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JACKSBORO
VOLUME XXV.
JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1904,
NUMBER 5.
CATARRH
A COMMON
COMPLAINT.
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Catarrh begins with a stubborn cold in the head, inflammation or sore-
ness of the membrane or lining of the nose, discharge of mucus matter,
headaches, neuralgia and difficult breathing, and even in this early stage
is almost intolerable. But when the filthy secretions begin to drop back
into the throat and stomach, and the blood becomes polluted and the
f 1 had a continual headache, my cheeks had crown
by the catarrhal pOlS- purple, my nose was always stopped up, ray breath
on, then the sufcrer W*
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JACKSBORO,
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J. A. JONES,
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JACKSBORO, TEXAS.
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A BOOM
e* not, ultimately, bring
about the best results to
a community.
THE PAN-HANDLE
is not on a boom, but is enjoy-
ing the most rapid growth of
any section of Texas.
WHY?
Because only recently have the
public at large realized the op-
portunities which this north
west section of Texas offers
The large ranches are being
divided into small stock farms.
Wheat, com, cotton, melons,
and all kinds of feed stuffs are
being raised in abundance, but
passing the expectations of the
most sanguine. A country
abounding in such resources
tried and proven, together with
he Low Price of lands, can not
help eijoying a most rapid
growth and that is what is hap-
pening in the Pan-Handle.
THE
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all points, thus giving you a
chance 10 investigate the vari-
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Fort Worth, Texas.
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The Farmer Receives Recog-
nition aV Last.
For the first time in history
the agricultural interests have re-
ceived due recognition at a
World’s Fair, and at St. Louis the
largest building on the grounds is
devoted to this great foundation
of all prosperity. Nearly twenty
acres are covered by this one
building containing every conceiv-
able exbibit of farm products, the
methods by which same are pro-
duced, the latest facilities for
dandling them afterwards—in fact,
to visit this building is the flame
as taking a post-graduate coarse
in farming.
Then there is machinery hall, a
mighty structure covering acres,
containing every known imple-
ment, ancient and modern.
Many have already gone home
from this greatest of expositions
with ideas that will help them bet-
ter their condition many times.
You ought to go, your children
ought to go. Better then years of
school will it be for them, for the
whole world has placed its
achievements in array for their
Inspection. Tour wife should go.
She has worked hard with you for
all these years, and earned a
change. She will never get
through tbankiDg you for the op-
portunity you provide her of see-
ing perhaps the last World’s Fair
for many years.
The rates are low. It doesn’t
take long to go. See our display
advertisement in another column.
The Rock Island is the favorite
route. Write to
W. H. Firth, G. P.&T.A.,
Rock Island at
j 16 Fort Worth, Texas
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STRONG-MINDED
up-to-date men also want a Good
General Newspaper in order to
keep in close touch with the out-
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Dallas Semi-Weekly . News. A
combination of the Jacksboro Ga-
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this section need in order to keep
thoroughly posted upon Local
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this combination will keep every-
one up to the times on informa-
tion.
For $1.75 we will send the two
papers one year—156 copies. The
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alone worth the money-to any far-
mer or Stockman of this locality,
to say nothing of other Special
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Memphis, Tenn , June 25.—John
Sharp Williams, minority leader in
the House of Representatives has
this to say concerning the negro
plank in the Republican platform:
“ Give the Republicans rope
enough and they will bang them-
selves. They have assumed the
offensive as they choose. There
is no use in our taking a hand ex-
cept in self-defense, to protect
our rights under the Constitution
and our civilization. The Repub-
licans have put themselves on the.
defensive by assuming the effen
sive.”
Malcolm R. Patterson, Repre-
sentative from the Tenth Tennes-
see District, said:
“The issue which the Republi-
can party has forced upon the
South and upon the whole coun-
try by placing the negro question
in its platform is deplorable from
every standpoint. I think it is
the most important as well as the
moBt difficult domestic problem
we have confronting us.
“The action of the Republican
party shows it to be one based
purely on se ctienaliem. It had its
birth in sectionalism and lives on
partisanship. Its whole history
on the negro qaestion has been
one of sbam, pretense and hypoc-
racy. Every intelligent man
knows that the best friend of the
negro is the self-respecting and
intelligent Southern man, and ev-
eryone who has given this sub-
ject any consideration must un-
derstand that the negroes oppor-
tunities for work and for progress
and for well-being are far better
in the 8outh than they are or oan
be in the North.
