The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 281, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1886 Page: 2 of 8
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nWas ffluiiy grviitf.
C. I. oimikut
Editor and Proprietor.
Friday Deoember imho.
Blevators ami Manufactories.
The mattorol making Dallas a fralu
center for the lootbwesl as wt l
as buildlug manufactories Is bogin-
niog to attract attention in quarter!
tli:ii limy be able to make our people
m as people abroad aee the
opening for such enterprise mi op-
portunity that can only happen once
iu a great while. A city young buoy-
ant) full oi lift hope and prosperity
with ft vn-t itreteb of ai fine aoountry
at ever lay out doors surrounding it
to almost an unlimited extent entirely
destitute of grain storage laoiliUei
and manufactories this must be seen
very soon by men who
have the capacity of brain ami money
to bco tho situation and accept it:
hence the HKBALD begins to sec the
silver lining to (his cloud that now
hangl over Dallas. I.ct this subject
get fairly circulated in the proper
chnnnel and it will bring its own re-
ward. If is only n matter of time
when all this will come about ami
groat towering elevators will be seen
rising high in mid air. and we hear the
roar and rumbling of the whirling
wheels and the clang of the hammer
and the glare of the forge on all sides
Then Dallas will he happv. Tho rail-
road I are coming. They can't be kept
away. Work for the elevators and
the manufactories. The ball has been
put hi motion; keep it moving.
"Till Death Ul Do l'art."
Yesterday afternoon at I oYlock
Mr. Leslie Payne and Miss Lizzie
Kstes the accomplished daughter of
('apt. ;. VY. Bates both of tbia city
were married at the residence of the
bride's father. At 6 p. m. the newl
married collide took the west houud
train for San Dingo. ( 'a!. where they
will make their future home.
There were only a few present to
Witness the juiet ceremony which
made these two young souls as one
but many arc the wishes of their nu-
merous friends here for a successful
and happy journey through life. Both
parties nrc well known in this city
and will be very groatly missed in
society of the young and gay.
Thus another young couple have
wedded their lives that they m y
share each other's ills and pleasures of
life. May happiness bo their let.
A Beautiful Gold Medal.
The election of otlicers at a meeting
last night of the Dallas Rifle Com-
pany resulted as follows: Captain
Daniel Ilinckly; first lieutenant A. P.
Wozcncraft ; second lieutenant James
I'YihV enmpnnv anrircoit. Dr. B. K.
Davis.
After the election A. P Wozencratt
presented ( apt. A. .(. Houston upon
his resignation as captain of tho com-
pany a gold medal upon Which was
inscribed: 'Presented to Col. A. J.
Houston by Battery Crawford Pallas.
Texas 1KM6." Mr. WozencraU made a
neat and handioinc presentation
speech which was replied to by the
colonel who was taken entirely by
surprise. Col. Houston prizes this
medal very highly.
INSANITY.
Sing Doo vs. Ill Lee.
Sing Doo is a washec man of the ce-
lestial al nd eyed type whose face is
as familiar as any other man from that
jugau land who says that "Hi Iec
ehectec him muchee forwashee." and
he appeals to Squire Flraswcil for his
money. In other words Sing Doo
nea Hi tots for wages When theofll-
ecr returned lrom serving the papers
he w as a-ked if he found hi man. 'I
bounced the Bfti chinaman I OBIM
aefonsj I reckon he's the right man."
The litlewllil BnllTo-XiHlH.
due of the pleasant events so dear
to the hearts of ladies and gentlemen
who love the dame takes place to-
night at the Merchants' BiehMgn
Thai ohsk Is noted fof i- peas pi eta and
elegant tttOflUla hSj and those w I o
have tati 1 "I 1 1 1 -weet- the hall
room are iu a flutter for the time to
arrive when the music shall begin.
Nothing has been left undone hy tho
committees to make IMS htfl eipial to
any heretofore gtfasa.
The Spaniards a people noted for the
shrewdness of their prorerbie sayings
declared in one of those rhyming
aphorisms of which they possess such
an abundanofl that wc have all gol
lomethingof the physlolan lomethlng
of the poet and something of the
lunatic in our i oniposition
lie DMdlOO) pnets ylOOO
Todcs tenemos un pooo
A largs and Important sect of philoso-
phers in ancient limes went even still
further and maintained without
periphrasis or qualification thai nil men
were mad There are probably phlloa-
option at the present day who share
tuts opinion: ami it Is M d to he favored
by not :i few of the men of science
Who devote themselves to the study ami
treatment of Insanity. One of thorn
however Prof. Hall of paris -took a
more cheerful view of our mental Gon-
dii on In a brilliant inaugural addresi
which he delivered a year or two ago
and which was largely noticed In the
French press though he qualified it
With a statement calculated to SUggOSl
serious inisglvillgl to nervous people.
