The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1895 Page: 2 of 4
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north, with snow in
this week emphasizes
i sxoellcnco of the Texas oli*
'^It is said by some anti free sil-
that if free ooinage
to Jbe snaoted that those holding
Mortgages on land would fore'
dloae the same to get the benefit
61 the advanoe in values. This
g an admission that free coinage
x$>uld advanoe the value of
property. If this be true, then
by all means let's have it.
‘ Thk Confederate reunion at
Houston this week was the big-
gest thing ever in Texas. There
V(fro, perhaps, 40,000 visitors
jRfesent, from all parts of the
ti^ith, Gen. Soophicld, command •
irig general of tho U. 8. army,
ipd 100 of tho national artil-
teify from Washington City,
llliss Winnie Davis was also pres*
eht.
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gSTUMP Asiiiiy will speak at the
court house in Comanche tonight.
Ond at the picnic at South Leon
near Comanche on Saturday.
When the prohibitioh campaign
t^qe on in Denton county Stump
i$ade some anti speeches there,
rjdw tile same campaign is on in
Comanche county, and he is
Bpeaking there. Wonder if his
speeches are to the same effect?
Don’t it look a little suspicious?
It will be a sad day for this na-
tion should it go either to gold
or silver monometallism'. Both
gold and silver constitute the
money of the constitution, and
of the democratic oarty for a
hundred years. Let us have
both gold and silver as money,
' ‘without discrimination against
either metal, or oharge for mint-
age.” This is democratic doc-
trine, and it is what the country
must havo before she will pros-
per.
A populist county judge at
Canton refused to marry a run-
a-way couple till he had examin-
ed tho law to find whether ho had
the authority to perform the sol-
emn ceremony. Meanwhile the
couple hunted up tho justice of
the peace. A vory competent
man for county judge, wasn’t
he? Wo suppose the voters
voted for him—not because of his
competency, or ability to fill tho
offico, but because ho was the
nomineo. They evidently be-
lieved in voting for * ‘the man. ’ ’
The session of tho 8tate Press
Association held at Waco last
week was one of the most prof-
itable in the history of tho or-
ganization. The attendance
was not latge, but every one
was there for business. Waco
gave the editors a cordial wel-
come. Tho Natatoriani, Waco’s
pride, throw open its doors and
gave the boys free use of the
batlfb. Numerous courtesies
were extended and as many ac-
cepted as the weather would
permit. The next meeting will
bo held in El Paso. The associa-
tion will go to Atlanta in October
to visit the Cotton States aftJ ln-
teKVatiW111! exposition./•'
Judge Geo. who was
once a candidate for governor of
Texas, has admitted that he was
an ‘ ‘ agrarian ’ ’ and a ‘‘social-
ist’ ’ up to and including a por-
tion of the very year he was a
candidate. He makes tho ad-
mission in this way: He now
says, or very clearly intimates in
his latest manifesto, that the
men who favor free coinage of
silver, are agrarians and sooial-
iste. It will be remembered that
Mr. Ceorge Clark (sometimes
called Little Giant) in 1892 was a
very strong advocate of the free
coinage of silver, and denounced
Mr. Cleveland in the bitterett
terms. Now we desire to ask
this question: If favoring the
free ooinage of silver in 1895
makes a man an agrarian and a
socialist, why did not the same
opinion entertained in 1892 make
a man an agrarian and socialist?
Will you please answer? The
idea of euch men as Dave Cul-
berson, Dick Coke, Sam Lan-
ham, John Ireland, Jim Hogg,
Horaoe Chilton, Joe Sayers, Joe
Bailey, Chas Yoakum, C. K.
Bell, and John H. lteagan, a
purer patriot than whom never
lived, and hundreds, yes, thou-
i of other men in Texas, as
men as the ones
The ourrenev Question is now
the only issue before the country.
I do not mean to say that there
are not other questions in the
public mind, but the main one is
this, and it has to be settled.
