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MA BON 10 TEMPLE.
SCMCKIPTION HATES:
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THUHSDAY. JUNEH. 1904
Remember June 14th.
*w t.
McKinney may have an
trie railway yet.
More
elec«
The big picnic has been post-
poned until August.
There is some fear of too much
rain for the grain crep.
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Tomatoes are being shipped
irr the car load from Jacksonville,
Texas.
Local option carried in both
Cherokee and Somtrville counties
Saturday.
Collin countv will have to put
on sideboards when she gets ready
to haul her corn crop.
The University of Texas is
twenty-one years old and is cele-
brating its majority this com-
mencement.
The United States supreme
court denies the inhabitants of
the Philippine Islands the right
of trial by jury.
The fourth-class postmasters of
Collin county will meet in Mc-
Kinney June 16, with a view to
organizing permanently.
The Summer Normal of Collin
county commences its 1H04 term
at McKtnney June 20, A large
attendance is anticipated.
•'Hail stones as large as sau-
cers" is the wav a report reads
from Lawton, Okla. That beats
*4hail stones as large as hen eggs."
We notice a sign in the depot
that says "This depot is for the
convenience and comfort of pas-
seugeis." It had better be cut
out of the McKinney depot.
The South has increased its
population only 60 per cent in the
last twenty years, but it has in-
creased its industries 2«r>0 per cent
and its railroads nearly 300 per
cent.
To vote for a member of Par-
liament a Japanese must be twen-
tv-five years old and pry about
$7.50 annually in direct national
taxation. This rule shuts out
nearly 99 per cent of the popula-
tiou of Japan.
A number of McKinney and
Collin county boys and girls are
graduating and winning honors in
colleges in different portions of
the state and other states. We
are all proud of them, but would
be more so if these houors could
be won at home.
The dry goods merchants of a
large portion of Philadelphia held
a meeting and decided to quit
using trading stamps. They de-
clared goods could be sold at
lower price*, allowing customers
to purchase such premiums as
the stamp companies eive when
erer they desired.
T O Murray's candidacy for
loeal representative is meeting
with popular favor. His whole
life is an open book to the people
of Collin county and the more
they scrutinize it the more thor-
ougdly they are convinced that
he would make a faithful repre-
sentative of their will und inter-
ests at Austin.
Iowa drunkards will be forced
to work in coal mines, according
to present plans of the State
Board of Control, -«ays a special
Des Mnines di-patch to the Chi-
cago Chronicle. It is planned to
buy extensive coal land at the
new inebriate hospital, near
Knoxvilie, and put the men sent
to the institution, at work to sup-
ply all State institutions with fuel
at actual cost of production.
The bureau of statistics of the
departmept of agriculture esti
mates the total area planted in
cotton in the United States this
eeason at 31,780,571 seres, an
increase of 2,823,016 acres over
the acreage of last year. The
average condition of the growing
crop on May 26 was 83, as com-
'744 00^26,1908;
CHAMltRSVILLI.
Chambersville, June 4—Crops
are fine at present. Wheat and
oats are nearly all cut.
J F Chandler was doning jury
service in McKinney.last week.
Several of our neighbors have
lately had phones put in. J K
Drury and others are the promo-
ters.
The Methodi*t meeting was
postponed until some time in
July.
Mr mirge's family have return-
ed from Sherman where his
children attended schocl.
Threshing will begin soon it
the weather ie suitable.
There was no preaching here
Sunday owing to rain.
WALLIS CHAPEL.
Wallis Chapel, June 6—Rev
Bush will preach here next Sun-
day at 3 p m.
Mrs Hight, daughter and son,
visited relatives here Sunday.
Mrs Fred Ownby is in Wood-
lawn community today.
Lou Boman of Ardath visited
at the home of E L Wallis Sun-
day night.
The recent rains are keeping
the farmers out of the harvest
fields.
Miss Emma Mitchell has re-
turned home after several weeks
stay with relatives at Graham,
Young county. She was accom-
panied by Miss Linniu Martin
and brother Luil.
Missej Willie and Annie Wil-
son of Princeton weie in our
midst Saturday afternoon.
ROLAND.
Kolund, June 6.—The recent
rains have caused harvestiug to
stop for the time and wheat needs
cutting very much. Alfalfa,
corn and cotton are looking line.
Mrs E S Burge and children
have come to their country home
near Koland to speml vacation.
Mr Burge and daughter spent
Sunday in Van 'Alstvne visiting
Miss Alma's school friends.
Mios Estelle Hunt Wilson is
visiting her cousin, Mrs C D
White, also her uncle, A M Wil-
son.
Rev Rosser was out at the quar-
terly meeting at Liberty Saturday.
"Uncle" Albeit Chandler of
Chamborsvillo attended quarterly
meeting.
Mrs J W Cox and niece, Miss
Lotie Pearce, were in McKinney
last Monday-
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Women aa Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.
Kidney trouble preys aeon the mind, dis-
courages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor
and cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kid*
neys are out of order
or diseased.
Kidney taouble has
become so prevalent
that It Is not uncommon
for a child to be born
«loted with weak kid-
's. If the child urin-
ates too often, If the
urine scalds the flesh or H, whar the child
reaches an age when It should be able to
control the passage. It Is yet affllc'ed with
bed-wetting, depend upon it. the cause of
the difficulty Is kidney trouble, and the flr t
step should be towards the trestment el
these important organs. this unpleasant
trouble Is due to a diseased condition of the
kidneys and bladder and not to a habit m
moat people suppose.
Women as well as men are made mis-
erable with kidney and bladder trouble,
•ind both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp-Root Is soon realized. It la sold
by druggists, In fifty-
cent ana one dollar
sizes. You may have a
sample bottle by mail
free, also pamphlet tell-
ing all about it. Including many of the
thousands of testlmonlsl letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing Di. Kilmer
It Co.. Blnghamton, N. Y.( be sure and
mention this naoer.
Don't make any mistake, bnt re
member the name. Swamp Root, Dr.
Kilmer'h Swamp-Root, and, the ad
dress, Blnghamton, N Y.. on every
bottle.
Horn* of Swamp-Rook
VICTORY i*OR PROS.
Rasult of Election in Cherokee
County Last Saturday.
Rusk, Tex., June —In the
election Saturday prohibition was
readopted in Cherokee county by
a vote of more than two to one.
The prohibition majority of li 01
was almost doubled. It was a
sweeping prohibition victory.
The antis brought on the election
and were swept off the field.
District Court.
II Field
found a
for oue
of land
In the land suit of L
vs Mattio Field the jury
verdict for the plaintiff
half of a 192 acre tract
and $13H, also for the defendant
for the other half of the 192 acre
tract and 80 acre homestead tract
for herself and children.
The case of Amanda F Donald*
vs Rufus Graves et al was de-
cided in favor of the plaintiff.
The jury list for the week is as
follows: W A Montgomery, J T
Lacy, T A Brown, J A Long, J
W McCulloch, T T Mvrick, T C
Fry, E L Kerr, John Gentry L R
Petty, W H Story, John Sellers,
S H Guffey, E G Brown. H E
Pierce, J H Blake. J T Cave, J C
Andrews, John Lockridge, C A
Fin ley, James Averitt, R M
Quisenberry, John Enloe and J H
Ball.
Mrs Scott R Galbreth and sis-
ter, Miss Margie Webster, of
Paris delegates to the W F M S
meeting are guests of Mrs J
Frank Smith.
At the semi-annual election of
officers of Empire Lodge No. <>8,
IOOF.SH Cole was elected
noble grand and C I Talkington
vice grand.
SICK HALF THE TIML
The Hktjry of Kidney Diseases, Liver
Disorders, and Menstrual Trouble*
f is One of Much Weakness,
BISHOP.
Bishop, June 6— A quiet wed-
ding occurred in this community
Sunday. The contracting parties
weie Miss Minnie Mack and H F
Test. They weie married at
10 o'clock Sunday morning at
the home of the bride's parents.
Only a few relatives and friends
were present. The bride is a
daughter of Mr and Mrt Lee
Mack ar.d a popular young lady
of this community. The groom
is a prominent young farmer of
the Princeton community. Their
many friends wish them much
happiness.
Mesdames George Magncss,
Dick Waldrup and son Clide of
Lick Springs were the guests of
Mrs Millie Bishop last Tuesday.
Harvest time has at rived again
and the busy hum of the binder
can be heard in many different
fields in this locality.
Mrs Jack Linderman of Big-
gers visited Mrs Myrick of this
community last Monday.
Mrs Will Willis of L^^s
Springs was the guest of I*\ V' Suffering and Despondency
Martin Monday. **
William Bishop is doing a good
business marketing blackberries.
The crop is fine this year.
John Kendal and family of
Princeton visited at C W Wallis'
last Friday.
Marion Lewis and Cal Clinger
of McKinney made gaeat improv-
ments on the Wilson creek bridge
last week. The work is apprecia-
ted very mnch by the people of
this community.
This community was visited by
a nice rain Saturday night.
Crops are looking fine, especial
ly corn.
Tom Milstead of
transacted business here last
Tuesday.
GW Hardin and family of Blythe
Chapel community spent a few
days with C W Wallis last week.
Walter and Lawrence, the two
little sons of Will Clarkson have
been very sick with fever, but are
better.
Mrt> Landers of north of Mc-
Kinney spent a few days last week
with her son, John Landers of
this oommunity.
Bud Rutledge and family visit*
ed his brother of Blythe Chapel
community Sunday.
John Klapper and wife spent
f sws • w 9 •Sk^VS m ^|>a ~
at 91.00
Many Despairing Victims Have
Won Back to Health and Strength
by the Timely Use of the
Right Remedy.
I^fctsease* of the kidneys and urinary
organs men and women once strong,
hearty and vigorous are soon reduced
to comparative helplessness, at times
able to get about and do odd jobs, at
others prostrated completely. This
was the experience of thousands of per-
sons who owe their present j?ood health
to the superior remedial effect of Prickly
McKinnev Why endure all this dis-
tress when a remedy that has proved its
power and effectiveness in such ailments
can be so easily obtained. Don't de-
spair, no matter how much fruitless
doctoring you have been doing. Prickly
Ash Bitters has cured where every other
remedy tried has failed, which is attrib-
utable entirely to its four-fold cleansing
and strengthening effect. It is a kidney
tonic, liver and stomach stimulant and
bowel purifier combined, therefore it
exercises its cleansing and restorative
influence uniformly in every part of the
body. For the weakening and distress-
ing irregularities peculiar to worn
Prickly Ash Bitten has obtained the
eery highest endorsement.
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Uncle Mi he on Stock Law.
R. F. D. No. 2 McKinney,
(Lucas,) Texas, June d, 1901—
On the 18th of June the "quaili-
lied" (?) voters of this District
will be given an opportunity to
say whether old "ride" shall
have free grass or not. We boast
of democracy and government by
the people, but thpre is neither
democracy nor voice of the peo-
ple in our present stock law
(candidates for legislature please
note). Taxation without repre-
sentation provoked the war be-
tween the United States and Eng-
land, but the present stock law is
on the same principle. The
stock law i* not wrong within it-
self. If a majority of all the
voters concerned, favor keeping
old ,4Pide" up, it is all right—it
is democratic. But the very ones
who are most effected by the law
are denied the right to vote.
The land owner is granted special
priveleges.This iaclas^ legislation
of the deepest dye. The landlord
can force his tenant to put up his
cow, but the tenant cannot force
bis landlord to furnish pasture.
The lanes will grow up in grass
and weeds and the state can Force
the tenants out with hoe to cut
the weeds, but he had no voice in
Cutting up the coWa that would
e glad to eat the weeds. Let the
"qualified" voters come out the
18th and help save the demo-
cracy of Precinct No. 1,
Unclk Mirk.
BE YOUR OWN JUDGE
fli-o-na Costs You Nothing if it
Does not Cure, Says
Smith Bros & Co.
Mi-o -mi, the remarkale cure
for dy-pepfia, has won fame by
the unusual way iu which it is
sold. It is the only remedy of-
fered for the cure of dyspepsia
which costs the user absolutely
nothing unless it cures.
Smith Bros & Co.. the popular
druggists, are selling a great many
packages of Mi-o-na and with
every 50c box is givea their per-
sonal guarantee to refund the
money if Mi-o-na dooa not give
satisfaction, you to be your own
judge as to whether the lemedy
helps or not.
Mi-o •na is an unusual combina-
tion, regulating the digestive or-
gans auct removing irritation, con-
gestion and intlamation from the
stomach, liver and intestines. It
enables those organs to extract
from the food all that goes to
make good, rich blood, firm
muscle, steady nerves and a sound
body.
If Mi-o-na does not do all that
is claimed for it. Smith Bros &
Co will cheerfully return your
money.
FITZHUGH MILLS.
Fitzhugh, June 6—We had
some very windy weather last
week.
Mesdames Will W i 11 is and
Heurv '1 rant ham of tnis place
visited Mrs Will Martin of
Bishop last Tuesday.
Miss Luly Bishop visited Essie
Lawson Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Feck Meddlen of —
in visiting her parents this week.
Mrs Dick Waldrup from the
Territory i< visiting her sister,
Mrs Roy Donaldson.
George Hardin and family are
visiting C W Wallace of the
Bishop community who is very
sick.
Will Patterson's little child
died last Wednesday and wa«
buried in the Fitzhugh cemetery.
Grandma Myers went to Enloe
last Saturday to see her daugh-
ter.
Mr Burrow went to McKinney
Saturday.
Joe Hardin was here Saturday.
We had a hard rain Saturday
night.
A Splendid Remedy
Neuralgic pains, rheumatism,
lumbago and sciatic pains yield
to the penetrating influence of
Ballard's Snow Liniment. It pen-
etrates to the nerves and bone,
and being absorbed into the blood
its healing properties are convey-
ed to every part of the body aud
effect some wonderful cures. Mr.
D F Moore, agent Illinois Central
Railway, Milan, Tenn., states :
1 have used Ballard's Snow Lini-
ment for rheumatism, backache,
etc., in mv family. It is a splen-
did remedv. We could not do
withont it.*' 25c, 50c and$1.00 at
Smith Bros & Co.
LANDteSslI/:
tfcsUMM
sold oat.
water w
SS*
ours
acre
ON EASY TERMS. The well-known lands of
Um LovlacCsttle Co. an twin* sub-dlvMed sod
sold oet. Aiel Mar to and pis
water near the swfecwi Orates, (
Prof. J. Frank Bell Writes on
His Long Journey.
SlfS IN Him
Many Well-to-do Chinese—Saw
Philippine Delegation En
Route to World's Fair.
from his brother, Prof
Bell:
(Ml'ISj1 ^mili>.<imsin Wwwr.
H. 'Kleldi*, father of th subject
of this sketch, came from Tennessee
to Texas In 1853 and settled ut 8edu.
IIh, six mlleti northeast of Anna, In
Collin county, where rfts redred his
family und becarpe oris of our most
substantial early settlers. He purchas-
ed land from J.unvn Dusias for $1.751
iter acre, on which he mitt led. The)
sumeflsnd now. fifty years afterwards.]
• ommAndH a value ranging from
to 17# per ncre on the market.
His won, D, L. Field.*, was bornj
Apill lit, 1841, in Tennessee, and was
therefore twelve years old when hit
father settled In Collin county. He ha_
spent over half a century as u resident!
of tills c ounty, at present Uvinff within I
two miles of where his father first set-j
tied. When a young man Mr. Field*)
followed freighting, an occupation er- f
tenalvely engaged In before the advent j
of railroads. He has made many a trip |
from McKinney to Jeffeison. b'hreve-
too
IX L Fields
Prof H P Bell is in receipt .of
the following interesting letter !
J Frank"
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San Francisco, Cal. May 30.— *
As 1 am having some time here 1
thought 1 would pen you k few3 . .
„ , . , I __ port and Houston with nv« or six yoke1
lines in regard to how I am en- vt UMn aI1(, a hls bo)H d,irc waytoKn
joying trip. I am feeling quite «n'ter merchandise for I. D. Newsome's
well as the air over here in Cal.- ^ ^y^^^tVTinSrVrJn6:
forma IS cool and pure and there- netted with his expeilences while out
fore healthful. As you are aware, theMe trlPp. f'"«t then lay through a
I left Farmersville last Mondav n settled country. The1 first
at H:16 a m, today makes the | hou,e he Uv'd ln aftw comln* to col.
eighth day since mv dep«rture. 1*
pui'i of Uift Monday wilh
Prof J 'hn A Webb « f Green-
ville, Texas'. 1 left Greenville at
6:10 p in and pa^ed through Tex
itf by way of Waco, San An'onio,
and El Pi ! o. It was 12 o'clock
nt nigbt when we passed through
Waco, so 1 did not got lo tee the
city. We arrived in San Auto-
nlo at 7.55 Tuesday morning.
From what I saw of the eiiv it is
!>y tm tilt* cleanest, prettiest city
in Texas From San Antonio to
El l\ *o tlip country is rouvh and
hrokeu—that is nto-l of it —and
covered with nie-(juitc bushes,
saye bru-li prickly pears and
cuclu-. Texa* i- very compre-
hensive in expanse when oue be-
gins to pass through it. \Ve
cannot form an adequate idea of
its vastness till we start across it.
Of all tho dreary looking coun-
tries I ever saw that between El
Paso, Texas, and tho eastern part
of California beats them all. 1 his
sorry country extends into South-
ern California. Sand mountains
and valleys of sand is all there is
to insult the olfactory nerve by
covering it with dust and to
please and entertain the eye. The
country I have just described to
you is a hue specimen of "Para-
dise Lost," but when you come
within 150 miles of Los Angeles
the picture is changed and one
finds himself being gradually
ushered into44P .adise Regained"
Cactus fields, sandy mountains
and barren wastes gradually give
wav to a country where the
"orange blossoms grow," vine-
yards and prune fields abound.
From San Francisco back to Los
Angeles I do not believe there is
a more beautiful country on
earth. I arrived in San Francis-
co last Friday morning at 7:10 a
m, feeling somewhat fatigued af-
ter a four days' journey. I went
immediately to the Oriental and
Occidental Steamship Company's
headquarters, 421 Market street,
and had my transportation from
the United Slates taken up and
issued to me. 1 proceeded to the
piers and took in the steamers
and on the San Francisco Bay
you could not begin to count the
vessels that are coming in and
going out and that are anchored
at the wharves. They are cer-
tainly a wonder to the sight of a
dry-land terrapin whose eyes have
never before beheld such sights.
There was an excursion from San
Francisco to Valleho which cost
fifty cents and I took it in and
saw the United States naval yards
situated on Mare's island. The
naval buildings are immense.
About two thousand marines stay
on the island. The distance from
San Francisco to this island is #0
miles. By the way, I bad the
pleasure of seeing tho Filipino
delegation headed by the secreta-
ry of the Philippine commission.
A W Ferguson, on their way to
the World's Fair at St Louis. The
most of them were cer-
tainly intelligent and refined
looking people and were
delighted with ihe reception the
"Frwcoi iiis" gave them. Thev
are in the city yet. Some of them
made fine speeches. These peo-
ple were not bad looking by uny
means from the standpoint of
physical features. I have seen
the Doric, the vessel 1 am to sail
on, though 1 was not permitted
to en aboard. There are "pig-
tails" in this city galore, some
twenty thousand of them and
some of them are smart. The
most up-to-date class of them
dress like the Americans and cut
their hair also like us, and there-
fore look something like a human.
I have two more places to visit
before I laave the cjtv—the ,4Cliff
House" and the VGolden Gate
Park." Then I will be np with
my seeing and ready to sail o
June 1st at 1 p m. 1 will write
you again from Honolulu,Hawaii.
it nothing happens.
liri county was a rude log structure
with a puncheon floor. Deer could be
seen at any time almost, from their
doorway. He rememberr very distinct-
ly on one oc- nslon of seeing an old
bear and her cub running across a
small corn patch in which he wan at
work. The mere relating of these facts
causes wonder in tho minds of our
younger generations, who know Collin
county only as a thickly populated sec-
tion nf farming country with no avail-
able haunts for wild beasts. If there
were any left remaining from those
days of unoccupied woodlands and
virgin prairies.
One of Mr. Fields' neighbors was
Allan Crockett, whose memory will
be recalled by nil the older residents
of Northeast Collin. He was a cele-
brated hunter and trapper. One of his
ruses to get In gunshot of deer was
to hitch an old horse with a bell on.
to a slide on which he would ride con-
cealed by a brush blind. Tn this man-
ner he would allow his old horse to
browse along and right Into the midst
of a drove of deer, when he would shoot
his choice. The slide had the appear-
snceof a clump of bushes, and the
belled horse constituted no uncommon^
sight to the deer. Hence the success
of this hunter's craftiness.
Mr. Fields' father dealt ln lard cer.
tlficates, and one time 650 acres of
land, partly on which the city of Fort
Worth was afterwards built, fell into'
his hands. When he was offered 13
per acre for the land he readily parted'
with It, at what he thought was a fancy
price.
Mr. Fields was a gallant Confed-
erate soldier.s ervlng In Capt. W. N.
Hush's company during the war. For
thirty-P.ve years he has resided on his
present homestead, at \V]i>stmlnster,
near the spot where he settled, when
a boy, with his father. He Is now 6S,
and is spending the > evening of llfe^
among the scenes of childhood sur-
rounded and cared for by )ovintr chllj
dren. His wife died tVo years a?
He has two brothers, both voung
than himself—G. I. and W. J. iFeldjj
and a sister. Mrs. W. H. MVMena
all respected citizens of Northeast l
1 In.
Theodore Davenport, a Valdasj
ta citizen, sends us one doltaj
for The Democrat a year in adl
vance. We trust he will
pleased with the paper.
Gray Hah
"I have used Ayer's HsirVigor
for sver thirty years. It has kept
my scalp free from dandruff snd
has prevented my hair from turn-
ing gray."—Mrs. F. A. Soule,
Billings, Mont.
There is this peculiar
thing about Ayer's Hair
Vigor—it is a hair food,
not a dye. Your hair does
not suddenly turn black,
look dead and lifeless.
But gradually theold color
comes back,—all the rich,
dark color ft used to have.
The hair stops falling, too.
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send us one dollar snd ws win* <npr«M
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