Denton County News (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 7, 1905 Page: 3 of 4
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! The Texas Wire Fence Co
DRNTON, TF.XAS,
Has up nc\l in connection with their Fence Factory a Black-
smith ai d Ropair Shop with Geo. W. Sheridan in charge, and
they kindly ask all Mr. Sheridan's old friends and customers
to .call on them wlie i in need of any work in the Blacksmith
d .Repair line. Prices reasonable.
BLANKS BROS. SHAVING PARLOR
Un.kr 1lte Djnton County Bank, h newly fitted up and is the
most attractive shop in Denton. When you need anything in the way
of a good hair cut, shave or shampoo, give them a call.
HOT AND COLD BATHS
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^ doz?n, 13 to the dozen; California Privett,
O $2.50 per 100; Wild Cioose Plums 5 cents each
■^xSales yard at foot of IJeachamp Hill, half mile
Xuth of Square.
COl lone tar Ptaery Company
Trees and Cotton Both Down
Pi ices low on Apple, Peacli, Pears, Plums,
Small Fruits, Ornamental Trees and Roses to
close out a large surplus.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. J. W. FRALIN.
D E .M ' ST,
A WATCHFUL BUSING S MAN,
like tho man ;it. the helm of a vessel,
always? should have an < on his
money; should figure to
Kce.) Down Expenses.
/he bank is a groat help to him in
ilia w; y. We are always ready, too,
) give any advice we can in any in-
/ stincnt. Hills that are paid by
/check never have to be paid over
f again 011 account, of your losing your
/ receipts, because- you have several
ways of proving it (his way. Glad to
see you and talk it over any time.
South Side Square, r 1 ton, Texas.
P. LIPSCOMB, M. D.
special attention to disea^ea of
the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Seeetacles properly fitted. Office
over Curtis' Drug? Store.
NOAH RO/RK,
Attorney at Law,
Office over Long & McClurkan's.
i DR. L. E. HOARD,
DENTIST,
Over John A. Ilann & Co.
Old Phone 33.
-r.- 2UMA'/ALT, •
Attorney at Law,
OMce in Courthouse, Denton, Texas
ARTHUR W. PALMER
Teacher of
Piano and Violin
PROMINENCE
of ten weeks
M5; payable
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here to *
TUITION, tr>
Strictly !n ad...
theory and musical history. St'Mio !-•»<••'.! in
roonihls and 11), second floor of Mar building.
V W? r \i> < ?
the fact that we i
take special care
in the posing of
our subjects in or-
der to bring out
all the good feat-
ures. A few min-
utes study ena-
bles us to decide
whether a profile,
a three quarter or
a full face view is
best.
Light and shade
is skillfully diffus-
ed. This and the
•excellent finish
makes our
PHOTOGRAPHS
masterpieces of re
productive art.
WILLIAMS ART CO.
denton. texas.
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I have purchEsetl the
Ideal
> Restaurant
My, A
on " t siile of tho square, and
Will serve first class meals for 25c.
When jou come to town come around
and eat with me.
Will buy your chickens, eges, but-
ter, etc., paying good prices at all
times.
IDEAL RESTAURANT
solicit tho patronage of the people.
F. H. ALLEK, Frop.
Denton, Tex.* a
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HAt:J BAI.SAM
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Ncrrr Pall . to N'Mors **!*•»
ll*ip to it Tott! fa 1 tV»lc».
Cans « p * r* • & hi* 1-
£•«' |l • mf F >y«U
DENTON JUNK YARD -
A big price paid for all kinds
of iron.
Office at Moore's Second Hand Store.
MISCELLANEOUS.
COO!) NEWS—Tit I Til DOES NOT
need a blare of trumpets. I .ike all
good news it travels l'asi. and sure.
f'.HECKEUS liss relie\e-i and curta
thousands of suffering lu inanity and
the good news has spn ad like wild-
fire. Let CHECKERS lie your med-
icine and you will soon become fast
friends. Ask your local druggist.
PORTRAITS—CKAVON SEPIA, PAS-
tol and oil painti igs; guaranteed to
;;ive satisfaction. Addret * or call on
.1. J. Wallace, R. E. I). No. Denton,
Texas. may 1
WANTED—TO SE. .L YOU YOUR
deeds, vendor's li 'n note* and oth
er legal blanks of a. I kinds. This of-
fice.
WANTED—10 MKN IN l'ACII
state, tack signs and distribute
samples and circulars >1 our gwods.
Salary $75.00 per numt'.!- I,er
day for expens.'^. Ivl'Ht. ' '^ '
Dept. S., Atlas Building, 'hicago. j^l
SEED OATS FOR SALE.
Good, clean seed oat:', free from
Johnson gra:;s, 45 cen!.-. 71?1 busheL
Old Cameron elevator. I<e(so & Allen.
IF YOU EAT MEAT
You want to buy the bo.-' and ihe
freshest. We 1 ecp on r;-nd en!)
the best meats and are anxious
serve you.
Give us a trial and \vc* wi'l win
your trade for all time.
Sullivan <k Smith
NOTICE
SHERIFF'S SALE.
Uy virtue of an execution Issued
fit of the district court, 44th Judicial
District of Dallas County, Texas, 1
have levied upon this, the Clli day of
January, 1905, at 10 o'clock a. in., and
will on llie Till day of February, 1005,
It being Ihe first, Tuesday of sold
month, between the hours of 10
o'clock a. ni. and 4 o'clock p. m., In
front of the court houso door of Den-
ton county, Texas, sell to the highest
bidder, for cash in hand, all the right,
titles and interest which T. L. Turpln
had on the 6th day of January, 1905,
or al any lime thereafter, of, In and
to all that certain tract of land situ-
ated In the County of Denton, State
of Texas, about 12 miles northeast of
the town of Denton, and most gener-
ally known as a part of the W. A.
Thompson original survey, and being
7:1.70 acres out of Ihe survey patent-
ed to tlie heirs of W. A. Thompson,
on Ihe 9th day of March, 1857, patent
No. 714, Vol. 12, abstract No. 1238,
and described as follows:
"Beginning at the northwest cor-
ner of J. II. Jackson's 200 acres on
tho south line of H. S. Craves' 9.64
acre tract; thence west 602 varas, a
stake Craves' southwest corner on A.
A. Spratt's east line; thence south
090 varas, Spratt's southeast corneer,
It. F. Hayburne's northwest corner;
thence cast G02 varas, stake, his
northeast corner on Jackson's west
line; thence north 090 varas to the
place of beginning."
The above described land levied
upon as the property of T. L. Turpin,
and will be sold to satisfy a judgment
rendered in the District Court, 44th
Judicial District, Dallas County,
Texas, on tlie 13th of October, 1904,
;n favor of the Minneapolis Thresh-
ing Machine Company, a corporation,
and against C. D. Allen as principal,
and the said T. L. Turpin, as surety,
for Ihe sum of $1100, principal, with
interest at Ihe rate of S per cent per
annum from October Kifh, 1904, and
the further sum of $1.25 costs and all
costs accruing by virtue of said suit,
less $13.20 paid thereon November
1 Cth, 1904.
Witness my hand, this 7th day of
January, 1905.
W. S. FRY, Sheriff,
Denlon County, Texas.
By W. C. Orr, Deputy. tues Jim !>
OF INTEREST
TO FARMERS
PARAGRAPHS AND CLIPPINU'o
OF INTEREST TO THE MEN
WHO TILL THE SOIL.
MEXICO MAY BECOME
GREAT WHEAT COUNTRY
Eight Thousan Acres of Cotton P.ant-
ed in the British West India
Islands—Other Notes.
In British India rice culture occu-
pies an area almost four times the
area of wehat.
(with, I think, one exception),
that I thought it tho cheapest
to bo had. I have never seen
bad effects from Us use with
cows and calves, hut I feed i!
Farmers Take the Trolley.
Temple, Tex., Feb. 1.—The trolley
1 in • between Temple and Helton is
doing a god business this muddy
weather. The farmers all along the
route are taking advantage of the
trolley and coming to town on it in-
pd of having to hitch up four
horses or mules to a wagon to reach
:'.:o city through the black mud.
