The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 1898 Page: 4 of 8
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•••I oalf wanted. Ainu name* of
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THE FAWFiai RECMKR.
glared U th* Poatofflo* at Fairfield.
Tti.as Hecond-olaas Matter.
Kroai Brewer.
One Cause of Hard Times.
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We don’t know mo much ntxjut
the mix huger* and tuc», but if yon
want auy two faced people the
Wort
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wutb your poatmaeter at any time.
ADVERTISING KATES.
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Kates for standing display advertise-
want* made known on application.
SUdigmii" and educational notices pub-
.Jahed free of Charge.
"Tributes of Keapeet" from societies
aid lodges charged half price.
OUK AGENTS.
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Gordon King .. ............Brewer.
J. C. T. Hendrix............Luna.
to. K Compton
1* If1, fern well
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Payment of subscription or dues of
Jmu. 17, 1898 . lu the following the Taylor Tex-
Little Horace Headier, who 1iaa|au ^iye, ocf Qf the most eerioua
been nick for aeveral day, is >»1< causes 0f Hard tiroes iu Texas,
• gain.- . especially ip the black Uod belt of
Mrs. Ham Johuaou, who Ln» , Texas, where *11 tfle items ennm*-
been confined to her bed a long time j rated can be raised The Texan
with cancer, in very low an(4 not ! save 198 cata of farm product*,
There are no two faced people
in your party, are there? Oh! no,
none at all. What about Marina !
Williams, and State committee- I
mau Wood, of Grayaon county, who j
boasted of voting and working for j
McKinley, and is now an applicant j
for a consulship. What four big
men of your party met in Dallas
and joined Green aud Grant iu
preparing that famous secret cir-
cular te leading colored men, sent
out in private letter stamped enve-
Dew lopes, akking them to vote fo^ the
Young i P°Pu'i«t State otlicers, as the pop-
.Steward’s Mill. J ubsts were going to return the fa-
"Wortham' vor '•) another direction? Wasn't
W inkler. I that dirty two-faced treachery?
’Buffalo. H()out the bright, but tricky
and erratic Joe Eagle, aud his se- J
ns kind to the Recorder may he made J cret letter to editor Hanb just be. j
3§ any of tlie above-named agents. , .
tore the last election t 1 liere are j
1 HID AY. JAN. 21, 18! IS. no two-faced people in the popu-j
- list party at. all. Oh'! no, not one. j
Texas is the coming Empire of When a man becomes a populist i
he is a pure patriot and a true re- j
former, no matter how many times
he tried to get office in oue of the
*Se South.
Texas will have a good, worthy |
"San tor Governor, no matter
x&sther Jestpr, Crane or Sayers |
jrfionld get the nomination
The Corsicana oil wells have
liken on a new boom It is hard
"to> get tanks built fast enough to j
Hel l it. although - it is being
shipped nfl' doily. One man last;
“old parties.”
Hill Shaw, alias “Farmer ^vhaw,
of the Texas Farmer, has heed car-
rying on a little tight with the Tex-
as Railroad Commission, because
it will not give Dallas what would
virtually lie special advantages
week from up North contracted to j which would discriminate against
Juke 100,000 barrels. ^
other north Texas towns Mr
Shaw, ignoring the dignity of fair
argument, stoops to unbecoming
persona! criticism. of the members
Hundreds of acres more will he j „f tllft Commission, men w in
The tobacco indu-try in south
wstern Texas is growing rapidly.
jJanted th>
Tlje raising of the weed promises
->) grow to large proportions witb-
ir» the next five years.
We I
than last year, jhinL Hre fHr ,lb()vp the reach of1
“improper influences’’ as Mr Shaw I
could possibly be, were he in their I
position. Hon S. P. Evans, edi |
tor of the Van Alstyne News, lias |
The various local oil companies
^prating wells at Corsicana this j heen giving much study to the
*rek sold their leases and proper-
toes to a Pennsylvania oil company
*bo now have practically captured
Aie Navarro oil fields wells and
j*l, and will in future control both
Jfce output and the price. They
lave already raised the price of
»1 twenty cents u barrel, and
whether they will stop at that re-
wains to be seen. It is believed
toy many that the purchasers
will turn out to be really the big
-Jtsndard Oil Company, the mo-
nopoly at whose head is John D.
lock (fellow.
