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SEYMOUR, BAYLOR COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY; NOVEMBER 17,1899.
Whole No. 523.
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The A. Levinson Dry Goods
House is now showing a full line of fall
and winter Dry G-oods, Clothing, Boots
and Shoes, Hats and Caps,
Ladies Dress skirts, tea jackets,Undershirts
Wrappers, capes and j ackets.
Men's overcoats, mackintoshes, duck over-
coats. Notions and novelties of all kinds
We are showiDg a "big line of Blankets from 6oc.75c & $1
up to $6, and comforts from 50c to $1.50. You'll soon need
something in this line. Remember A. Levinson's is the place
to find it. People for 75 miles around will visit our store and
pick with pleasure and profit from our tremendrous stock- ~ ,
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Foot-Wear for Men, Women and Children.
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Men's dres shoes, satin calf,
J Ladies dress shoes vici kid,
Men's heavy work shoes,
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Men's fine dress " .$
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Boys and girls heavy shoes,
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Heavy brown domestic 36 inches wide, instead of 5c our
price 4c. Fine Sea-Island domestic, instead of 7c our price 5c
Nice bleached domestic free of starch 5c* Good heavy cotton
checks, worth 5c. our price, 4c. 33 yds cotton cheks for $1
Matress ticking, real value 7c., bur price 5c. Quilting cal-
ico, 3c Red and blue calico 4c Oil red and blue calico 5c.
Outings, percales and teasel downs from 7 1-2 to 12 l-2c.
Woolen dress goods in all colors 7 to 35c. All colors in plain
and novelty Henriettas from 25 to 00 c. 7 yd. patterns of fine
novelty dress goods $3.50 ^ • '•
Mens and Boys Clothing :
Boys 2 piece suits, worth $1.25 our price 75 c.
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You' don't have to look twice to tell
whether the prioe is low. or high :
Men's knit undershirts 20,35 and 50c - V,
" heavy fleeced lined un-shirts 50 to.Jt
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" heavy fleeced lined overshirts $1.00 " heavy ribbed vest 20, 25, 86 and 50
" fancy all wool evershirts pair 2.50 " union suits 50 and 75 cents.
" knit overshirts 60 jjisses heavy union suits 35, 60 & 75.
" s^eate™ Infants shirts 25 to 50 cents.
" all wool sweaters, 1.00
" work Bhirts, 25, 35 and 50 cents
" teasel down night Bhirts, 1.00
" black, brown and grey hose $1 doz.
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Lookout for the
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Jfecu - Photograph « Gallery
We are prepared to do all kinds of work.
Photos 50 eents to $3.50 Pet* Dozen.
Buttons, Pins, etc. All work guaranteed.
J. A. H AMMOCK, * Seymour, Texas.
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Reynolds Presbyterian Academy,
AIiBRfiY, TEXAS. ^
This institution is modern in every" particular, with steam heat, electric
lights and many other up-to-date conveniences and attractions. The
curriculum is complete and includes piano, violin, voice culture,
etc. Faculty as good as any in the state.
* TRUSTEES:
GEORGE T. RFYNOLDS, President.
*N. L. BARTHOLOMEW, Secretary and Treasurer.
J. A. MATTHEWS, W.D.REYNOLDS, D..C. CAMPBELL,
REV. FRENCH McAFEE, S.WEBB.
^<3i?and Opening I
I h^ve just received a fail and complete
and handsome line of Fall and Winter—
IWIliliiriERY
Fresh from St. Louis, of the very latest and
up-to-date style and finest goods which I
, will open on Wednesday, Sept. 27, '99. -
The public tod especially the Ladies, are
specially invited to call and see this Grand
Opening, the Nicest and Most Handsome
stock ever in Seymour. To see it is to ap-
preciate it. Satisfaction, as to Style, Quali-
ty, Etc- guaranteed. Don't fail to call next
Wednesday, 27th.
- JAps. J.J. fDallen
I havn't the time to write a display adv but want to
tell you that I am selling Good
Calico from 2 to 5 cents, ginghams from 5 to 10 c., percale from 8 1-2 121-2 c, and" other
fine dress goods that sold from 35 to 65, are being closed out at from 15 to 30 c. per yd.
I have a first class stock of
Olottiirig; and Ct|ildrer| Suits
From $1 to 5, Youth suits from $3 to 10, Mgn's
suits from S3 to 20.
My underwear was selected to a Queen's taste,
Guaranteed to Last Always
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and never to scratch you. Try them.
Don't forget my
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They are second to none
Am getting in nw goods every week. Remember my mot-
to: Quick sale, small profit,;never under sold on any article
T.H.CLARK.
battlefield fresh from the arms
of bis wife at Manila; at the head
of his regiment, leading a charge
he fell, pierced through the heart.
What great principle did he die
for? Will the administration
please ansWerl"—Denison Gazet-
teer.
Ingersoll's Last Talk.
Bobert G Ingersoll was ever a
republican. He was as strong in
his partisanship as he was in his
war on the Christian religion. He
was -always ready to help bis
party in its campaigns and^ ever
after the great speech in a repub-
lican national convention where
be called James G. Blaiue "the
plumed knight" he was recognized
as one of the strong men and one
of the leaders of his party, but the
present managers of that party,
each as McKinley, Hanna and
Alger, will find bnt~ cold comfort
in the words of his last public
wherein he said:
"I have one sentiment for the
soldiers—cheers for the living and
tears for the dead. If it were
meet to week over the sacred
dtiat of the brave who died to
render dor flag stainless and
keep it in the sky, it is ifow in
order to flood the graves of the
boys who are falling In the Phil;
Ippine islands; For they.are not
fighting to add lustrq to "Old
Glory''or to save the t nion, bat
at the behest
of the
the time being
of the Uditfed.
Spain,
took > tip arms, has long since
ended. Congress has not de-
clared war against the Filipinos
nOr voted money to carry on a
foreign war ef conquest. Then
why this thunder of guns, the
flying thunderbolts of hell, and
these new made graves as num-
berless as the, stars? Oar arms
are not adding glory to the flag,
bat instead are staining that
starry emblem of freedom with
the blood and tears of a people
fighting for truth, liberty and eter-
nal right. But when one talis in
the Philippine war there burns no
hale of glory abotfe his dust, but
his sad, untimely!, uncalled for
death causes tears to moisten the
eyes of every patriot in the land.
Therefore when he fails in such a
war his bier should be draped in
the deepest mourning and drench
ed with the tears of his fellow-
countrymen. The Golonel Stoze-
aberg is an example, No braver,
truer soldier ever were uniform
or marched in the shadow of a
flag. He only recently remarked
that he was sick of puch a war and
looked forward to the near future
he and bis bvave volunteers
would be relieved from killing
who were fighting for inde-
. He arrived tfa the
for which the
A Relic of the War.
At the quarters of Sterling Price
camp, United Confederate Veterans,
during the meeting this afternoon,
there will be on exhibition a historic
relic. A eight of it will be interest-
ing to all persons, but especially so
to ex-confederates.
It is a quilt made years ago, and
that was sold at auction time and
again, each time being redonated bv
the purchaser to be sold again for
the same purpose. The proceeds of
these sales went to° the purchase of
the confederate cruiser Alabama, one
of the most famous war vessels that
has ever figured in the annals of na-
val warfare. She could only sail and
steam jointly about fourteen knots
an hour, while many federal war ves-
sels boasted of sixteen and eighteen
knots an hour; yet'none of them ever
caught her, and she gave them all
opportunitv to do so.
The following account of the quilt
furnished by Mrs. Ben Melton, will
be interesting. Mrs. Melton's father
auctioned off this, quilt throughout
Alabama and it was finally presented
to him for his labors in the cause,
and it is now the property of Mrs.
Melton. The write-up says:
"A noteworthy relic on exhibition
at the fail Was a quilt, known in Ala-
bama as 'the gunboat quilt.' It was
'made by a Mrs. Hatter, a widow of
Greensboro, Ala., the mother of two
sons', both in the confederate army.
