with less resultant Hvii than
the ordinary saloonkeeper.— Gal-
veston News.
PARAQrttPHS 0$ INTEREST.
A Bouton ItiiIrr luw retinol after sixty
yean, of service.
They use an old lioarad in Jackson to
peddle peaches from.
An Ohio tame crow has lived to puss
his thirty-second birthday.
Half- tile people rated as millionaires
nowadays could not draw a $50,000
check.
It will !xt fushionably mortifying to
admit not having been to Europe in tho
summer of 1887.
Bireh berk stationery is quite exten-
sively used tills season, and ivory one
professes enthusiasm over it.
The skeleton of a man was recently
found in a thicket on the battle Held of
Antietam, qnd by its side the scabbard
and blade of un ufficer’s sword.
Asbury Park boasts of a pet dog who
appears on the hoard walk witli u dia-
mond collar. He is a Maltese pug and
belongs to tho wife of a New York
broker.
Americas, Ga., has obtained the cheap-
est railroad in the world. She has se-
cured about twenty-eight miles of rail-
road, with full and complete control over
it, for $5,000.
William McDiarmid is probably the
oldest printer in tho United States. He
was born in Edinburgh 1793, and helped
to “set up” Walter Scott's novels from
the original manuscript.
Jasper Oaler, near I'alivan s, has one
of the rarest animals ever seen in the
White mountains. It is ar-whtto porcu-
pine. a big one, too, weighing twenty-live
pounds, and already so tame that it eats
from its owner’s band.
The largest bunch of bananas on record
was shipped to Mount Vernon: N. Y., one
day last week. It measured four feet in
length and weighed 400 pounds. Some
of the liananas measured sixteen inches
In length.
Tho school officials of Boston have
posted notices in all the Bchool buildings
of that city forbidding the chewing of
tobaccoJiy the pupils. They liave even
xisted tlio notice in tile girls’ high school
wilding, much to tho indignation of tho
young women.
It is reported from Paris that a gloup
of hero worshiper^ purpose to buy the
decorated locomotive ""which drew Bou-
langer out of Paris and preserve it as a
relic of tho general, or give it, still
adorned witli its inscriptions, to tho lato
minister of war, as a substitute for his
magnifleent block horse.
Once in a while justice bobs up with
the rag oif her eyes. Tho will off an old
Washington Ulan, Jacob Wiener/is found
to liave cut oil a certain daughter with a
single dollar. Some time before he had
given tier an elegant house on condition
that he was to have a home with her.
She got the deed and promptly fired the
father. . He lias taken a grim Bort of re-
venge which everybody will approve.
A Washington man tells of a-quarrel
between two negro hoys. The larger
boy witli great volubility was applying
every sort of abusive epithet. The
younger boy leaning against a fence and
steadily regarding the speaker with a
sullen scowl, waited for a halt. At last
came. “Is you done?” “Yes, I is
done." Then slowly and coolly the
younger said: “All dem dings you say
I is, you is dem."
On]it. Thompson, of tho British steamer
Muley Hassan, lias a remarkably saga-
cious retriever dog Tho 1 steamer was
passing through tho Straits of Gibraltar,
when the dpg showed signs of restless-
ness and finally jumped overboard. A
boat was - lowered and tho dog was dis-
covered holding the collar of the coat of
a drowning man,, who was lying across
two oars. The man was afterward dis-
covered to bo the only survivor of a
Spanish revenue felucca, which had been
upset four hours previously.
suiu lias
ise.
waB cur-
ThaVerdict Unanimous.
W. D.- Suit, druggist, Bippus,
Ind„ testifies: “I canTecotmnend
Electric Bitters as the very best
remedy. Every bot.tlo sold has
given relief in every case
man took six bottles and
ed of rheumatism of 10 years’
standing.” Abraham Hare,drug
gist, Bellville, Ohio,affirms: “The
best selling medicine I have ever
handled in my 20 years’ experi-
ence is Electric Bitters ” Thous-
ands of others have added their
testimony, so that the verdict is
unanimous that Electric Bitters
do cure diseases of (lie liver, kid
neys and blood. Only half a dol-
lar a bottle, at Crow & Ilumaii’s
drug store.