While readily admitting that the great
majority of mankind stood in no need
of the ministrations of himself orbli
confreres he ailirnied. nevertheless
that tho number of persons absolute!)
free from any taint of mi Utal disorder
la very much smaller than is generally
supposed There are millions of peo-
ple In tho world he declared suffering
from one or another of the reoogniceu
forms of insanity Whose sanity no one
think- of calling in question. Perfeotlj
rational in all ossuntinl respects the
weak spot in their mental organization
never manifests itself In an observable
shape at a I or only shows itself in
trilling eccentricities of too common
and harm less s character to attract
serious mil ce. Horrow ng an Illustra-
tion from political geography he de-
scribed persons of this class as Inhab-
iting a sort of borderland or neutral
zone lying between the confines of
atlity on the one side and those of in-
sanity on tho other. In strict theory
thoy are all maniacs: hut the r mania is
of so mild a type as in no way to dis-
qualify them for the discharge of the
duilos of their sphere still less to con-
st lute a danger of society or to call
for the intervention of their fr ends in
whose ees as in those of the world at
large I hey pass for perfectly sane
though science recognizes no other dif-
ference between their case and that of
the unhappy sufferers
asylunms lint a limpll
give.
The crazes f this
take various forma
tion of the menial twist which mani-
fests Itself in simple eccentricities of
behavior we noed not go beyond the
familiar oasa of Dr. Johnson Every-
one Knows of hit singular tricks of
habit his practice of touching the
posts his avoidance of certain streets.
Ill I siraiigu grimaces and gestures his
m titterings ids occasional ejaculations
of scraps of prayer in crowded drawing-rooms:
his mysterious hoarding of
hits of orange peel. The lexicograp-
her's name would probably figure in
any complete census of Prof. Hall's
frontier zone for in spite of the faot
that Johnson's really strong point was
his immonse fund of common sense it
is greatly to bo doubted if any scrupu-
lous montul pathologist would give h fin
a clean b !1 of mental health. In an-
other class of sufferers Hie mental
taint shows itself in the form of mor-
bid impulses of one sort or other. Of
:Ljit the imrul c which prompts per
feelly honest people to appropriate
their neighbor's good- may serve as a
type. Kleptomania is often set up as a
defense in cases of evident larcenv hut
of its exi'teiiee as a genuine species Of
mental Infirmity or craze there can he
no douht whatever Numerous and
well-authenticated cases of undoubted
kleptomania are to be found In all the
treatises. Peddle for Instance men-
tion the case of an old lady noted for
her piety w ho acquired a large library
of bibles lv the Wholesale plunder of
her neighbors. She it is clear was
wholh a Stranger to the sordid motives
which actual" the vulgar thief. The
wealthy baronet mentioned by Dr.
Bncknell who Mole so much old iron
and worthless crockery In the course
of a continental tour that no fewer
than eleven tons of this strange brie a
who people the
difference of de-
class of persons
For an illnstra-
hrae was presented to the custom-house
olllcers on his return was manifestly a
kleptomauiue - not a thief. Physicians
themselves hare been known to suffer
from the propensity one of the cases
cited in the hooka being that of
an vniinent practitioner who
stole. Ida patients' tahlc-cloths
whenever he gol a chance. With these
uncontrollable promptings may he
compared thai distressing species of
mental obsession known as the tyranny
of a fixed idea. The sense of iiumher
for InstanOC exercises such a sway
over certain minds as to create a veri-
table species of mania which impels
tho person affected hy it to busy him-
self in numerical calculations and
Computations whenever tho accidents
of his external surroundings furnish
matter for the instinct or faculty to
work upon. If he enters a room he at
once proceeds to count the chairs
table and other articles of furniture
and not till he has made an accurate
enumeration of everything he sees to
the very buttons on his host's waistcoat
is his mind at rest Napoleon seomi
to have suffered from this description
of craze at one period of his life. It is
recorded of him that in his early sub-
altern days he could never pass a house
without counting every window in it.
Another variety of cerebral trouble
from which persons who pass for being
in full possession of all their wits are
sometimes known to suffer is that which
gives rise to or lakes the form of hallu-
oinatlons Dr. Johnson declared that
he once heard Ids mother who as he
knew was miles off at the lime dis-
tinctly calling him by name ami it
would be easy to name others not less
noted for mental and intellectual vigor
than Johnson who have had similar
experiences. All the ghost stories and
tales of second sight are simply so
many histories tlf hallucinations and
the visions of the saints and of the
mystics of all sects who have claimed
direct communication with the super-
natural world are no doubt to be ex-
plained in the same way.
Genius notoriously exhibits a tenden-
cy to deviate from the normal standard
of sanity st. Augustine said many
centuries ago that there was never a
great intellect without some alloy of
insanity and it is certain that some of
the most highly gifted of our species
including not' a few of the master
minds which have moved Hie world
have not escaped suspicion of such a
taint. The two greatest religious re-
formers whom the world has seen Mo-
hammed and Luther; Columbus the
grandest of all discoverers; the might-
iest captains. Alexander the Qraat
Charles All. Napoleon; the Lorru'ne
peasant g.rl who restored her fallen
country to its place among the nations;
Rousseau the precursor of tho French
revolution: Pascal the nssa'lanl of
Jesuitism - these were one and all re-
puted more or h ss Insane by their con-
temporaries Some of them were mail
beyond all doubt others only showed
the tnint by slight sympathetic traits
like those we have been speaking of
while in tho case of all it Is evident
that we are confronted with very ex-
ceptional organisations with natures
totally unitlueneed by the restraints of
vulgar prudence and the calculations of
vulgar wisdom. It may well have
been the viUtitra amentw to use St.
Augustine's expression with which
they have been taxed that Impelled
them to enterprises bristling wtn dif-
fioulties which would have daunted so
barer minds. Roussean and Pascal
suffered from the hybrid disorder
partly physical and partly mental
known as hypoehondriosis the tradi-
tional curse of men of genius. Aris
totle not lend long ago t ho liability of men
of uncommon mental powers to this
distressing alfection which stimulates
many Of the phases of insanity and
sometimes leads to it "(treat Wll to
madness sure la near allied und thin
partitions do their bounds divide"
says Drydou; practically repeating the
observation of the Greek phllospnerin
a somewhat stronger and less scientific
form. There are no doubt many fads
which seem to point to (he mysterious
alliance between renins and madness
of which the poet speaks; but it is cer-
tain I hat very few men of genius have
actually gone mad. Their aberrations
and eccentricities have in the vast ma-
jority of instances not gone below the
surface nor been incompatible with a
reputation for sun t v. as the term is
generally understood. -London Stand
ard.
.Established 1871-
F- AUSTIN
lii.Al.r.ll IN-
Diamonds Watches
Clocks Silverware
Spectacles Etc.
Oca Mono: Host (ionds ntol Lowest Prices t si.
time's. Watch SI ami .lewelr? IIS paired ami warranted.
612 MAIN STREET DALLAS. TEXAS.
TRINITY -:- IRON -:- W0RKSA
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Foundry and Machine Shops
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ROSS AVENUE t 'oKNI .U MA iN 1 1 A STRF.KT.
L. M. MARTIN & CO.
GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
m ik and I ISO Rim Street Dallas Texas.
Keep constantly on liaml a mil and complete assortment of all good ill our line
( ; laHs :t 1 si queenswsre itovss tinware lampi of oil kinds
BEDROOM SETS MATTRESSES SPRINGS. COMFORTS PILLOWS
FEATHERS AND COTTON.
In Pact eTcrythlng j ou want to lurnish your houses. Wt would call the attention oi
the ladles c.r Dallas tu our KITCHEN CABINET ; it ibould be In everj kitchen In the
land. Call at I IIS and I ISO Bint Itreel examine and judge lor yourselves. Tills Is a Dullai
enterprise and ihould be encouraged Give us a i-ull mid examine our stock uud prices.
T. M . MARTIN A: CO.
FINE VERY FINE
Auction -:- and -:- Commission -:- House
Sells All KtBdS of Goods lit Wholesale und Bttafl
MO Elm Street 01. fllfl . PsclMc Avenue fils.
DALLAS IRON WORKS
IM I MLAX & CO.
CORNER ROSS AVKXITi : AN D HA ' K STIU3ET.
HENRY POLLACK & CO.
TRUNK FACTORY.
You- can swasX'tkttt'Kirsjitau
! A full and complete Mock of everything in our line. TKUNKS und CASES of ecry
description made to order Repairing neatly done. 7iU Kim street.
i? a ix ; itt ill urn iers
SADDLERY SADDLERY HARDWARE. LEATHER AND
SHOE FINDINGS.
T18 Kim and 717 and 7i Main Streets nniiiia Texas.
m MTTAT1T TTATain REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD 1 xt A V rJL VIA
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Salary
Jobber and Manufacturer of
and Shoe
Leather
Finn
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830 and 832 Main Streel.
DALLAS TEXAS:
I 813 and 815 Commerce Street.
Beeanse It Is tbe gnat tsMVMgfcfsre bstwecsi Oeatral Texas ami sH wdnts North
l'.ul mill West. It Is tlic or.lv line iatv.s tlirougb tlie lic.itiful lmjluu Ten uy. It runs
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ilor :iml nre connections In Union I 'pots at Kmivi- iiv. St. Louis and ll.-iiinilial foi
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rflltlADKLPHIA BALTIMORK sml Other Principal Cllles.
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Paoai aovi liunki in ami rmm all pmnts hi If ifK is ASi mim a
i :-.m i n I'lii1 ul. Iplila and Liverpool and Hit KKI STAK Slcamslnp
fork Phlisdstesls and Antwerp.
Kor full iiil'onnallon or llekcts rail on
K. B. I I ItXER Ticket Afent N... MM Main street. Dallas. Texas.
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Gilbert, C. E. The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 281, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1886, newspaper, December 3, 1886; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth293708/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .