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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-12-24
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What Has Twice Been Proved.

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This testimony doubly proves the
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estine sufferers.
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of $40 Tennessee avenue, Palestine.
Texas, says: In the spring of 1902
/ made a statement to the effect that
Doan's Kidney Pills, which procured
at the Bratton Drug COmpany's store,
helped my father so greatly that /
was only too pleased to tell others
about them He was relieved of back
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arising from disordered kidneys.
Since then he has had slight recur-
rences Of the troubles. but the at
lacks have been infrequent and a few
doses OF Doan's Kidney Pills have
never failed to give him prompt re-
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For sale by all dealers. Price so
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Remember the name-Doan's-a
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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-12-24
Large Part Of Town to Be Sold.

Little Rock, Ark, Dec. 24.-In ac.
cordance with an order of the court
there will be sold shortly at public
auction large part of the town of
Mammoth Springs, Ark. including one
of the largest flour mills in the north.
ern section Of the State, a cotton mill
and more than 500 city lots. The town
was founded many years ago by cap
italists who have since died or retired
from active business. The mills we're
built and dams constructed to furnish
the power for them. For a time the
town enjoyed considerable prosperity,
but failing to agree upon plans for its
further development it has been de-
cided best TO let all the property go
under the hammer.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-12-24
CHRISTMAS CHEER
At SANDRINGHAM
KING AND QUEEN WILL cELE-
BRATE CHRISTMAS AT THEIR
NORFOLK HOME.
Special to the Herald.

| Special to the Herald.
London. Dec. 24.-In accordance
with their custom of many years, the
king and queen will celebrate Christ.
mas at their Norfolk home. There
have been occasions when a shadow
has hung over the observances at
Christmas, but all is bright and pro.
pitious for this Christmas festivities.
No one is more careful of her observ-
ance of Christmas than Queen Alex
andra, and the king and queen cele-
brate the festival in a really old fash
toned manner. For some days their
majesties have been busy sending out
presents. The queens gifts to her
intimate friends are legion, but she
takes infinite pains with her presents
for the children. Seasonable messages
and gifts have been dispatched to Nor
way, Denmark, Germany. Russia and
Greece. But not only to the little ones
of her own household and relatives
does the queen give her thoughts at
this time of year, but the royal omni-
buses may be seen traversing London
in all directions and standing outside
the various hospitals while the royal
footmen deliver the packages and
gifts which contain the queens pres
ents for the little inmates.
Quite family party has gathered
at Sandringham for the Christmas fes-
tivities. At York cottage the children
of the Prince and Princess of Wales
will awake tomorrow morning to en-
joy the pleasures which visit of
Santa Claus brings to all children. All
the members of the royal family at
tend services at the parish church on
Christmas morning. After luncheon,
while the household servants are en-
joying their Christmas dinner, the king
and queen, the Processes and others
Of the house party usually go for a
quiet saunter through Sandringham |
gardens, visiting the stables and ken
nels.
In the evening the family dinner is
served in the dining room. The king
and queen, their children and grand
and few intimate friends
sit down in parties at small oval Ia
Dles, prettily decorated with flowers
and sprays Of greenery. There is no
imposing display of seasonable fare,
1ut some of the chief dishes are cere-
carried into the han by
,ichly Inverted servants. ThisSs-Gsr
icularly the case with the boars head
md the time honored dishes Of roast
beef and plum pudding.
After dinner adjournment is made
o the ballroom, where the Christmas
rec festivities are held. The distri-
,ution of presents from the tree is
always an occasion for much mirth.
The gifts destined for the children are
to them by an old retainer
dressed as Father Christmas, who
,nters the ballroom and distributes
he toys.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-12-24

Itch cured in 30 minutes by Wool
ford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails.
Sold by BrattoR Drug Co, druggists.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-12-24
Smoking Jackets and Bath Robes.

This is one article that all men like,
but very few have them. All we ask
is for you to take one look and let us
show you Smoking Jackets SO to s15
Bath Robes IS
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11

stage-setting for slimly attended SER
vices. The move, moreover, will serve
to emphasize the revival of this ancient
order of the diaconate.
The garb of the full-f1edged deaconess
today is unobtrusive, rational and ser
viceable. Over the simple black or
blue dress q comfortable cloak Is worn
on the street in the winter time. On
the hair, but not covering it, cap is
generally worn in the house, made of
folds of gauzy white. The distinctive
garb Of the deaconess explains her
errand. AS she is in the world and
must to some extent share in it's social
functions, this garb solves the diff
Guilty Of deciding how far to go In the
way of fashion and at the same time
to remain within the simplicity that is
appropriate to her office. She pre-
serves the traditions of the past more
faithfully in her celibacy. She is not
bound to this by vow, she makes no
solemn promises, but should she un-
dertake matrimony it is understood
that she will relinquish her deaconship,
just as she would resign should any
other cause estrange her from her
work.
The only experimental feature of this
reconstruction of the ancient institu-
ton of deaconesses lay in adapting the
policy of the fourth century to the
problems of the twentieth. The six
teen centuries which stretch between
have not lessened the demand for the
work that the deaconess is to do. From
the far west and the far east comes the
summons; one is booked for China
one for the Philippines, one for a local
parish. One field alone of the deacon
ess' activity destined to become it's
largest local center-the missionary
and settlement work of the Cathedral
Of ST. John the Divine-is expanding so
rapidly In the plan of the cathedral
on Morningside Heights is complete it
of Morningside Heights is complete it
would seem that force of deaconesses
equivalent to the class that graduates
yearly from st. Faiths must be pressed
into service properly to exploit it.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11
COUNTESS SNUBS THAWS

PITTSBURG, March S.--Mrs. Will
liam Thaw has announced from Lynd-
hurst, her home, that her daughter, the
Countess of Yarmouth, who has landed
in New York, will not come to Pitts
burg to receive the long expected visit
Of a baby heir but will go to Florida.
It has been hoped that the countess
would come to rer Id home for the
important event, and her mother went
to New York to bring her to this old
home. which Mrs. Harry Kendall Thaw
fixed up for the expected entertainment
of the countess.
The earl, who is still at daggers
drawn with Harry Thaw, has insisted
on his wife going to Florida instead of
to Pittsburg.
Details of the fuss between the Var
mouths on one side and Harry Thaw
and Miss Nesblt OH the other leaked
out When young Thaw and Evelyn
Nesbit were doing England together
they were met by the earl and counties
and a party at race course on the
outskirts of London. The countess
snubbed the beautiful companion of her
brother, whereupon Harry landed a
verbal broadside on the Yarmouth
party.
He is alleged to have asserted, in a
tone that could be heard several Eng
lish blocks, that he would be proud to
marry Miss Nesbit, and that he would
not consider that she would be so ex-
pensive an alliance as some of the
Thaws had already made. This biting
reference in public to the act of the
earl, who held up his own wedding at
Pittsburg until the Thaws paid him
something like $1,OOO,0OO still hurts.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11

Workmen are welding brushes and
hammers in the historic Chamberlin
hotel at Fifteenth and streets, WASH
ington. where senators, representatives,
governors, flnanciers, professional men,
railway magnates, mine owners, army
and navy officers and celebrated men of
the world clinked glasses years ago.
The famous rendezvous is being re-
modelled by James F. Taylor. trustee
of the Fernando Wood estate, and will
be leased as a club house, family hotel
or residence.
John F. Chamberlin, one of the most
noted inn keepers and sportsmen III
the world, catered to the aristocracy in
this old house for a score of years be-
fore his death in 1897, and old registers
of the hostelry bear the autographs Of
such men as Mark Hanna, Roscoe
Conklin, Thomas Upton, Joseph JEFF
ferson and w. F. Cody
James G. Blaine lived in the second
house, which afterwards became an
annex, and ex-Gov. Swami of Mary
land lived in the third, which was also
during the fiourishing days of
Chamberlin's regime.
Some of the most fastidious parties
and feasts have spiced it's history, and
some of the most noted sporting
events have been born there. Those
who recall the Chamberlin hotels
palmy days remember something of
the big poker games. An anecdote that
is closely linked with the hotels his
tory is that of Chamberlin's pat hand.
Bet $14,70o on Poker Game
The story as it has drifted down to
date is that famous Kentucky sena-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11
OWES HIS GREAT AGE TO
TOBACCO AND BITTERS
USED BOTH FOR YEARS AND GLAD
OF 1T
Tennessee Man Has Fought in Four
Wars, Beginning With That of 1912.
Halfbreed Is Now 11o and Hale and
Hearty Yet

PULASKI, Tenn, March S.-"If l
hadn't chewed tobacco and taken bit
ters' all my life reckon l wouldn't be
here now," said Or" Jesse Jones of
30 South Randolph street, who, with
honorable discharges from service in
four American wars and the experience
of living idly through another because
too old to fight, is. at the age of 110
years, one of the most unique charac-
ters of the United States. Then, DR."
Jones, by the way of showing that he
meant what he said took a long pull
at his bottle of "bitters" and a nibble
at his twist of "hOmespun."
Jones was born of Portuguese
father and a Choctaw Indian mother at
Raleigh, N. c., June 10. 1896. He en-
listed in the war of 1872 when he was
16 years of age with company B, under
Col. Moses and Capt. Craig. as Indian
scout, with which command he stayed
until August, 1918 He says he was
nine miles below Mobile when the bells
rang proclaiming the war at an end.
He served as scout under Col. Brad
ford in the Florida Indian and French
war. After the close he went to Holly
Springs, Miss, and enlisted under Gen.
Bradford for the Mexican war.
He points with especial pride to the
fact that he was one of the first men
to enter the enemy's trenches at Mill
Pond He was also at Mexico City
with Gen. Scott. He then returned to
Holly Springs and picked cotton for
Ben Williamson and John Lyncoff. He
enlisted in company d, One Hundred
and Eleventh United States volunteers,
with Capt. Walker in the Civil War
and fought at Franklin, Nashville,
Perryvile and other places. He was.
out with honors at the close
of the war.
The doctor" is remarkably well pre-
served and looks to be but so. He
has been married six times, thirty-two
children being born to him. A recent
Jones family reunion in Holmes county,
Miss, was attended by 4S0 children and
grandchildren. He says he expects to
live fifteen years longer. In stature he
is erect. He has black eyes and long
black hair. He retains a vivid recol-
lection of the events that have long
passed into history.
Old residents of this place say DR..
Jones looked os old forty years ago
as he does now. He draws good pen
sion for his valiant services to his
country, and now has his claim before
the interior department for an increase.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11
HooDoo AT 1a-CLuB DINNER
NEW YORK, March S.--Rudolph
The Scorned Ladder Fell on Walter,
Who Was Superstltious, and
He Was Hurt

Mayer, a waiter in the Fullerton res
taurant confessed to his employers last
night that he Is superstitious and asked
for night off.
IF 1 serve at that Thirteen club
dinner" he said, "I'll get hurt sure: L
feel it."
Mayer told his employers that he was
SO years old, which is three times thir-
teen, and that yesterday was his birth
day. They told him to go to work.
Mayer waited on table No. 13, at which
thirteen diners were seated. On the
north side of the restaurant ladder
was rugged up so that everybody who
dined, and all of the walters, were
obliged to walk under it. The Thirteen
club wanted to smash the old ladder
superstition.
Just as Mayer was about to walk
under the ladder to Table 13 with g.
part of the thirteen orders of blue
points, with thirteen oysters on each
plate, he hesitated. He looked at the
oysters and then at the ladder
"Somethin's goin' to happen right
here" he said, as he stopped. Another
waiter showed him on. Just as he did
so the ladder fell with crash. Mayer.
and the oysters went to the floor. AM
ambulance was called to take him tol
Bellevue, where it was said he had al
fractured skull.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11

abstruse electives of Greek and &C.
clesiastical music and the common
place subjects of cooking, bookkeeping
and laundry work. The academic sub
jects are for the benefit of the deacon
ess herself; the practical work enables
her to care for others and to teach
them how to care for themselves.
In the afternoon and the early even
ing the deaconess has an opportunity
to practice her attainments. In some
one of the many squalid districts of
New York she has actual experience
In parochial or city mission work. does
something in the clinic, the guild or
the club. BY 9 o'clock. however, she
Is back at the school for the evening
service in the oratory, which closes the
day.
If the exterior of the three stone
houses is conventional, the oratory,
with it's severe adornment, seems at
this evening hour far removed from
the ordinary turmoil of the city out
side. On its walls of neutral green 1t
has crosslaths of wide strips of black
wood. At the altar end there is plain
black cross and a simple white bas-re-
lief. The rows of plainly carved black
pews face each other across the aisle,
filled at the close of the day with
twenty-five young toilers in the vine
ydIu VI lHe lIOIu, IL llIlle DlI weary,
perhaps. each one-and each one very
thoughtful. The young deaconess
prays to be freed from worldly cares
and earthly fears and, at the close, to
grow "from strength to strength and
from charity to charity"
Ultimately the school will be trans
ferred from it's present quarters in
East Twelfth street to the grounds of
the rising cathedral of st. John the
Divine, on Morningside Heights, where
worthier home for the institution,
close beside the huge church, will be
erected. This transfer will be in line
with the determination of the trustees
to make the new cathedral a center of
religious activity Of every kind to
avoid the reproach cast upon many Of
the famous structures of the old world
that they are merely an impressive
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11

tor, who answered to the name of Phil
In this case, sauntered into the smoking
room and sat down in front of Cham
berlin at a table on which lay a deck
of cards. Roscoe Conkln and a mem
Der of President Hayes cabinet were
present 1t was after dinner on a win
ter evening.
John, suppose we run off a jackpot
hand just to see how the cards are
running today?" said the Kentuckian,
shutting the cards.
Don't care If I do Phil, just to kill a
little time. What's the limit"
Anywhere between here and the
blue dome; I'm not particular. suh."
Two hundred dollar bills were passed
to the center of the table and the
players picked up their hands.
''Now, l don't want to be hard on a
good friend" said Chamberlin, after
looking studiously at his hand "but I
couldn't mistreat a pretty hand like
this by being bashful, so I will ask
you to put up $500 If you want to stay,
Phil"
"Well, John, I want to show you how
1 appreciate your generosity, and at
the same time be loyal to my own be-
nign collection of cards, so 1 will See
the $500 and raise you about $500. How
many cards?"
"Aw, you needn't trouble to give me
any more; I'll try to make out with
these. I don't like to bear down on
such a good thing"
well, I think I'll observe the same
patriotic spirit, and keep what I've
got. It's your bet, john"
Warns His Adversary
Phil. you know wouldn't take adj
vantage of your ignorance of the game
of poker for anything in the world
and I must advise you not to keep up
your hazardous looseness. I'll bet a
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11

II IDDEN away in a long row of
conventional brown stone houses
in New York is a school of
Greek and cookery, of liturgies and
laundering, of Christian evidences and
bookkeeping. The community shell
tered by the three plain city houses is
an association of religiously minded
women, but it is not religious COM
munity in the ordinary sense of that
phrase. The students of the school
have not renounced the world Instead
they are preparing to play their own
particular part in the world-some of
the scope of which is barely indicated
by the paradoxical curriculum.
The office of deaconess. for whose
training st. Faiths school exists, is
almost as old as Christianity itself, but
its revival in this country is of COM
paratively recent date. Since the in
stitution was founded in 1889, however,
by DR.. Huntington of Grace church,
its graduates have not had to look long
for occupation. The duties of dea-
coness are many and varied. She cares
for the dependent poor, teaches the
young and the old, organizes and con-
ducts clubs for those who are alone
in the world, makes addresses at moth
ers' meetings, leads mission services
and in general dedicates herself to
beneficence at large. In the church it.
self she may assist at baptisms and
prepare communicates for confirma-
ton and she has the altar linens and
vestments under her especial care.
But the lot of the deaconess is not
always cast in quiet places, with the
whole charitable machinery of a great
city to support and encourage her. AS
a. missionary her work at many a
lonely post may consist of the entire
charge of it, from giving
religious instruction to fighting an epi-
demic of disease. Two of the graduates
of the New York school. who are now
living in log house on the Indian
agency of Lemhi, in Idaho, found so
much to do when they arrived there
that their experience in settling down
was like that of colonial pioneers. Even
today each girl is caring for her own
horse, saddling it herself and riding
off in the early morning to execute her
daily program Of mercy.
with duties which may take her to
the ranches of Idaho or the slums of
New York, which range from cooking
meals for the sick and the poor to
keeping track of the large expenditures
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11

fast at 1880, after a short service in the
oratory. For an hour after breakfast
the future deaconess learns by per-
sonal experience something about
practical housekeeping and then the
rest of the morning is devoted to
mental training, lectures being given
on the Old Testament, the life and
works of our Lord. the Epistles. the
ology, Christian evidences, church his
tory, liturgies, missions, the art of
teaching and hygiene. The afternoon
is about evenly divided between the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11

of some great parish, the deaconess
must not only be trained in the most
opposite accomplishments but she
must also be furnished by nature with
an extraordinary mental equipment.
The age limits for admission to the
have been fixed at twenty
one and thirty-flve, and a certificate
from physician is as essential as one
from a clergyman. Indeed, the rou-
tine of life at st. Faiths is not for
fragile women. -
The day begins at $50, with break
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11
mbern nn Statesmen Washington

Washington about $780, and millions
of dollars changed hands at his faro
games.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11

thousand dollars, hoping to bluff you
out, because, really, Phil, don't want
to take your money"
"You know, John,' said the Ken
tuckian, "I have been feeling the same
way toward you, but since you are
proving so headstrong I see that the
only thing / can do is to teach you a
good lesson. In other words, I'm going
to punish you if you stay with this
$1,000 raise
Chamberlin drew a bank book and a
fountain pen from his pocket. II have
resolved vengeance" he said. you
mistrust my sympathy for you, and
there. will that stop you?"
Nope; loan me the pen"
The Kentuckian called the proprietor
of the Chamberlin hotel and both
spread down their hands together with
$14, 700 in the pot. The witnesses were
standing behind each chair
-Four aces and a king against four
kings and an ace.
You VIM" said the Kentuckian;
lets have a drink"
History Turks in Dusty Corners
The old mirrors, staircase, frescoed
ceilings and other signs of bygone
days still cling to the house, though
the painters and carpenters are ruth
less in their energy and little vestige
will remain.
For the past five years the house has
been vacant. After Chamberlin's
death his widow and former manager
conducted the hotel, but not success
fully. Chamberlin drew patronage be-
cause of his fellowship and tact in
preparing sumptuous dinners, his pro-
clivity for telling stories and his gem
erosity. He was prosperous in New
York and Long Branch in the hotel
and buffet line before he moved to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11

Deep Sea Amenities
Lobster: Good morning. cousin.
oyster: Cousin! Well, l like your
crust!
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11

1t will hardly be realized that the
sale was fought with great fury by
many of our people who thought, and
many of them think so now, that in
paying this sum for the water COM
pany's rights the city was robbed. 1t
required all the efforts of the unrivaled
roster of the water company's lawyers,
Stephen M. White and John S. Chap
man of Los Angeles, and Judge s. Gar
Der OF San Francisco, to pull the COM
pany out victors in the envenomed
fight.
That the water company threw up its
hands for next to nothing nobody now
doubts. Few dislnterested people will
estimate the property with which they
parted for two million dollars at less
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-21
NEW REGULATIONS DISLlKED
France stops importation of Pork Not
Packed Under Terms Of
Treaty.


PARIS. Nov. 2O.-The elimination Of the
microscopic examination OF pork from the
new American meat inspection regulations
has resulted in a preliminary decision on
the. part of the French customs authorities
barring American ham, bacon, canned
pork, etc.
After long diplomatic negotiations sew
era years ago France agreed to admit
American pork upon a government certih-
cate that it had been microscopically eN-
smined and found sound when, therefore,
the new regulations instituted after tho
packing disclosures and under which the
first shipments ~are now on their way TO
French ports were submitted to the au-
thoriues here they ruled that they did not
comply with the old agreement and prompt
measures were instituted TO secure their
reversal and il possible avoid prolonged un-
pleasant diplomatic negotiations.
Ambassador Mccormick, under instruc-
tions from Washington. made energetic
representations TO the Foreign office. point
ing out that while the microscopic examina-
ton had been eliminated the new meat in
spection was more rigorous ana more ef-
ficient
Foreign Minister Pichon promised TO give
the matter immediate attention. slight
delay will not cause great material loss
the pork importations to France arr
'paratively small, the trade never hav'
recovered from the blow it received
Z = American pork was originally eX
Y Z rom France.