By her it was given to the confeder-
acy, to be sold and the funds used in
assisting to build a gunboat to be
named the Alabama.- J.J. Hutchin-
son of Greensboro, Ala., took it in
charge, sold it at auction in
the state,, invariably it
by purchasers to bere-
Finally, after its mi
'fulfilled and thousands of dollars
reused on it, it was givenby purchas-
ers and maker to the gentleman who
had so zealofisly acted as auctioneer,
and has since been held as
ished heirloom in his family. It was
sent for to be exhibited at the State
Fair just closed; owing to quarantine
restrictions did not reach Dallas un-
til near the close of the fair. Mrs.
Smith for once kindly violated her
rules and placed it on exhibition for
the three or four remaining days.
As so many to whom it would be a
historic object have not Been it, Mrs.
Ben Melton will have it conspicuous-
ly placed in Camp Sterling Price
headquarters next Sunday afternoon.
—Pallas News.
A Motherly Cat
Some years ago the attention of a
family in Ohio was called to a brood
of young chickens by a cat who
seemed to devote her time and atten-
tion to them. They were regularly
fed by the mistress of the house.
The cat frequently purred to them,
and they .came at her Call, and fol-
lowed her as closely as chickens fol-
low tha mother hen. They lodged
together in a woodshed adjaoent to
the house for about three months;
but in the early spring, the chickens
being well fledged, abandoned their
winter quarters'and flaw into the
higher branches of a fruit tree to
roost. The cat purred ffnd mewed,
and seemed much disgusted at their
change of' lodgings, but soon ac
cepted the situation, and climbed to
the tree-top and roosted with the
chickens.—Our Dumb Animals.
Gen. Pick's Boomerang.
Maj. Ford H. Rogers tells an
amusing anecdote of the late Gen.
Clinton B. Bisk. The general was
^addressing a Sunday-school conven-
tion. One of* the speakers had re-
minded the children that it was
Washington's birthday.
"Children,'' said Gem Fisk, "you
ail know that Washington was a gen'
eral. ,Perhaps yon know that I am
also a general. Now can any one
tell what tfas the difference between
Gen. Washington and myself?"
"I know, sir," piped a small boy iff
the back part of the room.
"Well, what was the difference?"
said Gjpn. Fisk, smiling at the lad's
Washington couldn't tell
a lie, sir," cried the boy in exultant
tones. Shoots of laughW followed,
in which, the
—Detroit News,
Three Women Arrested.
New York, Nov. 13.—Police
Capt. Delaney, of the East Thirty-
third street station to-day arrest-
ed three, young woman whom be
believes to be western women who
have been working this city for
softie time past. They were reg*
istered at the. station-house as
Miss Mabey Bay, alias Mrs. James
Bell, alias Mrs. J. W. Crouch, 22
years old, No. 197 East Ontario
street, Chicago; Miss Mary Doris,
24 years of age, Evansville, Ind.,
Miss Nettie Nelson, alias Mrs.
Mollie MeClure, 26 years of age,
of Memphis, Tenn.
Capt. Delaney discovered the
women on last Friday. He was
on his way uptown in a surface
car when he overheard the wo-
men telling of their recent coming
to this city. They used so many
expressions peculiar to the>crimi*
nal class that he followed them to I
their boarding*house. He had the
bouse watched nntil to-day when
he and five other officers.. sur-
rounded the house and arrested
the three woman. In searching
their rooms the police found brass
knuckles, a revolver and a large
number of pawn tickets ranging in
sums from 916 to $50. The latter
Were for diamonds, rings, watch-
es, gold and silver plate. A bot-
tle of "knockout drops" was also
found.
A large Collection of clippings
from Chicago newspapers was
found, telling of the arrest and
conviction of James Bell, the hus-
band Cf one^of the women, and of
crimes of.other western criminals*
When questioned at the station*
house the Nelson woman said her
home was in Roland, Mo., and the
, Ray women said she came from
Sedalia, Mo.
The women were sent to police
is suspicious per*
and Capt MeClusky tele-
graphed to the Chicago police for
full information.
Judas, the Betrayer,
The following shows that genius
is respected even in a dumb brute.
e "One of the Bight3 of the great
cattle yards ot Chicago is an old
white ox named Judas.
He came to the yards a good
many years ago, while he was yet
a frisky steer, and he was imme-
diately purchased by one of the
great packing houees, and driven
from the train which brought him
from his Iowa home to a distant
yard.
