The Waxahachie Daily Light (Waxahachie, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 164, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 11, 1902 Page: 7 of 8
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GREATEST
SHOWS.
U/HBN IT tm *TMTCD THAT
100 Cages Dens and Lairs
ARB NBCB8SARY TO Η Ο US Β ΤΗΒ
$1000000 WORTH OF RARE WILD ANIMALS
The New and Beautiful £quine Ballet Militant
Λod that FIVE CARS are used to transport the
30 PONDEROUS ELEPHANTS
And 63 [XHiBLI: LENGTH CARS equal to 130 ordinary cam ι are needed
to convey the ahow from city to city the mind fat overwhelmed with the
magnitude and immensity of this supreme OoUath of the Arenic World
which spreads nice gigantic wings. It* 1000000 YARDS OF CANVAS
over \i ACRES OF TENTED WEALTH affording a Capacity tor
SEATING IS.OuO PEOPLE. * * **********
WMLN IT IS CONSIDLRFD THAT FULLY
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DUU IIUKJLJ Amusement Enterprise and that *WV I LrUI LL
are enpktyeJ em-wig; whom are HOO HBKFOKMICHti
PRE8ENTINQ IN THE
3 RINGS 2 STAGES AERIAL ENCLAVE AND
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A VARIETY OF EXHIBITIONS 1 fVA A
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MUM Τ INSTITUTION I· CONVlVCO
W axahachie OCTOBLR 29
HTKi'Mrvnd nurrherrd awata and adtniaalona «how day »! \V B. Rpy-
œulW* ^ «-il»»»' Front VV aJl Fajwr and Faint fjtor·» Unlike ntbcr shown ι
{•r!<··'>· at downtown office nr*· *·* aotJy th# *4in·» an charged wt rfirijl»r
tickft w»4on on «how ground».
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Clerical Sarcasm.
Th«* follow leg church notice was re-
cently exhibited "The »*'rvlee on
Sunday morning s* at 11 a- m The
supposition that it to t«*n minute* later
1» a mistake Yaurpg o»<»n are sot ex-
cluded frunj the w«-ek night service.
The *«*te its th«« frunt portion of the
rh«r«-h ha*# been < arefully examined
They ar<« quit» sound and may be
trwt*·} not to give way It la quit»
iegiumai·· id Join le the singing The
object of the choir )· to encourage
not discourait* the congregation"—
Pearson a Weekly.
A Geographical Not·.
Jackson la a village of 200 Inhabi-
tants situated near the court bouse
to eastern Kentucky. It baa a stimu-
lating climate tending to irritability
Its principal Industry I· coroners In-
quests employing a large cumber of
hand* The remain dor of the popu-
lation in Jackson Is busily happy in
the Industry of sVtoMng Jim Oockrtll.
The output during the laat six months
has been thirty tlx murders. Tin* cli-
mate la healthy save for an excess of
powder smoke In the atmosphere.
Work for Spinsters.
Census returns In Kngland show
that one in every six women and in
what are called the upper classes one-
half are destined to eplusterhood
and one artier noting this fact inti-
mate» that ii. · lot of all women may
he immensely Improved by this com-
pact hand of single women It would
be difficult to overrate the industrial
effect of a number of well-instructed
health) mlndt-u. vigurom» permanent
•piasters.
Effect of Fir· on Diamonds.
Noue can tell where the diamond
goes to in combustion Burn It. an*}
It leaves no ash the flame Is exterior
like that of a cork and when It ha*
blazed ltaelf out there remains not
even so much as would dust the an-
tenna» of a butterfly.
Musical Composer Msds Much Of.
Father Hartmann the young Aus
trlan monk who composed In his mon
aetery cell an oration which European
critic· pronounce a masterpiece ban
been feted in Home and St. Peters-
burg aud is now the Hon of the hour
tn Vienna
Served Under FiUhugh Lee.
Curtis Quild. Jr. republican nom-
inee for lieutenant governor of Massa-
cbttaetts was on the staff of Qen.
Fituhugh Lee as Inspector general of
ef the HeJVnth army corps C. 8. V
during the Spanish war.
Tele of a Dog. !
Stories nf do<* which have drowned S
therneelmji In fit* of despair have
cot Infrequent but the narrative
of the intelligent beaat In lloboken
which we» condemued to death and
after receiving eectenc· In court tried '
to trite the magic trate who sealed hla
doom la refreshingly novel. What
can be the limit of canine understand
'rift of h mean speech*
Clarence Maekay a Buaineae Man.