Mueloand Painting'
I will resume my cIbrs in music
on next Mohday, the 5th of Sep-
tember. Will teach a class in
drawing and painting also.
Thanking- you 4s> pet pestngtom
In two weeks we will begin
BEAUTIFUL, TOUCHING Story, full of
interest, strong in plot and in
tenpely dramatic situations, en
titled
Roger Laxoque,
By Jules Mary, considered one ot
the best French novelist! of the
day, and whose works are excep-
tionablv pure.
Every one who reads one chap-
ter will want to read the whole.
Send in your subscription at once.
Trunks, VAlices, Oompahioim in
nia. The testimony in theae cases endlesa varieties, At Thompson A
McKinney’s.
The Mitekell wagon it the beat.
Sold by W. H. Eowamm,
the past, respectfully solicit
continuance of the saine.
Mrs. M. M. Steele.
Great Excitement In Texas.
Great excitement lias been
caused in the vicinity of Paris
Texas, by the remarkable recov-
ery of Mr. J. E. Corley, who was
so helpless he could not turn in
bed, or raise his head; everybody
said he was dying of consump-
tion. A trial bottle of Dr. Kings’s
New Discovery was sent him
Finding relief, he bought a large
bottle and a box of Dr. King’s
New Life Pills; by the time he
had taken two boxes of the pills
and two bottles of the Discovery
he was well and bad gained in
flesh thirty-six pounds. Trial bot
tie of this great discovery free at
Crow A Humau’a drug store
Large bottle $1..
$10 REWARD
I will pay the above reward for
any information that will lead me
to the recovery of the following
strayed stook: One sorrel Alley, 2
years old, branded 1 J 2, and had
on bell when she left; also one
black horse colt, one year old, no
brands. No white on either.
M. 8. Ubszrv.
Poetry, Kaufman Oo. Tex.
Lustre band, decorated and Ohi
na tea setts at Alfordi,
Philadelphia’s lied Houses.
Strata of clay, out of which good,
hard, red bricks can be.mado, have given
Philadelphia a color which it is likely to
preserve through all changes of style. In
any vipw it is an expanse of red. From
Belmont, or Lemon Hill, through tho
huge block of the City hall, and the
Greek temple in the grounds of Girard
college, witli a few other buildings, shine
white in tho sunlight, they are but specks
of light in a dark rod ocean. In its red-
ness no other city resembles Philadelphia,
jxcept, to somo extent, Baltimore. New
York lias much moro variety of color.
There is brown stone as well as red brick,
and there is an abundanco of painted
iron.—The American. ■ «.
Hold HORN of Brigands.
The brigand season is at its height.
We are consequently confined to tho
town, and, though surrounded by cliarm
Ing country, obliged to pass the summer
In dusty, disease breeding streets. Only
persons who are notoriously not worth
capturing dare travel without a big
escort, oven in the inunediato neighbor-
hood. There has been some severe fight-
ing on the Santi-Quaranto.roail, and two
troopers liave already lost tlioir lives.
Indeed, if tho authorities do not speedily
grapple with the evil, we shall be in the
samo wretched plight as last year. Then
the brigands actually tried to snatch a
bishop (ani a dozen well armed cavalry-
men, and were only beaten • off after a
sharp and bloody struggle, 8uch" wns
tho boldness of tho plundering fraternity
that I mnds did not hesitate to como down
to tho very edge of tho lake and seizo
victims in full view of tho fortress. One
unlucky woman was jiounced upon close
to her village home in the midst of a
score of people, and kept prisoner till
being unarmed, could not assist her. But
I will not trouble you with a list of those
who have been carried up into tho moun-
tains. It is enough to say that the whole
district round about lies at the mercy of
tho brigands.—Janina Cor. Levant Her-
ald.
To Molt Gold. ■ ■
Gold will only melt at a comparatively
high temperature, as we all know, but
what is not generally known is that if 3
per cent, of silica be added to the gold it
can bo melted over the flame of a com-
mon candle. From the same source the
reader may learu that a pretty alloy, said
to resemble gold exactly, can bo made
with sixteen jiarts of copper, one of zinc
and seven of platinum. Tlio copper und
platinum nro covered first with borax and
then witli powdered charcoal and melted,
then tho zinc added, nnd tho alloy thus
produced is exceedingly malleable and
can be drawn into the finest wire, while
it never tarnishes.—Jewelers' Journal.
Flannel Shirt. Heroin lug Popular.
I have noticed of late that the wearing
of neglige nr flannel shirts is liecoming
quite popular even for the streets. Law-
yers and business men generally can be
seen on Fulton street tliese warm days
dressed in blue nnd white shirts, around
the collars of which are polka dot or red
neckties. A few years ago anything but
a white shirt anil collar for city wear was
thought to be vulgar. In the country it
was permissible to drites as one pleased.
What can be more comfortable on a hot
day in August than a loose fitting blouse?
Thorn who don't wear one know little of
the oomforts of a summer spent in the
ojty.—“Rambler" in Brooklyn Eagle.
A hew amusement is provided at the
London fairs, known os “topsy turvy.”
Passengers are securely strapped in
barrel and then rolled about. ’
Though many guests be absent, It Is
th« cheerful man ws mi
Afrietn Pravtrk
* Bsa. Milas* I1.SN SwarO.
In tho engraving department of a New
York jeweler's establishment is, what
will, be when it is finished, one of the
most elegant swords ever mode In this
city. It is intended for Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, and is a token of regard from tlio
citizens of Arizona. A purse of $1,000
wns raised to pay for it by popular sub-
scription. It will be publicly presented
to liim in Tucson on the anniversary of
the surrender to tlio general of Oeronimo
und tlio lioetile Apaches. Tho subscrip-
tions were confined to civilians within
tlio boundarioe of Arizona. The amount
was readily raised, and could easily have
been trebled. Tho jeweler furnished ex-
quisite designs for tlio sword, which, from
an artistic standpoint, will be the finest
sWord presented to any military man iu
this country.
No precious stones will be used. The
scabbard is of solid gold. One of its sides
will bo loft plain for tlio presentation in-
scripfions, etc. Tlio other side will bo
engraved with the following character-
istic scenes: First, the agency at Ban
Carlos (on the reservation), tins Indians
appearing in nutural camp life. Second
scene, companies of cavalry and infantry
lin pursuit of Indians. Third, the fight.
Fourth, tlie capture and Indians marched
to Bowio Station, where a train of cars
stand in waiting for their reception; and
last is Geronitno's lieud, with hat on,
forming tlio foot of the scabbard. This
latter work is done from -Fly’s photo-1
graph of Oeronimo, and ii perfect to life.
Tiie blade is of Damascus steel, and
will lie engraved with tlio name of Gen,
iNelson A. Miles, and scroll work. The
handle or hand grip will be of white
shark’s skin, braided in gold. Tho guard
will be of gold and he emblematic of both
cavalry and infantry. At tlio extreme
lend of the guard, engraved in gold, will
be the bead of Natchez, the son of Cochise,
a moonstone amethyst forming the end of
tho hand grip.—New York Mail and
Express.
CuriouN M<hIb of Getting b Livelihood.
| Then* was a young man stopping at a
west side lodging house until recently
who paid for his bed every night with
postage stnmpH. Ho had practiced this
aboift u week or more, when tlio pro-
prietor grew suspicious. With a view to
finding out just where the fellow got the
stamps, tlie hotel man liad him watched
and discovered that liis lodger not only
paid for bis bed with tlie little brown
squares, but that he ate at several res-
taurants where the proprietors accepted
stauqis in payment. After watching Ilia
lodger for several days and discovering
nothing that could explain his possession
of so many |>ostago stamps, the hotel man
refused onq night to accept them in pay-
ment for n bed unless the mail could
satisfy him that they were not stoleu.
The lodger demurred for awhile and re-
fused to talk about the matter. Then tho
hotel man threatened to hand him over
to tlio police; wliereupon the lodger, after
swearing his landlord to secrecy, said:
■“lama beggar. I live on a revenue
[derived from begging for postage stamps.
I began by working the First ward, and
am now doing Eighth avenue. I hate to
give thewclicme away, for it is a good
one, und is profitable. I manage to keep
myself looking clean and neat, though a
trifle threadbare, and with a letter in my
hand I ask each available person for,a
stamp. I refuse money always, although
gentlemen sometimes go with me to the
nearest drug store and buy me the stamp.
Occasionally I get two and three stamps.
