Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1899 Page: 2 of 4
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Ool. William Jennings Bryant
tact with an enthusiastic recep-
tion in Fort Worth.
tf
Dun’s Trade Review says the
bnsiness for the past month was
&r the greatest ever known in
February.
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Cecil Rhodes declares the Unit-
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ed States mast get oat into the
f
world and take up its share of
the world’s burdens.
While the northwestern states
were, daring the last week visited
by snow storms and blizzards, the
southeastern states had heavy
rains, hail etorms, and floods.
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The Fort Worth Register re-
marks that indications point to
rent of the Populist
apolitical entity,
too soon. The
Register is about right, the coun-
try has had enough of populism.
The contract has fiaally been
South,
will be 150
ly met and the people of Fort
Worth will continnn to stand loy-
ally together in its defense.” This
united effort will make almost
any town a live and prosperous
one.
“ The Way to Get Trade and
Hold It.”
Dallas Hews.
StSAri
tilAiftd fiv An^ilfit
In his last message Governor
Sayers urges the immediate and
The above is the caption of a
sensible article in the Kansas
Oity Star as follows;
“ New York merchants are put-
ting forth extraordinary efforts to
maintain the city’s supremacy in
the wholesale trade of the United
States. The association of mer-
chants, resembling in plan and
purpose the Commercial club of
Kansas City, has appreciably
swelled this trade of New York
within one year. Special excur-
sion inducements to buyers, en-
certainment by the wholesale men,
and the allurements of a merry
visit to the metropolis have induc-
ed conntry merchants to transfer
their trade temporarily from the
inland cities to New York. It may
be argued that such special ef-
forts can not permanently divert
the tendency of business, but it
might as well be reasoned that
one business house can not per-
manently take trade from anoth-
er. Continued advertising and
continned efforts to get business
are a permanent factor in com-
mercial enterprise. If Kansas
City had not advertised and kept
up a constant and sometimes tire-
some exploitation of itself there
would not be more than 50,000
inhabitants on the bluffs at the
month of the Kaw. Kansas Oity
was created by advertising, and
depot at; evea the second city in the world
wfll be one ftn(j8 that it is not above adopting
that method of extending its trade.
j Advertising in this age rules the
be con- worid,;>
granite Texas cities should get in the
be com-: 8#me class and that quick.
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making
, provision for the safe and
t of the perma-
fand upon lines al-
Several oppor-
y been lost,
the legislature
will taka immediate action.
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According to a writer in (he
Review of Reviews the Filipino
Is superior iu many traits of char-
fleter to his more highly civilized
white brethren. The writer says:
“The native Filipino does not
■erysss:k:
not quarrelsome;
to those, who die*
is docile and obe-
he is weak and
performance of his
he bears his punishment
it to be just when
of a fault”
i Nashville American makes
very sensible re-
its own state,
is equally applicable to
at us take
sensible
view of conditions, for conditions
and not theories face as, and so
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Why and Where the Modern
Man is Weak;.
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in a golden stream into
ich and produc-
t money will be
so that great
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large flnancial
have their loca-
‘ insurance
com-
accumn-
their home
l we shall stop send-
’ to New Eng-
! of
i us send the dem-
r-pated pre-
the
i champion,’ to the rear,
\ of honest
sense high
the front.”
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ie of Fort Worth
Jacks boro as follows :
Island has tapped a
r at Jacksboro and the
’• of the railroad has given a
decided impetus to promotive en-
terprise in that locality. Jacks-
boro is one of the best towns of
its size in the country. It has
aevqpal fee buildings which would
* i the corners of a metropolis
meats are being made
AP As Jacksboro is I
: its life as a railroad |
i thoroughly understand
the follow-
which the
nade Fort
“Fort
of all the'
came to her
her wonderful
,tod she still has the spirit
manic;-
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Warn
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Dallas News.
The growing indifference of the
people and especially of the la-
boring classes in matters of reli-
gion is stirring np a deal of both
in England and America. One em-
inent divine has found this want
of interest mild, tolerant and im-
partial, while another declares it
an unmistakable evidence of deep-
seated hostility to the churches.
Yet another discovers in it dan-
gerous evidences ofself-righteons
ness and of loss of confidence in
priests and preachers. He says
that the people have no sense of
sin; nothing on their consciences;
have done no wrong; “ they posi-
tively baAk in the sense of the
approbation of their indulgent
deity.” They stick to their belief,
which is said to be “ nothing but
belief iu themselves.” These
learned doctors of divinity have
undoubtedly pointed out one of
the most dangerous weaknesses
of modern society, but they are
greatly mistaken if they fancy
that it relates solely to matters of
religion. The indifference which
they deplore extends not merely
to matters spiritual, bat to mattery
temporal. The apathy in the ser-
vice and work of the chnrch is
not nnlike the apathy over mat-
ters in other lines of life. There
is apparently a general weakening
of moral purpose, an alarming
toss of interest in private affairs
and public affairs which formerly
claimed the zealons care and ef-
fort of sturdy citizenship moved
by civic pride and public spirit.
Defining this weakness, Mr. Ar-
thur Chandler in a recent article
appearing in the Guardian (Lon-
don) declares that “ Weakness of
purpose, incapacity for persever-
ance, absence of moral backbone,
disinclination for any continuous
or concentrated effort—-these are
qualities * which (combined with
much that is amiable and attract-
ive) characterize the London arti-
san in all his spheres of action.”
This slackness of moral fiber, ap-
pearing equally in religion and
politics, in work and recreation, is
not confined by any means to the
ranks of the workingmen. In
other and more speculative lines
it results in spasmodic develop-
ments, industrial or commercial
booms, ballot box lotteries, polit-
ical sensations, an unsettled life
ge and chance. Various
have been assigned for
of purpose and energy,
which seems with many to have
become an incurable disease. Un
certainty of employment in many
of the trades, leading to a hand-
to-mouth attitude and tempera-
ment on the part of the employed,
is given by one. Another insists
that the tronble is the result of
an inadequate smattering of many
subjects in elementary education,
producing a superficial and desnl-
the politics of the world and the
marvelous improvement of facili-
ties of travel and trade have tend-
ed to unsettle the modern man in
purpose and character. It is
probable that the weaknesses of
the modern man are traceable to
many causes. One of the chief
of these, however, is undoubtedly
a want of discipline. In the home
of old the child was taught obedi-
ence and order. Later the ap-
prentice was given lasting lessons
in discipline and perseverance.
The wholesome instruction was
kept up at school or in the army.
Now, as the contributor to the
Guardian says, the children of
working people run wild when lit-
tle mites, and are allowed to do
exactly as they like ; parental au-
thority is not exhibited in the be-
ginning, and so comes to be defied
later on. Consequently, parents
are always complaining that their
children are qnite unmanageable,
even before they leave school;
and when they have gone to work
at the age of 13 or 14 the mothers
as a rule have no idea that they
coaid exercise any control or even
moral influence over these inde-
pendent wage earners. Thus it
comes about that children are
never taught the most elementary
lessors of obedience and self-con-
trol ; they never learn to discip-
line their wills by regularity in
such simple thiDgs as the time of
going to bed, saying their prayers,
coming home straight from school,
quickness in their errands, useful-
ness about the house, etc. Parents
groan over the result, and say
that'it was very different in their
own young days. But, in matter
of fact, a reaction from the hard-
ness of those days has led to an
excessive softness and flabbiness
today. The modern definition of
liberty has in it some ele ments of
great danger. The steadiness and
toughness of the oldtime lad, who
as a man came in to clear away
great forests and to surmount
with a stout heart the difficulties
and dangers of pioneer life, can
not be expected to show them-
selves in the wayward idler of a
modern home. The girl who does
as she likes and has what she
wants, growing up without the old
lessbns of obedience, orderliness
and self-sacrifice, is sure later to
want more than she (?an get, and
is apt in the end to beoome a cen-
ter of extravagance, discontent
and discouragement. The weak-
nesses found in the modern lian
and woman are doubtless results
of numerous causes; but there is
tittle doubt that they ere due
chiefly to the want of proper
home training. At this point, it is
bat fair to add, Americans are es-
pecially weak.
Republican Rows In Fif-
ty-fifth Congress.
WARS IN THE HAPPYFAMILY
Colonel Hepburn’s Clash With
Sereno Payne.
PASTY LEADEB TICKLES A BEAE.
Frank P. Blair's Part In Keeping
Missouri In the Union—-Its Bearing
an the Ultimate Result of the Civil
War—Spcechinaking Under Difficul-
ties—Riot and Bloodshed.
[Special Washington Letter.]
