The La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1899 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME XX.
Office of Publication^ Opposite to Postqffick. Published Every Thursday akd Entered at the Pootoffice at LaGbange as Second-Class Matte*.
LAGRANGE, FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAsTtHURSDAY. MARCH 271899.
NUMBER IO.
IT IS CONTEMPTIBLE.
V
The Journal admires a joke ful-
ly as much as any individual in-
habiting this earth, even be it on
itself and of merit, and strictly or-
iginal with the joker or jokeress
But seldom is it blessed with any-
thing so lubricating and invigorat-
ing, and when it happens its ass
notes it down.
To fully understand the “ drift ”
of the foregoing it will be nece-sary
to somewhat enlighten the reader.
Several weeks ago The Journal,
through its ass, said some very un-
complimentary and nawsty things
of the commissioners’ court; or,
more properly speaking, its action.
As stated in the last issue, the arti-
cle was not justified and was really
due to a misunderstanding of mat-
ters and the pulling of the sympa-
thetic bell-rope of The Journal’s
enormous ear. The commissoners’
court (elsewhere known all over
the United States as a board of su-
pervisors,) felt aggrieved and in a
measure wronged — as well.it
might be—and a warrant was is-
sued by that body for the arrest of
the head of The Journal family.
The document—a somewhat vol-
umnious one and seemingly a com-
pressed edition of Webster's Under-
the-bridge, modeled in the Gothic
style of architecture, was served by
Will Loessin as the officiating cler-
gyman.
Law, in Texas as well as else-
where, makes it obligatory that the
warrant be read to the defendant. It
was—and so turned the face of The
Journal, and the remnants of pi
then in hand and under considera-
tion dropped suddenly with a sym-
pathizing thud upon the carpetless
floor. In fact, The Journal was
pulled—yes, pulled !
Now, in view of this fact the
reader—i. e. the fair and unbiased
—he, she or it, who has a tear or
two of condolence to spare and rea-
dy for immediate delivery upon all
proper occasions, can imagine, if
not readily discernable, how the
bray-ny scribe of The Journal
must have felt when a still greater
humiliation was tendered him in
the following, pinned to the handle
of the paste-pot. Read it, gentle
peruser, and then give it the fair-
est nook in your album as a me-
mento of the beautiful long ago.
The like has never appeared—not
even in The Journal. But listen
to the wingless “mocking” bird :
When all the city is silent
And by chance this office you pass,
Don’t fail to knock at the window
To arouse The Journal's great ass.
For, should you fail to do this, .*
It is apt, with might and main,
To “ roast” the commissioners as body,
And cause it to be “ pulled ” again.
Reading the above carefully and
chewing the cud of Byron, Long-
fellow and other would-be poets,
The Journal’s ass, with a determ-
ination not to be outdone by any
galoot that ever cracked a cracker,
slipped a cog and ground out these
entrails :
The commissioners’ court has pulled me
For words I had uttered in prose.
To sleep they endeavored to lull me
By giving a twist to my nose.
An officer came with a paper—
A warrant, of courae; it so road;
To be “ cinched ” for that little caper—
And I sighed and wished myself dead.
For the wrong I had done I should suffer;
A barrel of tears I should ahed.
"Away with that bald-headed duffer!
Was.just about all that they said.
Dejected and silent, I plodded
Through vistas of dreamland, in tears.
I found my consent I had nodded;
That my strength still remained in the
OF NO BENEFIT.
As the dew-drop refreshens the
rose, so does the adding of new
names to The Journal’s list of
subscribers throw a radiance of hap-
piness into the life of its manipu-
lator. Let the good work continue.
Judge Kittrell stated in his speech
recently in the legislature on the sa-
loon and gambling evils that the con-
tract between the state and saloon ‘‘is a
league with death and a covenant with
hell,” and that if the state is to be a
partner in the business by issuing a li-
cense for its conduct make the partner-
ship as limited and respectable as possi-
ble by exacting a big tax. He proposes
to put the license tax at $2,500 per an-
num.—Ex.
The judge may not be one of the
fellows The Journal mentioned
some time ago as “ nosing about
bar-room counters for a free morn-
ing lifter and if he pays for the
beverage — providing he uses it—
he will know that the higher the
license the more one pays for barely
a “ smell ” of the ardent. Talk is
cheap ! If the sale of spirits and
malt productions is a crime it loses
none of its odor by an outrageous
and unjust license. Prohibition it-
self is a humbug ! It can never
amount to anything but failure. Its
doctrine is not democratic. When
men and women pose as reformers
in these lines other than persuasion,
gentle admonition, kind words and
friendly offerings, all their efforts
are productive of antagonism to the
object sought to be attained. The
world is large, its atmosphere free,
and the streets of a town can best
be kept clean by each individual
sweeping before his own door.
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Robert Pannell, a young pain-
ter, while at work upon the Ger-
man Lutheran church at Yoakum,
a few days ago, had the misfortune
—by the giving away of the scaf-
folding, to fall a distance of thirty
feet. He first landed upon the roof
of the building and from there fell
to the ground. His left arm is bad-
ly shattered and his other injuries
are quite severe. He has been the
sole support of an aged mother and
both are very poor. Generously
inclined and helping hands can
here find an opportunity to alleviate
suffering by a little financial aid.
--... -- ....
The Witchita Times has again
changed navigators, C. E. Gilmore
retiring. Under the oozings of the
gentleman’s versatile pen the paper
became a welcome visitor at this
office. The departure of Mr. Gil-
more from the nearby fields of jour-
nalistic farming is much regretted
and a host of good wishes go with
him ! The “ new man,” Ed How-
ard, is an old hand at the forge,
and promises to at least try and
keep up with the pace set by his
able predecessor.
An exchange says that rubber is
getting to be a scarce commodity in
this country. If the writer of the
item w’ould “ all hands round ” in
this part of the world he could con-
vince himself—if not altogether a
chump—that several of the necks
hereabouts could dispense with a
number of feet of the material and
yet retain sufficient elasticity to bob
up and down any thoroughfare of
LaGrange at the same time.
. --
A bill providing that the rail-
road passenger fare shall not ex-
ceed two and a half cents per mile
throughout the state of Texas has
been up for consideration in the
house. As a further restriction the
bill has also a clause which aims to
compel railroad companies, before
issuing excursion tickets, that it
submit its purpose to the railroad
commission for approval.
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Mrs. A. E. Hamblin, convicted
of murdering Sallie Rauney with
whom she lived at Salado, on Dec.
12th, 1898, has been sentenced to
imprisonment for a term of fifty
years.____.
An extia session of congress is
hinted at, and the calendar is
marked for its convening in March
at the figures 20.
ncKINLEY’S INSULT TO THE
PEOPLE.
The action of the administration
in the case of Gen. Eagan—recent-
ly tried and convicted by a court
martial for conduct unbecoming an
officer of the army—in suspending
him from the service for the term
of six years with "full pay” dur-
ing that time, is one of the most
damnable insults to the American
people which only a McKinley or
his “ ites” would stoop to. Party
lines and party prejudices go far
with the majority of people, and
men do things that are often not
creditable; but at no time since the
country’s flag was first unfurled
and its star-lit web proclaimed the
glad tidings of freedom of speech
and shelter and protection to the
oppressed has this people received
so severe a shock as the president
has seen fit to inflict.
In every land and clime under
the sun; in every state of the Union,
and even in every hamlet, crime is
met by punishment. The ruling
of “the powers that be” at Wash-
ington in the Eagan matter has
embossed a stain upon the Union’s
history which time cannot efface ?
DEWEY DON’T WANT IT.
Ever since Dewey’s victory over
the Spanish fleet at Manila became
a matter of history the political at-
mosphere of this country has been
illuminated with the admiral's
name as a suitable and successful
candidate for presidential honors.
Air castles have been built upon
the possibility of his accepting the
position if offered by the American
people ; but the hero and pet of the
nation puts a quietus upon the pro-
position by stating that he would
not accept a nomination for the
presidency of the United States ;
that he has no desire for any polit-
ical office, and that he is unfitted
tor it in both education and train-
ing. He further says that the na-
vy is one profession; politics is an-
other, and that he is too old to take
up a new profession. Sensible !
It is stated that that portion of
the legislative body known as the
“ house” adopted a resolution ex-
tending the sympathy of Texas to
the grief-stricken family of Faure,
late president of France. If the
members whose names were polled
in the a rinative to sue h a resolu-
tion imagine that whether they
“ do ” or “ do not ” cuts any great
swath they are a bigger lot of asses
than their constituents are willing
to admit.
The Flatonia Argus asks ; “Who
are to be the candidates for aider-
men in the four wards ?” Couldn’t
this early tell or even guess. It is
hinted that several gentlemen are
being bitted and groomed for the
race; but the favorite ones are not
as yet announced. However, it is
a fixed fact that no " dark ” horse
will be permitted to enter the con-
test.
It is stated that the Spanish offi-
cers who were forced to surrender
at Santiago and Manila by Amer-
ican arms are to be court-martialed.
Spain is a fool if it believes its sub-
jects should die ere they surrender!
May God speed the day when tnon-
archial governments will be at an
end !
The Palestine Advocate is wag-
ing war against the professional and
tin-horn gamblers in that town.
Now take a firm stand against the
“chippies” that are said to adorn
your streets after night-fall; and, if
successful, you’ll be entitled to a
crown studded with diamonds.
France paid $32,000 aa funeral
expenses in the burial of M. Faure,
its late executive.
Sympathetic fiwbawh.
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The sympathetic tenderness of a lov-
ing husband is everything to an expec-
tant mother, especially during her first
ordeal. George Layton, Esq., a promi-
nent druggist of Dayton, O., gives the
following case:
A customer of mine, whose wife has used
four bottles of ‘Mother** Friend" before con-
finement, says, after Seeing the effects oluhc
remedy, that If she had to go through the ordeot
again, and there were but four bottles on the
market, and the cost was ft00 par bottle, eh*
would hiTC them.
“ Mother's Friend ” is a scientifically
compounded liniment which affords cer-
tain relief in the various ailments pre-
ceding childbirth, and aasurea proper
elasticity "to the cords and muscles in-
volved in the final ordeal.
“Mother's Friend" is sold by drug-
gists, or expressed on receipt of one
Valuable book, “Before Baby it
Born,’’ mailed free on application.
THE BMDFIELD REGULATOR CO.. Atlanta. Ofo
DREYFUSS IS INNOCENT.
Late dispatches from Paris state
that M. Manau, the procurateur
general, will submit his report in
the Dreyfuss case this week. The
report will ask the court of cassa-
tion, it is said, to annul the convic-
tion without ordering a new trial.
If this be correct, it shows that
evidence before the court not only
proves Dreyfus innocent, but that
the crime for which he is being
punished never existed, as the law
of France allows the court of cass-
ation to quash a sentence without
retrial only when there is proof that
the offense alleged was never per-
perpetrated.
Lost Friday night Jake Curtis
shot and fatally wounded John
Walker while on the road to Curtis’
farm, two miles north of Calvert.
They are both negroes. Curtis was
assaulted and ehot twice by Walker
a year ago, eince which time there
has been the bitterest feeling be-
tween the two and Walker had
threatened to fiuish his job when-
ever the opportunity presented it-
self. So last Friday night they met
and Walker fired at Curtis, but
missed his mark, when the latter
shot the contents of his double-bar-
reled gun into Walker and came to
town. Saturday morning he sur-
rendered to Deputy Dick Lovett and
readily made bail.—Calvert Courier.
The bill making the payment of
poll tax a prerequisite for voting
was reported adversely by the leg-
islative committee, evidently be-
cause it was unconstitutional. A
joint lesolution has been introduced
to amend the constitution so as to
make such a law constitutional, the
amendment, if the resolution is
adopted, to be voted on at the next
general election. There is apparent-
ly a considerable demand through-
out the state for such a law, and it
is quite probable that the amend-
ment would be adopted by the peo-
ple.—Weimar Mercury.
Yesterday evening little Bes-
sie, three-year-old daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. Sam Roberts was pain-
fully burned. The parents went
out in the yard, leaving the child
in the house alone, and it is sup*
posed her clothing caught from a
stove.—Bartlett Tribune.
OH, COME OFPt
It is a fact which none ran deny, that
more is expected of a country publisher
for less pay than of any other profession.
—Williamson County Sun.
It is really distressing to have it
continually shoved under one’s
sensitive nostrils that to push the
dull end of a pencil in a one-horse
newspaper shop is a profession!
When the author of the above gets
down to the ever convincing and
solid fact that the row of the scrib-
bler (net a journalist—not the fel-
low who splits his hair in the mid-
dle and ties it in a “ four-in-hand ”
sort of style at the broad and thick
end of his short neck, and with a
grammatical alphabet at each end
of his pen gives vent to his rattle-
headed convictions upon the dain-
tiest of stationery,) is a most dev-
ilish hard one to hoe, and that the
style of his scanty living is cut sev-
eral links short by the ever deaf
ear of non-paying readers, he will
know that it is anything and every-
thing but a profession. It never is
and never will be. It is just hard
knocks!
RoYal
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum*
Alum baking powden are tbs mat**
manacM to health of tka pnacat day.
IS CHARQED WITH RAPE.
Brave Men Fall
Victims to stomach, liver and kid-
t ey troubles, as well as women, and
all feel the results in loss of appi
tite, poisons in the blood, baok-aone,
nervousness, headache and tired,
listless, run-dowu feeling. But
there’s no need to feel like that
Listen to J. W. Gardner, Idaville,
Ind. He says: “Electric Bitters are
just the thing for a man when he
is all rnn-down, and don't care
whether he lives or dies. It did
more to give me new strength and
good appetite tban anything I could
take. I can now eat anything and
have a new lease on life.” Only 60
oents at any drug store.
Becuasb the boll weevil is ex-
terminated is no reason why the
farmers should forsake the idea of
diversified farming. The freeze did
not in the lepst affect the trusts
and combines that control the price
of the fleecy staple. Plant plenty
of corn, grow broom corn, flax,
cane, beans, peas, potatoes, melons
and vegetables, raise hogs and live
at home. You can give your spare
time to cotton, but first orovide for
the necessities of life.—El Campo
Eagle. ___
millons Given Away.
It is certainly grateful to the pub-
lic to know of one concern in the
land who are not afraid to be gen-
erous to the needy and suffering.
The proprietors of Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Oongumption, Coughs
and Colds, have given away over
ten million trial bottles of this great
medicine, and Lave the satisfaction
of knowing it has absolutely cured
thousands of hopeless cases. Bron-
chitis, Hoarseness and all diseases
of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are
Burely cured by it. Call on any
druggists, and get a free trial bot-
tle. Regular size 60c and 91; guar-
anteed or price refunded.
The Flatonia Argus editor says
he and the grip are striving for
mastery! That's nothing new. The
argus eye of the Argus argues often
with some itinerant carrier of bag-
gage that the grip is his by “right
of discovery;” but his argument
seldom holds good.
I Wharton, Tex., Feb. 23.— Banker
R. T. Ervin was arrested last night
at 6 o’clock on a charge of rape pre-
ferred by Mis Leone Pleasants, who
has been the book-keeper for his
bank for some time. Mr. Ervin wan
taken before Juatioe Coombs this
morning, waived an examining trial
and waa released, on 95,000 bond.
According to report both parties
admit having been intimate einoe
last August and Mr. Ervin’s arrest
was brought about .in the following
manner:
The young lady told her parenta
what was going on and it is said
that her father called on Ervin and
was given a oheok payable in Hous-
ton for 95,000 in settlement Mr.
Pleasants took the cheok and went
to Houston this week, where he con-
sulted lawyers.
On presentation of the oheok it
was found that payment had been
stopped and the arrest followed.
The matter has oaueed considerable
talk here.—El Campo Eagle.
Rev. E. Edwards, pastor
English Baptist Churoh at Miners-
ville, Pa., when suffering with rheu-
matism, was advised to try Cham-
berlain’s Pain Balm. He save : “A
applications of this linii
proved of great service to me. It-
subdued the inflammation and re-
lieved the pain. Should any suffer-
er profit by giving Pain Balm a
trial, it will please me.” For
by J. Meyenberg, Druggist.
The Smithville Transcript has
changed hands and this time fallen
into the hands of Geo. C. Staples.
In turn it is leased to W. R. Moore,
who announces that he will con-
duct it a few months. It is under-
stood that this is done to give the
purchaser an opportunity to become
familiar with the business and the
people.
After serving the good people
of Hallettsville for nineteen years
as its postmaster D. B. Howerton
gave way to Wm. J. Miller, the
new appointee.
Red Hot from the dun
Was the ball that hit G. B. Stead-
man of Newark, Mich., in the Civil
War. It caused horrible Ulcers
that no treatment helped for 20
▼ears. Then Bucklen’s Arnica
Halve cured him. Cues bruises,
cuts, burns, boils, . el ons, corns and
■kin oroptions. Best pile oure on
earth. 25 cents s box; cure guar-
anteed. Sold by all druggists.
Via the Kai;\
Account Cattle-Men’s Association
meeting at Ft. Worth, will sell
round trip tiokete on March 12th
and 13th, good for return till March
16th, at 95 round trip.
G. H. MoCursa, Ticket Agt.
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Balloons and tramps
visible means of support.
fold, and
cheerful
to b« choa-
richea, un-
tbe trap.
•print to sad abut them off from all tka
bright hope* they labored for.
A aick man cannot be happy; 1
accomplish the work he haa to do la
world; he loaea the very money be I
lag for; hia ambition def "
man who diacoveis that
Fierce, of «
specialist la
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Harigel, B. F. The La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1899, newspaper, March 2, 1899; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth997036/m1/1/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.