The State School Rook Hoard
to*e made contracts with publish-
jjs for a largo part of the hooks to
toe used in the public schools of
Yfca State. The remainder of the
looks will be selected next month
red tlm names of them published.
Id the books so far selected there
•ill be a saving to the people of
l»jn 50 to 100 per cent, over
jpees heretofore paid by the suf-
faring public. The law promises
ftabe a grand victory for the peo-
,ife over a great monopoly. The
HkcoiDEB will publish soon, prob-
ably next week, the prices Ht
which the new school books will
toe sold, when put on the market
The proposed monument to ex-
#bv Ross should not be a tall,
-a*ld marble shaft adorning some
fablic square Let it be a useful,
htoneficial memorial hall or libra-
ry, named for him and erected on
fee grounds of the A. & M. Col-
fegfl. There, young men will con-
Unue to be sent to be educated.
M it ia wanted for the influence of
Jfcas’a splefadid public life and
high character as a man and a citi-
wm to be thrown around young men
•I Texas, let the monument be of a
weeful, beneficial kind, and let it
he placed in the midst of a large
college gathering of young men
whose minds and ambition are in
that formative stage when high
and patriotic impressions are cal-
culated to do the recipient the
most good in helping te shape his
flrinre oourae.
nintt^r in controversy, and Iims
ably answered some of Texas
Farmer’s attacks on the Commis-
sion. Commenting ou one of
Shaw's fulminations, the Van Al-
slyue News SHys:
“The simple fact in this: Dallas
asked the commission to make a
rate that would give it a monopoly
of the agricultural business in
Nortli Texas to the exclusion of
other cities in North Texas and to
the detriment of North Texas
farmers The commission refused
to give Dallas exclusive privileges,
and Texas Farmer, a paper sup
posed to be published iu the inter-
est of Texas farmers, attacks the
commission; accuses Reagan of
“senility,” atuhbornness, and of
either being cajoled or bribed, and
accuses Mayfield and Story of be.
ing “cajoled, hoo dooed,” And most
everything else in the catalogue of
dishonesty."
Governor Culberson ,has formal-
ly announced as a candidate for
senator, by setting forth bis plat-
form and ideas as to hc?W the gov-
eminent should be eonduefed in
the interest of the people. The
platform in the main is all right,
but platform promises are too often
and easily broken by office seeking
politicians.—Wortham News.
Yes, the platform is all right and
so is the man who made it His
record of four years as Attorney
General and three years, en far, as
Governor shows that he believes
in carrying out the promises made
in politics! platforms. His repeat-
ed special messages to tbe 24tb
and tbe 25th Legislatures, remind-
ing vtbem of the pledges of their
party, is proof that he is honest
and conscientious, officially and
politically. Gov. Culberson’s se-
vere but merited castigation of a
certain obstructing element of tbe
24th Legislature, and bis vetoing of
the first extravagant appropriation
bill of the 25th Legislature, there-
by saving the State about $400,000,
were two of the most courageous
official acts we have ever known to
come from any Texas Governor.
Yea, Culberson’s platform is *11
right, and if we may judge tbe
man by his past record, he will
stand honestly upon it, if elected.
expected to live Khe n now un-
oonscioun, and no doubt before
thin is iu print ahe will paan on to
her reward.
Mibb Bailie Atmar, of South
Texas, ha* moved to Rrewpr to
keep house for her father, Mr J.
Y. Atmar. We welcome her in
our midst.
The publio will be glad to learu
that Mr E. 8. Herring h*« at laat
completed his machinery and is
Dow ready to giu the fleecy staple.
He has everything about his ma-
chinery well arranged. On last.
Thursday he employed a crew of 1
hands and ginned some to see
bow his machinery worked. Quite
a number came in to see the fine
machinery at work, aud everything
moved off nicely. Mr. McKinney
fed the gin; Mr. Herring turned
tlie condenser with a crank, while
Mrs. McKinney packed the cotton
(in a sack) Everyone seemed to
be well pleased, and compliment-
ed Mr. Herring very highly for
his good and efficient labor in
erecting such good machinery,
which will tie a credit as well a*
an ornament to this community.
