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|At the Signal Office
HONEY GROVE SIGNAL.
VOL. 10.
Honey Grove, Texas, Friday, January 25, 1901.
NO. 52
| Commercial Printing
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W. Underwood, President. B. O. Walcott. Vice President. J. A. Pierce,2d V, P.
T. U. Cole, Cashier. C. B. Bryan, Assistant Cashier.
The First National Bank.
Of Honey Grove, Texas.
Capital fully paid up $125,000. Undivided
Surplus, $75,ooo. Additional Liability
of Shareholders, $125,ooo.
Reserve Agents—The Seaboard National Bank of New York
National Park Bank, of New York.
The Whitney National Bank, of New Orleans.
The National Bank of Commerce in St. Louis.
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American Monte Christo.
When Dumas created his great
character, the Count of Monte
Christo, the idea that such a
man would ever live and breathe.
That such a man would actually
exist in the world, and command
such fabulous wealth probably
never entered his head, but such
a man now exists, and the crea-
tion of Dumas pales into insigni-
ficance when contrasted to the
creation of God, John D. Rocke-
feller.
John D. Rockefeller’s wealth
is estimated at the enormous sum
of $2,000,000,000, a fortune
greater than the total annual im-
ports and exports of the United
States put together. The income
from this wealth is $75,000,000,
and as thts is reinvested and
compounded, in ten years, John
D. Rockefeller, if he lives will be
a multi-billionaire.
Here are some of the greatest
fortunes in the world:
Croesus....................................$ 16,000,000
Duke of Westminister...... 75,000,000
Baron de Rothschild......... 200,000,000
Astor....................................... 150,000,000
William Rockefeller.......... 300,000,000
Carnegie............................... 300,000,000
John Beit(diamond king) 1,000,000,000
John D. Rockefeller......... 2,000,000,000
This nncrowned king’s income
is three times as great as that of
all the crown heads of Europe.
Here are some incomes:
Queen Victoria.......................$ 1,925,000
William Of Germany............. 2,852,770
Emperor of Austria................ 3,875,000
Andrew Carnegie....................... 24,867,500
John D. Rockefeller............... 75,000,000
This fortune has been accumu-
lated within a few years. Jay
Gould made $72,000,000 in forty
years and the whole world was
astounded. Rockefeller’s in-
come is greater than Gould’s
lifetime accumulations. A for-
tune of $2,000,000,000. It is one-
fortieth of the total estimated
value of all the property,real and
personal, in the United States.
It is more than five times the val-
ue’of our entire cotton crop, six
times the value of our entire
wheat crop and seventy times
that of our tobacco crop. It is i
more than the estimated value of!
all the farming lands in the
States of Georgia, Alabama,New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
settes, Delaware and Rhode Is-
land.
What do you think of this, men
who till the soil? Listen and I
will tell you some of this king’s
habits. King Rockefeller retires
about 10:30 and rises at 7 a. m.
When he gets up he is $72,768
richer than when he retired the
night before. He sits down to
to breakfast at 8 o’clock, and at
8:30 rises from the table, his
revenue having increased $4,280.
This king is pious and holds as
good kings ought,family prayers.
During the time of his devotion
his riches swell $2,000. He goes
to church on Sunday, and during
the two hours of service his for-
tune is increased $17,122.
His income is equal to the av-
erage annual earnings of 200,000
wage earners; or it would supply
each year 75,000 homeless per-
sons with homes worth $1,000
each.—Clarence E. Moore.
FOUGHT FOR HIS BUTTER.
Dairyman and a Minister Have a Fight in
Texarkana.
Texarkana,Tex.,Jan. 20.—Two
prominent citizens,one a minister
and the other a market gardener
and dairyman,had a serious diffi-
culty yesterday. The former was
a customer of the latter, and some
days ago bought from him a
pound of butter. Yesterday the
vendor of garden and cow pro-
ducts accosted the minister on the
street in front of the postoffice
and asked him if he didn’t want
to buy some more butter. The lat-
ter said “No, the last I got from
you was bad.” “You are a great
big prevaricator,” was the re-
sponse. Then a fight ensued. It
was short, but clean-cut and de-
cisive. The vegetable man was
an easy winner,striking the other
with a rock and laying him out.
The doctors sewed up the preach-
er’s scalp, while the butter man
climbed back leisurely into his
milk wagon and drove compla-
cently away. The police took a
hand in the matter later in the
day and the usual fines were as-
sessed.
Kidney Troubles.
The kidneys cleanse the blood
and on their activity depends the
health of the body. If the liver
becomes so torpid that it inter-
feres with the work of the kid-
neys the body suffers and dropsy
results. The most valuable fea-
ture in the curative effect of
Prickly Ash Bitters is its stim-
ulating influence in the kidneys.
It heals and strengthens those
organs so that they resume their
blood cleansing and urine gath-
ering functions, purifies and
regulates the liver, tones up the
stomach and digestion, and by a
mild yet thorough cathartic ef-
fect, all poisons and bilious im-
purities in the bowels are driven
out. It quickly restores strength
and health.
Of late years it has become
fashionable for rich men to do-
nate a portion of their means to
institutions'for the public good.
This is, we take it, somewhat to
ease their consciences for the
methods used in gaining the
riches, and partly to perpetuate
their names as a self-glorifi-
cation. It is better for the pub-
lic that these fortunes should be
used as public benefactions than
to be perpetuated in the family.
But the wrongs committed in
gaining them cannot be con-
doned by so using them. They
bring no happiness or peace of
mind to the owners. Recently
Mr. Armour, who grew immense-
ly rich by destroying competi-
tion in the packing business,
died. He accumulated millions.
He invested a portion in literary
institutions to help the public.
He was asked what he regarded
the best paying of his invest-
ments, meaning what paid the
highest interest. He replied:
“the institute.” The portion he
had invested for the good of
others, though but a trifle of his
possessions, brought him more
happiness than all the millions
bearing their percentages.
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If You Don’t Know This
YOU SHOULD! For some years it has been our aim to
bring our service, time and equipment to the highest
possible perfection. The result is that we have in the
trains we now run, with their improved modern coach-
es, luxurious cafe cars and handsome Pullmans, just
ground for claiming superiority. If you are going to
Colorado,Utah,California or any portion of the North-
west, remember that ‘ ‘You don’t have to apologise for
riding on the Denver Road!11
W. F. Sterley, A. G. P. A., Fort Worth, Texas.
A. A. Glisson, G. A. P. D.. Fort Worth, Texas.
Charles L. Hull, T. P. A., Fort Worth, Texas.
Ft.W.&Denver City Ry.
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HON. WIB RIDLING DEAD.
Fannin County’s Representative Passed
Away of. Pneumonia Friday.
Hon. Wib Ridling, one of Fan-
nin county’s representatives in
the Legislature, died at Austin
last Friday morning.'” On his way
to Austin to begin his duties as a
legislator Mr. Ridling was seized
with a chill, and when ho arrived
in the city took to his bed which
he never left. Being unable to
appear in the House on opening
day the oath of office was admin-
istered to him in bed. Pneumonia
followed and finally caused his
death.
Mr. Ridling was one of the best
known citizens of Fannin county.
He was raised near Ladonia and
grew to manhood there, moving
later to Dodd City. For several
years he served as Deputy Sher-
iff and later was elected Sheriff,
which position he held four years
and at the close of his term was
elected Representative to the
Legislature. His wife died two
years ago leaving him three
children.
Both branches of the Legisla-
ture adjourned Friday out of re-
spect to Mr. Ridling’s memory
and a committee accompanied
the remains to Bonham, the
funeral taking place at 9 o’clock
Saturday morning.
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Sears the a Yhe Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature
of
"A Miss Is As
Good as a
If you are not entirely well, you are ill.
Illness does not mean death's door. It is
a sense of ‘weariness, a “ tired feeling," a
life filled with nameless pains and suffer-
ing. In 90:Jo of cases the blood is to blame.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is Nature's corrective
for disorders of the blood. Remember
j’iocdti SoUapmMi
T. & P. Shops for Paris.
The Texas and Pacific owns a
large tract of land south of its
tracks in this city and east of the
Paris oil mill. Within sixty days
the work of erecting large shops
will begin on this land. The
water to operate the shop's wifi1 ^
be piped from the company’s lake
now being constructed west of
the city. This means a great
deal more to Paris than is appar-
ent in the bare announcement of
it. It means an addition of sev-
eral hundred regularly employed
people and their families to this
city. It means that all the re-
pairs to engines and other rolling
stock and new equipments for the
A Contented Village.
Other towns want factories.
Cumby don’t. Other towns want
to grow big and have tall smoke-
stacks with black coal smoke
pouring out and polluting the at-
mosphere and fouling the streets.
They want to see troops of young
women and children hurrying by
| at break of day to reach the fac-
tory before the whistle blows,
and then at night going listlessly
home to squalid huts or crowded
tenements to eat and sleep for
strength to repeat the process on
the morrow. Cumby don’t.
Other towns want to grow big
and see the country fill up and
overflow with farmers till land
reaches $100 per acre and every
f<-bt in cultivation. China does,
Cumby don’t. Cumby
RIOT IN KENTUCKY.
too.
wants a bank to keep her money
in, and wants to be a nice little
country town, sober, quiet, and
restful. Cumby don’t care a rap
either, whether the surrounding
country is settled up or not. Our
children are growing up and will
want homes, and so will their
children. All this howling about
industrial development, factories,
etc., is not the voice of the man
Shreveport, Texarkana and Fort | with the ho0i but ia from thoge
Worth divisions will be made here who ,iTe by the 8weat o£ the jaw.
in Paris. It means a magnificent
new depot and dining hall.—Paris
Advocate.
Quality and not quantity makes
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers such
valuable little liver pills.
If this is mossbackism, make the
most of it.—Cumby Rustler.
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Bears the /) Yhe Kind You ^ave A,waLs Bought
Signature
of
WALL PAPER
We have
just received another car of
purniture!
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Our line of Wall Paper can-
not be surpassed in this sec-
tion of the State. We are
well stocked in this line, and
our prices are the very low-
est. Our stock contains all
the latest patterns and de-
signs, from the cheapest to
the most expensive. Call and
look through our stock.
Yours truly,
MHOON&CO
FURNITURE AND COFFINS. EAST SIDE SQUARE.
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BAILEY EXONERATED.
The Charges Diamissed as Untrue and the
Accusers Denounced.
The co mmittee appointed by
the Texas Legislature to investi-
gate the charges against Hon. J.
W. Bailey, growing out of the
Standard Oil Company’s charter
submitted the following resolu-
tions, which were unanimously
adopted:
“Whereas, The committee of
the House of Representatives ap-
pointed to investigate the charges
against Hon. J. W. Bailey and
certain State officials in connec-
tion with the readmission of the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company into
this State have performed their
duty; and
“Whereas, By the most diligent
inquiry they have not been able
to find a single fact or circum-
stance discreditable either to
Hon. J. W. Bailey or to any
State official, but on the contrary
all of the evidence before said
committee completely and over-
whelmingly exonerates Hon. J.
W. Bailey and all State officials
from the charge of misconduct,
therefore, be it
“Resolved by the House of
Representatives that we de-
nounce imputations and insinu-
ations against the integrity of
Hon. J. W. Bailey and our State
officials as the most cruel, vindic-
tive and unfounded attack ever
made upon the character of a
faithful public servant in Texas.”
Fresh oysters in any style, also
anything you want to eat at Fritz
Messerer’s.
The lightning bug is brilliant,
But it hasn’t any mind;
It stumbles through existence
With its headlight on behind.
Cornelius N. Alvord, who stole
$690,000 from the First National
Bank of New York, gets thirteen
years in prison. This allows Mr.
Alvord only about $53,000 a year,
which is asking a man of his
business qualifications and apti-
tude to work mighty cheap.
It is said that French natural-
ists have invented a process for
melting wood. By means of dry
pistillation and high pressure the
escape of developing gasses is
prevented, thereby reducing the
wood to a molten condition. Af-
ter cooling off, the mass assumes
the character of coal, yet with-
out showing a trace of the organ-
ic structure of that mineral. The
new body is hard, but can be
shaped and polished, is impervi-
ous to water and acids and is a
perfect electrical non-conductor.
If the inventors can make a sat-
isfactory substance of this kind it
will undoubtedly have a consider-
able future.—Chicago News.
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If you Knew how SCOTT’S
EMULSION would build you
up, increase your weight,
strengthen your weak throat
and lungs and put you in con-
dition for next winter, you
would begin to take it now.
Send for free sample, and try it.
SCOTT &BOWNE, Chemists,
409:415 Pearl Street, New York.
50c. and $1.00; all druggists.
Opening of Indian Reservations. *
The Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache lands will be opened to
settlement in June or July, and
the Wichita lands will probably
be thrown open to set J rs at the
same time. There are about
3,000,000 acres of land in the
Kiowa reservation. About 500,-
000 acres will be allotted to mem-
bers of the tribes, about 500,000
acres reserved for grazing pur-
poses and about 2,000,000 acres,
less the school sections, will be
opened for settlement. There
are about 650,000 acres in the
Wichita reservation. These res-
ervations embrace some of the
finest lands in Oklahoma and
would be capable of supporting a
large population. From the show-
ing made there is no doubt that
nearly all the lands are good for
farming or grazing.
As to those entitled to take
homesteads, any person who is
not the owner of 160 acres of
land and who has not had the
benefit of the homestead law is
entitled to enter 160 acres of these
lands. Every entryman may
obtain patent, either by residing
on the land five years and pay-
ing $1.25 per acre, or any per-
son who is otherwise qualified
but who made a previous home-
stead entry and paid for the
same in addition to residing up-
on it, either five or seven years
or less, is entitled to make home-
stead entry on this reservation
under existing law.
For Sale.—A span of large
mules 7 and 8 years of age.—C.
E. Easterwood.
The Shooting of a Man Causes Trouble—
Several Persons Killed.
Corbin, Ky., Jan. 16.—A riot
is in progress here tonight as a
result of the shooting this after-
noon of James Shotwell by Rollie
White, and several persons have
been killed and injured. Shot-
well is in a precarious condition
late tonight and is not expected
to recover.
The trouble grew out of the
fact that White had been paying
attention to Shotwell’s daughter
against the will of the latter. Af-
ter the shooting White submitted
to arrest and was placed in his
brother’s grocery store, where a
guard was placed over him await-
ing the arrival of the sheriff.
At 6:30 p.m. a terrific explo-
sion took place under the grocery.
So severe was the shock that it
tore the building literally to
pieces. There were about a dozen
persons in the building at the
time. Several escaped with
slight injuries, while several were
killed by flying debris. It is not
known how many are killed.
Shortly after the explosion
there was rapid firing in the
neighborhood by unknown par-
ties concealed in the darkness.
After the shooting Susan Cox
was found dead near the wrecked
building, having been struck by
a stray bullet. Citizens are
afraid to visit the rioting district
tonight and the number of killed
can not be ascertained until
morning.
A Century of Law-Making.
On January 31, 1801, Presi-
dent Adams appointed John
Marshall, of Virginia, chief Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court, which
is, to use the words of the En-
glish historian, “the only tribu-
nal which can sit in judgment on
a national law and declare an
act of all the three powers of the
union to be null and void.
Every year now we have more
new laws than John Marshall
considered during the entire
thirty-four years that he was on
the Supreme bench. We have
hundreds of laws passed by con-
gress; laws passed by state leg-
islatures; laws passed by city
councils, and all sorts of minor
legislation which mount up into
the tens of thousands during the
twelve months.
The variety of these laws is as
great as the number. There are
laws regulating dogs and con-
cerning elephants; laws about
English sparrows and laws about
the great American eagle. There
are laws affecting everything
from microbes to mammals, from
politics to love. If all the laws
on the books to-day were en-
forced the average citizen would
either have to stay at home be-
hind closed doors or begin a
journey to a lunatic asylum. A
hundred marshals would be un-
able to consider every one of
them or to get from them much
more than a fine case of nervous
prostration or despair.
The most soothing, healing
and antiseptic application ever
devised is DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve. It relieves at once and
cures piles, sores, eczema and
skin diseases. Beware of imi-
tations.
IPs a hard dose to white men
to have to sit on the jury with
negroes, but there seems to be no
escape from it in cases where
“gentlemen of color”are on trial,
if convictions are to stick.
This season there is a large
death rate among children from
croup and lung troubles. Prompt
action will save the little ones
from these terrible diseases. We
know of nothing so certain to
give instant relief as one Minute
Cough Cure. It can also be re-
lied upon in lagrippe and all
throat and lung troubles of
adults. Pleasant to take.
THE
8EST MADE, BEST FITTING, BEST WEARING
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XBT THE WOXtliD.
Manufacfd by THE GOODWIN CLOTHING CO,
EVANSVILLE, IND.
$SK MB THEM. ITYRY PAIR BARBAS®*0
Planters National Bank, I
Of Honey Grove, Texas.
CAPITAL $75,000. SURPLUS $25,000.
J. T. HOLT, President,
PEYTON WHEELER, V. P., R. J. THOMAS, Cashier,
E W. N. SADLER, Ass’t. Cash.
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We have ample means to treat you well as a customer and
beg of you to give us a trial.
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Riches and Idolatry.
The passion of our age and
country is for riches. Riches is
the god that is now worshiped.
Whatever the heart is set on,
whatever is made the supreme
object of life, is worshiped.
Whatever man sacrifices the true
service of God to attain, the Bible
calls his “idol.” He worships
that which he honors and exalts
in his heart and in his life above
all else. The supreme service of
the heart and the life is worship;
the dev otion of the heart and the
life to any object is worship. If
these things be true, it is true
that this age and country wor-
ship riches above all else, because
the masses of the people give the
most earnest, active and laborious
service of heart, mind and body
to the gaining of riches; they
deny themselves all else to gain
riches. This is the worship of
riches as their idol. Covetous-
ness is the overweening desire
for gain; it is the worship of
riches; it is idolatry.
“They that will be rich fall
into temptation and a snare,, and
into many foolish and hurtful
lusts, which drown men in de-
struction and perdition. For the
love of money is the root of all
evil; which while some coveted
after, they hove erred from the
faith, and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows.”
The experience of this world fully
bears out the warnings of God in
the Bible. We see men every
day around us in their anxious
struggle for riches fall into many
temptations they are not able to
bear, pierce themselves and the
hearts and souls of their best and
truest friends through with many
sorrows. Yet riches do not and
cannot bring happiness, but do
bring care and anxiety for riches
often causes the failure. Pru-
dent industry and economy will
bring competence always. The
anxiety for wealth leads to risks
and overstraining in business, to
speculations and failure. Nine-
tenths of the business failures
come from anxiety to gain wealth
rapidly.
The possession of wealth brings
many and hurtful temptations.
The means to indulge lust and
power are temptations to indulge
them. To one who has the means
to gratify his lusts and appetites,
his pride and his ambitions, the
temptations are increased mani-
fold. The power to control means
destroys the weaker competitors
in business and trade, increases
the temptation a thousandfold to
crush out all competion and bring
those with less means to ruin. As
a rule, these men who have be-
come millionaires do this. The
pathway to their great riches is
strewn with the wrecks of weaker
men and families brought to ruin
and poverty as much as the vic-
torious warrior’s pathway is
strewn with the wreck and ruin
of his enemies. This principle
of business is wrong and sinful.
Wealth so gained cannot bring
happiness. Great, overgrown
fortunes are made, but what good
do they bring to their owners?
They bring trouble to their own-
ers in many ways. The care of
them is an exacting anxiety. A
feeling pervades society that they
were gained by wrong and ruin
to others; hence, they are legit-
imate prey for any who can cheat
or rob them.—Ex.
Fast Time.
The time mark has been clipped
by the trotters and the runners.
From three minutes the trotting
record has dropped to 2:03 1-4;
the holder of the present mark,
the Abbot, was bred and raised
in this country by Cicero J. Ham-
lin. Star Pointer has the pacing
record of 1:59 1-4.
Salvator has the running rec-
ord for the mile, 1:35 1-2, made
on a straight-away track. There
is little doubt that there are
horses in training who can beat
the performance.
Old People Made Young.
J. C. Sherman, the veteran ed-
itor of the Vermontville (Mich.)
Echo,ha3 discovered the remark-
able secret of keeping old people
young. For years he has avoid-
ed nervousness,indigestion,heart
trouble, constipation and rheu-
matism by using Electric Bitters,
and he writes: “It cannot be
praised too highly. It stimulates
the kidneys, tones the stomach,
aids digestion and gives a splen-
did appetite. It has worked won-
ders for my wife and me. It’s a
marvelous remedy for old peo-
ple’s complaints.” Only 50 cents
at Black & Black’s drug store.
To Avoid Being Humbugged.
The fakes, like the poor, we
have always with us, and the
traps they set to catch the cash
of the unwary are many and
subtle. Persons who send money
to a distant city in answer to a
glowing advertisement and ex-
pect to get a big bargain, may
get what they anticipate, but the
probability is that they will only
get left. The only sure way to
avoid being taken in by sharp-
ers is to buy of reputable home
dealers, men to whom you can
go and kick like an army mule
if the thing purchased is not as
represented or there is any de-
lay in delivering the goods.
These men have a reputation to
sustain and cannot afford to
cheat.—Ex.
Bucklin’s Arnica Salve
has world-wide fame for marvel-
lous cures. It surpasses any lo-
tion, salve, ointment or balm for
cuts, corns, burns, boils, sores,
felons, tetter, salt rheum, fever
sores, chapped hands, skin erup-
tions. Infallible for piles. Cure
guaranteed. Only 25 cents at
Black & Black’s drug store.
The voluntary contribution of
the school children of New York
to the school children of Galves-
ton, Tex., was a barrel of five
cent pieces and nearly a ton of
pennies, besides numerous other
coins, including Chinese, Turk-
ish* and those of almost every
country, making a grand total
of twenty-nine thousand dollars.
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LEGAL BLANKS
OF ALL KINDS
Warranty Deeds, Quit Claim Deeds, Ven- j
dor’s Lien, Power of Attorney,
Bills of Sale, Rent Contracts, Releases, etc. j
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 1901, newspaper, January 25, 1901; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth621248/m1/1/?q=ridling: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.