Clareu oe H Mar kay. wtuj aucc««da
to a «Mate try lb· death of hi*
father haul bean to training a long
time tor the lutlw he new takes up.
He la either vWe prealdrat or direc-
tor In «noet .->f the eorporartona with
which hla father was connected and
la believed to be fully capable of a»·
«tuning control
French Election "Barkers.™
The eierupu "barker" ta peculiar to
Frenoh soil At critical momenta to
a candldAte'*! speech the "barIter" puta
him owt by imitating a dog and a
really food man at the bualiieea la
worth good money at suofc times. Half
a doren of ttjem In Parla earn enough
at election tbnee to last theic for a
year
—?
Nevei Ask Advice.
When you ^ave a cough <>r cold
don't ask wt)4t la good f«»r it and get
SOIIie tiiediciie with little or no
.merit and twrpapa dangerous. A«k
fur Foley'» Honey and Tar the
. greatest throat and iuntr remedy it
cures coughs! and colds quickly.
Hold by K. W.iFearie.
Klng'a Favorite Dishes.
The king οt |Uly la a great eater
01 aweet cakes φϋ fancy bread of ev·
ery description and hla cook has a
reputation for hb confections The
king rarely touches wlae. hie chief
table drink belngltwo Australian min-
eral waters.
A Record Worth Having.
The death of lloyal Κ Robblns
practically the founder of the Ameri-
can Waltham Watch Company ends
the career of a mart who for years em-
ployed thousands èf men and never
once was threatened with a strike In
the works. j
Threatened by (Jommerclaliam.
Maiden Bower a fere-Roman earth-
work near Dunstabn England la In
dancer of being destroyed by the es
tension of a chalk quarry which ha·
already been worked «to within · tew
yard» of the ancient V*»fr*rt.
A DOEL IN ARKANSAS
Six Pen-on* Engage in a D&perate
Figbt at Eldorado.
THREE MEN KILLED
A aether ef the Partit j»»tU 1* M Bad-
ly WnmmI He Will Hie aid Tw·
Others Received Slight
Irjiirie* fa the Fight.
Eldorado. Ark. Oct. 10.—Three men
were killed one will die and two
other* were wounded in a shooting af
fray on the streets here late Thurs-
day afternoon.
The dead:
H. L. Dearing constable.
Tom Parnell farmer.
Waltçr Parnell farmer.
The wounded :
Ony Β Tucker city marshal «hot
six times and will die.
Dr. Hilton wounds not serious.
Jim Parnell. not serous.
The shooting is the sequel to the
killing on Sept. 18 bere by H. L. Dear
ing. of Robert Mullens which follow
ed a wedding
On Sept. 17 a Mr Puckett of Tex
arkana arrived in the city to marry
Miss Jesse Stevenson who was em-
ployed in Mtilleas' photograph gallery.
The following morning he called at
tiU studio to see the young lady and
was attacked by Mullens and forced
to flee for his life leaving his horse
and buggy Mullens claiming that he
(Mullens) was engaged to the young
lady Puckett returned with City
Marshal Tucker and secured his
horse and was that night married
under the protection of the officers
takiog the night train for Texarkana
They heard that Mullens intended to
intercept them at a xaiall station sev
era! miles away and asked Marshal
Tucker and Constable Dearing to ac-
company th·*» which they did When
the station which is known u Mc-
Murrian. was reached Mullens was on
the platform and was arrested as he
started to board the train and brought
back to this pla*»· where he was re·
leased on bond late in the afternoon.
At 6 ρ m.. Mullens met Constable
«/rai ι «ru ni» ouvd Mjg in ■ »»· rv
hitn for she arrest. Id the scuffle
Dearljig shot Mullens with a pistol
and the latter died the following
morning.
The Parnell boys were friends of
Mullens and Thomas Newton was a
friend of Dearing Some time ago. it
Is alleged Newton accused the Par-
nell boys of setting Ore to hie house
and a few days afterward Newton
*u stabbed in the back but by
whom was not determined.
Since the killing of Mullens all par-
ties have been going heavily armed.