When I get together $3 or $8 worth, I
take them to a dealer down town who
buys them from me at a discount; but I
never pay out this money if I can help It.
Whenever I can I get restaurant and
lodging house keepers to accept stamps
for my meals and bed. In this way I
save the discount.”—New York Mail and
|Ex|>rMa ■ ■ , ■ . i
Dr. Holmes' Dally Ufa.
Writing of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
‘It is little wonder,” remarks a Boston
contributor, “that he begins to feel worn
and weary, with overwork, and to fear a
breaking down of that strength with
which he is as yet blessed. He mokes
few visits and endeavors to accept few
invitations, except from closest and old
friends; down at his residence in Beacon
street he is usually at home to personal
friends a part of each aftemoofi in the
week, with possibly one or two excep-
tions. There in’’his study, among the
books that he loves best, books that after
oil ore one’s best and truest friends, Dr.
Holmes passes the greater part of his timo
nowadays. His hours are like momenta
and Ids days but as hours, so1 closely and
compactly are his labors crowded into
them.”—Detroit Free Pries.
WE S’TEeiiEE I
—TIIE WEDQ-E—
ENTERS DEEP!
PRICES FLY WIDE OPEN!
-O----
Our M of i)ii!tiMi>
•Is Offered at-
ACTUAL EASTERN 08ITI!
jjdsHJntil September
i
ki__j
*i
Mipllliii
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FALL GOODS,
We arereciving, now, in large Shipments,
which, being bought by 15. W. HOSE in per-
son, and shipped under reduced rale of
freight contracted with tlie Railroad com-
pany and ourselves last month. ,Under this
same rate of freight we have stocked up
largely in our
GROCERY - ROOM!!
Four Literary Sueceu$B.
Tho New York Critic’s Boston letter
speaks of meeting “four young literary
men a few nights ago, each of whom
had written a novel; each novel had been
issued by a leading publisher, nnd each,
as Tar as one can judge from the review
it lioij received, had been successful. At
the end of a year from the date of publi-
cation, the amounts paid as copyright to
the authors were respectively $835.10,
$385 and $177. The fourth one then
had received nothing, his book—a charm-
ing little story, which had cost him all
his leisure for seven months—not having
sold to tlie extent of even 1,000 copies.”
Contrast this with Mark Twain receiving
$00,000 in a single check os only a part
of his profits on one of his works. ’ ’
Cured of Sheep Kllllnx-
Tile Gardiner (Me.) Journal reports a
rcmarknblo euro effected in the case of a
young Irish setter dog up that way that
had contracted the had habit of worry-
“Ilis ownor,” says The Jour-
ilil liliu mar to «■
ing sheep.
nal. “tertw.
for treatment, and Mr. Cross thinks he
has cured him. He put the dog in a pen
with a vicious rath, and never did a dog
receive such a pummeling in so short a
Space of time as did this ona. When
taken out he was very much subdued,
and he remembers his lesson now, as the
sight of sheep is enough to make him
turn tail and flee.
Doctors Bay the dark green veils worn
by so many women in traveling at this
season contain ]>oison, which, absorbed
by the lips, is very dangerous.
At San Jose, Cal., are apricot trees
that bear from 1,000 to 1,500 pounds of
fruit each.
Prasant tor Mia Twelfth Child.
Some years ago a wealthy citlsen of
Bahrenfeld, • In the dnchy of Holstein,
premised a worthy married man of that
town that he would give a house to the
man’s twelfth child, if he should have that
many. In dne time No. 13 arrived,
and the prond father asked the wealthy
citizen to makegood his promise. This
he refused to do, saying that the whole
thing woe a joke. The father then went
do law about it, or
was only
decided li
lzed the plaintiff to choose whichever one
of the defendant's bouses he liked bast.—
New York Tribune.
as e joke, rue miner wen wens
ibout it, and although the promise
ly a verbal WS, the oourt not only
In favor of No. M, but author-
»or a Weddles ■
The London society papem are just now
overflowing with enthnstnem over the
cleverness of somebody original enough
to give a bride a side saddle for a wed-
ding present, a thing whloh, as She was
an excellent horsewoman, pleased her
greatly, besides hating no duntiaate In all
her array* of gifts. Similar Assent* <■
often given to eoyal and noble brides
the day when riding
not an ami
do not
and
THE FOLLOWING GOODS RECEIVED AND IN TRANSIT:
2 Cars of Kansas Flour,
2 “ “ Bagging <)'• Ties,
x “ “ Salt,
2 Cars of .Writs, and Wood
and Willow Ware,
1 Car of Sugar <S‘ .Molasses,
1 “ Whitewater Wagons.