The life of most animals at the
stock yards is very short—a week
at the very most A few days
after the arrival of Judas the
herd of cattle which occupied the
pen with him was selected for
killing.
Tlie way to the packing house
led down a long alleyway, with
high fences on each side, then np
a narrow chute and then, into the
building.
For some reason the cattle seem
to Know what is coming, for they
always object to being driven np
the chute. Judas was no excep-
tion to the rule. He plunged
madly about among the herd and
the cattlemen had more trouble
with him than with any other ani-
mal.
At test, however, he sermed to
realize that sooner or later he
must go and he made a virtue of a
necessity, trotted quietly up the
chute, and the other cattle' fol-
lowed rapidly after him. Thus he
ran until he bad just reached the
door of the packing house. Then
quick as a wink he turned and
galloped down a side passage and
escaped, while the other cattle
went onward into the building.
Judas had been so very clever
that the good-natured cattlemen
let him go for that day, for genius
is appreciated in a steer as well as
a man.
The next day, however, they
drove him up with another herd.
This time he made not the slight-
est objection, but trotted forward
quietly, and the other steers, hav-
ing a confident leader, behaved
admirably. But just as Judas
reached the door of the building
he dodged again, so suddenly that
the men couldn't turu him, and
escaped as he had done before,
while the herd behind him went
careening into the killing room.
Since then Judas has been a
regular employe of the cattle
yards. Every dav he leads up a
herd of cattle and every day he
dodges just at the door of the
building. He has saved the cat-
tlemen no end of trouble and de-
lay with riotous herds siuce he
began his servioe. - *
He has grown fat and sleek on
the good living of the yards and
so highly are his services regard*
ed that the cattlemen provide him
with a white blanket on cold
days to keep him comfortable.
And thus he is living to a green
old age,, bnt he bears the disres-
pectful name of Judas—the be-
trayer.
Why let the wind blow through
your windows when H. B. Lewis
will cut and fit glass for you. 52t&
District Court.
When the familiar "Oil yes, Oh
yes, Oh yes," of Sheriff Burch rang
out from tile court room
Monday morning the
given which set in motion what will
probably be one of the
cal district onirts this county has
ever known. His Honor, Judge
I Newton is presiding,
is represented by her able
Jo. A. P. Dickson, while the clien-
tage will have their cause plead by
as bright an array of legal lights as
ever graced the bar of justice. The
Grand Jury who will investigate the
mischief makers of the county are
W. A. Brown, W. R. Myers, T. H.
Burnett, Rufus Browder, Dudley
Benge, W. T. Ward, E. E. Taylor, A.
W. Coffman, Ed. W. Bedford, John
Rhea and J. F. Mitchell. Ed. W.
Bedford was elected foreman. J. R.
Bellard will stand at the outer door
as sentinel to do the bidding of this
body and J. P. Kuykendall, Albert
Martin, A. M. Reeves and Elmo
Parks will ride over the country to
bring in those who, in the absence of
a policeman they must tell to seme
one. The following is the petit jury
for this term: Joe Gray, James
Brooks, C. W. Bradford, T. F. Glov-
er, Almond Gray, A. R. Wysong, T.
V. Gordon, W. W. Ballard, J. A.
Bussell, Walter Snody, Hervy Brad-
ford, Willis Norris, T. H. Berg, Sam
Dickson, W. M. Coffman, H. Col-
tharp, J. W. Priest, £>. L. P. Hefner,
A'. J. Ford, T. T. Stone, West Kauff-
man, L. T. Robinson, John Johnson,
Wm. Rider, Henry Gier, Luther
Thomas, J. R. Craig.
The following cases have been dis-
posed of:
State of Texas vs. Wm. Jackson,
bond forfeited.
S. Bradley et al vs. Marsh Coff-
man and Tom Anderson, dismissed
on application of plaintiff.
C.'R. Ferguson vs. J. W. Brooks,
continued by agreement.
State of Texas vs. Dan Roberts,
acquitted.
The Don Sebastian case .is set for
the 15th. The trial of Phoenix Bolt
will probably begin about the 20th.—
Benjamin Reporter.