Thursday morning Jim Paraeil and
Newton had some words but no one
was injured It seems that both fac·
prepared for trouble aad It cs
when they met. It was at 4 30 that
Dearing Tucket and Newton were
waik:ag along in front of the Union
Grocery company on the east side of
the square when they met the three
Parnell brothers. Jim Parnell Is said
to have fired at Newton and In an In
slant the fusillade began About
smenty û*e shots were fired and it
sounded lfke a regular battle The
men were s® close together that their
aim was deadly It developed lato a
man to man affair. Dtxirlng and Tom
Parnell emptying their several pistols
at each other a* a distance ao cloae
that when they fell unable to shoot
any more their bod.ee formed a ernes.
The others wee fin a g promlaculoualy
Tu< ker was ikel sis times and will
die Dr. HlHoB. who tried to sep-
arate the mti. was also shot but not
fatally.
It Is said that Just as the smoke was
clearing away Newton saw Jita Par-
nell standing over the bodies of the
three dead and tw« wounded men and
ran up a»d pointed his pistol at his
head.
"My gun la empty" said Parnell
throwing the weapon to the ground.
Newton did not take advantage of
the unarmed man and did not shoot.
Tro«p« OHhm4 te Kl dorado.
Little Rock. Oct. 10.—In compliance
with a request from the sheriff of
Union county Governor Davis has or-
dered a company of the state guard
at Eldorado on duty to suppress trou-
ble and preserve the peace. The gov
ci U'H »» η λ bu «Jorii iua< « av·>.vu>vuv
runs high in Eldorado in consequence
of the tragedy there Telephone mes-
sages from Eldorado state that every
precaution is being taken by the au-
thorities to prevent further trouble.
f'ton*«r Found
Gainesville Tex . Oct. 10.—"Uncle"
Stiver Uickerson one of the oldest res-
idents of Cooke county who resided a
few miles east of Gainesville wsui
found dead Thursday on his wagon
about three mile* east of the city on
the public road He was on his way to
Gainesville with a load of cotton
which he was bringing h«re to have
ginned. His sudden death was due
to heart failure.
Tr#· Fill tpoo Him.
Bastrop Tex Oct. 10.—Juan Timo-
thy. an old Mexican servant of Tom'
Smith was killed by a tree falling on
his near here. He cut the tree down
taimsdf and it is supposed made a
mistake as to the direction in which
it would fall. He was found mangled
under the tree in a dying condition
and died in a few hours.
A Farmer Kill·*.
Ardmore 1. T.. Oct. 10.—At Cheek In
a difficulty Dan Shipman of Addington
a well to-do farmer was shot and in-
stantly killed. Particulars of tfc«
tragedy could not be attainted.
FROM THE FIELD.
BY IK II OO I II C 1 HBOiD
FIRST MONDAT AI»D A TRIP TO KSXIB
Monday the sixth of October was
the blggeat first Monday we have
had in Waxthachie for a year or
more and horse and mule trading
was lively. One man from Texar-
kana bought a carload of horses to
ship to that place and another thing
I think besides horse trading which
helped to swell the crowd was the
fact that this was the lent iirst Mon-
day that whiskey will be sold.
During this week is the la«t day of
grace for the saloons. They will
close for two years and if at the end
of that time prohibition is the best
for Ellis county it will go on. If at
the end of two years the citizens of
the county think prohibition is not
the west then they will be allowed to
take another vote on it. In a repuf>-
lic like the government of the United
.States and it is given up by the
whole world that ours is the best
government on earth majorities
must rule. Evers- man has his own
peculiar ideas about each and every
man and each and every question
that from time to time comes up
to be voted on but when the elec-
tions are over for men and measures
coming before us at the different
elections and the citizens cast their
vote and say who they want for
office or what measures or laws shall
l>e adopted then we acquiesce say
no more and let the majority rule.
Prohibition carried in Ellis county
at the last election by over six
hundred majority and of course
after this week there will be no
more whiskey sold for two years and
now it is the duty of every good
citizen to see to it that the law is en-
forced run down and inform on
every blind ti^er fellow we see and
if at the end of two years the people
are satisfied with a dry county )et it
remain dry but if not take another
vote on It.
Monday evening of the last first
ι Monday kinder looked like Christ-
mas eve. Many a jug and bottle
full of liquor was packed home on
ι that evening. It was the last call
and they made use of it. Maybe
one can get used to doing without it
i if not and we are compelled to have
! some of the article for snakt* bites
I and bad colds and grip we can send
I (iff and jfet forty drops and 1 «uess
when we have to do tfiat we win uec
it more sparingly and make it go
further.
Last week was wet too wet to
pick cotton or even peddle news-
papers and I was kept at home
t hese number tens of mine fit and
feel better tramping down a cotton
row or along the road than they do
walking· around on brick and cement
sidewalks like they have in axa- j
hachie and other towns. 1 was born
in a log cabin in the midst of a big
cotton plantation my father emi-
grated from South Caroliua to Ala-
bama with bis negroes when he was
a young man married there in Mar-
engo county one of the finest
counties in that grand old state and
on the farm I first saw the light and
1 still love the farm. I lore to go
among: farmers and see what they
are doing and then tell it.
Last Saturday at 11 o'clock I
boarded the Central train for Ennie.
Several others were aboard and
among theni was D. J. Mitchell of
Alma. He has a son now in a civil
engineer's office in Houston county.
Mr. Mitchell is a painter and he re-
marked to methere's no use in saying
a poor boy could not get an educa-
tion. He educated this boy and he
has been promoted and now has a
splendid paying job. It takes a boy
with a good head on him and a fairly
good education to fill a civil engi-
neer's place and with Trinity Uni-
versity in Waxahachie right here
at the door of every boy and girl in
Ellis countv I con0dentially expect
to see many of them enter its walls
and under the roof of that magnifi-
cent institution of learning 1 expect
to see them educated and prepared
to fill any position in life they wish.
I always have a grand day in En
nie. The citizens from six or eight
different poetofllces in Ellis county
gather there Saturday or at least
quite a number of tbem do and here
1 meet them get new subscribers
and get pay from those who owe me
for our paper. A man who makes a
good newspaper gathers all the
news and keeps|up with his collec-
tions has not got to let the grass
grow under his number tens. In
the six years 1 have been in the
newspaper business in Ellis county
I have never yet laid down on our
subscribers and this fail we have re-
ceived more compliments than ever
i>eiure. rtuiiureus οι our suoscrioere
have said to me as they paid me for
our paper that the Enterprise ie bet-
ter than ever and when a fellow
goes to paying for a thing he and hie
family have been using right there
and then you get his honest senti-
ments and when these hundreds of
our subscriber s as they hapd me the
money to pay for the paper they and
their good wives and children have
ι been reading for years and say to
me it is better than ever I know
they do not begrudge me the money
ancî this nerves all connected with
our paper to work the harder and
make the paper better each year.
In Ennis when I am hungry Red
Headed Jones usually feeds me and
he did Saturday but the time before
this that 1 was there two weeks
ago Wood Overall who rune a
grocery store and is doing a splendid
business led me round to abuilding
where the Kaptist ladies had an ele-
gant dinner and there we both who
are six feet and four inches tail
each feasted to our heart's content
and when we had finished not a cent
would he let me put up. Wood Is a
clever straight man and I am glad
to see him doing a fine business.
These church dinners are given by
the good ladies of the different
churches and the money they take
in on them is put to good use and
the only thing about Overall and me
patronizing them at one time is they
made nothing off us. C. R. Shaw
subscribed for our paper and sent it
to his father at Terrell Texas and
hundreds of our papers go out of
Ellin every week to friends through-
out Texas and other states. I met
Geo. H. Hogan on tbe street and he
said to me be was coming to Waxa
■MMML _____
their farm· and did not"
Η was or what it was troofi for to
bring a «ample of it to the meeting
th t 5th and oth of November and he
the grass crank wonld tell them
what he knew about it. Mr. Hogan
is a horticulturist who ha* studied
grass flowers aaid fruits for many
years and he now writes every week
on these for the Farm and Ranch.
J. A. Roper κ freighter at Ennis for
ten years gave me an apple Satur-
day evening that was splendid in-
deed and he said he got the trees
from Mr. Hogan many years ago.
A 40 acre orchard of such fruit
would beat anybody's 200 acre black
land cotton farm for making money.
Jim H. Boren son of Mr. Boren
who is blind has been for several
I years clerk at Chambers Brothers at
Ennis and recently he bought them
out. Jim is a hustler a live clever
young man and he has mad" arrange-
ments with Mr. S. 8. Chambers to
ι remain with him. There is no more
popular firm in Ennis than Chambers
I Bros'. grocery store and Jim Boren
will keep her a flying no doubt.
While traveling in the Ghost Hill
country last week 1 called at the
home of Hon. W. L. Wood who
many years ago represented Ellis
county for two terms in the lower
house of the legislature. He has
cleared and improved a farm in this
thicket and today he has oue of the
prettiest cotton crops in the county.
