The Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 18, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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is now laying his plans to put a
quietus on the latter. By accept-
ing rich gifts from him, neither
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HOWARD WILLSON,
Editor and Propbibtor
The Atlanta Constitution says 8
cent cotton is in sightt. Must
haye a good eye._
A large number of applications
are pouring into Austin for posi-
tions under ,the new state band
law. ______ .
A fund is being raised and do-
nations are coming in liberally to
erect » monument to John H.
Beagan, the grand old man of Tex-
A couple of scientists have gone
down into the crata of Mount
Pelee to look arou ad. Some peo-
ple have agreat deal more curiosity
than we have.
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Mr. Pillot, the well known gro-
cer of Houston, has declined the
invitation to run for Mayor of that
city. Business and^politics are
not good friends.
Between the rains and boll
weevil and the bears and market
gamblers, cotton doesn’t have
much show for a living in this
country any more.
In Bell county the wheat and
oat crops have been so severely
injured that a considerable in-
creas in cotton acreage will be
put in to re-plant the land.
^ Gen. Wood has had another
fight with some of the lawless
natives of the Philippines. The
battle resulted in 800 natives and
seven United States soldiers killed.
The Twenty-ninth Legislature
adjourned last Monday. The co-
lons have returned to their homes
where their constituents may tell
them what they should have done.
Some of the bruisers are not so
xnuoh afraid of their kind as of
other foes. John Barley Corn
knocked out Sullivan years ago,
and new rheumatism has put Jef-
fries out and down.
An effort is being made to have
railroads furnish transportation to
men who desire to accompany
truck shipments to market. On the
same plan, perhaps, that is adop-
ted in the shipment of cattle.
A Chicago woman shot a rob-
ber who snatcher her purse and at-
tempted to run away. Eevidence
accumulates to show that the wo-
men »re the only class of people
that should be allow to tote pistols.
Reports come that the sugar
trust has raised the price of sugar
in Mexico to $2.50 per “arroba.”
We don’t know what an ar-
roba of sugar is, but we will bet
that $2.50 for that much is a plenty.
Mac Stewart, an ex-confederate
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veteran, who haB been confined in
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a Mexican prison for a long time,
and whose case exercised great
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deal of interest a year 7>r more
ago, will be given his freedom on
June 1st.
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who, together with another farmer,
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robbed a restaurant two years ago,
has come in and surrendered to
the officers. As Montmorency
Hooligan would say, “his moind
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hurt him.”
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The State penitentiaries are
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tional institutions can consistently
criticise his methods. Gifts from
your Uncle Rocky are mostly
business investments.
Our neighboring town, Taylor,
has been much worked up over the
work of a traveling salesman for a
foreign firm which deals in gro-
ceries and family supplies. He
secured a number of orders around
Taylor from people who were
made to believe that they were
g etting bargains that could not be
had in their own town. T. W.
Marse & Co., a leading firm in
Taylor, secured the prices charged
by the traveling party, and pub-
lished a comparison with their
own prices for the same articles.
It was shown that the local mer-
chants not only met the distant
house on charges, but in most of
the list of articles sold far below
them. Many people allow them-
selves to be talked into buying
things by a smooth agent, and
there seems to be a disposition
among many good citizens to
believe that articles from a dis-
tance must be better or cheaper
than things at home. The party
who has been workingTaylor will,
in all probability, vis it Rockdale
also. Taken all around, the people
can do better, even from a money
standpoint, by sticking to the
home merchant and patronizing
home people, and keeping our own
Home money 'in local circulation.
Money Bent off to out-of-the-state
concerns never comes back to
Rockdale.
A Minute With Our Exchanges.
The lives of some great men
may remind us that we can make
our lives sublime. But if it takes
Waterloo, Guttenberg, Manila,
Port Arthur and Mukden to ac-
complish the desired sublimity of
name, we might not be willing to
pay that price for it. The com-
monplace might suit our purposes
better.—Tyler Courier.
But it takes a lot of blood and
gore and scattered brains and
death and grief and weeping to
make a nation great. That’s the
price, and they all pay it.
