The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 15, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1887 Page: 3 of 4
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SUNDAY MORNING
MURRAY'S STEAD PRINTING HOUSE.
M. F. DEARlNG, Manager.
PHYSICIANS
-4-
AND SURGEONS.
DR. F. D. MARSHALL,
Ofllce, j6j S. HaUtcil St., cor. HarrUon.
Chicago, : : : Illinois.
Hour*: S lo 10 ». m. ■ » to 4 p. m.
TIUPHONK, ... 4067.
HYMEFEAL.
Mias Sadie E. Swingley, grand
daughter of Mrs. S. L. Stevens, for-
merly of this city, but now of St.
Louis, was married in the latter city
on Thursday evening. 4th inst., to
Mr. Edmund M. Brown. The cer-
emony took place at the residence
of the bride’s grandmother.
BASE BALL.
W. M. NAGLE,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
PUUOV, - - - TEXAS
Office onr T. Liebrecht’* Dru* Stan.
OF KICK HOURS:—11 to ■ and j to sp. m.
Telephone Communication.
DR. A. B’ GARDNER.
No. 315 Main Street,
OESItON, - - TEXAS
I AtUoUoi Gina to Diseases o» Women
A. COOK,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
DBRISON, - TEXAS
OSes st Guiteau A Waldron’* Dru* Store,
Telephone Communication.
DENTISTS.
A. R REED D D sT,
-DENTIST--
(Successor to S. S. Thompson.)
•S^Oppice:—Over First National Bank.
DR. JAMES RHEA,
-RESIDENT DENTIST.-
(Established In 1876.)
DENISON, - - - - TEXAS,
oat an Room, No. a. West Entrance. Muller Block
Taefeextracted without pain by the uae of Laugh
Office Hoars—7 to it a. m. aad ■ to 6 p. m.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
DRCKER & HARRIS,
—ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW--
No. 106 Main Street,
DENISON, ! : : TEXAS.
Prompt, Efficient A Thorough Action.
DAVID M. RHEA,
-ATTORNEY-AT-LAW-
OfficeCodin'* Insurance Building,
Rooma 4 and J,
DENISON, - - TEXAS.
I. M. STANDI PER. A. O. MOSELEY.
STANDIFER & MOSELEY,
-ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW-
East Stairway, Muller Block.
DENI8QN. .... TEXAS
S. A. GILBERT. S. H. RUSSELL.
GILBERT & RUSSELL,
-ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW-
DENISON, - - TEXAS.
Will practice la the District aad Inferior Court*
of Orayaon and aerrounding Counties, and in the
Supreme and Federal Courts of the State.
second door, front.
.upremc aad Federal Courts
•yOffioe^Nlgls Building.
B. PERSON,
-ATTORNEY-AT-LAW—
Office nt Main Street, Up Stairs.
TEXAS.
DEplSON, - - -
D. 6. HAUSE,
-ATTORNEY-AT-LAW-
OSes, -00 Mata Street, Chochit Building
DENISON - TEXAS.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
H. TONE,
NOTARY PUBLIC & CONVEYANCER
(Italy Reliable Abstract of Denison Property.
ao6 Main Street. Up-Stairs, Dcaiaon, Texas.
MUNSON & BRO
REAL ESTATE * ABSTRCT OF TITLES,
-NOTARY PUBLIC —
—Farm sad Fruit Land a Specialty.-
OSes No. 100, Lebrecht building. Corner
Main Street and Houston Art,
DENISON, ... - TEXAS.
COFFIN & ZINTGRAFF,
Notary Public, General Conveyancers,
Real Estate, Insurance and Brokers.
No. aiS Main St., Up Stairs, Denison, Texas.
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INSURANCE AGENTS. _
DA N~ WEBSTE R,
INSURANCE—.-.—AGENT.
A share of the local buslncaa solicited.
Represent* none but first-class companies
Office, 1*4 Main Street, • DENISON, TEX.
a7 w. spencer!
FIRE INSURANCE AGENT.
Office, No. 115, ai4 Main Street, opposite the
Suaday Gaaetteer.
DENISON, - - - TEXAS.
STEPHEN FRENCH,
-INSURANCE
Office, 1*4 Main St,
AGENT-
Denison, Texa e
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
JOSEPH SCHOTT,
ARCHITECT & SUPERINTENDENT
OK BUILDINGS.
Office with A. H. Collin*. No. laa Main street,
DENISON, - • ( • . TEXAS.
Plans, Specifications and Kstimates made with
Bond. Charge* rcaaonabla. Correspondence
solicited.
JAKE LOUDON,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Shop on Woodard Street and Ruak Ate.
Job work neatly and quickly done.
Door and window screens a specialty.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTERS.
C. W. HOTCHKISS.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER.
KALSOMINING PAPER HANGING A GLAZING
Barnett Avenue, - - Denison, Texas.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
AUGUST UHLIG.
Manufacturer ot
FINE BOOTS AND SHOES.
Shop on Austin Avenue, - Denison, Texas.
| RESTAURANT.
DELMONICO RESTAURANT,
WM. CLARK.
■MVMHf,
Table supplied with the
the market. Charges Rea
. Proprietor,
- - TEXAS,
beat ot eye nr thin* in
kooable.
BUOIUII’8 AMIGA SALVE.
The best salve In the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
tively cures piles, or no pay required. It
il guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price 35 cents per
box. For sale bv Guiteau A Waldron.
PRETTY WOMEN.
All women look attractive when their
color and complexion is clear. It your
akin is sallow, eyes dull, you are bilious,
•ecure a box of Williams’ Australian Herb
Pills, take as directed, and the feeling of
iangour will leave you, your e-es bright-
en and you are another woman. Try
them. Price 35 cents. T. B. Hanna &
Son, agents, Denison, Texas.
SYRUP OF FIGS
Manufactured only by the California Fig
Syrup Co., San Francisco, Cal., is Na-
ture’s Own true Laxative. It is the most
easily taken and the most pleasantly ef-
fective remedy known to cleanse the sys-
tem when bilious or costive; to dispel
headaches, colds and fevers: to cure hab-
itual constipation, indigestion, etc. For
•ale in co cents and $1.00 bottles by Gui-
teau & Waldron.
DR. YEIDLE’8 BEER HALL.
THE CELEBRATED
KULMBACHER BEER.
Fresh, sparkling, wholesome and
invigorating; always
-on tap--
NO STALK BEER SOLD AT YKIDEL’S.
Pretzels and choice Sandwiches on
the counter at all times.
They taste splendid—the Candies
at the Denison Candy Works.
Try a glass of that delicious
drink, Pineapple Sherbet, at the
dv W
A fine female tonic, Cheatham’s
Chill Tonic. Satisfaction guaran-
teed or money refunded. 15-tf
First^Bale.
The Sherman Democrat announces
the receipt of the first bale of cotton
in that town Monday evening from '.
Elmore, of Basin Springs. The cot-
con classed strict middling, weight
44a pounds and was purchased by A.
Fulton at 9 cents per pound, to
which was also added the merchants'
premium of $21 in cash.
Cheatham’s Chill Tonic, purely
vegetable, guaranteed to cure all
forms of chills and fevers. Try it.
All druggists. 15-tf
DIED.
At the family residence, on Wood-
ard street, this city, at 4 o'clock last
Monday aitemoon,Miss Blanch Gun-
ter, aged 23. The cause of death
was infiamation of the bowels, with
which she had been suffering but
short time. The funeral services
were conducted by Rev. T. E. Sher-
wood at the residence at 3.30, p
m.. Tuesday, the interment being at
Oakwood Cemetery.
In dv
lyspepsia and
use of Dr
;psia and indigestion the
r. J. H. McLean’s Strength-
ening Cordial and Blood Purifier
strengthens the exhausted coats of
the stomach, promotes a healthy
flow of gastric juice, which is the
solvent of the food and impels the
.organs, which secrete it, to perform
their functions vigorously and with
regularity^
Mr. John Holford informed the
Gazetteer last Monday that he
met ex-Citv Secretary Radeleff at
Silver City, New Mexico, last No-
vember. Mr. Radeleff told him he
came there expecting to get employ-
ment with the district clerk, but as
he was not re-elected he lost the
place. Radeleff was financially
embarrassed, but succeeded in bor-
rowing $10, “ot a friend,” to pay
his way back to El Paso.
During the warm
need an apetizer and
Try Cheatham’s Chill
druggists.
weather you
strengthener.
Tonic. All
_ *5'tf
Andrew Jackson, charged with
the theft of a horse from a man
named Gardner of Blue county,
Choctaw Nation, was brought to the
city Monday by a posse of citizens
of the Choctaw Nation and turned
over to the officers. He was lodged
in jail and a telegram sent to Sheriff
Dunn, of Lamar county, notifying
him of the arrest. Sheriff Dunn ar-
rived Tuesday night and conveyed
the prisoner to Paris where he will
receive trial. It was at Paris he dis-
posed of the horse after running it
in from the Territory.
Don’t forget that the Gate City
Drug Store, next door to the Colon-
nade hotel, keeps open all night.
Prescriptions carefully and correctly
filled.
ARTESIAN WELL.
Six car loads of machinery, to be
used in boring the new Missouri
]Pacific artesian well, were unloaded
at the foot of Austin avenue Monday
and a gang of men were at once set
to work to erect a derrick and to put
the engine and drilling apparatus in
position ready to begin work. The
company have at last resolved to find
water in sufficient quantities to sup-
ply their wants, if it exists anywhere
under Denison, and to this end they
will drill to a depth of 3000 feet it
need be in order to strike artesian
water. The latest, most powerful
and improved machinery will be
used, and no delay will be made in
carrying the enterprise to a conclu-
sion. The result of this enterprise
will be looked forward to with in
terest, as it will serve to cast light
upon the mineral formations under-
lying Denison, that has never been
had before and will help to test the
existence of natural gas in this vicin-
ity. Aitesiun water is what the
railway company is after, but they
may strike so.r.ething of even great-
er value before they are through.
— —!►>
Are you suffering with indiges-
tion? If so, takes' a dose of Cheat-
ham’s ^.hill Tonic. Very pleasant
to take, an excellent tonic ; strength-
ening and apetizing, and guaranteed
to cure both chills and fever, or
money refunded. All druggists.
15-tf
Complaint is being made by par-
ties living on w’est Main street at the
manner in which the “Fir>t and Last
Chance Saloon,” situated on the
corner of Chandler avenue and Main
street, is being run by the present
proprietor. It is said that carriages
containing demimonde habitues stop
there at all hours of the day and
night, and that the cyprians go into
the back yard and hold orgies which
are a scandle to the neighborhood.
It is said that unless these practices
are stopped complaint will be laid
with the authorities, and the matter
made one for legal interference.
SAVED HIS LIFE.
