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"ORGANIZE. EDUCATE AMO OOOKIIATK'
[OFFICIAL JOUMMAL OF THE FAMMEES STATS ALLIANCE OF TEXAS.)
'LIBERTY, JUSTICE AND EQUMJTV
VOL. IX. #0.88.
DALLAS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1890.
WHOLE NO., 438
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THE IMBODEV-HAMILTOM MORTGAGE CO.
OAPITAIk, • • $100,000.
ooiho^tÓ5 bta NDI F01T WORTH, TEXAS. \™$l3¡Mmn
em-Money loaned upon farms, ranchea, vendors' lien nota* «ni city property at lowest current
rate . Loans dosed quickly. Correspondence invited.
Chap. A. Towns d,
President.
Gno. H. Bipley,
Vice Pres't*
Ijfe Ipsurapee ^ompapy,
Oso. E. IDE,
Secretary.
a88ctt8. *6,708,448 96;
ORGANIZED I860
LIABILITIES, «6,304,07l<46;
W . A. Marshall,
Actuary.
8URPLU8, *1,404,377.51.
No Life Insurarce Policies are issued which are as liberal as those of the
"HOME,"—its Policies being from date of issue entirely unrestricted as to
residence or travel, and after two years absolutely indisputable.
SPEOIXXN POLICIES WILL. BE FURNISHES OK APPLICATION.
The following table, compiled from the An-
nual Beport of the Superintendent of Imsnr-
ance of the 8tate of Mew York, exhibit! the
amount of Assetts h Id by the following Com-
panlea fnr every 1100.00 or Liability on Janu-
ary 1st, 1SOO:
HOME. H. Y., 126.21
equitable, N. ¥■■■' < liíó (M
Northwestern, Wis 117 >-9
New York Life, N Y 117 63
State Mutual, Maes 117 07
Provident Life 4 Trust, Pa lie 75
TravoW«, Conn 110 73
Penn MJtual, Pa 113 88
New England M'ltuul, Mass 113 78
United Matee, N Y Ill 05
Connecticut Mutual, Oann 110 33
Manhattan, N. R 100 7B
Massachusetts Mutual, Musa 109 05
Gem; aula, N Y 108 07
Mutual Benefit,N. J 108 15
Mutual Lif'.N. Y 107 4S
Uilon Centrnl, Ohfo 107 29
Lr.lon Mut ial, Me 1 « 44
Washington, N. Y 103 «o
Average, om tting the Home, 113.85.
"The larper the present surplus, the freer, tsr
the dtv dend-piying ability in the future."—
Insuranae ftpee.ator
The Home Life Insurance Co. was
recommended to the Brotherhood on
Jan. nth, 1889, by the State Execu-
tive committee; at the State meeticg
in Aug., 1889, a committee was ap-
pointed to investigate the different Life
Insurance Companies, and report to
the State meeting in Aug, 1890; on
the report of that committee, the State
Alliance, Aug. 2 2d, 1890, endorsed the
Home Life Insurance Co., of N. Y.,
especially recommending it to the mem-
bers of the Alliance, believing it to be
the best company in which to insure
for their protection.
«9-Any Information la regard to premium
rates or agenoy work. Address or eall on.
M. X. LEONARD, Gen 1 Agent,
909 Main St., Delias, Texas,
aw An Agaat wMtVd in eVerj county In Tex
>
K H. PEACOCK,
dbalkr in
American Watches and
Seth Thomas' Clocks.
A full line of Gold, Silver and SteelSjiectacles
|a?~Hepairing in all its branches, and work
guaranteed. 007 Elm St., Dallas. ¥<>xas.
If that lady at the lecture the other night
•nly knew how nicely Hall*B Hair Renew-
er would remove dandruff and improve the
hair the would buy a boitl >.
| ¡The Board of Education in Colum*
bus, O., has decided that hereafter
there shall be no difference in the sal-
aries paid to men and women who are
teachers in the public schools.
If you have slek or nervoas headache,
take Ayer's Cathartic Pills. They will
cleanse the stomaih, restore healthy action
to the digestive organs, remove effete
natter (the presence of which depresses
the nerves and braiD), and thus gives
speedy relief.
Walter Nunnalee of Anniston, one
of the brightest and best known jour-
nalists in Alabama, has just been de-
clared insane, attributed to cigarette
smoking, and will be sent to the insane
asylum at once.
The warfare of summer has opened and
a gurgling sound can be heard o'er the
land. The onteating factions are chills,
eold chills, and Cheatham's Tasteless Chill
Tonic. The gorging sound referred t,o is
made by victims of the former swallowing
the latter. The war will soon be over;
> chills will d'sappear, everybody be happy.
Only 75c. per bottle.
