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THE SHERMAN DAILY DEMOCRAT.
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Weakly Democrat il publahed
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•eat newspaper.
Office—J87 Juanita Bldg
Main 48*1. F. A. Wynne,
repreaentatlra.
Mall anbacrtbemi changing location*
should give their former address as
wall as the new one. Subscribers
served by city carriers will please
assist the management in rendering
good service by making complaints
about Irregularities or omissions.
-BOTH PHONES-1U
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Democrat is authorized to
announce Charles Crenshaw as a
candidate for the legislature from
Grayson county to fill the unevptred
term of J. R. Elliott, resigned.
Election July 22, 1911. Charles
R. Crenshaw announces as n demo-
rat.
WpLL SEND DEMOCRAT.
py
If any of our citizens are going
aWay during the summer, even for a
brief period, they wan have the
Dally Democrat sent by leaving ad-
dress, or addresses, for we can
change to any place they go. It
costa no more than to deliver at
your home In Sherman.
I THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
June ;«>.
1837—British parliament abolished
the pillory as a mode of juin-
ishmient.
1849—Rome capitulated to the
French army, after a brave
resistance of nearly a month.
1868—Gen. Schenck proclaimed
martial law In Baltimore.
1879—Completion of the Sutro tun-
- nel was celebrated in the Car-
son valley of Nevada f
18.8ibdH.ON, Jfthn Beverly^Ttaaon
was appointed lieutenant gov-
ernor of Ontario.
1883—Charles Gulteau executed for
the assassination of President
Garfield.
1894—Korea declared Its indepen-
dence of China and Invoked
Japanese aid.
1899—Mrs. E. D. K. N. Southworth,
noted novelist, died In Wash-
ington, D. C.
1908—William H. Taft resigned as
secretary of war.
There are days In this town when
people muBt elbow their way
through the streets. It is a good
sign.
The faithful horse and cow like
their cool1 draught of water as well
as mat* these days. Don't forget
them.
Gov,-eIeci Hoke Smith Of Geor-
gia says he will be a candidate for
' the Senate to succeed thb late Sen-
ator Clay.
The sirring chicken crop is com-
ing in now but they come before
there is much flesh on their bones
and are sold quickly.
Taft has been personally Invited
to atttend the Collin bounlty If.Ur
by the Editor of the /Courier-Ga-
zette, the . irrepressible Tom Per-
kins.
Every pro In Grayson county
should be at the trolls on July 2'J
to file their protest against the
continuance of four thousand sa-
loons In this state.
It looks like nearly all the big
manufacturing concerns of the coun-
try are going through the mills of
Justice or under the scrutiny of
grand juries. We still have plenty
of bad trusts1 as well as “good ones"
as a celebrated American once do-
cared.
"Philosopher* who have been de-
ploring the trend of population.from
to city," said Logan Waller
Page, director of the United States
office of public roads In an inter-
view jut given out in Washington,
“might as well save their onergy.
unlees they are prepared to help
change the conditions responsible for
the migration. At the root of this
condition ore the poorly kept roads
of the country. It Is certain that the
farmers do not get the use of their
share of the money earned in the
United States. There are now over
90,000,000 people in this country,
and nearly one-third are farmers and
their families. The products of the
farm are responsible for more than
one-third of the wealth and com-
merce of the country. No one can eay,
however that one-third o.f this
wealth Is used by the farmer In the
betterment of the country districts.
“It Is due to the Inactivity and lack
of co-operaticn among the farmers
that country districts have become
depopulated. The ‘back to the
country’ movement has had a con-
siderable vogue at sumptuous ban-
quets In cities but the movement has
not gotten far out of town, for the
simple reason that life in the slums,
desptte all theories, frequently is
much more livable than life In the
country. ,
“While fine phrases can be made
In the discussion of the Joy and
health of hand labor in the open
°alr and under the sun, It Is a fact
tha-t conditions In the cities are
much more healthful today than con-
ditions In the country. Sanitation is
better and the air In tenements Is
little worse than the air In many
country houses where, because of
the extreme cold and lack of proper
heating apparatus, the windows must
be kept closed from October until
“Improper sanitation, poor drain-
age and poor highways In the coun-
try hijve brought about as great a
percentage of diseases as exist in
toe city. While the country people
are free as a rule, from tuberculo-
sis, they are extremely liable to ty-
phoid fever, pneumonia and other
diseases that are brought on by Im-
proper drainage and Improper venti-
lation. «?
