Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, July 13, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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BERLIN IS MACHINE MADE.
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WEAK, WEAEY WOMEN
GIRGENTI THE BEAUTIFUL.
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WALLAOE 0OMING.
SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS.
PURCELL, I. T.
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amendment on the — day of
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of Article 8, of the Constitution of
the State of Texas, providing for the
levying of a tax of not exceeding fif-
teen cents on the one hundred dollars
Proposed Amendment to the State
Constitution Relating to Certain
Exemptions from Taxation.
this country.
Oh, say, Mr. Editor, when we
Proposed Amendment to the State
Constitution Authorizing the
Levy of a Tax to Pay Jurors.
Joint Resolution to amend Section 2
of Article VIII of the Constitution
of the State of Texas, relating to
certain exemptions from taxation.
Be it resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Texas:
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Learn to be pleased with everything
—with wealth, so far as it makes us
beneficial to others; with poverty, for
not having much to care for, and with
obscurity, for being unenvied. — Plu-
tarch.
get our statehood full and com-
plete. we will have one of the
grandest states in the Union.
Old Texan.
I,
His Remark.
“I won't do any more work for that
man Hopkins.*'
“Why?"
“Well, he passed some remark I did
not like.”
“Did he? What was itr"
“He said, ‘Brown, you won’t be want-
ed after this week.’ ”
A
Happy
Home
Lost Youth.
A man looks back with regret, but
without bitterness, to his lost youth; a
woman, however vehemently she may
protest to the contrary, seldom if ever
attains to this same calm serenity.—
Gentleman’s Magazine.
it will ease all your pain, reduce
infizmination, cure leucorrhea,
(whites), falling womb, ovarian
trouble, disordered menses, back-
ache, headache, etc., and make
childbirth n atural and easy. Try it.
At all dealers in medicines, in
St .00 bottles.
Thousands of its readers proclaim
it the best general newspaper in the
world. Its secret of success is that it
gives the farmer and his family iust
what they want in the way of a family
newspaper. It furnishes all the news
of the world twice a week. It has a
splendid page where the farmers write
their;practical experiences on the
farm. It is like attending an immense
farmers’ institute. It has pages es-
pecially gotten up for the wife, for the
girls. It gives the latest market re-
ports. lu short, it gives a combina-
tion of news and instructive reading
matter that can be secured in no oth-
er way.
For $1.80 cash in advance, we will
send The Semi-Weekly News and the
Wise County Messenger each for one
year. This means von w ll get a total
of 156 copies.a year, a combination
which can’t be bea. ana you will se-
cure your money‛s worth many time
over
Immigration
From Europe through
the Port of New Orleans
OurForeign Immigration Office, No.
407 Carondelet Street, New Orleans, in
charge of Mr. F. Welch, Foreign Im-
migration Agent, is now equipped for
the handling of all matters pertaining
to Foreign Immigration. Mr. Welch
will give special attention to the filling
of orders for labor for the “Home
Seekers” arriving on each ship. Or-
ders placed with him should state the
number wanted, the kind of work, and
the wages, with a statement of the cost
of board, ete.
E. P. TURNBR,
Een’l Pass'r Agt., T. &. P. Ry.,
Dallas, Texas.
Constant Advice.
“A woman should always depend on
her husband for advice,” said the de-
voted wife.
“Yes," answered the visitor, “but it
does grow monotonous not to get any
advice except to economize.”—Wash-
ington Star.
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Every man should subscribe to his
local paper, because from it he se-
cures a class of news and useful in-
formation that he can get nowhere
else. He should, however, also sub-
scribe to a first-class general news-
paper. Such a newspaper is
Section 1. That Section 2, of Ar-
ticle VIII, of the Constitution of the
State of Texas, be so amended that
the same shall read as follows, to wit:
“All occupation taxes shall be equal
and uniform upon the same class of
subjects within the limits of the au-
thority levying the tax: but the Legis-
lature may, by general laws, exempt
from taxation public property used for
public purposes; actual places of reli-
gious worship; places of burial not
held for private or corporate profit,
all buildings used exclusively and
owned by persons or associations of
persons for school purposes and the
necessary furniture of all schools, al-
so the endowment funds of such insti-
tutions of learning and religion not
used with a view to profit and when the
same are invested in bonds or mort-
gages, or in land or other property
which has been and shall hereafter be
bought in by such institutions under
foreclosure sales made to satisfy, or
protect such bonds or mortgages; that
such exemption of such land and prop-
erty shall continue only for two years
after the purchase of the same at such
sale by such institutions and no long-
er, and institutions of purely public
charity: and all laws exempting prop-
erty from taxation other than the prop-
erty above mentioned shall be null
and void.”
