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Vol. X V III._La Grange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, May 6, 1897.
No. 19.
PROFESSIONAL.
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Attorneys at Law,
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1 l,d adjoining district*.
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•ourU.
J W. MOORE,
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LaGbanok - Texas.
Office with Messrs. Moore A Duncan, up
•Uirs, postoffiee building.
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KNOWLEDGE vs. POWER.
I know that ih* would cease to be
80 free to teas < and torture me
If I could just be brave arid dqre
To show her that I didn't care—
But 1 can’t I
I know she’d cease to flirt if I
Could only pretend to .igh
Ov’er soino sweet rival girl, or rage
About some beautv on the stage—
But I can’t!
Therefore, she ha* her own sweet way
And treats me worse from day to day;
If I rebelled I know that the
Would quickly turn and worship me—
—Cleveland Leader.
A StraHpffooing.'
I am Gasper Atbwold. I was
born beautiful, but odc day a nurse
dropped me from her arms down
the wbole length of the oak stair-
case. There is uo need to say
more. Yet I was a happy child.
As I grew up 1 built such castles
iu the air as other youths build,
and iu my castle I began to eec
Kate Normau’s figure, Katie’s
dark-eyed, crimson cheeked face
smiling on me from visionary fire-
side there, aud hear her voice sing-
ing lullabies in the far-off future
We met often. She was ulways
kind and friendly. 1 had fancied
something more.
Oue day I went iu the heal of
the afternoon (0 a shady spot by
the river side, my own ground. 1
lay upon the grass, reading a
book, when behind the glossy
leaves of the plants which the
little ones called "bread and but-
ter bushes” I heard the sparrow-
like twitter of girl's voices.
“She’ll have him,” said one.
“Fancy such a bridegroom!”
said the other. “All biu money
couldu’t buy me.”
“He don’t want you, but Kate,”
said the first.
“One must be at one’s last pray-
er to want such an admirer. No
one could like Gasper Athwold.”
“Of course not,” said the first;
“but then he’s rich, and Kate
poor enough.”
“You are right; no woman could
love him; but money will marry
anybody.”
Tiiere was a rustle, a souud of
feet on tlie grass. The chirping
voices died away iu the distance.
• • •
I shut myself up in :ho old
house, atnoug my hooks, and
shunned the sight of faces und the
sound of voices. It was the best
thing that a man whom no one
could love could do.
So the mouths wore uway.
Sometimes I had met her, but 1
always looked auothor way, aud
our pleasant greetings had come
to an end. I had seen a hurt flush
on her face, aud taken no heed of
it. I had even been discourteous
—but 1 loved her just as I had
loved her all along.
One day I went to the old lawyer
who had, bad charge of our estate
fi.r forty years, and him draw me
up a will, in which I loft all I pos-
sessed to Kate Norman, with a
loiter which only her hands were
to unseal, only iter eyes to read,
after I had gone.
This was the letter:
“Kate Norman: You never cared
for me; you could not; once 1
heard a woman say no woman
could; bnt I loved yon. Had I
cherished one faint ray of hope 1
would have striven to win your
heart; but I learned in time, what
folly it was; and, in pity for my
self, held aloof from you. As it
is, it gives me some pleasure to
think that you will dwell uudei
this roof. When yoa read this
you will pity, not deride, the love
of “Gasper Athwold.”
This note lay unsealed aud di-
rected, “To be given to Kate Nor
man after my death;’’ and the wilt
was also sigued and sealed, and I
walked home.
At my door the elm shadows
lay thick, and in them stood u
bent, crooked figure, clothed in
rags, a beggar, who began his do-
lorous whine as I came up:
“A little help, just a little; I’m
not a strong man, sir; I can’t work
like the same. Yer isn’t strong
yerself, ye’ll be knowin’ what that
is. A wakely onld creator that
wonld be thauful for onything—a
penny or an old coat, or a sup or
a bite, yes sir.”
I tossed him a coin.
“Go,” I said. “Don’t loiter
here.”
The man looked at me curiously,
as though he had expected more
pity from me. The ooin bad fallen
at bis feet. He stooped and pick
ed it up.
“Yes, it’ll buy a bite,” be said.
“Good luck to ye. it’s not ai
ways I ate before'I slape.’’
I turned aud looked at tbe beg-
gar. He was miserable also.
“Gome iu,” I said. “I’ll give
you some clothes; you need them
sadly.”
“It’s nothing bat needing with
me, sir,” said he. “Tbe likes of
me can’t work.”
“Yoo have had an accident f”
“My father threw me oat o’ a
window for a joke when he was
not sober.”
I took from my wardrobe gar-
ments I had woro, aud bade him
put them on. Afterwards I gave
him food. I called do servant io;
no one saw him come or go aave
myself. He departed blessing me.
I watched him oat of sight. Then
I burst out in a laugh.
“H* bai
with oars iu it. I stepped in and
rowed up tbe river. The twilight
faded, night tame on, a dark,
moonless night. I had dropped
the oara aud was drifting seaward
lying at the bottom of tbe boat. I
knew that I was in danger, but
the kuowledge did not affeot me.
Suddeuly a glare of red light
flashed over my face, I beard a
heavy throb of machinery, then a
shrieking whistle, and a steamer
was hard upon my little boat.
After that I knew nothing nutil
I came to myself in a strange
room,in a strange hotel at Altiany,
The captain of the steamer which
hud tun my boat down fancied
that to bis account lay the fever
and delirium which bud come up-
011 me, and had me taken care of.
It was two weeks since the day
last in my memory. I read that
in the paper. There also, I read
this paragraph;
“The body was found in tbe
woods at-bus beeu identified
by the garments and some perso-
nal peculiarities as that of Mr.
Gasper Athwold, a weuithy citizen,
who has been missing many days.
His foneral takes place this morn-
iug.”
I dropped the paper iu amaze-
ment. My own name—tbereoord
of my death. Then I burst into a
bitter laugh. I understood it.
The beggar whom I had clothed
bad died upou tbe road, lie it
waa who was that day to be buried
under my name.
At first it seemed merely a oruel
joke, Theu the memory of my
will and tbe letter written tu Kate
Norniau flashed upou me. I must
reach borne and prove myself a
living man before it was too lale.
Weak as I was, I arose and
dressed myself, anil giving my ad-
dress to the landlord, left t he hotel
for the depot; but 1 reached it only
in time to . find the train gone.
Auotber hour or so must pass.
They were ages to me. She would
no: read that letter while 1 lived.
At last I was off—fairly on my
way. In the dark of the evening I
alighted at the depot aud hurried
homeward.
There I should find my servants,
aud, probably, the lawyer, who
would fiud it his duty to secure
everything for the future heiress.
They would not, I hoped, read
the will so soon—yet it was cus
tomary. If this had heeu doue,
how should I act! How speak t
Only a tittle space lay between tbe
depot and my home. Tbe rail-
road encroachments had been my
mother’s greatest troubles in the
laNt years of her life. Now this
fact euabied me, ill as I was, to
reach the house without delay. It
was durk, aud I met no one.
In a moment I knew why. They
had assembled in the parlor to
hoar my will read—for, through
the Veuotian shutters long bars
of light fell across the porch; and
looking in, unseen myself, I saw
Kate Norman, with a letter iu her
hand, glide through the opposite
door. The will had been
GETTING READY
Every expectant mother has
a trying ordeal to face. II ahe does not
s
get ready for It,
there is no telling
what may happen.
U Child-birth Is full
of uncertainties if
Nature is not given proper aardstanoe.,
Mother’s Friend
Is the best help you can uae at this time.
It is a liniment, and when regularly ap-
plied several months before baby comes.
It makes the advent easy and nearly pain-
lees. It relieves and ’prevents ' ‘ morning
sickness,” relaxes the overstrained mus-
cles, relieves the distended feeling, short-
ens labor, makes recovery rapid and cer-
tain without any dangerous after-effects.
Mother's friend is good for only one
purpoee, viz.: to relieve motherhood of
danger and pain.
•1 dollar per bottle at all drug stores, or sent
by mail 00 receipt of price.
Frbb Books, containing valual
tion for women, will be sent to
upon application to
THB BRADFIBLD REOULATOR CO..
Atlanta, (la.
,ble Informs
any addrem
"Oh, Gasper,” she cried, “shall
I never hear your dear voicel
Cau I nevpr tell you how I loved
you. Oh, Gasper, Casper!”
Silence, with the crickets chirp
amidst it, aud ibe bird’s scream,
dawn broke upon my soul. Then
I stood besides her, holding her
close aud fast.