“The work that is being done tow-
ard* the improvement of roads
throughout the country will change
this condition. Improved roads will
give to the country districts the Im-
provements enjoyed by fashionable
suburbs and will Improve drainage
and wipe out isolation. In most local-
ities, life on farms invariably , be-
comes, as a result of .bottomless
roads, isolated and debarred of so-
cial enjoyment and pleasures, and
cotrntryg people An some communi-
ties fill Her such disadvantages that
ambition Is checked, energy weakened
and Industry paralyzed. Under such
conditions, It Is but natural that
persons engaged In farming, espec-
ially the younger folks, should seek
the life and gayety of the cities.
There they feel they will find recre-
ation, variety, youth, beauty and
music.
|"The difference between good
and bad Toads is often equivalent to
the difference between profit and
loss. Money wisely expended for this
purpose Is sure to. return ten-fold;
and now that the states arc expend-
ing in the aggregate one million dol-
lars a day for road improvement
conditions In the country are likely
to be so improved that the trend
toward the city will be stopped and
tho overflow In thAciHl's will turn
to the country."—*>od Roods Bu*
reau, Washington, D. 0.
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Mu
■OKI SMITH.
Governor-elect of Georgia who
gays he will announce for the sen-
ate just as toon as he Is inaugurat-
ed. It will be remembered that
Smith was in Cleveland's first cab-
inet and later became governor of
Georgia. G vernor Brown defeated
Smith on the railway commission
Issue and now Smith goes In again,
defeating Brown.
WAS president for a day.
“I was In the town of Atchison,
Kan., the other day and happened t0
ask for whom the town was nam-
ed,” remarked Richard K. Stuart of
Chicago, at the Dewey last night. “I
was told that, the name was given
In honor of David R. Atchison, a fa-
mous citizen of Missouri, who serv-
ed In the United States senate with
distinction back In the -days of Polk
hnd Taylor and Pierce. In those days
the president pro tern of the sen-
ate was in line for the presidency In
case the president and vice president
should die or resign and Atchison
always claimed that he had been
president of the United States a
single day.
"That day was March 1, 1849, and
It came on Sunday. General Tay-
lor wan due to be inaugurated as
president, hut he would net havo
the ceremony ion Sunday and ne-
glected to take the oath as presi-
dent prior to the time that he took
the oath in front of tho caphol on
March 6. As Senator Atchison was
president pro tem of the senate, he
Insisted that the failure of Taylor to
take the oath left a vacancy in the
presidency after the hour of noon
on March 4 and thus the presid-
ing officer of the senate was really
president for that short Interval.
“Taylor did not give near so
much attention to the matter us did
the Missouri senator, who was care-
ful. to have it In his bography.
Borne day there may be a bill in-
troduced in congress to honor him
]ivlth a bust In the capllbl, as one
of the presidents of the United
States, Atchison lived many years
after he left the -senate, dying in
18CC, and he was originally from
Frogtown, Ky, 1 think there tanve
been other Jnauguaratlon days funt
fell o^v Sunday, But the precaution
was taken to administer the oath be-
fore tho actual Inauguration cere-
mony^ so that March 5 was the ac-
tual day of icelebrat'ion, -and 'the
public swearing in was but a for-
mality repeated for the delight of
the populace.”—Washington Post.
Democrat's
Daily Story
A Grim Visitor
I was sitting In * restaurant In Na-
ples with several American friends
talking about the cholera.
'This cholera business is merely a
scare.” said one. “Besides, why fear
death? We must all die some time.”