Miss Clifford Tindall, who 1ms
been employed to assist iu the
school at this pUce, has taught
tier timeout and will soon teturr
to her home in Nacogdoches coun-
ty She inatie many friends dur
mg her stay with us, and we regret
very mill'll to see her leave. We
will say in behalf of the column
i ity that we will give her a hearty
welcome hack in our midst at any
time
- Well as this is election year
again we think everybody should
have on tlmir studying caps, and
selpct the very best men for the
various offices, ns it is a well
known fact tfmt we need the best
men to fill them that we can find.
This “scribe” hasn’t decided to
enter the race yet for Congress,
for several reasons, one is, it would
be so far from home to go. In
the near future, we will give oilr
views on various laws we will
make when we get there.
J 081 AH.
—-
The Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States has just rendered a de-
cision which will make all tbe life
iusurnuce companies clap their
hands for joy. The court holds
that when an insured person com-
mits suicide his policy can not bs
collected, unless it is proven that
be was clearly insane at the Iims
of killing himself. Heretofore all
the policies of suicides b^ve been
collected, the lower State courts
holdiug to the theory that the sui-
cide was at least temporarily in-
sane, as it was against tbe natural
order of things for a sane, reasons,
ble man to take his own life. We
do not believe, at all, that all sui-
cides are even temporarily insane,
and hence by reason of the terms
of an insurance contract or apph-'
cation for a policy, we believe the
deoision is a jast and corieot one.
The decision, however, ought to
have the effect of materially reduc-
ing insurance rate*, for companies
have heretofore had to calculate in
their expense* a reasonable per
centage for saicidal losses.
The property of.„the defunct
Llano Improvement aDd Fnrnace
company, advertised for,sale by the
reoeiver, Mr. F. J. Semple was
sold Tuesday at pablic sale to
Rufus Hardy, Esq., of Obrsicsna,
for $5825. Mr. Hardy made tbe
bid after a visit to tbe Sobryver
gold mines and a lengthy inter-
view with the manager, Col. Clif-
ford. This ought to be a pointer
to Llano property owners.—Llano
Timet.
valued at $140,455, were fehipped
to Taylor id 1897 . 4000 dozen
eggs, valued at $562,. 600 kegs of
krout, valued at $1500; 55,000
bushels of corn, $22,000; 8,000
bushels of oats, $2400; 19,000
bushel* of millet, $650; 1700bush-
el* cane seed, $2125; 13,000 bush,
ei* corn, meal, $5840; 250,000
pound* of corn chops, $2125; 200,-
000 pounds wheat brand, $1700;
12,500 barrel* of flour, $68,500;
300000 pound* of meat and
lard, $24,000; 5000 bushels of Irish
potatoes. $4500; 1500 bushels of
onions, $2565; 120,000 pounds of
cabhagep, $3600. The Texan adds
to tlie list $34,000 for tobacco,
brought to Taylor during the year,
and *ays “every solitary item in
the above lint could have been pro-
duced iu Williamson couuty and
the money kept at home,” These
figures apply to Kaufman cnuDty
with the same significance that
they do to Williamson county.
Hundred* of thousands of dollars
are t'pent by the farmers of Kauf-
man county for these very articles,
every one of which can be raised
by them. Is it any wonder that
people have hard times under
these circumstances? It is to he
hoped next year will tell a differ-
ent tale.—rTerrell Times Star.
A Good Pledge.
.Horn tua.n a year ago a farmers’
clan iu lilitmia subscribed to a
p • dge to pui uutbing ou their
taoies wh'Ch was not raised on
their farms. The result of adber-
aece to mi* policy was that at the
eu.i oi -i year tbe members, almost
won ut exception, had increased
tb k bauk accounts. One large
wne*t grower reported that the
ob.igatiou required him to aban-
don his previous methods of farm-
ing, and that bis cash rroeipta
wen- $400 le*n than duriug the
previous year, but his net profit*
were $250 greater. The farmer
ougut to be, first of all, Belf-tous-
'hining. The ideal farm home is
tio that i* absolutely inde-
pendent, as far as subsistence is
Coucorued, of all the outside world.
— Ex.
The Pension Roll.
t
To print all the names of the
pensioners would require 700
pages of a 7 column newspaper.
Or, to put it differently, to publish
them and nothing bIbo in The San
at its present size it would take
just two years.to complete the pub-
lication. This list is nothing more
than a tax roll, and is the longest
iu the world. It is the most bur-
densome in the world. It is the
twin of the robber tariff, in that it
is a heavy tribute paid by all the
people to a little more than one
per cent of them, without half of
this od6 per cent ever receiving
any injury directly or indirectly
during the war between the states
for which they are entitled to rer
ceive a pension.—Kaufman Sun.