The short session of the Fifty-fifth con-
gress which has just closed will be re-
membered for many things, especially
for bad blood between Republican chief-
tains. Many of them have cut and slash-
ed each other in a way it grieved me to
behold, but perhaps Colonel William^
P. Hepburn of Iowa has been the most
conspicuous fighter in these family
wars. He gets off the reservation and
goes on the warpath oftener than any
of them. His pet aversion is the Reed
code of rules. He never loses an oppor-
tunity to inveigh against them. The
other day the colonel became so ob-
streperous that evidently the managers
took alarm and concluded that he need-
ed discipline, so Hon. Sereno E. Payne
of New York, the new chairman of the
ways and means committee, one of
Speaker Reed’s most trusted lieuten-
ants, whom Uncle Joe Cannon once
characterized as “the white haired
mandarin of the house,” essayed to
put the Iowan through a course of
sprouts, but ever since ho must have
put in his time wondering:
If so soon I’m done for,
What was I begun fort
Mr. Payne ie one pf the mildest man-
nered of mortals, which Colonel Hep-
burn is not by several jngs full So,
when Mr. Payne had administered his
gentle castigation, Hepburn arose,
white with rage, and proceeded to wal-
lop the venerable New Yorker in the
most hair raising style. his
clinched fist in uncomfortable juxtapo-
sition to the proboscis of Mr. Payne,
and with an angry roar that could bgye
been heard at Arlington or the navy
yard, he shouted: “You stated an un-
truth! I- contradict your untruthful
statement I” and much more of the same
sort, while the Republican leaders look-
ed on aghast and Payne smiled a sickly
gprt pf smile, no doubt revolving in his
mind some scheme to even up the score
with Colonel Hepburn in future. Now,
if Hepburn has the courage of bis con-
victions, we can knock the Reed rules
into smithereens in the next congress,
for we will need only seven Republican
votes to do it, and the colonel ought to
be able to muster 'that
The Fight F<jr Missouri,
As I am anxious for all Americans to
know what a leonine character that
great Missouri Democrat, Frank P.
Blair, was, I hereby quote some more
fiery remarks in presenting his statue
to congress :
glarly impressions are never effaced,
and it may be, who knows, that the dier general in the
.terras theory ever hatched in the brain
of rjr.n Vvho was its father cannot
ni a- be definitely ascertained, as nobody
is anxious to claim the dubious honor
of its paternity. What it really meant
may be shown by an incident that hap-
pened in the great historic county of
Pike, where I now reside—a county
which furnished one brigadier general
and five colonels to the Union army and
three colonels to the Confederate, with
a full complement of officers and men.
Early in 1861 a great “neutrality
meeting” was held at Bowling Gre6n.
the county seat. Hon. William L
Gatewood, a prominent lawyer, a Vir-
ginian or Kentuckian by birth, an ar-
dent southern sympathizer, subsequently
a state senator, was elected chairman.
The Pike county orators were out in
full force, but chief among them was
Hon. George W. Anderson, also a prom-
inent lawyer, an east Tennesseean by
nativity, afterward a colonel in the
Union army, state senator and for four
years a member of congress. Eloquence
was on tap and flowed freely. Men of
all shades of opinion fraternized. They
passed Strong and ringing resolutions
in favor of “armed neutrality,” and
“all went merry as a marriage belL ”
What “Armed Neutrality” Meant,
Chairman Gatewood was somewhat
mystified and not altogether satisfied by
the harmonious proceedings, so after
adjourment sine die he took Anderson
out under a convenient tree, and in his
shrill tenor nervously inquired,
“George, what does ‘armed neutrality’
mean anyhow T” Anderson, in his deep
bass, growled, “It means guns for the
Union men and none for the rebels,”
the truth and wisdom of which remark
are now perfectly apparent. So it was,
verily. Anderson had hit the bnllseye.
and no mistake. If be had orated for an
entire month, he could not have stated
the case more luminously or more com-
prehensively. He had exhausted the
subject Before the moon had waxed
and waned again the leaders of that
“neutrality” love feast were hurrying
to and fro, beating up for volunteers in
every nook and corner of the conntry.
some for service in the Union, others
for service in the Confederate, army.
