The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1895 Page: 4 of 4
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THE
LARGEST PIECE OF
GOOD TOBACCO
EVER SOLD FOR THE MONET
Do You Want A Home?
Lawyer Vincent ia this week
offering special bargains in the
purchase of the following places:
350 acres of the Mims ranch.
The Baugh 160 acre farm near
Morgan’s Mill.
The Hare 173-aore farm near
Topaz.
A 400-acre fenced pasture on
Syoamore.
400 acres unimproved on head
of Paluxy.
The Allison 200-acre farm on
Barton’s creek.
The Shapard 5-aoro block and
residence in Stephenville.
The King 213-acre farm 9 miles
north of Stephenville.
Numbers of smaller tracts.
If you want a home in Erath
oall on him without delay.
He also has numerous proper-
ties strictly for trade, and can
put you on to many chances to
bettor your condition.
For particulars call on
Jas. U. Vincent., „-~
- - . StepbMvflls.- Texas.
OUR TRAVELER ABROAD
* going north
•n "up.t
map above •
t itles of tb* wont
auminor, patron
a ttuxlern
t ia the "Groat Rook Ulaud Route," am
•bows how It runs to the principal
p.to*4at«*" railroad.
it Rock Nlaud Rout*," and the
sve a
without chani
Kan Man City.
gt* between
The Nchedul
No. 4 Lv Ran Antonio eta I.A O. N Ry. M on p.m.
Lv. Houston via H A T. C. Ry. 11.10 p.m.
Af. Fort Worth................10.20 am
Lv. Ft. Worth via Rock Inland, 10.40 a m.
Ar. Kansas City at H.J0 neat a. n»
The favorite Chicago Flyer svtlli runs an fob
low*:
No. t Leaeea Fort Worth ..............9.10 p. m.
Arrive** Kaunas City.............f».3lt p. m
Arrive* Chicago................W ft6a. m.
Arrive** Denver................... T.tt a. m.
All paaaeuirer train* run dally and are
equipped with Veatlbuled Sleeper* and Free
Reclining Chair Cara. Ank your agent for
tlrkeia via the Rook Inland Route. For fur-
ther Information addre**
J. C. McCABE- Fort Worth, Teaae.
ian Sleeper*
ween Han Antonio and
Mchedule I* a* follow*
Sewing: Machine Repairing.
The Empire announced last week the
death of W. N. Clark so well known In
th* section as a repairer of machines.
His son is scarcely less known than was
the old gentleman, behaving assis-
ted his father for a nnmber of yean.
Yonng L. B. Clark writes nsfrom Cle-
burne that he will continue the work of
his late father, and will be np In this
country inafew,weks, and will hereaf-
ter make the regular periodical trip# to
serve the customer* he and his father
have served so lone.
More Excursion Rates.
Tennessee. Heptein
I; rate $34.10, tickets
r until Oct. 4th.
. Ky , 8ept. 8th and
good returning nntil
nber 8rd and
13th to De
$40.38 M
Ticks*# good
■ale at rate of
-wm
ate
jtS
To London and Greenwich.—
A Night in the World’s
Capital.
London, England, )
Sept. 16, 1805. J
Well, dear reader, we left
you, or you lr’* ’8, at Oxford,
town of sacred memories and
holy traditions. From that old
mass of black and crumbling ar-
chitecture, we took our silent
way, one morning, across the
country for Ilonloy. We paused
at this trim little town for a few
minutes to gaze on the place
where rash Cornell met with such
crushing defeat a few months
ago. Then on wo went over a
fair road to Windsor. The frown-
ing piles of gray limestone,
standing high on the hill, was of
course, the only-attraction’hero.
.Luckily,Ithe Queen was away,
so that the castle was opon for
visitors. We gazed with feelings
of curiosity, rather than awe, on
the living rooms of the English
sovereign. Such splendor, lux-
ury, and magnifioenoe mado us
weary, (if we may be allowed
the expression)—weary that so
much money should be squand-
ered on a figurehead. Certainly
t cannot be long distant, when
the people of this island will re-
fuse to maintain its worse than
useless royalty.
We hurried away to a little,
quaint graveyard, two miles to
the north, the spot where musing
Gray wrote that Elegy that will
be alive when the turrets and
walls of Windsor have crum-
bled with age. Stoke Fogis is a
beauteous plaoe, with great
trees, and luxuriant vinos and
soft grass.