Used bylBritish Soldiers in Atriea.
Capt. C. G. Dennison iB well knewn
all over Africa as commander of the
forces that captured the famous
rebel Galishe. Under date of Nov.
4, 1897, from Vryburg, Bechuanaland,
he writes: "Before starting on the
last campaign I bought a quantity
of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, which I used my-
self when troubled with bowel com-
plaint, and had given to my men,
and in every case it proved most
beneficial." For Bale by H. B. Lew-
is, druggist.
Like the Front Row.
Women who poke into odd corners
in the Japanese stores may have seen
and wondered what earthly use could
be made of the grotesque masks and
faces which are piled into large bas-
kets set here and there on the coun-
ters. ' There axe all kinds and sorts
and conditions of them. Some are
solemn, some are jolly, some are sad,
while old Satan has a generous rep-
resentation among these apparently
useless articles bf brie a-brae. They
are fashioned of a dark reddish
brown metal, and are, as a rule, the
most outlandish looking objects.
Well, a new use has been found
for them. An inventive woman, hav-
ing a shelf over her doorway to orna-
ment, conceived the idea of putting
up a row of these Japanese masks,
something after the fashion of the
singing cherubs. So down she went
to the Japanese store and selected
about a dozen of the oddest of these
many odd heads, and then shear
ranged them artistically and placed
them on the edge of her aheif, where
they locked like the ftoot row of a
grotesque chorus,—New York Her-
ald.
The Captains of the Plow.
There are patriots who.foltow
the plow as well as the sword, and
in our Southland with it j pecu-
liar crises, financial and social,
there are no more heroic ideals
than those great captains who
manage our plantations Their
mission is one upon which our
civilization as well as our finan*
«sial fabric depends; and so as we
view them battling with the prob*
lem of nature in soil and labor, in
cold and heat, with obstacles al*
most insurmouritaole, our admira-
tion and interest cansea us to
breathe a silent prayer for their
success. We witness their depar-
ture to new fields of experiment
with the same admiration that we
felt for the companies of Lee and
Jackson. There i#* no difference
in pr|nciple. Then the sword,
now the plow—all for home a:
country. These captains of ours,
leaving the beaten paths of cotton,
sound the bngle-call and as by
magic millions of warriors leap
into the fields. Their uniform is
golden, and myriads of spear*
heads wave in trinmph as they
are kissed by a southern snu.
Beautiful women smile npon these
warriors, children twine their lov«
ing arms around them; the birds
praise in their flight and carol
their notes of joy. And in reply
we think these silent Warriors of
ours seem to say, we are your
guardians. No more shall the
crown of thorns be pressed upon
your brow. Even the widow and
the orphan shall glean in plenty
from our fields of grain. There
shall be no dark shadow along the
lonely path to the spring; no wid*
ows cabiu so remote we cannot
protect; no mortgage that we can
not pay. We will move the anx-
ious look from the old mother's
face and nail the banner of con-
tent upon every southern barn.
We will solve the problems of
labor and foreign loans. We will
furnish bridal presents for ovr
young men and women. We a ill
paint a smile where once w s
the scowl of despair, and our joy.
ful labors done, we will sing "The
wheat fields of Eden."—Theo. W.
Ellis in Macon Telegraph.
Texas Improvements.
Beaumont—Irrigation Plant
El Paso—Vehicle Factory.
El Paso—Brewery.
El Pago—Sewer System.—The
city h&s voted an issuance of |20,
000 in bonds to complete the sew-
er system.
Fort Worth—Grain Elevator.
Fort Worth—Water-wo^ks Ex-
tensions*
Hillsboro—Cotton Factory. .
Leander—Cotton MilL
Lenore—Water-works.
Port Arthur—Irrigation System.
Rusk—Cotton-Woolen Mill.
Terrell-a-Grain Elevator.
Waxahacbie—Oil Well.
WaXahachie—Cotton Mill.
Wharton—Sngar Mill.
Whitewrfght—Water Works.
—Manufacturer's Record.
Cats are held in great reverence in
Persia. The Shah alone has 50 of
them, and each one has an attendant
of its own, with a special room for
meals. When the Shah travels, the
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