The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1903 Page: 2 of 12
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October 19 ao In Various Cities.
Civil Service Commission
Usues Call.
The Civil Service Commiwon
has just received a call from the
Philippine Government for 150
male teachers. with salaries as
follow-: 25 at $1 .*00; 70 at $1,000,
and 55 at $900 per annum. It is
desired to secure these teachers
without unnecessary delay, and
an examination will be held on
October 19-80 in various cities.
Peace ban been established in
the Philippines and the conditions
of living are improving every
month. This examination, there-
fore, affords an excellent oppor-
tunity for young men to enter an
attracti ire service whioh offers ex-
cellent opportunities for promo-
motion. Teachers appointed are
eligible for promotion to the high-
er grades in the service, the sal-
aries ranging from $900 to $2,000
for teachers and from $1,500 to
$2,500 for division superintend-
ents. The Commission suggests
that those who apply for this ex-
amination should bo devoted to
their profession and conscientious,
energetic, and successful workers.
For application blanks and
further information concorning
the scope of the examination,
transportation, conditions of em-
ployment, etc,, applicants should
apply to the United States Civil'
Service Commission, Washington,
D. C., or to the secretary of the
civil service board at any post-
office where letter-carrier service
has been established.
Persons who are unable to iile
their formal applications in order
to receive admission cards to the
examination will be authorized to
take the examination, if they will
notify the Commission by letter
•r telegram in sufficient time lo
ship examination papers and ar-
range for their examination.
tor further information and ap-
?Mention blanks apply to J. P.
bomas, secretary local board.
McKinney, Texas.
ITIB RECITAL.
Given at Venus In Which Hiss
Florence Ware Participates.
The many friends of Miss Flor-
ence Ware in this, her home city,
will be pleased to hear of her
successful work as instructress of
music in Burnetta college, at Ve-
nus, Texas. We clip the follow-
ing account from a Venus paper
of a recital in which she partici-
pated:
The people of Venus enjoyed
the rare pleasure of hearing Miss-
es May Lyndon Carter, teacher of
oratory and physical culture, and
Florence Allen Ware, teacher of
piano and voice, in their public
recital. Their program was ar-
tistically chosen and rendered;
and the applause was sufficient
evidence that it was highly ap-
preciated. The essentially class-
ical number was the first—Dell
Acqua E's '-Chanson Proven-
<cale." Miss Ware's rendition of
it was faultless, but she won
much applause with the very dif-
ficult handling of the Beethoven
number. The Qounod group
was most warmly received and
"Sing, Smile and Slumber" was
given special notice. Only sing-
ers whose voices are of the great-
«st flexibility and responsive to
every demand, ever attempt it.
Miis Ware's success was infinite-
ly to her credit. Liszt's 'Rtpso-
die No. 12' gave a most extraor-
dinary exhibition of the pianist's
fingerings. The vocal selections
were rendered with such evident
understanding of the difficult,
technique and fine expression,
that her hearers, one and all, pro-
nounced her an artist of high de-
gree.
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THE PROGRAM.
♦'Chanson Provencale"—Dell
Acqua £ ; Florence Allen Ware.
••Aux ltaliens"—Meredith; May
Isyndon Carter.
•"Sonata Pathetioue"--Op 13—
Beethoven; Florenee Allen
••Doom of Claudius and Cyn-
Thompson; May Lyndon
Come" \
and Slumber"/
Allen Ware.
>ted; May Lyn-
i" No 1*~
'Wltb which operations were performed
even mibaeqneut to tbe fifteenth cen-
tury would scarcely be Tedlted bad
we not authentic descriptions of them
by the opera ton.
Thus Fabricius of Aquapedcnts
(1537-10101, the eminent professor at
Padua aud preceptor of tbe liuinortal
Harvey, describe* what be considered
an Improved and cany operation In the
following terms: "If It be a movable
tumor. 1 cut It away with a redhot
knife that sears as It cuts, but if It be
adheml to tbe chest I cut without
bleeding or pulu with a wooden or
bora knife soaked In aqua fortls. with
which, having cut tbe akin, I dig out
the rest with my fingers."
When the surgeons of Edinburgh
were Incorporated, It was required as
a prerequisite that they should be able
to read and write, "to know tty anato-
mic, nature and complexion of evsrie
member of bu mania body and llkeways
to know all vaynes of the same, that
be may make flewbotbemie In doe
Thlrlmtk Ctatwy CUUrn.
Somebody has unearthed a book
written by Bartholomew Angllcua
about 1200, of which one of tbe most
amusing chapters is on the children of
bis day. Of these he writes: "They
dread no perils more than beating with
a rod, and they love an apple more
than gold and make more sorrow and
woe for the loss of an apple than for
tbe loas of a heritage. They desire all
that they see and pray and ask with
voice and with band. They keep no
counsel, but they tell all that they hear
and see. Suddenly they luugh and sud-
denly they weep. Always they cry and
jangle and jape; that unneth they be
still while they sleep. When they be
washed of filth, anon tbey defile them-
selves again When their mother wasb-
etb and combeth tbem, they kick and
sprawl and put with feet and with
hands and withstand with all their
might" All of which sounds very
modern and up to date.
A Spargeon Sermon.
Mr. Spurgeon, taking a quiet holiday
In the country, was moved to spend bis
Sunday morning at tbe little village
bethel, wbere-not, perhaps, greatly to
his surprise—be listened to one of his
own sermons! At tbe end of tbe serv-
ice tbe pastor of tbe Metropolitan tab-
ernacle walked unrecognized Into tbe
vestry and thanked tbe preacher for
the edification he had derived from bis
sermon. Then the flattered preacher
did a foolish thing and asked bis visit-
or's name. Mr. Spurgeon was in the
best of moods. "My name? Oh. Spur-
geon—you may have beard It: I preach
K bit in London myself." "My dear
brother's face," said Mr. Spurgeon In
telling the story, "turned as red us
scarlet baize."—St. James Gazette.
Another Method.
A well known doctor tells of a visit
to an old colored man who was conva-
lescing from a severe Illness. After ex-
pressing his satisfaction at the prog-
ress of his patient and assuring the old
fellow and his wife that Ills complete
recovery depended only on the exercise
of a little caution In the matter of diet
he added, with an eye to their small
store, that It would be a good thing If
she would buy a cblckcn and prepare
the broth.
The old darky's face lit up with the
memory of happier days as he eagerly
turned and whispered, "It ain't abs'-
lutely necessary to buy dat cblckun."
—Philadelphia Ledger.
fltURC the Hnnif to the Carpet.
Among the many Ideas which the
Japanese have copied from western
customs and remodeled to suit them-
selves Is the covering of their floors
with a special kind of matUng. The
standard size of a mat Is it by 0 yards.
Tbe custom of using these mota is so
general that when building the Jap-
anese architect arranges the size of the
rooms to (It the mats, and when rent-
ing a house the size of a room is stated
as requlrine one, two or three mats, as
the case may be.
Acting Ver n Drnwlnf,
To a group of friends Ellen Terry
•nee said: "Acting is not like drawing.
You make a line, if It is wrong, you
rub it out at once and make another.
With acting that is Impossible. There
Is no altering— It must stand. I often
feel as If I must « ry to the audience,
'Ob. that In wrong, not as I meant It to
be; let uie act that part or sentence
ever again.'"
Two Kind* of Cwrlosttjr.
Philanthropic Visitor (to Jailbird)—
My friend, may I ask what brought yon
hereV
Jailbird -The same thing that brougbt
you here—the desire to poke my noes
into other people's business. Only I
used generally to go In by way of tbe
basement window.
The Firm Home Show.
In the month Shcbat, In the second
year of King Darius, a man riding a
red horse ctood among the myrtle trees,
and behind him were horses red, sorrel
and white. Wasn't that the earliest
horse abow of which any authentic
record stUl abides?
Self.
A perfect understanding of self Is a
perfect understanding of all things, for
man la the condensed whole, from
such a man no power Is withheld. AO
things are obedient to him.—freedom.
Marjr Know.
Governess—Whstis the future
verb "to krre," Mary?
PupU (after a pause)—To
Barn and Contents Burned Near
Foot* Sunday.
Two Fine flutes Were Killed and
Nine Hundred Bushels of
Corn Destroyed.
Foote, Tex., Oct. I.—Sunday
evening about 5 o'clock lightning
struck France Griffin's barn and
set it on fire. Two fine mules
were killed and together with tbe
barn and conlents. nine hundred
bushels of corn, fiftnen tons of
hay, $100 worth of harness and
saddles, road cart, aud wagon bed,
were burned. Notwithstanding
the heavy raiu which was falling
it took heroic work to save the
other buildings near by. Tbe
loss was about $1,000 with no in-
surance. Mr. Griffin is a son of
J. P. Griffin of McKinney.
Tho" Hnvne.
Did you ever atop to ask yourself sr
your knowing friend tbe meaning of
•The" in the place named The Hague?
if you are In king for something that
will knock the above mentioned know-
ing friend off hla feet. Just ask htm tbe
significance of the three letters quoted.
When be falls to answer the question,
tell him that the The as It occurs fat
tbe Instance cited is simply the angli-
cized form of the Dutch word "8 Gra-
ven I maz" or "S Gravcnhaze," either of
which in the Dutch language means
"the count's hedge" or "the count's
grove" or "woods."
Originally the location now occupied
by the city of The Hague was the
hunting grounds of the counts of Hol-
land. About the year 1-UJ a palace
was built In the grove. Presently a
village sprang up around the palace-
still It was cailed "The Count's Hedge"
and finally and lastly a large city
which In the Dutch language has Its
original signification, but which In
modern parlance has been evoluted
Into "The Hague."
Oar Dobm Ilnllt fp In Arehes.
The principle of the arch may be said
to pervade the construction of the hn-
man skeleton. The late Professor Owen
points this out very clearly, telling us
that in man the skeleton Ik arranged
in a series of segments, which follow
and articulate with each other in the
direction of the axis of the body from
above downward.
This principle accounts for the
strength and yet comparative lightness
of tbe whole fabric. From the dome
of the skull down to the graceful arch
of the foot we may trace this succes-
sion of tony hoops or arches, whlcb ad-
mirably protect the various parts of
the nervous and vascular systems of
the body. The skull is found to be but
a continuation of tbe backbone, and
each of Its four segments, the occipital,
parietal, frontal and nasal, consists of
an upper neural and a lower hemal
arch. Similar arched formations pre-
vail throughout the structure of a. hu-
man skeleton.
A Venice Industry.
Venice owes tbe accumulation of
great wealth from a new industry to
one of her natives named Joquln. It
was In the year 1GGC that he observed
that the scales of a fish called tb'
bleak flub possessed the property of gh
lng a milky hue to water. After exp r-
imenting with It he discovered tl.at
when beads were dipped Into it Had
then dried they assumed the appear-
ance of pearls. This covering, howe tet,
was easily worn away, and succetslvr
experiments led to the manufactu.« at
hollow glass beads, all blown sep irate-
ly, then polished In revolving cylinders
and finally coated Inalde wiib toe
pearly llqnld, the latter being protectsd
with wax. This branch of Industry Is
carried on in Venice to this day.
a«teki>Bli.
Quicksands have a horrible fascina-
tion for writers snd readers of fiction,
and tbe reality ia every bit as bad as
fancy paints It One of tbe most re-
markable quicksand accidents occurred
years ago In New Zealand. Two pros-
pectors were wading across the mouth
of s small stream running Into the sea
Id the north Island of New Zealand.
Both stepped Into a quicksand. One
who merely touched tbe edge of It got
loose. Tbe other sank rapidly and, in
spite of bis companion's efforts, was
sucked under. When an attempt was
made to recover the body. It was found
that the sand was enormously rich in
gold. From a single ton of it £800
worth of gold was washed.—Pearson's.
nil Andlenee.
First Pianist—Did you have much of
an audience at your recital yesterday
afternoon ?
Second Pianist •• Splendid! There
were two men, three women and a
boy. The boy, I afterward learned,
was employed about tbe place, and the
two men came In for shelter, as It was
raining at the time, but tbe three wom-
en were all right. Tbey came to hear
me. I know, for i gave them the passse
myself.—Boston Transcript.
■e Teak the Walsh.
It Is told of tbe late Dr. Parker that
when a very. very, very good young
man came to him asking whether he
should accept for certain special eor*>
Ice a gold watch from an agnostic em-
he replied: "Take It my lad:
K. If be had beea 1
he weald not have
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We exchange new goods for old. We
thank you for all business in past, and
kindly ask for more.
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INCREASE IN WHEAT ACREAQE
Boll Weevil Havoc Will Result
in Farmers Quitting Cotton.
Manager J. Perry Burrus of
the Collin County Mill & Eleva-
tor company predicts that tbe b< II
weevil pest will result in a rapid
reduction of cotton and corres-
ponding increase in wheat acre-
age in the next two years. The
weevil are gtadually working
north each succeeding year until
already their ravages are felt in
the black waxy belt. The wheat
acreage promises to be a record
breaker in Collin next year.
Coming Events.
List of Letters.
Friends wishing to announce
coming events, social, political or
religious, are invited to use this
column.
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The Home Mission Society
of the Methodist ehurch will hold
a bazaar December 18 and 19. 3t
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The ladies of the Cemetery As-
sociation have decided to have a
bazaar Thursday, Dec. 3rd. All
should patronize this worthy
cause.
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The Collin County Medical as-
sociation will meet at the opera
house in McKinney Tuesday, Oct
18, at 1:80 p. m.
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The ladies of the First Presby-
terian church will haue a bazaar
December 10th.
A Cure for Dyspepsia
1 had dyspepsia in its worst
form and felt miserable most all
the time. Did not enjoy eating
until after I used Kodol Dyspep-
sia Cure which has completely
cured me.—Mrs. W. W. baylor,
Hilliard, Pa. No appetite, loss
of strength, nervousness, head-
ache, constipation, bad breath,
sour risings, indigestion, dyspep-
siu and all stomach troubles are
Juiokly cured by the use of Ko-
ol. Kodol represents the natu-
ral juices of digeetion combined
with the greatest known tomo
Remaining in the postoffice at
McKinney, Tex., Oct. 7, 1903,
which, if unclaimed in two weeks
will be sent to the Dead Letter
office at Washington, D. C.
ladies.
Canady Mies Mary
King Miss Lizzie
Rice, Mrs. Fannie
Scott Mrs M F
White, Mrs L W
Winthrow, Mrs M A
Jones, Mrs Nancy
Williams, Mrs Marthy
gentlemen.
Donhowl, Joe
Haney, J J
Heard, S R
Holmes, A G
Lowter, John II
Leathan, Van
Lee. Thomas
Meilson, Ham (2)
Millman, Bros.
Mitten, H C
Moss, S E
Mjers, Leah
Pilgrim, Bud
Powell, M C
Shelton, Elmer
Skillman. Amos
Stapp, B F
Johnson, Elbert
Persons calling for letters in
above list please say "Advertis-
ed-" H. fi. Smith,
Postmaster.
To Delinquents.
Look at the date on your paper
and kindly send or bring the
amount duo us at an early date.
Alfalfa Seed
Hill & Webb will have a car of
choice alfalfa seed by the middle
of next week. d&wtf
Big Red Apples
from Arkansas. Car now on
side track at McKinnev.
Pnoe at oar per bushel:
Ben Davis.$1 S&
Winesaps ••«....«••• .... 1 40
T. B. Millek.
ELECTED OFFICERS
R. L. Parker, the veteran shoe-
maker, is now cozily quartered in
a neat shop in the rear of the
store occupied by J. F. Daniel,
gents' furnisher, and the Herald
Shoe Co. His shop is conven-
iently located on the ground floor
and easy of access.
Informal Reception.
Ladies Aid Society of The Bap-
tist Church.
It
The Ladies Aid Society of the
First Baptist church had ics quar-
terly meeting Monday afternoon.
Officers were elected for the
year as follows:
Mrs. Ben Boydstun, president;
Mrs. Delia Howard, sec. and
treasurer; Mrs. J. M. Wilcox,
corresponding secretary.
The society made during the
past year $314.60 as follows:
Made by first ward, $60 90; by
second ward, $71.89; by third
ward, $68.15.
County missions $15.00. State
missions $25.90.
Corresponding Sec.
Marriage License.
S
A. J. Jackson and Miss Maud
Gather.
T. H. Cain and Miss Mathia
Hickman.
A. C. Ellis and Miss Bessie
Dickens.
Walter Mayes and Miss Nettie
Huffines.
John MoDonald and Miss Lucy
Saunders.
W. F. Turner and Miss Lizzie
Grisham.
Zeb Redden and Miss Nellie
Gilbert.
Cozy Shoe Shop.
Mrs. L. A, Scott will receive
her friends informally Friday
morning from 10 to 12 o'clock in
honor of Mrs. Thomas H. Mo-
Dearman of 8t. Louis and Mrs.
John L. Shepherd of Texdrkana.
Wagon and
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Thompson, F. C. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1903, newspaper, October 8, 1903; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192193/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.