J. S. Kendall Is Secretary.
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 8.- J. S. Kendall
is : ( retary of the club organized
from among tho young business men
of Dallas for th 1 purpose of devoting
ii ' ir energies to make Dallas a city
of 150,000 inhabitants l»y 1910.
pro-
B. Y. P. U. PROGRAM.
Following is the 13. Y. I*. U.
grain for Sunday, February 5:
Topic—"The Enlarging Kingdom."
Leader—Miss Strickland.
"Ezekiel and His Prophesies."—
Miss Stallings.
Explanation of Lesson—President.
"Is Christianity Progressing?"—E\
II. 1 lighnote.
E. H. Wray, Pres.
Miss Cora Goodwin, Sec.
Hurt While Loading Cattle.
Bells, Tex., Feb. 1.—While loading
cattle on the cars here yesterday W.
I\ Ferguson, a prominent citizen of
this place was badly hurt. The acci-
dent wan caused by the connection
between the car and th" stock pens
-lipping out, causing him to fall
about six feet striking his shoulder
against a tie. One of the animals
fell upon him at the same time.
Test Its Value.
Simmons' Liver Purifier is the
most, valuable remedy I have ever tri-
ed for constipation and disordered
liver. It does the work thoroughly,
but does not gripe like most remedies
of its character. I certainly recom-
mend i! whenever the opportunity oc-
PU1v. M. T. TOM LIN SON,
Price 25c. Oswege, Kan.
Good Roads Convention.
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 3.—An elaborate
program has been prepared for the
good roads convention, which is to
be held in this city next Monday.
The session will take place in the
auditorium at the commercial club
headquarters and representatives of
every class and profession are .irged
to bo present. This invitation in-
cludes ministers anil women, the pro-
moters of the movement being con-
vinced that these two can give pow-
erful aid in the movement.
Many Good—One Best.
"So many oils and liniments are ad-
vertised, it is hard to decide which to
buy. I tried a number before using
Hunt's Lightning Oil. After using it
once, however, 1 realized I had found
the best there was, and it was useless
to IqoU further. If it fails, 'it's all off.
No other liniment will hit the spot if
Hunt's Lightning Oil fails.
C. G. Young,
feb Okeene, O. T.
Fire Destroys Residence.
Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 1.—The
two-story residence of James T.
Town send, at the corner of Looney
and vickery streets, together with a
large wind mill and water tank, a
piano and furniture of one room, was
destroyed by fire about 1 o'clock this
morning. Insurance $2,750, which
was about half the value of the prop
ci v destroyed.
Afraid of
Many people
nikv b>
benyin
any ti?t
Exports of wheat from the United
States for the first eleven months of
1904 amounted to only 12,000,000
bushels, as compared with 08,000,000
for the same period in 1903.
Reports are favorable for an extra-
ordinary rice crop in Japan this year*
In 1904 Japan produced nearly 260,-
000,000 bushels. The average crop
for that country is about 216,000,000
bushels.
From reports in the Agricultural
News, the organ of the Imperial De-
partment of Agriculture for the West
Indies, it appears that taking a very
moderate estimate, some 8,000 acres
have been planted in cotton in the
British West India Islands. It is
probable that more complete infor-
mation would enable this estimate to
be placed at 10,000 acres.
Before the house committee on in-
terstate and foreign commerce last
week, Sam H. Cowan of Fort Worth,
Texas, urge ! the adoption of the sug-
gestion of the President, that the in-
terstate commerce commission be
given greater power to make and
maintain railroad freight rates,
(hough he did not advocate any par-
ticular method. He demonstrated tin4
necessity for this by elaborate data.
The National Good Roads train
which is new touring Texas, shoM be
given a hearty reception at all points
where stops are made. Th*? state
needs good roads and the people
need education in good roads build-
ing. While the first cost of con-
structing first-class highways is nec-
essarily high the benefits are lasting
and they are distributed among all
classes of citizens. -Farm and Ranch
Tho stockholders of the Hunt Coun-
ty Fair Association havede cided to
hold an exhibition at Greenville. Sep-
tember 2G to 30, inclusive. County
fairs properly conducted are excel-
lent things to stir up interest in bet-
methods of fanning and stock-
growing and they help to bring far-
mers and business men together in a
,ay that results to their mutual ad-
ant age.—Ex.