Next morning we wheeled to
London, a ride of 25 miles over
good roads. London is no place
for bicyoling, unless one goes
into the country about it. The
streets are too busy, too tilled
with those innumerable busses.
There are many suburban re-
sorts where wheelmen ride, but
we wanted to see the city. So
v ith the exception of going to
church one Sunday some miles
out of town where there were 600
wheels piled up while their own-
ers wore inside, and where we
were told that there wore some-
times 9,000 cyclist n attendance.
—with this exception, we did lit-
tle wheeling about London. We
lived close to its great throbbing
heart for two weeks and a half,
and learnod to reverenoo its vast-
ness and to despair of seeing, or
comprehending, or learning its
secrets.
A night spent upon the streets
is not one of the most pleasant
experiences we oould choose, but
with a desire to see the “sub-
merged tenth’ in their element,
and the “darkest England’’ at
its darkest, we determined to be-
come one of ’em and see the
thing as it is.
At ten p. m. Jarrayed in dil-
apidated suits wl slothes and old
slouoh hats, we left our oumfor-
lodgings. We were thor-
pu table as far as ap-
our valuables
when the way seemed unusually
forbidding.
Darkness settles down deep
and thiok in the great city, es*.
peoially whon the fog is on, and
who ever saw London when it
was not onf The alleys and lanes
look like veritable abodes of
darkness. Fresh from a visit to
Madam Trouseand’s “chamber
of horrors, ’' we were in just the
mood to people these plaoes with
orime and vioe. It needs no aid
of the imagination, however, for
vioe is bold and shameless under
oover of the night. A stroll
down Pentonville Road to High
Street showed us many gin and
beer houses, wine and whiskey
shops crowded to the very doors
with male and female; and to
our surprise, in many plaoes, the
latter predominated. The liquors
are served by bar maids as a
rule. We saw men and women
reel from these vioe breeders in
orowds and followed them brawl-
ing, oursing, fighting to their
stuffy alleys where, lying about
on the pavements and in the gut'
ters, or crowded into basements,
they made the night hideous wittf
their coarse laughter and gibes.
We wandered down old City
Road and stood a moment look-
ing into old Bunhill burying
ground where the mother of the
Wesleys, John Bunynn, and
many other noted persons lie.
Just across the street we stopped
by the graves of Wesley and
Watson.
Without fear we dived into the
whiteohapel district, saw at dose
range its vice hardened faoes,
had pointed out to us the very
spots where those mysterious and
disgusting murders were commit-
ted by * ‘Jaok-the-Ripper. ’ ’
“You have not seen London
until you visit Piocadilly about
midnight,’’ said a policeman,
and we hastened thither to the
west end by ’bus. We have
seen wickedness in high places
in the principal oities of fair
America; but here in crimson,
silk and paint, wantonness reigns
supreme, and to be virtuous iB a
misfortune, a matter of jest.
We wanderod down the Thamos
embankment across the London
Bridge, were ordered to “move
on’’ many times by police,
nearly arrested tor sleeping upon
the publio seats, until away down
in our souls we had ‘ ‘ground in ’ ’
the sensation of being without a
home and friends, vagabonds
and outcasts.
• * ^ .‘%1
A~feird’s-eye view of Hyde
Park upon a sumtner Sunday af-
ternoon would be a curiosity in-
deed. Great crowds on crowds
of people; people lying, sitting,
standing, running, hugging,
laughing, cursing, preaohing,
singing, and in every other at-
titude and condition known to
human possibilities.
It is like this: a man has some-
thing to say; he procures a chair
or box, mounts it and begins his
oration. The crowd gathers.
Multiply this group by dozens
and change the attention to Mon-
tobank actors, atheist, secular-
ist, spiritualist, salvation, army-
ist and the other ists and you have
Hyde Park on a Sunday after-
noon about five o’clook. One
can get just what he desires
dished up hot. Here is society
with all her furbelows in elegant
equipage out for a drive. Sold-
ier and oiviiian in holiday attire,
nurse girls by the hundred and
children by the million (exag-
geration oortainly excusable)—
brass bands, religious, patriotic,
and for trades union mass meet-
ing over there. Here a e men,
large, broad-shouldered and stal-
wart, also scrubs. Here are
women; also females. Here are
dudee and dudines with and with-
out the eyeglass, but never with-
out the “you know.’’ By the
you know’’ you know “it,”
you know.
