Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 28, 1881 Page: 1 of 4
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Attorney at Law,
Mobeetio, Wheeler CountyTexas;
Busltuys la any part of the 1■nnhmulle
pf 'fflXiH <'ii(rii.sU'il to hip, will i-cfcivc
proiupt attention.
■ J. (i. STHUJj,
Justice of tlie Peace
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A CERNIAN SOLDIER. ijeot of ItfliJV.'lM ollicor-i' is( to
•—- place themselves towards their
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A C:i7CUS.
A. A. CLARKE,
lawyer and land agent
- Albany, Texas.
Has forsale Over a quurU-r of a million
•f acres of line iand belonging to the
Franco-Texaa Laiul Opmpiiny.
SEBASTIAN & WEBB,
Attorneys at
SD
AGENTS
REAL.
AND
ESTATE.
BreckenrUI^, Stephens Co., Texas.
Will priYe.tiee In iill-tiie umri-ts of 8t«-
phen ;BliAokolf6rd'«nu'iiiljolhU)KCou!itli's.,
and in tlip Supremo and Appellate courts.
Special attention 'given -to land anil col
lections.' •
W. 91. POWELL,
Physician and Surgeon.
FORT GIUl'FI,N, TEXAS.
Will respond to professloiml culls from
town or.eountry, day or nlj>ht. «52
GEO. W. BOBSOX,
U. S. CQMNilSSIONER,
in akd von TICK
HORTHERN DISTRICT OF .TEXAS.
Fort IWlfia, Shackelford tip,, Tex...
JOSEPH H.
Wholesale
Grocer,
Texas.
vj Fort Worth,
J. M. fiRANNAN, Traveling Srilesman.
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How Ho 19 Tralnod--Lo sono In
6olf-Hestraliit--f unlshinent.
Frotn'lfii1 lUtiuioii >;<•«■$.
The Holdit'i'a; education cow
rtiences frotuthe moment lie seta
in a
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MEB€1IAKTS EXCHANGE
SAtOON AND RESTAURANT,
(First .Street,bet. Main and Iloiistpn.)
FORT WORTH . -, *, TEX AS.
The very best of everything can be
.ound at tide bouse. ohn iioffman
dO .. Proprietor..
J. G. KENAN & 00-.
DRUGGISTS,
FORT GRIFFIN, -. • - TICK AS.
Keep constantly Oh hand a coinplote
assortment of
DRUGS AND PATENT MEDICINES,
Palnto, ■
OlUj
Brushes. . "■/
Toilet -
. • . •Articles, etc.
Prescriptions carefully compounded at
alt hours, day or night.
y3|il
. CHARLEY'S
RESTAURANT.
East Side Main SHeet.
BTERYtlTiNG NEW, NEAT AND.
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meals twenty f1v b gts.
The tabi# supplied with the best the
market affords.
Tin# CHARLEY HARTFIELD.
CHANGED HANDS.
veil known Blacksmith and Wag-
on Shop of J. A1 Cu|ip & Hro.. will froin
date be conduced b.V L., Tlioi'iiand
Allen C'lliip. uiulcr tlio stylo ot .!. I.
:ni>p,
J horn A Co.
Tlifs isUie onlv shop in Grlffln.kW'P-
Ing a full Mini
Tin"
p ..
of Iron ami W agon
. .tubers. Tire slinnUcr. (,'areful atten-
tion Will be given to nil woi'U entrusted
n°17mJ .1. L. i iiOUl' "A CO.
LUMBER
EASTLAND, TEX.
All klhdH and of It.
Also SHINGLES, .
DODlW, WINDOWS.
MO'LLDlNli. I* AI NTS,
1JHE, KKSt'E WIRE, AC.
tarcull priienil yonr order*.
j. ij. AMM10HMAN.
SilU
foot. In bnniirks. As ii
mei'H boy. and liilght feol cock-
a-wlioo]) about his-uniform, he
is not allowed tp go and swag-
K«r abotir town alono. During
six weoks lie remains in charge
of a gefreile, who acts as his
monitor. The gefreito is either
a corpural or an old soldier —
that is one who has served at
least two years, and . is known
for his 'steadiness. Pour re-
cruits are put under him, and
he is required to instruct them
in regimental customs, etiquet.
rules; to show them how their
cots are to be made up, to point
out and name the officers to
them—in fact, to do them all
the friendly offices possible.
When tlie day's duties are over
the gefreite generally takes his
pupils out for a walk in the
town, warns them of what plac-
es thev must avoid, tells them
wliers they may go( teaches
them how to walk, whom to sa-
lute, etc., and ]>revents' them
from squanderiiig their money.
His services' avei given quite
gratuitously. They are a to-
ken of the confidence which his
superiors place in him-rand he
must not accept' so • much as a
glass of beer in remuneration
for them. All these provisions
are moat wise, and tlie necessi-
ty for them will be readily un-
derstood. Germany is a poor
country, and it is hard enough
for persons of the lower classes
to see • their sons compelled to
serve in the army without their
having to feel that these boys
will learn extravagant and vi-
cious habits in the regiment.
On the contrary, German pa-
rents have the. great comfort of
knowing that their sons will
learn nothing. but what is good
in the army. Any one who
has seen German soldiers walk-
ing about the streets must have
been struck by their invariably
good conduct, their gentleness,
civility and sobriety. Such a
thing as a drunken soldier is
no more to be met with than a
drunken clergyman. Night
brawling, riots in houses of ill-
fame, ruffianly impertinence to
Women—things common enough
in some armies—meet with no
indulgence at all at the hands
of German officers and ser-
geants. The French officer fan-
cies he has no business, to su-
pervise the morals of his iheii;
he would, indeed, bo laughed
at by his brother officers if he
attempted to do so. and improp-
er intimacies with the other sex
are regarded by him as the
most Venial of pecadllloes. The
consequence is that in the
streets around every French
barracks teem a whole popula-
tion of loose women, who are
the soldiers' ruin, driving liim
to drink, to extort money from
his friends on false pretenses.
break rules and sometime steal.
There is nothing of this kind
in connection with the German
barracks. A German soldier
who is known to have c on tract-
ed blaniablt? ijitiinaciMH: i« pull-
i'd hp short by his sergeant be;
Vote the tniyi'hief call go very
Car. If th« lad is n"l to be
cured of lii ) verySiroiig
ineasitreH will Vit-. taken will!
him, and perhaps It• • will
solit oft to a ^garrison htihdreds | captUiis, and
of miles awn v. In wuf". I ol) 1 par!' meiitri.
men in loco parent is, in order
tjiat when I he giddier i:otiirnti (o; ^ 'M'f as. ''l<-I 'iralv-e o
his home liU-.frieluls ni;>y b('■ <*Vt+n' 11 < ;1!IU' |
thar lie ha^ iiupn^-: ^uin'^ Svl,,;,J • ,.wU'11-
<*d in every res The vei1iei,-i! ^'l'0^ aie y.ottiJ
alion for the unironn is inenlcai • "'•' •
ed with such care that a ffCt'uiU ell, if it siin t Jack llait
becomes ■ pnnetwit''d with it. al-
Bmwmv.'i.;! srwr-j
ing tlie eeiiii-'t
t'lickie.s
lie's 1 |ie
t i!i)iike\' that cavorts
•linquent no option but to I b'dped fihovel snow, slept in a
way from his country, barroom; haven t had ii change
most at once, atld ilismissa)
IVotn the ai'ihy is accounted a
mortal disgrace 'which leaves
the (lei
go away from his country
Thieves, deserters, mutineers,
incorrigible'drunkards are sen-
tenced to still' terms of itnpris•
onment, but are never permitted
to serve again when their terms
can ! Glad t(> .see you. Com"
right, along home with me."
"No, Jiiggs! I'm too dirty.
Bven snowed in on the rostd;
of. shins"for a week."
"NVver mind appearances, no-
bodyvat the house. My wife
took the ]). in. .train for an all
iii "ilit wi th her sister at Paities-
of punishment have expiied; yiM.e. 111 iurnish a shirt, and
nor is any lad who 1ms beeii * v<? "ot a good balh rotim
sentenced to imprisonment by
the civil courts before the age
of seventeen allowed to enter
tlie army. The recruit who
joins must have a blameless
record, besiilea being Bound of
wind aud limb. As to this it
must be remarked that the med-
ical examination ol intended re-
cruits takes place before the
conscription, not after it, as in
France; and the doctors are
yery particular in passing none
who, from physical inlirmities,
would be likely to make poor
soldiers. This may Berve to
explain why lads who have not
gone into the amiy are held in
somewhat u rid esii i ved con t einpt.
Although there are plenty Who
have escaped military service
simply by drawing exemption
numbers a t the conscription, it
is too readily taljjen for granted
by the people that a man who
has noc served must have done
something wrong or have some
blemish in his body. Young
men of good education and so-
cial position never escape ser-
vice, as they invariably.voluu-
teer at seventeen. In 1870
there was hot - a single soldier
of superior education who had
been enrolled in the service by
coiiJcription.
It will Be Useful.
Tlie inst.antaueous.photograph
process is now used! in Paris, to
take, without his knowing it,
the portrait of any suspicious
looking person presenting a
draft or check at the banks ;
aud also by means of clock
work to expose ' a series of sen-
sitive plates for hours in suc-
cession, so as to inform an ab-
sent employer liotv his clerks
have conducted themselves—
whether ihey "attended to busi-
ness, or smoked, lounged, and
Went- out; -and to give an ae-
counfc of the children's behav-
ior when their mother or school-
master shall leaye them to
themselves. Its success will
in the house. Come, now; you
•haven't honored me since I
married."
" Well, since the wife is away,
I'll surrender. We'll have a
regular rooster night of it."
Jack Duncan is a bachelor,
with a hoi)' horror of women.
Feminine, presence paralyses
and stultifies* him.
"Here's the linnen," showing
him into the bath room a few
minutes later. "There's the
batji all ready. Now shape up
while i go down to Joe Iiich-
ards' I'ltid order up one of our
old college lunches. Nobody
iu,the hptise; so just splash
around at pleasure."
Biggs departad, leaving the
door ajar. Jack did not notice
it iii his eagerness for .immer-
sion.
He had j iist tumbled out and re-
eumbed his pantalooirs when he
heard footsteps approaching the
door Thinking it was Biggs
returnin he seized! the freshly:
laundried shirt, opening at the
back, and jammed his head in-
to it. li came down oyer his
face, completely blindfolding
him, and the starch bullied his
efforts, to innnel through.
Jusl as lie commenced strad-
dlilig around wilh suspenders
dangling lie heard a rustle that
congealed his blood. Tlie door
squeaked and a cheery voice
said : '.
"Now, IVe got you,Mr. Biggs.
Tlie train left me, so I made a
call or two and came back. I
heajd you playing sea lion in
(he pathroom as 1 entered the
house ; 1 gdt. .tlie buggy whip
and slipped ip to paV you back
for everlast ugly teasing rue.
Now Pin ringmaster, dear hub-
by. More lively!" And she
popped her whip in a business
way that suspended the bachel-
or's animation. The shirt hid
his face, and taking his silence
for a spousal submission to the
joke, she began:
"Gentlemenand 1 adies; Mlle.
Biggs, queen of the saw dust
arena, will now introduce her
handsome and peifoctly trained
(.Vituniiiii slii t*-blinking mix-
d wl<i\ iiasbM' i.'iltils-o tlie beet
i |iv!e, 'I'iii" iu bIai'jv i.Lk.. mlx^d with the white
■i)ii' eaiiva^ ]*iivivi<>ji. of siu.vji'gs '>> iH.••give ladies' line
Jjoop la! (/fiiv she iakes liim). j .shoes color and shine without
I What be:uirif:i! ;,a.eii(vn ! Yes, ■ ruV'bing ofT.
fcllovv (•oulitryiiii'ii, 1 never mit'- ;ll ( .iidirig to the Atlanta
rv h.ini down with anythnur but i'll|!>l}|:!jiit. u.,Mi„ss it?'tlie Green,
1%. silk-blossonicd ' Kiia;'iper.':0f. |f',|fs\;th county., Ga., has
Hoop la ! (iV p_kei>l;isli:..''t;'- ■ t W() silk ilri'ssi-s which she made
l'I cover Ills ears that he niay J.lR.'i*seif,havina 'raided the worms,
not ojb'iid the most fasti.lious •/S]>(in t!lrt ajn^ ,.„!ured and wov-'
they lesemble si cross between j'eIl it ,virj, |,er own hands,
a mail-bag and the liiiman ap- i , , , . \
Hoop la ! (Zip. drl * 'T"!1i i" m'T"
1,-t llio gf.W.-!. cornet hu,.l .li.l, 'k l 'r •'b„,« "Don.-
„p iloHipipu r.- i l,„ !i«":
■nuUilgbly itavoi-,1, nu,l tlul,. I'« l o Mtr.
by D Jit,,s shall—" : I f'11"3 «*. ,
."B-b-beg your p pardon.; Valuable infoimatlon for a
m-madam," sputtered the.viciini bachelor ;May is one of tlie
as his heart and voice shot put i unlucky niontlis for marriage,
ottho .shirt. Then—— |Th other unlucky months are
she stMrteili sioppeO. ' January, Fidnaiary, March
'si-eli-boH, 1"nam': ''April. jm:e. July, August, Sep-
I teniber, October, November and
December.
The uliip she droppril.
And then she liilsed
A CIierokee siirjelc
Alid duwu she lloilned.: i . . . " , 0 .
But the tenified sullerer caught An outerpming boy in Spr.ng-
lier giiliaiitly in his ainis. just! ''' ';1S Si to have bought
as Biggs rushed in with— ! the shmgl.-s on the old home of
"Jack, are .you drowning ? Luu,oln for 11 at)d_to be
Great heavens 1 my wife V ;
'.v.' "Tike lier, Biggs. i'm, tuck-
ered out. Awkward predica-
ment-—;v
probably bring it into general
use. A Jealous husband can trick mule, Hubby Darling,
go • to Chicago feeling assuredly will walk the arena on his
that, the tell-tale camera will hind loot, with his head and
give him an account of'the way fpVepaws shrowded in a linen
in which his wife spent her "anopy. Come, now, Hubby?
time. It will be very useful to Hoop la ! hoop In!'
She chirped, fetching him t
wipe'with the whiji that niadt
l itis bare lVet. hi,auk the
a
e
llonr
maniptilaUijg tliem by ilieans of
a scroll saw" itito mementoes of
more or less artistic design,
which lie is Belling it fifty cents
"Explain yourself, instantly,,,'ilc'L '
sir! Ypiii half dressed, my wifei A veiling lady who had been
in yoHi' anus I" and lie brtsiied j niarrhMl a rdiort tlnie lately told
all over Jike a barbed wire j a "iioaom ftiend" thalthere was
fence. only one thing more astonish-
"My head was fast in the ing nhan the readiness With
shirt. : She couldn't see my which Ned gave up smoking
face and thought it waa yoii," when they became engaged,and
shrieked the tortured, hoarsely.
"Yety likely. Be a man,
sir; don't shrink i'roih the purt-
ishment of your treachery."
" Where am i ? is it a dream V
mused the que.en, opening her
optics and glaring wildly.
"What has that villain done?"
demanded Biggs fiercely.
She hitched on lit once.
"Oh, mercy ! It is no dream.
He did nothing. Take inw tc>
my room. Oh, inisband iiow
could you be so cdreless ?"
"Don't go, Jack ; "^nay be I've
made a Zebra of myself; slay
now till the log risesand lie
bore his wilted wife away.
An hour later they sat around
a marvelous supper Biggs made
a second trip to order. They
that was the rapidity with
which he took to it again after
they were matried.
Joe Aby, of the New Orleans
Times, defines "love" as that
condition of mind which ena-
bles a poor young man with a
widowed mother to spend four
ot live dollars a week on a car-
mine headed girl, when his
aged parent is in need of a pair
of shoes. '■ '
Itigliteoiis indignation: She
was talking On the cars, and
she said : "The meanest people
are those, who peep out of the
window to see what their neigh-
bors are doing. NoW this morn-
ing I was looking through the
blinds of iny window, and What
held their side's and shrieked 'lo you suj)]iose I saw that
tihd repeated tlie points of.the mean Mrs. Jones doitifj? Why
episode again aud again. : ifhe was peeping, through her
Jack is christened "llubby j blinds to see if I saw her—the
Darling," He sighs for more j ineaii woinau.
' i V •> j In ah obscure junk-shop in
'"V" l"*..1T"y3, v'1'0 ir„„ : prow ,,f (he fomon.
at; plpi-s ""1' *„.> !,,-r M"riin,ac, !ll { fleBlrov-
■- m ■ « ;■ . ed two fii^atee in nampton
He that hath tasted the bit- Roads during the rebellion, aud
terness of sin, will fear to com" i was a menace to all the com-
mit it; and lie that hath feltituerce aiid seaport cities of the
the ewc'etness of mercy will, L'niijU iiniij woi'sVed in the meui-
fear to'oiieiid it.-— Charnock. [orable ''otijlir't with the Monitor.
: The prow *vr ra!n weighs only
about 1 .-it):; pounds, and could
be purchased for a
A little girl once took a letter . ., ....
from her mother to an old Unlv
few ci'iits a jiotuid.
The: followiiig in told if a
;<no\vn "lieauty-lady," who
Wives who spend the summer
With the children in the eotin-
try, enabling them to know
how deeply Charles Augustus like a clog dancer.
and William Henry had occa- "himber up. lit
siou to regret their absence, andjaow. IJp, ii]\ rl', and she un- They had been en^a^ed for a
whether they reajly (fill ")'e;;'l | del.scored the last, up, v ith ti j jong tiliie, an■ I bhe .even'mi;
in the lonely lilirary until they brier cut, naiKiijg lliibliv 1 >ar- j.^vere reading"• t;h.e .paper
wero-sleepy and went to bed;li"g .skip so iiiipiil^ivelj thai
In;tore 10." It would alw) be:,l«iling'H dan-Utig suspeiidei^
useful in furnishing the public, ^wished about Ilk., a .loukeyV
with illustr;iliOMS of the way tail, ami 'iis harnls oove iiistine-
nt'.blie (iflicials do tlie public lively Jio llie j'l.se;ve.tioii ol
friend. "Many thanks, my,
child,'' she said ; "you may tell i
your mother that you are a ' well
good child a n d a\ fill ill fill tries- .islia] ij iy in the possvssi<ln of a
senger." "Thafik you, ma'am. Utile girl about-, live yrtif^ old
and I shall tell her too that J almost as pretty fts her mother:
didn't ask you for ten cents, Nut long ago" ail elderh', emi-
becaiise mamma told me not to
er. "'Look, l(ive," he exidaiinoij,
'' f i'i 11 y. s I ,"i' tj i r a si I i i r tf • ■lot. In
"Is it r wi'd'tling suit ;" slie iivi;-
be! biisiuess ill cilv halls, slate I his Uiistiiyed p-ialalinii
, l«'nin
i "i I hi no,"
\V;:shir:gion 'le
'I li 1 i111ifu,l11•
I-.
t I!ui,la- Dar
,iii! fi,'in i iimb.
I lllSI III
bin.ine-ss." s
tuiuciiil.
: naively at her lover,
lie n nsuer il; • • 11":; ;;
nit." "Well, I iivi.v
she l ejili i|. I
!',e|i.tly i• -jieetable getrfleniaii
made ah afternoon call, and as
el'ji rly gentlemen often do, he
I'.juI; up i!v ehiId and kissed
ili'l'. V.-i-ltv Mi:i':(.Mot do that,"
said I lie (iii.d, st i uggling, "I
"iitii a;i•• -pei• i:.1 >ie married wom-
an ;"• '"W h;i; do y,,ii iiu ati. my
de.-ii :• -!,••■.!'. :li - astonished
\ i>~it " "i i ;t iiial'inam-
le:t a" ". ,i. • ■ a; s « 'e-ll genlle-
uifii i-;i :i l.'-r," re!'lied the art-
inl
i.i.
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