The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1895 Page: 1 of 4
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One Year
t <*n Er*th oounty Boy
or Girl in the
Polytechnic College,
-Of Fort Worth.
For information see this issue,
. VOLUME XXIV. NO. 11.
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTV, TEXAS, OCTOBER 26, 1806.
SUBSCRIPTION, 81.60 A YEAR.
College One
on account of the ]
Free Scholarship in the
Polytechnic College,
at Fort Worth, one of the best
in the State. See this issue.
flclLHANY & Dodge
STRUCK THE IRON
WHILE IT WAS HOT
And Bought their Immense Stock of Goods Before
the advance in Leather and Cotton Goods was on.
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Our Counters and Shelves are piled high and filled
with a choice selection of rare bargains in
Domestics, Cotton Plaids, Hickorys, Cheviots,
Drills, Canton Flannels, Prints, Ec.
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Our Big Stock of
Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing
Is just Ihe thing for you,
Iu Style, Price and Quality.
Blankets, Flannels,
Eiderdowns, Etc.
In qualities and quantities
to suit everybody.
and
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Our Shoes are up to the Standard in Style
Quality; Bought early, before the advance.
We have a fine line of the renowned
W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES.
Give us a call for your Fall Business.
We guarantee Lowest Prices and Fairest Treatment.
South Side Square..
ricllhany & Dodge.
35 CIS LOADS
OF
Just arrived and not all
This is no fairy story,
in yet.
but cold facts.
So you see we are in a position to sell Lumber to all who want it;
and do not propose to let anybody make more reasonable prices than
we do. B sure to call on us for all kinds of
lumber, Stymies,
Cowan & hhrdin.
TRADE AT DUBLIN!
We beg to say to the people of Erath and
adjoining Counties that we are • . . .
GROCERIES
The Cotton’s Cornin’ In.
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WE ALSO CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF
HARDWARE, CROCKERY & TINWARE.
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Having stores at Dublin, Comanche and Iredell, we buy
in Car Lots and invite competition, knowing no one oan un-
dersell us or compete with us.
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR FLOUR.
Just reoeived—Three Cars Liverpool and Michigan SALT.
Bring your ootton to Dublin where you have tho beet mar-
ket, and oan buy your supplies as oheap as anywhere in
Texaa.
----7“ WE LEAD -OTHERS FOLLOW. '
WKindly call and see what we oan do for you; it will pay,
Yours truly,
" E. W. HARRIS,
Oldham Building,
Dublin, Texas.
ono. B. HOWTO*, pre«
J. H. Caob, Vice-Pro*.
J. B. Atom, C*nhler.
First National Bank
-OP STBPHBNUILLB.-
Capital and Surplus,
$60,000.
las—C. J. Shapard, J. H. Cage, W. A. Bassol,
J, B. Ator, Otho. 8. Houston.
I COXJKTSfY AMD CONSIDERATION.
Ohl the times isgettin’ Hvelv.
An’ the wheel’s begin to spin,
An’ the people’s gettin’ jolly,
For the cotton’s cornin’ ini
An’ the ratlin' of the wagons.
An’ thehnmmin' of the gin,
Make a decent kind o’ np roar;
When the cotton’s cornin’ in.
An’ we’re whistlin' an’ a singin’,
(Don't keer nothin' ’bout er tune.)
Fer the cotton of October,
Beats the bloomin’ rose of Jnne.
It seems just like the good ol’ times,
For which we’ve been a-waitin’,
When cotton’s cornin’ in to town
An’ money’s circulatin'.
Oh, the times are gettin’ lively,
An' the. wheel's begin to spin,
An’ Texas is a leadin' j
For the cotton's cornin’ in.
Joel Pate
Horace Greeley.
Stop the promiscuous pardon-
ing of criminals, else it will soon
be so a man will not be safe on
the publio highway with 26 oents
in his pooket. ^___
The gold reserve-is considera-
bly below the legal requirement
and oontinually diminishing
What is to be done about it?
This condition will oontinue as
long as “ooin” is interpreted
* ‘gold, * ’ and all coin payments
made in gold.
It is probable the populist state
convention will meet in February
next and nominate a state tioket.
With the campaign opened up in
full blast six months in advanoe
of the usual time, the traveling
orator ought to have a good time,
and the people get many a ohanoe
to contribute their mites of ex-
pense money.
Along with the news of a corn
orop and high prices for ootton
oomes the statement that the
south’s rioe orop this year is
enormous. Reliable estimates in-
dioate that it will reach at least
175,000,000 pounds, which is
over 40 per cent more than the
orop of last year.
The Hioo News, populist pa-
per, advises the farmers to plant
largely of wheat. It is oertainly
not posted on the doctrine of
that great leader of Texas popu-
lists who says Texas farmers
should raise cotton only, regard-
less of price, and leave the grow-
ing of wheat and corn to the Kan-
sas and Iowa farmers.
Stephenville has grown to suf-
ficient importance to hereafter
have a postmaster appointed by
the present. This will afford Mr.
Cleveland an opportunity to make
another convert to the gold hug
idea.—Hico News (populist.)
This shows how well thakpaper
keeps up with the times. Ste-
phenville post office has been a
presidential office for several
years. Stephenville was a town
when Hico was a pathless swamp
in the Bosque bottoms. Is it
possible the editor of the News
didn’t know any better, or did
his penoil think he was writing a
political editorial when it went
off like that?
The cotton fields of Wharton
county are suffering heavily from
the ravages of a species of in-
sect termed the Spanish weevil.
The difference between this wee-
vil and the common worm, is
that the worm attacks the boll
at the point where the stem joins
it to the base, while the weevil
begins at the upper part. This
is the first time- that the vermin
has been seen in Wharton ooun-
ty, and the damages are beyond
comprehension, as nearly six-
tenths of the orop has been de-
stroyed or injured by them.
The currency question is a very
lively issue in the campaign in
Virginia. The state votes for
half of the members of the senate
and for all the members of the
HoUse of Delegates. The sena-
tors to be chosen will two years
henoe vote for United States Sen-
ator Daniel’s successor. Daniel
is one of the most pronounced
advooates of free silver in the
country, and is, perhaps, the
most popular man in his state
today. At nine out of ten con-
ventions held Daniel and free sil-
ver have been indorsed. The
silver sentiment in the Old Dom-
inion is as strong as it is any-
where in the oounty.
The commissioners’ court of
Palo Pinto some time ago set
aside the vote of the oounty on
prohibition, The oounty had
gone “dry, ” henoe their action.
The ground for their aotion was
that only 224 names were on the
petition asking the election in-
stead of 250. The people should
set them aside next election, for
inoompetenoy or malfeasanoe in
offioe. In the first place, it was
not neoessary to have 260 names.
They oould have ordered the
election without a single petition-
er. In the seoond plaoe, why
did they order the eleotion on a
petition of only 224 namea? Did
they know there were fewer than
260? If so, why did they act on
An acquaintance met Horace
one day ahd said: *,‘Mr. Gree-
ley, I’ve stopped yotft* paper.’’
“Have you?” Said Horaoe.
“Well, that’s too bad, * ’ and the
old white hat went its way.
The next morning Greeley met
his subscriber again, and said:
‘ ‘I thought you had stopped the
Tribune?’’ “So I did.” “Then
there must be some mistake,”
said Horace, “for I just came
from the offioe, and the presses
were running, the clerks were as
busy as ever, the compositors
were hard at-work, and the busi-
ness was going on the same as
yesterday and the day before. ”
“Ohl” ejaculated the subscribr
er, “I didn’t mean that I had
stopped the paper, I stopped only
my copy of it because I didn’t
like your editorials. ” ‘ ‘ Pshaw 1”
retorted Greeley, “it wasn’t
worth taking up my time to tell
me such a trifle as that. My it? If they didn’t they ought to
sir, if you expect to oontrol
INC,
a day,
M*g|M
be turned out for attending to thi
by county’s affairs so loosely. ]n
should pay the
VINCENT TO SKIPPER.
Seeking the Truths of tho
Fathers.
NO. III.
To Mr. John H. F. Skipper:
As I go along I desire to lighten
your labors’ while enlightening
your mind. Henoe I will tell
you that prior to 1702, but never
afterwards, the silver dollar was
the monetary unit of this coun-
try. It was made bo by the con-
gress of the confederation in
1786. It was the Spanish peso or
pesata—called a dollar here and
whioh hod been in circulation in
this oountry one hundred years.
This fact may help you to thor-
oughly understand what I have
shown you Jefferson and Hamil-
ton said as to the adoption of a
monetary unit and what the con-
gress of the confederation and the
congress of our Federal Union
did as to it. They used the word
unit” as synonymous with
the word “dollars” as you will
see by reading the act of 1702 by
leaving out the word “units.”
For fear it may slip my mind
I’ll tell you now a very signifi-
cant faot that confronted “our
forefathers” in the early days
of this government—a fact that
convinced them that government
cannot legislate value into silver.
The act of 1792, as we have
seen, provided for coinage of
4 ‘dollars, each to be of the value
of the Spanish milled dollar as
the same is now ourrent and to
contain 371H grains of pure sil-
ver, ’ ’ and for thirteen years the
mint coined these new dollars.
Both these new dollars and the
old Spanish dollars were legal
tender money. But it was soon
discovered that the old Spanish
dollars which circulated here and
by law legal tender had lost by
abrasion about 2% grains. The
new Spanish dollars were worth
2>s grains more. Our new dol-
lars were equivalent to the new
Spanish dollars, and passed just
as well in the West Indies. At
the same time the old Spanish
dollar continued carrant here as
a dollar. And what was the re-
sult? Why, simply this: Our
new dollars went to the West In-
dies as fast as they were coined
and all the old abraded Spanish
dollars came here. And then in
1806 something did happen and
it was this: President Jefferson
—tho father of “our forefath-
ers,” friend John—gave an or-
der to the mint to stop coining
silver dollars—and that order
based upon no law of congress,
remained in force until 1836.
Now this fact proves two things,
viz:
1st. That if a government coins
or adopts two moneys of differ-
ent values, the money of greater
value will leave the oountry;
2nd. That the descendants of
Obadiah and Ananias were not
near so numerous in those days
as they are now or they would
have howled and lied * ‘our fore-
father” Jefferson into impeach-
ment and the penitentiary.
Congress did not legislate on
this subject again until 1834 when
it reduoed the quantity of pure
gold in the gold dollar a little
more than per oent. without
changing the quantity of silver
in a silver dollar. The quantity
of pure gold was slightly in-
creased in 1837 the result being
that the legal ratio of 1 to 15.088
or nearly 1 to 16 was established
and this has never since been
changed. In this instance it is
again evident that “our fore-
fathers’ ’ were trying to make the
legal ratio correspond with the
market ratio. I’ll admit that
for one hundred years prior to
1702 silver was principally the
moNtey in oiroulation in this
oountry—as I have said “our
forefathers” were then on a sil-
ver basis but never afterwards.
I admit further that during the
forty-two years from 1792 to
1834 1 'the Spanish pillar dollars’ ’
and the dollars of Mexioo, Peru,
Bolivia, Chili, Central Amcrioa,
and the five-frano silver piecos
(at 03 oents) were the monoy in
oiroulation here—the Spanish
and Frenoh pieoes named “be
ing receivable by tale for the
payment of all debts and de
mands, ’ ’ but all the silver money
was after 1792 estimated or meas-
ured in its value as oompared
gold. By law we than had
but in faot we had
Yes, my
an inoontrover-
<
lead by Jefferson and Hamilton,
who stood together on this mat-
ter, put this oountry on the gold
standard in 1792. No man oan
find you one line of history or of
law to the oontrary.
But to show you how thorough-
ly oonvinoed Jefferson was that
silver dollar must be kept nioely
measured by gold I’ll finish the
quotation from his ' ‘ report on a
mint” in 1792. Hesays: “Per-
haps we might with safety lean
to a proportion somewhat above
par for gold, considering our
neighborhood and oommeroe with
the sources of the coins and the
tendency whioh the high price of
gold in Spain has to draw thither
all that of their mines, leaving
silver principally for dur and
other markets. It is not impos-
sible that 16 to 1 may be found
an eligible proportion. I state
it, however, as a conjecture
only.” Then after stating the
ratio then existing between gold
and silver in England, Russia,
Holland, Savoy, France, Spain
and Germany whioh averaged
14.675 to 1, he repeats: “I
would still give a little more for
gold because of its superior con-
venience for transportation.”
So you see that Jefferson, after
having gotten the average ratio
of seven leading nations with
which the United States had com-
merce, submitted that ratio “only
a conjecture.” He admits
that Spain was then getting all
our gold and we were getting
nothing but silver from Spain.
He evidently did not like this and
emphasizes by repetition that we
better put gold a little higher
because of its superior con-
venience for transportation.”
The truth is Jefferson and Ham-
ilton and all their compeers re-
solved at the outset that this
oountry should have and keep
as good money as any other na-
tion, and since gold was then,
and always has been, in the es-
timation of all other nations the
best money, they resolved and
enacted to keepgold in this coun-
try. They resolved that every
dollar of their money should be
worth 100 cents everywhere and
at all times. And this was the
position held by Jackson, Cal-
houn, Benton and all the other
immortal leaders of the demo-
cratic party. No democratic plat-
form has ever uttered a word to
the contrary. No, not cne, and
no man can show a line in the
teachings of “our forefathers”
to the contrary. They put us on
the gold standard in 1792 and
their patriotic, able and true dis-
ciples have kept us on a gold
standard ever sinoe.
I hope, friend John, you now
admit I have fully and truthfully
answered your last question. I’ll
give you more next week.
Very respectfully,
Jas. U. Vincent.
Tall Structures.
The tallest chimney was built
at Port Duadas, Glasgow, Soot-
land, 1867 to 1860, for F. Town-
sand. It is the highest ohimney
in the world (454 feet) and one
of the loftiest masonry structures
in existence. It is, independent
of its size, one of the beet speci-
mens of substantial, well-made
brick work in existence. In Eu-
feot upon the organs of the body,
and find that while in expedi ea
the heart’s action it reduces ten-
ioity; and turning to the nervous
system I find the same reply—
that is to say, I find the nervous
system more quiokly worn out
under the influenoe of this agent
than if none of it is taken at all.
I asked it, ‘Can you build up
any of the tissues of the body?’
The answer again is in the neg-
rope there are only two ohuroh | ative—can build nothing. If
A Beam in its Bye.
The removal of Add-Ran Chris-
tian University from Thorp
Springs is proposed. Waco has
been talking of making a bid for
it, but will probably give up the
idea. Fort Worth it is believed,
will offer a bonus of $50,000 to
secure its location. What is tho
matter with Stephenville making
an effort in this direction.—Ste-
phenville Empire.
Enough the matter. With
Stephenville to maka such an ef-
fort would look like a very fool-
ish waste of energy and wind.
Better remember the fate of the
frog that tried to inflate itself to
the size of on ox, and take warn-
ing. Bite off what you can mas-
ticate and worry down. The
Stephenville papers blow with a
vim and earnestness that is al-
most pathetio, but the truth is
Stephenville has a lot of moss
backs that have held the town
back for years, and they could
not be induoed to come down for
the price of a negro’s supper un-
less they were first given a mort-
gage on the negro. 8tephenvil)e
real estate sharks drove an Oil
Mill enterprise away from the
town about three years ago and
helped to locate it at Dublin.
Stephenville needs a few mote
first class funerals worse than
anything she is liable to get just
now. —Comanohe Chief.
The above contains a smat-
tering of truth, yet the Chief had
better pull the beam out of the
eye of its own town. Stephen-
ville papers do pull hard for their
town, and their efforts are not
appreciated by many who should
take a great interest in them and
the town's welfare. But the
Chief’s house has considerable
glass in it, henoe it should handle
atonee very oarefully.
steeples that exceed this struc-
ture in height—namely, that of
the Cologne Cathedral (610 feet)
and that of the Strasburg Cathe-
dral (468 feet). The Great Py-
ramid of Gazeh was originally
480 feet, although not bo high at
present. The United States out-
tops them all with its Washing-
ton monument, 566 feet highland
the tower of the Philadelphia
Publio Buildings, whioh is 537
feet high.
The Eiffel Tower at Paris sur-
passes all other terrestrial metal
structures with its altitude of
nearly 1000 teet. The “Great
Tower’ ’ for London, in course of
construction from designs of Mr.
Henry Davey, C. E., will out-
top all metal structures, being
built of steel, and its extreme
height will be 1250 feet when fin-
ished .
The highest and most remark-
able metal chimney in the world
is erected at the Imperial foundry
at Halsbruoke, near Frieberg,
in Saxony. The height of this
structure is 452.6 feet and 15.74
feet in internal diameters. It is
situated on the right bank of
Mulde, at an elevation of 219
eet above that of the foundry
works, so that its total height
above the sea is no less than
711.75 feet. The works are sit-
uated on the left bank of the riv-
er, and the furnace gases are
conveyed across the river to the
chimney on a bridge through a
pipe 3227feet in length.
The highest artificial structure
in America is the water works
tower at Eden Park, Cincinnati,
O. The floor of the tower, reach-
ed by elevators, is 522 feet above
the Ohio River. The base is 404
feet above the stream. If the
height of the elevator shaft be
added to the observation floor the
grand total height is 589 feet.
The highest office building in
the world is that of the Manhat-
an Life Insurance Company, of
New York City. Its height above
the side walk is 347 feet, and its
foundations go down 53 feet be-
low the same, being 20 feet be-
low tidewater level, making a
total of 400 feet. The founda-
tions oonsist of fifteen masonry
piers, and are carried by the
same number of steel caissons.
The latter were sunk to bedrock
by the pneumatic prooess. The
cantilever system was used for
the foundation. —Machinery.
The Voice of Science.
I do anything I add fatty matter
to the body; but that is a de-
structive agent, piercing the tis-
sues, destroying their powers,
and making them less active in
their work.’ Finally, I sum it
all up. I find it to be an agent
that gives no strength, that re-
duces the tone of the blood-ves-
sels and heart, that reduces the
nervous power, that builds up
no tissues, can be of no use to
me or any other animal as a sub-
stance for food. On this side of
the question my mind is made up
—that this agent, in the most
moderate quantity, is perfectly
useless for any of the conditions
of life to which men are subject-
ed, except under the most ex-
ceptional conditions, which none
but skilled observers need de-
clare. ’ ’
Better Road Laws.
Benjamin Ward Richardson,
M. D., ex-President of the Med-
ical Society of London, has this
to say:
‘ * I am recording a matter of
history—of personal history—
on this question when I say that
I, for one, had no thought of al-
cohol except as a food. 1 thought
it warmed us. I thought it gave
additional strength. I thought
it enabled us to endure mental
and bodily fatigue. I thought it
cheered the heart and lifted up
the mind into greater activity.
But it so happened that I was
asked [by .the British Medical
Association—Ed. ' ‘ Voice ” ] to
study the action of aloohol along
with a whole series of ohemioal
bodies, and to investigate their
bearing in relation to eaoh other.
And so I took aloohol from the
shelf of my laboratory, as 1
might any other drug or ohemi-
oal there, and I asked it, in the
oourse of experiments extending
over a long period. ‘What do
you do?’ I asked it, ‘Do you
warm the*5nimal body when you
are taken into it?’ The reply
came invariably, 'I do not, ex-
oept as a mere flush of surfaoe
excitement. There is, in faot,
no warming, but, ou the oon-
trary, an effeot of oooling and
chilling the body. Then I turned
around to it in another direction,
and asked it, ‘ Do you give mus-
oular strength?’ I test it by the
most rigid analysis and experi-
ment I oan adopt. 1 teat muscu-
lar power under the influence of
it in various form# and degrees,
■ ’1 giv.no ma-
under the Massachusetts road
law on which the Ainsworth bill
introduced at Albany is modeled
the state advances money to
build the roads and bears 75 per
oent. of the total cost, leaving
25 per cent, to be refunded with-
in six years by the oounty bene-
fited.
Under the Ainsworth bill the
expenses would be borne only
half by the state, one-fourth by
the oounty and one-fourth by the
towns on the road to be con-
structed .
Whatever differences of opin-
ion may exist concerning details,
there is no room to doubt that
the system is one under which
good roads would soon become
general, as it not only removes
the prejudice of the taxpayer
against improvement, but tends
to produce competition in its
favor by the endeavor of each
neighborhood to get the advan-
tage of every other.
States which have found out
that good roads mean cheaper
and better living for town and
country will do well to study the
Massachusetts law. And then
to watch the grades! No amount
of good laws can civilize a coun-
try whore tho roads are badly
graded.
It is only since men have be-
gun to ride bicycles that they
have learned what mules have
always known—that four miles
around is a shorter way home
than a single mile either up
hill or down it.
Good road-bed and good grades
will change the whole life of the
Amerioan people. Nothing else
will do more to cheapen the cost
of living in the cities. Nothing
else will do so much to make life
in the country desirable and en-
joyable.
There is an agitation now on
favoring the holding of a late
national convention. A depart-
ure of this kind from the custom
of the party will be damaging.
The national convention should
be held in June or not later than
the middle of July.
The editor of a local paper is
the most thoroughly eritioised in-
dividual of a community, says
Prose and Printer. To escape
criticism he would have to be a
member of all ohurohes and of
none; a prohibitionist and drunk-
ard at tho same time; a married
man and a single man at onoe; a
philantropist and miser at onoe;
a saint and a sinner, a genius
and a fool; a hypocrite, a back-
biter, 8. liar, a rascal, and the
opposite of eaoh.
Uotton Heed.
L. H. Eddy has been appoint-
ed agent for one of the largest
oil mills in the state and will pay
cash for cotton seed. See him.
—Crockery ware and dishes all
grudes, from the oheapest to the
very best imported ware, at
Crouse A Leonard’s.
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— Gj0. Smith has
in his barber shop I
patronage of all.
provisions I
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Moore, Eugene. The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1895, newspaper, October 25, 1895; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth857577/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stephenville Public Library.