Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 774, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1896 Page: 2 of 8
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uty Slesseuger. THE BANNER OVER ME.
seeking, but instead has given me back
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DECATUR,
TEXAS.
Bryant
out from the littie
others.
An ugly woman can get uglier than
on earth.
investigations among the savages for anything
/
By increasing the price of beer $1 per
aparilla its greatpop-
The combination, proport
prepar ng Hood's Sarsapar lla are uu known
A man in Houston, Tex., who mur-
derstand everything, but that does not
she add-
“You are all I have, and in giving
you up I surrender everything, every-
life.
BIAS
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For more than a year Nathan's let-
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CONSUMPTION
Nathan
bade 1
Only the wicked are anxious to prove
that the devil is a myth.
Since a man who committed suicide
has been identified as J. L. Good it is
N The retirement of Richard Mansfield
may take from the stage a star, but the
apparatus for producing thunder and
lightning and moonlight is still there.
City
Diaz o
was in
tion by
thusias
of rejoi
contint
train,
night a
rated,
the pre
vigorot
in the 1
ment is
Is what gives Hood s Saz
ularity, increasing sal
It is very much in Healer Schlatter's
favor that he doesn’t have to be driven
out of any town where he locates.
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senate <
to han
resolutit
Alabam:
made an
Canada is disposed to emulate the ex-
ample of the small child who cries for
the sole purpose of inducing some one
tc coax it to stop.
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The start toward the bad always be-
gins in short steps.
my boy.
“For years
Thanksgiving,
Tc work without a plan is a waste of
strength.
not forget that I will be kept in the hol-
low of God’s hand, and that his ’ban-
ner over me will be love.’ ’’
the banner of love that has been over
us all these years."
“And it will be over us until the
end,” returned Nathan.
“Yes, thank God, for my unanswered
prayer,” replied the old mother. “God
is love, now and evermore.”
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Some people are so infiueneed by the electric
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id, all the
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reel off some very soothing lullabies if i with Taylor at Buena Vista during the
he can make the British lion feel happy j Mexican war in 1847, and his grand-
when his tail is full of kinks. ! father had given his life in helping to
--win Perry’s victory upon Lake Erie in
Uncle Sam can buy the island of St.
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Some people seem to overlook the fact
that there is such a thing as keeping
cool and patriotic at the same time.
and in doing so it honors itself. With
so many of our own famous men of sci-
ence, dead or alive, waiting in vain for
public recognition in this noble manner,
it is hopeless to expect the lord mayor
or the county council to reciprocate the
compliment and honor the great inves-
tigators of France in this way.—London
Globe.
i ready slept three generations of soldier
Poet Laureate Austin will have to ancestors. His own father had been
prevention is worth a pound of cure To use
St. Jacobs Oil promptly w ill ward off an attack,
or if attacked, will prom, tly cure. Such peo-
ple can do for themselves what others do from
weather prophecies, heed the signals and save
the wreck and disaster.
Death is so swift that it overtakes
everybody, and yet so slow that any-
one can catch it.
wone rful cures.
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the t
permission to lay his life a sacrifice
, upon his country’s altar, with a break-
ing heart she told him to go, and when
at sight of her grief he began to waver.
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or country produce.” The question is.
Does he want it? It is an island thir-
teen miles long and has a perfect land-
locked harbor.
were the suicide would not have been
Good.
afterwards receive
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T? T was on a bright,
■ sunshiny morning j
I in May, 1862, that
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wd.
Vetch, Giant spurry. Giant Clover, etc.,
and our mammoth seed catalogue, w.n
288 I IIl 1'
When the revised veitgion of the New
Testament was completed, it was tele-
graphed as news to Chicago. When it
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UP NORTH.
If abuse of Americans is to be re-
warded. Mr. William Astor will be able
to secure that coveted title.
thee.’ Can't you take him at his word
and say, 'Thou hast holden me by thy
right hand. Thou shalt guide me with
nothing to be thankful for but to-day •‘■curacy ana otners unere arewunnervesso
.. -.in . „ ., . . . sensitive that they are sure of having neura.-
e will go up to Gods house to give | gia from a low and fretful state of the ner-
thanks? together; to give thanks for vous system. Now why can’t the latter be
' warned in time and know that an ounce of
fight. Accepting this belief, his moth-
er mourned him as dead, and as the
years went by she continued to grieve
over her loss, lamenting sorely that
she had been denied even the pleasure
FITS -AlFits stopped freeby Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve estorer. NoFitsafter the nirslday’s ums.
Marvelouscures. Treatiseanci 82 trial bottlefreet»
itcases. beud to Dr. K Dae,931 Arch st.,.,.
thought the bloody strife would cease
long before the year was over, and
when she gaye that promise she had
little fear that she would ever be called
upon to redeem it. But her word had
always been as good as her bond, and
when Nathan had come again to her
on his eighteenth birthday, seeking her
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Mr.
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went i
check
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other
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Best " El: Use
in time. Sold by druggists.
Senator Quay is encouraging the
Pittsburg reform movement. As Chris
Magee is the man the reformers are
after it will be seen that Mr. Quay is
not a reformer for reform purposes
only.
Those of the British Columbia Have No
Favorite Sons-in Law.
A committee which has just returned
to England from British Columbia,
where it has been engaged in making
thing.” “You will still have God left,
mother, and he is more and better than
the best of earthly friends,” remon-
strated Nathan. “You know he says
Cailec Nathan's name was among the
300 that did not respond. A comrade
had seen him fall, shot in the head,
and as his name never appeared in any
hospital list or among prisoners par-
oled or exchanged, the supposition be-
came a reality in the minds of his
friends that he occupied one of the un-
known graves so hastily dug on the
field at the close of the second day’s
she assured him that her blessing
would go with him.
Nathan inherited his patriotism as
well as his sturdy New England prin-
ciples, for out in the little old-fash-
ioned graveyard on the hill there al-
The business man who advertises
hasn't any time to worry about the
fluctuations of the gold reserve.
youth, a mere boy, having just passed
his eighteenth birthday, and as he was
all that was left to his widowed moth-
er, it was not at all strange that she
gave him up so reluctantly. A year
before, when the first call for volun-
teers roused the slumbering patriot-
ism in hearts all over the north. Nathan
had been anxious to offer his services,
but his mother had refused her con-
sent, with the promise, however, that
if he would wait until he was eighteen
her objection should not stand in his
Whenever the women rave about a
girl, and say she is pretty, it is a sign
that she is not.
cause her to grow hard and selfish, and
every year she lived more and more to
herself, shunning her neighbors and
refusing all their well menat sympathy
and kindness. Regardless of her press-
ing need, she steadily refused to ap-
ply for the pension which rightly be-
longed to her. "It is blood money,”
HIS COMRADE HAD SEEN HIM
FALL.
plain,” answered his mother. “I think
I can trust him for myself, but I, oh,
how can I endure to think of you, my
baby, being compelled to undergo such
The people wanted clear headed, pa-
triotic American men on the Venezue-
lan commission, and they got them.
Now let them act wisely and promptly.
A French Statue to Newton.
The French seem to be ahead of every
nation in the honor which they pay tc
great men, especially great men of sci-
ence, and this honor is not confined to
their own countrymen. A number of
streets in Paris are called after emi-
nent foreign savants,English and other,
and monuments are even erected to il-
lustrious foreigners. For instance, the
municipal council of Paris has decided
to erect a statue to Sir Isaac Newton,
A farewell, and went
A Great Clock.
The ancient city of Rouen, France,
owns the very earliest specimen of
the larger varieties of the ancient clock-
makers’ triumphs. It was made by Je-
han De Falains, and was finished and
set going in September, 1389. So per-
fect in construction is this ancient time
recording machine that, although it
has been regularly striking the hours.
barrel it looks as if the brewers were
preparing to go to the rescue of the
United States treasury.
ashamed to take to each other, but
even carefully avoided seeing each oth-
er. The reason for this curious avoid-
ance could not be discovered.
MARKER’S _
HAIR BALSAM ,
Icanses and beuntifics the hair.
Promotes a luxuriant growth.
Never Fails to Restore. Gray
Hair to it a Youthful Color. I
Curt* senip CimM 8 hair falling- 1
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nguage of thek hearts I ters came regularly, bright, cheery let-
hn because he loth not ters, telling only the happy side of army
kcncerning me, bht evil.” life, and then with his regiment he
A went into the battle of Gettysburg, but
m) three days’ later, when the rill was
be worthless. This can hardly be the
case if it has been the means of teach-
ing Britain the danger of making its
lion play the hog.
the strife of 1812. A generation earlier
his great-grandfather had followed
Washington through the eight years
of revolutionary struggles, and now, as
the descendant of such illustrious yeo-
men, Nathan dared not turn his back
on the call of his country—no, not
even if his patriotism should be sealed
with his blood. "I understand all this;
I understand just how you feel on this
■ subject,” sobbed his mother, clinging
to him, after he had enumerated come
of the brave deeds of his forefathers,
deeds which must not be dimmed by
the cowardice of the only one left to
keep the name stainless. “Yes, I un-
home where he hid
been so tenderly
reared and shelt-
ered. to endure the
trials and hard-
my boy’s life?”
But instead of dying from the wound
received in his head, Nathan had been
carried to a hospital, where for months
and months he lay hovering between
life and death. At last he was given
back to life, but regardless of the fair
state of health to which he was re-
stored, he was not himself. It could not
be said that he was insane, but to him
all the past was like a dream. He had
no distinct recollection of his early
home, and could not recall even his
own name or tell to what regiment he
belonged. The surgeons thought that
in time his memory of the past would
be restored to him, but it was not,
and not knowing where to send him,
he remained in the hospital as a nurse
until the close of the war. Then, in
company with a hospital friend, he
drifted to the far West, where by dili-
gence he succeeded in acquiring a
A s 13.000 Gravel Walk.
The gorgeous tales of oriental splen-
dor tell of pathways strewn with gold
dust, to be trodden by the sacred fnet
of royalty, and diamonds are the ren-
ventional paving material for the prom-
enade of the princes in the fairy tales.
It has been left to a St. Louis business
man, says a correspondent, to construct
a gravel walk, neither long nor strik-
ingly beautiful, that is a modern, if
comparatively humble, rival of these
glistening highways of fiction and
fable, for it represents $15,000 in hard
cash.
The manager of a St. Louis coffee
company is the proud possessor of this
unique walk. It is composed of sev-
eral tons of Brazilian pebbles, that
came to him in an ordinary business
way during the last few years.
This firm are heavy importers of
Brazilian coffee. Before the berries
are ready to be roasted for the market
the sacks are opened and the contents
carefully examined for twigs, leaves
and other impurities, the latter gen-
erally taking the shape of small peb-
bles about the size of a coffee berry.
These came with such regularity and
in such quantities that long ago the
idea that they were accidentally in the
sacks was abandoned and the con-
clusion reluctantly reached that they
were purposely placed in the bags to
make weight. The daily discoveries of
these Brazilian pebbles, which are paid
for as coffee, will fill an ordinary
bucket. They are still added to the
dvr the beneficent influence ot
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
rheOneTrneElood Puriner. Al druggists. S.
hood’s Piiis ;
Don't buy cheap, trashy bind- .
ings, that are dear at any price. A}
You pay but a trifle •
more for .
The Schomburgk line is now said to ! thy counsel, and
me to glory?’ ”
of caring for his grave. Instead of MOTHERS-IN-LAW
softening her, her affliction seemed to -------
settled that suicide is not a sin. If it ‘Nevertheless I am continually with
small property and making for himself
a home. Gradually, as the years went
by, glimpses of the happy past came
back to him. Visions of the little
vine-clad New England home torment-
ed him by their obscurity, and of the
mother who watched him through in-
fancy there came an indistinct remem-
brance. Before he left the hospital he
had regained some of his lost knowl-
edge of books, but in all his study and
reading of papers he never came across
anything that suggested a possible so-
lution of the mystery surrounding his
early life, until, one autumn day, fif-
teen years after the close of the war,
while reading his daily Bible lesson,
he came across his parting words to
his mother, "His banner over me is
love.”
In an instant, like a flash of light
1 from heaven, that farewell scene on
the porch of the old home returned to
him. He rememberea his mother’s
The Society of the Cincinnati after
years of debate has decided to erect a
monument to Washington at the Green
street entrance to Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia. It is to cost $250,000.
The distressing feature of Kaiser
Wilhelm’s impudence in making faces
at his dear old grandma is the fact
that Wilhelm is too big to spank.
476,
dered his wife, was sentenced to the make the parting less bitter,”
penitentiary for ninety years. Such a ed. “You are all I have, and
fellow should have been sentenced for
nd that hell had not been trans-1
Mkf it, there was much disap-
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Mlievers in futur pin ish-
Only three out of every hundred men
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some time during their career.
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sad face and her words that called
forth his declaration, "His banner over
me is love." Her name and his own
seemed now familiar to him, and a
few moments’ thought linked that
scene in his life with those of his child-
hood and his entry into the army in
such a way as to give him a full pict-
ure of the past up until the time ne
had been wounded in battle. He scarce-
ly dared to hope that his mother bad
survived all these eighteen years of
suspense, but anxious to know the
worst, he hastily prepared for a visit
to the East, and in less than twenty-
four hours was hurrying as fast as the
train could carry him towards the ris-
ing sun.
It was early in the morning of
Thanksgiving day when he reached the
little hamlet where all his boyhood
days had been spent. A few words of
inquiry at the station gladdened his
heart with the assurance that his
mother was yet alive. But when he
reached the little cottage where she
still dwelt he found it much more
difficult to convince her that the gray-
haired man who stood before her was
the rosy-cheeked boy who eighteen
years before had gone away looking so
young and handsome in his suit of blue.
After relating his long, sad experi-
ence, he said in his old boyish voice:
“Mother, I am your loving, warm-
hearted Nathan yet, your boy given
back from a worse condition than
death, but in all these years God's
banner over me has been love, and it
was His love that directed me to the
passage in His word, my farewell words
to you, and through that banner over
me opened up the dark recesses of my
mind to the admission of the light for
which I had long been praying.”
“Nevertheless, continually, thou art
with me,” repeated his mother, no
longer in doubt concerning this son,
who had been lost, but was now found.
"Truly His banner over you has been
love. All these years I have been
fighting against Him. I would have
been thankful even for the certainty
of your death. In His great love he has
denied me the grave for which I was
“Yes, yes, I have no right to com-
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we will.
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City.________________________________________________
THE AERMOrOT co. aces half the world’s
windmill business, because it has reduced the cost of
wind power to 1 G what it was « it has many branch
eRPa houses, anc supplies its goods and repairs
48232a at your koor. It (an and does furnish a
way. Like hundreds of others, she
and mothers-in-law were not only eluding Teosinte, Lathyrus, Sand
gravel path as they come in.—Ex-
change.
toother medicines, and ma
itself. It acts directly and p,
blood, and as the blood ret
and corner of the human
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hardships as army life necessitates?”
“It will not be compulsion, mother,
dear,” argued Nathan. “All I do or
bear will be done or borne willingly,
and ’tis sweet and glorious to die for
one’s country. And, then, mother, do
halves and quarters for more than half
a thousand years, it is still used as a Irowtosecometawruipnystelansscoursgbymall.
regulator. The case of this early boro- •1 Write al. Henich Unveraity. Cnlenuo
logical oddity is six feet eight inches
in height by five inches broad. For 325 '
years it continued to run without a i
pendulum, being provided with what i
the old-time clock-makers called a "fo-
liot."
I have not observed currents of the atmos here that they can fore-
because I felt I had .tell the coming of a thunderstorm with perfect
the enlightenment of the anthropologic- EARLIEIT potato
. al section of the British Association, re-, ' . ' . " ' .
she insisted, blood money, and do you ports the discovery of a tribe known as * That 8 Salzer 8 Earliest, fit for use in
think I could use such-the price of the Ts’ete’a’ut. This tribe though in 28 days. Salzer’s new late tomato,
most rsspects outrageously barbarous. Champion of the World. is pronounced
has made one extraordinary stride for- the heaviest yielder in the world, and
ward toward civilization, for among we challenge you to produce its equal!
them the committee “found the custom 10 acres to Salzer S Earliest Potatoes
of avoidance between mother-in-law yield 4000 bushels, sold in June at $1.00
and son-in-law.” This custom is en- “bushel 84000. That pays. A word
titled "matuo ha,” a term which bears to the wise, etc.
some resemblance to “mutual hate.” Now if you will cut this out and send
This habit was common to all the it with 10c postage you will get, free,
Tinneh tribes. The savage sons-in-law 10 packages grains and grasses, in-
Germany seems to have a kind of
Monroe doctrine of Its own. It is a lit-
tle harder to pronounce, perhaps, than
Uncle Sam’s, but it is likely to answer
the purpose in South Africa.
___________________ . ships of the camp, the march and the
Marriage makes different men of : battlefield.
some fellows and indifferent men of He was a handsome, intelligent
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