% The French-Canadian's way to get
rid of.the English sparrows is to feed
them with stale bread soaked in whis-
ky. The birds soon get so drunk they
can not fly and can then be picked up
and made into pot-pie.—Pacific Ru-
ral Press.
Xupepajr.
Tb s1« what you ought to have, In fact,
* you must have it, to fully enjoy life. Thou-
sands are searching for it daily, and mourn,
log because they find it not. Thousand«
upon thousands oi dollars are spent annu-
ally by our people in the hope that they
may attain this boon. And yet it may be
haa by all. We guarantee that Electilc
Bitters, If used according to directions
•ad the use perstited in, will bring you
Good Digestion and oust the demon Dys-
pepsia and install Instead Eupepsy. We
recommend Electric Bftters for Dyspepsia
tad ell diseases of Liver, Stomach and Kid-
neys. Sold at 10c. tad 91.00 per bettie by
W. H. Howell A Bros., and ell druggists.
Chicago has an antWTreating
League. They have no constitution,
no by-laws, no offices, but they all
near a badge, a bronze four-leaf
é. B. fcEIIsM
BKKE0ER
ef Registered Helsteiu-Freslan Cattle of tk
Best Milk and Bntter Sttwins,
VST Berkshire and Poland China dwin-s,
* -Correspondence soltaKwrf
Address, Frost, Limestone Co., Tea
Representavive Belknap, of Mich-
igan, has reported a bill to the United
State* house of representatives to pen-
sion women who labored in the hospi-
tals in camp and on the battle field as
nurses, and who are now too old and
infirm to earn their own living.
Married women have recently
been debarred from teaching in the
public schools of Cincinnati, on the
ground that their husbands should
support them. It will be in order now
for the wise council to guarantee to
these husbands work and remunerative
wages.
Miss Minnie T. Clay has been ap-
pointed captain of the steam vessel
Minnie, on Sebago Lake, Me. She is
an And over student, and has passed a
successful examination as pilot and
navigator. Her father is owner of the
steadier, and she is believed to be the
first lady ever commissioned as a cap-
tarn in Maine.
Says the evening press dispatches,
A Cargo of Girls [Is it possible that
America's girls can be classed as 'car-
go?'] have been brought from New
York to Galveston for Bell's variety
theatre. A kind and observant pas-
senger on the steamer noticed two of
them who seemed ill at ease, and in
conversation with them he learned
that they had been deluded as to the
fate awaiting, and through his interfer-
ence in their behalf they were carried
back to their homes.
The Dallas W. C. T. U. is soon to
have headquarters of their own. They
have rented a large ball on the comer
of Market and Main street, and just
as soon as it can be fitted up they will
open it, and they expect to have Gos
pel Temperance meetings conducted
every night. They will cpen a restau-
rant daring the fair, aud if possible
continue after. AH visiting W. C. T.
U. workers will now have no trouble
in finding it, and will be sure to re-
ceive a hearty welcome at number 316
Main street
Gladstone and Equal Education.
Mr. Gladstone is preparing to make
a move in the direction oi equal edu-
cation of the highest kind for men and
women. He contributed nothing to
the women's part in the first epoch of
the struggle. The y have worked out
their own salvation, not only without
distinguished allies of any party, but
despite the ftowns and discourage-
ment of the narrow or the timid in all
parties. They have forced open the
doors of some medical schools, and
Oxford will admit them to examination
for the medical degree for the first
time next year. They have conquered
by sheer force of merit, talent, and
resolution every inch of their way, and
at last the most powerful speaker and
debater of his country is preparing to
demand for them an equity in the pub-
lic appropriations made for university
support. What form the effect of his
advocacy will talte remains to be as-
certained. He may ask that the wo-
men's colleges, Girton and Newnham,
be allowed an annual gift; or he may
seek to compel Cambridge and Oxford
to admit women students on the same
terms as men and oonfer upon them
not only degrees but the material re-
wards and the posts of profit now ex-
clusively claimed by men. His ar-/
sumption of women's rights in «ducsy
tion and industry is the most signifi-
cant fact in the history oi the woman
movement; and it is only candid to
say that they have compelled by their
own success this emphatic recognition
of the justness and inherent justice of
their claims.
Woman and Mind.
Whether woman, lovely woman, is
man's equal intellectually has long
been an interesting subject of discus-
sion among philosophers and thinkers,
and, until comparatively recent times,
the verdict has nearly always been
against her. The juries, it must be
remembered, however, have always
been composed of men, and the entire
impartiality of their conclusions has
certainly not been above suspician.
Certain moral and mental qualities
men have always freely conceded to
women, but they have held that for
the most part she was in every sense
the weaker vessel, and not intended to
play anything but second fiddle in the
march of the world's progress. But
within the last century the male mind
has been rudely aroused from its state
of complacent self-satisfaction and
forced to look for fresh arguments to
support their comfortable old theory.