“ The issues which this section-
al aud selfish party has forced
will do incalculable harm, and
more to the negro himself than
even to the white race, for the
white race will take care of itself
in the South, no matter what the
Republican party proposes to do.
It has taken a determined and
final stand against the interming-
ling of the races, let the cost be
what it may, and it will never
abandon its position.
“ I regard the plank in the Re-
publican platform which threat-
ens a reduction in the represen-
tation of Southern States as a
revival of the worBt days of the
‘ bloody shirt,’ as an assault upon
Southern manhood, and, for that
matter, upon American decency
and intelligence every where.
“We must look for a cause for
all this, and this cause is not hard
to discover. It is because we
havfe a candidate' for President
of the United States in the per-
son of Theodore Roosevelt, who
is utterly without sympathy for
Southern people aud whose am
bition is as boundless as it is un-
scrupulous. Roosevelt is respon-
sible for resurrecting this twice-
buried issue. It meets his ap-
proval aud has had his active aid.
There would be no negro qaes-
tion were it not for the despica-
ble politics, of which Roosevelt is
the arch-type.
“ I regard Theodore Roosevelt
as the most sectional and the
most dangerous man who has
ever been named for President.
He is not only a menace to the
peace of the country with foreign
nations, but he is also a menace to
the peaceful relations between
the white and the black races-
He is the worst enemy today of
the negro in the United States,
for he is the most conspicuous in
making him a political issue.”
The Commercial Appeal lays
the responsibility for the plank
upon President Roosevelt, and
remarks:
“If he is honest and sincere,
and is actuated by a sole desire
to elevate the negro, he is to be
feared and pitied for his erring
jndgment, which led him to dis-
turb the peace of a nation and
revive sectional discontent, dis-
trust and hatred. If he is using
the negro as a political asset, he
is too unscrupulous to he again
intrusted with the presidency.”
Louisville, Ky. Jane 25.—In
the opinion of thoughtful South-
ern people the Republican party
as a whole has no desire to have
a large negro representation from
the South and has no real wish to
restrict the white representation
from that section. Every effort
heretofore to bring about such a
result has been defeated by Re-
publican votes or influence.
THE ROAD TO SUCCESS
STATE DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM ADOPTED
SAN ANTONIO
VENTION.
CON-
Lies Along the Path Decisive
and Up the Hill of
Endeavor.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who is' a
splendid example of success won
by individual effort, has the fol-
lowing to say on the subject:
If you are the victim of failure,
and are wondering why you have
not succeeded as we^l as many of
your acquaintance, it might be
well for you to cast a retrospec-
tiva eye over your past.
It is, of course, more agreeable
to lay the blame of all your mis-
fortunes upon Fate; but your fu-
ture will stand a better
chance of being brighter if you
discover what part of it lies in
yourself, and learn how to over-
come circumstances and change
environment.
Perhaps you started out on the
quickrich method of financiering.
You made up your mind that
old-fashioned ideas 'of industry
and patient lab or were all noa-
sence in this rapid age.
You had examples of multimil-
lionaires to offer as arguments
when anyone d onbted your wis-
dom.
But not every man can be a suc-
cessful villaiD, thief or liar. And
the man who undertakes to fellow
the methods of great robbers, on
small scale, usually finds himself (jovernment, so levied as not to
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m prison or out of a position, in-
stead of rich and popular.
In the present stage of our
evolution the world temporarily
admires a big swindler, but it eter-
nally despises a little one.
Better right about face and re-
construct your life on a wholly
old-fashioned basis of. integrity
and worth.
Perhaps you have begun ten
things and never finished one, and
have formed slipshod methods of
thonght and action,• which are the
real cause of all year failures.
You can do twenty things after
a fashion, aud nothing well. Yet
you wonder why you have never
found your place in the world, and
why yonr many capabilities have
met with such poor reward.
You may be one of the people
who no sooner begin a piece of
work than they are seized with a
’everish desire to do something
else, and so rush through what
they have started to accomplish
at breakneck speed, slighting the
work in bund for the work in
mind.
Or, still worse, 50a may be a
victim of the, “By-and-by” and
“Time-enough” mottoes.
Alas for the people who are al-
ways “going” to do “things”! The
Yalley of Pretty Soon is white
with the bleaching bones of men
and women who died while telling
how they were going to do this
and that.
Thought is power, and when
thought is spent 00 the by-and-by
instead of being used on the Now,
it is as wasteful as to throw gold
into the sea, instead of sending it
into circulation to benefit huonn
ity. If you have an ambition or
purpose in your mind, act upon it
at once. There is not an hour to
waste.
Do something toward beginning.
Rouse yourself from lethargy ol'
dreams, and make a start on
facts.
It is wonderful what power
comes of that beginning, just so
much power is dissipated. The
road to success lies along the path
Decisive, and np the hill of Ea-
! deavor, and across the bridge of
‘ Patience. The road to Defeat lies
through the Valley of Pretty Sood,
and the winding paths of Wait-a-
wbile.
Whatever yon intend to do by-
and-by begin now. .
1. The T< xas Democracy, in
convention assembled, congratu-
late our party and country upon
the prospect of National Demo-
cratic success.
2. We declare our faith in and
adherence to those fundamental
principles taught by JtffereoD,
which have given life to our party
throughout its whole illustrious
history.
3. We repudiate and denounce
the various erbifrary acts of the
present chief executive of the Na-
tion in usurping the powers of
Congress, violating sound inter-
national law, and as tending to
destroy free representative con-
stitutional government.
4. We commend the course as
may tend to peace and avoid war
and condemn militarism as de
slructive of the liberties of the
people. The war spirit that has
been so pandered to by the pres-
ent executive, we strongly con-
demn.
5. We condemn all unlawful
combinations to control, either
material, labor or products, to 4he
destruction of competition, and
demand the rigid enforcement of
all laws against such trusts, since
“equal rights to all and special
.privileges to none” must be re-
spected as basic in our political
system.
6. We denounce the present
tariff laws, known as the Dingley
act, as an abomination of legisla-
tive iniquity, and as a gross and
conscienceless abuse of legisla-
tive power, for which no sufficient
excuse can be offered or apology
made; and we, therefore, pledge
ourselveB to its revision. “We
denounce the doctrine of protec-
tion as a fraud, a robbery of the
many to enrich the few,” and fa-
vor a tariff for revenue duly, suf
fieient to meet the needs of an
honest, e&cieut and economic
recoinage of our legal tender sil-
ver dollars into subsidiary coin as
threatened by Republican Con
gressmen.”
Mr. Jenkins urged that the par-
ty should make some declaration
along this line. Not to do so, he
said, would he to carry the get
together idea to the extent that
many persons who had voted the
Democratic ticket in 1396 and
1900 would be dissatisfied; and
furthermore he believed that ail
Democrats could unite in these
declarations.
The committee, however, deem-
ed it advisable not to go beyond
a declaration of vital and basis
principles of Democracy, and so
these planks were rejected.
FAMOOS BOER LEADER
TO BE MARRIED.
discriminate against sections, but
to equalize the burden of taxation
to the greatest possible extent.
7. We favor as economical ex
jenditure of the pnbiic money as
may be consistent with efficiency;
and we denounce the extrava-
gance that has so strongly eharac
terized the present administration
of the Federal Government as al-
together unnecessary, and as
tending to corrupt the public con-
science.
8. We are opposed to asset
currency, aud to the control of
W volume of money by the
banking powers.
9. We trust that harmony will
prevail in onr National convention
at St. Louis on July G, and that
patriots everywhere will nnite in
the support of the choice of that
convention for President, and ac
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complish the overthrow of the
present pernicious administration,
believiDg, as we do, that the re-
election of the present executive
would be a menace to our free in-
stitutions, and the individual lib-
erty of the citizen.
The platform as originally re-
ported did not contain the plank
relating to money. It was insert-
ed as the result of a minority
report, the presentation of which
provoked tho only controversy
of moment that took place darffig
the entire convention. „
The fight began in the commit-
tee on platform, where O. D. Jen-
kins of Browuwood offered and
niged the adoption of the follow-
ing:
“The unexpected but fortunate
increase in the quantity of gold
Las rendered unnecessary the
further demand for the free coin-
age of eilver; but the result, as
6-jen in the increased prosperity
of the country, has vindicated
the quantitative theory of money
as contended for by the Demo-
cratic party.
“We are oppoeed to asset cur-
rency, the control of the volume
by National banks and the dis
tarbance of oar finances by the
The Divorce Evil.
Atlanta Constitution: The ex-
ecutive committee of the confer-
ence of churches upon marriage
aud divorce ha3 issued the first of
its proposed series of tracts, in
which is presented some rather
startling statisi.cal information on
this public qaestion.
We have been accustomed to as-
sociate Chicago, or South Dakota,
or Oklahoma with the divorce
evil in its acuteat form, but from
the tract before us it would ap-
pear that “there are others,” and
ia staid, Puritanical New England,
too. The committee has gone to
great pains to collect complete
statistics in Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, and it is Bhowntkat
in all but one of these states the
proportion of divorces to mar-
riages is greater than the average
of the nation, which is about one
in fifteen.
Last year Maine had one divorce
to every six marriages, Rhode Is-
land one to eight; New Himshire
about the same; Vermont one to
ten and Massachusetts one to six-
teen.1
From the foregoing it is easy to
see why the church and uphold-
ers of public morality are under-
taking a crusade designed to make
divor ce more dfficult and matri-
mony more serious. The statist-
ical showing made by Maine is de-
cidedly scandalous. Think ojf one
marriage oat of every sixbeiDg le
gaily dissolved! Could there be
other than an affirmative answer
to the moot question, “Is marriage
a failure!” in view of the Pine
Tree State’s record?
There are two sides to this
great question, of course. The
thing that the state must concern
itself with is to see that no divorce
is granted for a cause that will not
hold water and that the courts do
net dispatch divorce business on
the private pension system in
vogue in cosgress. Every divorce
case should b8 tried as thoroughly
andaa conscientiously as a murder
case.
From the tract issued by the
united churches, we quote the fol-
lowing as showing the aim of the
crusaders:
“The hope of curing the tenden-
cies to facile divorce rests upon
impressing and inculcating such
an intense conviction of what
marriage is that, it will cease to be
entered into unadvisedly.”
That is the idea. Easy divorce
naturally means loose notions a-
boat the nature and responsibility
of the marriage relation. Frequent
divorces^will result just as fre-
quent homicides will result if the
criminal laws are lightly or indif-
ferently executed. In either in-
stance a healthy public sentiment
must prevail.
It is the duty of all good citi-
zens to frown upon any tendency
toward laxneES in divorce law-
making and administration.
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Anita Moore in the St. Louis
Republic gives the following
beautiful story of the courtship
of the great Boer leader, General
Ororje and Mrs. Stelzal, widow
of another Boer officer. In the
shadow of the hickory trees that
spreads a friendly aud protecting
shade over the tents of the veter-
ans of the Boer war, stationed at
the World’s Fair, there is being
enacted a romance, a courtship as
nffique and charming as that of
Miles Standish and Priscilla.
It is the courtship of General
Piet Cronjp, the Boer leader who
was the terror of the British gen-
erals, r.nd Mrs. Johanna Sletzel,
widow of a former comrade of tfie
Boer commander.
He was alone in the world, she
was alone. He was miserable, be
needed a wife “who looketh well
to the ways of her household.”
Would she-be the one!
The widow hesitated—‘he Gen-<
eral was a good man—she was
alone—she needed soma one to
help her—she admired the Gener-
al—Yes she would marry him
when they returned to their coun-
try.
For a time the General was sat-
isfied. Bat his loneliness grew
upon him, each day he visited his
fiance. Every morniog he visited
her and read the Bible to hei;
they sang hymDS. Th^n Mrs.
Stcizel brewed a fragrant enp of
coffee and over the coffee cups
they planned for the future and
dreamed the golden dreams of all
lovers. The sweet solace of com-
panionship grew dearer to the
heart of the lonely old jear veter-
an, and he urged his lady-love for
an early marriage. The exact day
has not been set, but the ceremo-
ny will take place in the early
part of July in one of the German
churches of St. Louis.
All the world loves a lover and
is keenly interested in a love
story. With this in mind, I called
npon Mrs. Stefzel that she might
give to the readers of The Repub-
lic a true love story as beautiful
and as refreshing as that found in
fiction.
Were I asked to describe Gen-
eral Cronje’s fiance in three words
I would say, “Wife, Home and
Mother.” If you were to meet
her you would understand why.
General Cronje told her he
thonght her the embodiment of a
good wife as set forth in the first
chapter of Proverbs.
The moment you enter her tent
yon feel the atmosphere of home,
and when Bhe smiles at you
through her blue eyes you feel as
if you had found a friend to whom
you could confide your most sa-
cred sorrow or joy and receive
consolation in your grief or joy in
your happiness. She is matronly
in figure and manner, she is as
shy and timid as a school girl.
She wears her light blond hair
combed back from alow, broad
forehead, her complexion is pink
and white, her mouth firm, but
gentle,' which has the habit of
spreading into a happy smile. Her
kindly face shows signs of great
suffering, her manner is serene
and calm with hidden fire smoul-
dering, which would flash into a
blaze in defending home or coun-
try. Mrs. Stetzel is of the fiber
that our grand and great-grand
parents were made of, she is ca-
pable of great suffering for those
she loveSj She has been a sol-
diei’s wife and is well fitted to be
a soldier’d bride. She is as happy
in her new found love-as a young
bride, and when asked to tell of
her romance, she blushed and
said with a happy smile:
“I am very happy, General
Cronje is very happy. He is a
good man. We have both suffer-
ed a great deal, but that is past.
“I met Generil Oronje in South
Africa. My husband and I had a
hotel at Johanueaberg, and when
the Genera1, who was a member
of the Transvaal Cabinet, came to
Jobannesberg on business he
stopped at the hotel, but I did not
know him very well, but my hus-
band did. They were both officers
in the Boer Army.
“1 decided to come to the
World’s Fair and bring my two
youngest sons, John and Augnat.
i 16 and IS years old. I thought
it would be a good thing for them
to see something of the world.
My home was broken up by the
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war, my husband died just at the
close of the war. I thonght per-
haps I would remain in America.
I came to do my duty to my sons.
“We will bo married in July,
the exact date has not been set.
I will wear a silver gray gown. I
like it best for a woman of my
age, and then it is the second
marriage for me.”
Just then the sonnd of meas-
ured footsteps were heard coming
down the path. Mrs. Stetzsl
blushed and smiled and advanced
toward the door. A tall, broad-
shouldered man of soldierly bear-
ing entered. He stooped and
kissed the woman beside him.
Then I knew I was face to face
with the lover of the charming
woman to whom I had been talk-
ing. She introduced him to me,
but we could not converse, as the
General does not Bpeak English
and I do not speak Holland.
I studied the man. Could this
quiet, reserved man be the daring
General Oronje of whose deeds
of valor and daring I had heard
so much about.
The Chances In Favor of tha
Educated Man.
Dallas News: The Columbia
State gives figures to prove that
relatively the educated man baa
more chances than the uneducated
man. The Charlotte Observer
declares that “there is little need
to preach, at this late day, the
value of an education.” Of coarse
there is education and edueation.
If reference is made to the kind
of “book-learning” brought home
by some vain boys and girls these
days, then there remains a good
many things to explain. How is
it, for example, that so many of
the educated return horns to be
supported by the uneducated?
There is a story to tba point.
Two old friends met, after one of
them had been absent for many
years. “ Wbat ever became of
John Smith?” inquired one.
“ Why, he is one of the brightest
young doctors in the land,” re-
plied the other. “ Well, how
about his brother, Ben ? ” “ Man!
Ben is the leading criminal law-
yer at the bar.” “ There was a
younger brother, Sam. What baa
come of him ? ” “ Sam is a poet,
and his poetry goes in the maga-
zines.” “ Weil, well, well! How
about the old man t ” “ The old
man is still running his little farm,
making bread and meat for John
and Ben and Sam and the girls.”
Of coarse this is an extrava-
gant or exaggerated story. Ail
the young doctors, lawyers and
poets do not have to rely upon
the old man for support. Soma
of them succeed, just as soma
persous with special lines to pur-
sue might be .expected to do. Bat
the story is less. extravagant
when applied to the majority of
those who are not especially
trained for a profession or far
some chosen line—those who have
“ education ” of the loose latitndi-
nous kind, so common in some
parts of the United States.
Education of the right kind is
almost the making of the man or
the woman. It not only develops
the faculties and powers of the
individual, but it implies ability
and willingness to apply sueh
powers with the best effect. Bd-
ucation of the best kind ia some-
thing practical, something useful,
something to rely upon for suc-
cess in business aud in life. That
superficial training which lifts a
girl above her sphere and makes
her dream and sleep while she
should be helping about the
house; which converts the boy
into a skyscraper, spendthrift,
sport; which enables fine-looking
fashionable fellows to deceive
others—that kind of education is
a hindrance rather than a help to
society and to the graduates
themselves. What the great mass
of boys and girls in both the Oar-
olinas, in Texas and the world
over need is education of a prac-
tical and usefnl kind, and when
they are given that, there will be
no demand whatever for argu-
ments to prove the benefits and
value of it.
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Estray Notice.
Taken up by T. S. Sparks living
at Gertrude, Jack Go., Texas, and
estrayed before Hinton Smith,
J. P. Preot.' No. 1, of Jaok Go.,
Texas: One brown mare abont
14 1-2 bands high, about IS
years old branded T heart on
left thigh. Appraised at $25.09.
Given under my hand and
[l. s ] seal of office this 21st day
of June A. D. 1904,
S. L. Leeman, Go. Oik-
Jack 06-, Texas*.
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