Mr. D. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
Kv., savs he was, for many vears, badly
atbictcd with Phthisic, also Diabetes; the
pains were almost unendurable and would
sometimes almost throw him into con-
vulsions. He tried Electric Bitters and
got relief from first bottle and after tak-
ing six bottles, was entirely cured and
had gained in flesh eighteen pounds
Says he positively believes he would have
died, had it not been for the relief af-
forded by Electric Bitters. Sold at fifty
cents a bottle by Guiteau & Waldron.
The Hope, Ark., Giants, and the
Gate Citys, of Denison, played a
game at the Woodlawn Park Sun-
day afterncon, which for the inter-
est it excited, and the closeness of
the contest, was equal to anything we
! have seen this season. There were
! not as many brilliant plnys nor as
| few errors as have been placed ou
! record at previous matches, but this
was atoned for by the closeness of
Ihe score and the energy with which
each team battled tor the mastery.
The Giants (who were any thing
but giants in point of statue) went
first to bat. and for the first three
innings failed to do anything with
Andruss’ making in the whole three
innings not a single base hit. In
the second inning he worked them
in a way that we have never seen
duplicated before in this city, the
whole three men retiring on strikes
without so much as making a foul
tip. In the fourth however they be-
gan to hit him, and in the fifth their
batting was excellent and lucky, and
they got in three runs. This score
was raised in the sixth inning to
four, but though they continued to
strike the ball at regular intervals,
they failed to score again.
Their battery was an excellent
one, and did good execution.
Welsh, the pitcher, proved to be
one of the hardest to hit that has
played against either one ot the Den-
ison clubs this season. The speed
he is able to give a bail is something
wonderful, and if he could control
it a little better he would amount to
a phenomenon. Ringo, the catcher,
played his porition without an error,
and in his fine throwing reminded
us of Scullin.
On the side of the home team fine
play ng was done all round, but es-
pecially by the battery, which con-
sisted of Andruss and Ebey for the
first six innings, when Ebey was hit
upon the right arm with a bat, alter
which his place was taken by Crooks,
who caught the last three innings
withou an error. In the nineth he
caught a foul tip which knocked the
third finger of the right hand com-
pletely out of joint, despite which he
delivered the ball to first in time to
trip up the man running between
first and second, making one ot the
prettiest double plays that has been
made this season, and the only one
scored during the game. Andruss did
his usually fine execution, striking
out 12 of the Giants fine batters, and
allowing them only 11 safe hits off
his balls. Chapman made several
fine pick ups between first and sec-
ond. The score stood 4 and 4 for
the last three innings, but iu the final
one the Gate Citys got in two runs,
beating the Giants amid great ex-
citement by a score of 5 to 4. The
following is the score by innings:
Gate Citys—2 01 10000 1-5.
Hope Giants-o 00031 00 0-4.
Struck out, Gate Citys, 9 ; Giants,
12. 2 base hits, Alexander and Cox,
for Gate Citys ; Adams, for Giants.
Double plays, Crooks to Chapman.
Clarence Young, umpire.
The Sherman Excelsiors downed
the Hope Giants, Monday, by a score
of S to 6, but in the game of Tues-
day the tables were turned, the
Giants coming off victors by a score
13 to 9.
The Denison Association was
beaten by the Island City's at Gal-
veston on Sunday by a score of S to
6; but on Monday they defeated
the same nine, under the name of
the Galveston Grays, by a score ot
14 to 6. The reason tor their defeat
on Sunday is said to be that they
were scared by reputation and
gigantic stature of the nine they
were playing, and let them have
LETTER FROM AN OLD DEHI80NIAB money—say $200 or so,
BOW IN FLORIDA. got here, for that would carry
FLota.UA SwA^Vidiummer, ’S7. OVt*r ,he »‘usquito give
Friend Mikkay: h*«» * chance to get a crop in.
The musquitoes have not eaten us However, any man could live here
up, the horse flies have only sue- the whole year through, even if he
ceeded in making a few boles in our j had no money, if he was willing to
cuticle : we have not -been torn in
pieces by wildcats, panthers or alli-
gators, the sun has not burned us up
nor the sand drifted us under, and so
far the buzzards even are kindly let
ling us alone. What does trouble
us some is, that we are 100 miles
from the nearest “little brown jug’’
ami 150 miles or more from the
nearest “lager,” ami our “home
supply” gave out long ago. Barring
this inconvenience, we are doing
very well—for us.
We have received numerous letters
and postals, during our past year’s
residence here, asking for infor-
mation of all kinds in regard to
this country, and the inquirers seem
to take it for granted that we are as
reliable as ail newspaper correspon-
dents generally are. if not more so.
Some have even in inuated that we
were, if not quite an angel, son
what of a “swamp angel” so to
speak, and have requested us to fire
back our answers at them according-
ly. While willing to oblige all
friends (if they enclose stamp for
return postage) and even strangers
(on the same terms) when we have
the time to spare, we take this
method of giving one and all of
them who have asked, and those
who may wish to ask questions about
this country, a few general answers
to a tew general questions and trust
it may be also of some interest to
your million or so (to get) readers:
Q. — What kind of country is it?
A.—Mixed ; land and water.
Q.—What is the climate?
A.—Generally warm and mild.
Q.—How hot does it get?
A.—From 90 ' to 95° or 96°.
Q.—How cold?
A.— From 40° down to 29° or 30'
once in a great while.
Q.—Is it wet or dry there?
A.—More dry than wet, and the
rainy weather is during the summer.
Q.—Are the nights cool?
A.—Not as you understand it,
there :s seldom more than 10° to 15°
difference in temperature during any
twenty-lour hours.
Q.—Is not the heat unbearable
hot here at 90°, or over,
four runs in the first
did not earn.
inning that they
THE GREAT DORIS & OOLVIff 8H0W.
Denison Candy Works.
PEACH SEED.
Cash paid for good, fresh peach
seed, crop of 1S87, cured in shade,
delivered at T. V. Munson’s Nur-
sery on South Mirick avenue, Deni-
son, Texas. Received at any time
till December 1, 1SS7. The sooner
the better. I4'3t
From a private letter received
from Mr. M. J. O’Neill, general
press agent of Doris & Colvin’s
Show, last Wednesday, it is stated
that this circus and menagerie will
visit Denison about the first ot Octo-
ber. Mr. O’Neill was with Doris
when he last visited Texas, and he
assures us that the show has been
greatly improved and many new fea-
tures added, and in order to give our
readers a better idea of the Doris &
Colvin Show, vve print below a no-
tice from the Cincinnati Enquirer of
May 7, 1SS7:
Had Ned Butline lived to see the
Doris & Colvin Wild West he
would have been inspired to do the
work of his life. ,r»vid as was the
famous author’s imagination, and
great as was his experience in border
life, he never, in the wildest dreams
of his fancy, conceived such thrilling
scenes; nor did he ever, in all his
experience, behold such thrilling and
entrancing sights as those presented
in the new Wild West of the big
show.
Doris & Colvin are originators—
they copy nothing. The great scenes
from border life, the awe inspiring
and highly dramatic encounters be
tween the reds and whites, the tab-
leaux formed and the pictures por-
trayed, are simply surprising, and
many of them being reproductions
of actual occurrences, go far to prove
the old adage, that truth is stranger
than fiction. There is enough of the
dramatic and spectacular element in
the Wild West scenes enacted at the
big show to make the innovation ot
their production one of the greatest
and most original and pleasing
changes known to the cireus world.
Everything about the entire show, in
fact, in all its departments, speaks
ot a clear cut-away from the old-
time sawdust ring and makes the
big show the “boss” ot the day.
—--- — » • - - - ———
DON'T EXPERIMENT.
You cannot atford to waste time in ex-
perimenting when your lungs are in dan-
ger. Consumption always seems at first,
| only a cold. Do not permit any dealer
: to impose upon vou with some cheap 1m-
j itation ot Dr. King’s New Discovery tor
; Consumption, Coughs and Colds, but be
j sure you get the genuine. Because he
j can make more profit he may tell vou he
; has something just as good, or just the
same. Don’t be deceived, but insist upon
getting Dr. King's New Discovery, which
is guaranteed to give reliet in ail"Throat,
Lung and Chest attections. Trial bottles
free, at Guiteau & Waldron’s drug store.
for it does not feel as
it does
north at 8oc, and there is generally
a good breeze blowing which also
helps to make it more bearable.
Frequent showers,during the hottest
weather, also help in keeping both
temperature and temper down.
Q.—What kind of soil is it?
A.—-Sandy.
Q.—What is the best soil?
A.—That in the hammocs, or on
what is called meed land which
seems to be mostly muck mixed
with sand with possibly a little de-
composed coral (lime) rock and
some ashes in it.
Q.—What is the poorest soil?
A.—Bare white sand is said to be
the poorest, but some things will
grow even on that.
Q.—Is the land easy to work?
A.—Not on the start, for it is
mostly covered with a dense growth
of underbrush and has to be all
cleared by hand, the roots even be-
ing dug out with a grubbing hoe run
by man power. After once being
cleared though it is as easy to work
as any other pure sand is.
Q.—What is raised on it?
A.—On the best land garden
vegetables are the principal paying
crops, being put in so as to be ready
for market in January, February,
and March, the principal ones being
tomatoes, egg-plant, cucumbers and
cabbage; Irish potatoes also have
paid. Northern fruits don’t seem to
and would turn his hand to any-
thing and everything that offered.
Q.—Do you advise any one to
come there ? . .
A.—We do not give advice—we
only give facts (or as near to them
as we can)'and let every one decide
lor himself.
Q.—-Is it a healthy country?
A.—It is the healthiest country,
from our experience, that we ever
lived in and it seems to be so also
from outside observation.
Here we have given a few ques-
tions and answers, and may, if so
desired, give more information at
some future day. As far as soil and
society is concerned we much pre-
fer Denison, and even in a money
making point of view Denison would
still be ahead probably, although
there are good chances here only a
little more time might be consumed
in making the turn. We are glad
that Denison is boomfng, and have
never lost faith in the town yet. We
only hope our triends will profit by
the boom. Possibly more from old
time Sam.
An Effectual Method of Extorting a Con-
fession from Thieves.
The following litfle incident from
Hubert Howe Bancroft’s Popular
Tribunals I, will serve to illustrate
the method ot extorting a confession
from criminals, often resorted to by
the early California miners:
“The town of Columbia has its
broadway, as has every mining
camp, bv whatever name called, and
gathered round a tree standing at
the upper end of this busy street on
the 7th of July, 1852, might have
been seen an excited crowd with
some object in their midst, which
commanded their lent attention. It
.was an old man, prostrate beneath
the tree, half strangled by the rope
which encircled his neck as it hung
loosely from a limb. Every now
and then his tormenters would seize
the rope and pull upon it until the
old man was lifted a few feet from
the ground, when they would let him
down again. Why was this? The
miners were by no means a cruel
people; children and old age, next
to women, commanded their tender
sympathy. This seemed harsh treat-
ment. Assuredly it went against
their feelings; but they felt that
crime must be put down at any cost,
and suspicion pointed to the cld man
as guilty of crime. It appears that
one Yetes, on his way from his
claim to town, dropped his purse,
containing twelve hundred dollars in
gold-dust. Near the spot where he
thought he must have dropped it the
prisoner was seen to pick up some-
thing. On being questioned he
stoutly denied any knowledge of it;
nevertheless the Magistrate commit-
ted him for trial. Speculation then
began to spread about the town as to
the probable guilt of the accused,
until curiosity, getting the better ot
discretion, they proceeded to the
prison, and borrowed the prisoner
from the law untii they should sat-
isfy themselves. For a time, be-
tween the shori intervals of his sus-
pension, the old man continued to
deny his guilt; finally, fearing lest
one of the upliftings, should be a
trifle too long, and being generally
uncomfortable, under the treatment,
he confessed, discovered to them the
money, and was banished.”
TRIBUTE TO HEHRY WARD BEEOHER.
BY R G.INGEKSOLL
|_The Beecher Memorial volume, which
has been compiled and edited by Mr. Ed-
ward \V. Bok, and of which a limited pri-
vate edition ha« been printed, contains a
remarkable series of tributes to the great
preacher. Among the hundred contrib-
utors are Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Pres-
ident Cleveland, Mr. Gladstone, M.
Bartholdi, Sig. Salvint, Duke of Argvle,
Senator Sherman, General Sherman, the
poet Whittier, Dr. Talmage, Admiral
orter, Canon Farar, Ceo. W. Childs,
Roscoe Conkling, I>r. McGlvhn, H< nrv
George, Lawrence Barrett, W. W. Corco-
ran, Washington Gladden, Andrew Car-
negie, Charles Dudlev Warren, John
Burroughs, Julia Ward Howe, Ristori,
Miss Cleveland, Mrs. Garfield, and manv
other names ot prominence. The follow-
ing is Col. Ingersoll’s tribute:!
Henry Ward Beecher was born in
. .. Puritan penitentiary, of which his
do well here, but bananas pay fairly J father was one ol the wardens—a
and do well on good foil, while pine-
apples grow everywhere and even
pay on the poorest soil if taken care
of. Oranges, limes, lemons, guaves,
cocoanuts, anil the like, will grow
almost any where and pay if looked
alter properly—it takes time how-
ever for them to bear.
Q.—How about water?
A —Water can be got almost any-
where by sinking a well. Near the
salt water, where put down through
rock or even sand the water seems
hard and not very good tasting,
although probably not unhealthy;
but back on the white sand soil the
wells almost without exception yield
good, clear, pure soft water.
Q.—Don’t musquitoes trouble
some ?
A.—Yes, during the summer.
They generally begin to show up in
May and get worse till in July, when
the air may almost be said to be
thick with them, and they then seem
to begin to thin out and finally dis-
appear along about October.
Q.—How do you live when they
are so thick ?
A-— By making smoke, or
“smudges” as they are called, to
drive them away and by having
musquito bar on doors and windows
and over our beds.
Q.—Do you like the country?
A.—We do, or we would not have
come here in the first place, nor
stayed here in the second.
Q.—It is a good place for a poor j
man to come to?
A.—No ; not tor a real poor man j
i —that is for one who has not a cent |
when he gets here, for while one, ]'
two, or possibly half a dozen such
men might make even more than a
prison with very narrow and closely-
grated windows. Under its walls
were the rayless, hopeless, and meas-
sureless dungeons of the damned,
ami on its roof fell the shadow ot
God’s eternal frown. In this prison
the creed and catechism were prim-
ers for children, and from a pure
sense of duty their loving hearts were
stained and scarred with the religion
ot John Calvin.
In those days the home of an or-
thodox minister was an inquisition
in w’bftch babes were tortured for the
good of their souls. Children, then,
as now, rebelled against the infa-
mous absurdities and cruelties of the
creed. No Calvanist was ever able,
unless with blows, to answer the
questions of his child. Children
were raised in what was called “the
nurture and admonition of the
Lord”—that is to say, their wills
were broken or subdued, their na-
tures deformed and dwarfed, their
desires defeated or destroyed, and
their development arrested or perver-
ted- Ljfe was robbed of its spring,
its summer, and its autumn. Chil-
dren stepped from the cradle into
the snow. No laughter,. no sunshine,
no joyous, free, unburdened days.
God, an infinite detective, watched
them from above, and Satan, with
malicious leer, was waiting for their
souls below. Between these mon-
sters life was passed. Infinite conse-
quences were predieateil of the
smallest action, and a burden
greater than a God could bear was
placed upon the heart and brain of
every child. To think, to ask ques-
tions, to doubt, to investigate, were
acts of rebellion. To express pity
for the lost, writhing in the dungeons
below, was simply to give evidence
that the enemy of souls had been at
work within their hearts.
Among all the religions ot this
world—from the creed of cannibals
who devoured flesh to that of Cal-
vinists who polluted souls—there is
none, more utterly heartless and in-
human than was the orthodox Con-
gregationalism of New England, in
living the whole year round,
would have to work in the musqui-
toes all summer, and that, men not
used to, could hardly stand at first;
they | the year of grace 1S13. It despised
every natural joy, hated pictures,
abhorred statues as lewd and lust-
ful tilings, execrated music, regarded
nature as fallen and corrupt, man as
and too many men here would divide i totally depraved, and women as
the work up so much that no one of i somewhat worse. The theater was
them would be able to make hardly ,he vestibule ot perdition, actors the
... . . . , . 1 servants of Satan and Shakspeare a
a living, to say nothing of anything trifling wretch, whose words were
over. It would pay a man, how- j seeds of death. And yet the virtues
ever, to come if he had a little j found a welcome, cordial and sin-
when he cere ; duty was done as understood ;
him obligations were discharged; tiuth
| was told; self-denial was practiced
for the sake of others; and hearts
were good and true in spite of book
and creed.
In this atmosphere of theological
miasma, m this hideous dream of
superstition, in this penitentiary,
i morally austere, this babe first saw
j the imprisoned gloom.
The natural desires ungratified,
j the laughter suppressed, the logic
t. brow -lieaten by authority, the humor
| frozen by fear— for many generations
—were in this child destined to rend
and wreck the prison’s walls.
Through the grated windows of
| his cell this child, this bov, this man,
I caugh’ glimpses of the outer world,
j of fields and skies. New thoughts
I were in his brain, new hopes within
j his heart. Another heaven bent
above his life. There came a reve-
lation of the beautiful and real. The-
ology grew mean and small.
Nature wooed and won and sav-
ed this mighty soul.
Her countless hands were sewing
seeds within his tropic brain. All
sights and sounds—all colors, forms,
and fragments— were stored within |
the treasury of his mind. His j
thoughts were molded by the grace- j
ful curves of streams, l>v winding
paths in woods, the charm of quiet
country roads and lanes grown in-
d stinct with weeds and grass—by
vines that cling and hide with leaf
and flower the slumbering wall’s de-
cay—by cattle standing in the sum-
mer pools like statues of content.
There was Within his words the
subtle spirit of the season’s change—
of everything that is, of everything
that lies between the slumbering
seeds, that, half-awakened by the
April rain, have dreams of heaven’s
blue, and feel the amorous kisses ot
the sun, and that strange tomb
wherein the alchemist doth give to
death’s cold dust the throb and
thrill of life again.
He saw with loving eyes the wil-
lows of the meadows grow red be-
neath the glance of spring—the grass
along the marsh’s edge—the stir of
life beneath the withereil leaves—the
moss below the drift of snow—the
flowers that gives their bossoms to the
first south wind that wooes—the sad
and timid violets that only bear the
gaze of love from eyes half closed—
the ferns, where fancy gives a thou-
sand forms with bet a single plan—
the green and sunny slopes enriched
with daisy’s silver and the cowslip’s
gold.
As in the leafless woods some
tree aflame with life stands like a
rapt poet in the heedless crowd, so
>-tood this man among his fellow-
men.
All there is of leaf and bud, of
painted insect life, and all the wing-
ed and happy children of the air that
summer holds beneath her dome of
blue, were known and loved by
him.
He loved the yellow autumn fields,
the golden stacks, the happy homes
of men, the orchard’s bending
boughs, the sumach’s flags ot flame,
the maples with transfiguied leaves,
the tender yellow of the beech, the
wondrous harmonies of blown and
gold—the vines where hang the clus-
tered spheres of wit and mirth. He
loved the winter days, the whirl and
drift of snow—all forms of frost—the
rage and furry of the storm, when
in the forest, desolate and stripped,
the brave old pine towers green and
grand—a prophecy of spring. He
heard the rhythmic sound of nature s
busy strife, the hum of bees, the
songs of birds, the eagle’s cry, the
murmur of the streams, the sighs
and lamentations of the winds, and
all the voices of the sea. He loved
the shores, the vales, the‘crags and
cliffs, the city’s busy streets, the in-
trospective, silent plain, the solemn
splendors of the night, the silver sea
of dawn, and evening’s clouds of
molten gold.
The love of nature freed this lov-
ing man.
One by one the fetters fell; the
gratings disappeared, the sunshine
smote the roof, and on the floors ot
stone light streamed from open
dorrs. He realized the darkness
and despair, the cruelty and hate,
the starless blackness of the old,
malignant creed. The flower of
pity grew, and blossopied in his
heart. The selfish “consolation”
filled his eyes with tears. He saw.
that what is called the Christian’s
hope is that, among the countless
billions wrecked and lost, a meager
few perhaps may reach the eternal
shore—a hope that, like the desert
rain, gives neither leaf nor bud—a
hope that gives no joy, no peace, to
any great and loving soul. It is the
dust on which the serpent feeds that
coils in heartless breasts.
Day by day the wrath and ven-
geance faded from the sky—the Jew-
ish God grew vague and dim—the
threats ot torture arid eternal pain
grew vulgar and absurd, and all the
miracles seemed strangely out of
place. They clad the infinite in
motley garb, and gave to aureoled
heads the cap and bells.
Touched by the pathos of ail hu-
man life, knowing the shadows that
fall on every heart—the thorns in
every path, the sighs, the sorrows,
and the tears that lie between a
mother’s arms and death’s embrace
—this great and gifted man de-
nounced, denied, and damned with
all his heart the fanged and fright-
ful dogma that souls were made to
feed the eternal hunger—ravenous as
famine—of a God’s revenge.
Take out this fearful, fiendish,
and heartless lie—compared with
which all other lies are true—and the
great arch of orthodox religion crum-
bling falls.
To the average man the Christian
hell and heaven are only words. He
has no scope of thought. He lives
but in a dim, impoverished now.
To him the past is dead—the future
still unborn. He occupies with down-
cast eyes that narrow line of barren,
shifting sand that lies between the
flowing seas. But Genius knows all
time. For him the dead all live, and
breathe, and act their countless parts
again. All human life is in his
now, and every' moment feels the
thrill of all to be.
No one can overestimate the good
accomplished by this marvelous,
many-sided man. He helped to slay
the heart-devouring monster of the
Christian world. He tried to civilize
the church, to humanize the creeds,
to soften p ous breasts ot stone, to
take the fear from mothers’ hearts,
the chains of creed from every brain,
to put the star of hope in every sky
and over every grave.
Attacked on very side, maligned
by those who preached the law of
love:, he wavered not, but fought
whole-hearted to the end.
Obstruction is but virtue’s foil.
From thwarted light leaps. color’s
flame—the stream impeded has a
song.
He passed from harsh and cruel
creeds to that serene philosophy that
has no place for pride or hate, that
threatens no revenge, that looks on denison.
j sin as stumblings of the blind and
pities those who fall, knowing that
in the souls of all there i» a sacred
j yearning for light. He ceased to
think of man as something thrust
upon the world—an exile from some
other -pht-re. He felt at last that
men are part of nature’s self- kin-
, dred of all life—the gradual growth
i of countless years ; that all the sacred
1 boo,'.! were helps until outgrown,
and all religions rough and 1 evious
paths that man has worn with weary
' feet in sad and painful search for
: truth and peace. To him these paths
were wrong, and yet all gave prom
ise ot succc's. He knew that all the
streams, no mattor how they wan-
der, turn, and curve amid the hills
or rocks or linger in the lakes and
pools, must some time reach the
sea.
These views enlarged his soul and
made him patient with the world,
and while the wintry snows of age
were failing on his head, spring,
with all her wealth of bloom, was in
his heart.
The memory of this ample man is
now a part of nature’s wealth. He
battled for the rights of men. His
heart was wi h the slave. He stood
against the selfish greed of millions
banded to protect the pirate’s trade.
His voice was for the right when
freedom’s triends were few. He
taught the church to think anii doubt
He did not fear to stand alone. His
brain took counsel of his heart. To
every foe he offered reconciliation’s
hand. He loved this land ot ours,
anil added to its glory through the
world. He was the greatest orator
that stbod within the pulpit’s narrow
curve. He loved the liberty of
speech. There was no trace of
bigot in his blood. He was a brave
and generous mau, and so, with rev-
etent hands, I place this tribute on
his tomb.
THX LIOHT-RITNNTNO
The Gate City Drug Store, next
to the Colonnade hotel, a full line of
drugs, medicines, toilet articles and
fancy goods. The filling of pre-
scriptions a specialty. Dr. David
Gardiner, proprietor.
UITEAU S WALDRON,
DRUGGISTS.
-D< aler* in-
Paints, Oils, Varnishes. Wall Paper,
POCKET CUTLERY, Ac.
Largest Stock !
Lowest Prices!
Best Assortment!
PRESCRIPTIONS
CarefullY- -Compounded
Large and Complete Stock ot
DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES
-AND—
PA TENT MEDICINES.
UNDER THE OPERA HOUSE,
DENISON TEX
JOHN R. CARR,
►LONEWSTAR*
la the only abaoiute perfect Newit«« Mm
made. It Ha* now been «»n tHe market V*>r at feat*
an<t durin* all thwv year* ol U »t and trial a |
aangle rnsrhinc Ha* worn oat or ftff out *»f wr«hr.
It* great popularity ha* cau*c«l all other* to imi
late it a* near a* they dare. Crll and *e« this tin*
machine with its nor wood work and it* w*i
fwl new patent attachment*.
Pure oil and diamond point needier* lor all me
chines on hand- Needle* *cnt by mail every when
OBce nt $ A >o Cent More, Drnuon.
XL TKRRXLL, MANAGER.
S. HAKK1MAN.
S. H MORHIh.
HARPAN 4 MORRIS,
DEALERS IX
COFFINS 4 BUFjIAL OUTFITS
Metalcli Coffins, Etc. I «»^***»ti
•of Embalming a Specialty.I ,*b
Tthorraph Order, promptly atUadad lo Ordm I all ifcalc
•rom Territory will ratmv* aparial aiuauaa.
Telephone Conrwctlon at Mr. Harriinaa'* Ha-
• Ida net. Alao at Ilia While Klrphant LlvarrStahlr
Call* daat
Vo. 321 mis 8t„ Off. Colo&aaO HoUl.
Denison,..........Texas.
HAWKE S
i •
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Itaiap aad b*y"
haaiaaaa wo*, ii
labliahad la hla
pood* from • J lo |0 |
daalara ha haa bail!
aaaa in aaw aad aac
(urniahlaaa la lha
plaaaaat aai »
will And tnam
lamp him.
BACKUS
1 unluiANr.RJRL ANt
LENStS IN THE WOF
Combined with Great Refraoting j
Power,
THEY
ARK AS
COLOUI.ESS
TRANSPARENT AND
AS LIGHT 1TSKLF,
And lor aottneaa of coduraoca to lha ay* can__
h« excelled, enabling Ihe wearer to road for hour*
without lat>(ue. la fact, thay are
PERFECT SIGHT PRESERVERS.
Te*timoniala from lh« leading phyalriana in the
United State*. Kovcrnam, senators, legislators,
stockmen, men of note in alt profession* and in I
different branches of trade, bankers, mechanic.,
etc., can be given, who hnae had their sight im
prove by their uae. All eyes ittad and lha >1
guaranteed by
DRIVING
It lakes hot little
Il nor
BAILEY A
DENISON, -
•V These glasses are
at any price.
HOWARD.
- ■ TEXAS.
nol supplied to peddler*
J«rt»
There is ae deli
pairing seen
pay. and
lay; m
away; no extra I
ilng Frii
I.ethos.
Lumber Yard.
DENISON, TEXAS.
■--THE—
pRENCH*--^
1 ^KITCHEN
^HOTEL & RESTAURANTS*
KD. CASTIAN, Prop’r.
No. io6 Main Strut, » - Denison, Tiyas
This Hotel and Restaurant has juat .*cently
opened, is newly furnished and everything neat,
new and clean throughout, where ffueata will re-
ceive the best of attention.
REGULAR MEALS, a5 CENTS.
BOARD & LODGING, $1.00 PER DAY.
ALYDOP
gentlemevsFRiLNL *
A (rood Hyrinee with each bottle,
Hure cure in 2 to 4 days.
Ask your druggist for It.
Sent to any address for
MALYDOR MFG. CO. SDTilgQlli IL,
For sale by T. B. Hanna & Son,
Denison, Texas.
broWMhMr
PROPRIETORS OF
“THE CABINET”
Main Street, Opposite Opera House,
Denison,..........Texas.
KEEP THE BEST QUALITY OF
FI\E WltjES j\HD LIQUORS
ALSO A CHOICE LINE OK
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
CIGARS AND TOBACCOS.
RfBtmbcr “The Ctbiwf Reaeaber.
3&w. aTh alWeck^
Proprietor ol the
BAKERY.
-Also Dealer in-
FINE CONFECTIONERY.
FRUITS, NUTS, NOTIONS,
—AND —
CAKE ORNAMENTS.
>in Street,
800 Mi
- - TEXAS.
f'lte [nflepenleiit piipit
AN ETHICAL MA0AZZN1,
Devoted to
iberalism, Free boniUit,
And State Secularization.
£%va.’toll«3xffidL 3s-Coaa.tla.ly.
Price of Annual Subscription....81.00 j
Prion of Sinflln Copy.............IB Cnntn |
AddMii J. S. SHAW, Win, Tiui
__f . O. lOZita
Luther Andruss
Dealer in
Bicycles, Tr icy let,
and Sundries.
Bicycles sold on tha In-
etailraent plan.
Second Hind Richie*
nought * Sold.
DENISON, TEXAS
II i*
rennln
i5k‘;....... .
Mills, Rlevatora, t
Tm~ ----
It km i
It ia Very
PRICK,
Texas*
The Greet I
Short Urn, to
B.N.CARTER,
--AGENT-
-e-NBW
And All 1
LOUISIANA, NEW
and
Favorite Lin* to tl
Do*
PULLMAN PALAOS I
Iron M<
See that v«»ur tk
Railway, r or ma
and all required In
W.Ce RIORBV.I
|. II. MILL It It, Pass. .
B. W, McCULLOUfiH, O. I
JOHNA. OMAN T,
—The—
« f
And Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
NORTHERN LAKE ICE.
Office and Ware ho uae,
North ofMo.Pac. Ereignt Depot.
WAPLES BRO’S,
Lumber Merchants,
The Oldest Established Lumber iard in Deniaon,
Haa on hand the fiocct grade* of
NORTHERN AND NATIVE LUMBER.
Laths, Shingles,
Doors and Sash,
Lime, Cement,
Plaster and Hair.
BEST MIXED PAINTS A SPECIALTY.
Missouri
-RAILWAY
The Great “Nett uil
I* the Thorough fere (
Central fc
to oil
North, Ka*
Double daily aervtc* ot elrga
end Sleeping Cere I
SAN ANTONIO,
KANSAS CITY,
Don’t be deceived, but celt I
tha Miaaourl PeciAi Heilwey.
For eny deal red
folders ate., cell on
H vv c;‘ RIOSBY, Ticket J
J. II. MILLER,
Northern Tax a* Fas*. Ageut
B. W. McCUL
Oeaerai Paae. I
xts'w aca
-:Denison City B&ktrj:-
Austin Aye., Rear Star Store,
J. B. HEWITT * CO., Pro’rs.
DEAI.KRS IN
CooreetioDerie*. Cake OraaaeaU, tk.,
Truk tad Pvt triad DtUnrtd Irtrj Dtj.
Cakes and Pics Always on Hand and Furnished in j
any quantity desired.
TRY THE HEW BAKERY,
AND GET THE BEST
PENSIONS INCREASED! I
RB3A.X3TT TO
Save Money aad Fraaarv* Veor
* E.SAFFR01
FRENCH DYEING, CLEANING, 1
INO, RE-LINING, BINDING ,
HENOVATING OF
KSTABLIS1
Office aad Dye Work* pU I
I
If you make an application tor Increaa* ot y»
Pension through me, aad will get three other |
Pensioner* to apply for Increaae through ma, I
wiU proaecute your owa Claim for one-half the
usual fee. Write to me for my SPECIAL
OFFER
HUBERT J. MURRAY.
Box 062. Wuhuurtoa, D. 0.
Silk VeRmte,
Goode will he I
•o ee to look ee i
oted U the <
her; Gen.
banker; Mr. I
ridge, A untie 1
M lleoafield, U I
msm
S. JONfftOM, P
WltM
STATE NATIONAL
OF DENISON.
Authorised Capital,
Paid Up Capital, - • •
Surplus Fund, ----
DIRECTORS:
Ai rx. Rbnmie, W. C. 1
A W. At naaoN, A. H '
A. R. Coi.um,
Wii.moi Sabobe
B. W. Cabti
. HIM
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