Unfortunately for these masculine crit-
ics the more they have looked the less
they have found that has afforded them
any satisfaction. In literature and
art women have gained places for
themselves that the majority of their
male contemporaries can envy, but
cannot reach, and it seems more than
likely that in a few years they will win
the highest distinctions in scientific
pursuits and tHe learned professions.
—Exchange.
A good illustration of what a wo-
man with business tact can do is
shown in the case of Mrs. Carpenter,
of Chicago, whose husband died in
1880. On the 1 si of January, 1881,
she assumed care of the Central Music
hall building in that city, and has
since acted as sole lessee of the hall
and secretary of the company, serving
also as manager for the last three
years. Although a quiet, modest little
lady, she has won the highest com-
mendation for her efficiency acting
with enterprise, but with true business
iss incts, caution and fine judgement
At the same time she bas not for a
moment neglected her home, whose in*
terests have been in her sole charge,
and she has carefully supervised the
education of her children.—Ex.
TEXAS NEWS ITEMS.
Bryan is to be lighted by electricity.
Cotton pickers are in demand all
over Texas.
San Marcos is negotiating for a
telephone exchange.
North Texas had a cold snap on
the 13th and 14th.
Sales of lots at Aransas harbor
amounted to $40.000.
The Behon oil mill will begin press-
ing cotton seed Oct. 1st.
Squirrels are destroying the pecan
crop in Medina county.
The kerosene route seems to be the
most popular at present.
The cricket plague was general
over Texas the past week.
Work is being pushed on the Ro-
pes' Pass at Corpus Christi.
The San Antonio Rifles have been
disbanded by order of the governor.
Lieut. Gov. Wheeler is now en-
gaged in building cities on the Texas
coast.
The first bale of cotton ever raised
in Webb county was ginned recently
at Laredo.
Robert Childers of Oenaville says
that he made the first crop in Bell
court-, m líjft.
A new banking house, the City
Kjational Bank., is in course of erec-
tion at Brewnwood.
Dr. Kerr of Corsicana, has a six-
f 00 ted mule, which he is going to ex-
hibit at the Dallas Fair.
B. D. Conger, postmaster at Waco,
was buried Tuesday, which leaves a
vacancy in that post office.
The Fannin County Farmers Alli-
ance met in called session last Tues-
day, and transacted sjme important
business.
A new evening paper, democratic,
is announced at Austin. It is called
The Capitolian, aud Col. Tom Bow-
ers >6 its editor.
The ^Alliances of Taylor, Jones,
Haskell, Stonewall, Fisher and Calla-
hak counties meet to-day in convent-
ion at Abilene.
W. C. Hill, editor of the Austin
County Times, one of our most read-
able Texas exchanges, died Monday,
the 15th, at Bellville.
Judge J. F. Leiiring, a distinguished
attorney, who resided for several
years in southwest Texas, died at
Marinefeld, Texas, on the 14th inst.
At Thorp Springs last Saturday,
during a rain storm the air bee 1 me
changed with electricity, and several
severe shocks were experienced. A
valuable horse was killed.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College is onjoying a boom. 250
students already enrolled, and ex-
pecting as many more. Its increased
prosperity is thought to be due to
Gov. Ross' election to the presidency.
The Marble Falls Co-operative and
Manufacturing Alliance held a meet-
ing at Marble Falls and selected a site
on which to build their factory. They
will build a cotton bagging factory
and commence at once clearing the
site and erecting the building, which
is to be of stone, so as to be able to
supply the demand foment fall's crop.
Water power will be used for running
the machinery.
Thb new anti-tobacco law of New
Yoik goes into effect Sept 1st. The
person who sells the tobacco in any
form, and the child who uses it in any
public place, is fined $ao and tweaty-
four hours imprisonment.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Central American states are
now at peace.
Alabama is agitating the question
of better roads.
The Raum investigation case drags
its slow length along.
Last Monday ushered in the He-
brew Anno Mundi, 5651.
The cotton crop of Georgia is re-
ported to be 25 per cent short.
Judge J. C. Hutcheson of Houston,
is resting at Albion V tew, Tenn.
There is a failure in the potato crop
in Irel and, and famine is imminent
And now it is talked that Alsace
and Loraine will be restored to France.
It is sfiid that 2,600 farmers in Kan-
sas, have been sold out by the sheriff.
Secretary Windom comes to the re-
lief of Wall Street with sixteen millions.
Two heavy failures reported at
Dothan, Ala., on account of bad crops.
. R. B. TiMmin is the democratic
nominee for governor of South Caro-
lina.
The value of this year's fruit crop
in Missouri is estimated at $10,-
000 000.
The Mississippi constitutional con-
vention is still at labor on the suffrage
question.
