The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 42, Saturday, July 3, 1897 Page: 1 of 8
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over and it brings to light many lines where there's sleepy dollars. We have no room in
our store for this kind of merchandise. Every article of this character has been ticketed
for quick cash selling. All spring suits== the $20, 18.50, 16,50 and $15 kind for
$11.50; take 12.50 suits at 9.75; $10 suits for 7.95; 8.50 and 7.50 suits for 6.75.
NEGLIQEE SHIRTS. There's 15 dozen in this lot, a really very excellent 75c shirt, but in
this sale 49c. UNDERWEAR. 30 dozen shirts and drawers, shirts made up with pearl
buttons, in natural or sky blue colors, the 75c kind for 48c a suit. 95 PAIR TAN
SHOES. $5.50 and $5 grades 3.50; $4 and and 3.50 grades 2.50; $3 tans $2; $2
tans L50; All low cuts at about the same cut. STRAW HATS. The
2.50 hats $2; $2 hats 1.50; 1.50 straw hats 1.20; 1.20 straw hats 90c;
maas.. $1 traw hats 75c; 75c straw hats 50c; 50c straw hats 35c.
7 TtTA~F'THetETS BCOS. ,
Tell-the-Truth Clothiers.
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Social Unit.the matter over and try to
by your vote the best inof
your family. Will you
ur wife counsel you in thisFrom the Bible stand point
family is the social unit.$
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state, society, the municipality
the neighborhood is an a-ggregatioi
of families. This is necessarily so
for it often happens that individual
members of the family are in
capable of acting for themselves
and if their rights are to be guarded
at all it must be done through t
representative. In the Bible viev
the man is the head and repre
sentative of the family. Modern
civilization accepts the view. The
efforts of a few cranks, male anc
female, to oppose this view amounts
to nothing. it is the view of corn
moln sense and nature. The slavery
of woman among savage tribes
grows out of a perversion of this
principle. The attempt of the
woman suffragist is an effort tc
bring about the apposite extreme.
Both are essentially wrong, and
the true dignity of man and the
true happiness of woman, as wiff
and mother, are found in the conservative
Bible view. The family
is the social uhit. The man is the
head of the family and in its relationship
to the ext~,-nal world he is
the representative of the family.
In a country where freedom
reigns and where freemen by their
votes determine public policy,
voting is a matter of grave importance.
By casting his vote for or
against any given measure the freeman
declares his solemn convic
tion that such measure will be
either for or against the best interest
of the family. It is as much
the duty of a voter to consider the
interest of his wife and children
when he casts his vote as it is to
vote at all. The woman who cannot
trust her husband to represent
the interest of herself and children
at the ballot box ought not to have
married the man with whom she
lives. The man who, in voting,
does not seriously and honestly
consider the interest of his wife
and children, ought not to have a
wife and children. The elective
franchise is not a lriviege to be
used accol ding tu the whim of the
voter; but it is a holy trust committed
to him in the interest of the
family. In the execution of that
tiust, honor, manhood, patriotism
are minvalueld. Society, government,
God witness the execution of that
trust. PReligion, reason, conscience
point to the elective franchise as a
trust to be exercised, not for self
alone but for the family, 9'his
truth, so often lost sight of, if reimembiered
and acted upon would
purify our politics arid lead to a
nobler public life.
Just now in Ellis county the
question of local option is a matter
of public concern. Very soon the
freemen of this county will be
called upon to say by their votes
whether or not the saloon shall be
a licensed dweller in our midst.1(
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n interest of the boys and girls c
), your fireside? When you putyou
1 vote in the ballot box will you table to go home and say "I dror
s ped every other consideration an
i voted for that which in my hones
i judgment, as a husband and father
v is best for the family'?" The goo
-of the family is the good of th
voter. The good of thle family i
e the good of society. The good c
1 the family is the good of the gov
s ernment.
If you decide that the saloon
r business is good for the family 1
s is your duty to vote for it. If yoi
s decide otherwise you cannot do s
e with a clear conscience. If it i
not a good thing for the famil3
and society as certain as the sur
shines you will misrepresent a
the ballot box the wife and chil
3 dren of your home. If I were
wife and mother I would discoun
the statement of the man wh<
talked of loving me and my chil
dren while he was voting to domi
cile the saloon near the door of oui
home. I would not of course
accuse my husband of wilful cor
ruption, but I could not, even if I
so desired, think that he was
executing this great trust in a
thoughtful way.
I will close this brief article with
two propositions which I wish the
reader to carefully consider.
PROP. 1ST.
A vote ,oiz license is a vote
honestly cast for the best interest
of the family.
PROP. 2ND.
A vote AGAINST license is a vote
honestly cast for the best interest
of the family.
Friends and fellow citizens of
Ellis county, I honestly believe
that proposition 2nd embodies the
truth and I shall therefore vote
against license believing that in
so doing I have acted in the interest
of my family and county.
If these thoughts commend
themselves to your better judgment
"Go and do thou likewise.
W. H. B.
ThIe Postal Congress.
The various acts adopted by the
Universal Postal congiess, which
recently met in Washington, ere
filed in the State Department on
Monday thile 21st ulc. Copies of
these acts will be sent by the department
to all countries concerned.
Tim principal convention or statute
of the Umversul Pootal Union was
signed by the delegates of the United
States and of the 70 other countries
represented in the congress. The
United States delegates did not sgon
any of the other agreements, six in
number. Thirty-one countries signed
an agreement concerning sealed mailI
25 an agreement for the recognition THIE following paragraphs are I rin
of passports issued by postmasters, utterances of a Penn. (rep.) ex
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and 31 an arranrem';. by which change and show how even the
postmasters receive an0 transmit organs of the g. o. p. are becom
The BAH RH'
subscriptions for newspapers pub
ing disgusted with the regime of heA B
lished in foreign countries. their own creation: Buys, Sells and Repairs Old
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When a score of men phold
W nhen aQ sore o'f men "hold Razors. Agent for Dallas Steam'
THE Dallas News states: It up" the business of the whole!
appears that in one of the cdis
country, it's high time that the Laundry and Dye Works.
trict courts of Dallas a day or people were heard from. This is r . T. J. Weatherford went"
two ago Judge Gray compelled a the situation at the present time. out to h is rive r otto l frm yesC,
r ZD . ont to his river bottom farm yes-,
witness from the country who Are the people to assert ther terday and says his bottom cotton
appeared without a coat to go authority and power, or are they is now clean and growing so Jthat
down town and get the garment to continue to stand and delivery nersf
before permitting hiln to take the through the obedient senate, ' the ladders ne t fastand." Commenting on which
the News adds. "Dignity does
noir object to a vestless man provided
he wears a coat, but dignity's
delicate sensibilities are
oveNrwhelmed at the -ight of a
coatless man who wears a vest.
The difference is merely in the
portion of the shirt that is exIUVU puIVL 1U.
In the town of Ellsworth, O., lives
Janmes R. Green who is 99 years old
andl an eye witness to the battle of
Waterloo. He has only 25 pulse
beats per minute.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poetess of
passion, has entered a protest against
the anti-kissers of Iowa. She doestool of the trusts?
Unless conditions at W1ashington
shape differently before
the next congressional and state
elections, the issue should not be
tariff, free trade, sound money or
free silver, but honest government,
of for and by the people.
AreF the Americnan 1nnmnlo willinoposed to view. If tmis is true, an caal f main and not believe mn -unkissed kisses and
Il'0gtlto~lerr.If th~ is l.~~e a nd, capable of m~akino and,:1 ors h
wvhy is tha~tl portran o~f the shirt forccrg the lsstte? Tl og e~r s~~'
whiy is that portion of the shirt forc o, songs never sun(." Of course she
which covers the bread '" basket Inag i admits that there are occasions when
once.
more pleasin= to the sight of the Ioney is certainlyppr a.
kin g 'Thene are soig wolend she says,
court's dignity than the portion it can sbife honor, corrupt rightc
"There ae some wome" she sa
which covers the arms,` ; ~ rectitude, whom one feels it woulld be a sin to
Ousnens, and debauch rectitude, kss. 13ut there are I"others whom
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the wiay it has m congress andt
it would be a sin of omission to allow
So far the 3,300,000 people of legislatures dur1in
the past 20 Itoo nksethohli,
_nvn to go unkissed through life.' And
Texas have enjoyed only three years. Money males the mare
she adds. with more reason than
watermnelons per capita, bult there go and may earr' this n ation
rhetoric. "Th ey rarely do." HmIc
are nine more per capn a coming. straight to perdition, if it is
-lit to 'deftratimo of the latter kdin of women
Just to think, grand old Texas longer allowed to control itsi
is i\orth cil-ioting. -It is not," she
produces only about 40,000,000 institutions. sIng~at
~ermllo ~ns~, w~~eig~hlng in th~e .says, I"a matter of beauty. Features.
wvatermelonis, weighing in tile
agiogto only 800,000.000 pounds. ork for Bos ad Girls, coloring and 3outh have noth tc
ag
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Wr foIr Boys and Girls
(ldo Nith it. It is a subtle, intangiblc
lWh3, they could be packed im
30,000 car's and would m-:ke only Our hustling yo Imj readeti should sometlhing, anll expression vhich even
aout 2, 91000 trainloads. Onr wll'i`eIt ol ,e to tilo e ptotiuol,'is of the possessors of most dignified
abot 2000 tranlodsOur
3j~0,00O~,000 canteloixx pcs , PN_ ,rAtGmr for amn agency for moods seem to say to the beholder
30,000,000 caintelopes -will make
tn^ ppmatel 1bnw--vere tDln rc layr comu
'iiss me.' I knew one fragile little
up the deficit, however--Dallas m,,,mon on ealch paper sold, Inizes of
vNe ,,,, watched, boolis, jeNeehy. typowiit, creature who at 65 inspired every
i~ews. watches, books, )c\wely. typowltters, * -~
cameraste, etc, aic gi\on loi extra work. one she met with this inpulsc." The
Don't Chew Wooden Tooth Picks. GRIT Is a big, clean, illustrated, family poetess lets down min the last sentence.
newspaper, icad and enjoyed by a half If she had said 16 instead of 65 her
lihois poopcl, eachl wielek A postal argument would have been accepted
The autopsy upon the body of a enid acddre,,sed to Gurr PuBnLISILrxct
n lady ih recently dd
1 )11P " , wl b o as conclusive the wide norlm over.
young laIdv ;ho recently dmed sud
Co(^;rxAi. V illlhtmsport, Pa. will bring
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, I onn lnn r f full paitictuln ', nid a catalogoue of Her protest is timely, but unnccess,IeIl
in 1 o e-le a m pilzeo. (It ]s a welcome isitor to aiv. Some people would continue
tiny splinters of wood in the throat, 11 okh slqni ofl t c, i
,
, , , ' thisolhce to kiss. even mn defiance of the civil
esop.hacru -red stomach, whimh theI
esoph gs and stom c, whch the ----------authorities, Jf they got their moutl is,
physicians traced to her habit of The world's population increases full of microbes every t-Doc tlev d1
chewing toothpicks after luncheon. at the ratio of 1 per cent per annum. it
-Pallap N'ews.In casting your vote how will matter of declared value, 3G an
you be governed? W\ill you vote agreement relating to money orders,
to gratify your own appetite and 41 a parcel post arrangement, 26 an
whim, or will you sit down and interchang: of money collections,
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Ezzell, Frank. The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 42, Saturday, July 3, 1897, newspaper, July 3, 1897; Ferris, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18834/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ferris Public Library.