The Linden Standard (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 23, 1889 Page: 4 of 6
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Housewives, be cheerful at meals.
Don't mention bow tired you are. or
come with face beclouded to wait on
table and enjoy your meal. Fy you
will not enjoy it. nor will those who sit
down with you. Those partaking of
the dinner will feel perhaps, that you
are a martyr and they solely to blame
for it. Bright faces, and pleasant con-
versation are the best aids to digestion
It is no restful thing to prepare a
tempting dinner, with everything per-
fect for the field hands on ironiug day.
1 have been there anil know how fa-
tiguing it all is. Take at least half an
hour just before dinner, and read some
poems from your favorite author, or
the funny columns in the weekly pa-
pers. A rest like this is quite a pleas-
ant and essential thing and will great-
ly help you to be cheerful and pleas-
ant to the family and make you for-
get you are tired.—Farm & Kanch.
discontent
Bt BlickE. Wells.
“No changes of season or place.
Can make any change in my mind.
“I wish I was rich! This ceaseless
toil after the necessaries of life, this
constant practice of strict economy,
this wear and tear of daily life are be-
coming unendurable. If I could only
have a moderate income, enough to
supply ray wants without the trouble
of earning it, I know I should be hap-
py. I’d have abundance of books and
papers, with leisure to enjoy them.
This little home of ours, so dear to me
when just paid for, is so plain and
bare; I wish I had means to furnish it
according to my taste. I wish I could
.travel aud enjoy other homes and
countries. I believe 1 was created for
some different sphere, and if I were
where I belong 1 should be happy.”
“O, dear meII am tired of life!
This ceaseless round of pleasures,
company, visiting and parties this
•oming and going, eating and drink-
ing, dressing and shopping, are geL
ting to be simply unbearable. The
children annoy me and the servants
are really exaperating. I declare I en-
vy the woman who comes here every
Monday to wash. She is never bother-
ed with dressmakers or traveling suits.
I’d be willing to wash my own dishes
the rest of my life if I could only be
free from the harrassing cares of a
fashionublelife.”
“I wish I was a man and could do
as I pleased, I’m tired of being told to
do this or don’t do that; to go here or
don’t go there; in fact of being dicta-
ted to constantly with no rights any-
one is bound to respect. If I wero a
man, now, I’d show them a thing or
two. I never shall be happy until I’m
my own master, I know.
“O, that I were a boy again, free
from all these business perplexities,
these worrying debts and mortgages;
free to come and go at will, to romp
aud play from morn till night; free
from all responsibilities, with continu-
al health and happiuss. O, for the boy-
ish appetite aud the dainties mother
made for her boy, for the goodnight
ki38 as sho tucked me up in my little
trundle bed. Surely there is no happi-
ness in store for me, like that of my
boy-hood days.”
The merchant envies the free and
independent life of the farmer, aud the
farmer thinks if he had nothing to do
but to stand behind the counter and
sell goods, he’d never complain. The
traveler longs for a resting place, and
the quiet ones for something to happen
to break up the monotony of home
life.
The ignorant yearn for an education
and the learned chafe under the res-
ponsibility their knowledge entails up-
on them. All looked at happiness as
either past or still to conic.
Is this right? Surely there are bless-
ings enough in the lot of each cf us to
make us happy, if we consider »right.
“This world is not so bad a world
As some would like to make it;
But whether bad or whether good
Depends on how we take it;
Are we poor? *ad is daily toil a nec-
essity? Think of the bed-ridden, de-
life'-.
formed or other wipe helpless mortals
and be grateful for ihe health enabling
us to labor. Do our friends ignore us ?
Let us first be worthy, then seek wor-
thier friends who are always content.
Are we troubled with poor health?
Let us be thankful for dear friends
who endeavor to relieve our sufferings
by loving attention.
Are our hearts grieved by the down-
ward tendency of some loved one ?
Let us hope, work and wait for his
uprising, trusting in the power of
“One mighty to save.”
Alas! I know there are times when
thick clouds settle over our sky, and
not one ray of light penetrates the
gloom. Times when we grope in vain
for something to lay hold on, to stay
our faltering steps. Times when we
fear to move farward and cannot stand
still. O dear friends, can we not find
relief, yes, even happiness, in the as-
surance that “He hath borne our sor-
rows’ He hath carried our griefs?”
The lesson to jearn is this: Happi-
ness depends on the condition of the
mind and heart, or in other words on
contentment and not on our circum-
stance or surroundings.—In Farm &
Ranch.
man was looking, through the window
and saw John put it there. He had
been prowling pbout the house, I sop-
pose, and happened to look in at just
the right time. Any wav, that’s what
and try several before be found one
that would fit the lock of the chest.
Pretty soon he found one that would
open it. He turned the cover back
against the wall, and went to rurnma-
I shall always believe about it, for bow j ging around the till for the money
else, I would lice to know, should he, that was covered up with some old
have known anything about it? But I cloth and papers. It wasn’t long be-
there I’m telling you my opiuion, and fore he found it, and after making
what you want to hear I soppose, is sure it was what he was after, he put
what happened. | it in his pocket and shut up the chest.
One stormy aigh about a week af- You can’t imagine how I felt wheu
ter that John went off to his work as I knew that poor Ben Green was like•
usual. I felt kis.1 of nervous someway, i ly to lose his money. He had worked
though I couldn’t tell why I felt so. so hard for it, and depended so much
lion Kite $ave«l TIm- money.
EBEN BEXKOltD, IS HOME MAGI/JOE.
I’ve often read and heard about bow
persons feel when death “stairs them
in the face,!’ as they say in stories. I
used to wonder what kind of a sensa-
tion it was. Now I know.
You sec. John—John’s my husband
—was foremen of the night hands in
the factory for a long time. He went
to his work at six at night, and came
home at five o'clock iii the morning,
bo I had to stay alone all night, or
the same as alone, anyway Uio child
there was company for me, but all the
help she’d be in any trouble that might
happen, I might as well have been en-
tirely alone, you see.
I never was afraid of burglars, be-
cause wo badu't anything they’d think
it worth their while to come after. And
then—wo didn't hear much about them
those day*—though they’ve got to Iw
plenty enough since. If I’d heard as
much about them tbeu as I do now, I
presume I would have felt timid. But
as it was, I felt as safe as you please,
aud wheu John used to coax me to let
him get a boy, or a big dog to stay
with me, I always told him I didn’t
want to be bothered with ’em.
One day a friend of John's, who had
been working in the factory a long
time, and saved up quite a little sum
from his wages, got tired of that kind
of life, aud said he was going to quit
it, and find him a little farm some-
where, and settle down. 1 knew what
that meant. He’d taken a fancy to a
g.rl that worked in the factory, and
he wanted to make a home somewhere
for himself and wife.
He and John had always been the
best of friends, so it was ijnite natural
he should bring his money here and
ask John to keep it for him till be wan-
ted to use it. He didn’t want to carry
it with him he said, while he was look-
ing up the little farm he had set his
mind on buying. John told him he had
better put his money in the bank,
where it would be safer, and growing
a little, but he said he’d feel just as
safe about it if he left it with us ns he
would if he put it in the hank, and he
didn’t think it would have a chance to
increase much before he got around to
use it, because he calculated to buy
his farm as soon as he found the one
that suited him.
So he left it. There was a trifle over
a thousand dollars, be told Johu, aud
I thought by the way he looked at it
when he gave it to my husband, that
he felt all his chance ‘for the future
was wrapped up in the bills. They
represented the home he had set his
heart on liaving, you see, and I
couldn’t help thinking— what if be
should lose it?
John took the money, and put it in
the till of that old blue chest in the cor-
ner there. That was on Sunday mron-
ing, wheu John didn't have to be at
the factory. I always shall think the
1
I’ve wondered a good many times since
then, if I didn’t have a sort of presen-
timent of what fras going to happen.
But 1 made up my mind that it was
the storm and wSnd that kept howling
around the house that made me feel
so, and I didn't say a word to John
about it.
on it to help him get a home, that los-
ing it would be like death to him. 1
wouldn't have felt so bad if it had
been our own, I’m sure.
When he had closed the chest he
took up the lautern and came back to
the bed room door and looked at me
again, to make sure, I suppose, that
Thechild, the^fe, was about two years | I was asleep. I shut my eyes again
old then. I told her stories for an hour and deceived him as I had before,
or two, and thet); when she began to ' Then he went into the hall, but instead
feel sleepy, I sang to her, and it i f going toward the front door, he
wasn’t long till she was tucked up iu went the other way, and I heard him
bed, fast asleep.1'Then I got my knit- ’ open the door into the cellar-way.