BARGAINS-AND-DRIVES
—-IN EVERY-
-A.®
B. W. ROSE’S.
Summer Hill Select Sellool.
-o—
Fall Session Opens 2nd Tuesday in September.
Spring “ 2nd “ “ January.
Board $8.00 to $10.00 per Month, Other Expenses in Proportion
A LIVE, ENERGETIC CORPS OF EXPERIENCED TEACHERS
A large School Apparatus, to
which has recently been milled
Improved Surveying Instruments, nnd a Physiological Manikin, life
size.
The School is located in a honlihy, quiet village, away from all
Demoralizing Railroad Influences,
A limited number of Girls will bo boarded’by tlio Principal.
iioyS can get good homes by applying in time.
For further Information, write for Catalogue to,
-An- TXT. OKK,
oiT-A/rionsr.
mnE STATE OF TKXAS, To the Sher-
J_ (ff or any Constable of Von Zandt
County, Greettny t .
You are hereby commanded to sum-
mon Julius Kdell mid David Kdell. by
causing publication of thia citation to
be made In some newspaper published In
your county for four successive weeks
prior to the return day hereof, to he and
appear before me at iny office In WIIIb
Point, Precinct No. 3, on the 19th day of
September, 1887, ot 10 o’clock A. M„ to
answer the complaint of B. W. Rose in a
plea of damages for the sum of two hun-
dred dollars, principal, due by account
for difference in price* of tobacco, 800
pounds, bought by plaintiff from defend ■
ante, whloh defendants refused to de-
liver after sale. Said account now on flic
In my office. File number or enlt 109.
Herein fall not, but of this writ nnd
■how you bave executed tlie same make
due return aa the law directs.
Given under my hand, this the Oth
day of August, 1887.
B. It. Goodwin,
Justine of the Peace, In and for said
County, Precinct No. 3.
«awar
PATENTS,
Cayeatt, Trade Mark* *ad C**j rightt
Obtained, and all tho bneiaeee in the U.
8. Patent Office atteeded to at moderate
Our office la oppoalte the U. 8* Patent
Office, and wecanobtein patent In leaa
time tha* thote jretaota from IrwWit^oii.
Send Model or Vrauing. W e advlt* se
to patentability free ot ohergo, aed we
Brake no charge seises ws obtain patent.
We refer her* to the Poetonstcr, tho
8upt. of Meney Order Dtv., aed to Offi-
cial* of the U. 8. Patent Office. Por clr.
mi I are, advice, terms and reference* to
osteal client* in your own Stale or coun-
ty, write to. O. A. INOW t CO.
Opposite Patent OUte.Waahlofftoe, D. C.
IMPROVE YU0E,
SIGHT!
fto is nrkowlodgtd by the o.Ue«t resi-
dents of Tombs Unit
HART’S CHEMICAL LRNSJvS
Are the best for tlio EYES over Invent-
ed, because they do not tiro tho eyes,
and yon can read all night nr work with-
out the light having any effect; the con-
sequence Is your eyes feel better after
using. 4
THE CHEMICALS
Keep- the EYES cool; arc perfectly
constructed, nnd every I.ENSE Is exam-
ined by tlie DOCTOR himself before be-
ing sunt nut.
They are euijorsod by tho
TEXAS STATE
MEDICAL ASSO-
CIATION,
Which Isa sufficient GUARANTEE
in iteelf. Testimonial* can be had from
■ome of the Lending Citizen* of thl* com-
munity who have been using them for up-
ward* of TEN YEARS, and they still
retain their great UEFI1A(IT1VR POW-
ER, often reatorjng 8I01II' to Its natural
strength. They are ns
LIGHT ITSELF
-and-
PERFECT EVE PBEMERVt'RN.
(STALL KYRS flued hr
B. W. BRUCE,
Who ia Sole Agent for Will*
Point,
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