I had the rheumatism bo badly
that 1 could not get my hand to
head. I tried the doctor’s medi-
cine without die least benefit. At
last I tlionglit of Chamberlain's
Pdlu Balm; the first bottle relieved
[i T \»7 i 7 j all of tbe patn, Mtid oDe half of the
| Hou. Jos. W. Bailey, of lexas, «ud I o(J hQtt)H -H 0,injp|fttVa
adopted, as follows: ! oar*?.—VV J. Holland, Holland,
Resolved, that it is the sense of Va. Chamberlaiu’s Pain Balm is
this caucus that the Democratic i equally good for sprains, swellings
members of the House of Repre-jR,J(1 ‘ameuess, «8 well as burns,
.. . cuts and bruises l'or sale by .J.
■entatives ought to resist all ef- | p RobinsoUt Fairfield, and W.
fort*, direct or indirect, to retire | Allegre, Wortham,
greenbacks aud treasury notes.
Resolved, 2. That we are op-
Democrats Go on Record.
At a recent caucus of the Demo-
erotic members of Congress 101
out of 125 were present. A set of
resolutions were introduced by
OZttt ENJOYS
Both the method and result* When
Syrup of Figs is taken: it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tem effectually, dispels oolds, head-
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation- Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its notion and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs in for sale in 50
oent bottles by all leading drug-
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FI0 SYRUP CO.
/ SAM FXAKC1SC0, OAL
__jJblSYILLE, Kt. MEW YORK, H.Y.
Her Health Restored
OASTOniA.
posed to and will resist all at-
tempts to extend the privileges of
national banks or to reduce tbe
taxes thpy no»y pay.
Resolved, 3
early consideration and passage of
tjie Senate resolution recognizing
that a condition of war exist in the
island of Cuba between tbe govern-
ment of Spain and the Cuban peo-
ple.
Resolved, 4 That we favor the
early enactmeut of a just and wise
bankruptcy law.
A* f»e-
•lmllt
ilfutur*
•d
m
trrrj
The Teit Boole Board lias re.
ceived aud acted on the report of
That we favor the *be Text Book commission, and
has adopted a uniform system of
text books for the State of Texas,
to put iu u«e ou the 1st day of
next September. Tne prices at
which the books will bs sold to the
school children of Texas are from
50 to 100 per cent less than- the
book* have been heretofore sold in
Texas to the public schools The
fellow who stood under the wing
of the school book trust and fought
the pssaege of thia bill last winter
ia in “pickle " Also, the “astute"
journalists of the Stale who fought
tlie bill in b‘half of the trust* are
taking* “tumble" to themselves.—
Van Alstyne New».
They Never Strike.
There is a class of laborers who
never strike, aud never complain
They get up at 5 o’clock in the
morning and never go to bed until
late at sight. They work without
ceasing daring tbe whole time, and
receive no other pay than food and
clothing. They know something
of every branch of economy,
though driven and worried, though
humilated and looked down upon,
they Dever revolt. And they can-
not organize for their own protec-
tion. Not even sickness relieves
them from their poet. No sacrifice
is deemed too great for them to
make, and Dp incompetenoy in
their work is excused. No essays
or poems are written in tribute to
their stead fastness. They are tbe
housekeeping wives of the major-
ity of our people who work, live
and die for their loved ones.— Ex-
change.
SOMETHING NEW.
My Liver [MM.
No man works too much, bat
nearly every man frets too mnob.
$100.001* Geld Given Away.
The Youth’s Advocate, NbsIkJ®
ville, Teon., a sixteen yage illo^-
(rated journal—a paper that I is
read with interest and profit by
people of all ages—offers Odc
Hundred Dollars in Gold to the
person who will form the greatest
number of words from the letters
in the name “Draugboo.” It also
offers, free, a bicycle, gold watch,
scholarship in almoet auy business
college or literary sobdol, and oth-
er premiums. Every person who
'enters tbe oonte*t will get a pre-
mium of some kind. Send at once
for sampld copy of tbe paper,
which will explain all. Contest
closes April 20,1898. Xl
R/’EEPING abreast with
the inventions of this
age, we, by modern ma-
chinery, compress our
powdered Dr. M. A. Sim-
mons’ Liver Medicine into
tablets and sugar coat
them.
Consumers pan either
swallow the tablets whole
or chew tnem up and swal-
low with water. The
candy sugar coating ex-
cludes the air, protects the
purified medicine from
microbic influences, pre-
vents the possibility of
deterioration from atmos-
pherio^changes, insuring
perfect purity and full
strength when taken, and
makes it pleasant to
take as candy. Tablets
contain only the powdered
Liver Medicine, same as
sold in packages by Dr.
M. A. Simmons find we
his successors, since 1840.
M* SS twU fm hSsfc
C.'F.,Simmons Medicine Co.
paoaaitToas,
8», Loon, Moi
Fa*aIIB '.alsery at aleeple*-,neM* can only be |
fl raaittod by those wbo have cxperl-
c'twwdit. Nervon*peBS, Rlcoplessnoss,
hMulut'h’ a, nonralji.a bad that, miserable
feeling of 'nr.»t, oen surely bo curod.br Dr.
::oidor.u*TO Nervine. So certain Si
Dr. Milt* o. ill ■* fact that all flrosyUts arc
dutborb.'.u to rotund price paid for tbo lir*t
bottle tried, providing it docs not benefit.
Mr*. Ilcnry Bruns, wife of the well known
blacksmith at Grand Junction, Iowa, says:
'I was troubled with sleeplcsiineea, nervous-
ueu, headache and Irregular meiiBtruutlon;
Buffering untold misery for yonv*. x used
various advertised remedies for female con-
plaints besides being under the care of local
physicians, without help. I noticed In Dr.
Miles' advertisement tbe testimonial of a
lady cured of aliments similar to mine, and
I shall never cease to than k that lady. Bor
testimonial induced me to uso Dr. Miles'
Nervine and Nerw and Liver PlUa, which
restored me to health. I cannot say enough
for Dr.Miles'Remedies.” |
Dr. Miles' Remedies
aro sold by all drug-
gists under a positive
guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Rook on (M»-
ea*es of the hoarj and
nerves free. Address,
DB. MILES MEDICALOO.. Elkhart. Ind.
Citation.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
To th« Sheriff or sriy Constable of
Freestone county, greeting: V
Yon are hereby enmnmnded to sum-
mon York God ley, by making publica-
tion of this Citation once in each week
for four successive weeks previous to
tbe return day hereof, in some newspa-
per published in your County, if there
he n newspaper pttblished therein, but
if not, then in any newspaper published
in the 13th Judioial District; but if
there be no newspaper published in said
Judicial Distriet, then in a newspaper
published in the nearest District to said
13th Judicial District, to appear at the
next regular term of the District Court
of Freertone oonnty, to be bolden at
the Coiirt House thereof, in Fairfield,
on G-e sixth Monday after the. first
Monday in January, A. D. 1896. then
and there to stiswer a petition filed in
said Court ou the In' day of January,
A. D. 1898, in a suit, nnmbered on the
docket rtf aaid Court No. 2302, wherein
Addie Godley is plaintiff, and York
Godley i* Defendant, and snid petition
alleging that the residence of defendant
in uuknown to plaintiff; that plaintiff
was legally mnrried to defendant on
November 17th 1887; that plaintiff and
dofendHQt lived together as husband
and wife rill on or shout December the
18th, 1889; that on or sbont said date of
December 18'h 1889, defendant left and
abnndoned plaintiff with the intention
of abnDdoument, linoe whioh time he
has neither returned nor offered to re-
turn to plaintiff, nor h** the said de-
fendant since ou or a boat Mid Deoem-
ber 18th 1889, contributed iu nuy man-
ner to plaintilTn sustenance or support,
and that Raid abandonment waa not
onnsed, procured, or consented to by
plxintiff.
Wherefore, plaintiff pray* that de-
fendant be cited to answer this petition,
and that she have judgment that tbe
marriage between her snd defendant be
dissolved, siid for general relief, aud in
will ever pray etc.
>t. bat bave before said
Court, at its aforesaid next regular
term, this writ, with yonr return there-
on, showing bow you have executed the
duty bonnd she
Herein fail not, I
_______Ir J. B. ROBERTSON,
Clerk of Diatriot Court. Freeatone Co.
en underi
@5?
5th day of Jam
J* B.----
j7M - Dist. Clerk,
f, Clerk,
Oa, Tex
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