ting and sat doiAi by the fire, worked j Like a ilash it came to me that I could
till the clock struck nine. By that time < trap him if I was quick enough. I
I was sleepy and concluded I’d go t> never stopped to think about what
bed, too. | might happen—all I thought about
I must have slept about three hours, was saving poor Ben’s money. I got
for when I woke up the big clock on out of bed, slipped into the ball, and
the city ball was striking midnight. was close behind him as he stood look-
As I lay there listening to the clock iug down into the darkness. In less
I heard a step £ the hail. The first time than it takes to tell it, 1 sprung
thought that ca4e to me was that against him with every bit of strength
something had hqtpened at the facto- there was in me, aud he went tumbling
ry, aud that Join had come home, headlong down the stairs. Then I
But as the steps fcame near the door I swung the door shut, slipped the holt
knew they were hot 'John’s. I wa- j in its place and he was my prisoner,
awake in aininuU, and the wonder is I knew he couldn’t get out of the cel-
I didn’t get up at once. At first I j lar unless he came through the door,
thought I would, and then I though it j for it was walled up with stone, and I
would be better perhaps to keep still j felt pretty sure of that door, for if
and see what was going to happen. j you’ll look at it, you’ll see that it’s
thick and heavy.
Dear me! How the man did rave
and swear. It made the blood run
cold to hear him. But I didn’t stop
to iistcu long. I slipped on my dress,
lit the baby anil wrapped her up in
a shawl, ami started for the neatest
neighbor’s for help. I got a boy to
go to the factory for John, and the
neighbor and I went back to the house.
The man was trying to heat the door
down with somcthing.he had found in
the cellar, when we got there. The
neighbor had a pistol, and he was
ready to fire at the man the minute he
made a hole through the door. But
before he succeeded iu doiug that,
John came with two or three others,
and they captured him without muih
trouble, for they told him they’d shoot
him like a dog if he didn’t give up
peaceably, and they would have done
it and he kmw it.
So, you see, 1 saved Ben’s money,
after ail, and the first thing John did
next morning was to take it to the
bank—wouldn’t have kept it in the
house another night for anything. And
That very day John gave up his night
job and I haven’t been alone a night
since.
I didn’t know how frightened I real-
ly was until it was all over. But after
they had the man, and 1 kiiew the
iikhnj was safe, I seemed to giv e out,
some way, all at ouce, aud 1 had to
go la bed and it was two or three days
before I began to feel like myself.
1 tell you what it is, I don't waul an-
other such adventure. One's enough
for me.
GcttiDg up and rushing out into the
other room wouldn't help matters any,
and it might make them a good deal
worse. >
The steps came to tf>e door aud theu
softly, aud sum**, one came imo ihe
kitchen. The i.loor between the kitch-
en and the bed noon was open a trifle,
and as I looked Ant I Saw a man witb
a lautern in Ms ’.land. He stood there
listening.
You can well believe I was fright-
ened. I didn’t dare to stir or scream.
I just lay still a'id looked out of the
least little bitoi a crack in my eyelids.
I knew the roan as soon as I got a
look at his face1. He was a great,
burly fellow, w.io had been a hand in
the factory some time back. I had
beard John say ' bat lie had been dis-
charged lieta tse the proprietors
thought lie sto’e.
He stood there less than a minute,
I suppose, but it seemed to me that it
was more than an hour. Then he
came toward lli|» bed-room. He push-
ed the door opt* softly and lopked in,
holding the ianUrn up that he might
see through thy opening. I shut my
epes tight then! II* stood there and
watched me for a time, with ihe Ii~ht
shining full in py face. It was terri-
ble, terrible, I didn’t dare to move
a muscle. 1 was iu agony for fear the
baby would wafte up. 1 felt sure theu,
aud I do now, that he would have
killed me if he j bad tbougbt I was a-
wake. You can’t have any idea what
I suffered whi|e I lay there. It seem-
ed to me that life just depended on
my being stilly and to keep still under j Tbe XexM legJJt ure bas jllst pag9.
such circumstances was a pretty hard j eda|)U1 lcasillgtbtto|a eapitol building
thing to do. J don’t pretend to say at Aus,in for ten yearg> at flvc dollar8
that I'm morq courageous than lots of
other women. |bot I don't believe you
can find many who would brave it out
in that kind df danger better than I
did.
By and by
I was asleep,
the bed-rood)
he seemed satisfied that
and turned away from
door, leaving it wide
open. I s»w him go over to the old
blue cheat, aud I knew then what he
was after.
I breathed easier when his back was
turned. I ididn’t dare to stir though,
but jnst lay there with my eyes open
and*watcbe^l him. ’---ul— -
big bunch q'( keys
t
1 saw him take a
ont of his pocket
per anuum,' o the board of directors
of the National Confederate Horne.
Under the state constitut'on, the Leg-
islature cannot app>opriate money for
the purpose, aud the most it could do
was to lease out the old eapitol build-
ing to the directors of the Home.
Senatoi Edmunds has asked no fa-
vors of the new administration aud
refuses io indorse any applications for
office. Tbe senator's sulks are prob-
ably due to Mr. Blaine’s influence
with the administration. In the pres-
ent state of affairs a very small torch
would make a lovely bonfire of Re-
publican harmony.—Ft. Worth Gztte.
Livery & Feed Stable,
Kasling & Barnhill. Prop’rs,
LINDEN, - - TEXAS.
A general hack line from Linden to
Kildare connecting with trains. Leaves
Linden 7 A.m., and return* at 12 M.
All orders by postal or telegraphs to
meet parties, promptly attended to.
Drummer* carried from point to point
as desired. Solicit order (br all kinds ofj
hauling. Stock left with us will reeeiveo
good intention. Will also keep work
took for sale or trade.
SALESMEN WANTED.
A WtitiruWholeul# Houm bu recently added la
It* regular boalncst a •pccial department Vfetch wUl
le men lr. tuioui locnltti
kdln*: promisee of ex> rt>lU
n* end reliebie applicants who c
nest a sbccial dei
require srreirceof capable men I
Thu firm makes no mislead
Th ta n rm makes no n
salaries, but rushing
furnish satisfactory
^partmci ___
In various localities,
imisee of exorbitant
_ __________applicants who can
tt satisfactory referwnets as to trustworthiness
will bu liberally pat<1 in proportion to the ability they
demonstrate. Our requirements will not of necessity
interfere witb business in which Applicant Bay now
be eDKfUfed Address, with references.
«. A- Aujuujviui gca, u* mate Chicago, ill.
Ask Your Retailer for the
JAMES MEANS
$4 SHOE
»u Tiir.
JAMES MEANS
$3 SHOE.
According to Yonr Deeds.
..TAMES MEANS S4 SHOE
, ^_ _Id* ballt uxl Btvllah. It flf■ Ilk* •
Br ;ne P*'rftct!yeasy JnyTlt
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G VsPiSS MICE I, Absolutely lira
>>. ♦VIVonly thoe of lu prloe which
^ to whlch durabillty
%'s
fhr the James
Mm* $3 Shoe for Boys
J. MEANS Sc CO.. Boston.
Pall Homs of the abowe shoes for sale bp
Wood &
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PATENTS
Caveats, nml Trail -Murks fiiitniiwl,
ami all patet • oiwlmtetl for
MODEKATK FKKS. M'HOKI’U’KIS Op-
posite U. K. Patent office nml we
can secure patent in l< w time than those
remote from »n.
Send model, drawing pl»*tto., with
description. We ad vita* if putotitnhienr
not, free of charge. Our IV-• <. >t due till
patent fa MHUired.
A I*AMPHI.KT,“How tnOhtain Patents,,r
with nalheswf net ill clini* in your State,
c in ntyrurtfiwri, w*i ii~ ft ev ■
C. A. SNOW & CO.
oi’p. Pat.Office, Washington, I). C
SOLD By W. M WOOD.
Benner, the Western business proph-
et, whosj predictions for some years
have been closely verified, now proph-
esies a great boom in business during
1889 and 1890. These are the years
in his estimation in which to reap a
fortune, for their wonderful activity
will, lie says, be followed by a panic
in 1891. “I predict,” he says, “that
the price of Iron will advance, and
the average price for the year 1889
wi 1 be higher than the average of
1888, and 1 also predict that there will
lie a wonderful advance iu prices for
iron, stocks aud all products and com-
modies in tbe year 1890. All busi-
ness will be prosperous; it will be a
year of good crops—the boom in the
period of activity. In the beginning
of the year 1891 ijusiuess will be at
its highte—a great business inflation
—pig iron |.r>0 per ion in the markets
of our country. I predict that thore
will be a panic in the year 1891. The
overtrading aad general inflaiieu of
business and expansion of credit and
confidence will produce the result.”
—Cherokee Advertiser.
The work of deepening the harbor
at the mouth of the Brazos progresses
finely, aud Texas may be happy with,
deep water yet.—Fort Worth Grzelte-
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Erwin, J. W. The Linden Standard (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 23, 1889, newspaper, April 23, 1889; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth523108/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.