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COMMERCIAL PRINTING
OF ALL
KINDS,.
AT THE SIGNAL OFFICE.
HONEY GROVE SIGNAL.
VOL. 10.
Honey Grove, Texas, Friday, October 26,1900.
NO. 34
ALL JOB PRINTING, ETC
NEATLY
DONE...,
AT THE SIGNAL OFFICE
Planters National BankT
Of Honey Grove, Texas.
CAPITAL $75,000. SURPLUS $25,000.
J. T. HOLT, President,
PEYTON WHEELER, V. P., R. J. THOMAS, Cashier,
W. N. SADLER, Ass’t. Cash.
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We have ample means to treat you well as a customer and
Karr nf vnil in o-iVA 11H a trial.
The Colored Man’s Logic.
The logic of some Bible readers
reminds us of the story of an old
colored preacher who made the
assertion in his pulpit that every
woman had seven devils in her.
He was promptly challenged by
the irate female members of his
flock to make good his assertion.
He announced that on a certain
Sunday he would give scriptural
proof of what he had said.
When the time came he gave
proof as follows: “Brudders and
sisters, you have all heard and
read dat de Lawd done cast seven
debils out ob one woman. But,
brudders and sisters, you ain’t
done heard and read dat He cast
de debbils out of any udder wo-
man. Derefore, ef de Lawd only
cast de debbil out of one woman,
den all de udder women has de
debbils in dem yet. So, ’cordin’
to de plain readin’ ob de scrip-
tures, ebbery woman has seven
debbils in her. Dat’s my pint.”
—Ram’s Horn.
It is well to know that DeWitt’s
Witch Hazel Salve will heal a
burn and stop the pain at once.
It will cure eczema and skin
diseases and ugly wounds and
sores. It is a certain cure for
piles. Counterfeits may be of-
fered you. See that you get the
original DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve.
The Dallas News published a
crop report covering Texas, the
Indian Territory and Oklahoma,
Tuesday. The report indicates
an increase of nearly 17 per cent
over last year’s crop in Texas,
which will give the state nearly
3,000,000 bales. The increase in
the Territories is shown to be
nearly 50 per cent, and the yield
is estimated at 266,000 bales.
Does It Pay to Buy Cheap.
A cheap remedy for coughs
and colds is all right, but you
want something that will relieve
and cure the more severe and
dangerous results of throat and
lung troubles. What shall you
do? Go to a warmer and more
regular climate? Yes, if possi-
ble; if not possible for you, then
in either case take the only rem-
edy that has been introduced in
all civilized countries with suc-
cess in severe throat and lung
troubles, “Boschee’s German
Syrup.” It not only heals and
stimulates the tissues to destroy
the germ disease, but allays in-
flamation, causes easy expecto-
ration, gives a good night’s rest,
and cures the patient. Try one
bottle. Recommended many
years by all the druggists in the
world. For sale by Black &
Black.
JOHN SHERMAN IS DEAD.
Passed Away at His Home in Washing-
ton Monday.
Washington, Oct. 22—Honor-
able John Sherman died here at
6:45 this morning of brain ex-
haustion, after thirty-six hours
unconsciousness. The end came
peacefully, with a large number
of friends and relatives gathered
about his bedside.
The remains will be buried in
the family lot at Mansfield, Ohio,
probably on Thursday. A brief
funeral service will be held in
this city tomorrow.
For nearly fifty years John
Sherman has occupied promi-
nen places in the government of
the United States. He was born
in Lancaster, Ohio, May 1, 1823,
and after receiving a liberal ed-
ucation adopted law as a pro-
fession. In 1854 he was elected
a representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-Fifth congress, and was
several times re-elected, finally
going into the senate in 1861, bn
the resignation of Chase.
He was a member of the most
important committees while in
congress, and was the recognized
leader of the house, taking a
leading part in the restoration of
specie payments and the refund-
ing of the national debt.
Mr. Sherman was a supporter
of Hayes for the presidency, and
was afterwards his secretary of
the treasury, his long study of
finances especially fitting him
for the place. He returned to
the senate in 1881, and continued
there two terms. He was sev-
eral times a presidential possi-
bility, but never succeeded in
getting the nomination. His
last public service was secretary
of state under McKinley, which
place he held for only a few
months before resigning on ac-
count of ill health.
Birmarck’s Iron Nerve
Was the result of his splendid
health. Indomitable will and
tremendous energy are not found
where stomach, liver, kidneys
and bowels are out of order. If
you want these qualities and the
success they bring, use Dr.