But it is proverbial that “hindsight
is better than foresight” Men must be
judged by their own knowledge at the
time they acted, not by ours; by the
circumstances with which they were
surrounded and not by those which en-
viron us. What may appear unfgthqm-
gbie problems to tfyd wis'e men of one
generation may be clear as crystal to
even the dullest of the succeeding gen-
eration. However ridiculous “armed
neutrality, ” judged by the hard logic
of events, may appear in the retrospect,
however untenable we now know if to
haye heel}, the fact nevertheless remains
tfyat it was honestly believed in and en-
thusiastically advocated by .thousands
of capable, brave and honest men all
over Kentucky and Missouri, many of
whom afterward won'- laurels on the
battlefield and laid down their lives in
one.army or .the other in defense of
what they deemed right
When we consider the men who were
against Blair, it is fistougdipg (.fiat be
succeeded. To say nothing pf scores,
then unknown to fame, who were con-
spicuous soldiers in the Confederate
army and who have since held high po-
litical position, arrayed against him.
were the governor of the state, Clal-
borne F %ksqs; the li^^pt gov-
ernor. Thomas CT Reynolds; ex-Umted
States Senator and ex-Vice President
J?avid R. Atchisog; United Steles Sen-
ators Trusten Polk and James 8. Green,
the latter of whom had no superior in
intellect or as a debater upon this con
tinent; Waldo P. Johnson, elected to
succeed Green in March, 1861, and the
tangle about large chough for a speak-
er's platform Beneath. their grateful
shadow, with the Father of Waters be-
hind him, the eternal hills in front of
him, the bine sky above his head, in
the presence of a great and curious con-
course of people, Frank Blair made the
first Democratic- speech delivered in
Missouri after the close of the civil war.
Excitement was intense. Armed men of
all shades of opinion abounded on every
hand. When Blair arose to speak he
unbuckled his pistol belt and coolly laid
two navy revolvers on the table. He
prefaced his remarks as follows:
“Fellow citizens, I understand that 1
am to be killed here today. I have just
come out of four years of that sort of
business. If there is to be any of it here,
it had better be attended to before the
speaking begins.”
He then proceeded with his speech,
but had not been going more than five
minutes until a man of gigantic pro-
portions started toward him, shaking
his huge fist and shouting: “He’s an
arrant rebel 1 Take him out! Take him
out!” Blair stopped, looked the man in
the face, crooked his finger at him and
said, “You come and take me out!”
which put an end to that episode, for
the man who was yelling, “Take him
ontl” suddenly realized that Blair’s in-
dex finger which was beckoning him on
would soon be pressing the trigger of
one of those pistols if he did go on, and
he prudently declined Blair’s cordial in-
vitation-
Speaking Under Difficulties,
He got through that day without
bloodshed, but when he spoke at War-
rensbnrg a little later he had not pro-
ceeded a quarter of an hour before a
prominent citizen sitting on the speak-
er’s stand started toward Blair, with a
pistol in his hand and with a mighty
oath, yelling, “That statement is a
liel” whiffy jBstantly precipitated ft
free fight, in which one man was killed
and several severely wounded. Blair
went on with his speech amid ceaseless
teterrnptteps. I know a venerable, mild
mannered, Christian statesman, now in
this very capito], who for two mortal
hours of that pandemonium stood with
bis hand upon his revolver ready to-
shoot down any man that assaulted
Blair.
Afterward Blair was advertised to
speak at Marshall, ,in Saline county.
On the day of his nrrivgl an armed mob
was organized to prevent him from
speaking, and an.afmed body of Demo-
crats swore he,, should. A collision oc-
curred, resulting in a regular pitched
battle, ijHvhich several men lost their
lives .ahd others wex» badly injured-
Bqt Blair made his speech.
One nigfyt to Wft* speaking in Lueas
Market place, in St. Louis, when a
man in the crowd, not 80 feet from the
stand, pointed a revolver directly at
him. Friendly hands interposed to turn
the aim skyward. “Let him shoot if he
dares!” said Blair, gazing coolly at his
would be murderer. “If I am wrong, I
ought to be shot But this man is not
the proper executioner.” The fellow
was hustled from the audienc^
Amid suefy gpenea fye toured the state
from the Des Moines river to the Ar-
kansas line and from the Mississippi to
the mouth of the raging Kaw. The man
who did that had a lion’s heart in his
breast
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Gertruda,
Gertrude, March 7,1899.—Since
oar last report spring has been
ushered in, and we appreciate his
presence indeed. The elms are
patting on their spring attire, the
birds are rejoicing, and the grass
is peeping out It is dry. Oar
community is *0 in the superla-
tive, and the wheat looks as
though it was undergoing a se-
vere case of compound “ grip ”
of cold and dry weather.
Gardening and corn planting
iB the order of the day.
J. O. Jones of St. Joe is visiting
his nephew, G. W. Jones this
week. t
J. B. Garrison and daughter,
Miss Ella, attended the teachers’
institute last Friday and Saturday
at Jacksboro.
W. O- Seward made a business
trip to Fort Worth this week.
Rev. Petty preached to an at-
tentive audience at Gertrude last
Snnday.
A. Harrell is absent this week
on bnsiness.
Sam Moore and Miss Jennie
Garter of Antelope were visitors
at A. Harrell’s daring the past
week. ■
Health is good again, and onr
school is doing some excellent
work in all departments. The
pnpils seem to realize the impor-
tance of time and are making
good use of it. Oar literary work
'next Friday will consist of essays
and recitations. A.
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^ 1 whenever infln- J lory frame of mind. It is con-
* *®®oukide are found i tended by another that the con-
! vi gi% they tnll be brave- staat and wonderful changes in
An Uncertain Disease.
There is no disease more uncertain in its
nature than dyspepsia. Physicians say that
tine symptoms of no two cases agree. It is
therefore most difficult to make a correct
win cuic iu iiivniuuuie m an uiseases or
the stomach, blood and nerves. For tele by
all Osslsn
fact that when a child he eat upon the
knee of Andrew Jackson, received the
kiss of hereditary friendship from his
lips and heard words of patriotism fall
burning from his tongue determined his
course In the woeful days of 1861, for
Jackson himself, could he have return-
ed tq eartfy in the prime pf Jife, coul<|
not have acted a sterner or more heroic
part than did his foster son.
The fact that Andrew Jackson, Thom-
as Hart Benton and the elder Francis
Preston Blair were sworn friends most
probably caused young Frank to settle
in St Louis, a performance which,
though little noted at the time, in all
human probability kept Missouri in the
Union and thereby defeated the efforts
of the southern people for independence,
for had it not been for Blair’s cool cour-
*age, clear head, unquailing spirit, inde-
fatigable industry, commanding influ-
ence and rare foresight, the Southern
sympathizers in Missouri would have
succeeded in taking her into the Con-
federacy
There pever TYP jfl this world a
struggle in which time was more the
essence of things than in the fight for
Missouri. The people were divided into
something like three eqnaf parts—one
for the Unioq, fjpotfyer for secession,
while the minds of the third were not
made up, but were in a plastic condi-
tion This halting, wavering third be-
came decisive of the contest. To control
it Blair and his opponents waged a bat-
tle royal. If in IJio beginning Blair
could have aroused the Federal govern-
ment to a realization of tfye vast strate-
gic importapee of Missouri and to the
necessity for early action, his task
would fyfive beep easy. If in the begin-
ning his antagonists could have aroused
the Missouri legislature to a compre-
hension of the situation and could have
induced the state authorities to seize
the United States arsenal at St Louie
before General Nathaniel Lyon was
placed in command, their task would
pave been easy, but when Lyon appear-
ed upon the scene their one golden op-
portunity was gone.
Played For Hlsh Stake*.
It was a colossal stake for which this
master spirit played- Nevertheless, un-
derstanding clearly the gravity of the
game, he played it to the end with su-
perb audacity and with nerves of steel
—no hesitation, no equivocation, no
mental reservation, no repining, no
doubting, no backward glance on his
part.
Without leave or license _ from any-
body he organized and drilled in secret
four regiments, mostly Germans, arm-
ing them with guns which he purchased
with money begged by him from Union-
ists in the north, so that when Governor
Jackson peremptorily declined to fur-
nish the four regiments which constitut-
ed Missouri’s quota under president
Lincoln’s first .call for 75,000 volunteers
Blair promptly tendered by telegraph
bis fonr regiments, which he had been
for months secretly recruiting in St.
Louis and had them mustered into tho
service. Not only that, but he tendered
six more regiments, which were also
accepted.
The government offered him a briga-
dier’s commission as commander of that
brigade, which he gracefully and firmly
declined in favor of Lyon—an act of
generosity and self abnegation unusual
among men.
Time fought for Blair in this strange
contest for possession of a state, for the
preservation of the republic.
