The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 24, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 8, 1893 Page: 1 of 4
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commercial Printing
of all kinds at
Hurray's Power Printing House
Commercial
OF all kinds a1
Murray s rowir Prtnttif
VOLUME XII.
, SUBSCRIPTION TWO DOLLARS A YEAR,
ONE DOLLAR POR SIX MONTHS.
DENISON, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1893.
, KKTKRKD AT THI POSTOPPICB AT DBNISON,
AS SRCOND CLASS MAIL MATTKK.
TEXAS, j
NUMBER 24.
Fall of '93.
Fall of '93.
■ • s ' . - ' ' ' * *
Grandest Opening
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t
Ever held in North Texas. To our Friends and Patrons of Denison and Grayson County
we extend a most Hearty Welcome
MONDAY, OCT. 9,8 a. m to 10 p.m.
Very Truly,
♦s*Beirne & Stenson^
i
Fall of '93.
Fall of '93.
I
—and—
EXAMINE
—OUR—
We can suit your '•
taste in Styles, Qual-
ity, Quantity and
Prices.
POLLARD&CBEAGER
305 w. nyc-A-iJsr ST.
COAL!COAL!
^KNAUR & 1!TIGER#-
ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED M'ALESTER COAL
WE ALSO ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR
ALL EUTIIS OF FEED f-
At prices beyoud competition. Now is your time to lay in
your supply of Coal and Winter Peed.
401 WEST MAIN STREET.
The State Hotel Bar
TALKING REVOLUTION.
At the Pan-American Bimetalic
Convention at St. Louis, Mrs.
Lease, the political agitator, got a
chance to give expression to her
revolutionary sentiments. The dis-
patches tell us her appearance on
the stand was greeted with applause,
and when the echoes died away she
opened with the declaration that the
crisis now on was more dangerous
than that which confronted the
American people in 1776. With
that declaration she proceeded to
argue for the union ot the West and
the South against the bondholders of
the East.
As she stepped from the platform
the warmth of applause attested the
sympathy of the delegates in the
sentiments expressed.
Bargains.
Lots in north part of city for sale
cheap. Denison Land & Invest-
ment Co. tf
Captain Porter ot the steam
whaler Newport, penetrated to a
point nearer the north pole last sum-
mer than was ever before reached
by a white man. He worked his
way to latitude 84 degrees, or with-
in about 450 miles of the pole, and
believes he could have easily gone
to the pole itself over the ice, if tie
had been provided with dogs and
sledges.
Why pay rent when you can buy
a home on such easy payments from
Franz Kobfeldt, at H. Tone's office
133 Main street. Building and loan
stock taken in part payment.
x Johnny Hines, Proprietor.
Always well stocked with
-*§« Wines, Brandies, Whiskies,
Imported and Domestic Cigars.
Mr. Hines makes a specialty of Mount Vernon Rye Whis-
key, guaranteed 12 years old.
Billiard Hall in connoetiou with the Saloon.
The Southern Mercury says com-
promise means only to precipitate
the dread catastrophy, an appeal to
the bullet. But it the extremists
represented by the Mercury cannot
get all they demand, what do they
propose to do about it? Do they
propose to appeal to the bullet?
Such language sounds very much
like that kind of a threat.
Tea Moat Go.
.AH possible changes have been
rung upon the terrible effects of
alcohol upon the human system
until they are fartiiliar to everybody,
but now comes a) report from the
manager pf an asylum in Ireland, of
a woman who has been made a
nervous arrd moral wreck through
the tea-drinking habit, and the same
authority says such cases are quite
common in Ireland. This woman
would lie in a state of coma simply
from the amount of tea that she
dr^nk, and she developed a tendency
to pawn everything she could lay
her hands on for the sake of obtain-
ing tea. Here is a chance for the
men whose wiveslbelong to the W.