King’s New Life Pills. Only 25
cents at Black & Black’s Drug
Store.
The Kentucky Legislature
which was called in special ses-
sion to consider the repeal of the
Goebel election finally passed a
new election law and adjourned
last Saturday. The new law
gives Democrats control of elec-
tions in Democratic counties and
places the Republicans in charge
in Republican counties.
WORK OF A CYCLONE.
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I have on exhibition at my Bar,a new $8^ Buggy,
which I will present to one of my customers up*
on the following conditions: The buggy haabeen
locked, and I have secured one thousand keys,
one of which fits the lock on the buggy. To ev-
ery purchaser of a One-Dollar Quart of Whisky,
I will give one key, and when the keys are all
out the holders will be invited to come and try
their keys in the lock, and the one holding the
right key gets the buggy. I have forty-seven
brands of whisky and can suit everybody. Call
around, get the best whisky on the market and a
chance at the buggy. Echo Springs whisky a
specialty. Respectfully,
T. J. BRATTON,
PROP’R BRATTON’S BAR.
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Six People Killed in Marion County and
Much Damage Done to Property.
Atlanta, Tex., Oct. 21.—This
morning about 7 o’clock a tor-
nado struck about a half a mile
west of Lodi, fifteen miles west
of here. The path of the torna-
do was about two hundred yards
wide, and it swept everything
before it. One house in the
center of the path, occupied by
colored people, was destroyed,
six people being "killed outright.
Three others are missing, who
are supposed to be dead.
This tornado traveled from the
southwest to the northeast,
crossing the Texas & Pacific
Railroad at Campbell’s Spur, a
lumber loading station, about
two miles north of Lodi. The
lumber was carried away in all
directions.
It is feared greater loss of life
has resulted further out in the
country.
Democratic Rally at Bonham.
There will be a grand Demo-
cratic rally at Bonham on the
night of November 3d, which
will doubtless be a monster de-
monstration. It is to be a county
affair with Democrats from every
section of old Fannin participat-
ing. Bands of music and noted
speakers have been engaged,
torches and transparencies have
been prepared and everything is
ready for an old-time Democratic
love-feast. We havn’t had a
great deal of politics this year
and all can well afford to join in
one big demonstration before
the great battle of ballots.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, \
Lucas county. J
Frank J. Cheney makes oath
that he is the senior partner of
the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.,
doing business in the City of
Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will
pay the sum of One Hundred
Dollars for each and every case
of catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and sub-
scribed in my presence,Ihis the
6th day of December, A. D. 1886.
A. W. Gleason, Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken
internally and acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testi-
monials, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the
best. ___
Gin Burned at Blossom.
Blossom, Tex., Oot. 21.—The
G. S. Godfrey round and square
bale gin plant at this place
burned at 12:30 this morning.
Loss on plant, $9,000; insurance,
$4,600: loss on cotton $3,000;
insurance $1,250, all in the Fire
Associatton of Philadelphia*
About forty tons of seed were
burned, with no insurance.
There were nineteen loads of cot-
ton on wagons in the yard and
thirty or forty bales, all of which
were saved. Abo ut twenty
round bales in the yard were
badly damaged.
Seven thousand five hundred
pounds of dynamite in the pow-
der magazine at the Spruce Mine,
in Minnesota blew up recently.
A hole one hundred feet square
and twenty-five feet deep marks
the spot where the magazine
stood. The force of the explo-
sion was so great that every
window and mirror in Eveleth
was broken. The loss in the
city is estimated at thirty thous-
and dollars. At least two hun-
dred people were hurt more or
less from being thrown down by
the shock or hit by shattered
glass.___
A Thousand Tongues
Could not express the rapture
of Annie E. Springer, of Phila-
delphia, when Dr. King’s New
Discoxery cured her of a hack-
ing cough that for many years
had made life a burden. She
says: “After all other remedies
and doctors failed it soon re-
moved the pain in my chest and
I can now sleep soundly, some-
thing I can scarcely remember
doing before. I feel like sound
ing its praises throughout the
Universe.” Dr. King’s New
Discovery is guaranteed to cure
all troubles of the throat, chest
or lungs. Price 50c and $1.
Trial bottle- free at Black &
Black’s drug store.
Saddles of all kinds can be
found at L. Dannenman’s.
Catarrh
Its cause exists In tbe blood. In what
causes Inflammation of the mucous mem-
brane
It Is therefore impossible to cure tt by
local applications
It Is positively dangerous to neglect It,
because it always affects the stomach aud
deranges the general health, and Is likely
to develop Into consumption.
It Is radically and permanently cured by
Hood's Sarsaparilla which removes the
cause, cleanses the blood of scrofulous and
all other impurities and gives vigor and
tone to the whole system.
The voluntary testimonial of It. Lono,
California Junction. Iowa, is one of thous-
ands equally good It reads: "I bad
catarrh In the head three years, lost my
appetite and could not sleep. My bead
pained me and I felt bad all over. I was
discouraged I began taking Hood’s Sar-
saparilla und now have a good appetite,
sleep well, and have no'symptoms of
catarrh.”
Hood's Sarsaparilla
promises to cure and, keeps the promise.
Accept no substitute.
LAD0NIA ITEMS.
From the News of the 19th,
A new seed house is being
built at the oil mill. The houses
now in use are taxed to their
utmost capacity and the two
seed houses near the depot have
been called into service. Seed
receipts for this season are the
heaviest the mill has ever known.
Yesterday afterdoon the resi-
dence of Mrs. R. S. Kean, on
Commerce street was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Only a few of
the household effects were saved,
despite the heroic work of the
fire department and others who
rendered all assistance. Insur-
ance was carried on the house
and contents to the amount of
$1100.
Stop wasting your corn by
by feeding it to razor back hogs.
Buy registered Berkshires from
L. C. LaMaster.
Y0UTSEY CONVICTED.
He Was Given a Life Sentence for Com-
plicity in the Goebel Murder Case.
Henry E. Youtsey, the third
man tried for the murder of
William Goebel, shared the fate
of Powers and Howard and was
unanimously declared guilty by
the jury. His punishment was
fixed at life imprisonment.
Later in the day the defense
filed the motion to arrest the
judgement and Judge Cantrill
set the time for hearing the sec-
ond day of the February term
and therefore Youtsey wil not be
sentenced till next year, if then.
It is likely that a jury will be
empaneled as soon as practi-
cable to inquire into Youtsey’s
sanity.
Robbed the Grave.
A startling incident is narrated
by John Oliver, of Philadelphia,
as follows: “I was in an awful
condition. My skin was almost
yellow, eyes sunken, tongue
coated, pain continually in back
and sides, no appetite, growing
weaker day by day. Three phy-
sicians had given me up. Then
I was advised to use Electric
Bitters; to my great joy, the first
bottle made a decided improve-
ment. I continued their use for
three weeks, and am now a well
man. I know they robbed the
grave of another victim.” No
one should fail to try them. On-
ly 50c., guaranteed at Black &
Black’s drug store.
This is the season when moth-
ers are alarmed on account of
croup. It is quickly cured by
One Minute Cough Cure, which
children like to take.
STORY OF JEAN J. MISTR0T.
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combine all these in the full-
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from which to select—many
things you cannot find at the
home stores—the very latest
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Dr. W. H. Lewis, Lawrenoe-
ville, Va., writes, “I am using
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure in my
practice among severe cases of
digestion and find it an admira-
ble remedy.’, Many hundreds
of physicians depend upon the
use of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure in
stomach troubles. It digests
what you eat, and allows you to
eat all the good food you need,
providing you do not overload
your stomach. Gives instant
relief and a permanent cure.
Signal and Republic $1.75.
Blood.
We live by our blood, and on
it. We thrive or starve, as
our blood is rich or poor.
There is nothing else to live
on or by.
When strength is full and
spirits high, we are being re*
freshed, bone muscle and brain,
in body and mind, with con-
tinual flow of rich blood.
This is health.
When weak, in low spirits,
no cheer, no spring, when rest
is not rest and sleep is not
sleep, we are starved ; our blood
is poor; there is little nutri-
ment in it.
Back of the blood, is food,
to keep the blood rich. When
it fails, take Scott’s Emulsion
of Cod Liver Oil. It sets the
whole body going again—man
woman and child.
If you have not tried it, send for free sample,
its agreeable taste will surprise you.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists
409-415 Pearl Street, New York.
50c. and $1.00; all druggists.
A Texas Airshsip.
An airship is in course of con-
struction near Waco and the in-
ventor expects to make a trial
flight in a few days. The owner,
Mr. Custead, announces that he
will certainly go up 11: his ship
and that he has perfect confi-
dence that he has solved the
problem of flying without regard
to air currents in a machine on
wings under perfect control.
His ship resembles a gigantic in-
sect.
We have seen the frail infant
when the faint struggle for ex-
istence seemed almost ended, re-
suscitated and made strong by
the use of White’s Cream Vermi-
fuge. Price 25 cents. Murray
& Evans.
and
very
It’s our candid opinion that
the laws on our statute books
prohibiting gambling, and tran-
sacting business of various kinds
on Sunday, were not expected to
be enforced when passed. It is
a notorious fact that men who
advocate and vote for these laws
openly violate them themselves.
They are made for two reasons,
one to please a certain class of
constituents and the other to
furnish an income in fines, and
fees to the officers.—Denison Ga-
Happiness depends very much
on the condition of the liver and
kidneys. The ills of life make
but little impression on those
whose digestion is good. Yop
can regulate your liver and kid
neys with Herbine and enjoy
health and buoyancy of spirits.
Price, 50 cents. Murray & Ev-
ans.
He Accepted all the Rebuffs and Favors of
Providence, and Said “It is Well.”
Jean Jacques Mistrot, of Bry-
an, Texas, died in Denver re-
cently. There was solemn re-
quiem mass at the Logan Ave-
nue chapel Sunday morning.
Jean Jacques Mistrot was a
man worth knowing. He had a
history. He was born in France,
came to this country and married
the most beautiful Spanish girl
in Louisiana.
He made an immense fortune
down there and he lived like a
prince and gave alms like a feu-
dal lord.
He kept his beautiful wife and
his great family of twelve chil-
dren part of the time in a high
walled old place in town and
part of the time at the great
plantation “up the bayou.”
That plantation is a tradition
of luxury in Louisiana to this
day.
There was room in the stables
for a hundred horses, and it was
nothing for the Mistrots to en-
tertain a house party of 200
guests.
But one day there was a fire
and the great warehouses of
M. Mistrot were burned to the
ground and then there came a
flood and th9 great mills of M.
Mistrot were destroyed, and M.
Mistrot stood and smoked his
pipe and said tranquilly: “It is
well, the good God does it for the
best. It will make men out of
my sons.”
And then the war cami
the Mistrots were poor,
poor.
The great house on the plan-
tation stood forlorn and forgot-
ten at the bend of the bayou.
Some Northern carpet baggers
rented the house in town for
their headquarters and the Mis-
trot boys went out to seek their,
fortunes. They found a fortune,
every one of them.
But they worked hard first.
Some of them were errand boys,
and some were even porters, but
none of them stayed at these
things long. They made money,
made it hand over fist. They
left Louisiana and went to Tex-
as. Two of the brothers started
a little shop in a small Texas
village. It prospered, too, so
they started another shop and
another and another until all
Texas was dotted with the Mis-
trot stores and the Mistrot
brothers were millionaires.
Old Jean Jacques Mistrot
smoked his pipe and was tran-
quil. “All is well,” he said,
“the good God knows what is
best. He has made men of my
boys.”
He lived, he and his beautiful
old wife who looks, by the way,
as young and blooming as her
youngest daughter, happily first
with one son and then with an-
other.
They saw their grandchildren
springing up around them and
life was well, but one day there
was a wedding anniversary and
the Mistrot boys plotted together.
“Let us give mother and father
a home and income of their
own,” they said. “Something
which will make them perfectly
independent,” and they made up
a purse among them, a purse of
a munificent fortune. When
they presented it to M. Mistrot,
their father, his hale old face
flushed. “Is it that I am a beg
gar,” he said, “that you give me
alms?” and then the brothers
bought out a business and gave
it to their father and he managed
it so well that in a few years he
paid back his sons the money
they had given to the business
and was a rich and prosperous
merchant himself.
He was famous all through
Texas for his charity, and when
any one wanted to get him to
tell the story of his life they had
but to complain to him of pover-
ty or of ill fortune.
Then would Jean Jaeqes Mis-
trot,88 years of age and over, in-
vited the one who complained to
dine with him. And when they
had drank together of the wine
of Burgundy and had sipped the
black coffee M. Mistrot would
light his pipe and say: “All is
well, the good God knows what
is best,” and then he would tell
how he knew this and bid the
man whose heart was heavy to
hope.—Denver Post.
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Last Glimpse of Pretoria.
Those who have followed the
fortunes of those Dutch farmers
in South Africa who have been
fighting with marvelous will and
heroism against overwhelming
odds have had many occasions
to admire their many sturdy
virtues. They have fought long
and well and while they have
disappointed Michael Davitt and
a few others who expected the
impossible from them, they have
won the plaudits of the civilized
world.
Their inevitable downfall has
long presaged an enormous pa-
thetic picture and this picture, in
one of its phases, has been por-
trayed by a master hand. In
concluding a series of articles on
the Transvaal war for Scribners,
Richard Harding Davis tells of
his last glimpse of Pretoria, the
capital of the fated republic be-
yond the Yaal river. He left
before the triumphant English
entered, explaining that he had
no desire to see or describe the
proceeding. “I had entered
Pretoria,” he writes, “in the
days of her success and I was
deserting her at the moment of
her fall. I do not know when I
have left a place with as heavy
heart, and as the train at last
pulled free of the town and ran
parallel to the Middleburg high-
way, each mounted Boer it
passed seemed, as he waved his
sombrero, to beckon us back
again. The great veldt, throb-
bing in the heat of the sun and
flashing with brilliant yellow
lights and purple shadows,
seemed to reproach us. The hot
barren kopjes with their stunted
ed cacti, the splashing water-
falls, and the twisting white
river that raced the train, all fill-
ed me with regret. They had
never looked more beautiful or
more to be desired, or more as
the scene set for a country that
men would choose to call home.
The sight of the men to whom it
really was home, who were
fighting for it, and who were to
continue to fight for it, stirred
me with pride in them. I saw
them for the last time even as I
was steaming away from them to
another continent, to other inter-
ests and older friends. They
were jogging patiently through
the high grass on our right, and
spreading out fan-wise over the
red kopjes that lay between them
and Irene, where the sultry air
was shaken with heavy vibra-
tions of hot-throated guns. They
trotted forward alone or in pairs,
each an independent fighting-
man with his rifle and blanket
swung across his shoulders, with
his canvas water-bottle, rusty
coffee-pot and bundle of green
fodder dangling from his saddle.
I knew as the train carried us
away from the sight of them that
no soldier in pipe-clay, gauntlets
and gold lace would ever again
mean to me what these burghers
meant—-these long - bearded,
strong eyed Boers with their
dropping cavalier hats, their
bristling bands of cartridges,
their upright seat in the saddle
and the rifle rising above them
like the lance of the crusader.
They are the last of the crusad-
ers. They rode out to fight for a
cause as old as the days of Pha-
raoh and the children of Israel,
against an enemy ten times as
mighty as was Washington’s in
his war for independence. As I
see it, it has been a Holy War,
this war of the burgher crusader,
and his motives are as fine as
any that ever called a “minute
man” from his farm or sent a
knight of the Cross to die for it
in Palestine. Still, in spite of
his cause, the Boer is losing, and
in time his end may come, and
he may fall. But when he falls
he will not fall alone; with him
will end a great principle, the
principle for which our fore-
fathers fought—the right of self-
government, the principle of in-
dependence.”
This war, holy on the one side
and unholy on the other, has
exposed the cold indifference of
nations. America turned from
the patriots and sided with the
tyrant invaders. France made
wry faces at England, printed
foul and filthy pictures of Queen
Victoria, blustered over the fa-
shoda affair but gave no en-
couragement to the sister repub-
lics and entered no protest
against their obliteration. Hol-
and Portugal cravenly sided with
England and assisted in the un-
holy sacrifice. Germany not on-
ly refused encouragement to the
struggling republics after wax-
ing rich by selling them muni-
tions of war, but turned like a
traitor upon them after leading
them to believe, if not actually
promising them, that assistance
would be forthcoming.
Do not get scared if your heart
troubles you. Most likely you
suffer from indigestion. Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure digests what you
eat and gives the worn out
stomach perfect rest. It is the
only preparation known that
completely digests all classes of
foods; that is why it cures the
worst cases of indigestion and
stomach trouble after everything
else has failed. It may betaken
in all conditions and cannot help
but do you good.
All the latest styles in fall foot
wear are to be found at William-
son, Blocker & Co’s.
If you want an extra good suit
of clothes we are the people—W.
Underwood & Sons.
Blue Front Sample Room!
Old Kentucky Whisky,
Full measure, 10 cents to $1.00
per bottle.
Good Whisky, $1.50 to $4.00
per gallon.
Come in and try them.
Next Door to Price & Gray
Honey Grove, Texas.
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1900, newspaper, October 26, 1900; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth621360/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.