The Argentine Republic is at peace
again, and public confidence is about
rtbtr. rt d.
A Kentucky mountaineer so!d his
vote for four bits, and has been fined
$175 and disfranchised.
The wheat err p of France is said to
be about four and a half millions of
bushels less than last year.
In South Dakota, a burning pine
tree fell on a passing train, killing two
people and wounding seven.
A millionaire of PJ ccnix, Arizona,
James Robinson, is attending night
school in order to learn to read and
write.
It is said that Congressman Wheeler
of Alabama, has not been absent from
his seat a single day during the pres-
ent congress.
The United States government is
taking a census of the Chickasaw
Nation. A liberal estimate puts the
whites at 85,000.
A big land deal is reported from
Kansas City, involving 700,000 acres
in No Man's Land, and 550,000 in
the Texas panhandle.
Col. W. J. Northern, the democratic
nominee for governor of Georgia, it is
said, quit churning to dress, before hn
departure from Sparta to accept the
nomination.
In Baton Rouge, La., there is or
ganized a young Men's Democratic
Associotion, having for its object the
perpetuity of white supremacy and
good city government.
The assassinat on of Gen Barrundia
on board a U. S. steamer, and the
subsequent attack on U S. Minister
Mizner, by the general's daughter, has
excited universal comment.
A locomotive boiler exploded at
East St Louis, killing two men out-
right. It completely demolished a
tree standing near, and a piece of
iron weighing a ton was carried a ¡o
feet. Cause, defective flue.
You cannot be too particular about tbe
medicines yoa use. When you need a
blood-purlñer, be sore yon get Ayer's Bar-
eaparilla, and ne other. It will mingle
with, purify, and vitalise every drop of
blood in your body. It makes the weak
strong.
Condensed Correspondence.
health and harmony.
From Bazette, Navarro county,
Texas, J. M. McWilliams writes that-
the County Alliance is in a healthy
and harmonious condition, and that
the business agency located in Coni-
cana is giving general satisfaction,
with business increasing.
likes the mfrcusy better.
G. W. Guyer writes as follows
"Allow me to congratulate you upon
your success in so much improving
The Mercury every way. The i®e -
eral "make up" of the paper is much
better than when I began reading it."
Thanks, brother. We can stil
make the paper better, if the brother
hood will stand by it.
pressing on to victory.
Fiom Keith, Grimes county, W. M.
Lyons writes "We farmers and
laboring men are coming to the front.
We are massing our forces, and when
the fight comes off at the ballot box,
we think victory wiU perch upon oar
banner. Oar motto is equal justice ta>
all, ai d no favorites. Go on with
your good woi k Best wishe s for Thr
Mercury."
The Mercury is going on brother,
and it needs the active sympathy o I
every Alliance man in Texa?. They
should all take it.
endokses the mircury.
From Smiley, Gonzales county, F.
M Woodall writes: "The hope of
the country lies in the rising genera-
tions, there being no hope in ignorance,
therefore we must educate. Recog-
nizing The Mei cury to be the best
educator in the way of a paper, I shall
continue to work for the spread of Us
crcu'ation. The grand and noble
principles that it teachers should make
all farmers take and read the paper.'*
If every Alliance man who reads
The Mercury would follow Brother
Woodall's example, victory would
crown our efforts.
is pleased with the book.
From Eagle Springs, CoryeD county,
Texas, Wm. R. McLain, after thank-
ing us for the premium book, writes r
'Sj far as 1 have read it, am pleased
beyond all expectation. Mr. Editor, I
would like to say'to Alliance men all
over the land, that 1 think it would
he'p very much to strengthen theiti
deteimination to piocure such books
as the "Alliance and Wheel" and
read them. Also to take The M*r/-
cury and read it. May the Whee
and Alliance keep rolling until the walls
of monopoly may crumble and fall to
atoms, and peace and prosperity fill
our land "
GOOD ADVICE.
From Goliad county; Bro. Robt. F.
Hillyer writes a long letter in defense
of the sub-treasury plan, censures •
Grayson county Alliance for its actio
in regard to same and Dr. Macune,
and concludes as follows: "If any •£
the members violate any of the prin-
ciples of the order, we have recourse
direct and effectual, and 1 hope that
the our deliberative bodies will refrain
from denouncing a brother through
the public press without a just cause.
We should bear with one another, md
be not eager to condemn a man be-
cause perchance he may entertain,
opinions reverse to our own. Let us
stand shoulder to shouldgr, and move
on in our grand w«k, and remain im-
mutable in the course we expect to
pursue, and ere long, we will realise
conditions that only through an organ-
ised effort we can hope to obtain."
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Dixon, Sam H. The Southern Mercury, Texas Farmers' Alliance Advocate. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1890, newspaper, September 18, 1890; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth186156/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .