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BY R. T. M1LNER.
'TOLERANT IN ALL THINGS, NEUTRAL IN NOTHING."
$1.00 PER ANNUM.
VOLUME, XLI.
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY. SEPTEHBER 27, 1900.
NUMBER 38.
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Hardware Headquarters.
E. J. Teller.
My stock of heavy and shelf hardware and machinery
supplies is large and complete and you
can find anything you want in
Plow, Garden or Mechanics Tools, Wag-
on materials, Gin and General Machinery
Supplies, Belting, Etc., Lubricating Oils,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes.
I carry the famous brands, Sherwin-Williams and
Mastic ready-mixed paints, and can supply with
any amount of any color. These paints go fur-
ther and give better satisfaction than any other
mixed paint on the market.
General Work Department.
All kinds of repair work in wood and iron by skilled
workmen and at lowest prices. "Wagons and buggies
repaired, picture framing in latest styles, window and
door screens fitted.
TINNING AND UPHOLSTERY DEPARTMENT.
Roofing and valley tin, conductor and gutter £
pipes, galvanized flues, zinc lined bath tubs, ice and g
milk boxes, besides general repairing in any of the |
metals. ' |
Furniture Repaired and Upholstered.
Mattresses Made to Order. \
LETTER FROM MRS. DABNEY.
Northwestern Life Association
OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.,
Has over $200,000.00 insurance in force in Rusk and Panola .... . .
counties—more than any other company doing business under the w begin at the beginnm
laws oi Texas. VVe especially call your attention to our 15 yesr
equation policy which contains the following desirable features:
One'halYthe face policy in case of total or permanent
disability.
Cash value after having been in force 15 years.
Incontestable after 2 years.
Premiums reduced at the expiration of 15 years—H
veiy desirable feature.
Writes Brother ot Loss ot Mother and
Sister at Galveston.
| Nashville American.
i A letter, descriptive ot the Gal-
veston disaster, has been received
by David Rhea, of But'ord, Tenn.
It was written by his sister, Mrs,
Will P. Dabney, who, with her \
husband, her 8-year-old son, Rhea ■
Dabney, and her sister, Miss
L,outse Rhea, of Buford, survived ,
the storm, in which her mother, j
Mrs. M. E. Rhea, and her sister, j
Miss Mary Rhea, were lost. In it j
j , j
are suggested, in graphic sen ten-I
ces, the fury and manner of the
! storm, the horrors of the battle
with wind, flood and wreckage,
the miraculous escapes from death
and the despair and agony over j
loved ones who were lost. As it is
the storv of one family in one
home, so it is the story of thou- i
sands in a city of homes. Its re- j
cital is a type of the terrors of that
fateful day. The letter was writ-
ten at 2 o'clock Monday morning,
Sept. 10, a few hours after the wind
had spent its fury and the flood
rolled back to sea and bay. It fol- j
lows:
"Galveston, Tex., Sept. 10—j
My.Dear David: This letter will
follow a telegram to you, as they j
j I
| will both be taken across the Day j
to-day by steamer to connect with j
j the wires and the railroad line, i
I The horror of the message does
I not convey to you one-tenth of the 1
j terrible misery, the sickening sus- |
t pense and the agonizing horror in
which we have been already two
days and two nights, almost It
is 2 o'clock Monday morning. I
shall-try to tell you something and
g, though
I am so sore all over and so racked
with thirst. The cisterns that
were not destroyed were dashed
full of salt spray which makes
them brackish, not satisfying thirst.
"When we awoke in the morn-
ing of Saturday it was by mother's
telling us the gulf was coming in,
and though we were much startled,
when we got out and talked with
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The following letters will show how marvellously successful it is:
leucorrhoea, falling of the womb, and
kidney trouble. I also had a pain
when standing or walking, and some-
times there seemed to be balls of fire
in front of me, so that I could not see
for about twenty minutes. Felt as
We are cheaper than most of the regular companies doing business in
Texas. We claim that they are too high and are pre~~to prove
it. Men and women insured at the same rate. No man can afford^l^ settlers, they allayed all
to let his wife and children carry the risk of his dying, when* he can j anri ,ve took the'storm in preai
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For further information see
J. U. ANDERSON, Special Agt. for East Texas
C. G. RAYFORD, Collector, Henderson, Texas.
J. B. DAVIDGE, Collector, Carthage, Texas.
OR
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DEALER IN
FURNITURE,
Doors, Sash
Blinds and
Mouldings.
.Window Glass and Puttey.
Locks, Butts, and crews,
Carpenters' Tools. 1 lass ware
and Queensware, Coffins
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mad-tossed waves. Mother said:
'It is the grandest sight I ever wit-
nessed, and I am so glad I have!
seen a really terrific ocean storm.' 1
She did not want to come home
and complained at me when I in-
sisted on going back to prepare for
emergencies.
"We packed trunks and a leath-
er valise with our valuables and
papers. We were laughing togeth-
er, saying that if the water came by experienced men. When Will
Aug. 6, 1899.
Dear Mrs. Pinkham: — I am fail-
ing very fast.—since. January have
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have a yellow, muddy complexion,
feel tired, and have bearing down
pains. Menses have not appeared for
three months: sometimes I am trou-
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have kidney and bladder trouble. . .
1 have been this way for a long time,
and feel so miserable I thought I
would write to you. and see if you
could do me any good."—Miss E:wa.
Frederick, Troy, Ohio.
Sept. 10, 1899.
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Compound according to directions,
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life at all. Now, I feel so well I can-
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have done for me. You are surely a
woman's friend. Thanking you a
thousand times, I remain,
Ever yours
Miss Edna Frederick,
Troy, Ohio.
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ham'sVegetable Compound and cannot
praise it enough. I had headaches,
tired in the morning when I got up
as if I had had no sleep for two weeks.
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Second and Clayton Sts., Chester Pa.
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find language to express the terrible
suffering I have had to endure. I had
female trouble,
also liver,stomach,
kidney, and blad-
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I tried several doc-
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Hipr.e, No. Manchester, Ind.
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mission.
d before obtaining the writer's special per-
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keeps the business body on its feet
up very high we would sail out in
a skiff and take the valise with us.
Will supplied himself with money
to secure help if necessary, and I
placed it also in the valise. Our
house was a double one and very
large, having tA'o stories and a
high raised part which made it
really three stories in height, and
neighbors came to it for safety.
Will made many inquiries of the
weather bureau and of many citi-
zens, and they all said the storm
was too far east to touch us heavi-
ly.
"But about 6 o'clock our nerv-
ousness became real iright. It
was high tide and the wind in-
creased in strength, becoming
gusty, and before we knew it, the
whole gulf seemed to be in on us,
rising 5 feet almost at a bound.
Our landlord assured us our house
was perfectly sate, but advised us
in various ways. If the water
should continue rising, he told us
to climb, as it would never reach
the third floor. But our fright be-
came agony when we learned that
no boat could live in the water
and that the 'Allen' was lost with
all her passengers in trying to cross
the bay. Mother soothed us by
entreating us to trust in God, and
Mary, by being so perfectly still
and self-possessed.
"O, God! how can I describe
the rest! There has never before
been anything so terrific in its
horrors. We were soon driven up-
stairs by the water rushing in the
second floor. Still we thought the
house was sate and were clinging
to food and valuables, thinking we
would be rescued from the upper
floor. But the winds increased In
their violence and a large house to
the east of us went down, pounding
and breaking the east side of our
house. All sought our side for
protection, hoping still that the
wind would veer towards the
south, as w$s confidently expected
went down to let the others in, the
water was knee-deep on that floor,
and the minute the door was un-
locked it was wrenched from its
hinges by the force of the flood.
We then opened up that floor en-
tirely, hoping that the water would
sweep through without wrecking
the house. Will had hardly come
upstairs when the front r66nng
was torn off and we huddled like
cattle in a little back room that
was still uninjured, each entreat-
ing the other, 'Let's stay together.'
"In a few minutes the darkness
was lightened by that roof being
torn off, and we became utterly
hopeless, expecting instant death.
I could hear mother praying and
still telling us to trust in God.
Mary was the most self-possessed
of all. She had self confidence
when in the water, for she could
both swim and float.
words I heard from
story. I clung to Rhea, but all
the rest were separated. Will was
thrown from me. Louise says she
saw mother and Mary in the water,
clutching for something. I re-
member lifting Rhea from the
water after our first sinking, say-
ing, 'Climb, son, climb, darling,'
but before that we had been held
under the water by some broad
sheet of lumber, growing faint for
breath, gulping down salt water,
thinking each moment's conscious-
ness was our last. I could feel
the trembling of Rhea's body in
my arms, believing it to be death,
but I was without grief or fear,
and thought how we should be
found together. What a myraid
of things passed through my brain
in these seconds that measure a
lifetime. I think this was the
experience of all who went down
from that room. I think mother
The last j could not have lived through the
her were: j wreck of the house, though Mary
reached me, saying, 'Oh! is that
my mother?' and little arms crept
around me, and through hysterical
sobs I heard, 'Oh, mother, my
mother!' and I, as hysterically,
blessed God for giving me back
my baby. Louise was safe sooner
than I, for she had heard Rhea
calling and had answered. Will
was the last of the living to come
up, and that within a few teet of
me, and we hoped—oh, how we
hoped—that all of us had been
so miraculously saved.
"That was somewhere about 9
o'clock, and all the night long we
clung to the debris, through pelt-
ing, stinging rain and wind that
seemed to chill onr very life. How
we hoped that mother and Mary
were somewhere on that great pile
of shifting debris After years of
life, it seemed to us, day came,
and we tried to stand with our
cramped limbs and look for our
loved ones, full of hope and full ,
ot tear. The city seemed almost
wiped out, not one board left where
handsome houses had stood for
fourteen solid blocks in from the
east. i
"When we saw how compact
and wedged in was the wreckage
and nowhere within a block around
us were our lost ones, we began to
despair. As we struggled to pick
our way out, trying to reach a
place of safety, there were dead
bodies here, there and eyerywhere
the eye might turn, so ghastly in
their purple bloat, and some with
horrible gashes that stood wide
open. With inexpressible dread:
and nerves quivering with the '■
sickening repulsiveness of a scene ;
that seemed to curdle our blood, '
i
we sought our precious loved ones, j
We thought once we had tound
mother, and if we could live a '
thousand years we could never
forget the sickening agony or that
moment.
"We finally came out to the
home of Dr. Fry, which is badly
damaged and torn, but a great
pile of debris in front broke the
force of tbfl? waves and saved the
house they think. Will and Dr.
Fry thenc^jjent out, but their search
was fruitless, Louise went with
Will later and came back almost
prostrated—such fearful sights!
They haye been taking out the
dead bodies all around us all day,
and their number cannot be esti-
mated. They say it will take
months and months to remove the
debris, The sad sole duty to those
loved ones which remains to us is
a terrible one. We are bruised
and sore and stiff and almost craz-
ed. Will was struck on the side
and almost disabled. We are
utterly destitute, not even a change
of clothing and no money except
what remains of the check you
sent mother. Everything else was
lost with the valise. We shall
leave Galveston as soon as. possible.
I do not know where we shall go.
Louise we would keep with us,
but she wants to go back home,
and already, dear God, the word
mocks us."
F
century the in-1
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have been familiar
JOR a third
valuable e?
Baking Powcki
to American housewives, who have
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of light, sweet, pure and wholesome
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Note.—Baking; powders made from alum and other
harsh, caustic acids are lower in price, but
inferior in work and injurious to the stomach.
'Don't cling to each other, but! was seen afterward
grab the first floating thing you gling back,
can.' I was clinging to Rhea
with his arms around my
and Will had my arm. That was
all I knew, for the uext moment
we went down, plunged into fif-
teen feet of water from a third
to be strug-
'I "My next remembrance
neck, I a breath of air and
70ME\ and especially mothers are
VV mo®t competent to aupreciate the
. purity sweetness, ana delicacy of
CirrierRA Soap, antl to di.-rover new uses
forit daily. Its remarkable emollient, cleans-
}??• a . purifying properties derived from
Ci rij ura. tne great skin cure and purestof
eim ihents, warrant its use in i>re~ervin£r,puri-
lyinc, and beautifying: the complexion, nands,
rr, and in the form of washes and solu-
■' u.'vrntive weaknesses, annoying
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vOep. .s-o.e Prop*..Boston. " Scad for Skis 3ilh.li.tht.
was
my telling
Rhea to climb. He kicked loese
from me, but I did not know
whether he had left me in death
or had climbed. I clutched at
something, which turned with me,
throwing under again, and I
thought how strange that we
should say drowning was an easy
| death, when it took so long and
; our mental agony was so great,
and I thought, too, it was so
strange that I had no fear of death.
Still I fought for life and kept
pushing at the thing above me.
"Then there was air again and
wind that made me gasp, and rain
that stung like nettles, and
strong arm that pulled me up on
■ floating bebris.
I It was Mr. Proctor, who was with
! us in the house. For a moment
lay there and then sat up, dazed
| and dizzy, when a little yoice
reaved parents, who have no hope,
for though little Mary has suffered
intensely here we know that she is
now as calmly resting in that home
where pain and suffering is un-
known, and there is not a brighter
flower blooming in Paradise than
little Mary. It is sad we know,
that one bright, sweet face left
your home, never to return again,
but you have done all that you can
do for her now, and as she cannot
come to you you must go to her.
This is only a separation for a lit-
tle while compared to the great
beyond, and if we be prepared,
how happy it will be when we can
claspithe hands of our loved ones
that have gone on before and there
rest so peacefully and happy
throughout the eternal forever.
Little Mary leaves a father, moth-
er, four sisters and two brothers to
mourn their loss, but May God's
PREACHER'S GOOD WORK.
Rev. J. B. French of Fort Worth,
pastor of the Broadway Presby-
terian church in that city, passed
through Houston yesterday en
route home, after spending a week
in Galveston. Dr. French was
one of the first pastors of the State
to go to Galveston when he heard
of the storm, and he has been lend-
ing every effort to making com-
fortable the survivors. When he
passed through Houston yesterday
he was accompanied by two little
boys, Louis and Henry Fre5'tag.
These children were left homeless
and without parents by the storm.
Their mother and father were lost,
and the home where they had
lived from infancy was swept
away. Dr. French has taken them
in charge and will find them a
place in North Texas where they
will be kindlv cared for. The
blessings rest upon them and help j children floated for hours on a raft
them to realize while it is their in the storm, and were almost
j '
loss it is her eternal gain. Her miraculously saved. — Houston
body was laid to rest in Blackjack Post.
graveyard, over which was made a
beautiful little talk by Rev. Bently
A FRIHND.
Died of Broken Heart.
Obituary.
On the eyening of Sept. 5th God
in His infinite love and wisdom
saw fit to take from the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Naul their
liitle daughter, Mary Louise.
She was born April 8, 1898, died
Sept. 5, 1900, aged 2 years, 4
months and 27 days. She was not
here yery long, but every one who
knew her can surely testify that
she has suffered her share of this
world's suffering for she has been
a little invalid all her life; never-
theless she was the pet of the fami-
ly. But we would say to the be-
Ex-Gov. Campbell, who was
piominent in the opposition to
j Bryan in 1896, of Ohio, says the
| democrats are making gains every
Galveston, Texas, September j ^ay. "The man who predicts the
result of the election," he said,
"discounts the possibility ot un-
expected things happening within
the two months between now and
the election. The democrats are
now making steady gains. They
19-—Miss Clara Olsen lived with
her mother at Twenty-ninth and
avenue P. During the raging of
the storm their home went down.
Miss Olsen held her mother with
one arm and with the other
reached out to get a bit of floating are gaining strength eyery day in
timber. In her struggle to get the New York, in Ohio, in Indiana; in
^imber she loosened her hold upon fact, all over the country. If the
her mother, who was drowned. : election occurred today the derno-
The poor girl was taken to the j cratic vote would be larger than
home of a friend, Twenty-first and ; yesterday. Thus far, I think,
avenue K, and died this morning there has been 110 day when we
from nothing in the world save a were rot s,ronKtr than the day
• 1 , ^ „, . , , ' lore. Such a condition surely
broken heart. She blamed herself - n r >> ,, r
ui promises well for success. To
for letting go of her mother and ! what extent," he was asked, "are
believed herself responsible for the j the Gold Democrats going to sup-
death. No one could convince her
otherwise, and she died in terrible
agony of mind.
port Bryan?" "A very large ma-
jority of them are going to support
the ticket," was the answer.
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all th« so-called blood remedies, but
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During the summer of iR8£ I was per-
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have had no return of these painfal
pats up to the present time."
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