According to an article in the Win-
nipeg Commercial, Mexico may be-
come one of the great wheat-produc-
ig countries within the next few
ears. Experiments with different
kinds of wheat show yields of from
>0 to t'u bushels of wheat to the acre
from the "turkey red' variety. A
number of syndicates have obtained
concessions from the govememnt by
which they have the use of large
areas of land for terms of years and
if it is discovered that large crops
be raised in Mexico an endeavor
be made to place the grain-
growing industry on a commercial
footing.
but
feed
any
my
in
small quantities. My usual feed for
mill: cows is two and one-half to
three pounds of cotton seed meal,
five to seven pounds hulls, four to
six pounds bran (wen not over $1 per
too pounds), and all the roughness
cattle will eat daily. When bran goes
higher than $1 per 100 pounds, I sub-
stitute two and one half to three
pounds com chops, increasing slight
ly the amount of cotton seed meal. I
never use whole cotton seed, but ex
change my seed with the oil mill for
tho meal and hulls unless I sell my
cotton in the seed, as I usually do.
sometimes find it profitable to buy
seed of tin1 farmers to exchange for
meal and hulls.—J. R. Donnell, Bel
ton, Texas.
THE CAPITAL
OF DENMARK
I have only used cotton seed meal
nd hulls as feed for milk purposes,
for which I think there is nothing
>etter. I have fed seed, hay and mil-
let. also wheat bran, but. had much
it her have meal and hulls, which I
think make the cows give more
milk and butter and the butter is of
firmer and richer color and not. so
gununy as when the cows are fed on
cotton seed. I usually give my cows
about a quart of meal to about a
bushel of hulls at. a feed. That is one
advantage in meal and hulls; you
annot give them enough to gorge or
make th mesick, as is often the case
feeding raw seed. I never feed
anything else when I can get meal
and hulls.—J. M. Jones, Wortham,
Texas.
Strong Medicines.
suffer for years from
rheumatic rains, and prefer to do so
j«tlier than take the strong medicines
actually given for rheumatism, not
,-mv. !ag that quick relief from pain
had simply by applying Cham-
* Pain Balm, without taking
jicine internally. For sale by
feb
rcyf* ii
Detroit* hlioh
rr
innis.
Cattle
Worth,
ived
Ranges Good.
Tex., Feb. I.—The
at the general he
Cattle Raisers' A
nation
quarters of the
this city from the lnspo<
the range country
conditions prevailing
excepting Kent and
s. and in these coun
ally Kent, condition
eiiieiy co!:l weather
>orted ail over iht
Keep up with the times by reading
The Semi Weekly News.
roiui
Gotham's Hungry School Children.
Commander Eva Booth of the Sal-
vation Army inaugurates her admin-
istrate nin America with the) stu-
pendous task of affording one warm
meal a day to 70,000 children In New
York city, who, according to Mr.
Hunter go to school hungry every
morning. When Mr. Hunter made
this statement recently New York's
wealthy circles were engrossed with
Mrs. Astor's ball, at which $20,000,-
worth of diamonds were displayed,
and the little dinner which cost thir-
ty-six people $50,000, or $1,400 a
plate. This statement, was regarded
as a gross exaggeration. But the
matter was carefully investigated,
with the result that Mr. Hunter's fig-
ures were vindicated. Miss Booth
asserts that after the most searching
investigation she was convinced that
Mr. Hunter had even underestimat-
ed the number of hungry school
children. Miss Booth and her army
have undertaken a noble work to
•d these unfortunate children. It
is meeting an emergency in the prop-
r way, and probably no other or-
ganization could undertake a charity
>f such proportions except the army,
tiid n ml H rseloatu-w.. w lahl mt
But the multi-millionaires can hardly1
3 to be fed. The presence of 70,-
starving school children in a single
city reveals a condition that is full
of danger fur New York City. There
must be a similar condition on the
western shore of the Hudson In New
Jersey, and in all the large cities of
the country. It. is evident that with
all our boasted prosperity we are af-
flicted with a wave of pauperism
that should engage the attention of
our statesmen and philanthropists.
It is evident that the law of distri-
bution is sadly out of joint. The •
wealth of the country is finding its
way into the pockets of the few
while the millions are suffering. It
is the logical result of laws that
iKilter monopolies and confer upon !
tho few privileges they should not
enjoy. It is evident that the cost of i
ng lias so enormously increased
within tiie past few years that: hun-!
not afford to buy sufficient food to
sustain their energies.
Poverty and hunger will eventu-
ally breed discontent and finally des-
peration, and it is among the possi-
bilities that we may yet see in our j
large cities a repetition of the Nev-j
sky Prospect spectacle, with soldiers
shotting down people made desper-
ate by starvation.
How the men of affairs in New
York city can regard the matter j
with complacency passes under-
standing.
COKRESPONDENT LEE WRITES
EXCELLENT LETTER FROM
CITY OF COPENHAGEN.
DENMARK'S UNIVERSITY
HAS OVER 1200 STUDENTS
, Library Containing Thousands of
Volumes—Interesting Data About
the Country.
Philanthropy, Jan. 31.
I write from Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen Is the capital of Den
mark an<i is built, on the Island of
Zealani, with outlying parts on the
island of Anager and the mainland
The city is defended b> new fortifi-
cations jusi built and by old forts, es-
pecially the ciladel of Krederikshvn.
(But Copenhagen is not as well forti-
fied as Danzig. Prussia, in Germany
on the opposite coast of the lialtlc
rom Copenhagen, Danzig being a
fortress of the first rank. The Ger
man city sits back four miles from
(he Gulf of Danzig, an inlet of the
Baltic, on the west branch of the Vis-
tila river, an l is surrounded by a
wall with twenty bastions, and by
wet ditches, and posses works for
aying llie surrounding country tin-
ier water on three sides. In addition
o these, it has outlying forts and a
■hain of batteries extending to the
notith of the river". To beleaguer
Janzig successfully might require ar
amphious army, one having the pow-
er of living in the water as well as in
Ihe other element—the air—, as th<
city could keep a cordon in any rea
-unable distance of of Danzig covert-
with water on thr(1 sides indefinite-
ly.) The square Kongens Nytoro in
Copenhagen is tho center of city life
As India in Asia is called an "epi-
tome of the whole earth," because il
has a little of everything in nature
that is in the entire world, the Kon
gens Nytoro in Copenhagen is all the
world's cities in miniature, as you
could see something here that repre
sents soi.:n feature of every city on
ihe? earth's surface. Its cathedra
has a baptismal fo.it bv Bertel Tbor-
waldsen, the famous Danish sculptor
who was a nat
the Thorwald
that
yal
allery.
gen
castle
has a fine art
in a conflagration in
versit.y, the only one
founded in 1479, has
and a library of 2
while the royal library I
volumes. (There are onl
ve of Copenhagen; and
en museum has many
us' productions. Th;
called Christ iansborg
but it suffered
1 sS4. The uni-
in Denmark,
1200 students
>0,000 volumes,
s 500,000
three uni
MAN.
grievance, real
takes all the
i of
he
hard
actu-
Representative Smith of Texas and
Delegate Rodey of New Mexico, ap-
peared before the house committee
foreign affairs last week in ad
vocacy of the bill for an international
lam on the Rio Grande at Eagle, X.
M., and for the distribution of the
waters of that stream for the benefit
>f Texas and New Mexico, and for the
settlement of claims made by Mexico
for some of her citizens on account
if water claimed to have been divert-
d from that stream by Americans.
Mr. Rodney, however, did not want
my restrictions placed on the uso of
he water above the damsite at En
rle. The committee also was informed
that Mexico is agreeable to the pro-
posed arrangement and that it will
quiet the Mexican claims. It is es-
timated that it will cost $7,000,000 to
construct the dam and irrigation
works for t lie 185,000 acres affected,
of which 25,000 lie in Mexico.
I have used cotton seed meal juid
hulls only on farm stock. My first
was in the year 1901. I purchased 11
tons of hulls and f>7 sacks of meal;
fed 75 head of stock cattle, S horses
and 4 hogs. I fed cattle hulls and
meal only, with good result To
horses and hogs I gave a cambination
wheat bran and corn meal and eot-
tc "^d meal. To horses I fed one
qua»» lion seed meal, one Quart
corn mcnl and two quarts wheat
bran, thoroughly mixed and slightly
dampened for each animal. T«» hogs I
gave th same as horses, only mak-
ing the combination into a stiff mush.
Ihe results were all that could be
wished for. I was told that my cattle
would not do any good on grass any
more, but this was not the case. I
turned them on grass in March. 1902.
and th 'y did exceedingly well. The
past two years I have only fed the
milk cows on hulls and meal. As a
butter feed I do not know of anything
better.—A. l>. Steel, Cash, Texas.
BE A REAL
A man can nurse a
or supposed, until it
beauty sour-visaged.
He can imagine all sort.
things about another until
ally thinks they are true.
He can cloud his intellect by think-
ing hard things about his neighbor. :
He can make his own life misera-1
ble by nursing petty grievances that ;
are too little to receive passing no-
tice.
He can think hard things about a
person until he omagines that every-
body has it in for him and is trying
to give him dirt.
Did you ever notice a man of this
character? Isn't he a glum speci-
men—a poor imitation of a real man?
It don't pay to hink hard things,
say mean things or do ugly things.
It makes you cross and ill-mannered
and glum, and old, and bent, and
our.
Do good deed's, think beautiful
houghts and say pleasant things. In
he end you will find it pays. It
lakes you happy and happiness al-
vays pays.—Merkel Mail.
D. B. & N. O. Election.
Bonham, Tex., Feb. 2.—The dfrec-
ors of the Denison, Bonham and
s'ew Orleans Railway held annual
neeting in this city yesterday aiter-
loon. The report of the president
ho wed the line to be in fine condi
ion.
Th-1 following clipping from the
N'acogdoches Sentinel shows the be
winning of an infant industry which
lids fair to occupy an important
dace in Texas commerce:
From one to two ear loads of
daves are being shipped from Xaco-
loches daily, and preparations are.
>eing made to ship a solid train load
next week. The stave industry has
••cached large proportions in Naco-
loches county. The staves being
hipped from the Nacodoch- s station
ire -all fro mthe east end of the
county and are hauled in by ranters
Alio are keeping their terms busy
while not needed on their farms. The
staves are machine made and are
trimmed of all surplus weight. There
is also another stave company get-
ting out hand made staves along the
Angelina river. This company is
preparing to float two million staves
down the Angelina river on rafts to
Beaumont as roon as the water rises
in the river.
Struck by Passenger Train.
Copperas Grove, Tex.. Feb. 1.—
John Kline, section foreman on the
Santa Fe railroad, was run down this
morning by a west bound passenger
train. He had one leg broken and
received other serious injuries. The
ndear en which he was riding was
completely demolished all the rest of
the crew cleared the track.
versities in Scandinavia, one in each
of the three kingdoms, the one in
Sweden located at Upula, the one in
Norway at Christiana and the one in
Denmark at Copenhagen. In my tour
of the European capitals, I had the
pleasure of visiting two of these in
stitutions, the ones in Norway and
Denmark.) Copenhagen is the old-
est of the Scandinavian capitals. It
is known to have existed as a fishing
village as early as the middle of the-
twelfth century (1150). It became
the Danish capital in 1443, 49 years
before America was discovered. The
city lias been the victim of three
great fires and has been beseiyec
and bombarded times almost innu-
merable. It seems that nations which
heretofore been in war with Denmark
have tried to make a display of teheir
military and naval prowress by lay-
ing siege to and bombarding Copen-
hagen. It was in its fine harbor that
Horatio Nelson, the English admiral
in 1S01, destroyed the Danish fleet
It is a digression from the subject,
but it might be interesting to note
in this connection that, four years la
ter, October 21, 1805, Nelson was kill-
ed in the famous naval battle off the
shores of Cape Trafalgar, on the
south coast of Spain. The battle was
between the British under Nelson on
one side and the combined French
and Spanish fleets on the other, the
British having 27 sail of the line and
four frigates, while the French and
Spanish had sail of the line and
five frigates. The British were victe>-
rious, capturing 19 of of the enemies'
ships. As Nelson bore donwn on the
French,h e hoisted the famous signal
"England expects every man to do
his duty." At the height of the ae
tion the famous sea captain was fa
tally shot but was informed of the
victory he had achieved before he
died. In a storm that night all but
four of the prizes were lost or de-
stroyed, which could not have hap
penoel had th 1 dying admiral's order
to anchor been obeyed. I saw the
Nelson Column in London, which is a
splendid and enduring monument to
the great naval commander.
Denmark, consisting of the Penin
aula of Jutland and a group of is-
lands in the Baltic, is the smallest
of the three Scandinavian kingdoms.
Jutland is the only peninsula of any
size in Europe which points directly
I north. Its area is 9,754 square miles.
The Jutes lived in Jutland in the fifth
century, when they took part with
other German tribes, the Saxons. An-
J gles, etc., in the1 descent on the En-
j glish coast after it was abandoned by
j the Roman garrison. There isn't
| many islands in the group, and they
hire all small, the most important
«mes being Zealand and Anager, clo-
sest to the mainland (Jutland) on
which parts of Copenhagen stand.
Besides Denmark proper, which is
tut land and the Baltic islands, under
| Tho rule e>f the Danish king, are the
i Danish West Indies, St. Croix. St.
I .'"ohn and St. Thomas; Greenland, a
i large island in the Arctic ocean in
America; Iceland, an Island in the
them waters of the Atlantic, on
borders of
the dunes cover 225 square «nUe». On
i be east coast are many bays useful
for navigation and valuable for their
fisheries, and there are many good
harbnrs. (Owing to the gr<?af Irregu-
larity in its shape, its many wep In-
lets and gulfs or bays, Europe fits a
more extensive coast line in propor-
tion to its siz than any continent on
the globe. Although it is surrounded
by water only on three sides, south*
west and north, and has an area of
inly 3,800,000 square miles, the con-
tinent of Europe has a coast line of
50,000 miles, twice the circumference
of the earth. Many fjords, like the
firths or friths In Scotland, push their
way deeply into the islands and pen-
insula, Limfjord, the largest having
made an island of the northern part
>f Jutland in the last eighty years,
by breaking through the narrow isth-
mus which separated it from tho
North Sea. There are some seventy
lighthouses on the shores of Den-
Denmark an dseven lightships. There
are no rivers, though its canals are
important. The commonest tree is
the beech, though three hundred
ye^ars ago the now rare oak was tho
Danish tree. Denmark is poor in
minerals. Mists and sea fogs are fre-
quent, and rain snow and hail falls
on an average of 150 days in the
year. In the spring a cold, dry wind
called the "skai," whirls clouds of
fine sand from the coast inland, do-
ing great damage to the crops. Peat
from th ■ many bogs, brown ceial or
lignite and seaweed take the place of
wood as fuel. About 80 per cent of
Denmark is good soil, and nearly
ialf the people are farmers. The
and for the most part, as it, is in
toumania, is parceled out into small
holdings. The main crops are oats,
>arley and rye; wheat, flax, hemp,
potatoes, cattle, butter and bacon are
ither leading products. Danish man-
lfaetures are not of great, importance
I'he people of Denmark are well ed-
icated. Parents are compelled to
send their children to school between
he ages of 7 and 11 years. The e-
ablished religion, to which tie king
nust belong, is the Lutheran. It is
just as compulsory for the sovereigns
jf Denmark and Sweden to be Lu-
herans as it is for the Sultan of
Turkey to be a Moslem. Denmark is
i constitutional monarchy, the king
laving a cabinet of Severn ministers.
The king was chosen by the people
'ill 1660, when he people and cl rgy,
lriven by hatred of the nobles, gave
he king absolute power and made
he crown hereditary. A constitution
was afterwards granted,to the nation.
The present form of government was
Adopted in 1849. The national legis-
ature e>r rigsdad, consists of th up-
per house or landsthing and the low-
■r house or folkething, which is cho-
«en by the people. The governme.it
if Denmark, like an individual who
is just making tongue and buckle
meet, has a revenue that just about
?(juals it expenditures. Its army
numbers some 60,000 and its navy
comprises thirty-two steamers e»f
which nine are ironclads.
Denmark's history goes back to the
dim twilight of the Saga period, out
>f which looms the figures of its he-
their brave deeds andd&fin#
vo, 'ages. Here the Celts had first
heir home, and from these shores
he Saxons, Angles and Jutes set sail
n the fifth century to conquer Eng-
and. The missionary Ausgar baptiz-
ed the king as a Christian in 82(1, but
heir being Christiana did not hineler
he Danes from making their usual
nroads into the territory of the
'ranks nor check the piratical voy-
ages of the famous viking. Gorm, the
Old, who.first united the islands and
nainland (the peninsula and Jut-
and) under one rule, opposed Chris-
tianity, but his grandson, the con-
queror of England, Canute, was its
iealous friend. During the reigns
following that of Canute the nobles
;rew powerful by means of the f» u-
al system and ground down the once
ree people as serfs. Waldemar 1
1157-82) conquered Norway. Wab-
|:iemar II conquered German lands,
which were lost under his successors.
In 1864, for instance, Prussia and
Austria, as the heads of the German
'onfederation, at the point of the
ayonet, feirced this weak state (Den-
mark), abandoned by its allie>s, Eng-
and and France, to give up Lanen-
iorg. Holstein and Schleswick.) The
jreat Queen Margaret, the "Semira-
nius of the North" (1375-1412). ruled
Denmark, Norway and Sweden so
.veil that the once three rival king
poms lived together quietly and
peaceably. Christian I (1448-81), the
founder of the Oldenburg line of
kings, which kept the throne until
1863. was chosen king of the people,
who in this case used their ancient
right of election to the throne
ALFRED GREGORY LEE.
January Market a Surprise.
Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 1. The
nonth of January, just closed, has
been a surprise to the livestock
>n the lejc.al market, both as to pr
\nd conditions and the receipts,
orresponding months for the
wo years have always sh»wa i
receipts in cattle, and this year
wore expecting as light receipts
last, a few expecting lighter reec
owing, they say, to the depleted
dition of the ranges. This, howi
was not the case, and instead of 1
receipts, they have been fairly li
al, showing an incre»ase of 11
head over last year or 44 per cen
crease.
n
v
ight
ber-
Rev. Patterson Called.
Mineral Wells. Tex.. Fee. 1.
W. A. Patterson of Hillsbor
been called to the pastorate e
Cumberland Presbyterian chu
this city and has accepted ;h
He will hold services for th«
time in their new church ne>
day.
-Rev.
has
the
di of
first
There
iug the
fnield ;
seed DM
as high
or three
have been hut few days dur-
pa«t 15 years that I have
i feed my milk cows cotton
\] and hulls. When bran goes
as it has during the past two
ears 1 drop it. but cotton
Webb's Bill
Austin. Tex., Jan.
Webb, representative
lord county, has reci
ters from judges
throughout the state
provai of the measure
Approved.
31.—Hon. S.
from Shackel-
ved many let-
and lawyers
expressing ;»p-
"to protect un«
which is an out
rope, and the m
Europe from the
Faroe islai
inhabited and fi
lands, in the No
tween the Shet
t coast of Scotlan
er< j art of
low, the hit-he^i
1 than f*\t a
the
vine
portioi Nf I
istant island
mamian<
a a
th At
seed meal has not gone so high y«t .necessarj
limited and unnecessary service as
witnesses and the state against un-
witness accounts."
sand riti
I pecially
tow lag
along th
Fort Worth Wreck
Fort Worth, Feb. 1 —
ion between a stockyards c
Northern Texas Traction
and a string e>f three cars
stock being transferred froi
Worth and Rio Grande Rail
pany's yards to the Fen
! Stockyards this morning
6:15 o'clock resulted in injt
tween fifteen and twenty p
was considered nothing she
raculous that many of the
I sons in the car a* the time
I hurled into eternity, and In
fact that a most heavily e«
| car was
' result i
| lowed. Of the larc* number
ceived injuries of a more or
rkrae nature only two were
! character as to demand an c
ins. es I and it is possible that they
where cover.
1; and the
seventeen
abited is-
c lying be-
the north
land. The
proper is
>eing less
sea The
tkirted by
5. It
mi-
not
the
b« iiL>"
roul.f
of such
peratie>n,
may re-
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