The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 229, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 25, 1895 Page: 2 of 4
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now and Sept. 1st we will give a nice chamois skin free. Inquire our price on Murray ^ Lanham's Florida Water—our leader.
EDWARDS The Live Druggist
Yours For Economical Prices
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ABOUT KISO COTTON.
We have just received from tin-
department of agricultural at
Washington a little 20-page book
which la fall of interesting facts.
It U "Production and Price of
Cotton For One Hundred Years,"
and vai oompiled by James L
Watklns, special agent.
It begins with the invention of
the cotton gin by Whitney in
1794 and cloeee with the greatest
crop ever raited 1894-5.
In 1795 the crop in this country
was 35,556 bales at a price of
S6'fc' cents. During that year
01,l> KICK A POO GUN.
AN ANCIENT CANNON THAT HAS
REMARKABLE RECORD.
It I'Ujul an lmportaut l"art lu the Strug
|lf« Out Slavery In k>nu> W
Bone of Contention — Saved From the
Furnaee by a Historical Society.
There was jrccntly shipped from Chi-
cago to the Kansas state Historical soci-
ety out1 t'f tlit* UHKit valuable relics of
the bonier ruttinii warfare. It is the Old
Kickajw o cannon which did service at
Old Kickapoo, Lawrence and other
points ulon^ the Missouri border during
Kansas' curly struggle fur free state gov-
truia. lit. 'i iiis old gnu formed the bone
of cintcnti ii m many a hard fou«'lit
" Mothers' Friend"JE™S0N D A v 1 s-
tz Breast.
xtracts From the Home Life
of the Grand Statesman
WRITTEN BY HIS
DAUGHTER.
GIFTED
Sent by Express or mall, on receipt of price,
•1.00par battle. Book "To Mothers" mailed
free
Nothing Which Annoyed or Hurt
His Children Was Beneath
His Notice.
contest between proslavery and anti- sradfield REGULATOR 00., Atlanta, Qa.
sla\ei\ f.nris, and a large number of
tlio old citizens of Kansas can remember
the stiri in;: events clustering about the
histuiy of this lemarkable implement of
warfare.
Of late years the whereabouts of the
old fjiin h;us I wen a matter of conjecture,
and ly i. any it was thought to have
iiH U i -t, I oil it is due to the efforts of
Color* 1 H. Miles iloore and Captain J.
C. Waikmsl.aw of Leavenworth that Old
Kicka]iM> has lieeu resurrected. It now
rests in the rooms of the State Histor-
ical sik n iv i.1 this citv.
■OLD BT ALL DRUOOI8TB
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from i!
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uiid 1 i*i
at L..\..
It Was >
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as a i.tii
the \\ni
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souri, k
The
was ( in
border
placed
fence, t
and tin
Great Britain imported 112,593
halo, showing plainly that we
did not bare a monopoly of the
ootton business.
In 1810 we raised 340,000 bales
and the prioe was 16 oents. Great
Britain that year imported 561,-
600 bales.
In 1820 our crop was 606,061
bales, prioe 17 cents. Great
Britain that year imported 572,-
000 bales.
In 1830 our crop was 976,845,
prioe 10 oents.
In 1840 the crop was 2,177,835,
lowest prioe 6 cents, highest
13 S ceats.
In 1850 the erop was 2,333,718,
price 10 to 13 h oents.
Ia the years '42 and '45 the
prioa was down to 5 cents.
In 1860 the orop was 4,861,292,
price 10 4 to 11*4 cents. The
highest prioe waa reached in 1854
$1.89 per ponnd. The crop that
year was only 450,000 bales.
The crop of 1880 was 5,761,252
bales, average price 12 cents.
In 1890 the crop was 7,311,322
bales, average price 11 1-2 cents.
Tha great crop of 1894-5 was armed with
9,476,435 bales, average price in
New York 6l« cents.
Texas alone this year produoed
as much as was made in the entire
anion la 1853.
Amrng the facts noted we see
that in 1888 ten tons Texas cotton
seed were shipped to Zanzibar,
▲frloa.
At present there are In the
Uailed 8tatee 15,700,000 spindle*
in operation, in Europe 72,620,-
000, in India 3,650,000.
The first cotton mill was built
in the United States at Heverly,
Mass., in 1787.
In 1S00 all the mills in the
United 8tates consumed only 500
bales of ootton.
In 1808 New Hampshire ex
empted ootton mills from taxa-
tlon.
In 1809 there were 87 cotton
mills in the Union, 48 run by
water power and 39 by how
power.
■ ^un is n six jmmnder smooth-
t'ia>s catm<<:i and was first stolen
i! e I'iiittd Mates arsenal at Lib-
Mi .. and from there taken byGen-
i hard, i ll's army to the sacking
t: i ii inn <f the old Free State hotel
un : ce. the Kldridge House, after
- ted by the proslavery grand
;i iiii mpton and ordered abated
ais. n«■»• by Jutlge Cato, who had
l it iluected to Sheriff Jones, who
,lined the jiiisse, mostly from Mis-
i ass:st in executing the writ.
l» liilianimciit winch followed
of the memorable conflicts of
I have been a midwife for many
years, and in each case where "MOTH-
ERS' FRIEND" was used it accomplished »on-
dsre and shortened labor and lessened pain, it
is the best remedy for RISING OF THE
BREAST known, and worth the price
for that alone.
Mrs. M. M. Brewster, Montgomery, Ala.
The following extracts are taken
from "Home Life of Jefferson Da
vis" written by his gifted daugh-
ter Wiauie:
We children always believed
tor tne purchase of t?ie cannon, in the ! that there was no problem too a*>-
meantinie tlio tinner had shipped the j Struse, no natural Upheaval too
gun to Chicago, where it was recently stupendous, to be dominated by
found in a brass foundry ready to be our lather. I remember distinct-
consiguedto a furnace. The gun reached ly crying to be taken to him in an
Topeka m safety.—St. Louis Republic, earthquake and feeling perfectly '
safe and happy when placed in
ihis arms. Nor, on the other
hand, did we ever feel that any-
thing which annoyed or hart us
! could be beneath his notice, for he
1 was one of those delightful people
who seem always possessed of an
! abundance of time to listen and
an endless store of sympathy to
expend. The confidence we re-
i posed in him was probably the
In the Ilarrack Yard.
Corporal — When approaching your
horses from behind, you must call out
to them, else they will kick your thick
skulls, and the end of the story will be
that wo have nothing but lame horses
In the squadron. —Soldatenfreund.
ruflian days. The cannon was
on Massachusetts street, Law-
|ij><>site, and trained on the hotel
d bv Henerul David Atchison,
tlieu a United States senator from Mis-
souri. The first shot went over the roof
of the hotel. The second went through
a second story window, and the third
and fourth shots struck the stone walls,
scarcely making an impression on them.
To show his confidence in his theory
he lic^au to practice the now idea as
follows: He usually slept nine hours.
He explained that he would cut this
r\
Thb extermination of the out-
laws even in the loiian territorj
goaa steadily on. The outlaw
eaa sot exist in America any long
ar. The men of peace will rule
thla aoantry from now henceforth.
THB Caban question may force
itealf npon ooagress this session.
Spain oanaot ssoeh longer govern
the vigorous island, and it is tbe
Wf ot oar ooaatry to keep an
OT* ea It. Perhaps the easiest
wmy oat of It woald ha to bay It
If we do not we may
a bloody war ovar
ft.
The Coveted Effect.
The Lady Cycler—(ieorge, how do I
l©ok in my new bloomers?
George (promptly)—Hideous.
The Lady Cycler (with joy)—George,
dear, how good of you to say so!—Chi-
cago Record.
SLEEP REFORM.
The Man Who Tried It ami the Way Hta
M-heuie Worked.
Colonel Henry Wattersou tells a story
of an old compositor whose life had
been given up to hard work and the fol-
lowing of eccentric ideas, one of which
was that the human race slept too
much. He had several theories to ad-
vance in support of his idea. One of
them was to.cut down the usual num-
ber of sleeping hours by gradation and
finally arrive at a state where, by prac-
tice, one would be satisfied with a much
Jones, seeing that he was not likely j smaller amount of sleep than one was
to abate the nuisance that war, applied | getting.
the torch and destroyed tbe building.
The ponse then scattered. The Kickapoo
rangers then took charge of the cannon
and carted it to the village of Kickapoo,
six miles up the river from Leaven-
worth. It was planted on top of a high
bluff and there remained posted as a
menace to the free state men of Leaven-
worth.
Colonel II. Miles Moore first suggest-
ed the plan to go up to Kickapoo and cap-
ture the guu. He communicated his
scheme to a few free state men, and ten
of the more daredevil ones, under the
leadership of Captain I. G. Losee, well
harp's rifles and revolvers,
made a dash for Kickapoo one dark
uight, ti*)k possession of the cannon,
and without being discovered were soon
back in Leavenworth. Fearing the gun
might Is* recovered by a writ in the
hands of the sheriff or other proslavery
officers of the county or territory, the
gun carriage was hidden in the south
part of Leavenworth and the cannon
buried in Dr. Davis' old peach orchard,
where it remained a short time.
Fearing danger, it was dug up and
taken to Lawrence one dark night in
the bottom of a wagon covered with
hay. It remained but a short time,
when it was taken back to Leavenworth
and placed in Dr. Davis' temporary
graveyard until the warclouds of 1856
and 1H57 had passed away. The gun
was then resurrected and turned over to
the society of turners of Leavenworth,
in whose keeping it remained for a long
•eries of years. On each recurring
Fourth of July and other state occasions
and holidays "Old Kickapoo" was
brought out, crowned with laurels and
escorted with music and joyous crowds
through the streets of the city.
Finally the turners relaxed in their
eare of the old cannon, and some ill ad-
vised parties without authority loaned
the gun one day to the Leavenworth
Coal company for the purpose of aiding
them to free the shaft of a mass of
4ebris that had fallen and cloggcd up
the hoisting shaft. The gun was taken
down the air shaft, loaded with solid
■hot, placed upright and fired into the
mass above. As there was no chance f<* XJnfler the Direction of the Sib-
a recoil, the gun burst, tearing a huge „ _ • • t» -j
piece from the side of the old warrior. : tv I S 01 Divine Providence.
The gun was returned to the turners,
but they seemed to have no use for it, riasspf, wili rPSnmed Mon-
and soon it was lost, and no one knew lla'sse8 WUI M resamea Mon
anything about it About five years ago day, Sept. 2, with increased facili-
ties for imparting a thorongh
speak of a small negro boy who,
instinctively recognizing a friend,
had caught him by the coat, with
the plea, "Please buy me, sir, aud
take me 1 ome wid you." ''I
tried to procure the little fellow's
liberty, aud offered to take him
and guarantee his freedom," said
my lather, "but he was in a free
state, and 1 could not get him. It
was bad enough to keep white
children there, hut it was inhuman
to incaicerate that irresponsible
negio boy." * * * »
He never conferred a favor as
though it cost him anything. It
always seemed to the recipieut as
if it pleased my father so much to
be giving that he considered the
obligation entirely his. Indeed,
he managed to throw so great a
charm ol perfect courtesy around
the most intimate intercourse that
the thousand little sacrifices of
time and inclination he daily
made were endowed with a cheer-
ful grace which gave them double
value. He paid the most scrupu-
lous attention to personal neat-
ness. He was marvelously grace-
ful and always arrayed in well
fittiug, refined garments, scrupu-
lously clean and carefully worn,
though "not expressed in fancy."
Once, when my mother pleaded
with him to go to dinner in his
dressing gown, as there was no
one there except herself, and he
had been, and still was, ill, he
declined, saying: "I know no
FACIAL HUMOURS
Prevented by
outgrowth of one of his maxims, one for whom ] have more respect
to which he stiictlj adhered. He than yourself. I hope I shall
would ofteu say, ">.ever joke not ta^e coi(j) but I can not sit at
with a child or a savage; they will diuner with
you in my gown."
not understand, and you will only
destroy their confidence in you."
Indeed, he carried this rule so
far that that he would give a sci-
entificially accurate answer, al-
though expressed in the simplest
possible terms, to any queries put
to him, aud it is wonderful how
universally he made himself un-
derstood by children. He con-
tended that even were his expla-
nations beyond their comprehen-
sion, they at lsast grasped the
sincerity that animated his re-
sponse to their honest questions.
His sole deviation from this rule,
if that could be called a deviation
At 80 he rose with the same
alacrity to offer his seat to a
youug visitor as he had done at
20, and gave him hia courteous
attention.
As a raconteur he had few
equals, and happy, indeed, was
the child who could crawl up into
his arms, as we used to do, and
sit listening, with bated breath,
while he told the same old-fash-
ioned fairy tales, made radiant
and fascinating with a new charm,
or stirred the blood with wild sto-
ries of Indian war fare, of hair-
breadth escapes, of the hunting
a SHAnED TO BE SEEN because of disfig-
uring facial humours is the condition of
thousands who live in ignorance of the fact
that in Ccticura Soap is to be found the
purest, sweetest, and most effective skin puri-
fier and beautifier in the world. For pimples,
blackheads, red and oily skin, red, rough
hands with shapeless nails,dry, thin, and fall-
ing hair, it is wonderful.
told throughout the world. British depot: F. N*w-
bikt a Son*, 1, King Edward-tt., London. Pottkb
Daco asd Chim. Corp., Sole Prope., Boaton, U. b. a.
.... , , , , ,, of big game, or of horse fights
which he would have gladly made aml the wild dancee of tbe red
men, im i Is fa,ruelt-/uque8i' ?'as ia l!6 men. Nor was it only the stories
•eded by I ' abit he had of asking his j endowed j)ersonai interest
11 netid's children if they would not1
like to go home with him. His
invitation was eagerly accepted,
even by tha shyest. Indeed, he
sometimes found a little traveler
on the doorst?p waiting his de-
parture, with a hoatd of baby
and, oh, the weeping and wailing
from the would-be visitor when
down to S'2 hours for each week that
pasM'd uutil he had reduced his number
of sleeping hours to two, which, he
claimed, w;ts all that was nee
any one.
The time went by, and the old fellow-
had kept to his rule laid down and
finally reached the two hour time.
He went along for several weeks
sleeping but two hours daily, devoting
the time gained in reading and advo-
cating his idea. While there was a no- i,
ticca!de decrease in his weight, he treasures gathered for the journey,
seemed to shuid it very well.
Then be began ft) talk of further re-
ducing the time, and when enthusiastic j parental interference obliged my
talked of the possibility of one doing j father to go away alonef * * * *
without sleep entirely. i His anger asrainst one who fright-
He set type and was an old hand on
the pajier. One morning about three
weeks after he had reached his low
sleeping mark the compositor at the
case next to his noticed the old man
had dropped his head upon his arms,
that were folded over the case. It was
near quitting time. All the forms were
up, and the old chap was not disturbed.
He had gone to sleep. The office was
soon deserted, with the exception of the
janitor and the sleeper. The janitor
was instructed not to bother him.
The next day when the first men ar-
rived he was still sleeping as they had
left him aud snoring so hard that ho
jarred the type in the case on which he
rested.
Some onefold his wife where he was,
and she concluded to let him sleep.
He slept on in that position for 20
hours. Then they carried him to a bed
at home, still sleeping. He slept for 32
hours, and when he woke up he had for-
gotten how to set typo and had to learn
to read again, although his memory was
good in other respects.—Exchange.
St. Mary's School.
Colonel H. Mi lee Moore was passing
down Shawnee street, Leavenworth, and
in an alley near a tinshop noticed an
old cannon. He gave it a close inspec-
tion and fonnd it to be Old Kickapoo.
The turners had sold it to the tinner for
1^5, and he was about to ship it to Chi-
cago for old brass. Appeals to patriot-
d Mr. Moure subse-
ths His-
course of instructions in all that
pertains to a solid education.
Tuition $2 a month in adranoe.
For further information apply to
Sihteb Superior.
ism
in vain, and
We have the only vnooMSfol re-
frigerator in the market
tiTtVKMBj KSVVXEX/r k I
cnetl or abused a child was appall
ing. The depiivation of liberty
visited upon young offenders was,
he thought, incomprehensible
cruelty, and the remembrance of
it he laid bitterly to heart. Once,
when we were talking about a
book on juvenile penology, he sat
listening with his usual consider-
ate attention, then turned to my
mother and asked her if she had
forgotten their visit to a reform-
atory many years before the war.
After telling me of the ''poor lit-
tle prisoners" he went on to
Tired Women
Find in the blood purifying, building-op
qualities of Hood's Sarsspsrilla just what
they need. Mrs.
Isa Griggs of En-
nis, Texas, gives
her experience fal-
low: "I suffered
almost death with
local troubles,
which developed
Into a very serious
affection and mads
a surgical opera-
tion necessary. 1
was completely
broken down, had aumerons boils, and
when I commenced taking Hood's Barsa-
parllla I weighed only 112 pounds. Mow
I weigh over 126 pounds and am in better
health than for the past fifteen years.
Formerly I was covered with eruptions;
now my skin is clear. I can truly say
Hood's Sarsaparilla
for
fivstry one zeasarka abovt wall I
Mood's PUb
that we loved to hear him tell.
His splendid memory was stored
with an incalculable treasure of
poetry. I remember sitting on
his knee in the winter twilight
with only the fire to ilium nate
the recesses of the library, listen-
ing to him recite in his wonderful
voice "Blanche of Devon's Death.'
"The Fight at Coilantoglesford"
and other cantos, only breaking
off here and there to bridge over a
too lengthy description, or a situ-
ation 1 could not have understood.
Although he was an omnivor-
ous reader, devouring political
and historical works side by side
with Gaboriau's or any other sen-
sational novel, he never seemed to
have blunted his keen literary pal
ate, but appreciated the good
books that came in his way with
the zest of a boy. I remember
reading aloud to him "Ben Hur"
from 10 o'clock until davbreak,
both of us oblivious to the flight of
time, and when my sleepy eyes
refused to follow tbe lines I left
him still absorbed in the novel—
indeed, he did not go to sleep un-
til he had finished it.
in the main, however, his heart
was true to his old loves. First,
Byron, whose poems he read
aloud, his voice lending new mu-
sic to the lines, while we sat and
f-ewed, and Scott, Burns and Don
Quixote, although he declared he
never could see anything ndicu
Ions in the Knight of La Mancha,
"a noble mind distraught," nor in
Sancho. "that pattern of honest
servitude." My father was no
little disappointed with me when
I told him that the adventures of
the latter when governor on the
island seemed very langhable to
me. Parson Primrose was anoth-
er of his prime favorites, and Un-
cle Toby was a person that I be-
lieved higtorieal as a child, so of-
ten did I hear him quoted. Of all
the books he referred to, Shakes-
peare and the Bible held the fore-
most plaoe. Hie knowledge
the divine ~
met, and he contended that in
►Shakespeare and Solomon one
might find a symposium of all hu-
man wisdom if one only knew the
exact places to look for it. The
book of Job was especially loved
by him, and I have often heard
him say it contained much of the
finest poetry in any language.
Of course, his interest in the
history of the world, and especial-
ly in the political career of this
country, fer which he had done so
much, made him a constant reader
of the papers and the congression-
al reports.
After he had gone to his rest his
especial library relating to gov-
ernmental subjects, many of the
volumes annotated by him on the
margins, was removed to New Or-
leans, where it might be at the
easy command of students, and for
lack of space in the room devoted
to books in the main building the
volumes relating to sacred sub-
jects were moved over into his
old study. The circumstance
gave rise to a natural but errone-
ous conclusion as to the trend of
his mind, mentioned in a graceful
and kindly article written by a
literary man who made a pilgrim-
age to Beauvoir lately. * * t
His taste in music, like his love
for books, was unusually just,
little short of wonderful, when
one remembers that the' harmonic
sense is mentally the first to cry.s-
tali/.e into a set form. In 5;i!-
yonth my father had possessed a
remarkably fine barytone, and
even in his extreme old age, as he
moved about the room, he would
softly hum old ballads to himself
in a voice that shed a justness ol
pitch and sweetness thpt age and
much smoking could not destroy.
He loved "Mary's Dream" and
"Annie Laurie" better than any
other songs, certainly he hummed
them oftenest, but "Of a' the
Ai^ the Wind Can Blaw " and
"The Last Rose of Summer"
cou.d hardly be said to take a
second place in his affections.
Several of the airs in the "Bo-
hemian Girl" had a warm corner
also in his heart. One would
hardly expect from the musioal
models of his own day that Chopin
would have attracted him, yet I
do not remember his ever com-
mending a modern composition so
highly or asking so often for any
one song as he did for the Polen's
"Grablied," by that composer.
Ab much as he admired the genius
of the great Pole, he detested
Sullivan's music, which he could
not be brought to tolerate; indeed,
he did not car# for oomic opera as
a rule, seeming to adjudge melody
and farce an ill matched pair.
Connected with the keen musical
perception was an acute sensibil-
ity to sharp or disagreeable
voices, and the quotation, "A
low voice is a most excellent thing
in woman" was one with which he
familiarized us before we were
fairly ont of Ion* olothes. * * * *
His long and varied life had
successfully embraced so many
professions and had passed
through such protean phases that
I used to be ourions to know what
portion of it had rendered him
most happy. He, my mother and
I were sitting together one spring
evening at Beauvoir, and the eon-
venation drifted on to tha ques-
tion of the advisability teaching
women feneinftr^Erexefetee which
beoojMiddfMpre-eminently suit-
the development of grace
while it laid
of muscles. He began to tell us
stories of the great fencers he had
known in the army, of their queer
lives and sometimes stranger
deaths, and thinking as I sat
listening of the vast range of vo-
cations in which he had struggled
victoriously, I asked him if he
could have his life to live over
again what would he best like to
be. He turned to me, and I could
see his blue eyes shine in the
gloaming with the light of other
days, as he answered without a
moment's hesitation, "I would
be a cavalry officer, and break
squares." His love for the army
lay in the warmest corner of his
heart. * * * *
The first attention my father at-
tracted in congress was by his el-
oquent reply to an attack upon
West Point. His speech so pleas-
ed and astonished the veneraole
John Quincy Adams that he cross-
ed the chamber to listen and said,
"We shall hear more of this
young man"—a prophecy which
was speedily verified. A quaint
expression of his professional
pride was the interpretation wnich
he put upon that incident in the
cruc ifixion mentioned in three of
the gospels, and especially by St
Luke: "And the soldiers also
mocked Him, coming to him and
offering Him vinegar." My fath-
er contended that tha testimony
of St. John as au eye witness was
much more credible than that of
his fellow-evangelists, who were
obliged to rely upen heresay evi-
dence.
St. John refers to the presenta-
tion of vinegar and hysop as an
act of mercy to a man suffering
under the death thirst. Said my
father: "The guard around the
cross were Eoman soldiers, and
no brave man would ever torment
a dying person wantonly. It is
much more likely that the legion-
aires, touched with compassion by
the heroic endurance and patience
of the Savior, ran and brought
him their own portion of sour
wine, the acidity of which was
corrected with hysop, and present-
ed it on a sponge as the only avail-
able way of reaching His lips. It
is not like a soldier at any period
of tlie world's history to taunt or
revile a helpless person, least of
all one who suffers silently." He
always dwelt upon the superb
cour.ige of our L< rd's character, a
jiKii' v 11!:ii i* too often over
i a 1 ed in tiiilpit.
]\'y father himself h 11 a s:>len
did indiffeience to p j-icai pain
which was phenom * ■ in so liigl
u liervons orgauiza • as his. :uh.
he v titled fort tude in iMiers on!-,
a shado ir.-s t iini ho e dimated
honesty of purpose.
He never forgot the name of any
may he had seen face death quiet-
ly or endure wounds with self-
control. His soldiers were to him
a part of his family. Through all
the hurry of his busy political life
his sentry had orders to refer any
communications addressed to Col-
onel Davis to my father's person-
al attention. It was in thi? way
the members of his old regiment
addressed him, and between him
and them the bond of mutual love
and mutual memories was too
close to admit of the intrusion of
any outsider.
Where there is so much to tell,
so many noble and lovable sides
of a character to reveal, the diffi-
culty is not what shall be written,
but what shall be left untold.
As I look back on his tender-
ness, his fortitude, his unselfish-
ness, his sterling honesty, which
neither enemy nor friend ever
doubted, his merciful justice and
his indomitable courage, words
fail me, and, like Hamlet, I can
only say, "He was a man, take
him for all in all, I shall not look
upon his like again."
Yarina (Winnie) Davis.
ROYAL Baking Powder.
Highest ot mil in leavening
strength.-v.s.
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'JSrPfK
Music Lessons.
I will be pleased to receive my
old pnpils and all new ones who
will come. Other teacherj^come
and go bat I
Special
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"given Eo funda-
For terms ap-
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Public Sale
At the court house door of Cooke
county, Texas, in Gainesville, on
the first Tuesday in September,
1895. Between the hours of 10
o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m.,
we will sell at public sale to the
highest cash bidder, the following
lands:
1st—A tract situated in Gaines-
ville, Tex., beginning on the north
line of Broadway street, 100 feet
east of its intersection with Dixon
street, thence east 100 feet, thence
north 150 feet, thence west 100
feet, thence south 150 feet to the
beginning.
2d—A tract situated in Gaines-
ville, Tex., beginning at the north-
east intersection of Broadway and
Dixon streets, thence east 100 feet,
thence north 75 feet, thence west
100 feet to Dixon street, thence
south 75 feet to the beginning.
3d.—A tract situated in Gaines-
ville, Texas, beginning on the east
line of Dixon street 75 feet north
of its intersection with Broadway
street, thence east 100 feet, thence
north 75 feet, thence east 100 feet,
thence north 50 feet, thence west
200 feet, thence south 125 feet to
the beginning.
4th.—A tract beginning on theE.
line of Dixon street 250 feet north
from its intersection with Broad-
way, thence east 200 feet, thence
north 125 feet, thence west 200
feet, thence south 125 feet to the
beginning.
5th.—A part of block No. 9, in
Peery's addition to the town
of Gainesville, Texas, begin-
ning at the southeast cor-
ner of said block, thence north
100 feet, west 100 feet, south 100
feet and east 100 feet to the be-
ginning.
6th.—10 acres of land out of the
William Brunk 320 acre survey in
Cooke county, Texas, about ll>s
miles S. 62 degrees E. from
Gainesville, beginning at the N.
W. corner of the east half of said
Brunk survey, thence south 475
varas, east 475 varas, north 475
varas and west 475 varas to the
beginning.
7th—Lot Xo. 5, in block No. 5,
of Scott's addition to the city of
Gainesville, Tex., being 82 feet
north and south by 200 feet east
and west.
8th—The west half of an acre of
land out of the William Gallagher
survey in Spark's addition to
Gainesville, Tex., conveyed to W.
X. Lanius and S. S. Evants by
W. F. and C. A. Newton.
9th—10 acres of land out of sec-
tion N. 19, E. T. It. R. Co., near
Bonita in Montague county, Texas,
beginning at the S. W. corner of
2 acres deeded by G. B. Babcock
to the Duxberry school trustees,
thence west 233% varas, north
241 'i varas, east 233% varas and
south 24112 varas to the begin-
ning.
10th—111 acres out of the S. E.
quarter of section No. 52, and the
5. W. quarter of section No. 53
in the name of the E. T. R. R. Co.,
in Montague county, Texas, about
5 miles west of the town of Mon-
tague, and being the same land
conveyed by Moses Schiff toSchiff,
Sommer & Co., by (ieed registered
in Vol. X, page 475 of the deed
records ot Montague county,
Texas.
11th.—Lot Xo. 2, in block E of
Bell's addition to the city of
Gainesville, Texas, deeded to
Schiff, Sommer & Co. and C. E.
Peery by R. V. Bell, by deed reg-
istered in book 49, page 610 of the
deed records of Cooke county,
Texas.
12th.—Lots Xos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, in
block Xo. 10 of Morris' addi-
tion to the town of Montague,
Montague county, Tex.
' The above land will be sold as
onr property and deeds will be
executed to the purchasers there-
of, containing the nsual covenants
of warranty.
For farther particulars apply to
John P. Hird or F. B. Sherwood
at Gainesville, Texas.
Terms of tale: One-fifth cash,
balance on mortgage with interest
at the rate of 6 per cent per
annum.
Bncox Bjuchajlach.
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