And so leaving the rest of the
great capital to your fancies we
will proceed to a sunnier part of
the island than we have yet
visited. A few days ago we
crossed Biaokfriars bridge, wheel-
ed laboriously through the part
of the town where Shakspeare
onoe had his theatre, and came
on to Greenwich. This spot
where the time ia made for all
Britain, and whioh has its name
in all geographies, is as unpre-
tentious as possible, being mere-
ly a glazed dome on a hill in the
midst of a fine park. Beyond it
we crossed the heath where Jaok
Cade began his rebellion. T:te
ride through Kent wfcs every
part of it pleasant. We followed
the old road to Dover, a road
that goes up hill and down in a
way that reminds us of our roads
at home. But the road surface
is superb, being mado of the
hardest rook and being as smooth
and firm almost as solid stone.
4Hap*»<V
to be of great fortuity. Wide
orohards of cherries, principally
but Ukewio# of apples and pears
and plums, stretch away in trim
precision for miles. Now and
then are pastures, but the land-
scape is principally filled with
hop fields. Hundreds of sores
of growing hops we passed lying
in dense green masses as far as
we oould see. In many of them
the piokers were at work. The
piokers are women, girls and
boys. They swarm here in hop-
piokirg time from all over Eng-
land. In many of the larger
fields there were over a thousand
piokers forming gay orowds that
ohafed us merrily when we stop-
ped by the fence to look oa. At
intervals were drying houses
were the green hops is placed in
huge chimneys and oured with
ooke fires under them in whioh
pans of sulphur are burned.
The smell of the fields and the
dry houses hung heavily and
moBt agreeably in the air.
At Gadshill we, ot course,
paused to reoall the adventure
here of Prince Hal and his com-
panions, to ha’": a look (but not
a cup or. sack) lit the sir John
Wlstaiff inn, and to roam about
the comfortable and home-like
house opposite, where Charles
Dickens spent the last of his life.
Thenoe the road lay through
Rochester and Colbam of Piok*
wiok fame, straight to Canter-
bury. No student will miss this
anoient town, for it is most satis-
factory. Its cathedral, besides
being the most beautiful in Bri-
tain, was the scene of the death
of Beoket, and a hundred other
stories are woven about it. In
the tov r .Iso is the oldest ohuroh
in England, an ivy green little
structure of stone and Roman
briok, built 1600 years ago. We
sat around these places with all
the awe we could assume, and
then mounted for a pleasant lit-
tle ride of ten miles for Dover.
• ^*
Here at the jumping off place,
permit us before entering the
“Continuing’ ’ to recapitulate.
We have run over 1000 miles
through Ireland, Scotland and
England. Beginning July 22nd,
our trip ended September 14. Of
the seven weeks three were
rainy, hut they were spent most
ly in Ireland and 8ootland. Our
month in England has been uni-
formly warm and fair, with just
enough thunderstorms to clear
the air, and we are told that
these months are usually so.
.ill.
Ill
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III'
BEST MADE, BEST FITTIN6, BEST WEARING
JEAfi PA TITS
TMM WOZiXiD.
Minufad’d b; THE fib J CL0THHG CO,
EVANSVILLE. IND.
«sx fox mx p*XTr*nwuiun'
Selden Notes.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Frost Monday and Tuesday
mornings, the first of the season.
The Duffau singing olaas will
sing here on Sunday morning
and again in the evening.
W. Stewart Browning, the
walking evangelist will preach
here on Tuesday night 22nd inst.
In a private letter, we learn
that J. 6 Mosely, formerly of
this plaoe is running a photo-
graph gallery at Montgomery
City, Mo.
Little Warner Winters had the
misfortune to get his foot and an-
kle badly orused in a corn orush-
er Tuesday evening. Drs. Dunn
and Birdges dressed the wound
and he is doing as well as oould
be expeoted.
Mr. Jaok Funk is at San An-
gelo this week.
(The above reached us too late
for last issue.—Ed.]
—Ladies, oall at the Fair and
take a look At the nioe line of fall
and winter hats just reoeived.
1,000,000 People Wear
IW.LDouglas Shoes!
HAND
KWED
PROCESS.
$5.00
$4.00
$150
$150
*2.50
*2.00
*1.T5
Fir Bon
lUTillbl
Is rapidly taking rank as one of
the finest educational institutions
in the Southwest. It was opened
a little more than four years ago,
but has already secured a large
patronage and impressed itself on
the educational oommunity of the
State as one of our foremost in-
stitutions.