C, T. U. and through its influence
are endeavoring to deprive them of
their customary morning appetizer,
to get even. 'If the tea-drinking
habit is getting to be as bad as the
above report would seem to indicate,
the subject of course demands
prompt and decisive action on the
parts of heads ot families in order to
remove such a dangerous temptation
from their wives and daughters.
The Dallas Mercury, with its
usual total disregard for accuracy,
says cotton is selling for five cents.
This paper is the official journal of
the Farmers' State Alliance.
The Galveston Evening Tribune
shouts—
"Will the city council back up
the efforts being made by Dr. Bur-
key to have pure and wholesome
meats sold in Galveston."
We infer from this that Galveston
meat is adulterated as well as aged.
Well, it's news that they have meat
to eat in the pirate city; we have
been lead to infer that the inhabi-
tants lived on fish.
Artesian water was struck at
Eddy, McLennan county, on the 3d
inst., at a depth of 1,565 feet. The
well flows at the rate of 400,000 gal-
lons a day. The temperature of the
water is 100 degrees. The citizens
of Eddy celebrated the event with a
banquet, speeches, music and the
booming of cannons.
Cleopatra's Needle, or the Cen-
tral Park obelisk, is to have a gilded
cap. It has been found that obe-
lisks were originally provided with
a top covering. The park commis-
sioners have empowered the pur-
chase of an allumnium cap, which
will be gilded. The obelisk is now
being treated again with some prep-
aration, so that it will stand the
rigor of our climate. f-
Someone has called attention to
the remarkable coincidence that the
numeral 9 figures extensively in suc-
cessful mining operations. There
was the Algerian gold excitement in
1S09. The California "gold fever"
broke out in 1849, an(* Pike's
Peak boom in 1S59. The lead strike
that made Virginia City famous oc-
curred in 1879, and the silver car-
bonates ot Leadville were discover-
ed to be valuable in 1879
The method of writing taught in
modern schools and practiced by 99
people out of every 100, has been
declared dangerous and unhealthful
by experts. It is believed that it
contributes largely to the prevalence
of j myopic and curvature of the
spine. The idea originated in Ger-
many and was soon taken up by
physicians in England and then in
this country, and careful investiga-
tion has lead to the above conclu-
sion. They say that the child
should be taught to write a vertical
instead ot a slant;ng "hand," which
will allow a natural instead of the
popular but arbitrary, and strained
position at the writing desk. The
doctors are probacy right.
The Texas White Ribbon, the
organ of the state W. C. T. tJ.,
missed its issue for September, and
the October number is noi creditable
I
to the association. Ladies are al-
ways credited with possessing su-
perior taste, and for this reason
when we hear of a periodical pub-
lished by them we expect to see a
specimen^>1 artistic work, gotten up
to harmonize with the cause to
which it is devoted. The White
Ribbon for October, here before us
is badly printed on cheap, dingy
paper, and its columns are marred
by many typographical errors.
Harshaw's English Literary Academy.
Number 1431 Main St.
This prosperous, progressive and
popular institution is presided over
by Prof. G. L- Harshaw, a live,
wide-awake teacher of more than
twenty years' experience, a superior
instructor, and a fine disciplinarian.
His work is thorough, his methods
recent and practical, and his rates of
tuition very reasonable. 31-4L
litiop very
K t^^n
Bargains.
Lots in north part of city for sale
cheapo Denison Land & Invest-
ment Co. tf
The press! ot Texas had better
take cash in kdyance when dealing
with the Ohio Chemical Co.—Van
Alstyne News.
If the company will not pay ac-
cording to contract, the best way is
not to deal with them at all. If the
company will beat the printer, they
will beat the public.
your job work.
The Age ot Maturity.
Statistics are said to show that
young men do not, on the average,
attain full physical maturity until
they arrive at ^he age ot twenty-
eight years. Professor Scheiller, of
Harvard, asserts as the result of his
observations, that young men do
not attain the full measure of their
mental faculties before twenty-five
years of age. A shrewd observer
has said that "most men are boys
until they are thirty, and little boys
until they are twenty-five," and this
accords with the standard ot man-
hood which was fixed at thirty
among the ancient Hebrews and
[other races.—Scientific American.
Special Correspondence Gazettes*.
ENID, THE MAGIC CITY.
A GRAPHIC DESUEIPflOH BY ONE
OF THE "CITIZEN 8,"
Born at 12:30 and a Town Ihth 5000
Population at 3 O'Qlock.
Enio, Sept. 30, '93.
After naming over all the towns
in the Cherokee Strip on the line of
the Rock Island railroad, it may be
truly said, "And the greatest of
these is Enid." Two weeks ago to-
day at the hour ot 12 o'clock, high
noon, there was but one solitary
building on the town site of Enid,
and that was the United States Land
Office. Outside of the government
officials connected with that office,
there was not a solitary person in
sight, nor waa there supposed to be
a single one nearer than the border
of the strip, which is seventeen miles
away.
By half past twelve more than
five hundred sooners had "bobbed
up serenely" and taken their stand
upon the choicest lots, and before
three o'clock over 5000 people were
on the ground. An hour afterwards
fifty restaurants were in full blast.
It is astonishing how primitive a lay-
out serves for a successful business
venture in a new country. An oil
or gasoline stove with two burners,
a coffee-pot, a skillet and half s
dozen tin cups, plates aud spoons,
with as many cheap knives and forks
and a box or a wide board for a
table, makes a very aristocratic
outfit.
The viands spread before you are
not specially inviting to the sight,
smell or taste, but hunger is an ex-
cellent. appetizer, and people eat,
pay, and go away satisfied with a
meal which at home they would not
offer to a tramp without an apology.
Tents, wagon-sheets, and rough
board shanties spran^up like magic,
and the business streets of the em-
bryo city soon presented a lively ap-
pearance.
To-day it is a place of, say 3000
people, of whom about* 500 are
homesteaders awaiting their turn to
file claims at the land office, having
about 3,500 actual settlers. And
yet a census has been taken within
the last three days, which will be
published to the world, giving us a
population of over 7000. The dis-
crepancy between facts and figures
is accounted for by the little circum-
stance that the censustaker not only
put, down each person present but
adds three to the number of his
whole family, including his mother-
in-law.
This morning I took a walk
around the square, taking in prob-
ably one-half the business part of
the city, and counttd firms as fol-
lows •
Saloons 20, law and real estate
firms 76, restaurants 35, groceries
12, feed stores 4, meat markets^ 3,
bakeries 3, barbers 5, hardware
stores 3, dry goods 2, bath-rooms 3,
surveyors 4, sign-painters 3, lodging
houses 3, drug stores t, doctors 3,
dentist 1, canerack 1, ticket
scalper 1.
Taking out one hardware store
and one grocery, the average capital
invested by all the others would not
exceed $100 each, including stock,
fixtures and buildings.
The amount ot legal talent strug-
gling with the land question here
may be estimated from the fact that
the seventy-six firms counted
averaged over two members each,
and that not over half the town was
visited.
In one little tent 10x12 teet in
size, I found located three lawyers,
one surveyor and one doctor, while
the northwest corner of the tent was
rented for a cigar store, and even
then judging from appearances their
office accommodations were more
extensive than their practice. It re-
minds one of the story of the owl,
the rattlesnake and the prairie dog
that dwelt together in harmony, or
perhaps a better illustration is that
of the lion and the lamb lying down
together—but the lamb was inside
the lion.
The only criminal case yet dock-
eted in the court here, is that of a
cheap clothing man against a darkey
for obtaining goods under false pre-
tenses, because the Ethiop under-
took to ring in as part payment a bill
for use ot a "gent's toilet" room of
which he is proprietor.
Ot course not all this array of
legal law can make a living out ot
the poor home seekers, and it is be-
ginning to be noticed that many of
them are already hunting cheaper
restaurants, and taking their meals
at longer intervals, and the day is
not tar distant when they will "fold
their tents like the Arabs, and silent-
ly; steal away."
When people first came here and
the great "hoorah" was on, they
spent money freely and each indi-
vidual saloon and restaurant flour-
ished as a green tree. But the
masses are now producers and are
beginning to realize the fact that
when the pocket-book becomes
empty there is no way of replenish-
ing it. Aa a consequence small
coins take on added values, and
nickels and dimes become quarters
and half dollars in the estimation of
their owners. Moderate drinkers
have switched from whisky to beVr
and smokers have given up
and taken to cob pipes because they
"like it better.'*
In the meantime improvements
go steadily on, tents and rough
sheds giving place to more comfort-
able box houses, hut they are all ot
a cheap order. There is not a
building yet erected or constructed
for at a cost of over $500. There
is no hotel nor any talk of one, and
a feeling of uncertainty as to the
future exists, which prevents large
investments. This is caused mainly
by the opposition of the railroad
company, for although it is a city of
3,000 people, with an established
postoffice, county seat and govern
ment land office, the trains go whiz-
zing by, paying no more attention
to us than if we were a town of
prairie dogs. ,•
As there is nothing whatever to
support the town during the coming
winter a general stampede may be
looked for in about sixty days, for
by that time the people will be re-
duced to the condition of the famous
Kilkenny cats of whom it is written,
"T^hey one another swallowed."
The homesteaders have only
waited to file on their lands and then
go home until spring. Very few
claims will be occupied during the
winter, and the wolves and deer and
antelope will return to the haunts
from which they were so unexpect-
edly driven. But all this will be
changed again in the spring and
business will be resumed upon busi-
ness principles. By that time the
question will be settled whether the
government towns or the railroad
towns shall have supremacy. Farm-
ers will return bringing their fami-
lies, and every quarter section of
land will be occupied by actual
settlers. Houses and fences will be
built, orchards planted and crops
raised. By that time too, the worth-
less adventurers will have been
weeded out and the Strip like Okla-
homa proper, will take its place
among the prosperous farming re-
gions of the country.
PIBBT HUE IH Ell ID, L T.
Ex-Mayor Tone used to be a
newspaper man in his younger days
when the couutry was new, and
when a fire bioke out in Enid last
week the surroundings were so
familiar that he imagined he was
once more a reporter, and seizing
his hat and pencil he ran to the spot,
and on his return handed in the fol-
lowing report:
"At six o'clock, on Monday
morning, the terrible cry of fire was
heard, -and knowing the inflamable
character ot the whole city as well
as the fact that it was absolutely at
the mercy ot the fire fiend, a shud-
der ran through tbe multitudes and
they turned pale with fear as they
realized the danger that menaced
them. As they jumped from their
rude couches and rushed to the doors
half dressed, livid flames were seen
curling heavenward, by the light ot
which it was made evident that the
English Kitchen, the largest and
most complete hostlery in all the
city, was doomed to destruction
even if the fire demon could be
made to stay his hand after this sac-
rifice.
One of those death-dealing inven-
tions known as a gasoline stove had
"gone wrong," and in its going had
spread fire and destruction broad
cast. There was neither fire engine,
hose, nor water; not even a hook
and ladder, but a thousand willing
hands were ready. A brave fire-
man rushed to the side of the struc-
ture and with a half dozen well
aimed slashes with a Barlow knife,
severed the cords that held the white
roof in shape, and then like
Sampson of old, seized upon the
columns ot the temple and bore
them down. The great edifice
swayed and surged, and then fell,
fortunately falling inward. The
danger to surrounding property was
then over and the fire was soon under
control, for it was jumped upon by
a hundred daring feet and its life
literally stamped out.
The plucky proprietors gave
notice that they would re-build im-
mediately, and two hours later a
new tent had been stretched "and
they were serving meals again as
placidly and exfortionately as if
nothing had happened.
The loss was confiaed to the
building itself, and was estimated at
$2.50, with ng insurance."
Disastrous Hurricane.
One of the most disastrous storms
that has visited America since its
settlement by the white race was on
Monday morning of this week,
along the coast of Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and Alabama, The latest in-
formation places the number ot peo-
ple lost at over 2,000, while the de-
struction to property goes away up
into the millions. The greatest loss
was among the islands near the
Mississippi delta, where hundreds
ot people were engaged in the
oyster business. The coast rail-
roads were so badly damaged that
through trains will hardly resume
service for two weeks yet.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
National Bank o Denison
r -< il- T V
at denison, ix thk statejof texas,
at thk close op bl'^lnfss,
OCT. 3, 1893. j
J
resources, \
Loans and discounts $508,320.24
Overdrafts, secured and un- \
secured .... i 5.438-78
U. S. Bonds to secure circula-
tion., 50,000.00
Stocks, securities, etc.— i. 18,571.48
Due from approved reserve
agent* 41,151.93
Due from other National
Banks ........... 4 ........ 28,907.19
Due from state banks and
bankers | 2,861.06
Banking-house, furniture and
fixtures .4 16,648.05
Other real estate and mort-
• gages owned j*. 4,415.25
Current expenses and taxes
„P*ia - §.547-65
Premiums on U. S. Bonds....... 6,000.00
Checks and other cash items 687.86
Bills of other banks -j™, 5.625.00
Fractional paper currency,
nickels ana cents... 9.45
Specie 49,223.35
Legal-tender notes 44,690x10
Redemption Fund with U.S.
Treasurer (5 per cent, of
ciculation)
2,250.00
Total j: |
1 LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid In
Surplus fund— i
Undivided profits
National bank notes out-
standing : J
Individual deposits subject to
check— -I---.
Demand certificates of deposit
Certified checks .. J
Due to other National Banks..
Due to State Banks and, bank-
ers I
$790>347-29
..$200,000.00
10,000.00
18,678.35
45,000.00
479,152.18
25,823.00
200.00
4,609.96
6,878.80
T01*1 $79° 347-39
State of Texas, i
County of Grayson, j 8s"
I, N. S. Ernst, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemn)/ swear that the
ibove statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
N. S. Ernst, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before rne this
6th day of October, 1893.
! A. P. Woop,
Notary Public Grayson Co., Texas.
[seal]
Correct—Attest:
J. D. Quinn,
E. H. Hanna,
R. S. Legate,
• Directors.
RECAPITULATION. ,
resources.
Loans and Discounts $532,330.50
U. S. Bonds and Premiums.... 56,000.00
Real Estate, furniture and
fixtures .1 21,063.30
Current expenses and taxes
paid -.—.j.. - s.547-65
Cash in vault $100,235.66
Cash in other banks 72,920.18
Redemption fund t
with U. S. Treas-
urer - 2,250.00—146,394.46
Total $790,347-29
liabilities.
Capital stock paid
in! $200,000.00
Surplus and undi-
vided profits 28,678.35—228,678.35
National bank notes outstand-
ing 45,000.00
Individual deposits $505,180.18 U
Bank deposits 11,488.76—516,668.94
Total
$79° 347-29
Because one of the little moons of
Mars travels around it three times
as fast as Mars itself turns, it ap-
pears to rise in the west and set in
the east, while the other, really cir-
cling in the same direction at a
speed comparatively slow, rises in
the east and sets in the west.. Thus
both moons are seen in the heavens
at the same time, going opposite
ways.—-Ex.
FB0M COLORADO.
TEE UOLUKBUB MINING COMPANY
' A GRAND 8U00E88!
Continued and Knergetio Work Unoovera
the Hidden Treasures.
The following are copies ot two
letters received Thursday by Judge
Hause, and will afford pleasure to
those who were fortunate enough to
purchase treasury stock of the com-
pany, and which only cost them five
cents on the dollar. This stock will
certainly be at par soon for Judge
Hause had driven the tunnel 125
feet while he was there, and had
just struck a highly mineralized
quartz overhanging the main ore
body, and when he started home he
let an additional contract of 10 feet,
and these letters are in reference to
the completion, measurement and
the character of the mine after the
work had been done:
White Cross, Colo., Sept. 30, '93.
D. O. Hause, Esq.
Dear Sir and Friend—Your favor ot
Sept. 16th received, and I am glad to do
the favor for you, and no trouble to me
whatever. I have fust been up to your
tunnel and measured up the ten feet
done, by Mr. O'Neil. He has done the
work in good shape and according to
your contract with . him. The whole dis-
tance of the ten feet is through the same
hard quartz as what they had when they
commenced the ten feet, and containing
ore for all pay expenses to Silverton by
way ot Grouse Gulch to the main road.
You are right close to one of the richest
veins, I think, in the San Juan Moun-
tains, I remain yours truly,
James H. Sloan.
.. Lake City, Colo., Sept. 30, '93.
Mr. Hause;
We got to Lake this evening, after
a very bad ride through wind and snow.
It snoved all day, and the streets ot Lake
are white to-night. We cut the vein be-
fore we got through, but did not get far
enough in it to see how great or how rich,
as you will see from Mr, Sloan's letter.
Will send you some ot the rock by ex-
press lo-morrow. The rock in the breast
is harder than it was when you left. I am
going to send some of the rock to Dr.
Weiss and have him send you the returns.
I would like to see further under that
White Cross. I know there is something
awful rich if you will just let us go a lit-
tle further. Let me hear from you and
know what to do. Yours truly,
Iimmy O'Neil.
From the above letters it is plain
to be seen that this company will
soon be shipping ore. A meeting
will be held In 4 tew days by the
board of directors, when Idl the
stock which has been subscribed for,
and not paid for, will be cancelled,
and no more stock will be sold for
less than 25 cento per shue. In
fact it was like giving it away to have
ever sold any of it at 5 cents. Still,
until the meeting is held and price
changed by resolution, anyone yet
can buy at this price by calling on
Mr. Guiteau, secretary of the com-
pany. Mr. Hause tells us that he is
going to let another contract at once,
and keep the work going till the
main ore body is uncovered.
"Don't wash your hair." This
is advice given by $ woman who
has been at tbe head of a leading
hair dressing establishment for the
last twelve years. Brush it.
Old papers tor sale at the Gazbt-
HOLMES
I Will Make tbe Following Prioea fbr
MONDAY and TUESDAY, Oct 9,
killing's Model Form Corset,
LADIES FURNISHING GOODS
DEPARTMENT.
Schilling's long waist Corset, 50c.
Seamless fast-black Hose, 10c.
Japanese Silk Handkerchiefs,
embroidered, 15c apiece.
The best vulcanized Mackintoshes
$1.50 apiece.
All Silk Umbrellas, $1 apiece.
P. & P. Kid Gloves, all the lead-
ing shades, $1 a pair. Every pair
warranted.
At i^c a pair, ladies' regular-
made 25c Hose.
Heavy Jersey Vests, 25c.
$1 Sateen Waists, $oc
Schi
$1.
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
DEPARTMENT.
Medium-weight fall Underwear,
25c a garment.
Gents' Negligee Shirts, $1 qual-
ity, at 50c.
Gents' unlaundried Shirts, 75c
quality, at 40c.
Gents' Outing Cloth Top-Shirts,
$1.25 quality, 75c.
Gents' $2 Top-Shirts at $1.25.
Any of all ot jhe fine $2.50 and
$3 Shirts at $1.75.
Gents' Linen Collars, 4-ply, at
7ic.
Gents' full regular made fast-
black Socks, 15c a pair.
Gents' 50c-Suspenders, 25c.
DOMESTIC GOODS DEP'T.
1000 yards of good, yard-wide
bleached Cotton, 5c a yard.
