Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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A MASTERLY RETREAT.
HmN Marshal Belleisle Evaded the Foe
In Evacuating Prague.
One of the cleverest retreats in
the history of warfare was the one
effected by Marshal Belleisle in De-
cember, 1742, when he evacuated
Prague. France, then at war with
Austria, had a year previously ad-
vanced an army into Bohemia and
stormed its ancient capital. There,
however, her energies ceased, and
before many months were run her
troops found themselves besieged in
turn in the captured stronghold.
Midwinter found Belleisle block-
aded in front and rear by forces
that cut off supplies, and to clear
out became the only alternative to
surrender. The city itself was bit-
terly inimical, and every plan he
devised was instantly made known
to the besiegers, but by great adroit-
ness he set forth on Dec. 16 into
the darkness with 14,000 men, can-
non service and baggage trains, un-
molested by the foe, but facing one
of the cruellest journeys an army
could undertake.
He had for his route the choice
of two roads—one going north, the
other south, equally bad, and both
in possession of adverse hussars.
Instead of taking either he struck
into the space between — across
mountains, streams and bogs—in
the depths of an unusually rigorous
winter. Fortunately for him the
very severity of the weather made
the passage of the marshes possible,
but the sufferings of his men were
indescribable, not to mention the
attacks of eager enemies, who hung
on his flanks and rear like wolves.
When he at length reached his
haven of refuge at Egger, eleven
days after quitting Prague, 1,300 of
his force were left frozen in the
wilderness, but under his brilliant
leadership his army was otherwise
intact. It had driven off two fierce
assaults of the enemy and overcome
difficulties which, but for his con-
summate ability, would have sunk it
in ruin and disaster. — London
Globe.
Dr. Carroll’s Conversion.
In his book of sermons, “My
Infidelity and What Became of
It,” the late Dr. B. H. Carroll,
the great Baptist preacher, thus
tells of his conversion to religion:
“With all the earnestness of a
soul between which and happi-
ness the bridges were burned, I
brought a broken and bleeding
but honest heart to every re-
puted oracle of infidelity. I did
not ask light to shine on the path
of right. Once more I viewed
the anti-Christian philosophies,
no longer to admire them in what
they destroyed, but to inquire
what they built up, what they
offered to a hungry heart and a
blasted life. There now came to
me a revelation as awful as when
Mokanna, in Moore’s ‘Lalla
Rookh, ’ lifted his silver veil for
Zelica.
“Why had I never seen it be-
fore? How could I have been
blind to it? These philosophies,
one and all were mere negations.
They were destructive but not
constructive. They overturned
and overturned; but as my.soul
liveth they built up nothing un-
der the whole heavens in the
place of what they destroyed. I
say nothing, I mean nothing. To
the unstricken, curious soul they
are as beautiful as the aurora
borealis shining on Arctic ice-
bergs. But to me they warmed
nothing and melted nothing. No
flowers bloomed and no fruit
ripened under their cheerless
beams. They looked down on
my bleeding heart as the cold,
distant, pitiless stars have ever
looked down.on all human suffer-
ing. Whoever, in his hour of real
need, makes abstract philosophy
his pillow, makes cold, hard
RHEUMATISM’IS
SLOW POISONING
because the entire system
becomes permeated with
injurious acids.
To relieve rheumatism Scott's
Emulsion is a double help; it is
rich in blood-food; it imparts
strength to the functions and sup-
plies the very oil-food that rheu-
matic conditions always need.
Scott’s Emulsion has
helped countless thousands
when other remedies failed.
No Alcohol. Refute Substitutes.
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granite his pillow, ff Whoever
looks trustingly intolfanyS of its
false faces, looks into the face of
a Medusa and is turned to stone.
They are all wells without water
and clouds without rain.
‘ 1 have witnessed "a drouth in
Texas. The earth was iron and
the heavens brass. Dust clouded
the thoroughfares and choked
the travelers. Water courses ran
dry, grass scorched and crackled,
corn leaves twisted and wilted,
stock died around the last water
hole, the ground cracked in fis-
sures and the songs of birds died
out in parched throats. Men de-
spaired. The whole earth prayed:
‘Rain, rain, rain! O heaven send
rain!’
“Suddenly a cloud rises above
the horizon and floats into vision
like an angel of hope. It spreads
a cool shade over the burning
and glowing earth. Expectation
gives life to desire. The lowing
herds look up. The shriveled
flowers untwist and rustle with
gladness. And—just when all
trusting, suffering life opens her
confiding heart to the promise of
relief, the cloud, the cheating
cloud, like a heartless coquette,
gathers her drapery about her
and floats scornfully away, leav-
ing the angry sun free to dart
his fires of death into the open
heart of all suffering life. Such
a cloud without rain is any form
of infidelity to any soul in its
hour of need.”
Pellagra Not Contagious.
The United States public health
service is winning a victory in its
campaign against that mysteri-
ous affliction, pellagra. It an-
nounces that the disease is whol-
ly a matter of diet; that the cause
is insufficient and improper food;
and that abundant and proper
food works a cure within four
weeks. The service has also
proven that the disease is neither
contagious nor infectious, and
has wholly discredited the theory
that the cause is the eating of
corn meal that has mildewed or
that has become otherwise con-
taminated.—Youth’s Companion.
Fire at Ladonia.
The residence of W. H. Rattan,
at Ladonia, was destroyed by
fire Monday. The residence was
known as the Harvey Cobb place.
Loss partially covered by insur-
ance.
Taxes on Hearths and Windows.
Among the most curious of the
English taxes which have from time
to time been imposed are those
upon chimneys and upon windows.
The former tax was first enforced
in 1662 and was at the rate of 2
shillings upon every hearth or chim-
ney. This was an obnoxious tax,
and William III. immediately on
his accession to the throne obtained
some popularity by sending a mes-
sage to parliament desiring that the
imposition should be taken off
(March 1, 1689), and his majesty’s
faithful commons complied with its
sovereign’s request. The window
tax, of which our fathers and grand-
fathers still talk, was not repealed
until 1851.—Cornhill Magazine.
Improving the Room.
A wealthy but miserly baronet
was celebrated for having a mag-
nificently decorated dining room,
while his viands were very few. A
celebrated wit was invited to dine
on a certain occasion, and the host
asked him if he didn’t think the
room elegant.
“Yes,” was the reply, “but it is
not quite to my taste.”
“And what change would you
make?” asked the host.
“Well,” answered the wit, “if this
were my house, you know, I would
have”—looking at the ceiling—^-ffiess
gilding and”—here he glanced fur-
tively at the dining table—“more
carving.”
Its Effect.
The lecture had been long, prosy
and unrelieved by humor, but at its
close a sad faced, earnest looking
man strode emphatically to the
stage and grasped the speaker by
the hand.
“Mr. Neverend,” he said heartily,
“I want to assure you your message
tonight will have a marked effect
on the life of every nervous, fretful,
impatient man who heard you.”
“Indeed!” cried the delighted lec-
turer. “You really believe it will
affect their whole lives ?”
£rUndoubtedly,” declared the sad
faced man. Tt will shorten them.”
—Judge.
Practical.
Elderly Gentleman (putting his
head in at the door)—Mrs. Wilkins,
will you be my wife ? I have £2,000
and a good home. I’ll give you
three minutes to make up your
mind.
Mrs. Wilkins (promptly) — I’ve
£3,000 and a better house than
yours, and I’ll give you three min-
utes to get out of this. — London
Tit-Bits. _
A Cold and a Coolness.
“Did you ever have a cold,” in-
quired the plain citizen, “that you
couldn’t get rid of ?”
“No,” answered the purist. “If I
had had a cold I couldn’t get rid of
I would have it now.”
Thus the coolness arose.—Wash-
ington Herald.
Serious Lung Diseases result from colds which were expected to get well
themselves. The sensible course when cold settles in the chest is to taka f
BALLARD’S
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IT IS A GRAND REMEDY FOR THE THROAT
AND LONGS.
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The great relief it affords in the inflamed lungs is most gratifying to those wlio have been har-
assed by an obstinate, irritating cough. It relaxes the tight feeling in the chest, clears the air pass-
ages of phlegm, soothes and heals soreness in the bronchial tubes and restores sound conamons in the
respiratory organs.
Put Up in Three Sizes, 25c, 50c and $LOO per Bottle.
Vuy the $1.00 size. It contains five times as much as the 2»c size, and you get with each bottle a
Dr. Herrick’s Red Pepper Porous Plaster for the chest.
JAMES F. BALLARD
PROPRIETOR
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Stephens Eye Salve is a remedy of great power in diseases of the eyea or eyelids. It heal* quiiciciy and
strengthens the sight.
[Soup And RecomhendeoByI
Black & Little and Honey Grove Pharmacy, Special Agents.
A LOOK BACKWARD.
Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1864
Petty, Nov. 19, 1914.
Editor Signal:
Your paper has been read and
greatly appreciated by me since
its first issue. This is not all—I
have without much effort been
able to endorse your views, and
I assure you it finds a warm wel~
come in my home each week.
Eliminating your silly advocacy
of the many merits of buttermilk,
I am yours. You may not be
able to fully appreciate what I
may say in this. Early made
impressions, as you know, are
usually lasting. I am now near-
ing the three-quarter century
mark and my mind, because of
age, seems to incline backward.
The sky vby cloud and smoke has
been obscured for some days,
and another November experi-
enced and another Thanksgiving
proclamation issued and observ-
ed, reminding me of the fact
that Abe Lincoln issued the first,
and the imitativeness of the hu-
man family is such that the war-
time custom of the Sixties is
likely to be perpetuated perhaps
until time is no more. Last
Thursday, Thanksgiving day, my
mind flew backward to similar
appearing conditions in Novem-
ber, 1864, when a bloody two-
days battle had been fought and
the dead of the Northern army,
as well as that of the South, lay
pale-faced and in heaps upon the
battlefields—in which the North-
ern army gained a signal victory.
’Twas then and there the Chris-
tian patriot and president of the
United States issued his procla-
mation for thanksgiving because
of the success of the federal
army. But a scattering few who
know the facts live today to read
this or go back in memory with
me to that gloomy day. Then
the skies were obscured by smoke,
but it was the smoke of battle.
It seemed that heayen was
frowning upon the cruelties of
war. Perhaps it was the most
gloomy and touching that the
Southern army ever experienced.
A gloomy day along the battle
lines of the North and South,
worn by battle and privation,
just as the contending armies in
Europe are today. General Lee
talked cheerfully in public, but
his letters to Richmond betrayed
how desperate he considered the
fortunes of the Confederacy. I
have not forgotten. Tea and cof-
fee wTere fragrant memories. The
people of the South were suffer-
ing; they were meatless, bread-
less, clothless, and in many in-
stances homeless. Salt could not
be had. The dire floors in the
old meat house were being dug
up and the salt extracted there-
from, and other conditions sim-
ilar existed. But the proclama-
tion came, which to the North
brought a cheerful atmosphere,
for there the horrors of war were
not so acute. There was at least
comfort and food and partial
happiness. It was Lincoln’s
fourth thanksgiving proclama-
tion since the war began. About
this time fifty thousand pounds
of turkey was issued to the army
of the Potomac, and thirty-six
thousand issued to Sheridan’s
army in the Shenandoah valley.
Their dead still lay on the field.
We were short on rations, which
promised to and did grow short-
er. The graneries of the Shen-
andoah valley were locked to us
and Sheridan carried the key in
his pocket. It was not an occa-
sion of thanks for the people of
the South. I can’t forget that
special proclamation or the cause
which prompted its issuance.
The generation dominating the
United States today, North or
South, know but little of the his-
tory of those days from the fact
that nothing except from a par-
tial standpoint has ever been
written. But since I have never
had anything but contempt for
insincerity I must say that when-
ever I hear of a thanksgiving
proclamation those long ago recol-
lections and impressions create
within a feeling of repulsiveness
which I cannot down. Tolerance,
an attribute which has been the
slogan of my life, would prohibit
me from censuring those who
differ with me in views and
opinions. I never antagonize the
views of another, while I may
widely disagree with them; I am
sure that they, like myself, are
largely creatures of environment.
Yours very truly,
J. E. Carraway.
To Cure a Cold in One Oay
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It
stops the Cough and Headache and works on
the Cold. Druggists refund money if it fails
to cure. E. W. GROVE’S signature off
each box. 25 cents.
Remove Those FreeMes
© .
here is no more need of having freckles
on your face, arms and neck than ordinary
dirt. Just as soap removes dirt,
Wilson’s Freckle Cream
removes freckles. Here’s our iron-clad
guarantee: If WILSON'S FRECKLE
CREAM does not remove all signs of
freckles, tan and sunburn without the
least injury to your skin, we return your
money without question or quibble. The
freckles vanish, leaving the skin soft, clear
and roseate. Exceptionally severe cases
may require two 50c jars—-positively no
more. Buy a jar today and have a real com-
plexion like other folks. You risk nothing. Wil-
son’s Fair Skin Soap, 25 cts., and Wilson’s Fair
Skin Powder, 50 cts., are indispensable to the
toilet. Order by mail if you desire.
© WILSON FRECKLE CREAM CO?,
Charleston, S. C.
For sale by
Honey Grove Pharmacy
Honey Grove
WAR ON FURNITURE
On account of the low prices of Cotton
and scarcity of money, we have decided
to make a BIG CUT on “PRICES of our
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entire Stock of Furniture. When you
see the quality of goods we offer and the
prices we will make, you will be ready
to buy. This is no joke; when you see
you will be convinced.
Yours for business,
J. W. Smith
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914, newspaper, December 4, 1914; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth621355/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.