He is a jolly jovial man. No soon-
er had 1 stopped at his house late in
the evening than he called six of
his children ranging in age from
four to fourteen years and one of
his little daughters mounted the
[organ stool and the choir they made
would do credit to any church in
Ellis county. He and his cheerful
wife are the parents of a large family
and I do not know when I have en-
[ joyed singing better than I did right
there under Mr. Wood's roof. .Some
of the little fellows had just counein
from picking cotton and naturally
hesitated to come and sing for me
but to say the least of it they did j
well and I greatly enjoyed it.
A graduate of the old lin* college·
and universities 1· not *o well all
from · bread winning standpoint M
the young men with a coramoa
[school education rapped off with a·
up-to-date business and shorthand
course. The former has not learned
to do anything in school that a busi-
ness man can afiord to pay for. The
latter has. He writes a good plain
rapid hand; is qaick and accurate ia
figures writes 1.10 words of short-
hand to the minute operates th·
typewriter rapidly can do the
I general work of an effice including
I bookkeeping banking e«rr<»spona-
ence etc.
The graduate of the university
has a certain culture but it is not
of a marketable kind. He writes a
fearful scrawl and is proud of it
He can uot even operate a type-
writer; he is not ijuick and accurate
in business arithmetic; he r<*t>els at
tfie discipline of the business office
necessary to teach him practical
sense. Many such are too lasy to
w<»rk in office and too procifi to be
poor.
For those who have- the money
and the time a university course is
superlatively Kood;ghut itshould al-
ways be coupled with a business
training.
From the very nature of the case
the great mass of humanity can
never take a university course.
They must at most content them-
selves with a cotfrse that will iu
the shortest time and at the small-
est cost enable them to make a
competency for themselves and
those dependent upon them.
It is generally conceded that
Tyler College at Tyler Texas is
the very hest place to get such a
course.
The school that teaches young
people to make $.'< wher»» they could
not have made $1 is no less a bless-
ing to humanity than the on»· teach-
ing conie sections and Sanskrit.
Tyler College is said to be th*
largest school of the kind west of
the Mississippi river and we be-
lieve that it in doing what it pro-
fesses to do. it will be clad to send
you large illustrated catalog free.
If you will write for it and j-ay what
course you want. It
An Old Story
But a Good One
We can help you to prosperity
by fuinishingthe printing that
will do you good. It will be
clean and have a style which
will cause business to come
your way. We combine fust
grade stock with first quality
workmanship. Why don't j
you let us figure for you?
Enterprise Job Office
Phonel48. j
The
Midland
Road
CAFE CARS
Serve elegant meals at all hours on
train No. leaving Paris at 4.35 p.
m. southbound and train No. (5 leav-
ing Ennie at ti:M p. m northbound-
Fruits Vegetables Meats and|all
the delicacies of the season.
Celebrated EureRa
Springs Water
served exclusively ©n all cars with-
out charge.
Patronize the and
jr /■-* ^ . your apprw-
Cai6 Cars 0 ti ciation of
the Texas Midland Railroad com-
pany's good service. For excursion
rates to Corpus C'hristi Kockpoirt.
Kerrville VVooten Wells Marlinand
Mineral Wells write—
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: Waxahachie October 1 1 j
AT BULLARD S LOT
j? a AFTERNOON AND NIGHT 0 0
Gentry Bros.'
Famous Shows United
A_ HUNDRED NEW NOVELTIES THIS YFa|>
■ he World's Best Trained Anlnul Exhibition
:
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5 A Herd of Liliputian Performing Elephants 5
350 WISE EDUCATED ANIMAL ACTORS 350
Ζ An Entire Train of Special Cars. Twice He Keruier tSui-
Φ Without an t>qual
♦ See Yamadi Japanese Troup Ten in Number
Ψ The Only Act of the Kiiwi in the Wor.Ul ^
I Watch for the lirand Hree street Parade 10 A M {
I REMEMBER THE I>AY AND DATE t
ί W axahachie October 1 1 ♦
The Only Big Show Coming This Year
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Hudson, B. D.; Buie, W. J. & Kent, Charles W. The Waxahachie Daily Light (Waxahachie, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 164, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 11, 1902, newspaper, October 11, 1902; Waxahachie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1071253/m1/7/?q=%22w.%20l.%20wood%22: accessed September 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .