Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 798, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1896 Page: 1 of 8
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WISE COUNTY
.J
NIESSEXGER
Whole No. 798.
DECATUR, WISE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1896.
Vol. XVII.
AGENTS WANTED
— FOR -
Attor ney-at-TaV •
Texas.
-- OF THE -
•••Unless I relieve you in person,
and
Illustrated with 150 Special Large
tant, and threw a guard around it.
to
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with orders neither to allow anyone
Either style will
half morocco, $2.00.
to enter themselves.
c. I Wm.ecX JR.
S. P. Nash.
TEXAS.
STONWALL JACKSON'S FOE.
DECATUR.
Texas.
Decatur.
It
has developed into a system of grossly
have borrowed rites and doctrines
halted.
Summer
Tourists who go to
points to Memphis,
detail ot
under command of
spiritous
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R IPANS
The Buddhist religion seems
they pass, and then take your
get it
as
all the liquor there; don’t spare
—Ex.
ex-
Messenger $1.00 a year.
$
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mortality of body and soul might be
obtained through disciplinary religious
abodes.
to enjoy
Tauist
origin.
Budd.
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he asked.
•No. sir.’’ I replied.
“A smile lit up his rugged face
•The next thing was to roll out the be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt
! ot price.
sites, hundred men
officer who
ever use liquor ?‘
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more favor than the
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CHINA.
Religions.
(Concluded jrom July HHh.)
sickness can be thrown oft if you only
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Chico,
drop, nor let any man taste
any circumstances. I his order 1
• Have you any orders to burn the
building?’ he asked.
•• -No,’ I answered, ‘I have not.’
••Without a word he rode away, and
-o
also gave much attention to alchemy
and the search for the elixir ot life.
“The leading principle of Tauism, * *
• • is that every species o! matter pos-
tion.
Veterinary Surgeon.
I hav e had 35 years experience
as a veterinary surgeon.
Castrating all kinds of stock at
all ages, especially originals, a
specialty. Never to my knowl-
edge lost a case from castrating
J. W. Poulter, Boonsville, Tex.
nation which the quick-witted general
took in at once, and ordered the
thirsty squad off.
superstitious divination. Its temples
have added to their deities many gods low him. rode some fifty yards from
16 To 1
This is about the ra-
from the
priests are
the geomancers of the
at each entrance,
Modern Tauism has become
different from its original form.
NASH & WILSON.
dentists.
Exoerts in
GOLD CROWN ASD BRIDGE-W( RK.
Teeth extracted wilh little or no pain
and Pullman
country and control the lucrative bus-
iness of giving information regarding
which he said. I sent for a
t
desire for the liquor I do not know,
as but just at that moment General A. P. | Ft
ne Hill came galloping up with his staff
° and naturally wanted to know what
was the trouble. I explained the sit-
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se Office west side square over C.'
C. Jones’ store.
things to an extremity in their raging
same source. The Tauist "Captain, do you
never used
of Buddhist origin, and their priests his staff, and then turned to me and
a marvelous show of profundity noth-
ing can be more irrational than the future,
their doctrine and practice.”
The early Tauists taught that Im-
notwithstanding its foreign
Cofucianism, Tauism and
Sleepers, between prominent Texas
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sesses a soul—a subtile essence en-
dowed with individual conscious life.”
the conditions of "fung shur"
render certain buildings, burial
etc., lucky or unlucky.
WANTED AN IDEAof some simple
HL KN‛& CO., Patent Attorneys, W ashington,
D. C-. for their $1,800 prize ofTer-
Worth, Waco and intermediate
pect you to execute at any cost.’
• He turned and was about to ride
railroad track, so that my men can
picked men into the buulding andaspi j t""simpson_. Do you-see-any one
it under —throwing it off—taster than — I am?
The modern stand-
ard Family Medi-
cine : Cures the
common every-day
ills of humanity.
“4GS MANN
you are exempt from arrest except
upon my written order. I fear that
dependencies, liquor more than Pope’s army,’ he ad-
settlement of Jews ded, as he rode rapidly away.
who have almost lost all traditions of I "I took my men down to the ware,
house, which had become so impor-
hism. are called “san kiao. the three
religions, and as previously stated the
same individual may hold to them all
and usually does, the Chinaman
have an order to give. upon the exec u-
tion of which depends the success of
th. presentmovement and the ,resultwvithinanhour there came an order
of the battle soon to be foughta from General Jackson to fire the ware- (
- keep sober is all thati • was well destroyed
needed, general, you may depend i t report to him.
upon me,’ I said. . -I carned out the order to the let.
- -No,’ he said, that is not all, but ter. sot a man got a drink that day
unless you can resist temptationt and for that time the foe that Stone-
drink, you cannot carry out my orde ’ k dreaded was van-
Do vou see that warehouse over wan jacssoi m
i , nd;nc a i quished.— Youths Companion,
there ?’ pointing to a large building a t
little way off. Take your command
up to that depot, have the barrels of
bread rolled out and sent down to the
observances or contemplation. "They
history of the greatest tornado that
ever visited America.
Sleepers to St. Louis. making direct jin 0T (
connection at both cities for all points #/ULUE OUUV
North, East and Southeast. The best .. YIA
line from Texas to all points in the _ ’
oidsu.es. The Fort Worth &
Rates, Maps, and full information
t will be cheerfully given upon apphea- J enver ( HV Hall" • J
very conveniently has three souls, per. j back to his staff, when I ca led hastily;
haps one for each of these religions. “‘One moment, general! Suppose
After death one of these souls remains I an officer of superior rank should or-
in the ancestral hall of the family, der me under arrest and then gain
U .1 This mat be the Confucian soul, possession of the warehouse ?’
The sixth and seventh centuries be- This may be tne omu ./mi. , close 10 me and look.
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religious thought. It was during this Besides these religions, Mohamme-
period that several of the great historic danism is represented to a considera
religions arose. Buddhism in India, ble extent, especially in the northwest
the religion of the Parsees in Persia, ern provinces
Confucianism and Tauism in China all There is also a
j T. Buckaloo,
Buddhism, as is well known, origi. liquors. Are you that man ?
nated in India during the 6th century | " ‘Yes, sir,’ I said ; I was detailed
before Christ. It was introduced into on that account.
China during the first century of the "Well. then, he continued, ’l !
Chflstian era. In its Chinese form it
is different from its form in the south.
While it has moulded the Chinese re-
ligions it has also borrowed from them.
The doctrine of Nirvana is too
vague and evasive to satisfy the Chi-
nese demand for a definite eward af-
ter death. and so the Chinese Budd-
hists have added the doctrine of a
heaven, “tien tang,” heavenly hall,
very similar to the Christian idea of
heaven, and modern Buddhist priests
are ready for a small compensation to
show many easy short cuts by which
the sinful may reach these elysian
ON BOARD STEAMER.
Pitkin—“Brace up, old boy. Sea-
Jackson’s personal order. and was es- , and sold. Address.
pecially exempt from arrest. He or- PUBLISHERS’ SUPPLY CO.,
dered his staff to dismount and enter 67 & 69 Emilie Building, St Louis, Mo.
He Feared Whiskxamenemyan "e Did * "u the warehouse, and I gave my men -------------
. p ,,, 1 the order to level their guns and make j rI
• About daylight of the day betorei 106
the second battle oi Manassas, said - .
me second , s made the general halt, in n» 1 A
a confederate ofticer at a recen re- his and hold a consulta- Cotton Belt
union of the blueandgraytwaso-ton with his officers. They concluded
dered to reportoGeneral n--a-t ;rv persuasion, since .hey could not Route.
son with a detail of a hundred men for Jai they/wanted by force. But ...
very specal orders. 1 went at once •» found that method of no more The Onlv Line
headquarters and presented the orders aathanthe"other. They demanded 1 V1HJ
an e out and, beckoning me to fol- to know my name and what command ; Operating Through Coaches, Free
I belonged to and threatened to re- Reclining Chair Cars and Pullman
(TEXAS PANHANDLE
ROUTE.)
AS AGAINST ALL COMPETITORS
The Reasons Are:
(SHORTEST LINE.
QUICKEST TIME.
COURTEOUS TREATMENT.
SUPERB SERVICE,
THROUGH TRAINS
And the constant descent of the
temperature. Six hours after leaving
Fort Worth summer heat is forgotten
and balmy spring-like breezes greet
port me tor disobedience.
“I should never have yielded, and
, whether they would have pushed Points and Memphis.
you. Try it and be convinced.
It is a Pleasure to Answer Questions.
Write any Local Agent
OR
E A HIRSWFIELD, D. B. KEELER,
Trav. Pasn. Agent, Gen. Pass Agent.
Fort Worth, Texas.
onginated during this period, while
Greek religious thought was moulded their origin and religion. I he Ro-
by the masterful minds of Thales and man Catholic missionaries have
pythagoras. ortheriseof confuci- worked in China for several hundred placing five men
anism the writer took notice in his last years and have a considerable follow-
paper. It is the purpose of the pres- ing. For something over half a cen- enter
ent article to notice briefly other forms tury protestant missionariesifrom 5 which we did. Just as we were .
of religion in China. ropea ndameric while the visible finishing that task I was called to one ( Very Liberal Terms to Agents.
I autze, tne founder ot auism was ; istt 7 h‛i Idlons are smal, they of the entrances to find a general offi-1 Write for our special discounts and
a contemporary of onfucius,bu - srte5 areat influence in op. cer with his staff demanding that the terms to agents, free by mail. Agents,
an old man when Contucius began to Chinese mind new ( guards should either allow him to en. send for Elegant Prospectus, by mail,
acquire fame. "The Tauists derive cningupstlerte.sociaSfire, religion, Ker or bring him out some liquor. of 25 cents, which mereiy covers the
their name from Tau, Reason . and the fruits of their labor will course I refused to comply with the cost of postage and mailing.
call themselves Rationalists. but wit dttess le revealed more fully in 1 command, upon which he ordered his |)o not confuse this complete and
1 adjutant to place me under arrest. authentic history with the small pam-
•I told him I was there by General phlets of views now being circulated
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Halcomb, N. W. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 798, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1896, newspaper, July 24, 1896; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581191/m1/1/: accessed June 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .