The McKinney Daily Gazette. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 239, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1903 Page: 15 of 20
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By Hon. JOHN D. LONG, Ex-Secretary of the Navy
|S a matter of common scn.-o we all know that if wo
contribute out of our property to a common fund,
if we are taxed for a common enterprise, if our rights,
our liberties, our persons, our children, are affected
by certain laws, WE OUGHT TO HAVE A
VOICE IN THE ARRANGEMENT, and if you
doubt this try the experiment with a boilv of men and see what
will eome of it.
NOT ONLY IN MY MIND IS THERE NO ARGU.
MENT AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE, BUT EVERY
ARGUMENT FOR IT. IN THE FIRST PLACE,
EVERY EXTENSION OF INTELLIGENT SUFFRAGE
STRENGTHENS THE BODY POLITIC.
The broader the basis of your state the safer.
In the next place the influence of woman has RE-
FINED whatever circle it has been admitted into
under conditions of its own self respect. History,
homely experience, common observation, all coufirm
this. WOMAN SUFFRAGE WOULD NOT DEBASE WOMAN
AND POLITICS. It would elevate both. It would add to the
body politic the positive elements of feminine wholesomeness and
natural antagonism to vice and violence. A new interest for the
security of home and peace, sobriety and order, would bo invoked.
AN oman herself would bo benefited as intelligent emancipation ctf
every sort and to whatever degree always benefits its object
IF WOMAN SUFFRAGE IS RIGHT, WHY SHOULD IT
BE DENIED? When yet in the history of the world has it been
found thst what is right is inexpedient?
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.W Christmas ^"tary by
Elizabeth E. StoU>
Canada Should Annex the United States
By ANDREW CARNEGIE
Jl HOPE the outcome of tho Alaskan boundary decision will bo
that the Anglo-Celtic race will get together. WE OUGHT
NOT TO (!0 AS A DIVIDED RACE. Canada should
annex the United States as Scotland did England. You know, Scot-
land annexed England. Let Canada annex tli« United States and
we'll look after mother country afterward. When I say Anglo-
Oeltic, T mean Germans, Slavs, Scotch, Irish and all those nationali-
ties which naturally belong together.
Copyright, 19o3, I>v Elixabeth E. Stow 1
S( >.M KHOW >he looked out of tilirre
unions ilie kh.v throng of Christ,
mas travelers that enlivened Hi*
dull waiting room Whenever
the Minion master's stentorian vniou
rang throticli the room she started
tensely, only to not Ho bark hi iff au<l
alert, an before.
She was small ami slijilillv lient Her
decent blaek (Irene, though far from the
latest cut, had a nattlnesH of Its own.
She had probably passed twoKcore and
ten, yet there was a youthfnlness about
lier that had defied hard work and
trouble Rnd sorrow. 1 felt sure that
she had experienced all three. At last
she glanced shyly lu my direction.
"It's tiresome waiting, is It not?" I
ventured.
"Oh, no! It's all so new and strange
to me, and then I've only an hour to
wait." Her voice, like herself, had a
pleasant alertness,
"Perhaps you're unaccustomed to
traveling." I suggested tentatively.
"This morning is the second time
since I was ten years old that I've
been on a train of cars," she answered,
with suggestive accuracy. "I didn't
used to mind staying nt home, but the
longing to go somewhere has seemed
to grow on me. Why. one time I even
thought of setting in the milk train that
makes up nt our station. It backs up
and switches round for 'bout an hour,
so 1 could Imagine I'd started for no
body knows where. I even got so far
as hoping n cinder'd blow in my eye,
like when I was a little girl ami went
to the city with father. It's a mercy
I never told my Idee. Folks would
have thought I was getting in my do
tage. I ain't tiring you, be IV" she
asked anxiously. "1 don't know when
I've talked so much about myself."
I hastened to reutuure her. remark
I UK that liotne cares had doubtless pre
vented her getting away.
"How did you knowY" she said, with
a blrdlike turn of the head. "Why, 1
was only eleven when I began making
bread nnd pies. 1 was tho only cldld.
you see, and mother begun to lie lame
h«>n Kbo Went rii/lit on irrowltuf worse
and worse mi nnally her joints nil
stiffened up. just like tin* bom's be-
tween. She suffered dreadful till the
last fifteen years or t«\ when the sore-
ness kind of left."
"How long did yen say it was since
yon rode on the cars?" I asked.
.lust forty years ago this morning.
It wan on mv ciehtoentli hlrthdav
was oorn the oay heron? t uristum..
I'm fifty eight today."
"I wouldn't haw thought It."
"That's what folks nil tell me. I
should think I'd look ns old ns Me-
thuselah. though somehow I don't feel
It. 1 remember that (Ih.v, forty years
•go, Just as well. 'Twas Just'such a
morning as this, the snow all a spurkle
and crisp underfoot. Ooodloe said
'twas like fairyland. It was lioodloe
Morton"—# faint flush came on her
fnded cheek—"who took me on the
Christmas excursion to Buffalo. We
was going to the falls, but something
prevented. It was the next spring he
asked me to marry him. Dear me!
\ou wouldn't think to hear me running
on that you're the first person I've evoi
told it to. I wouldn't let (ioodlow tell
It neither, I was that afraid mother
might hear She was growing worse
fast, and it would have worried her
to think I couldn't leave home and j
marry like other girls. (ioodloo felt |
unite worked up for a spell, but finally j
he married Sully Skinner. She's raised
him a big family and been a good wife." '
I fancied a sigh osca;i"d her. but alt |
er a moment she went on in her cheery 1
way: "Well, as I was saving, the last
time I rode on the cars was on my !
eighteenth birthday. Hy pushing a
chair in front of her, mother could ■
walk a little yet, but I got Susan Ann '
Ituggles to look in on her once in
awhile, for father couldn't be depend
od on if he got after a new patent Idee
You see, lie was always going after
patents Were they a success? Oh, my,
no! He spent pretty much all mother
had. Her folks was pretty well off, yon
know. The only one of his idees that
was ever any good was a machine for
lifting mother 1 don't Know what
we'd have over done without It. It '
turned with a crank, like a wiurtiuss,
so I could lift her alone, just as easy,
Commission Brokerage,
j No. 38 Madison St. HUMPH IS. TENN.
O110 ot the principal exchanges furnishing crop statistics
an< pi icesalso the latest reports of learnings, Dividends etc.
ot the leading Railroads and Industrial Corporations to-
I01, H 1 Summaries of Cotton and Co flee compiled from
official sources by a corps of recognized experts and author-
in formatloiT^ 1>le,l8c>cl to f 11111 an3' quotations or
c, /Ah'8<£an l,e °tbVj!ncd through Messrs. W. H. Bertram!
. 8 0 .00 at McKinney, where they have one of their
puvate wires, or upon application l y letter on W. IJ oi
I osfal ielegraph addressed to
Clarcnce P. Hunt, Manager
Memphis Exchange, .'18 Madison St., Memphis, Tenn.
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The Home of Fresh Groceries.
Ho yon want something good to cat for the holidays $
and Christmas? Then, pay mv store a visit and we'll
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and Christmas?
trade. I am especially prepared to alleviate- your
every want, and at prices, too, that will make you
feel happy all during Christmas, and prosperous
during i9o.|. Thanks for your trade during 1903,
and 1 solicit, same for iqo.|. A merry Xmas and *a
prosperous New N ear to all our pitrons and fii% nd .
SECOND DOOR WEST HKOM POSIOFFICE.
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DALLAS, TEXAS.
5 Paper Bags and Wrapping Paper. W.'ite us
All Kinds of Repairing.
BRANNON'S
The only house of its
kind in the state. Man-
ufacturers of and dealers
in
Oliver Typewriter $35.00.
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Will make special prices on
all vehicles until January
1st to make room for the
largest and most complete
stock of buggies, carriages,
traps, surries, etc., ever
brought to Collin county.
Come and see us. Wishing
one and all a merry Christ-
mas and happy New Year,
we arc, respectfully,
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McKinney & Hill, .
The Buggy Sellers of McKinney, B
Get Your Job Printing Done at the Gazette
"IT'S TIlirROMK WAITINO, IS IT NOT'"
for all she was such a dead weight.
Our doctor said we ought lu have it
patented, but 1 made him promise he'd
never lisp tt to father.
"One time the doctor had a young
doctor up from a New York hospital
to see mother, and he thought the ma-
chine was great. 'Why,' he says, turn-
ing to me, 'you'll let me get out a pat-
tut on it. won't you';' 'Oh. yes,' says I.
'get out all the |•:(11• 111^ .vein want to
ami welcome.' So lie had a photo-
graph took of it. Afterward I Ml real
kind of sorry I let him do it, lie was so
young and green looking.
"Well, you can see, what with moth-
er helpless and father patenting, there
wasn't much chance for me to get
away, but I always had a hankering
to see Niagara falls. It's it glght once
Been stays hy, they way. When our
money was more plent> I laid out to
go a number of limes, but something
or other always turned up to prevent.
The llrst time father was took with a
crick In his back. The next time the
daughter of the woman who was com-
ing to take care of mother had her leg
broke in a runaway. Once everything
■eemcd moving favorably. Clarlssy
kMrlnghum had come to take enre of
mother. I had uiy ticket there and
back, and even my lunch wns put up,
for I wai to start at .') In the inornluit
That night there come up the worst
thunderstorm you ever see and wash
ed out the track on our branch, so the
trains couldn't run lor two days
"Yes, mother died a little more than
h year ago, just ii year and three
months after father. I was so thank-
ful she went before me. You see, she
had been sick so long, and then she
was uutnrally pretty high spirited fslie
said I'd Just let folks run right over
met, so she used to speak out pretty
sharp, and sometimes 'twas awful
hard to please her, but I never minded,
for I knew she meant all right. Oh,
you don't kuow how lost I was after
she whs gone. Why. there hasn't been
a night sence I don't wake up 'bout
the hour she used to ask me to pull her
a little to one side or lower the cushion
under her knees or do something to
make her easier. Sometimes I llnd my-
self setting right up in bed, thinking
certain she's calling me."
Hhe was unable to go on for a mo
ment. and though I'm called easy in
conversation I could think of no com
fort!ng word.
"And I'm so thankful," she eontln
oed, regaining her self control, "the
IIIOI|C\ held out till slie was gone. I vc
had to let the place go. I.ast week
lifter everything whs settled up I had
'just if'.',", left. Through it all every
' body's been Just as good to me us tlie.v
'could be. I often wonder why, for
! I've never had time to do anything for
them. Well, I had plans ail laid to go
■to work for .Mrs. Jennings at a dollar
, a week when one evening it was Just
u week ago I was setting alone feeling
pretty blue and thinking 'twasn't likely
now I'd ever see the falls, and in
Stepped I r. Itrowil. 'Well,' lie says in
his oli'hatld way, 'Miss Kaiinie, can you
bear good news';'
"'Why, I don't know, doctor,' says
I. 'I've never had much experience at
it.' You see I was feeling blue yet.
" 'Well,' he says, with a twinkle in
liis eye, 'I guess you're going to have
a el'Mtice now. I've jn<t heard from
the young doctor w ho wanted to get a
patent on your mother's lifting appa-
ratus.'
"He gave uic a letter which had a
cheek in It and which said I'm to have
.fill II Week UI.v lifetime. It's half the
royalty he gets for liis patent on moth-
er's machine. Well, when l realized it
wasn't a story out of a hook I never
waited to have a dress made not- noth-
ing, for fear something'd happen. And
! so here I am on my way to Niagara
falls. The falls are pretty badly froze
up, of course, but I ain't going to take
; sny chances on not seeing 'cm. He-
j sides'
1 "Train going west!" came In stem
1 torlnn tones.
A warm hand clasp, nnd the last 1
! saw of my little friend was a cheery,
Chas, Hegley.
Restaurant
Short Orders at All TiniCH at
Free Wagon Yard.
McKinney, - Texas.
J. DAY,
" I HI: OLD RELIABLE. >'
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
repaired at all times.
•'! Ten nt -see St.
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guttering and repairing
, done. Alco manufactur-
I of best washers on the
market for $1.00. Write
for circular.
O. LEDDY,
McKinney, Texas.
expectant face lost in the hurrying
crowd of Christmas travelers.
Weal Estate.
ShonM you liuve and hu«ines-
in the Real Estate line vou should
sen ,1. A. (iurnson, successor to
I\mkins Keid K*tutc Agency who
does a General Real-Estate busi-
ness—Adveitiser and Seller all
knels of property, rents property,
collects rents, renters and pay
taxes, I/onn Money on Real Estate
and do a general collecting Inisi-
ne«.«. See him at the (j;tz< tte of-
fice.
DR 0. H KIRKPATRICK
Physician and Surgeon
Office: 10 1-2 Northside of
Spuarc, Over Oncal's.
McKinney, - Texas.
ELITE RESTAURANT
will remove next door to the New Cer3
tnry Hotel January 1st with the
Finest Restaurant
ever opened in McKinney. Short or-
der* and loi'pinp a specialty,
W. T. Helms,
Prop,'
W, K, Shaver & Son
RESTAURANT
Will remove .Jrnuarv 1-t to the
Southwest corner of the Square
where rlnv will lie phased to
meet their old friends and pat-
rons and friends. Kmc lodging
rooms in connection, hc-rt or-
ders a specialty. M>.Kinney.
Grapes, raisins Dat( s. Kjjrs, Co-
coanuts, I'eais, Stuff, ii Pates at
\. E. Daws.
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The McKinney Daily Gazette. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 239, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1903, newspaper, December 25, 1903; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth191371/m1/15/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.