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VOL. xix,
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21,1897.
THE EQUITABLE
Life Assurance Society
ARP'8 NURSERY SONGS.
Cherokee Philosopher Passes
• His Seventy-First
Birthday.
OF THE UNITED STATES.
"How many
bright!"
miles to Mily-
'Three score and ten.'
Assets Dec. 31, 18
Reserve on all existing
policies, calculated
on a 4 per cent stan-
dard, and all other
liabilities
96, $216,773,947.35
Undivided
a 4 per
dard -
on
surplus
cent stan-
173,496,768.23
43,277,179.12
Outstanding Assurance writ-
ten December 31
I can't help thinking of that old
1896, $^15,102,070.001 song, tor I have just passed my
seventy-first birthday and there-
New Assurance written in I fore am jnst seventy years old. It
itiyb ....... 127,094,084.001 IS like crossing the iRnbicon, and
like Caesar I may say "The uie is
Proposals for Assurance ex-
amined and declined - - 21,678,467.00
Installment Policies Statek at Their Com-
muted Yalnes.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY B. HYDE, President.
JAMES W. ALEXANDER, Vice
Louis Fitzgerald,
Henry A. Hurlbnt,
Henry G. Marquand,
Win. A. Wheelock,
Marcellus Hartley,
H. M. Alexander,
Chauncey M. Depew,
Cornelius N. Bliss,
Thos. 1). Jordon,
Charles H. Smith,
John Sloane,
Horace J. Kairchild,
Levi P. Morton,
Gage E. Tarbell,
Marvin Hughitt,
Frank Thomson,
lieorge J. Gould,
Samuel M. lnman,
Sir W. C. Van Home,
( has. B. Alexander,
Kdward W. Lambert,
John J. McCook,
Win. Alexander,
James H. Hyde,
Horacj Porter,
John A. Stewart,
Jacob H. Schiff,
A. Van Santvoord,
Daniel Lord,
William A. lower,
Melville E. Ingalls,
Thomas S. Young,
A. Van Bergen,
John E. Searles,
David H. Moffat,
James H. Dunham,
T. De Witt Cuyler,
Joseph T. Low,
President.
August Belmont,
Thomas T. Eckert.
Win. B. Kendall,
Henry S. Terbell,
George W. Phillips,
Geo. W. Carleton,
E. Bondinot Colt,
Daniel R. Noyes,
Alanson Trask,
Brayton Ives,
Sidney D. Ripley,
J. DeNavarro.
We Want Agents of Integrity and Ability.
(j(K)I> HELD, GOOD CONTRACTS.
For rates and any other information apply to
II. \V. FITCH,
Cashier, Hurley Iiuilding, Fort Worth, Texas.
A. A. GREEN, JR.,
JakeH. Wright Stone & Blanton
SPECIAL AGENT. SPECIAL AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS.
cast." I have reached the allot-
ted age and now every day that I
live is a personal privilege—a fa-
vor not promised nor deserved.
There is something solemn and
serious in the word, for scripture
and ancient history seem to have
made it significant. There were
seventy elders of Israel and the
Lord sent out seventy missiona-
ries; seventy learned men trans-
lated the Old Testament, and
man's age was cut down by de
greos from 900 to seventy, and
there the Lord called a halt, and
Moses saith that all the excess is
labor and sorrow. Moses was
feeling very blue when he wrote
that. The old man lived to be
120 and he had a troubled time,
but I know some men and many
women who lived past eighty and
whose last days were their best
days. Those who have lived
right or tried to and have been
unselfish and are blessed with a
good wife or a good husband and
loving children can take all the
risks that attach to fonr score
years. Labor and sorrow do not
necessarily follow old age. Syd-
ney Smith said when he was sev-
enty four: "I am at ease in my
circumstances; in tolerable health;
a tolerating churchman — much
Manager I given to talking, laughing and
noise; I am, on the whole, a hap
py man; have found the world an
entertaining world and am thank
ful to Providence for the part al-
lotted to me in it."
Longfeilow lived to be 75.
When he was 70 he wrote his
friend Childs: "It is like climb-
ing the Alps; you reach a snow-
crowned summit and see behind
you the deep valley stretching
miles and miles away, and before
other summits, higher and
vtai
Then you sit down and meditate,
This
Ehrnman &
McCiung's
Shoe Store
You can get all kinds of repair-
ins done neatly and at the
lowest prices.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
8
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BUY YOUR GROCERIES FROM
Jake Sell w ar z
Dealer in
P —> Fancy Groceries,
Wines and Liquors for Family Use.
KENTUCKY BLUE JEANS
will make the present season at
my stable situated on Spring
creek, three miles northeast of
Era, at the low sum of of $5.00 by
the season with return privileges.
I)E«5CUtPTIOV AND PEDIGREE.
Kentucky Blue Jeans Is a beau
tiful dark bay full 15,'g hands
high, will be 3 years old April 15.
1897, goes all saddle gaits perfect
ly natural. He was bred by V. B.
Daughetree, Clark county, Ken-
tucky. Sired by Blue Jeans, Jr..
a perfect saddle horse, and he out
of a Diamond mare, and he by
Old Blue Jeans, and he by Phil
lipps black horse, and he by Old
General Taylor. Old Blue Jeans
first dam by Gray Eagle, Jr., he
by Old Grey Eagle; second dam
by Old Davie Crockett, he by
Roauoak, a thoroughbred. Ken-
tncky Blue Jeans' first dam Min
nie D., sired by Wares Waxey, he
by Oliver Waxey whose dam was
a crusader mare; Olivers Waxey
by Livers Waxey, he by Old
Waxey, bred by Isaac Vanneter,
Sr.; Old Waxey by Dr. Elishi
Warfield Berthune, a thorough
race horse; second dam Feety I),
by a Mclva horse; third dam a
Bruce mare by a Forse horse.
All who wish saddle and bar
ness stock will do well to see our
stock before breeding elsewhere.
12 Y. B. Christopher.
GOLD MEDAL Flour.
Kinds of FEED
Will deliver to all parts of the city.
Your orders solicited.
He Will Sell Cheaper Than the Cheapest.
GUARANTEED
TOBACCO
HABIT
CURE
santa fe specials.
Mardi Gras Festivities, New
Orleans, March 2, 1897.—For this
occasion the Santa Fe route will
sell tickets from all points on its
line in Texas and the Indian terri-
tory to New Orleans and return at
rate of one fare for the round trip.
Tickets will be sold on February
26, 27, 28 and March 1, limited to
return on March 12, routed via
Houston and Southern Pacific 01
via Fort Worth and the Texas
Pacific, and will be good returning
only via the route used going.
Inauguration of President-Elect
McKinley at Washington, D. C.,
March 4—For this occasion the
Santa Fe will make a rate of one
fare for the round trip from all
points on its line In Texas and the
Indian territory to Washington
and retorn. Tickets will be sold
on February 28 and March 1 only,
good for continuous passage in
each direction, with final limit for
return March 10, 1897. Tickets
may be purchased via St. Louis
or New Orleans and diverging
rentes.
Through Pnllman palace sleep-
ing ears will be operated fro
and wonder which It will be.
is the whole story."
Dr. Holmes saw so much fun in
everything that he couldn't help
making (funny rhimes about an
old man:
"But now his nose is thin
And it rests upon his chin
Like a staff;
And a crook is in his back,
And a melancholy crack
Is in his laugh."
Then he was sorry that hs wrote
it, for he says:
'I know it is a sin
For me to sit and grin
At him here."
The doctor didn't expect to live
to be 85, for long ago he said
"Our brains are seventy year
clocks; the angel of life winds
them up once for all, then closes
the case and gives the key to the
angel of the resurrection."
But an old man is not obliged
to have a crook in his back nor
crack in his laugh. We see many
aged men who are straight as an
Indian and have not lost the mu
sical tone of their voice. Habit
and pride of person have much to
do with this I know an agec
matron, a neighbor of ours, who
when she is sitting hardly touches
the back of a chair, and yet she is
not stiff or awkward—alway
graceful, always beautiful She
is kind and gentle in her age, am
has a warm welcome wherever she
visits. If she can not hear
that is said she is not embarrassed,
for she says what she lacks in
hearing she makes up in seeing
and reading and is thankful for
the faculties that are still left her.
11 never saw her with a troubled
look, thongh I know she has had
trouble and deep grief. Now, con-
trast such a woman with one who
is always complaining of her hard
lot, or saying something dispar-
aging about her neighbors!
But the old time mothers had
some excuse for bent shoulders,
for it was the fashion to sle^D on
pillow and bolster, and it was the
fashion to lean to the child while
it was nursing. Habits begun in
childhood and continued in moth
erhood will never be broken in the
decline of life I believe that the
habits of the girls of this gener-
ation are an improvement on those
of the past. They do not lace like
they used to, and they carry them
selves more gracefully. They
have better fitting shoes and cor-
sets. They have more comfort-
able seats at school and are not
allowed to lean forward to their
books or slate or writing pad.
The life insurance companies have
at last discovered that women live
as long as men if not longer, and
policies are issued to them on
equal terms. The longevity of
both aezes is increasing, slowly
but surely, and the only draw-
Shakespeare gave us some
types of old age that seem to have
tted the times in which he lived,
)nt they are very rare in ours,
'rince Hal said to Falstaff:
'Have yon not all the characters
of age—a moist eye, a dry hand,
a yellow cheek, a white beard, a
decreasing leg, an increasing cor-
jorositjl Is not your voice
>roken, your wind short, your
chin double, your wit single and
every part about vou bloated
with antiquity!"
I deny the picture. As some-
body said, I deny the allegation
and defy the alligator. There is
some of it that does not lit me, I
know. These poets are too fond
of poking fun at old men. The
she bears ought to come along,
he scripture sa^s that old age is
louorable and that the young
men shall rise up when the old
men come in at the gate. The
old men are the balance wheels
of all the machinery of govern-
ment. If it were not for them,
the boys would run away with the
wagon. There must be wheel
lorses with breeching on to hold
back when going down hill. What
are we here fort We can't climb
a tree or jump a ten rail fence any
more, nor kick a college ball nor
ride a becycle, but these things
are non-essentials and don't have
to be done. We can look after
the grandchildren and point a
moral and tell them a tale and
teach the young idea how to ehoot
without carrying a pistol in a hip
jocket. Solomon says that the
jlory of an old man is his chil-
dren's children, and he might
lave said that the children who
save no grandparents did not
have their share of happiness in
this world.
But old age has its triumphs
and consolations. It has passed
all selfishness and vain ambitions
and takes comfort in memories
and philosophic meditation. It
realizes the wonderful progress of
art and invention, for we old men
remember when there was but one
ittle railroad in the United States
and no telegraphs; when the old
stage coach carried the mails and
postage was 25 cents a letter;
when there was no kerosene oil
and no matches, no steel pens and
but few books of any kind. Old
age is not alarmed about politics
or the downfall of the government,
for these same periodical excite
ments have agitated the country
tMjwyi>iMXwe omm remember.
It is tne sam£ old song, but it
does not disturb our serenity.
When our old cook ooncluded to
quit, she advised my wife to look
round and "get a settled woman
to take her place." "Dese yonng
niggers hain't got sense enuf
to stay anywhere long and
dey will be runnin' off
atter every senrshion and funeral
and picnic uat come along. Bet-
ter get a settled woman." Age
does settle us wonderfully and it
looks like a pity that we have to
shuffle off this mortal coil about
the time we have gotten some
sense and leared the lesson of life.
But we must accept our desti-
ny with grace and gratitude, and
GREEKS AND TURKS.
Greek Army Took the Offen-
sive and Attacked Turk-
ish Troops.
London, Feb. 19.—A dispatch
to the Times from Canea says:
"The Greek army has taken the
offensive and attacked the Turk
ieh outposts at Plategia. The
Turkish outposts were overpower-
ed and compelled to retire in the
direction of the town.
"A crowd of Mohammedans
surrounded Konak asking for arms
and ammunition. Two hundred
stands of arms were served out to
them.
"The Greek regulars shared in
the attack on Youkolies. One
officer and three soldiers were
killed. Eleven soldiers were
wounded. The Greek artillery de
stroyed the fortress of Voukolies.
The advance guard of the garri-
son succeeded in reaching the
Turkish outposts west of Canea.
The fate of the members of the
garrison is unknown. According
to the early report received the
garrison of Fort Voulkolies con-
sisted of 300 soldiers and 100 Cre-
tan Mussulmans."
A dispatch to the Times from
Constantinople says: "A better
feeling prevails owing to the con-
fidence in a pacific solution of the
Cretan question."
turks and greeks had a fight.
London, Feb. 20.—A dispatch
to the Times from Vienna Bays
that the Neue Freie Pres«e pub
lishes a report from Salonica dat-
ed Tuesday to the affect that a
collision had occurred between the
Turkish soldiers and the Greek
insurgents at Naszlitza, near the
Greek frontier.
The Turks were defeated with
losses and withdrew to fetch re-
inforcements, according to the ac
count received by -the Neue Freie
Presse. 'ihe governor of Salonica
ordered the troops to the point
where the disturbance took place
The populace along the Greek
frontier, according to tne Neue
Freie Presse, is eagerly awaiting
the signal to rise against the
Turks.
879. 1895.
TRANSFER LIKE
H. C. HORD.
All manner of freight packed
and shipped. Hauling done to
any part of the city. Ware rooms
for all kinds of storage. Office at
iackley's furniture store, No
205-207 California street, Gaines-
ville, Tex. Orders solicited. Satis
action guaranteed. H. C. Hord
Highest of all in
No other article of human food lu
commendation for purity, strength ai
the moat eminent authorities, as the
acres In
ing crop,
road.
Fulton Mai
This Juicy
This juicy
gether satisfa
is here to be
you to take it
You have to eat
why not buy it
sure of getting
Oh yes , every <
but then
it. We do. ju
your breakfast
Fulton Mat
117 East California SI
may the Lord give us
"An age that melts in unperceived
decay,
And glides in modest innocence
away."
Bill Arp.
The Woman's Parsonage and
Home Mission Society of Broad-
way Methodist church will give
an entertainment on the evening
of the 26th inst. at the residence
of Mr. A. Crozier. A program
consisting of selections fiom Long-
fellow will be rendered. Some of
his loveliest characters, such as
Evangeline, Hiawatha, Minne-
haha, Miles Stauclish will appear
in costume. Every one invited.
No charges. A free-will offering.
Gibbons Harness and Saddlery
Company
Is now owned by F. J. Hall. Call
and price his goods He will sell
cheaper than any one, wholesale
or retail. Call and see us, corner
of Commerce and Elm streets.
sympathy for cretans.
London, Feb. 19.—At a public
meeting held in London tonight
for the pnrpose of expressing sym-
pathy with the Cretans, a Lord
Byron society was organized.
Prof. James Bryon, formerly pres-
dent of the board of trade pre-
sided.
The Rt. Hon. William Ewart
Gladstone wired from the sonth of
France, denouncing the use of
force against Greece. Great en-
thusiasm was manifested during
the meeting.
greek troops could not land.
New York, Feb. 19.—A special
*0 the Herald from Canea, Crete,
says:
British warships have prevent-
ed the .landing of Greek troops
from Alpios.
A Turkish steamer has arrived
bringing many wounded women
and child 1 en from the Salino dis-
trict, where the Turkish troops
are now proceeding.
The landing parties from for-
eign warships have received or-
ders to resist energetically any at-
tack by the Greeks.
more men-of-war neeeed.
Canea, Island of Crete, Feb. 19.
—The Greek consul has asked his
asked his government to send
more men-of-wer. The foreign
consuls have exacted from the in-
surgents a promise to give twelve
hours notice in case of an attack
on Halepa.
It is stated that the christians
and Muafulmans have exchanged
the prisoners iu the provinces of
Hitia and Marandello.
via
the katy.
and
reduced rates
$36.05 to Washington
turn, account inaugural ceremo-
es. Sell February 28th and
March 1st. Limit March 10th.
$16 15 to New Orleans and re-
turns, account Mardi Gras. Sell
February 26, 27, 28 and March
1st. Limit March 12.
W. L. Greenhill, T. A.
re
New spring dress goods are
shown at S. Zacharias'.
These tiny Capsulc3 are (
to Balsam of Copaiba,
Cubeba and Injections.
They cure in 48 hours the
same diseases without any]
venience. SOLD BY ALL DRUG61STS1
Over the lines of the Southwest-
Gainesville, Texas, January 16
This is to certify that I have
tried Hall's Great Discovery for
kidney and bladder troubles and
find it lias given me great benefit.
F.or two months or more I was
troubled with a severe pain in my
hips, caused from kidney trouble,
which unfitted me for any kind of
physical labor. I could not lift
anything without pain and some
times it lasted me for several
days. After taking Hall's Great
Discovery I have helped to haul
and level over one hundred loads
of gravel and dirt on my premi-
ses in the city of Gainesville with-
out suffering the least bit of in-
convenience, all of which I as-
cribe to the benefits derived from
the beneficial effects of Hall's
Great Discovery, and I cheerfnlly
recommend it to all who are suf-
fering from similar afflictions.
John R* Shortridge,
Mayor of Gainesville.
For sale by J. D. Nance—Com
meroe street drug store.
Notice to Tax Payers.
All parties who are in
ia the payment of their
We have added the
our stock and want eyei
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