"That for death!" said young Thorn-
ton. snapping bis fingers. "I’m going
to live to be a hundred.”
A singular looking fellow came into
the restaurant opd sat down at an ad-
joining table- I could not make out
that be was of any especial age; be
might have been thirty or fifty or a
hundred nnd fifty. Yet there was
something about him (but made him
look prematurely aged. His eyes were
set-VCry deep in Ills bend and glistened
like those of a wild animal In the dark.
He was ao thin that one could almost
see the Junctions of the bones of bis
face, and his clotbea hung about him
In huge folds. Be hud evidently heard
Thornton's boast, for be fixed bis eyes
on him In a way that made my blood
run cold. Other of the younger mem-
bers of the party who sat with their
backs to the newcomer perpetrated
Jokes about death. Every word on
that subject seemed to excite the stran-
ger's Ire until he was lashed Into a
fury.
"My friends,” be said presently,
"you who condemn death do not real-
ize wbnt you are talking about. You
should have seen such sights as I have
seen Were any of you tu a battle?”
We all stared at the stranger, tongue
tied. No one of us claimed to have
seen anything of war.
"1 w*s at the buttle of Grnvelotte,"
he said, "and advanced with an at-
tacking party of Prussians. If yon
had seen that white pall that I threw
over the faces of those who were
struck yon would' not laugh at death.”
“You threw over their facesV" 1 usk-
ed, puzzled.
‘Then at New Orleans.” the mau
went on without noticing my remark,
“you should buve seen the British com-
ing up In perfect formation against
the Kentucky hunters. Here, there,
everywhere the redcoats sunk down
in their tracks”—
“Do you refer to the bailie of New
Orleans, sir?” interrupted oue of our
party.
“Yes, sin^ 1 do! But battles are noth-
ing. Take the great plague that swept
London. Two men were walking be-
fore me on Utieapsldc. 1 touched one
by way of attracting his attention. He
paled and sank down In bis tracks. A
party were drinking In an ale bouse
without the town limits. As 1 looked
at one of them be throw up his bauds,
with a groan. 1 went out Into the
street and saw the people, burning bar-
rels of tar. -I laughed at them."
"Do you menu, sir." I asked, "that
f/nn were in London at that time?"
“My friend, where have I not been
when men sod women tend children
were struck down by this something
you call death? iu the duys of ancient
Rome whole communities of Gauls who
rebelled against the Roman authority
were butchered. They had been; they
were uot.”
It was evident to most of u* that the
rann was,a lunatic. But we did not
communicate the thought to one snotb
er. Each of ua was spellliound oo
less by bis strauge talk thuD his weird
personality.
"But even these stricken barbarians,
so far as numbers are concerned, were
but few In comparison with those
this thing you sometimes call the
reaper bus cut down nt one time.
There have been |>ortlons of the earth
that have sunk into the sen swallowing
up a hundred rimes the number of the
greatest butchery.”
"When7"J asked
"When? *What knowledge have you
of the little planet on which you live
beyond a few thousand years? The
time of which I speak was forgotten
10.000 years ago.”
"Tell us.” I asked, “your nationality.
You apeak English at If you are Anglo-
Saxon,"
"Eugllsh! I speak every living and
every dead language. I mu n citizen
of the world. I am always busy. At
this moment I am resting preparatory
to a great work.”
"When did you come to Naples?"
"Yesterday nt noon."
We all shuddered At 12 o'clock the
day before the first cholera patient bad
died.
“Will yon remain long?"
“My stays no human being knows.
I go Into u place, do whut work 1 find
for meTo do there and go elsewhere.
Then 1 stop often by the wayside.
Dnring my Journey herb I stopped nt
a cottage. There was one less in the
family when 1 left. On entering this
dty I made several calls before resting
from my Journey. But I must be go
Ing. I am pleased to have met you
gentlemen."
He rose, and as be did so I thought
T heard a grating, rattling sound un
d(*r tils long cloak. Paying no further
attention to any of us except Thorn
ion, whose remark he had heard on en
lerlng and which had started him on
his grewsome talk. I he stranger ns he
passed him stopped 'and offered Uls
hand. Thornton looked up nt him In
terror, withholding his hand, but the
maniac kept Ills eyes fixed on him. nnd
slowly the hand was lifted and drawn
toward the man whose own was out
stretched. The moment Thorntons
was clasped n change came over his
face.
The stranger passed out.
That very night Thornton died of
cholera.
OVER SAHARA IN DIRIGIBLE
Doctor Slegert Hopes to Prove That
“King Solomon’s Mines” Are Not
Entirely Legendary.
COX FOB CONGRESS
Next tall thero will be a land and
irrigation exposition in Madison
Square Garden, Now York. This will
be a good ohauoo for Grayson coun-
ty to show samples of soil and the
products they grow for millions ot
people will bo there to eee the ex-
hibits from all over tho American
union.
Sherman, could raise n largo bud-
get for advertising purposes to be
Invested through the. commercial or-
ganization If those who own the
property, set. big rentals! also every
person who is drawing his revenue
from the city trade and industries
would contribute as . they should
For example the little town of Mid-
larid has raised eight thousand dol-
ars i>er annpm to lie used by the
commercial" Club.’ The population - is
given as little more than 2100 and
the subscription amounts to four dol-
lars per capita. If Sherman people
would contribute as they should,
wo would have something like sixty
thousand dollars to use in building
up our city, to toll the world where
we are and what we havo to offer
newcomers, for factories and invest-
ments. Instead of sixty thousand we
only ask for about ten or twelve
thousand dollurs with which to ad-
vertise and conduct a campaign of
advertising. What are we going to
do about It?
It was the talk around the State
House yesterday that Jeff D. Cox,
member of the House of Representa-
tive* from Rockwall and chairman
of the House committee on approp-
riations. might be a candidate for
Congress at the election next year.
The Rockwall man was in town,
hut declined to say positively just
how much basis there was to the
report.. "It Is a little too far
ahead,'' he said. , "The National
Congress ,has not vet. acted finally
ojLjtihe redtot.rlcllrtg proposition,
and until It. has I can not tell just
what I might do In the premises.
Friends of tho Rockwall man,
however, took the liberty to an-
nounce 'that he wopld be a candi-
date foe Oongvoaman-ut-large In
the event Congress fails' to redis-
trjet Texas in time for the next
election, and that if the mllstrict-
Ing law is passed That he wculd be
in tti« race for Congress from his
home district. Auctin Statesman.
SI NFJ/OWER PHILOSOPHY
Every girl likes to tell How
hah made men cry.
She
What most people are looking for
Is-n' frank criticism that gives them
the host of it.
The scholastic, census of Texas is
nearing the million mark and 'the
accumulation of trundle-bed trash
is proceeding with a satisfactory
rate, so says the paragrapher on
the Houston Post.
Detectives who would get, more
criminals and fewer clues also would
fill a long-felt" want.
Anyone who takes as good
of himself as a thoroughbred
horee gets will feel as well,
if he can t run as fast.
care
race
oven1
\.Tom Campbell made a good
speech in Sherman yesterday.* Ills
logic was forceful and pleased the
crowd. Perhaps the beat thing he
said was that he would not give one
bright-eyed boy or girl for all the
tax revenue the state could derive
from the liquor business throughout
all time, of suffer one of them to the
I danger* of the wine room and sa-
| t loot In exchange tor the privilege of
I thote vile plaros to continue within
f our bound* a* they do now to de-
| Much the youth £*nd the flower, of
, our homes.
John Sharp Willianis"lias jumped
into the fray and contributes some-
thing for the gavety of political
life by his readiness to debate in
the senate. Although a new mem-
ber he handle* the veterans of that
august, body like a master In the
realm of statecraft. Truth is, Wil-
liams had won his spurs in the
house of representatives and should
he live the senate will be enlivened
by his gifts of intellectuality and
elouence of tongue. There is no
better posted man on .the tariff in
the house or senate than Williams.
Any woman who carries a para-
sol smaller then tho hats she wears
is too much given to exaggeration.
Thero are so uanv ways of
wanting ones time that are more
pleasant than Indulging in argu-
ment that it is a wonder more peo-
ple don't agree to keep still.—Atch-
ison (Kan.) Globe.
The noise and noises become
moire pronounced in the growing
town and with paved streets we no-
tice iit. more than before when they
were old-fashioned dirt roads.
KOHLER'S 5-PIECE ORCHESTRA
At Woodlake dance tomorrow night.
Admission 50 cents. 29-It
Hunter's Cream Flour, made from
old wheat. For sale by grocers or \V.
Elliott, distributor. J22-tf
Berlin.—Doctor Slegert is actively
engaged in preliminary preparations
to cross, the groat desert of Sahara in
a dirigible balloon. Prominent geog-
raphers and meteorologists are help-
ing him In his scientific ralcul^tonfff
and his choice of an alrstUpTCount
de la Vaulx, the^Jfrffious French
aeronaut, had^tbe'same purpose a
few years ago, but gave It up because
airships Had not sufficient protection
against the sun’s rays. Doctor Slegert
confidently expects to make the trip
he has laid out—about !>50 miles—In
34 hours. His aerlul vessel's engines
will give the craft a speed of 18V4
miles an hour; besides, Doctor
Slegert Is counting on 12 miles an
hour more by the wind.
To the unimaginative the Sahara is
only an Illimitable, and waste, hut
from it have come legends of buried
cities of Incalculable antiquity ..and
tales of Immense, hidden hordes.
Doctor Slegert. wishes (o clear up the
mystery surrounding the expedition of
Browne, the English explorer of a
hundred years ago, and to investigate
the' romantic story of Rholfs, who
found traces of a great road running
nut in the desert until the sand ob-
literated them. »\Vhat lies beyond
that lost track? Whither did that
great highway lead, and of what char-
acter were the people who construct-
ed It’
These questions, which have been
pht'so often, are supposed to have In-
spired the plot of Rider Haggard's
romance, “King Solomon's Mines;” at
any rate, they appear to Doctor
Siegcrt to be Well worth answering.
The headquarters of this expedition
will be in the Nile VHltey. From It tho
airship will sail about 310 miles to
the oasis district In tho desert. In
an naslv a depot will have 'been pre-
pared with cylinders of gas, spare
screws and other fittings—everything,
needed to repair any damage thRt
may have been or may be done to the
craft. From the depot the dirigible
will start on her veal flight of more
than R00 miles over the “undiscovered
country.” Having traversed It, Doctor
Slegert will attempt either to reach
the coast or to return to the Lybian
oasis. The expedition’s cost la esti-
mated nt *250,000.
WARNING.
The state board of health has
called our attention to the fact that
all births and deaths, also all con-
tagious diseases In the corporate
limits of our city, must be reported
to the city physician within five
days. Every physician in the city Is
subject to fine if they fail to do so.
I hope every one will attend to this
promptly and report all such c.'ises
to me.
DU. W. D. POE,
m25-tt City Health Officer.
| THIS IS Ml .WIH BIRTHDAY. I
jt_ June -'10.
Capt. Caperton.
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Captain William B. Caperton, U.
S. X., who reached his present rank
In 1908 in time to command one o(
the battleships In the famous around-
the-world cruise of that year, was
born in Tennessee, June 30, 1855.
He graduated from the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis in
1875 and his first sea duty was on
the old Hartford, the flagship of Ad-
miral Farrngut during the civil war.
His first command was that of the
gunboat Marietta In the naval oper-
ations in Cuban waters during the
war with Spain. Later he command-
ed the Prairie nnd the Denver. In
the cruise of the American battle-
ship fleet in 1908 Captaih Caperton
commanded the battleship Maine on
the return voyage front Manila to
Portsmouth, N. H. At present he is
on duty in Washington as a member
of the naval examining and retiring
Itoards.
STOP THAT DANDRUFF
LADIES' AND GEN”
RESTAURANT.
112 West Houston street, Mrs.
H. 1). Curnby, Prop. New and tidy,
good .service, Short Orders, Meals
2 ) cents. Sunday dinners a specialty.
J23-lm
For Sale—-Buggies and wagons
at the corner of Houston and Wal-
nut streets, by Texas Buggy Co. We
have figures that will sell them If
we can get your attention. Just
come and see for yourself. m27-tf
before it kills your hair. You know
dandruff is a germ disease and it
leads slowly and surely to baldness
and there is only one way to cure
dandruff and that is to kill the
germ that, causes the trouble
Greasy salves will never do this
ZBMO AND ZEMO SOAP kill the
germ and are guaranteed to euro
dandruff, itching scalp and all other
germ diseases of the skn and scalp.
ZEMO and ZBMO St?$P are the
true scientific remedies for these af-
flictions. To show our faith in
ZEMO -and ZBMO SOAP we have in-
structed the druggist selling them to
refund your money if you are not
satisfied with the results from the
very first bottle and the first cake
of soap.
We can afford to make this offer
because one bottle of Zemo and one
cake of soap are sufficient to show
their healing qualities and if used
according to directions, they will ef-
fect a permanent cure.
Sc W by druggists everywhere and
in Sherman by The Crayc.roft-Stin-
son Drug Co.
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_reiDAT, JUNE »0. mi.
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When, Where and Hew Will You Bury Your Family
WHEN? This question is unanswerable-, we all hope It will
not bs until some time in the distant future, but many are bury-
ing their dear ones today; you may tomorrow.
WHERE?—This question may be answered by. some; the
famly burying ground Is a sacred spot to many families, ao several
dear ones are already there and others will be by and by.
HOW?- This Is the important, question that is worthy of your
consideration now. ^ Today death in your family may seem far in
the future. But what may happen tomorrow? When death
comes In your family, you MUST think about burial then. My
life work has been the embalming and caring for the dead.. My
stock Is large and complete. 1 am qualified and prepared to
ship bodies to any part of tho world.
Our office istopeu all night and we answer calls promptly
day or night.
This is also the office of The .Sherman Mutual Burial Associa-
tion.
JIMO. C. DANNELl,
BOTH PHONES.
SHERMAN, TEXAS.
Use Gas Light
Hare
OIL BURNING ROUTE
Time”
Fast Service To
HOUSTON AND GALVESTON
Connections East and West.
“THE HUSTLER”
“Train Do Luxe.”
Low Summer Tourists
Rates
To 1’olnts North, East and West
Effective June 1st to Septsm-
ber ^Oth.
For further Information call
on W. N. Downs, local agent,
or write x
T. J. ANDERSON,
General Passenger Agt.,
Houston, Texas.
JOBBERS
interested in Eastern
Oklahoma are directed
to the facilities ottered
by the
MO&GRY
J.
Summer
Excursions
VIA THE
Cotton Belt
ROUTE
TO ALI/ RESORTS
NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST
TICKETS ON SALE
UNTIL SKIT. SOTH—RETURN
LIMIT OCT. 31, 1011.
EXCEPTIONALLY LOW
RATES.
Ask Your Nearest Agent, feu* lb
scriptive Literature and
for reaching that terri-
tory. Daily freight service
is now offered from
Sherman to points as far
as Calvin and delivery
made the next day alter
loading.
R. GUNTER, Agent
Both Telephones
Cotton Belt Station
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IF YOU WANT A GOOD
LOAF OF BREAD
Ask lor
Mothers Bread
For Sale by all
Grocers
Vienna Steam Bakery
Information.
J. R. GUNTER. Agent,
Sherman, Tex.
Edward H. Cary, Af. O.
Practice Limited to Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat.
' Mrs. J. M. Weems
VOICE
SlmMo 211 Easl Brocket! Street
Old Phone 632
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