The President, Rev. W. F.
Lloyd, has gathered a faculty of
fourteen thoroughly capable men
and women, who are conscien-
tious in their efforts to impart in-
struction to their students.
Prof. W. F. Mister, -A. M.,
fills the chair of Mathematics.
Prof. J. F. Sigler, A. M.,
has the chair of English.
Prof. R. E. Bropks, A. B.,
teaches Anoient and Modern Lan-
guages. v
Dr. C. N. Adkisson, B. S.,
fills the chair of Natural Science.
Prof. W. L. Alexander has
charge of the Business Depart-
ment.
Mrs. Mister and Prof. M. Cop-
pedge are also employed in the
Literary work.
Miss Kate V. King, Miss Ber-
tha Dorr, Miss Mary E. Cooke
and Miss Juanita Pressley have
charge of the Music Department
Elocution is carefully taught
by Miss Wessie Adkisson.
Miss Mattie Melton is the com-
petent instructor in Art.
The President keeps his eye on
each Department and supervises
the whole.
The Motto of the College is:
"THOROUGH INSTRUCTION"
In all Departments. It is carried
out to the letter.
The Curriculum is unusually
high, and when completed, will
fit the student for advanced Uui-
versity work.
The Sub-Freshman Depart-
ment enables those who are not
sufficiently advanoed to enter the
College classes, to prepare them-
selves for such position.
It is oonoeded by all that the
Music Department is unusually
fine. Miss King, the Principal,
is one of the finest vooalists and
pianists in the South, and is em-
inently successful as an in-
structor .
The Business Department tea-
ches Bookkeeping, Shorthand,
Typewriting, Penmanship, Bank-
ing, Wholesaling, Commercial
Law, Commercial Arithmetic and
all that is usually taught in a
first-class Business College.
The tuition rates and board at
the College are very reasonable.
Young ladies board with the
President and his family, and
the young gentlemen in private
families or at the Boys’ Board-
ing Hall.
Address for catalogue,
Rev. I . LLOYD,
Fort Worth, Texab.
*:
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and in fact, everything in the house is marked right down to tha
very lowest. We don’t have the great expenses of many other
houses, henoe don’t have to make suoh a great profit on our goods.
When you get other people’s prioe, oall and see me and be oonviroed.
Northwest Corner Square,
Stephenville, Texas.
W. H. FREY,
A Complete Stock of Staple
and Fancy Groceries kept
in stock. Low prices.
*
Large consignment of Flour
just in. It goes at the
very lowest market price.
W. W. MOORES,
HTTOHNEY HT L.HW.
Omci, Over First National Bank,
•-Stephenville, Texas.
JAMES U. VINCENT,
Attorney at Law-i
-and Land Agent.
Office—In Court House; First
Floor, Southeast oorner.
Stephenville, : : : Texas.
llg. E- WRIGHT, 7W. D..
Physician and Surgeon.
Huckabay, Texas.
All call answered at any hour of the
day or night.
ML J. H. STEWART,
4DBNTIS T.*
Hm STtrOHrOnfam.
All Work Guaranteed.
pURNITUREifr I
For all kinds of Furniture at all kinds ef prises be M*
the rioh and poor aee
♦ I. 7*. GRIFFITH
A Oood Sewing Machine for $35."
-■sMMUndcrtakcrs* Goods a 5t
Can be found st night st residence near passenger depot.
J. D. BERRY,
Fire Life, Accident, Wind. Storm
tyolopp, Jorv?ado V plat# Glass
IHSURKNCB ♦ ROBNT*
OftM la U$ $$trt haw.
•1 *. fML fit. v. nwm,
COOK tt VINCBNT
LAWYERS AND LAND AGENtS,
r$o» up *t+J
Butttlag.
* a
•tali* la Uv7$ra'
FRANK A YOUNG,
VTTORNBYS-AT-LAW,
Stephenville, Texas.
Fh**. B. King.
Bingham King,
KING & KING.
W* ° an now effect long tlma loans on farm
mads; have land*, Improved and unimproved,
* Nil. W* represent tha baat af flra lnaur-
Mftoa earn pant a*. Will furnlah
KBSTRRCT OP TITLB
hr any land In Brath county.
RIGHT 8c RUSSELL,
Ifeal Estate, Coat) 0 Qolleotioij
HCENTS.
rum. of kom, to loan an rant satnts soenr
•r| also bu, or taka np and extend food
ronlor’a II.n notea If you want to borrow nur
.mount from *00 np. oa h roars' time, on land,
>r If yon went to buy or ull n farm or town
(■sporty flro no a sail._
W. T. CARI/TON,
ATTORNEY - AT-LAW,
rrXPHKNVILLI, TEXAS.
WU1 praotloo la nil state and oomnly mm
OSes: wool room oa oeoend Boor of the wwi
bouse.__Soo|
Ft.Wohth £ RioCrude
RAILWAY CO.
tha Iherieit and neet lire* rant# ha*
STEPHENVILLE
and *a paint* an tha Tax a* Central v*Bw*g
—TIA—
FORT WORTH
-TO POINTS--
North, West and Bast.
Close connection mads at Dublin
with trains to andlrom points
on tha Texas Central.
DUBLIN NURSERIES,
——Order your——
Fruit Trees, Ornamental Trees,
BERRIE8.
And other nursery stook from the Dublin Nurse rise, and get plea*
that are at home in our soil. They do the best.
J. W. HIGGINBOTHAM,
_________ _ Dublin, Tcxsft
ST. ELMO HOTEL,
-DUBLIN, TEXAS,-
J. H. UFCTHK7VI,
• • PRO.
It has been refurnished throughout. When yen go te
‘ "n try it, and you will make it headquarters ever
afterwards. You will also find
Dublin
EVERYTHING IN IT FIRST-CLASSe
Farms on 100 Years’ Time.
I still have a lot of farms for
sale. Have no more unimproved
lands for sale. On farms I want
a good cash paymeht, and will
not sell without a cash payment.
When one-half is paid I will make
the time as long as 100 years.
Lee Young.
The Largest and Most Successful
Combined Fair and Exposi-
tion In the Union.
.45
4=3 .4
Stephenrllle Lime Works.
IW OmM, ■eMy, Speed and MpV$
Xtjr the Csatral ease hi a who*
... THE GREAT...
Texas State Fair
. . . AND . .V
DALLAS EXPOSITION.
Tenth Orand Annual Entertainment
opens October 19th and doses
November 3d, 189s,
AT DALLAS, TEXAS.
175,000
PREMIUMS
AND FUNBI8
$75,000
Tha Great Daylight Routs
TMK OOMIHOTIW* LINK
laitril Tnu, lalifareift ud IuIm,
via Wu$, Cisco aid El Pm,
ram Lull ia dUtotai OnatUs and
lews loti la dlftteat tevas to Ml*
1 rwa DgyaLQnfKtT xu 1
The beet route for live (took,
either te Indian Territory at
market. Time and ex-
pense eared passen-
gers and shippers
ever,this route.
For further Information regard-
ing rates, eto., apply to, or ad-
dress W.H.Hawkins, Agent,
Stephen villa, Texas.
I U U. 00M8A. -otaae im W. naO T. A.
B. R. LOR INC.
Physician and Surgeon.
All previous Exhibition* eclipaed. Th«
exposition of Art, Science, Schools, In-
dustry, Agilcnltnrs, Horticulture and
Live Stock 11 nsumassed.
Innumerable New Featuree and New
Attractions, including an Educational
Exhibit on a grand seals.
A Maiku BikIMt. N-w laprovont-aU.
A N-w MMway Anw.
Tk- OmM Mnotcal
-rf-nlisM-a la tk- w-rU
SOUSA’S
PEERLESS
BAND....
•f fifty peons.
A pr»«r-au -4 RACSa o-vortag tk- I—rgvof
pars— -v-r -Hor-S la tk* S-atk. Tk- Pair -af
Bip-M-a of lipf will ko tfco SM-t coaiploU
aad SMOt comprokoaolro la tk. klot-ry of tk.
Aooodattoa. A car-1,.1 -f Aam-owat oa a
-oo -Ton- tk,____
lofanaalfaa miwalsg Ml wad |^
JSK—
W. r. MeMILLI*.
OUafCMtaS.1
0» *. B. OOX,
fW. rra«A< —4 fnaaaeai
OHM. HAMILTON,
V*kfcad«i ia aalSanl
W—,T—0*
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G. T. ALLISON,
Phyeiolan and! Surgeon.
DUooooo of Worn, sad
Cklldred e dpeetalty.
Office etP. R. Campbell'a Drug store.
Celia answered st all hours.
HUC1CRMY, *4-in,*
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