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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-10-03
To Be Married.

The Herald has received the follow
ing card:
"Mr. and Mrs. II. V. Hamilton, ST.,
request the honor of your presence at
the marriage of their daughter, Lorine
Gazelle, to Mr.. Louis burst, on We'd
nesdaZ evening, October the twelfth,
nineteen hundred and four, at eight
thirty O'Clock, First Baptist church,
Tyler, Texas"
Miss Hamilton is the youngest sister
of the editors of the Herald, and has a
number of friends in this city. She is
remembered especially in musical cir
cles. Mr.. burst is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John burst, and is prominent
young business man of Tyler.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-10-03

There are shoes made to sell; low
prices that are really dear at any
terms. The term solid, as applied to
shoes, means that only leather is used
throughout. 1t means that counters
a-S used to stiffen the uppers at the
heels, that inner soles and the heels
are solid leather, and not paper or
leather composition. The shoes Cooke
sells are solid leather.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-10-03

Go to Tyler.

1t is really essential that Anderson
county send large delegation to the
truck growers meeting in Tyler Thurs
day and Friday. There are important
matters to be arranged at this meet
ing, and the question of organization,
location of headquarters and naming
of officers will be settled. Anderson
county must have a voice in these
thinpa
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-10-03

Opening of a late ship
ment of Gage" and 9TH
er new Fall Pattern Hats
at the New York Millinery
Parlors.
Kisses BraZeltOn.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-10-03

Try our fresh roasted coffees. We
roast six days in the week, conse-
quently can always give you fresh
goods. We have several grades to
select from. II 1-2c, 15c, zoe and>25c
per pound.
Branagan & Brannan.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09
One Execution.

1t used to be told of General Logan,
who was a member of congress at the
breaking out of the war; that when
he saw there was really going to be q
fight he seized a musket, slipped out
of Washington and walked all the way
to Bull Run, where he arrived just in
time to have u hand in the fray.
He wore dress coat, but he stood
his ground as long as any one. The
rout was complete, and the next morn
ing, a good deal out Of breath, he was
back at the capitol, telling some of his
fellow congressman what he had seen.
who gave you this account of the
tight?" asked a member from northern
New York as he joined the group.
"Why, | was there myself" said Lo-
gan.
The New Yorker was mystified. Ap-
parently he had not heard the news.
You were there! he exclaimed.
Are the cars running"
NO" said Logan; 'the cars amt
running, but every other thing in the
state of Virginia is, as near as I could
make out"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

Mortimer Menpes, the artist. in his
book on Whistler, says: Sometimes
we visited a dealer who owed him
money, and Whistler would receive Il
check. Once the check was not handed
to him in what he thought a sufficient
~ dignificd manner and he said to the
dealer: This is careless of you You
push this check toward me. and YOU
do not realize what a privilege it is to
be able to hand it to the master. You
should offer it on rich old English
salver and in Il kingly way Once a
dealer borrowed a gorgeously embossed
silver salver for the occasion, and when
the master arrived for his check-hc
was very punctual-presented it on the
salver with a carefully worded and
elegant little speech that he had taken
some pains TO rehearse. The master
was pleased. This, said he, is as it
should be-"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

The killing of n brother man. even in
battle, IS Il painful thing to remember.
\ soldier of the war thus vividly de-
scribed his first experience:
My first man l saw but twenty sec
onds, but | shall remember him for
ever. | was standing by my gun when
a Confederate infantry soldier rushed
up. l whipped out my revolver and
took him through the breast He toss
ed up his arms. gave me the strangest
look in the world and fell forward upon
his face. lie had blue eyes, brown
curling hair, dark mustache and a
handsome face. | thought the instant
| fired that | should have loved thar
man if | had known him. l tell you
war is terrible business. Youth s
Companion.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09
tain of the Piazza della Signoria at
Florence.
A Water Volcano,

One Of the greatest natural curiesi-
ties in Central America is the Volcan
de Aqua or water volcano, which is
situated in Guatemala, about twenty
five miles southwest of the capital. Its
apex is 14,450 feet above the level OF
the sea- and cultivated fields and for
est trees extend almost to its summit.
1t occasionally vents forth torrents OF
pure cold water. On one occasion an
eruption of this kind inundated the
northern valley and destroyed a whole
village situated on the side Of AtLe
peak.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

On one occasion Handel was caught
in shower of rain and being unpro-
vided with an umbrella was obliged to
seek shelter in blacksmith's forge.
Either Handel was in a silent mood
or else the blacksmith showed no con-
versational symptoms, for in little
while the latter began hammering
away at his anvil, accompanying his
work with a song. He little thought
the use his visitor was making of him
and his anvil for it is said that Han
del was listening all the time to the
strokes of the hammering on the anvil,
which, by producing two harmonic
sounds, according in time and tune
with the tune the man sang, formed
n bass accompaniment. Handel, OH
reaching home, remembered the air
and the hammer accompaniment. He
wrote down both, and so we owe to &
shower of rain the composition known
as 'The Harmonious Blacksmith"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

For epilepsy wear a ring made from
n coffin ring and take seven drops of
blood from the tail Of cat These
remedies are equally efficacious either
separately or in conjunction. For
toothache carry in the pocket the tooth
OF a soldier killed in battle or eat
mouse nibbled bread or trim your nails
on Friday. To cure warts, rub a po-
tato and give the potato to pig. or
rub them with a piece Of chalk, then
put it in little bag and throw it across
cross roads. Holding the affected fin
ger in the ear of Il cat for half an hour
was reckoned an excellent remedy for
q felon.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09
A Curious Freak of Lightning.

The old adage that "lightning never
strikes twice in the same place" has
often been disproved. Here is an in.
stance in point: In the summer of
1854 the farmhouse of Henry Axtell, in
Chemung county, n. Y. was struck by
Lightning three times in one day. First
1t split the chimney from top to bottom,
ruined stove and pipe and bored sever,
al large holes in the floor. an hour
later a bolt struck the same house
and tore milk bench, upon which sew
eral cans of milk were setting, all to
pieces. The same evening third flash
entered the roof and tore the legs from
a bedstead.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

The entke mass of the Monte Sagro.
rara. is solid marble. One Of the most
famous quarries is in the valley Of the
Polraccio. From thls We're extracted
in Roman times the LOO tons Of mar
bic that served for the construction Of
Trnjan's column at Rome. Here Do
natello got the block which lie carved
into his st. George, and Michael Ange-
10 the one for his Moses. From here al
so came the huge block mentioned In
the memoirs of Benvenuto eCellini.
which served for the colossal Neptune
cf Ammarau in the middle Of the fous-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

Tommy was visiting a neighbor's,
At dinner the hostess apologized to him
because the table linen was so.led at
his plate.
"Oh, thar's nothing" he assured her
promptly. ours is worse'n that at
home."- Brooklyn Life.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09
His Estimate.

"How far do you travel in crossing
the, ocean from Liverpool to New
York;" asked the instructor at the
night school.
"Four thousand miles"
"Oh, no. Think again."
"That's right" persisted the shaggy
haired pupil. ~ know the book says
5000 miles, an that's what it is in @
straight line, but I'm countn' in the
ups an downs. I've been acrost."-
Chicago Tribune.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09
Took 1t Mildly.

Eyes, old Bizziboy gave reception
out to his place on the hills and then
turned the hose on the first detach-
ment to arrive"
HE did! What did they say to that?"
''They called it unconventional hos
pitality. You know. he's too rich to
quarrel with. ."-Cleveland Plain Deal
err
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09
His Malndy.

Tess-Shes professional nurse, I
believe. Jcss-Not at all. What gave
you that idea? Tess-She remarked
that she sat up last night with sicl.
man. Jess-Lovesick; that was all. 1t
was that 1iance of Philadelphia
Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09
The Way He Put 1t.

At schsol examination at New
castle-under-Lylne. England, boy was
told to Write an essay on the pleasures
of reading He wrote: People read for
many reasons. Sometimes they read
for humor, and then they read such
books as Don QuiXote' At other
times they read for amusement, and
then they read the Bible"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09
Why, IndeeG3

He-Why does Il woman always
think she ought to wear smaller shoe
than she can: She-Why does a man
always think he ought to wear a larger
hat than he can?-Yonkers Statesman.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

"And you say you have trader
asked the kind lady at the door.
"Yes'm," said the tramp, I'm work.
er in precious metals and stones"
Indeed! And can't you get anything
to do?"
Nom, de perlice and de jewellers are
all on to me-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09
A Strong Word.

DR.. Blunt-We must wake her, be-
cause want TO ask her if she has
obeyed my orders. The Patients Hus-
-Er-ah-doctor, it might be rs
well to-ah-put that question in n
somewhat different form.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

Teacher-Well. Tom. where are you
going2 Tom (aged six)-Please, m. I'm
going to the Band of 'Ope. Teacher
And is little Willie (aged threel going,
too, or is he too young to belong to the
Band of Hope? Tom-No, IN; it's not
that, but he amt a teetotaler.-Lon-
don Punch.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

''If | understand this measles busi-
ness right" says Carthage punster,
''the German measles come from q
germ, the French measles from a
Parasite, the Irish measles from a
Mikecrobe and the black measles from
Africa. Carthage Mo.) Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09
The Cooks CARVING ,

The Cooks Carrying Capacity.
You are having trouble with your
cooks"
Yes, The first one carried on So"
"And how about the lastY
She carried off so. | lost two vests
and hat."-Phfladelphia Record.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

"How old would you say she was?"
well, let's see. When we were in
high school together, she used to snub
me hecause | was a kid. Now Pm
thirty seven, and um-m-m-well. should
say she was about twenty-eight by this
time. Town and Country.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

Y.-Do you think Ike ever lies about
the fish he catchos?-C.-No, l don't
but | think he lies about the fish he
doesn't catch.-Stray Stories.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-09

Being asked The name of the worlds
greatest composer a smart university
young man said "Chloroform."
Milford chronicle., 1904-05-27
| Il s;,s:., ..1s~- f
wen Paid Literary Men.

The 'lit'ry feller" is usually pictured
as a man who wears long hair. eye
glasses and an abstracted air Carl
caturists are fond of picturing him in
a seedy frock coat in the act of i'm
portuning a brutal editor or a stage
manager. Of course there are many
of this type left, but. it is said. there
are at least hundred men in New
York who earn incomes ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000 by their own unaid-
ed typewriters. At least New York
is their market, but most of them pre-
fer the suburbs for h0re clyde Fitch,
Gus Thomas, John Kendrick Bangs
and others Of that class of successful
writer's all have fine homes within an
hours ride of the city. where they live
and entertain on a scale that the liter
ary man of a half century ago would
not even have dreamed OF.
Milford chronicle., 1904-05-27

inception TO its tragic close it is ever
the same, and. though in this world it
sometimes escapes detection and pun
ishment, in the end it incurs the right
eous Judgment of God.
The Lust of the Eye.
The first stage in Achans fatal course
was what the apostle describes as THE
lust of the eye" Achan's curiosity was
excited. He wanted to see the wonder
full treasures which were to be conse-
Grated TO the Lord. His first step in
the downward path which ended in his
destruction was taken when he rose
from among his sleeping comrades, and,
slipping past the guards, he wended his
way among the shattered walls of the
captured city. 1t was one act for
Achan with sword and spear and shield
to fight his way into that doomed cup
ital, swarming with enemies, but it
was another act, after the battle was
won, for this brave soldier to arise at
night and crawl past the sentinels and
begin to examine the spOils whiclV were
not his and by right never could be
his. 1t is one act, and commendable
act, for young physician at the call
of duty to go down to the place of evil
resort in a large city to help some suf-
ferer prOstrated by physical infirmity
1t is another act, and a very danger
Gus act for a young man or a young
woman, actuated merely by an idle Gu
riosity, TO join a stunning party to
look upon vice and gloat over it as a
spectacle. Sometimes temptations come
to man in the ordinary walks of life,
but in nearly every case, as with
Achan, temptations to sin most sue
Fessfully assail a man when that man
is idling in a place where he has no
business to be.
Let me illustrate my thought from
an old scene in the Bible. How often
has the downfall of David been the
subject of the pessimlst's dlatribe.
How he exults over the spectacle of
the shepherd boy who conquered Go
Hath and climbed to the throne Of
Israel, yielding TO his infatuatiOn for
a woman! Yes, yes" he says, men
are all alike; the best Of men are vile
at heart. Here is the sweet psalmist
Of Israel, the perfect specimen of noble
the man after Gods own
heart, so enslaved by his guilty pas
sion for another mans wife that he
Stays the husband to get possession o.
har No man is TO be trusted"
Milford chronicle., 1904-05-27

joyable. The second sin, the sin Of
covetousness, is blind to the scorpion:
sting or the adder's hiss or the tigers
claw or the sharks threatening iii
lifted like the black flag of the pirate
over a threatening sea of green. The
'sin of cOvetOusness" is a summer
stroll through woods filled with the
aroma of wild flowers. 1t is the fanta
sizes Of the diseased brain of the opium
eater, which the sinful imagination car
place almost within the grasp of the
dreamer. 1t is the most gorgeous OF
air castles, the most beautiful Of ITO
pias, the sweetest Of songs. 1t is the
soft couch under the shadows of the
oyerhanging tree branches, over which
the satanic spiders are spinning a few
beautiful silken threads which can be
snapped in Il day, but which in time
may become as strong as links Of steel.
All, Achan on that fatal night may
not have gone forth with the premedi-
tated idea Of stealing that goodly Bah
ylonish garment and the 200 shekels
of silver and the wedge of gold, but
after his eyes had rested on the gold
and the silver and the goodly garment
desire was awakened, and his longing
to possess them became irresistible.
oh" he said to himself, Il wish | had
that garment. How beautiful it would
look hanging from my shoulders! /
wish l could have that lump Of gold.
1t would protect me against poverty
all the days of my life. And why
should / not have them? There are so
many spoils of war here these few
treasures Will not be missed"
Is not Achan, going to the place Of
execution, the history Of almost every
sinner? Eye sim" first step; 'cOvet-
Gus SIM" second step. What we would
like to do nearly always precedes what
we will ultimately do if we get the
chance. Bejazet, the sultan of the OF
tOman empire. was defeated by Tam
erlane in the famous battle of AngOra.
After the battle the Tartar conqueror
called Beiazet into his tent and asked
him how he would have treated Tam
erlane If he had won. Like a dog!'
said the captured sultan. Il would
have made you my footstool when l
mounted my saddle, and when your
were not needed would have
chained you in a cage like a wild
beast" Then Tamerlane replied, In
stead of treating you like a dog l shall
show You mercy and treat you like a
king" But all the kindness Of Tam
erlane went for naught. As were Be
jaZet's thoughts, so were his ultimate
actions. He betrayed the noble kind
neSScs of Tamerlane and plotted his
assassination. Then tradition has it
that Tamerlane commanded that Be
jazet should be treated like a dog and
chained in cage like Il wild beast.
So. my brother. like Achan Of my text
You and l can trace the degencracy of
our lives. if they are degenerate, by
our evil thoughts. which always pre-
cede evil actions. What we think, we
will ultimately speak; what we desire,
we will ultimately do
Milford chronicle., 1904-05-27
Hard to Resist.


Oh, the evil sin of covctousness! Be
warel Bewarel Evil thoughts are
only Il step from evil actions. Are we
not all in danger Of the covetous sin?
Would you tell lie for 10 cents ?
NO" you emphatically answer. NO,
of course nOt-of course not" Would
you tell a lie. just one little lie. for
500? NO" you answer again, but not
so emphatically. Would you tell lie
for S10.000-a lie which in one sense
would not hurt anybody? You look at
me in quiz2ical way and say. please
don't ask me-" Well, l do ask you. |
ask you, not for the purpose Of giving
yeu the offer. but of finding out what
is the condition of your thoughts
Achan coveted 200 shekels of silver
and wedge of gold which must have
been worth at least $4,000 in Our
money. He coveted them without the
idea of hurting any one else vet for
that sin Of covetOusnesS. which was
the forerunner of other sins. Achan
had to die. Beware. 0 man. how you
allow your evil thoughts to live.
Achan's "eye sin" was followed by
Achan's ''covetous sin" Evil thoughts
viii ultimately be tie parents of evil
actions.
Bat now, in following the four fatal
stages Of Achan'S sin. we find that his
third step-the finger step"-changes
him before the world from an honest
into a dishonest man. No sooner does
Achan hide that Babylonish garment
under his soldiers cloak and hug that
wedge of gold and bag of silver under
his arm than before man. as well as
God. he becomes amenable to human
law. Once he was a criminal Ht heart.
but not n criminal in actin his own
consciousness and in Gods sight a
thief. but before his fellow men an
honest, upright man. Ne one knew
that under thAt fair and respectable
exterior there lurked the plunderer
Like DR.. Jekyll in Stevenson's famous
allegoIy. he gave no sign Of that de-
mOniac personality which he harbOred
within him. But once the boundary is
passed. and the evil thoughts and evil
desires have taken shape in acts. he Is
under the ban of justice, and ultimate
ly. like Edward Everett Hale's we'll
known character, he becomes a man
from whom all but men like himself
shrink-"a man without a country"
1t is an awful catastrophe when
man by direct sin of commission
ruins the long record of what the
world has regarded as an exemplary
life. In the old Strassburg cathedral
there is a famous clock. There not
only the time of day is told, but the
eclipses of the sun and moon are cal
culated for all time There you can
see the twelve apostles bowling before
the Saviour and hear Peters cock
after the fisherman apostle
had denied Christ thrice. There are
the symbols of childhood and youth
and manhood and old age. 1t is a
wonderful clock-wOnderful in all its
various mechanisms. But history tells
us that this clock was in ruins for !
many, many years. 1t was in ruins up
to 1912. Why? After the first me
chanic had constructed 1t, in fit of |
rage he completely destroyed it be-
Milford chronicle., 1904-05-27
His Real Birthday.

May this moment be the supreme
moment for your eternal redemption
and not eternal damnation When
Bertel Thorwaldsen. the great Danish
sculptor, was asked the day of his ma
tivity, he answered: Il was born on the
Sth Of March. 1907. Before then |
did not exist" This was not the date
Of his physical BIRTH Thorwaldsen
was physically born Nov 10. 17TO. and
March s, 1797. was the day that he
was artisticully born. That was the
day when he first saw Rome. May
this day be to you the best of all days.
not the day when. like Achan. you
must die, but as Bertel Thorwaldsen
first saw Rome. so may this be the
first day on which you can truly see
the face of Jesus Christ and live.
copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch.l
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1904-12-29
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