The Decatur News. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 1900 Page: 1 of 8
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OITY ELECTION RETURHB-
For City Marshal,
LEE ALLEN *...
J. B. (Bud) OWENS
For City Secretary and Treasurer,
WALTER HOAD
W. L. RUSH
GEO. W. CLARK, Jr.
For City Attorney.
ALBERT WALKER.
For Alderman, Ward No. i.
J. B. HENDERSON..
For Aiderman, Ward No. 3.
J. P. HAYTER
For Aiderman, Ward No. 3.
W. E. TERRELL
J. H. ROACH
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Spring time and general cleaning up time will soon
We can supply you with anything you need when
ready to do your Spring Painting. It don’t cost
freshen up your house with a nice coat of paint, and the pleas
ure it gives you more than repays the cost.
BOYD ITEMS
Index.
The Woodmen met last Saturday night and are to meet
again Saturday night of next week to take steps toward
either building a hall or arranging with the Masons to
furnish them a hall in their projected building.
D. E. Walcott and iittle daughter, Juanita, visited De-
caturSunday and were accompanied on their return by little
Misses Hortense and Maude, who had been spending a
few weeks there with relatives.
Miss Mamie Barr, who has held t
teacher so successfully during t
High School, completed her w
returned to her home at Aurora.
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DEWEY SAYS HE'LL RUN.
Admiral Announces That Ha Will Aoc.pt A NoiaiaaUoa Far
Presidency.
New York, April 4—A special to the World from
Washington says: Admiral Dewey authorizes the World
to announce to the American people that after mature
reflection and in response to the earnest entreaties from
all parts of the country, his former decision not under
existing circumstances to run for the presidency is rescind-
ed.
A World correspondent saw the Admiral at his home
at 6 o’clock last evening. Admiral Dewey said:
"I realize that the time has arrived when I must defin-
itely define my position.
“When I arrivetLin this country last September I said
that nothing would induce me to become a candidate for
the presidency.
“Since then, however, I have had the leisure and incli-
nation to study the matter and have reached a different
conclusion, inasmuch as so many assurance have come to
me from my countrymen that I would be acceptable as
a candidate for this great office. If the American people
want me for this high office, I shall be only too willing to
serve them.
“It is the highest honor in the gift of this nation.
What citizen would refuse it I
“Since studying the subject, I am convinced that the
office of Presidency is not such a very difficult one to fill,
the duties being mainly to execute the laws of Congress.
Should I be chosen for this exalted position I would
execute the laws of Congress as faithfully as I have
always executed the order of my superior.”
Admiral Dewey did not state which party nomination
he would accept. The reporter asked: On what plat-
form will you stand ? and the Admiral replied:
“I have said enough at this time and possibly too
much.”
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Estelle Wharton, of Parker county, will ba pleased to learn
of their marriage Sunday. Ths Index tenders its sincere
congratulations.
Uncle Josh Mount, of Rhome died Wednesday and
was followed by a large concourse of friends Thursday.
Mr. Mount was one of the oldest and most substantial
citizens of this end of Wise county, and his death rrmoves
a prominent figure from our midst.
Dr. A. B. Conley, of Bridgeport, was among these
from other points who took in the Baily speaking here
Monday night In conversation with an Indexter he in-
formed us that prohibition was “killing” his town in a
very satisfactory way; four new stores have recently opened
up for business there. He says spring trade has opened
up nicely, the March business being about as good as
April usual is. Dr. Conley was quite complimentary to
Boyd after his visit, the town having quite a favorable Im-
pression on him.
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g THE OWL CLUB. J
WEDNESDAY, being the end of the third quarter
was review day and a very enthusiastic meet-
ing. In answer to roll call each member named
some piece of Roman architecture, among the number
being the temple of Janues, which was built of bronze; the
circus Maximus, which was the oldest and largest of its
kind; the Flavian Ampthieater, or Coliseum, one of the
most beautiful the internal and external decorations being
of the grandest description; the Aqueducts, built two of
which now help to supply modern Rome with water, and
still attest their original grandur; the Pantheon, which has
survived the ravages of time, and the destructive violence
of the barbarians, beside other notable buildings which
showed the aim of the Romans was not simply to please
the tasttk but to benefit by their vast structures.
The general order of business followed. We purchased,
at this meeting, a new set of histories, of which we are
quite proud, and feel that we are succeeding in our un-
tiring efforts to get a libary, which is the only outside
work club has undertaken. I suppose we could not be
called ap“up to date” club, for we have no time to de-
vote to the “bird crusade,” * town improvement,” and
the like, but feel that to improve ourselves is our highest
duty.
In our review, which was on Grecian and Roman his-
tory and literature, questions previously prepared by each
member, brought out all the main points just passed over.
The Periclean age, one of the most brilliant in the worlds
history, the Peloponesian war the decline and fall of
Greece; also questions on the great sculptors Phidias and
Praxiteles, the historians. Herodotus, Thucydides, the
first philosophical historian and Xensohon, who is best
known to us through his writings; The dramatists aes-
chylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes; The
Philorophers Zeno, the founder of the Stoics, and Epicurus,
the founder of the Epieurians, and the great orators De-
mostehens Themistocles Aeschines
artists writres orators etc.
On Roman history “we began
including the divisions of Italy, the
organizations. Religious wars, the
the empire together with the earl writes, *Andeonicus,
Ennius, the “Father of Roman Song.” We justly feel
proud of all of our members, for the review showed that
they had studied hard and accomplished much.
Mrs. Frazer answered the greatest number of questions
Mrs. Adamson being second. Adjournment of club.
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Come, cuddle your head on my shoulders dear,
Your head like the golden rod,
And we will go sailing away from here
To the beautiful Land of Nod.
Away from lift’s hurry, and flurry and worry,
Away from earth’s shadow and gloom.
To a world of fair weather we’ll go floating off together,
Where roses are alwars in bloom.
Just shut up your eyes and fold your hands—
Your hands like the leaves of a rose;'
And we will go sailing to those fair lands ,
That never >n atlas shows.
On the North and the West they are bounded by rest,
On the South and East by dreams.
•Tis the country ideal, where nothing is real,
But everything only seems.
Just drop down the curtain of your dear eyes,
Those eyes of a bright blue-bell.
And we will sail out under starlit skies
To that land where the faries dwell
Down the river of sleep our barque shall sweep
Till it reaches that mystic isle
Where no man hath seen, but where all have been,
And there we will pause awhile.
I will croon you a song, as we float along
To that shore that is blessed of God,
Then ho+ for that fair land ! We’re off for that rare land !
The Beautiful Land of Nod.
KENTU0XT8 FEUDISTS.
Such time as Kentucky can spare from the ailment
which is afflicting her at present she should use in formjfig
an inflexible resolution that the personal and family filed
shall cease to hold a place among her established customs
in some localaties.
Many circumstances tend to show that the fued paved
the way to the assassination of Goebel. It is know that
men were in Frankfort when Goebel was assassinated
who h^d been schooled through long years to regard the
revolver and the rifle as the arbiters best adopted to solv-
ing knotty questions between man and man.
If the state of Kentucky took a stem hand in the
personal and family feuds, if these expert marksman were
given to understand that the use use of fire with homici-
dal intent was an act which directly concerned the State
as well as the shooter and the man shot at, the State
would escape some troubles which pass beyond neighbor-
hood disturbance.
The family feud is a distinct and very picturesque
feature of the life of a mountaineer in Kentucky. To
abolish it would take out of the world as interesting a
condition as the jousts of the visored knight of the Middle
Ages, but Kentucky must lay a firm repressive hand
that relic of mediaeval times.
LISTEI TO CULBERSON-
Washington, April 3.—Before an unusual audience
Senators, with every Democratic senatorial leader in
seat giving respectful attention and galleries crt wded with
a fashonable gathering of people, Senator Charles Cul-
berson in his maiden speech made the principal closing
argument today for the minority in the memorable. Puerto
Rican debate. The surroundings were exceptional foe
the Senator’s initial argument, he was in every respect
equal to the opportunity. He was in fine voice and
easily proceeded with the careful and exhaustive argument
of an hour or more which followed his recognition by the
rhair
Owing to the arrangement that after s o’clock all
speeches should be confined to fifteen minuteQhe Senator
did not have time to complete his remarks, as he had inten-
ded. He obtained the floor at 1:10 and closed s:r<.
Competent judges pronounce the Senator’s effoi
of the strongest of the entire debate and he was
congratulated by his colleagues on the minority
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THE BRITISH APPALLED-
Stupidity of Broodwood in Stumbling into B:ir Ambush.
London, April a.—Rumors of the re-capture by the
British of the seven guns, taken from Col. Broadwood’s
force, based on a dispatch to the Chronicle from Bloem-
fontein, which is said >*> *11 probability to be correct, fails
to compensate London for the severe shock experienced
by the humilating defeat sustained within a few miles of
the headquarters of the British army of occupation. The
public was painfully surprised to learn after all that has
come and gone, that British officers of high position can
still neglect precautions which the veriest tyro might be
expected to observe and blunder into taps which the ob-
servance of elementary military rules would have prevent-
ed. There is no attempt here to minimize the discredit-
ableness of the whole affair, so far as the British are
concerned, or to detract from the dexterity of the Boers,
who were apparently commanded by Dewet. The plans
of the burghers were evidently excellently conceived and
boldly carried out and unless the reinforcements sent by
Roberts have turned the tide and recaptured the prisoners
a couple of hundred men from the two crack corps of
Household cavalry and 10th Hussars are now on the way
to swell the growing deposit of British prisoners at Pre-
toria.
, ____ __________ President Kruger is said to have promised to re-occupy
effect of Dr. Kilmer's Bloemfontein this week and the stubborn burghers seem
r“‘ kl,,n*v r“m“lv “ to be closing around orce as promises
to be troublesome, especially as it is realized that activity
of a strong Boer force in the vicinity of Paardeburg has
already interrupted direct communication.
No one is more sadly deceived than is the man who
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furnish any of the patent medicines you want. Call, on
We are here to serve you. Respectfully,
Attend the big Special Sales
given Every Saturday at
Lillard & Lane’s,
Decatur, Texas
Over-Work Weakens
Your Kidneys.
dnbealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
All the blood In your body passes through
your kidneys once every three minutes.
The kidneys are your
blood purifiers, they fil-
ll ter out the waste or
Impurities in the blood.
If they are sick or out
of order, they fail to do
their work.
Pains, achesand rheu-
matism come from ex-
cess of uric acid in the
blood, due to neglected
kidney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble, because the heart Is
over-working in pumping thick, kidney-
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
It used to be considered that only urinary
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys,
but now modern science proves thet nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin-
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If you are sick you can make no mistake
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