The tariff has been temporarily
disposed of at least, and its re-
lation to the business interests,
whioh are paramount to all
others, as every soul in this
oountry is interested in it, has
been established. There is not
one publio man in a thousand
who will agreo to any radical ex-
tent the law as it now stands. To
be mire, it will receive trimmings
hero and there until its opera-
tions are Just and fair, but it may
be said that the present law has
oome to stay. The two great
parties fought over this issue for
years, and the lines were drawn
so that no man could fail to see
them. Now we have the curren-
cy question to dispose of, and it
is as grave and as intricate a
matter as was the tariff. This
being tho case, and it is not dis-
puted by anyone, why should the
lines not be drawn on it as they
wore on the other issue, the
tariff? So when Mr. Cleveland
says the lines are already drawn
he doos not run ahead of anyone,
and he utters the truth that is
apparent to all except perhaps a
few politicians, who are blinded
because of their anxiety to avoid
the inevitable.
One side contends that if this
country enters,by itself, into the
free and unlimited ooinage of sil-
ver, that our currency will be
debased and that the plethora of
silver will destroy that money as
is
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and delivery, as well as by the
Absence of Numerous Cumberous and Heavy Parts
formerly deemed necessary on the Buokeye, and still retained by binders of other makes.
It oan be briefly, but truly, said that the Frameless
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The Greatest Strength and Durability,
The Least Weight and Draft,
The Fewest Parts and
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a money metal, and, while it
getting to that condition, the
business, or rather the prosperi
ty of the country will be destroy-
ed. This side is for a larger and
freer trade and contends that
when wo establish a local cur-
rency, which the free and unlim-
ited coinago bill necessarily #ill
do, as\>ther countries do not
ooin it in the same manner, we
will have constructed a greater
barrier to an enlarged trade than
the highest tariff ever made. It
also contends that tho prsent de-
pression is not attributable to a
scarcity of money because there
is moro money, per capita,in the
United States today than there
ever was before. Realisation
tion to the fact that the ratio be •
tween the two metals are out of
all proportion as it stands, be
cause the statistics show that the
increase of tho production of the
white metal from 1878 to 1890
was 127 per cent, while the de-
crease of the yellow metal for
this same time was 15 per cent.
The ratio was established long
before this time when there was
no such disparagement in the
production of the two metals, and
was arrived at in estimating then
that tho production would con-
tinue about the same. They
contend that the value of the sil
vor dollar now is caused alone by
the fiat of the government on it
and that the world wil. insist that
it shall be measured by its in-
trinsic value. It contends fur-
ther that, as tho production of
the metals differ, so their rela-
tion toward each other must
vary, and that to make them
equal at all times there must be
a constant readjustment of the
ratio. Thoy riald that if there is
a thousand ounces of silver pro-
duced while there is only one
ounce of gold produced it is far-
oial to say that sixteen of the one
ono is exactly equal to one of the
other.
On the other side it is contend-
ed that there is not enough gold
in the world to do its business,
and the quicker we realize this
tho better it will be for the world.
It states that the scarcity of the
yellow metal makes it possible
for a few individuals to get pos-
session of it and control trade,
'tiuriifieSs, and thus actually dic-
tate the affairs of men, even to
tho extont of saying who shall be
happy and who shall not be hap-
py. It alleges that the cause of
the depression is directly attrib-
utable to the fact that there is
not enough money in this ooun-
try to go around, and that when
there is more money floated on
the streams of commerce, then
and only then will prosperity re-
turn to the land. They assert
that it makes no difference as to
the output of the two metals,and
that their ratio shall remain at 16
to 1. But it is unnecessary to
This Binder has been sold in all of the grain growing countries of the globe, and its reputation
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Don’t Place Your Order For Any Other
TJXTIL YOU SEE SAMPLE BINDER AT
Machine
J. W. GRAY’S,
MOVE D I
HURPHT BROS.,
DRUGGISTS
Have moved to the Northeast corner
of the square in the building formerly
occupied by Slaughter ft Watts’ grocery store. They qrill be glad
to se 3verybody who want the best Drugs in the city.
The omoes of Drs. Dodge and Oxfoid * Wright have also been
moved to the same plaoe.
u n n ocoHsafgg
I go on with the arguments of thel
two sides. Each contends that
each is working for the best in-
terest of the people and the pros-
perity of the oountry. Each
contends that its ideas are alone
right and that they contain the
germ of good for all. The sides
are diametrically opposed to eaoh
other and there oan be no peaoe
[between them—they are moved
by the highest principles and
they therefore cannot compro-
mise. This being the case,there
lit* nothing left but to fight it out
and permit the rule of republican
■ institutions, the rule of majori-
ties, to settle it.
| To save me I can not see how
[anyone oan hope for a settlement
in any other way. U is true that
the party man finds it about as
hard to tear himself away from
hie political associates as any-
thing that he is called on to do in
this life, but the time haa oome
when there must be a new align-
ment all around, and men must
take sides where thoy have in-
terests in the oountry.
The silver democrats are going
the democratic
par-
Pin
tempt to bind the party to the
opposition of free coinage of sil-
ver by this oountry alone. But
there is too muoh principal in-
volved, too much heat on both
sides, for either one of them to
bind the other. In the republi-
can ranks exactly the same con-
dition of affairs exist, and thus
we have the two old parties split
wide open on the question. The
leaders of the two elements have
commenced already to press their
lines forward. There is to be a
great deal of money spent and a
great deal of speaking indulged
in. Those who read the papers
closely will remember some time
ago when the free coinage socie-
ties of England proposed to send
$50,000 to this country in aid of
the free silver propaganda. It
will be noticed that there are so-
cieties established for the pur-
pose of supplying free silver lit-
erature to the oountry, and this
literature in the shape of books
and tracts is flying all over the
land. The anti-silver element
found that this kind of work was
effective and that the silver peo-
ple were setting the woods on
fire, and they therefore conclud-
ed to try to offset it with litera-
ture of an opposite oharaotet.
So they havo oommenoaa to is-
sue books endpapers of the anti-
silver kind. The trouble about
these latter was that they were
so deep and so learnedly written
that only those who had studied
political eoonomy oould under-
stand them, but the anti-silver
men soon saw this, and they are
now engaged in sending out ar-
guments against the free and un-
limited ooinage of silver that can
be understood by any one.
There are talks of conventions
being held at a dozen different
places by both elements. Th«
purpose is to get the bove in line
for the regular battle whioh is to
oome off later. When all these
preparations are considered,
when the work that ia being done
is known, surely there ia no
danger in prognosticating that
there is to be a readjustment of
party lines and that one of the
most terrible political battles that
this oountry ever witnessed is at
hand on the question of the free
ooinage of silver. And the man
is foolish who shuts his eyes to
this faot.
Damaged by Hall.
The rain and hail Monday af-
ternoon extended only about two
miles west of town and half a
mile east, and from Huokabay to
near Duffau, so far as heard
from. Muoh damage was done
to growing orops, and to gardens
and orchards. Our agricultural
editor’s garden was the only one
in town that was not damaged.
He understood the art of avoid-
ing danger by hail better, it
seems, than any one else. The
entire damage to his garden will
not foot up fifty oents. The
way he did it was to allow the
weeds to grow until they protect-
ed the vegetables, and so dense
was the protection that it would
have withstood a hail storm of
twioe the severity of the one
Monday. I'he idea is an origi-
nal one with our agricultural and
horticultural editor.
Spworth League Conference.
In securing tickets for the in-
ternational conference of the
Epworth Leage to be held at
Chattanooga, June 27 to 80, in-
clusive, be sure that same read
over Texas ft Pacifio railway,
whioh is the only line that can
give you ohoioe of routes via
Memphis, Shreveport or New
Orleans. The rate will be one
ioweBt first rate fare for the
round trip; tickets to be sold
June $5, 26 and 27, limited to
best men in the land, and nearly
every family is cursed with the
awful oonBequenoes.