The friends of the Saxon assert
that the little paper will soon have
the largest subscription list of any
paper in the county. All right,
friends—and you see there are no
apron strings hanging to the Saxon
if it is edited by a girl; and don’t
you ever believe she can’t throw a
rock!—Monroe Saxon.
It would seem that a boquet
would be more appropriate than a
rock in return for this kind com-
pliment, Miss Myrtle.
From the nature of the cartoons
appearing in the Fort Worth
Record and the Houston Post,
John H. Kirby must own Borne
stock in these publications.—
School Board Proceedings,
On Friday, May 12, the Board
of Trustees of the Rookdale v Pub-
lic Schools met with all members
present. After announcing the re-
turns of the recent election of
school trustees the oath of office
was administered to the following
newly elected trustees: B. Loew-
enstein, Sr., J. E. Longmoor, J.
F. McCalla and H. D. Kone, mak-
ing the Board the same) as hereto-
fore, except J. F. McCalla, who
succeeds W. K. Clement.
Thus passed into history an-
other year’s work, and we begin
anew with W. E. Copeland, presi-
dent; B. Loewenstein, Sr., Vice
President; H. D. Kone, socretary;
Jno. P. Hale, treasurer.
The special committee appointed
at the meeting to draft suitable
resolutions, expressing our feel-
ings upon the retirement of W. K.
Clement, offered the following:
To the Honorable Board of School Trustee*,
Rockdale, Texas:
Gentlemen—Y our committee ap-
pointed to give expression to the senti-
ments of this Board on the retirement
of W. K. Clement from membership,
beg leave to submit the following:
1. Tha t he has been faithful in at-
tendance at meetings held.
2. That be has manifested sinoere
interest in all matters pertaining to the
management of the schools, and has at
all times been rfim in giving expression
to his convictions.
3. That his knowledge of textbooks
and methods of teaching, together with
his scholarship, eminently fitted him
for the position of school trustee.
That his knowledge of law and liter-
ature was of great valne to the Board,
and being promptly available at all
times, was a most important factor In
guiding the affairs of the Board into
safe and lawful channels, and in aid-
ing to inculoate and maintain high lit-
erary ideals; therefore, be it
Resolved that we sincerely regret the
retirement of Mr. Clement from mCin-
bership, and beg leave to adopt this
method of recording our high appre-
ciation of the fathful and capable ser-
vices which he has rendered to the
cause of local education, and the effi-
cient administration of the affairs of
this Board. Respectfully submitted,
J. E. Longmoor, )
H. D.Konr, \ M)m,
Upon motion the resolution?
were adopted by a rising vote, for
which Mr. Clemant thanked the
Board in a very pleasing manner
and assured us that we would have
his full support in the future as in
the past.
The following teachers were
elected: J. W. Clark, Superin-
tendent; Miss Minnie Cade, Prin-
cipal; Miss Hester Joynes, Miss
Lottie Simms, Miss Lailard Leon-
ard and Miss Lucy Isaacs. Miss
Della Kolb, Mrs. Brown and Miss
Alice Lockett did not apply. MiBS
Nellie DuBois was re-elected es
teacher of music.
The Board adjourned to meet
next Tuesday, the 23rd, to fill the
vacancies in the faculty, and take
up such other matters as they may
desire.. H.D.Kone,
Secretary.
Diamond* on Board Ship.
Millions of dollars’ worth of dia-
monds are Imported into this country
ov-cry year.—In carrying packages of
Texas, Tki
Soie Personal Items.
Mr. Rsichardt was in town Mon-
day. I
Miss Hester Joynes is in Mi-
ner VA-
Mr. J. G. Gaines was in the city
Tuesday.
Mr. Joe Gasean was in the city
this week.
Mrs. C. H. Coffield spent Sun-
day in Austin. '
Miss Marie Vittrup visited Rock-
dale Wednesday.
Miss Hester Joynes is in
Minerva this week.
Joe Coffield left for Houston,
where he is to work. *
Mr. Ike Lewis, of Taylor, was
in Rockdale Tuesday.
Mr. John Gaines made hisuBual
weekly visit Tuesday.
Mr. G.„ R. Weber made a short
trip to Gause Tuesday.
Miss Lottie Simms returned
from Minerva Tuesday.
Miss Buse has returned from
her schooL at Buckholts.
Mr. Fletcher of Minerva, was
seen in town Wednesday.
Miss Ola Simms returned Mon-
day from a trip to Cameron.
P Mr. Peacock, of Austin visited
friends in the city Tuesday.
Mr. Henry Michaelson was
working Rockdale this week.
Miss Carter, of Cameron, visited
Miss Nattie Tracy this week.
Mrs. Frank Smith, of Thorndale,
was in our city last Saturday.
Mr. Edwin Douglas of Taylor
visited in Rockdale this week.
Mr. B. H. Coffield was in
.Gause this week on business.
Mr. W. E. Gaither was in Gal-
veston buying goods this week.
Mr. H. R. Hennes of Columbus,
Ga., was In the city Wednesday.
Mr. Elbert Schafer made a fly-
ing visit to Minerva last Tuesday.
Mr. Fred Graves Jr. leaves Fri-
day for St. Louis with a load of
cattle.
Miss Gussie Rowlett has gone to
Temple to spend two or three
weeks.
Mr. Joe Burnett attended the W.
O. W. picnic at Lexington Wed-
nesday.
Miss Winnie Bonner, of Austin,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. C. H.
Coffield.
Mr. Tom Henderson of Annap-
olis, was in town Monday enroute
to Cameron.
Miss Annie Bauknight, of Cam-
eron, visited Miss Irma Dunning-
ton this week.
Mrs. Will Taylor, of Houston,
is spending the week with her
sister, Mrs. J. W. Clark.
Mr. Charlie Ramsel
leaves to-
night for Thorndale to spend his
vacation with his parents.
Messrs. Ernest Coffield and Ed
Byers visited Austin during the
The Uftpeemmlou Turk.
Collecting money from • Turkey, is a
heartbreaking enterprise. * A distin-
guished American once went there to
collect a debt of $800,000 owing to an
English syndicate, which included two
members of parliament and a cabinet
minister. He expected to see the busi-
ness through in two or three months.
But a forelgft ambassador undeceived
him, “Say three or four months and
then you will be as far off from ob-
taining yonr money as you are today,”
he remarked. Men bad gone out there
to prosecute claims, he added, whose
hair had turned gray with the strain
to which they were subjected and who
had gone boms thoroughly broken In'
health, unable to obtain a Turkish lira
to show for years of fruitless labor.
Ops victim of Turkish duplicity and
jkkeraatlPatloa died in a lunatic asy-
lum. One of tbs embassies had been
twenty-five years prosecuting claims
without realizing a cent.
Was on Forbidden Ground.
MA debating society was formed (a
one of the counties of my district,”
said a Kentucky congressman, “and
among the fjrst questions debated was,
‘Resolved, That the negroes have more
cause for complaint than the Indians.’
“It was stipulated the arguments
should be confined to the United States.
The first disputant on the affirmative
opened with a speech to sustain his po-
sition, every word of which was lis-
tened to with close attention by the
chairman. The disputant for the neg-
ative made a few remarks in answer
and then turned to the Bible and com-
menced reading passages for the pur-
pose of proving that some of the points
made by his opponent were not backed
up by the good hook.
“The chairman stopped him with:
‘Halt right where you are, Jim. Don’t
go any further. You have gone out of
the United States for argument” —
Nashville Banner.
A Robust Babe.
Sir John Richard Robinson in his
“Fifty Years of Fleet Street?’ tells of
an amusing incident during the visit of
the Swazi deputation from the Trans-
vaal to England at the close of ISM:
“The Swazi braves went to Windsor
and had an audience of her majesty
Queen Victoria. They were very gra-
ciously received. One of their number
began to speak, and an Interpreter fol-
lowed him phrase by phrase. ‘We come,
O great mother,’ be said, ‘to bring to
you our babe. Take him, O mother, to
thy kneee; fold him to thy breast’ Here
the queen, half frightened, exclaimed:
‘But where is the child? I don’t see
him. Where is he?* ‘Here, O mother,*
raid the Swazi gravely, at the same
time bringing forward a big black
about six feet high and weighing well
over 200 pounds. ‘He is here.’ ”
FloRglliB.
The Jewish rabbis had a legend
which carries corporal punishment
hack to the days of our first parents,
which is quaintly reflected in that mod-
em schoolboy’s play upon names, “Ad-
am Seth Eve Cain Abel.”
Of course there is, too, the warning
of Solomon, “He that spareth the rod
hateth his son,” or the old Egyptian
proverb, “The back of a lad is made
that he may hearken to him that beats
It,” but if we must go on history alone
the earliest records belong to the Ro-
mans, who practiced flogging In sev-
eral degrees of severity.
There were the ferula, a flat strip of
leather, a comparatively mild persuad-
er; the scutica, a harsher instrument
of twisted parchment, and the flagel-
lum, a cruel scourge of leather thongs.
For over a third of a century Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery has sold more
largely than any other blood purifier or
tonk-
Bigger
sales to-
day than
ever be-
fore. Ia
that not
the true
CnreB oth.
era, why
not you?
Makes
rich ted
blood.
An imita-
tion of nat-
ure's meth-
od of
restoring
waste of
tissue and
impover-
ishment of
the blood
and nervous force is used when you take
an alterative extract of herbs and roots,
without the use of alcohol, like Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery This vegetable
medicine coaxes the digestive functions:
and helps in the assimilation of food, of
rather takes from the food just the ontri-
ment the blood requires.
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
purifies the blood and entirely eradicates
the poisona that breed and feed disease.
It thus cures scrofula, ecsema, erysipelas,
boils, pimples, and other eruptions that
mar and scar the skin. Pure blood is
essential to good health. The weak, run-
down, debilitated condition which so many
people experience is commonly the .effect
of impure blood. Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery not only cleanses the
blood of impurities, but it increases the ac-
tivity of the blood-making glands, and it
enriches the body with sn abundant supply
of pure, rich blood.
No matter bow powerful the intellect or
• raconrppft rtf intellectual nower. it must
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the resources of intellectual power, it must
be backed up by physical force. Every
ith or man must manufacture
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day the youth or man
a pint of rich, arterial blood, that is pure,
stimulating to the brain, and that can re-
build the tissues that were destroyed in
yesterday’s work.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure biliousness.
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British Naval Red Tape.
The British navy can produce floe
samples of red tape as well as the,ar-
my. Not long since an admiral took
the trouble to write a long mlnutA on
the back of an ordinary routine paper
submitted to him to the effect that^tbe
margin on the left hand side was fqlly
one-eighth of an Inch too narrow. -5ffs
all know that genius Is an Infinite ca-
pacity for taking pains, but I . hardly
think that the genius of Blake or Nel-
son Is likely to be exemplified in an
admiral who goes over his official pa-
pers with a tape measure in order to
see that the margins are tilt right
width.—London Truth.
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Too Saarsrestlvo.
“The health officer advised me to ask
every man with whom we had domestic
dealings if be was careful to boil the
water he used In his business.”
“Yes.”
“Well, I asked the milkman first And
what do you think? He got mad and
wanted to lick me.”—Cleveland Plain
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Left at the Baptist Church
during’ morning services on
Tuesday of the last week of
the revival, a small, open
face, lady’s silver watch, with
rose enameled on face. The
party who has it will please
bring it to the Messenger
Office.
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LUMBER DEALERS.
Are now making a specialty of PaINTS, OILS, STAINS,
ALABASTINE, LEADS AND ROOF PAINT.
GLASS IN LARGE AND SMALL SIZES.
Fly time has come, and for healtn and comfort arrange-
ment should be made to protect the home against these pests.
We have a largo stock of Door and Window Screens, and can
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In the path of the recent disas-
trous storm in Oklahoma, it is
estimated that 5000 caves, or
Btorm houses are being dug. The
authorities announce that here-
after, as a precautionary measure,
a tower will be ereoted and signals
given at night when storms are
threatened. Every oitizen who is
first to see a “funnel shaped”
cloud approaohing will be required
to fire a gnn.
Weatherford Herald.
Mr. Kirby does not own a dol-
lar’s worth of stock in the Post,
and never did. We presume the
same can be said with regard to
the Fort Worth publication. The
excuse for this paragraph is that
several gratuitous slurs of a piece
with the above have found place
in certain Texas papers recently.
—Houston Post.
Maybe it’s a mortgage Mr.
Kirby holds.—Weatherford Her-
ald.
Or a cinch; anyhow, this is the
first time we have heard the Poet
say “Kirby” for some time.
Democracy will win when it
shows the collar galls of progress
instead of the breeching strap
scare of so-called conservatism.—
The Commoner.
The rule applies to party or-
ganization as well as to towns or
individuals. The hold-back strap
should be in evidence only as a
safety valve, and not often for
practical use.
such tremendous value over seas ex-
traordinary precautions are taken. They
are Immured in strong safes and so
carefully guarded that not an instance
has ever been recorded in which dia-
monds have been lost or stolen, though
a man could easily walk off with half
a million dollars’ worth of gems In his
waistcoat pockets weve It not that It is
one of the most difficult undertakings
in the world to commit such a theft or
even to find where the gems are stored
on shipboard.
Spring Medicine
There is no other season when good
medicine is so much needed as in the
Spring.
The blood is impure, weak and
impoverished—a condition indicated
by pimples and other eruptions on the
face and body, by deficient vitality,
loss of appetite, lack of strength, and
want of animation.
meeting of the fire companies.
Mrs. Chas. Flinn and little son,
now of Oklahoma Territory, are
visiting her father, Mr. McGowan.
Messrs. Rowland, Hodge, Jule
Coffield Jr., attended the W. O.
W. picnic at Lincoln Wednesday.
Mr. S. M. Wood has moved his
family here from Austin, and has
taken the cottage next door to
Mrs. Rasberry.
Mr. E. L. Ory, of Columbus,
Texas, was in town this week, re-
presenting the Endowment rank
of the Knights of Pythias.
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See Us for Lime and Cement.
ABE ELECTRITE.
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Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Mr. Chas. Hanson went to St.
Louis the early part of the week
to join the excursion immigration
agents who will be in Rockdale
Saturday.
Mr. Rockefeller, who has his
graft already securely fastened in
the gomfcmontal powers, has no
The Rockdale market is now
ready for the cucumber crop. All
cucumbers brought to town now
will be bought promptly and paid
for in qaih. .
Make the blood pure, vigorous and
rich, create appetite, givo vitality,
strength and animation, and care
all eruptions. Have the whole family
begin to take them today.
“Hood’s Sarsaparilla has been uaad In
ear family tor tome time, and always with
good results. Last sprint I was aU run
down and fot a bottle of It, and as usual
rseatrad gnat beueflt.” Miss _ Bataan
Botcx, stews, vt. «
Meed’s iarsaperilla paeiwlees te
the ptemlee.
The racing team of the Rock-
dale Fire Department leaves to-
night for Brenham to enter the
hose races there tomorrow. The
membership consists of W. R.
Byers, captain; Elbert Schafer, G.
R. Weber, H. W. Longmoor, Ern-
est H. Coffield, A. E. Perry, W.
M. Teagel, J. D. Griffith, Floyd
StrelBky, R. A. Parker, Normal
Wells and Walker Hairston.* S.
G. Hodge, chief of the fire depart-
ment, with other members and
friends, will accompany the boys.
Its a tip in advance that some-
body has got to make an awfbl
good ecoreto keep tki Rockdale
tefcm from ooupling up with first
place.' /
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FOR THE
SEASON
SDL O.OO.
MONEYDUE
WHEN THE
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THE MARE.
INSUR-
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$20.00.
His grand
sire is Elec-
tioneer, the
great stallion
of the Palo
Alto Farm of
Senator Le-
land Stanford
of California.
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Sire:—Electrite the sire of 54 horses with records of 2:11 to 2:30,
including Senator Mills, 2:12*. King of New York Speedway; Porto
Rico 2:11; Blondie 2:131; Ima Electrite, winner of the fastest five
heat race ever trotted in Texas; Madeline Electrite, Queen of the
Boston Snow Brigade; etc., etc.
~Dam:LFarinaJby ,Gambetta„ Wilkes, Grandam Foils Farina. If
Strathmore. ”
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