“Do not fear, do not tremble,”
I cried. “It is a liviug Gasper
who comes to yon, aud no ghost.
Oh, Kate—Kate you gave tender
words to the cluy you thought
mine, will yon bless me with them
living!”
She hid her face in my bosom,
and would not look up—would
only ciiug to me with her soft,
white hands aud sob.
Aud there wo stood alone to-
gether amidst tho graves, 1 con-
tent to stand there, her hand in
mine, her cheek upon my bosom,
until the blessed evening time
lengthened itself into eternity.
But at last she told me this,
that of all men I was to her the
best; and when I wonderfully
asked her bow 1 might dare dream
that this could be, she made only
the womans’s answer. “Because I
love you.”
Io tbe moonlight, on that happy
night, we went forth from the
_____ old graveyard into the world of
j life, band in band, as we have
Before I could interpose she would
have read the letter also.
What should I do!—retarn ns
I had come!—change my name!—
dwell where no one knew me! It
seemed that this were better than
to return to the gaping towns-
folk’s nine days’ wonder. Wotst
of nil to meet Kate.
1 turned from the wiudow and
hurried away—but I was still
weak, very weak, and soon my
strength gave way. It was just
as I reached the churchyard. The
road was hare, with uo resting-
place upon it, hilt within the gates
the soft grass tempted me, and
the willow branches seemed to
uod a welcome.
1 cast myself down in the long
grass. The crickets chirped all
about me. A bird somewhere
gave a shriek now and then.
1 felt my blood on fire; I could
not stop thinking; [ could not give
tired nature her way. I was
weary and worn beyond all de-
scription.
I heard the church clock strike
nine. It startled me to thiuk an
hour had flown when tbe same
clock struck ten, I lifted my
head to listen, and saw a figure
glidiug np the path—a woman’s
figure.
It came straight on and cast
itself on the grave by which 1 Bat
—the grave beneath which tbe
beggar lay whom they bad taken
for myself—oast itself upon it,
sobbing wildly.
Tbe shadows hid me. I gazed
unseen upon the raonrner. Who
was it! Some one who bad mis-
taken the spot, no donbt. She
lifted up her head. In tbe moon-
light I saw her face. It was Kale
Had pity brought her there!
Gould pity make a woman weep
so! I drew nearer. She spoke; it
was my name she ottered.
CLEAN BLOOD I for ah pains
is the taenflal principle of
Health. When aiflctcdwitb
Eruptions, White Swellings, Lew
of Energy, Weakness, Catarrh,
your Blood is impure and you
Rheumatic or Neuralgic,
Swelling*, Cramps, Lum-
bago, use . . .
Severa’s mm
St Gothacd’s Oil
ITS ICE POSSIBILITIES.
lone together ever since.- London
sun.
He Was Eleoted.
A young mau living over smile
from here, says San Diego Nirdit,
addressed a marriage proposal
to his adored one as follows:
“My Dear Mias-:
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for your baud and shall
use all fair and honorable means
to secure the nomination. 1 know
there are many candidates in tbe
field, and I hesitate long before
entering the race, but I am in to
stay. My views 00 matrimony
have often been expressed iu
yonr hearing, and I need not re-
peat them here. You know I fav-
or the free coiuage of love—a 16
to 1 love—aud a maintenance of
free silver after marriage. If
you decide to confer upon me tbe
honor I seek, please fix date for
caucus with your mother. 1 have
no objection to her acting as tem-
porary chairman of tbe perman-
ent organization. If the result of
tbe caucus should prove satisfac-
tory we can soon hold a primary
and seleot a date for tbe conven-
tion. I have never beleived in
long campaigns, so if yoa decide
to honor me I will ask yoa to make
the convention date as early as
possible. Devotedly yours,
He received tbe following brief
reply:
“Gaucna unnecessary. Report
on permanent organization satis-
factory; nomination unanimous,
come st once aod fix date of rati-
fication.
Yours for success,
Not a loug day, but a good
heart, rids work.
EXPLOSION 80ARES STUDENTS.
Valnnltr of Ohleasro Distorted hr
Buralln* of * Gloa* Dottle.
Eighty or more student* and profes-
sors, busy in Kent bail at the University
of Chicago, were almost thrown into a
panic the other morning by, a terrific
exploeioo of chemicals on the first floor
of the building1. The report of tbe ex-
plosion penetrated every nook and
cranny of the structure, and was dis-
tinctly audible at points in tbe campus
a half block away. Little damage re-
sulted beyond trifling injuries to ap-
paratus and woodwork.
The room in which the explosion took
place was almost free of students, the
only one within it being C. V. BncheJee,
the blcycliet. It so happened that he
was in an opposite corner of the room,
and therefore suffered no ill fortune.
A moment after the report occurred,
however, young men and young women,
easily locating tbe scene of the disturb-
ance, hurried thither from all parto of
the building.
It was found that a large bottle, con-
taining a chemical liquid of complex
nature and securely corked, had been
carelessly placed by some unknown
student dangerously near a flame of
burning gae. The liquid became over-
heotbd and the explosion, ensued. The
glass of tbe bottle was shattered into
fragments and was hurled into every
corner of the laboratory room.
Members of the early morning gym-
nasium class at work in the nearby
brick building, hearing the sudden
noise and believing that a catastrophe
had token place, rushed pellmell to-
ward Kent hall. An excited freshman
gave an alarm of Are.
TEN COMMANDMENTS IN A BILL.
C*l«*
> Legislation Proposed kf a
Kansas Representative.
C. It. Watters, democrat, of Labette
county, Kan., has introduced a bill in
the house entitled: “An act to give
statutory force to tbe ten command-
ments.” It begins as follows:
'Whereas, The men of the present
generation have become doubters and
scoffers; and,
'Whereas, They have strayed from
the religion of their fathers; and,
“Where**, They no longer live in the
fear of God; and,
“Whereas, Having no fear of punish-
ment beyond tbe grave, the wanton-
ly violate the law given to the world
from Mount Sinai; therefore,
“Be it enacted by the legislator* of
the state of Kansas,” etc.
Here follow the ten commandment*
In fuU, each commandment being a
separate section of tbe set.
“Section 11. Any man who shall vio-
late any of tbe provision* of this act
shall be punished a* follows:
“For violating aeetlon 1, $1,000 fine;
for violating section 2, $1,000 fine and
one year in the penitentiary; for vio-
lating section 8 or section 4, $500 fine;
for violating section 6, $500 fine and six
months in the penitentiary; for violat-
ing section 0, hanged by the neck until
deed; for violating aecUon 7, peniten-
tiary for life; for violating section
8, fine or imprisonment, in the discre-
tion of tbe court; for violating section
9, imprisonment, In tbe discretion of
tbe court; for violating section 10, fine
and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court."
LAWYER’S BRIEFS,
ACCOUNT SALES,
CIRCULARS.
*st Lake Michigan Would
Ytold If Proson Over.
lee CoMfailM Weald Bare Bsouk
*■4 Bvn the Pee* Weald
Have the Prosea Wa-
ter to Barn.
What the loe companies of Chicago
really .need is weather cold enough to
freeze Lake Michigan ocs foot thick
from end to end and from side to side.
Then they wonld have enough ice to
last a day or two and even the poor
would have loe to burn.
The ice companies have not been do-
ing very well for some yews. Tbe mak-
ing of artificial ioe is still attended with
ao much expense that It leaves but a
small margin. The sale of the natural
product is still profitable. But cold
snaps are so few and last, such a abort
time in Chicago that the lake* and
ponds adjacent to the city give but
a scanty yield each year. •
Suppose Lake Michigan should freeze
over from shore to shore, with ice a
foot tbicik. If that product could all
be out and stored the figures are start-
ling. The lake 1s about 400 miles long
and 75 miles wide, which is 30.000 square
mile*. That is s pretty fair Ice field
to begin operations upon. After a few
hours of figuring It will be found, says
tbe Chicago Tribune, that it would con-
tain 886,352,000,000 cubic feet of ice.
That is a pretty fair stock to start the
cummer with. If It were piled np with
a base of a mifle square it would make
a glittering parolielopipedon 30,000 feet
high. That field would give every resi-
dent of Chicago an opportunity to cut
some ice.
If a cubic foot of ice weighs ten
pounds this Michigan ice field would
weigh 6,363,520,000,000 pound*. Allow-
ing a family 25 pounde a day it would
supply 2,090,880',000,000 families in one
day, or one fwnily 2,090,880,000,000 days.
Just as soon as tbe lake freezes over
some family should oome to tbe front
and lay An ke for a few thousand years
&AKlNG
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Celobrstod for it* great leavening rtrength
and healtbfuloe**. Assure* the food Rgaimt
slum and all forms of adulteration common
to the cheap brand*.
KOVAL BAKIHO POWDZK CO., NSW YOB*.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC BRIEF3
Russia has notified Greece to vacate
the Island of Crete in three daya
The Greeks, says a special, captured
and burned Damasi on the 20th.
Heavy frosts are doing serious dam-
age in many of the southern states.
Great destitution is reported among
the flood sufferers along the Mississippi
river.
The government of the Transvaal
has deoided to build two more forts
at Pretoria.
Many French ladies in Paris have
offered their services as nurses in the
Greek army.
The Ureek warships are said to be
preparing to make a dash through the
Dardanelles.
The names of seventy-five recruit*
have been enrolled at Dayton, O., for
the Grecian cause.
An appeal for aid has been sent from
North Dakota for aid for the flood suf-
ferers of that state.
It is stated that the powers have de-
cided to intervene if either Greece or
Turkey should ask for It.
A special from Athens says the wo-
men at Volo are arming themselves to
do battl* against the Turks
It is announced by s special that tbe
Greek bombarding fleet has been com-
pelled to retire from before Prevesa.
The wife and daughter of Mr. Hyatt,
the American viee consul at Santiago
de Cuba, have been attaoked by fever.
The Turks bombarded the military
hospital at Art* on the 19th Inst., al-
though the Red Cross flag was hoisted
over It.
The Greek army operating against
the Turks in Epirus, have destroyed
Imaret fort and are advancing to Fil-
lipiada.
The disposition of the Greek soldiers
for the defense of Pharsala has been
carefully selected by the Greek minis-
ter of war.
As a result of the capture of Tyrpono
by the Turks large stores of provisions
and ammnnition fell into the hands of
the victora
The Turks have captured all the
strong places about Larissa, including
Tyrnavos; also many Greek soldiers
were captured.
A speeisl from London of April 25
states, that the duchess of York was
safely delivered of a daughter at 8 p,
m. of that day.
Theodore A. Havemeyer, vice presi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
eampany, died at his home in New
York city, April 26.
Great Britlan is getting anxious to
know if the United States is going to
refnnd the $8,000,000 still unclaimed of
the Alabama reward.
On the night of the 24th, the river at
Cincinnati had reached the height of
54X feet and was still rising st the rate
of l>i inches per hour.
A rumor is afloat that the dry dock
of the naval station at Port Orchard,
Wash., is settling under the weight of
the battleship Oregon.
Hon. Volney V. Smith, ex-iientonant
governor and at one time the moat
prominent figure in Arkansas polities,
died in Little Rook on April 21.
A special received from London ro-
tates that an insurrection has broken
out in Albania. The Turkish troops
are said to be participating In the
revolt
A special from Karvasara aaya it is
reported that civil war has broken out
among tbe Turks in Prevesa and the
surrender of the town is hourly ex-
Hasted.
Some men aj,; afraid
of death, some are
not. Most of us
would rather not meet
the grim destroyer to-
day. We would rather
put it oil until to-mor-
row, or until next
year. Mere wishes do
not count for much in
tile matter. A man
may not want to’die.
He may not want to
be tick. He may wish
and hope and pray
that he will not be
aick nor meet death*
but wishing and hoping won’t help him.
It is what he doe*, and not what he
1
Mtw Coa«v«
The
*1 Library
congressional libra
ITT in
Washington has been completed within
the time limit, and at a cost of only $3
cento 4 cubic foot, including decora-
tions. The cost of the glgantlo munici-
pal build log in Philadelphia, which was
begun in 1872 and is only now being
completed, has already ben $1.60 a
cubic foot.
k*l> Hair.
The latest crass HHBtiff the
Melbourne is tbe parting of the
wishes that serve hi* purpose,
is losing flesh, *nd U nervou*, lmunie,
steeple** and debilitated, he may wish he
would get well, but one bottle of Dr.
Pierce’. Golden Medical Discovery will
do mote than an
man is on the way to c
should make a stop a*
aible. He should p
sr^Hdeoaf”idhe
jut.
en
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