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The Jennings daily record., 1902-09-26
STEPPED OFF 70 MEET HER.
Amusing Incident Told BY Louisville
Courier.Journal.

Amusing Incident Told BY louisville
Courier-Journal.
Sunday when the excursion train
from Paris nlled with negroes bound
for the camp meeting. reached this
city, says the Louisville Courier
Journal, It passed the station and
went through Cynthiana at the rate OF
about twenty-five miles an hour, the
.dea being to keep the crowd on board
until the arrival at the grounds at the
Falmouth pike crossing. Just before
reaching Pike street a negro man
Jumped from the train. OF course.
the momentum Of the cars carried
him along at a terrific pace. HIS
body was going so fast that his legs
could not possibly keep up. but they
made a valiant effort to do so, and
such q lickity-split negro never cut
before. He galloped across the gut
ter at Pike street at tremendous
speed, barely missed telephone pole.
few up into the air, turned couple
of somersaults. and landed all in a
heap in the middle Of the street. His
eyes were as big as saucers and SEEM
ed to pop out. AS he slowly gathered
himself together his trousers were
split. his knees were bruised and
bleeding, his arms were wrenched. his
coat-tails were in tatters. and his
battered stiff hat was mashed down
tight over his ears.
At that moment a negro girl who
knew him came along.
why, how do you do, Mr. Hop
kins?" she exclaimed.
"Why, how do you do?" he an
swered in deep, calm tones, with care
fully measured accent. How do you
do? You are looking quite we-we-well.
l just stepped off the train to meet
YOU"
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sundays.
Confronted with the awful fact that
our labors In behalf of the boys and
girls of this and other lands are large
ly nullified through the agency OF the
saloons, the gambling house and the
brothel. which agencies exist either
by the direct authority Of, or through
the Indifference of the state and be-
lieving the crying need of our time
to be such quickening' of the Chris
tian conscience as will lead to more
Christ-like conception of civic duty,
we, Sunday school workers from many
states and provinces, in mass meeting
assembled. do most earnestly recon-
mend to the International Sunday
School Convention. now in session in
this city, the institution of a depart
ment Of civic Righteousness as a spe-
cif1c part OF it's work"
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STORIES OF THE COUGAR.
Hunters Yarns That Are Very Wide
Of the Truth.

OF the Truth.
"Of all the hunters yarns, those
told about the cougar are the least
truthful" said New Yorker the
other day why, they don't even
know that cougar and panther are
one and the same thing, or tnat they
are also called in other mountain re-
gions, mountain lions, Mexican lions,
or simply lions. You occasionally
hear of cougars or panthers decoyinS
human bein gs into the forest by ini-
tating the wall OF a child in distress,
and when their victims come close
enough, springing upon them from a
tree, killing and devouring them.
Such tales are romances, pure and
simple These animals rarely attack
a human being unless desperately
wounded or when cornered, and no
other means Of escape presents itself.
The only we'll authenticated case of
an unprovol1ed attack ny cougar
upon a human being that l have ever
heard of happened in Colorado, where
a half starved cub, too young to
know better, tried to carry off three
year-old boy, whose mother chased
the beast away with broomstick and
rescued her offspring.
Another popular fallacy relates to
the size Of the cougar, stories OF speci-
mems twelve feet long, or even more,
being common. Ihe biggest one l
ever saw measured C"actly eight feet
from the tip Of his nose to the tip
of his tail, and my guide. who had
hunted them for years, said it was
the largest one he had ever seem
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LOST FRIENDSHIP.

II at the cris!N Of his fierce temptation
His guarding angel had not glanced
aside.
Or II with arnaor on and drawn sword
waiting.
To fellowship he might not then have
died.
But knowing not that then would come
the tempter
And knowing not that thus would ne
assail.
He fell from proud estate that marks
high manhood.
Became the thing against which good
men rail-
Within him there still lives the kindly
impulse 4&
The love for mankind still throbs in
his heart:
Sometimes forgetting he dwells in the
shadows
He strives to DO again worthy part.
He can not leaAn this self or evil CEN
sure
Whose fellows pass with an averted
gaze:
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Child Victims Of Alcohol