1000 yards heavy and fine yard-
wide Brown Cotton, 5c.
1000 yards 10c Ticking, 5c.
1000 yards 8£c Canton Flannel,
5C-
1000 yards 12 1-2C Canton Flan-
nel, 8&c.
1000 yards 9-4 Sheeting, 15c a
yard.
1000 yards Round-Thread Cotton
Checks, 4c.
1000 yards 10c Gingham, 5c. ^
1000 yards 12 i-2c Percale, 7 i-ac-
1000 yards A C A Tickings, the
best made, i6§c.
SHOE DEPARTMENT.
1000 pairs Infants' Shoes, 25c a
pair.
-m
1000 pairs Children's 75c
45c*
1000 pairs 8 to ta
Shoes, solid leather
a solar tip, 75c.
1000 pairs 13 to a Mi
solid leather through oat, solar
$1.
1000 pairs Ladies' solid
Shoes, $1.
1000 pairs Gents' solid
Shoes, standard screw
$i.av
Holmes' own make Ladies'
gola Shoes, $a. Every pair
ranted.
Holmes' own make Gents'
Sboes, $2.50. Every pair
DRESS GOODS DEP'T.
Will trim free any dress
or more. ,
All-wool Tricots, 35c e yard.
100 pieces Bfoadbeed
best in the world, 35c.
100 pieces imported Dress
75c and 85c goods, at s<*,
ing of all-wool Henrietta, _
Plaids and Cheviota, Scotch
socking, etc.
At 75c a yard, 100 pieces
Panamas, German Silk, finish
riettas, Scotch Bourettes,
Storm Serges, etc.
• At $1 a yard, Choice of
pieces high-class Novelty
Goods, all the new weavea,
new colorings.
CARPET DEPARTMENT.
100 pairs Portieres, at
pair; worth $6.
100 pairs Lace Curtains, 3
pards long, 1 1-2 yards wide,
$5 a pair, at $1.75 a pair.
Potter's
1000 yards
50c a yaid.
Linolc
1000 yards 3-ply Ingrain
3°c-
1000 yards best half-wool
Carpets, 40c.
1000 yards best Brussela
75c-
1000 yards best Moquette Ca
jpi.
Any Carpet bought from us <
ing 40c a yard or more will be
and laid free of charge.
Respectfully,
<0>L>M<EiS
Eubank Building, Efcst Side
Square, Sherman, Tex.
No. 203 West Main Si
Denison, Texas.
Missionary Work.
The editor of the Marshall Star
doesn't take much stock in church
missionary work. In a recent issue
he gave expression to his feelings in
tbe following terse language:
Every christian denomination in
this country annually expends large
sums for the conversion of those in
heathen lands to Christianity. In
our humble opinion, the results of
such expenditures are not commen-
surate with tbe costs. The south
contributes her quota ot money to
tbe missionary funds, for the con-
version of the Chinese, Africans,
Mexicana and others. At the same
time, the north sends its missionaries
to the south, to labor among tbe
negroes here; and while our children
are taught to have great respect, ii
not veneration for the missionary
wbo labors among the breech-clouted
Africans, they are taught to look
upon him whose work is among the
negroes in our own land as a
damned nigger school teacher."
In this case, "distance lands en-
chantment to the view." What is
there to show for the vast sums that
have been expended in the efforts to
christianize Africa and China?
Actually, almost nothing. The
negro has been with us for centuries;
and what per centage of them are
really christians? The Chinese are
here in large numbers, but how
many of them are christians? A
christian Chinaman is a show. It
it is so hard to convert these races
when we have tbem in our midst,
where they are surrounded on all
sides by christians, and are pro-
tected from persecution when they
embrace Christianity, is it reasonable
to expect to convert them in their
native lands, where they are wholly
uneducated, and where they are per-
secuted when they profess Christi-
anity ?
8iok of Oomstockian Morality.
Says Kate Field, writing of the
Egyptian dance to be seen in the
street of Cairo, Midway Plaisance:
For my part to see where
the present styl^f "kicking," or
the displays ot the leg dramas, or
the very decollete bodices and ab-
breviated skirts of the ballet dancer
have any advantages over the sin-
uous movements4 of Egypt. For
Orientals—Japanese tor example—
dance with their hands. Western
people dance with their legs. Look
at. the rigid bodies of Pat and the
American clog dancer. France and
Italy have brought all the body into
action, where grace is sometimes
attained. The mid Orient confines
dancing to abdominal gyration,
marvelous as gymnastics and abso-
lutely impossible to women who
have ever worn corsets. Such de-
velopment and control of Abdominal
muscles as are exhibited by tbe
dancing girls in Chicago-Cairo
would, if possessed by American
women, be the salvation of the race.
Invalidism would be impossible and
children would be born healthy.
Other than as gymnastics the dance
du venire has no interest whatever.
It has neither grace nor beauty, the
dancers are not attractive and their
persisting in wearing French heels
denotes incapacity on their part to
appreciate the eternal fitness of
things. Vulgar men and women
who have set up a howl against this
performance would do well to look
around the American ballroom and
.nnnw table and discover like food
iur prurient fancy. I am quite sick
morality.
I
THE GREAT SHOW.
Sells Brothers' Enormous ft'Huitft
Attractions.
_,We can congratulate all
of the circus, which means
everybody, upon the coming to
ison on the 21st inst. ot Sells
ers' millionaire amusement
as that means we are not oal'
have one really great ahow with
the present season, but in whet
to make up rare variety and
tion for the masses, the biggest
best on the road. The progress
ward the stupendous made by
Sells Brothers in the paat t
two years has been something
velous. Tbe small show
which they made a timorous
ning has grown to be a
public institution of the first
tude, well and favorably known
every section ot tbe country,
everywhere patronized by the
people,' It has even more than
pace with the unparalleled
developement, and eaaily ranks
among tented exhibitiona. Its
mendous spread of canvas
regal Roman nippodrome,
menagane, triple circna, wild
ish Caravan and Pilgrimage
Mecca, double Olympian al
roval Japanese troupe, tropii
aquarium, aviary, Arabian Nights*
Entertainment, and hundreds ot ex-
clusively exhibited features, brilliant
performers, and startling and ludi-
crous races and acta. Several
special trains are required to
port this enormous melange of
wonder and fun, and how so much
can be exhibited for one price o! 1
mission, is a conundrum we shall
not attempt to answer. It the
Messrs. Sells can stand it, the pub-
lic and ourselves will try to do .so,
and we'll all be there, too. Excur-
sion rates on all lines ot travel.
Admission to the entire ahow re-
duced from $1 to 40 cents.
How's This?
After ten years of statutory prohi-
bition in Iowa, the Des Moines Reg-
ister exclaims editorially: "Shoot
down tbe thugs and thieves
shoot to kill all caught in the com- i
mission of their crimes."
What condition ot aoaety is it
which justifies such brutal and in-
flammatory expressions as this from
the leading organ of republicanism
and prohibition in the state of Iowa?
Is it possible that social order
security of property interests in !
state have become so
under the operation of
moral laws that the Register is <
pelled to advocate the murder
thievea and hoodlums? The
public cannot believe in tbe
ter's logic.
The last census shows the [
age of illiteracy to be lower
than in any other state. Tbe
Iowans were a moral, industrious,
law-abiding people long before the
enactment of the prohibitory law.
The Des Moines Register urged the
enactment of that law as a means of
abounding grace. If, under it*
operation, it has become necessary
to "shoot and shoot to kill," the
strongest possible argument ia af-
forded for a license law as a relief ] ~
to the situation.—St. Louie Re-
public.
Children like to take C. C. C.
Chill Cure, the pleasant and
cure tor Fever, Ague and T
than Quinine. Price
'GufceaufcWs5-
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