This whole process of crime,
disease and death is fully justi-
fied by law, and to a large ex-
tent fortified and perpetuated by
the silence,if nottheconnivar.ee,
of the ohuroh of Christ. How
long will the people endure this
mockery of virture and travesty
of justice? Where are we drift-
ing, and what is to be the final
outcome of this terrible poison-
ing of the people? How muoh
15 days from date of sale for re- personal responsibility ia involv-
turn. With privilege of extending ed in this wholesale deatruotion
the limit 15'days by depositing and this curse of intomperanoe
the return portion of ticket at
Chattanooga.
For further information call on
that pervades sooiety and are
justly chargeable to every voter
for every one holds the key to
or address your nearest ticket this whole matter in his. soverign
agent, orW. A. Dashiell, trav- will.
efing passenger agent, or Gaston It is well to remember that this
Meslier, general passenger and whole question of the manufac-
Cloaing Exercises.
The exercises at the College have
been the attracsion for two weeks. The
first were held on Wednesday night,the
8th, when the contest of the two elocu-
tion classes Was begun, and completed
on Thursday night. Then Wednesday
Thursday and Friday nlghta of last
week completed the exercises, all of
hich were exceedingly creditable, and
showed plainly the thorough work done
by thla excellent school—one of the best
In the state.
The following gold medals Were pre-
sented on Friday night
For best essay, Miss Ida Gibson.
Art, Misses Lallah Hyman and Bessie
Jones, and Mrs. Lee Young.
Music, Misses Zula Orr and Effle
Frank.
Mathematics. Monet Chambers.
Commercial, John Price.
Grammar and analysis, Miss Cora
Smith.
Spelling, Miss Cora Smith.
Second elocution, Misa Cora Smith.
Highest grade elementary depart-
ment, Rayner Hyman.
First elocution. Miss Bessie Jones.
Original oration, Robert Smith.
Highest grade, Mias Clara King.
Five medals were offered for next
year. This and the announcements for
next seas ion to begin in September,
closed the seoond year of this excellent
Institution. This school is doing more
to bnild up the town and community
than any other enterprise, and it U
hard for our citisens to rightly appre-
ciate it.
ticket agent, Dallas, Texas.
■■■■■■ me » tm
—Call at the Book Store for
fishing tackle, base ball goods
and oroquet sets. 38-5
importation and sale of in-
dicating liquors is entirely de-
K
pendent upon the personal use
made of tne voter’s franchise.
The liquor traffio oould not exist
—For «ale o* trade—a good
seoond hand organ, cheap for
cash, or will trade for a good
horse. For information apply to
Mrs. Doyle, or to this offico.34tf
fir. Mas’s Cream asking Rewder
Meat Perfect Made.
Wall Paper.
I have just received at the
Book Store a fine assortment of
wall paper of the very latest
styles, and at low prioea. Give
me a trial. »» W.E.Codt.
Sorghum and Millet
A large supply just received at
MoD. Rail’s. 34-tf
Buy you
on Easy
reap ora l
No. 1. 820 acres Levi
on South Palmy creek,
east of town ; *
No. 2. 880
vey. Joins No. 1________
No. 8 . 400 acres of theF.
survey, 10 miles northeast
good pasture land.
No. 4 . 820 acre* of section 88 8. A.
ft M.G.R.K. survey, SO miles north
Stenhenvilla,
No. 0. 4112 acres J. Castilla*
pasture land.
No. 6. 640 acres David Shorn survey
10 miles east of Btephenvllle. would
make a good farm and ranch.
No. 7. 900 acres of Stephen W.
Sniithers survey, 20 miles sootbeest.
This laud Is cut Into 100 acre blocks.
Will sell on easy terms.
No. 8. 550 acres of the David Wilson
survey, 18 miles hbrtli of Steubenville.
No. 9. 820 acres out of sections 6 and
14 Indlanola R. K. surveys, 15 miles
uorth of Stephenville.
No. 10. 1010 acres Oliver Smith
survey, all under fence. Small farm;
—Down gently—plenty of la- fl Single year or bo tolerated in
nq* hatu at nnat and kdlnarortot tiro Community
dies’ hats at cost and below cost.
Sell them just like other people.
40-2 The Racket 8tore.
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Nan. NALU K P. OUR.
Minh WILLIE CHAMBERS
Whltlier Are We Drifting;?
We are led sometimes to cry
out in our despair: ‘‘Is there
no hope or salvation for the
numerous victims of alooholio
poisoning?” While this poison-
ing is slaying the people by the
thousands, and our grave yards
are receiving its deluded victims,
most of the people are saying
amen to this terrible slaughter.
8ome say it served them right—
if they had only let whisky alone
it would have let them alone.
Yet at the same time, through
their votes, they furnish the fas-
cinating allurements that cheat
and deceive the unwary, until
the viotims include some of the
community a single day
longer than the sanction of vot-
ers will permit. This matter,
therefore, is entirely at your dis-
posal; and the misery, orime and
pauperism that results from this
villainous traffic is chargeable to
the delinquency of the soverign
people in the exercise of their
privileges at the ballot box.
What answer shall you give
when your personal responsibili-
ty is called in question? God
help you to do your duty when
you again have the opportunity
to deposit your vote, for in it
oonsoienoe is irioarnated.
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Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
World's Polr Highs* Modal—d Diptaau.
From A Well Known Citizen.
Stephenville, Texas, Dec. 11, 1894—
This is to certify that, after using nn-
>ther well recommended ajre salve for
6 or 10 weeks without any material
benefit, that tbe Magic Eye Salve and
water enred our little girls eyes in
twenty-four hours.
18-tf. E. B. Jones,
If you »rv golug north this Mummer, patron
1m a modern “up.to-date” railroad.
It In thf “Great Rock Inland Route,” and lh<*
utv," and the
map a bore ahown how It rune to the principal
cities of the west.
■ an Sleepers
Antonio and
ige between 8au Anton
The schedule is as follow
the west.
We ha Ye » train with pullm
without change betwi
Kansas City.
No. 4 Lv Ban Antonio via I A O. N Ry. 8.00 p.m.
Lv. Houston via H. A T. C. Ry. .11.10 p.ui.
Ar. Fort Worth.................10.20 a in.
Lv. Ft. Worth via Rock Island, 10.40 a m.
Ar. Kansas City at 8.20 next a. in.
The favorite Chicago Flyer still runs as fol-
low*:
No. t Leaves Fort Worth ..............11.10 p. m.
Arrives Kaunas City........ f> 2ft p. m.
Arrives Chicago.................W »a. in.
Arrives Denver................,..7.26 a. in.
daily and are
ipers and Free
lug Chair Cars. Ask your agent for
l'via the Rock Island Ronte. For fur*
rmation address
J. C. McCARK, Fort Worth. Texan.
All passenger trains run daily
qnipped with Ventibuled Hleepers
Reclining Chair Cars. Ask your i
ticket* via the Rock Island Rome,
ther In fori
*•* 1 VJ , KUUVt tcukiv. UUMNI 10*4 141 ,
plenty of stock water, 20 miles north of
Stephenville.
No. 11. 2300 acres out of the Clair-
borne Wright and J. 8. Brown surveys,
1~! miles north of Stephenville. will be
sold on very easy terms. This land is
commonly known as the Hyiuan pas-
ture.
No. 12. 160 acres of the K. L. Keen
survey, on Little Sunday creek v 20 miles
north of Stephenville:
No. 13. 1165 ucres of the D. A. Perry
survey, on Paluxy creek, M mile frotu
Bluff Dale. All fenced; 155 acres in
cultivation : four houses ; plenty of last-
ing water. This is one of tne finest
itock farms in Texas.
No. 14. 188 acres (pod farm on Pa-
liixv creek ; 118 acresln good state of
cultivation; good houses, orchards, and
plenty of water.
No. 15. 176 scree of the Wm. Sims
survey, 1*4 miles east of Stephenville,
All fenced ; 50 acres in cultivation ; good
6-room house, cistera ia one room and
well in yard.
No. 16 . 580 acres of the J.C.Corbin
survey, 7 mijes south of Stephenville.
75 acres in cultivation ; two houses,good
barn and other improvements.
No. 17. All unsold blocks in Stephen
Smith survey on Armstrong creek.
Good, dark. Handy, post oak land.
No. 18 . 820 acre farm and rach 4
miles south of Dublin ; all under 4-wire
fence; 40 acre* in cultivation; two
houses; two wells, aud other good im-
provements. Will sell at s barguin.
No. 19. 640 acres of land on Paluxy
creek. near the town of Acrey, known
as the B. H. Oxford farm; will cut in
any shape to suit purchaser; will sell
on easy teriuH aud take some good stock.
Here is the chance of a lifetime to ‘get
one of the best valley farms in Tsxas.
No. 20. Good engine andboiler ;wlll
trade for stock.
No. 21. 400 acres known os the Jas.
Walk snrvey, on Richardson creek ; all
fenced; one half tillable laud ; will sell
on easy terms.
If you need a home yon can get It out of
thocKN I to IV Alfred Hyutim eurvey. Tht*4 In
the opportunity of your life. Cut in »ize« to
Mutt. Hplendld valley lend, 20 mllM north on
Jllf Sunday creek.
No. 22. SM aoree, 141 In line Ntate of cultiva-
tion. good reNldeiM'e. three tenant Nouncm, fo«#r
good welle of water, good outlet, aad all at a
bargain. Call on ua.
TOWN LOTS.
No. 1. All the lots unsold in the
Hhapard ft Collins addition, except
those owned by Collins. Prlce« low and
terms easy.
No. 2. Also all the lots unsold in the
Hntler addition to the town of Stephen -
ville. These lots are very desirably lo-
cated for residences. People desiring
homes will do well to call on ns. as our
prices are low and onr terms easy.
No. 4. One acre of the west end of
block 50.
No. 5. Five acres in the town of
le, east of the Bosque.
Three acres of land on John
Blair survey, boxed house, 5 rooms,
good tin roof, smoke honse, cistern,
storm house, good stables, corn pen and
harness room. Otherwise well improv -
OXFORD & TOLIVER,
Stephenville. Texas.
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Stephenville, eaat of the 1
No. 7.
flaw h/ all Local Uru;,u*t.
Jurors and Witnsoaaa
Should go to Love ft Frey’s to
buy groceries. 34tf
to try to
60 Cents Worth $1,000.
Mr. T. B. Hancock, of Santa
Anna,Tex. ,says: I have had the
worst form of granulated lide for
10 yeare; was almost blind when
I oommenoed using Magio Eye
Salve and Water, and am now
most well. This is thsonly med-
icine that has done me any good.
Sold by Dublin Drug Co.
W.L.1
Small Pox in Brath CountA Ansars
Would create a I
but until i
CLAS
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m roe A kins.
COnDOVAN,
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-LADIES •
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i $3 4b $4 Shoes
fDGN'Tfr
DON’T Buy a Binder until you see the Deer-
ing, with jointed platform And ball and
roller brarings.
i
DON’T Buy a Cultivator till you see thq. Buck-
eye and John Deere.
DON’T Buy a Planter till you see the Empress
and John Deere.
DON’T Pay Four Dollars for a tin (washing
maohine when we will soil you one for
Seventy-five oents, or we will sell you
a ‘ ‘Western” for Five Dollars and give
you$th ree weeks.
We Respectfully Solicit Tour Patronage.
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Moore, Eugene. The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1895, newspaper, May 24, 1895; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth857352/m1/2/?q=california+crossing: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.