SECTION 2. The Governor of the
State shall and he is hereby directed
to issue the necessary proclamation
for the submission of this amendment
to the qualified voters of the State of
Texas at the next general election for
State and County officers.
Section 3. The qualified electors
for members of the Legislature of the
State of Texas shall vote upon this
English Writer t all. It stim, nigia
ana Reetilinear.
Was Berl a made last year or the
year before? It is impossible to say
from looking at it. Some of the trees
in the streets look at least ten years
old, but they must have been planted
long before the city was thought of.
The houses and the streets and the
lampposts and the statues are all much
too neat and new to have endured the
rains of more than oue winter. It is
all. in fact, quite too new to tie com-
fortable. One feels afraid to sleep in
any of the bouses lest rheumatism
should be lying in wait in rooms where
the plaster has not had time to harden.
I drove from the station in a "drosh-
ki" with a monstrously old horse. Time
had bent his forelegs into a very good
imitation of a switchback railway, and
as we plodded solemnly along the
brand new asphalt roadway, with the
brand new bouses on either side and
an occasional brand new electric car,
with a brand new driver in a brand
new uniform, I found myself wonder-
ing what the old horse must think of it
all. One day he may have been grazing
in an open field, and when he passed
that way a week or so later he found a
new broad boulevard, with hotels and
shops and churches and great blocks of
flats, all sprung up like mushrooms.
Berlin, then, is a great deal too per-
fect to lie satisfactory. It is the ma-
chine made, not the hand made, article
—it was very decidedly made, not
born. There is no spontaneity in it, no
life. Compared to, say, London, it is
like a beautiful marble statue to a liv-
ing woman.
Berlin is, in fact, an awful object
lesson to emperors and others who try
to make a capital city out of a respect-
able village. It is easy to put up Im-
posing buildings—if you have the mon-
ey—and to cut out broad tree lined
roads and have everything neat and
nice and fine, but you only make your
village bigger and finer without mak-
ing it any the more a capital city.
There is no getting away from the feel-
ing that Berlin is a village—a big vil-
lage, a beautiful, rectilinear, new-out-
of-the-bandbox village, but a village all
the same.—London Chronicle.
Place of Ruins in the World More
Beautiful Than Thia."
Every one has heard of GIrgenti, as
Of Syracuse, before coming to Sicily.
The most beautiful city of antiquity
has left au endearing name, and if the
Girgenti of today be far from the Agri-
gentum of Roman splendor and still
further from the Acragas of Greek
beauty and magnificence It is still no-
bly worth seeing. Even the least re-
sponsive imagination can hardly fail to
apprehend some idea of what this town
must have been of old, when Acragas,
with its vast extent and over 200,000
inhabitants, looked out across the dark
blue waters of the Greek sea or Mare
Africano from a lordly wilderness of
superb temples and magnificent build-
ings of all kinds. Today it is worth a
pilgrimage from the ends of the earth.
There is perhaps no place of ruin in
the whole world more beautiful than
this. To see it, as the present writer
last saw it, in a golden sunset glow,
with the great temples gleaming like
yellow ivory and the town itself of a
dusky gold and the sea beyond and up-
lands and mountains behind irradiated
with a serene glory of light, is to see
what will be for life an unforgettable
impression, an ever deeply moving re-
membrance.
To localize the three loveliest views
in Sicily (and I fancy that most travel-
ers would agree with me) I should
specify that from the terrace of the
Hotel Timeo at Taormina, that from
the monastery-hostelry of Madonna del
Tindaro over Tyndaris and the Aeolian
Isles and that from the terrace of the
Hotel Belvedere on the south wall of
Girgenti, looking out on the lovely
temples, the beautiful uplands and
slopes and the blue sea washing Porto
Empedocle below.— Century.
Rock Island Sleeping Oar Line to Chica-
go.
The Rock Island operates the only
through Sleeping Car line from Texas
to Chicago. Car leaves Dallas 7:00
p. m., Fort Worth 9:00 p. m. daily, via
Kansas City.
Another favorite train leaves Dallas
7:00 a. m., Fort Worth 8:35 a. m., with
through sleeper to Kansas City, con-
nectlng thence with through car to
Chicago.
Both of above trainscarry new style
chair cars, and high back coaches.
Very low tourist rates are in effect
via the Rock Island to every notable
tourist resort in the country,St. Louis,
Chicago, Kansas City, St. Paul, Den-
ver, Colorado Springs, etc.
Full details will be given on applica-
tion to Mr. Phil A. Auer, G. P. & T.