organized gangs of boys. their ages
ranging from 10 to Is. who make a
practice OF hopping onto weak-looking
adult pedestrians and robbinS them
in order to get together the price OF
"kag' Of beer, which they carry to
vacant lot and guaZle until they are
IN a state of brutalized intoxication.
At the political clamba and other
out-of'door affairs of the east side
population the number of miserably
drunken young girls tottering around
before the festivities are we'll under
way is something sad to see, and yet
such exhibitions attract little or no
attention and elicit no other sensation
than that of mild amusement from the
grown individuals attending such af.
fairs.-Omaha Bee.
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He cannot feel that one black hours
action
Has blotted out that self Of other
days.
How merciless the punishment Of nature!
More terrible than law or prison bars:
To lose the fellowship from friendly
Is as II heaven had been bereft Of
A sight for mourning is q brother van
Quished.
Condemned to crime among the shad-
ows gray;
All, careful we lest comes our own
undoing
While loudly we rejoice. we're not as
they
Judge not lest ye are Judged Divine
Injunction!
But to our armor look before we sleep
And lest we careless grow, We being
human.
Beseech Thee. angel. strongest. vigil
Boston Courier.
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Makers Of Whisky Rarely Drink

The most significant fact in connec-
ton with whisky is that those who
make it rarely ever drink it, but are
lil:a the physicians. who know too
mrch to take their own medicine. If
nerson wishes to see number of
clean. sober men at work he should
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1t is a happy thing for the ambi-
tious and self-confident that they do
not live to see their names go down to
posterity.
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| QUEEN 1 CRESCENT
- r Q u T E. -

The Best Line to New York. .PhilA-
AAlphia, Baltimore. Washington. Gin
olnnati. Chattanooga, Birmingham and
0ll Doints in the East.
ThrougA Sleeper. New Orleans =
0eoWl York via Chattanooga. Bristol.
Lvnchburg. Warrington and PeAnsyS
vAn1A Railroad.
Pullman Sleeper. New Orleans -
C3ac1nnat1.
Dlning Car Service on both New
York and Cincinnati Lines. serving Ill
0oalo.
CoOloot. Cleanest.
1nll detailed tnformati " furnished
- app1fcation.
~ Smith,
~
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visit distillery or a wholesale whisky
house,
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GIANT AND DWARF.

d open the door Of vour heart, my friend,
ID a very small vice or sir,
a see! As the dwarf comes softly
"A through
llS shadow enters In:
who ran forbid a shadow friend,
n SHIT it ont with a prayer?
Needed it grows, as shadows will,
ID 10! \ SiaNt is there.
,thel Hatton in the Youth Companion.
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g..
w VIZ oIiN SlaS cu ieh uaA yen SuVil "i'
o. Hit' HhSu heIe VINE > I'', W.
S"e Is - soou' want lhdiHIh" !" '"h' Dr.
DACk ths summer am les years
Cld' Best wishes TO hIs. Foster anu iAH
maps VAN BiMo'h'
mn h'u ~. Ie&as Dear happSaaHINeIS
me oluer morning as we Went TO- sI4"o.
! saw an old woman ANA she said; 10"
10 you uhu yourselves sald' we nave
never oeen lost, YET, Inc olu ""haa
commenced WIhklng hcr eyes at ne 3Aa
salu; mere are you going ! said We
are going to school. Just then SHE went
oui OF 'lAHH anu IL SOt so udtk lhai we
couldn see, but we went on. stumbling
over every lhlnE. Aiier a little 1t Eul u
niue llEhler ana when we could see the
old woman was staring me IN me race.
She sad, We're you ever lostt eng
II made an OF MS 50 mao that we dldh
know what TO do. one of the boys SNid
II lust nN you, oiG woman, ANA then
sne went out OF sight ana we went on
We saw the old woman again. Aud one
OF the girls said; can You tell MS the
way, TO the school houscF She just
laughed ana %l4ked hrr eyes bqt said
morning, ANA ! picked MP rock ana threT
u az her ana theh She Just came az me,
ana started running ana hnnQWed. ANA
then | he4rd some one say What Is the
matter fihch Ana woke M ANA
round It all dream Finch
kiddIeVlllr IeAas- Dear Happyhammers;
iiA'iS ,Ni'''' i'i "a" H''S. az ~ any
longer want 10 say wold for Miss vs.
sic CollepS, She Is doing such grand aud
noble, work VISA more OF the IiaW
would organize Such CLUBS as she has Wen,
Haps, guess you are az gong to school
now. am but nave been absent from
school for z week on account Of rainy
weather hate TO MISS school very much
but Of COURSE we ail aEe, glad to get the
rain. Ihe contest rs Nh9 was or Is the
greatest woman born Ia the Nineteenth cen
turyF For my part 20 not thiHk that
can vote Tor ! tAlhk MI women ARE On"
greatest. OF course, there are some women
greater than others For one. Miss Clara
Barton Is great woman she tended t'
the sick 50 good after thg storm AT Calves.
ton bpt | WI not say Whg Is the sre9tetI'
tol, ms Said hciore all women are great.
think MIS- Foster must 9G mighty, good
or she Wouldn pc so P3uthl Win iAit
With me any longer So VIII close for this
time. Hoping Ia be welcome, ! am YONG
sincere Hap, silverdale,
~ faiestine' teSas pear HappShampers
Inc night before ny Dig sisters birthday
! went 70 ped thlnElnEi wnaI would g{e
ngr. ILL ap9ti nan an nont Nent i9
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PLENTY on Hand.

We have ,bis social note from the es-
tCoucd Whlisttt Courier:
In spite az weather, stu we're gay,
And not Of hope bcreft;
Six widders married Yesterday,
Aud only sixty left"
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Brandon. Texas Dear Happy
This contest IS 80 Interesting ! can not
Withstand the temptation to vote. viii
cast my vote for Helen Miller Could as
being the greatest woman born IN the Nine
tccnth century. / think she is truly the
best woman that l ever read of and we
an know the best are truly the greatest.
She was born rich and great IN one sense
Of the word hut her greatness of heart
was not bought with gold. ! saw an nc.
count i'm the paper where she at Christmas
give presents to the boys Ia the home she
has provided for them ana where she gave
up her home as "A hospital for those that
were wounded iu the explosion that hap
pened ~ few duys ago. All OF the great
and noble deeds she has done would MI
greater space than / have got time tU
write I hope all Of those Haps that have
voted for Mrs. Nations viii take q sober
second thought and Try again, for / know
tuay don't mean 90 say that She Us fhe
greatest wonau born In 100 years. 7 Nlll
say To Esslr Collrps u she meant me by
saving Stint Brandon Hap that Emma
AiCggcson and live about six miles apart
and do not know zach other, so we can
NOT start club But II Emma sees this
and viii write TO me ! VIII SEQ what I can
do II some pf the llaps win send me the
words 70 "a Diving Sun" I bcHree this
is the hrst Of ~ "sster Agnes you are
kinder han The rest I win send IN Ok.
change the answer TO the "Gypsys Warn
ing" Woll J VIII close A true Hap,
Kate Owens.
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The CLUB.

.Happyhammers are the young people.
4 ebiIdrenJ who read the Nonth's De.
<ent of The Houston Post There are
IN or charges of any kind connected
4be club. Boys and girls who read
pos nay be enrolled as active mem
H. sending name, age and address.
Ms for the Happyhammers' Club:
HOY or girl in the United states can
II member of the club by sending
her name to the editor of the page.
{srs must be addressed Houston Post,
tban,n er Department, Houston, Tex
Aot write on 10th SIDES of your paper.
ton wish to rise a fancy name, send
I'M, inn name to the editor. No lot
Hi he printed unless this rule Is com,
with. ,,..,.,.n
n with capital letter
4 the object of all lIappyhammers 30
|mer happiness when and wherever
Pe" Hence the club uamc and motto.
plnb flower Is the violet, the club tree
,iye oak. and the club pet is the
ing bird. an being chosen by the
lers themselves The fHvorite dog of
Happyhammcrs is the Scotch collie, or
Ierd. r,,,
. are Intended to be worn with or
Int the clul button or pin. They are
into a badge by pinning or sewing
her rwo pieces of narrow ribbon. one
Re pink and the other of light gray.
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BeaumaRt. Texas-Dear Happyhammers
Here COMES a greeting from the r. b. C.
We are still alive and doing nicely. al
though the weather has been so bad we
could hardly meet Our members were
nearly all present at our last meeting. We
are going TO study Texas history. Our
trst subject was discussed last Saturday
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Crosby, TcXas.-Dear Happyhammers. |
see some Of the Haps tell about their pets.
SO I'll tell of mine | have a roam pony.
whose name is Daisy; calf; she Is spot
ted and her name is Leavy, and n Pig her
name is Pet. A true Hap.
Bette Anderson
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sheldon, Texas.-Dear Happyhammers'
Last July my mama, grandma, my two sis
ters. my brother and l went ont to visit
my uncle who lives at Cypress Top. We
started one evening and went over as far
a. one Of my unClc's and we stayed there
ali night; then we went on 10 Houston,
where Ne did some trading and then went
10 the depot "a take the train. We left
Houston M O'Clock and arrived az Cypress
'rop I'M time for good dinner and we al
we're surely glad TO get that. Uncle Willie
bad lots Of nice horses nd took me with
him every day We went fishing in Cypress
creek and caught some nice FISH and ] saw
the first bulfrogs, They were so big, some
Of them, that when they jumped in the
crock they would make one think they We're
elephants / was determined | would catch
enc before | left, so ] went down there
one day about 10 o'clock and took stick.
/ saw a great big one aud hit him and,
oh. 10 my surprse / stunned him, so
caught him by the leg and carried him up
10 the house and called them to see him
lump. lie got all right and We put him In
HE water trough and kept him till we left.
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Duncan, Texas.-Dear Happyhammers'
am a West Texas girl and would IKE 70
ioin your happy band OF boys and glis' !
live in the country and aly home is sur.
rounded by mountains There are a great
many Wild animals here ! VIII give q llst
OF sole Of them; CoOus, 'nossums, deeI'
Wild cats and some wolves aud the ma
dIilos They are very curious an nat
They stay In the mountains and they Aaye
n very thick and scaly shell and when, me
dogs get after them they Just draw their
heads up into this she'll and the dogs can
hardly Kill them Sometimes the boys gel
tetgsther and go hunting Ths5 always
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Caldwell, Texas Dear Huppynammers
will cast my vote for Miss Florence Night
ingalc. ] think she was a grand woman.
soldiers during the Crmedn war. | hope
tht all Haps will vote for her. a new
Hap, Stanley Womblc.
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Guadalupe city, Texas.-Dear Happyham-
mels: am very glad Eddie Bell Letter
has got her chair. How | would like to SEQ
Eer rolling around IN It, 1t must be dread.
ful not to be able to walk. We send -
cents for John Stocks chair y was so
long before our other letter was printed we
thought it had been mscarried Was glad
to fad you had received the money. Our
Uncle sam Manford, papa Of Annie, thar
Bessie Short spoke as, was called 10 a bet.
ter home on the 16th OF asst month He
was an unusually affectionate husband ana
iuther HIS place leaves a vacancy which
can never he hlled. How thankful children
should be who have their parents left to
care for them.
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WootaD Wells, Texas Dear Happ&hl9,m,l-
PIERS: / will try to describe Wootan Mens,
1t has a store a postoftice, TWO hotels,
eral wells. l see some of the Haps are ex-
pressing their opinions on dancing As for
myself ] am very fond Of it, WIRE agalu'
W0odbine, William Naught aud FIoWpoFi
/ enjoy reading your letters so mnch'
have been reading the life Of Empress Jo-
sephlne. She certainly had hard inns
As ] see the waste basket grlnplns NV s,,o,.
delight at the prospect Of getting ahotpe'
49, Rowena.
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LaWn 5IUU, IeANs-Dear Observation-Disclosures.
saw that one girl wanted some one 10
describe sorghum cane grinding / win
try. A day or two before grinding they
begin stripping the cane. Some strip The
cane and some haul 1t to the mill. The
mill has rollers inside which mash the
Juice out of the cane and large lever on
the top OF IT, with horse hitched TO the
end of the lever, which pulls the mill and
makes the rollers turn. This mashes the
juice ont OF the cane and there Is somebody
10 feed the mill and there Is barrel under
the mill to catch the juice. and when the
barrel is full they put 1t into a kettle
which Is placed over a furnace The fur.
mace Is made of brick and clay aud there
is a chimney TO let the smoke out of II
There is a hole In the furnace to make a
ire In. Sometimes they viii be cooking
syrup til or 10 o'clock in the night and
sometimes we go and stay TIL the syrun
gets done. Wen ! guess this Is enough
about the cane grinding. Adieu,
Lillian Griffith
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Bcrclair, Texas.-Dear Happyhammers: |
have one pet 1t is a little red calf /
have one brother, His name is Collins.
! 20 to school and am In the sixth grade.
My papa takes The Houston Post and /
enjoy reading the childrens page. new
Hap, Ruth Meek.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-02-01


GOODWYN-At Marlin, Texas. at
Rev. Alexander Elias GOODWIN, born
Feb. 20, 1923, departed this life aged
73 years, 10 months and ii days.
The deceased formerly belonged to
the Louisiana Annual Conference, but
transferred to the Texas Conference
about fifteen years ago. There were
five brothers in Louisiana, Rev. A. E.
Goodwin being the youngest of the
five, and all of them were widely and
honorably known throughout this
State. The others were Rev. Philo NJ.
GOODWIN, Simeon II. Goodwyn, G..
w. w. GOODWIN and Harvey HI.
Goodwin, of whom all are dead ex-
cept the last named. now residing in
the City of New Orleans. There were
three sisters, namely: Elizabeth,
widow of Rev. N. A. Cravens, former
ly member of the Louisiana and
Texas conferences;) Kate, who mar
ried Judge H. l.. Grinstead, of Cam
den, Ark; and Mary, who married
Lieut.. Hatcher, killed In the late Con-
federate war. He also had two hall
sisters. Maria and Belle, married re-
srectively to DIR. S. L. Cuisine and
+. w. Pike.
The Texas Christian Advocate pays
the following tribute OF respect to the
memory of the deceased, viz:
REV. DIR. A. f. GOODWIN Is DEAD.
DR.. A. +. Goodwin, of the Texas
Conference, died New Years night,
very suddenly. at his home i'm Marlin.
We are indebted to Rev. ID. II. Hotch-
kiss for the following account of this
sad event: at was his pleasure to at
tend the late session of the conference
at Huntsville, where he was one Oi
the active and useful members. He
returned home somewhat indisposetl,
but was able to he out in the past few
days. Sunday morning-the last SUM-
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day of the year-and almost the first
of our conference year, found him In
the service at the church. In the after
noon he attended, and enjoyed with
overflow Of spirit and great brotherly
love, the union prayer-meeting OF the
men at the Baptist Church. On New
Years day, as was his custom, he
called on several friends. starting the
new year with them In happiness and
good wishes. He returned home tired,
but would have attended the mid
week prayer-meeting had he not been
persuaded to remain and rest himself.
The evening hours were bright and
happy i'm the family circle. He retired
about IL 80 O'Clock, but near the hour
of his heavy breathing walked his
wife, who spoke to him, but receiving
no reply she arose. turned ON the light
and discovered that he was dying.
The family were called, but before a
physician could he summoned or any
thing be done, he passed away, quietly
painlessly. peacefully. The immediate
cause probably was apOplexy. The
summons, while sudden and unexpect-
ed, did not find him unprepared. He
had nothing to do to get ready for a
departure. A useful man of God, a
genial. sunny-hearted friend. a devot-
ed husband and father he was. Sister
GOODWIN and the daughters are bear
ing their bereavement bravely and
submissively. His body was laid
away in the cemetery at Marlin, after
services i'm the church, in which Revs.
HI. NJ. Sears and j. III. Collard, of the
Methodist Church; &. Smith, OF the
Marlin Baptist Church, and EvaDge-
list w. p. Fife. of the Presbyterian
Church, assisted Rev. ID. HI. Hotchkiss.
the pastor" A suitable memoir wi ]
| follow later.
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The Danish West Indian islands are
now the property of the United
States, the Senate having agreed to
ratify the treaty with Denmark for
their sale for the price Of five million
dollars on Tuesday last.
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NO. Il.
Clerks Wise Suggestion.

II have lately been troubled with dys-
pepsia, belching. sour stomach" writes
NJ. s. Mead, leading pharmacist OF Attic
boro, Mass. II could eat hardly anything
without suffering several hours. Ny clerk
suggested / thy Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
which / did with most happy results. /
have had no more trouble and when one
can go to eating mince pie, cheese, candy
and nuts after such. time. their diRes-
ton must be pretty good. / endorse Ko-
dol Dyspepsia Cure heartily" You don't
have to diet. Eat all the good food you
want but don't overload the stomach. Ko-
dol Dyspepsia Cure digests your food.
]. A. HYDE.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-02-01

A special to the Times-Democrat
says: Senator Foster has been APP
pointed chairman Of the sub-commit-
tee on interoceanic affairs. This is
the committee which will have con-
sideration of isthmian almatters.
and the selection Of Senator Foster
for this important post in tribute to
his ability and to the confidence re-
posed in him by the members Of the
committee not usually bestowed upon
a new member.