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fine colts on the morning of the 13th,
but to his bad luck his little jack
only lived a few hours.
I. J. McKay of Ferris was in
toN;n Tuesday enroute to Bristol
where he said he was goingr to do
some painting for Bob Sparkman.
Gran Norman went on a visit to
his father's last week and has not
returned yet. Hear lie is sick.
AGEN[TS WANTED-For War in
cub,i, bN Senor Quesada. ciublin 1(pie','
Ittive \at Wa,.,hmn-ton Endor-ed by
('lbll ), t td ' . In tlcii11'ndoo,. dom aud.
A bonla,!/z coumm].i.ioint ]\ On body
wNiiis tle only endorsed. reliable book
Outfits tree credit given FletghIt
[)aid. Drop all triat i aid ai,iko ,SO)0
at month with War on cuba Addre-s to(lda\
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35,2-3,6 Dcauboip St chicalla.
}Ion. Champ Clark of Missouri
says of Joe Bailey: I have heard
nearly every distinguished orator
in the land and the speech made
by Mr. Bailey in the first Missouri
district was one of the
gre, htentIever listenedto. Bailey
isaman of morvelous power on
the stump. lie took one proposition
for his text and stuck to it.
It wab this: "Low prices and
hard tines are not caused by'
overproduction of commodities,
but t)y the enhanced value of the
dollar, and consequently by the
undcrconlumption of commodilio,,."
Ile hammered on that
for an hour and a half and proved
it beyond all controversy. Ile
set the audience wild. At Monticello,
the home of James S.
(Ireen, one of the ablest men in
the United States, Bailey ',o
~tirred the hearts of the people
that they telegraphed the St.
Loris Republic that he would be
president some day-and he will
if every democrat thinks that he
can afford to nominate a nman
from south of _Mason andl Dixon's
line Of course Bailey's success
made me proud of him. If he is
a Chesterfield in manner and
Appollo in appearance, he strikes
with the force of Bob Fitzsmimens'
blow and hits the solar
plexus every time. B'ailey's is
the clearest ca.se I ever saw of a
gloved hand concealing a fibt of
steel.
Chambers' Encyclopedia, on
hypnotism: "Although hypnotism
has a power for good when properly
used by medical men, it is an
exceedingly dangerous weapon in
the hands of the unskillful or unscrupulous.
All public exhibitions
of hypnotism should be prohibited
by law, as persons experimented
upon have been rendered
lunatic, or had their nervous
$5 stems severely damaged. Crimes
have been committed by persons
who have been hypnotized. Just
,a a person when hypnotized is
rendered extremely impressionable,
and therefore capable of
receiving beneficial suggestions,
so he is nearly as liable to receive
tu-ggestion, for e\il; and it is
quite po,,_sible for him during the
hypnotic sleep to be impressed
I ith the belief that he is to comLancaster
Items.
Flom The Herald.
Dr. G. A. Kilbourn. of Ferris,
w,'s here Wednesday.
Mrs. C E. Pratt and Miss Etta
Duff, of Ferris, paid Lancaster a
short visit yesterday.
Rev. Chalmers Kilbourn, of Paris,
Tciil., and his sister Mrs Ann AICElhenv,
of Italy, spent part of Tuesdiin
our oiy with relatives.
talin Lamb was cxhbiiting a turnip
\7edniiesday that weighed 5 pounds,
as a sample of the kind of vegetables
that grew in Sam R[andlett's gaiden.
.Joan Biojies Nxas a, this ofdce last
Saturday with a cotton borer, or as
he thougt, Mexican weevil, which
he said were killing out forty acres
of new ground cotton for him. They
;, abou.t. the sixteenth of an inch
long, ,hlite, Nith a head resembling
a Lrutb vorni s and about as blg
around ;s an ordinary pin. They
bore into the tap root of the cotton
an( kill it
Pave Bairow's little babv bov was
badly bulned with potash the first of
the week.SUCCSbOU.o TO Til; FCEAIMIS b5'-TiNEiL.
$1.oo A Year.Clemma.
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IC!emma, Tex., June 15.-Presum(
the lain kept Bro. Berry from meeting
us at the switch Sunday evening,
but we had a good singing led by
fHarvey Kincaid.
The little 16-months-old boy of
J. M. Willoughbv died Satuiday of
cholera infantum Smpathizing
neiglibors rendered all the assistance
possible,
Too much rain. Corn is extra
good. Oats are fine if they can be
saved.
Garden vegetables are abundant.
J. I). Burns and wife have a bran
new girl at their home. All parties
doing well. L. M. D.
Crop Outlook.
Waxahachie, June 14.--As the
continued rains have had the effect
of giving some of the farmers "the
blues, ' the News reporter called on
Capt. W. H. Getzendaner and asked
him for a few points from his crop
and weather record. The captain
has been keeping a record for many
years A portion concerning wet
we'thei follows below
The year 18GG was an extremely1
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroadt s absolutely needed. The pros are
to Waxahachie and carried then' quite enthusiastic and confident ofgroceries on their shoulders.
Oct. 1, 1892, cotton sprouted in
the bolls.
From that time on the seasons
were very uniform except-in 1896
the summer was excessively dry and
hot. The cotton was short.
The indications for 1897 point to
a good cotton crop. With favorable
conditions from now on the cotton
crop will be above the average.
The House of Reed.
Speaker Reed takes the chair
and says:
'-I will please come to order.success.
A Wise Farmer.
Ennis, Tex., June 13.-A farmer
from near Garrett was in town yesterday
with a wagon load of old corn
for sale. He has quite a quantity
on hand, a fact which was a surprise
to the people, since it was thought
that all farmers were buying
e,-o
The gentleman said he learned a
lesson from Pharaoh and saves h's
surplus of a good year to meet
possible famine.
India."I don't believe in the efficiency India, Tex , June 17.-We are
of prayer, so I will dispense with having some mixed weather and tLe
it to-day mixture is pleasing our farmers
-The seconds of the proced
highly, as they are getting to work
ing rieeting are considered read out their crops. The lice have quit
and approved. work on the cotton and it has begun
"There is no unfinished busi
to grow nicely. We hear a great
ness on hand, and even if there (roar about the sharp shooters, but
were, I do not consider myself a Nwe have only seen one and but very
quorum at this stage of the game. little sign of their work.
"Did I hear a motion to ad
There seems to be some sickness
journ? Well, I should remark, abroad in our land, a% we notice our
for my hearing is very acute, and doctor is never at home these days
when it comes to adjourning I an I and that the little black mare he
a quorumn from Quorumville. rides is getting a little lean from
'If I am, in favor of adjourn-, over work.
ing I will please signify it by We are getting through with the
saying "aye.' If I am opposed I crops rapidly and will soon be ready
don't know myself. to join th2 "sons of rest" and play
"I have it. I stand adjourn
dominoes, billiards and croqueto
d. "-Ex. especially croquet, as that is the
order of the day here at present, and
Porhibition Rally. argue scripture.
A. J. Moyers living one-half mileelop,,e study of the question
western people find irrigation
only remedy for drouth and
willing to tax themselves to
tain it,the
the
are
obthe
theThe birds bnilt their
weeds before I could
clean it out. Made fairmit some act after he is awakened wet seClson.
from the sleep-an 'act lie is safe nests in tim
to do, act'i'g at the time as an ) get there toSupreme Court of
Texas has affirmedcrops.
In the fall of 1876 grasshoppers
came in such numbers as to destroy
every living green thing
In 1877-78 much cotton was lost
in the rail pens built for it. The
cotton rotted on account of rawns.
In 1884 it rained through the
whole month of May. Crop run
away with grass. From June 4
ramed six weeks, from Sunday night
to Tuesday morning 5 inches of rali
fell.
In 1885 during the letter part of
July wheat and oats sprouted in
shocks from excessive rain. Finished
planting cotton on 6th of June.
Oct. 7, 1885, biggest crop ever
raised in this locality.
In the fall of 1887, following a
very dry and hot summer, there was
a flood. Aunr. 29 and 30 heaviest
rain ever known in Ellis county.
Cattle drowned, people drowned and
bridges torn tp and washed away.
Chambers' creek was 8 feet higher
than ever known, people floated in
rafts over the tops of the telephone
poles in the bottoms. The land was
torn up in gullies. Wax.9hachie
ereel,, at the same time, was two
feet higher than ever known Crops
for 1S87. Corn good, cotton fair.
On Nov. 27 rain set in .gain and
continued with little interruption
until March, 1SSS. Country roads
were impassable. People at Forreston
walked on the grading of theautolmaton. No person can be
hypnotized against his will, and
it is al)solntely impossible for a
persoai to be hypnotized unless
hle has the idea of what is going
to happen. ' ~ * It is only
persons whose will power is
weakened by fear, or by the idea
of a supposed power which inflnences
them in spite of themselves,
who can be hypnotized
without full consent on their part.
It is, however, perfectly true that,
the oftener at person is h5 notized.
the more easily may he be subsequently
affected."
The Manhattan Savings bank
in New York city was robbed
nineteen years age of $11,000 in
cash and nearly three million dollarc
worth of securities. The
money was never recovered nor
the thieves apprehended. A few
days ago men claiming to represent
the ])urglars, opened negotiations
w ith the president of the
bank for the return of the securities.
The burglars demand $50,000
and no questions asked, the
money, to be pai([ as soon as the
securities are delivered. The
director, of the bank are considering
the proposition. Some
of the burglars are dead, others
are in the penitentiary and two
of them are said to be living in"The
Atate ofjudgment, obtained by the state
algaitn.t the IHouwton 000. The suit was brought
by Grov. C. A. Culberson while
Attorney General, 'and to him is
due the gratitude of ever) child
and parent in the state," says the
Dall'as Demo6crat.
Having taken a long step to
pull the public schools of the
state further into politics by
turning then over to a text-book
commission, the legislators now
evince a purpose to drag the university
down and lo convert professorships
in it into plums for
which no one who fails to teach
political economy of their kind
need apply. If the people of
Texas w ill permit the politicians
t6 have their way the public
school money will all be converted
into plLtIns for party
favorites in the course of a few
years. It has come to that already
in St. Louis 'and in other
large cities dominated by the
b)osses--Dallas News.Ennis, June 11.-H. D. Rosser,
chairman of the prohibition executive
committee, Has here yesterday
evening to rally the prohibition
forces and they promise a hot campaign
for the next two months.
Mr. Rosser said he had found that
the report of the death of the cause
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Ezzell, Frank. The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 40, Saturday, June 19, 1897, newspaper, June 19, 1897; Ferris, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18836/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ferris Public Library.