A., C. R. I. & G. R'y., Fort Worth,
Texas.
negroes in that part of the Terri-
tory made threats. The people
turned out and met them, but
MESSENGER $1.00 1 Y R. they denied having made any
----------—---------------- threats. This was the first crime
How Canada Warn Named.
According to an eminent authority,
when the Portuguese under Gaspar
Cortereal in 1590 first ascended the St.
Lawrence they believed it to be the
strait of which they were in quest,
through which a passage might be dis-
covered into the Indian sea. When,
however, they arrived at the point
when they could clearly ascertain that
this was no strait, but a river, they ex-
claimed repeatedly in their disappoint-
ment, “Ca nada” (“Here nothing").
These words, remembered by the na-
tives. were repeated to the next Euro-
peans who visited the land. The new-
comers. hearing the phrase so frequent-
ly, conjectured that it must lie the
name of the country, so “Canada” it
remains.
(A true copy.) O. K. Shannon.
Secretary of State.
All the World
knows that Ballard's Snow Liniment
has no superior for rheumatism, stiff
joints, cuts, sprains, lumbago, and all
pains. Buy it, try it. ami you will al-
ways use it. Anybody who has used
Ballard's Snow Liniment is a living
proof of what it does. All we ask of
you is to get a trial bottle. Price 25c.
50c, and $1.00. Sold by Man & Sim-
mons, south side square.
Threatening rain today. If we
Joint Resolution amending Section 9, get a good rain next week it will
"h C ettuie" be worth thousands of dollars to
Former Georgians.
There were 100,000 native
Georgians living in Alabama in
1900
Texas bad the next largest
number, 78,000. They say there
are as many people of Georgia
blood in Texas as there are in
Georgia.
It is estimated that there are
4.000,000 people of Georgia line
age living in other states, or
twice Georgia’s population
Atlanta has invited everybody
of Georgia kinship and every-
body that has ever lived in the
state or passed through the state
to a home coming during the
state fair next October.
f -
of the kind committed in this im-
mediate country. He said be
was from Texas and had commit-
ted other crimes there.
-
.
The Silver-Tongued Orator of Arkansas
ERWill Speak Here at Reunion.
Magnolia, Ark., July 7, 1906.
M. D. Sellars, Esq., Decatur.
My dear Mr. Sellars: Your
kind favor received You have
been so steadfast in your cordial
invitationsand recollection of my
efforts at Memphis and New Or-
leans, that I cannot longer deny
your request
So, I will be with you, proba-
bly the first day of August. With
sincere good wishes,
Truly yours.
Minor Wallace.
New Train Service.
The Denver has put on two new pas-
senger trains, making three trains
each way daily. Notice time card
elsewhere in this paper for changes in
time of trains and closing of mails.
The new trains are numbered 3 and 4.
They both run every day including
Sundays. No. 3, northbound, brings
mail from Fort Worth, but does no
receive mail here. No. 4, southbound
carries locked pouch from this place
for Fort Worth and Dallas and con-
nections, but does not put off mail
here. Neither of the new trains carries
mail on Sundays ______
Women with weaknesses should
never forget Dr. Shoop’s Night Cure.
The magic-like local treatment is used
at bedtime. All night, while the sys-
tem is at rest, it is constantly building
up the weakened tissues, soothing the
inHamed and sensitive surfaces, and
will surely clean up all catarrhal and
local troubles. Sold by Ford & Thom,
ason.
July 8.—Very little news in
our country. Crops are good;
corn, cotton, wheat and oats are
fine. Our seasons have been
very regular; the most delight-
ful spring and summer that I
have witnessed in many years to
work our crops.
I went over to Lexington, Ok-
lahoma, to attend a Fourth of Ju-
ly picnic. Heard Judge Aber-
nathy speak.
We ha a grand Democratic
rally at Purcell. Saturday, July
7th. Senators Gore and Gid-
Jings, of Oklahoma, Judge Bur-
ress, of Indian Territory, all
staunch democrats, spoke at the
meeting. Indian Territory and
Oklahoma democrats are wide-
awake.
A negro, who said his name
was Fulbright, assaulted a young
lady near Womack. The whole
country turned out, caught him,
then shot and burned him. The
Money Made No Difference.
A poor but worthy old couple had a
rare stroke of luck. Some relative died
and left them a fortune of £20. The
night of the arrival of the lawyer’s let-
ter telling them of their good fortune
they sat up late, discussing the future
and what they were to do with the
great sum they had inherited. When
they had done and were rising to go to
bed the old man said, with a grand air
of magnanimity: "Weel, I suppose,
Janet, this'll mak‛ nae difference. We’ll
Just speak to the neebours as before."
Saved His Comrade’s Life.
“While returning from the Grand
Army encampment at Washington
City, a comrade from Elgin, Ill., was
taken with cholera morbus and was in
a critical condition.” says Mr. J. E.
Houghland, of Eldon. Iowa. “I gave
him Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy and believe saved
his life. I have been engaged for ten
years in immigration work and con-
ducted many parties to the south and
west. I always carry this remedy and
have used it successfully on many oc-
casions.” Sold by City Drug Store,
Man & Simmons, propietors.
Fictitious.
Angel Child—Aunt Daisy, what is
meant by “a fictitious character?"
Aunt Daisy—That means one that is
made up. dear. Angel Child—Oh, yes!
Then you're a fictitious character,
aren’t you, auntie?
which election all persons favoring
said amendment shall have written or
printed on the ballot as follows: “For
amendment to section 2, Article 8, of
the Constitution exempting from taxa-
tion endowment funds used exclusively
for school purposes.” And those op-
posed to said amendment shall have
written or printed on the ballot as fol-
lows: “Against amendment to Section
2, Article 8, of the Constitution ex-
empting from taxation endowment
funds used exclusively for school pur-
poses.”
Section 4. The sum of $5000 or so
much thereof as may he necessary is
hereby appropriated out of any funds
in the treasury of the State of Texas,
not otherwise appropriated to pay the
expenses of such publication, procla-
mation and electton.
To have a happy home
you should have children.
They are great happy-home
makers. If a weak woman,
you can be made strong
enough to bear healthy chil-
dren, with little pain or dis-
comfort to yourself,by taking
“DUE TO CART UI
is my baby girl, now two weeks
old,” writes Mrs. J. Priest, of Web-
ster City, Iowa. “She is a line
healthy babe and we are both doing
nicely. I am still taking Cardui,
and would not be without it in
the house.”
valuation, to pay jurors.
SECTION. 1. Be it resolved by the
Legislature of the State of Texas:
That Section 9, of Article 8. of the
Constitution of the State of Texas, be
so amended as to hereafter read as
follows:
Section 9. The State tax on proper-
ty. exclusive of the tax necessary to
pay the public debt, and of the taxes
provided for the benefit of the public
free schools, shall never exceed thirty-
five cents on the one hundred dollars
valuation: and no county, city or town
shall levy more than twenty-five cents
tor city or county purposes, and not
exceeding 15 cents for road and
bridges, and not exceeding fifteen cents
to pay jurors, on the one hundred dol-
lars valuation, except for the payment
of debts incurred prior to the adoption
of the amendment September 25th,
1883. and for the erection of public
buildings, streets, sewers, water works
and other permanent improvements,
not toexceed twenty-five cents on the
one hundred dollars valuation, in any
one year, and except as is in this Con-
stitution otherwise provided: and the
legislature may also authorize an ad-
ditional annual ad valorem tax to lie
levied and collected for the further
maintenance of the public roads; pro-
vided. that a majority of the qualified
property tax-paying voters of the
county voting at an election to be held
for that purpose shall vote such tax,
not to exceed fifteen cents on the one
hundred dollars valuation of the prop-
erty subject to taxation in such coun-
ty. And the Legislature may pass lo-
cal laws for the maintenance of public
roads and highways, without the local
notice required for special or local
laws.
•Sec. 2. The Governor is hereby di-
rected to issue the necessary proclama-
tion for submitting this amendment to
the Constitution to the qualified voters
of the State of Texas, on the first Tues-
day after the first Monday in November,
1906, at which election all voters fa-
voring this amendment shall have
written or printed on their ballots:
“For the amendment to authorize the
levy of a tax to pay jurors.” The vo-
ters opposed to this amendment shall
have written or printed on their bal-
lots: “Against the amendment to au-
thorize the levy of a tax to pay ju-
rors.”
(A true copy.) O. K. Shannon,
Secretary of State.
Learn the Cause of Daily Woes and End
Them.
When the back aches and
throbs.
When housework is torture.
When night brings no rest nor
sleep.
When urinary disorders set in
Women’s lot is a weary one.
There is a way to escape these
woes.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure such
ills.
Have cured women here in De-
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This is one Decatur woman’s
testimony:
Mrs. J. L. Jeffries, living two
miles north of Decatur, Tex., R.
F. D. No. 5, says; “I have no
hesitation in recommending
Doan's Kidney Pills, for when I
was run down, suffering con-
stantly from backache, dizzy
spells and headaches. I used a
box of this remedy, which my
husband got for me at C. B
Gunn’s drug store, and found
very prompt and satisfactory re.
lief. I used to be tired and lame
every morning, but have felt a
great deal better from the first
day I began using Doan's Kid
ney Pills.
For sale by all dealers. Price
50c. Foster-Milburn Co , Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s
—and take no other.
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