Those who most effectually tied the
hands of the secessionists ao4 wfyq un-
wittingly, but most largely, played into
Blair’s were the advocates of “armed
neutrality’ ’—certainly tfyp
we}l beloved ex-governor and ex-briga-
dier general in the Mexican War, Ster-
ling price, by long odds the most popu-
lar man in the state-
Secret of Blair'* Saeees*.
The thing that enabled Blair to suc-
ceed was his settled conviction from
the first that there would be war—a
war of coercion. While others were
fcPPWS against bops that war could be
averted, or at least that Missouri could
be kept out of it, even if it did come—
while others were making constitutional
arguments, while others were tempo-
rizing and dallying—he acted. Believing
that the questions at issue could be set-
tled only by the sword and also believ-
ing in Napoleon’s maxim that “God
fights on the side of the heaviest bat-
talions," he grimly made ready for the
part which he intended to play in the
Woody drama.
Biair was 5 feet 11 inches in height,
straight as an Indian, of slender, wiry
frame, hazel eyes, auburn hair, ruddy
complexion and aqniline ncse. He was
of what the phrenologists denominate
the sanguine nervous temperament He
Was an optimist £y nature gp4 bad
unbounded confidence in himself and
in Missourians, with whose capabili-
ties, characteristics, sentiments and
prejudices he was as well acquainted
|3 any man that eyes liveif.
On the 8Qth of May, 1861, in urging
the president’ to authorize the enlist
meat of a large number of Missourians
he wrote these words, which, in the
light of what happened in the succeed-
ing fonr years, appear amazing. E»-
said:
“'W? wel} able to fake care of
ourselves in this state, without assist-
ance from elsewhere, if authorized to
faise a sufficient fore? Within the state,
and after that work is done we can take
care of the secessionists from the Ar-
kansas line to the gulf, along the west
shore of the Mississippi ”
The most spectacular feature of the
great Chicago national Republican con-
vention of 1880 was Coukling's speech
nominating Grant. That masterful ora-
tion will be read with rapture by mil-
lions yet unborn. If contained a single
sentence which alone made it worthy of
remembranca la describing Grant.
Conkling said:
“His fame waa born not alone of
things written and said, but of the ar
duous greatness of things done.”
The phrase “the arduous greajtness of
things done” was original with the
brilliant New Yorker and constitutes a
riefy and permanent addition to our
iiteratura It sticks to the memory like
a bur. It fills a long felt want. It ap
plies to Frank Blair as well as to the
great captain in whose presence the
whole world uncovered, for Blair’s fame
rests also largely on “the arduous great-
ness of things done. ”
Wartime Politic*.
A few incidents out of a multitude
which might be cited will show the
character of political warfare in Mis-
souri in the days when Blair was on the
boards.
Before the war he went to Hannibal
to make an emancipation speech. A
mob gathered to break np the meeting
While he was speaking some one hit
him squarely in the forehead with an
egg. He wiped it off with his finger,
flipped it on the ground, and imperturb-
ably proceeded, making not the slight-
est allusion to ffye incident- His mar
yelous nerve charmed his audience, bos
tile though it was, and those who had
come to stone him remained to applaud
In the outskirts of Louisiana, Mo.
stand four immense sugar treeB, yrbich.
if tha Druidical religion were in vague
in the Mississippi valley, would be set
aside as objects of worship by Demo-
Xfag fvimtto fiomera of a rea-
Knighta of Honor Supreme
Lodge, St. Louis, Mo.
By request, the following edi-
torial from the Southern Trade
Record is published:
“ It is not the object of this ed-
itorial to proclaim the many ad-
vantages of life insurance, for the
fact that it is a great blessing to
those who are not in the position
to provide for their loved ones
has been demonstrated by the
fact that nearly every man car-
ries some kind of life insurance.
The object of this article is to
point out, or, in other words, to
solve the problem, which is the
best form of life insurance now
in existence.
“ There are three distinct forms
from which to choose: Fraternal,
Bnsiness or Assessment compa-
nies, and Qld Line Legal Reserve
companies. In regard to the old
line reserve companies we have
little to say, bat apon close exam-
ination we believe that their
charges are entirely too high in
regard to services rendered. The
immense profit these companies
make is demonstrated by the fact
that the ten leading companies
have assumed control and acquir-
ed capital to the amount of one
billion dollars. Anyone can see
that this great amonnt of money,
placed in the hands of a few men,
is a menace to the country at
large, as it is safe to say that all
this money will never find its way
into the hands of the people again.
“ In regard to bnsiness associa-
tions or assessment companies,
statistics show that in nearly ev-
ery case their expenses were so
much larger than their receipts
should be that they seem to exist
jnst so long as they have good
lock and a low death rate.
“ It is with fraternal insurance
that the publio should be more
familiar. The blessing that it
tenders to the man of moderate
means should be heralded by ev-
ery journal throughout the land.
Statistics show that this is the
proper system when eondneted
in a judicious and honest manner.
The question now arises: “ Which
is the best fraternal association
or order to joint ” and that the
patrons of the Record may be in
a position to know where the
money that is to provide for the
beneficiaries or beoome the snre
staff in declining years ean be
best placed, this paper has made
a careful investigation along these
lines, which led to the examina-
tion of the sworn statements and
other records of various orders,
and find that the Knights of Hon-
or Suprejne Lodge* of Ninth and
Jno. Deere Plows,
Jno. Deere Cultivators,
Jno. Deere Corn Planters,
Jno. Deere Lever Harrows,
Jno, Deere Cutaway Harrows,
Jno. Deere Stalk Cutters,
McCormick Harvesting Machinery, Blk. Iron,
Deering Harvesting Machinery, Galv. Iron,
Binder Twine, Well Tnbing,
Hoes and Rakes, Barb Wire,
Wagons and Buggies, Net Wire, |
Stoves and Hollowware, Wagon Material,
Harness, all kinds Biddles.
There is also in connection with this large establish
class harness shop and tin shop, and first class workmen
Don’t be satisfied until yon have seen them when wanting
in their line.
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CANS OF
B. T. Babbitt’s PURE
IS EQUAL TO
2 of any
3 Cans of any Other Brands. - !
2 Cans of B. T. Babbitt’s PuBE‘ 1
SAVES THE CONSUMER,
INSIST ON HAVING
lii
msmm
B. T. BABBITT!
Pure Potash, or ™
«Fi
LYON & MATTHEWS,
-
* |jj
■ - i®i
LUMBER DEALERS,
Carry a Large and well selected Stock of T*rj Lamker
including Shingles, Sash, Doors, Etc,
SEE THEM BEFORE YOU
JACKSBORO, T
Ssk*»?
11111
—
Olive Streets, St. Louis, Mo., is
the one we feel jastified in rec-
ommending in preference to all
others.
“ Extreme care is taken in this
company, and when a policy is
issued the party can feel reasona-
bly certain that he has more than
average health.
“The officers of this company
are all men of the highest integri-
ty and business ability, and we
believe possess the best execu-
tive powers in their line in Amer-
ioa, as their many years of con-
tinuous and successful manage-
ment attest.”
Resolutions of Respect.
At a regular meeting of Camp
Hughes U, O. Vs. held in Jacks-
boro on Saturday, March 4th, 1899,
a committee was appointed to
draft appropriate resolutions, and
report as follows:
Whereas it has pleased the
Great Commander of all men to
remove onr late comrade J. A.
McDowell to the camp beyond
the river,
Resolved, Jhat in this last trib-
ute to the memory of the depart-
ed that we r«gret his removal
from onr midst %nd monrn for one
who was faithful in arms for the
cause he loved 4nd worthy of our
respect and regird.
Resolved, thjt we sincerely
condole with the
of the deceased on tho
tion with which it his
Divine Providence to afflict'
and commend them fer
tion to Him
for the best, and wt
ments are meant in memy.
Resolved, that a
testimonial of sympathy be
warded to the ffimilylp
parted comrade by the
of this meeting, and that the,
boro papers be asked to
same.
W. O. Groner,
G. W. Latimer,
J. N. Rogers,
m
Constipation of the bowel* tsMf to
cured by * few done* of Dr. K. A. Hi
Liver Medicine.H. X. Wills.
Money to Loan
On farms, ranches and city prep*
erty. Will boy and extend ven-
dor’s lien notes and take np g|il;
extend old loans made by ether
companies.
R. D. Bell, Att’yat Law,
tf Jacksboro, Tens,
Shorten the time of________
mother and supply breast milk for child by
using Simmon* 8qu*w Vine Win, or Tablet*.
H.A. Will*. j*
$S33i
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