The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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TH.K HELL ('(H'NTY DEMOCRAT
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1908
I Have a Fresh Supply of
TELMO, LONG AND HIENZ
Pure Fruit Preserves and Jans
la Slats and Tina at
30c to 50c
They Are Excellent. Try Them.
FRANK K. AUSTIN
^ Official Directory. REi°™ SS1SS
! is her wont and makes men mad."
j Honest Jack Faistaff declares
OF WINTER MOON.««
STATE OFFICERS.
Thomas M. Campbell—Governor.
A. B. Davidson—Lieutenant Gov-
ernor.
L. T. Dashiell—Secretary of
State.
John W. Stephens—Comptroller.
Sam Sparks—Treasurer.
J. J. Terrell—Land Commission-
er.
R. V. Davidson—Attorney Gen-
eral.
B. Cousins—Superintendent of
'ublic Instruction.
W. J. McDonald—Revenue Agt.
J. Newton—Adjutant General.
Allison Mayfield, L. J. Story, 0.
3. Colquit—Railroad Commission-
ers.
J. C. PRESTON, AGENT
REAL ESTATE
IMPROVED FAKMS FOR
ON EASY PAYMENTS
SALE)
Vendor Lien Notes Bought and Sold
INTEREST PAID
helton.
MUKO STAND,
OFFICE OVER SAFLEY
bros.,
BURN EUPION OIL
If you use coal oil, buy the best. The genuine Eupion oil
is recognized as the best the world over. It can be procured
from the following merchants:
SAFLEY BROS,
STAMPERS WILES'
T. W.COCHRAN & CO.,
BELTON TRADINQ CO.,
S. TIMS,
THUS. A. COOK,
F. K. AUSTIN,
REESE fit CO.,
UOOOSOE & CO.,
J.J. STOVALL.
J, H. James St Sons
Sold and guaranteed by the
WATERS-PIERCE OIL COMPANY
M. F. LACKEY, Agent,
PHONE325 EAST AVENUE
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TUKKEYS!
During December we advised our
friends to hold turkeys for higher
prices. They were then slow
sale at 7c per pound.
WE NOW OFFER 8c PER POUND CASH
for all turkeys
this month.
delivered to us
HEMMAN - BESSONETTE CO.
Temple - Texas.
United States Senators.
C. A. Culberson.
Joseph W. Bailey.
United States Representatives.
Dist. 1—Morris Sheppard.
Dist. 2—S. B. Cooper.
Dist. 3—J. Gorden Russell.
Dist. 4—Choice B. Randell.
Dist. 5—Jack Beall.
Dist. 6—Fufus Hardy.
Dist. 7—A. W. Gregg.
Dist. 8—John M. Moore.
Dist. 9—George F. Burgess.
Dist. 10—A. S. Burleson.
Dist. 11—R. L. Henry.
Dist. 12—0. W. Gillispie.
Dist. 13—John H. Stephens.
Dist. 14—James L. Slayden.
Dist. 15—John N. Garner.
Dist. 16—W. R. Smith.
County Officials—Bell County.
W. R. Butler—County Judge.
W. C. Rylander—County Clerk.
E. I. Hill—County Attorney.
W. W. Upshaw, County Treas.
John W. Turner—County Surv.
D. C. Burkes—Sheriff.
N. A. Ensor—Tax Collector.
J. A. Bangle—Assessor.
27th Judicial District.
Jno. M. Furman—Dist Judge.
Jno. G. McKay—Dist. Clerk.
27th Senatorial District.
E. B. Mayfield—State Senator.
Representatives from Bell Co.
Huling P. Robertson,
H. B. Savage.
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100 HOMESEEKERS WANTED
In Jones County.
The Famous Trammell Pasture Five Miles North*
west from Anson and Seven Miles Northeast from Ham-
lin, Texas, is now being sub-divided and offered For Sale
by G. M. Felts, at $25.00 to $36.00 per aore, One-Third
Cash—balance longtime at 8 per oent.
This is recognized as being the Best Body of Land
in West Texas. Crops in this particular section are the
best in Texas.
Q. H. FELTS
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Administration Notice.
^Notice is hereby given that on
the 9th day of December, 1907, I
was appointed by the County
Court of Bell County, Texas, as
Admistratrix of the Estate of
T. B. Harris, deceased, and that
all persons having claims against
■aid Estate should present same
to me for allowance within the
time prescribed by law. My res-
idence and post office address is
Belton, Texas. 23 4t ,
Mrs. Susie E. Harris,
Admx. Estate T. B.Harris,Dec'd I
PATENTS
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City Officials.
Mayor—D. E. Patterson.
Recorder—W. K. Saunders.
Sec'y- Ass'r. and Collect'r-
W. Ferguson.
Attorney—Jas. P. Kinnard.
Treasurer—J. Z. Miller, Jr.
Marshal—W. D. Warren.
Aldermen—Ward 1—Wes Dan-
ley, S. S. Walker.
Ward 2—Hamp Birdwell, Geo
A. Whitter.
Ward 3—C. W. Meyer, R. T. Es
tes.
The first nights of the new
V"iir wen- faintly illumined by
the enrlii r quarters of the moon.
She started on her monthly jour-
ney, a fairylike crescent of silver
light, a little beating in the opal
sea of the western sky, or like a
tiny curled feather dropping
softly down from the wing of
some heavenly bird. As the
short days faded and the night
added to the hours of twilight,
she moved further and further
to the east, shining more and
more radiantly, until she turned
a full face toward the earth, and
stept in silence beneath herglow.
The midnight skies are alive
with shinning stars and cluster-
ing constellations. What a won-
der world is the vast rounded
dome that covers all the visible
earth and closes down on every
side of the horizon! What are
those twinkling points, those
wonderful groups of blazing
torches scattered in the precious
firmament? What shall we cali
them? Piles of cyrstal light, a
glorious company of gold"ii
streams, lamps of celestial ether,
burning bright. For untold cen-
turies has manking looked up in-
to the sky and asked these ques-
tions.
The curiosity of those first sol-
emn nights, the longingto under-
stand the mysteries that dwell
in these bright orbs, has clung
to mankind, and this clear winter
moon finds us watching and won-
dering with unabated ardor.
Strange or the fables and fan-
cies that have grown about the
moon. Every language has its
moon-fables, every nation has its
moon-lore. Men have worship-
ed it as a goddess, sung of it as
the birthplace of beneficent
spirits empowered to visit earth,
to aid good men and punish evil-
doers. Some have held the moon
to be the first home of humanity,
the Paradise lost by Eve's trans-
gression; others have believed it
to be the place to which the souls
of men ascend after death.
By ran wrote:
Sweet Dian's crest,
Floats through the air, an island of
the blest.
And a modern poet has avowed
his faith that the weary find
sweet rest in Luna's serene
sphere. There was a time when
many philosophers beleived the
moon to be full of life. Pytha-
goras boldly asserted that it had
seas and rivers, mountains, plains
and forrests—plants far lovelier
than the flowers of earth, men of
larger growth antl higher mental
faculties than those of earthly
mold.
"We be men of good govern-1 I..I, nAn«!l
tssssttsjs'.si Russet InkPoncil
A Complete Triumph
MANY VARIATIONS.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
Masonic.
Belton Lodge, No. 166, A., F. &
A. M., meets at Masonic Temple on
the second Saturday night in each
month. Visiting brethren cordi.
ally invited to attend. J. M. Scott
W. M.; T. P. Morgan, Secretary.
Belton Chapter, No. 76, R. A. M,
meets on the third Friday night
in each month at Masonic Temple,
Visiting companions cordially re-
ceived. R. J. Holland. H. P.; W
C. ylander, Secretary.
Belton Commandery No. 23, K,
T., meets on the third Tuesday
night in each month at Masonic
Temple. Visiting Knights sojourn-
ing in the city, cordially welcomed
Harry T. Cochran, E. C.; Robert B
James, Recorder.
Pythians.
Belton Lodge No. 51, K. P., meets
at their Castle Hall every Monday
night. Visiting Knights cordially
invited to meet with us Ed Wen-
sey, C .C.; A. G. Vick, K. of R. S..
Odd Fellows.
Belton Ark Lodge, No. 83, I. 0.
0. F., meets each Tuesday night
at Odd Fellows hall. Visiting breth-
ren cordially invited to meet with
us. M. F. Lackey, N. G.; Geo.
Hunt, Record. Sec.; E. W. Fergu-
•on, Finan. Sec.
Woodmen.
Belton Camp, No. 12,194, M. W.
A., meets at Odd Fellows hall on
second and fourth Wednesday
nights. Visiting neighbors cordi-
ally invited to meet with us. J. E.
Roberson, Consul; M. F. Lackey,
Clerk.
Live Oak Camp, No. 608, W. O.
W.; meets every Thursday night
at Odd Fellows hall. Visiting sov-
ereigns always invited to meet with
us. H. B. Nixon, C. C.; M. T.
Stamper, Clerk.
Grand Fraternity.
Belton Lodge, No. 213, meets at
Odd Fellows' hall the first, third
and fifth Wednesday night. Vis-
iting Fraters cordially welcomed.
J. J. P. Fouts, Commander; James
A. Ferguson, Recorder.
Fraternal Brotherhood.
Belton Lodge, No. 353, meets on
the second and fourth Wednesday
night in each month in Odd Fellows
hall. Visiting brethren cordially
invited to meet with us. Theodore
Chandler, President; J. J. P. Fouts,
Secretary.
In folklore there are many
variations of the man-of-the-moon
story. Perhaps the oldest is
that of the man who, when the
children of Israel sojourned in
the wilderness, was detected
gathering sticks upon the Sab-
bath day, whereupon he was
taken outsidethe camp and stoned
to death. Afterwards he was
condemned to eternal purgatory
in the moon, where he may be
seen with his bundle of sticks on
his back, ever climing without
gaining a step, ever lonely save
for the company of his faithful
dog. Poor Caliban believed this
story and worshiped Stepano as
the man in the moon. "I have
seen thee in her' and I do adore
thee; my mistress showed me
thee, and thy dog and thybrush."
In Germany the story is slight-
ly altered. There they tell how,
many ages ago, an old man went
into the forrest to cut sticks on
Sunday, saying, "Sunday on
earth or Sunday in Heaven, is all
the same to me," whereupon he
was instantly transferred to the
cold moon, knife, fagot and all,
and stays there forever as an
awful warning against Sabbath
breaking. In many Northern
countries there are a man and
woman in the moon. In the East
Indies the man is changed to a
hare or rrbbit, and in some of
the South Sea Islands there are
two children instead of the com-
mon man in the moon.
Time was when the lady moon
was thousrht to be mistress of
the weather. Pliny left a long
list of moon warnings. The
Roman emperors laid down strict
laws that were influenced by the
phrazes of the moon, and in every
land there are people who plant
and reap by its comingand going.
The farmers of bygone days took
the lady moon as their gnide. A
waxing moon was favorable to in-
crease; a waning moon was just
the reverse. So, under the first
grain was cut, shafts inserted,
eggs placed under the hen, sheep
sheared and manure spread upon
the land. Seeds were sown
under a waning inoon, that the
young plants might grow with
it, and this way a jxipular rhyme:
Sow peas and beans in the wane of
the tnoon,
That they with the planet may rest
and rise
And flourish with bearing most
plentiful wise.
Shakespeare who grew up in
a farming neighborhood, was full
of moonlore, and in nearly all of
his plays there are references to
to those Old World beliefs.
Othello makes the moon responsi-
ble for his rash deed. "It is the
very error of the moon; she
comes more near thfj earth than
is. by
tress, the moon," and the fair-
Olivia greets her lover's inessen-1
gers: "'Tis not that timeof moon |
with me to make one in so skip-1
ping a dialogue." Titers is notli-,
ing in all literature more beauti- j
ful than this description of a star >
and moonlight scene:
How sweet the moonlight steps upon
this bank,
Liook how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright
gold.
There's not the smallest orb which
thou beholdest
But in his motion like an atiy 1 sings
Still quiring to the one eyed cnerub-
ins.
MOON IN LI riORATI in'..
From the time of Father Homer
down to the smallest poet of t >-!
da.v, who finds a place if. the \
newspapers, the moon has -hi-.n'
forth undimmed in litemtrro, j
while art has vainly strivt i t< re-.
produce her wondrous ;
The spirit of ancient soiig was i
exquisitely imitated in lien John ;
son's "Hymn to Cynthia," Cole- L
ridge sees in the shitting aspects-!
of the moon emblems of human
griefs and joys, while Keats, who j
of all modern poets, was inostim- '
bued with the soulofCreek myth-!
ology, has left an immortal moon j
poem, full of antique grace. I he j
folklore of every land echoes with ,
moon music. From Scandinavia j
comes the tale of the little cliil- j
dren who live in the moon:
Never is their bucket empty,
Never are the children old:
Ever when the moon is shining.
We the children may behold.
When Hiawatha saw the moon |
rise up from the lake, old Xolco-
mis told him:
Once a warrior, vesr angry,
Seized bis grandmother, and threw
her
Up into the sky at midnight,
Right against the moon.
In English childlore the moon
is called "sky crede." The little
one
Sits in the middle,
And holds by both ends,
O, what a tine cradle 'twill lie
The country child, when itsees
the moon, makes a wish and says:
I see the moon and the moon see ine.
God bless the moon, God bless ine.
In Scotland it is yet the cus-
tom to salute the new moon with:
"A fire moon! God blessher!"
There has always been some
magic about the new moon that
called down compliments and
blessings. Midway across the
shining heavens like a silver river
winds the milky way, with its
scintillating hosts marshaled in
glittering binds. The flood of
light from the clear full moon of
winter, so gloriously diliusetl
throughout the terrestrial atmos-
phere, has almost obliterated the
fleecy radiance of this "torrent of
light and river of the air." In
the southeast Orion, most re-
splendent, leads his pomp of stars
along the outer edge of the splen-
did array, and still beyond are
the sweet Pleiades antl Hvades,
not far distant from brilliant
Taurus.
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Point, and spring
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finish.
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get the bust prices. We get all
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Branch line points slightly higher.
One Way Colonist.
March and April
Ihru Tourist Sleeper
Every Tuesday
Stopovers at Grand
Canyon
Fred Harvey Meals
Write for Booklrt.
W. S. KEENAN
a. p. Agt.
CALVESTON
It Eats Up Rust.
6-5-4 w"l make an old. rusty
Stove, or Stove Pipe, look like new,
because it ents up rust. W hen you
setup your Stoves, this Fall, give
them a coat of 6-5-4; it is applied
like paint, will not rub off and
SlilNbS ITSELF. It also
Saves
Hard
Work
Smith & Peyton Hardware Co.
Dr. Tom Batte
DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHIL-
DREN A SPECIALTY.
New Phone No. 187 Old Phone No. 8
KEEP POSTED.
and
Campaign Year, State, National
Maybe Prohibition.
Bailey issue involved in nation-
al delegate convention, in legis-
lative contests and in attorney
general's race. It will be an ex-
citing time, and it has begun al-
ready. Read a reliable trust-
worthy, Democratic newspaper,
the only one that has consistent-
ly stood by Governor Campbell,
the champion of goverment guar-
antee of bank deposits, the sup-
porter of Joe Bailey, the advocate
of William J. Bryan, and always
the plain reople's reliance.—The
Fort WorthRecord, Semi-weekly.
The Bell County Democrat and
Semi-Weekly Record, §1.26 per
year. _
Two Boys Lost.
Erie, Kans.,Feb.—Three weeks
ago two 17-year-old boys, Lester
Wooster, son of the editor of The
Erie Sentinel, the other Loren
Cox, son of J. H. Cox, hardware
dealer, started on an unan-
nounced journey, presumably by
box car stages as they had but
little money. A card written by
the Cox boy at Ft. Worth more
than two weeks ago stilted that
they were there together but had
no work and asked his mother to
write him at Houston,Tex. This
she did but her letter has been
returned unclaimed. Nothing
has been heard from them since
and two mothers are nearly pros-
trated with anxiety. Both of the
boys had worked at printing a
few months. Information as to
their whereabouts should be
wired to Alf. Q. Wooster, Erie,
Kans.
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take something right away that will
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To do this you must take a natural
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Kodol is a scientific preparation of
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ants and contains the same juices
found in a healthy stomach. Each
dose will digest more than 3000 grains
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The Kiveris
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is the
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Let us fit you out.
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TAS. P. KINNARD
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Belton, Texas
General Practice in all the Courts.
Office Second Floor Nigro Building.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Tablets, Crayon, Pens, Pencils, Ink
and all the necessary supplies for
schools We carry the better grades,
buy in large quantities and sell the
bettor goods at prices others charge
for the cheaper.
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If you have not tried our "Masters"
or "Tom Keene" you are missing the
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Abstracts
We have a Complete Abstract
of Bell County Land Titles
BELTON, TEXAS
Office over Hunter & Freeman.
D. WOOD
Life Experience in B/acksmithing
Our friends tire not all we would
have them is true; neither are
we all they would have us, hut
taking all things into considera-
tion I have done the best I could
for my customers, and they
have treated mo with much
kindness. Please continue to
bring your buggy and oarriage
repair work, horse shoeing
woodwork, all blacksmithing,
painting, trimming, etc., and
plow work to my shop on East
street and I will try to make you
glad you did so. You will find it
the cheapest place in Belton to
get work done.
D. WOOD
BiKlDMtir, East Street, Belton
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