The Waxahachie Daily Light. (Waxahachie, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 74, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 30, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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ι Residence Phone Hell No.
SOMETHING ΚΟΚ WHICH TO UK
THANKFUL·.
The quadrennial Struggle for the !
great prize of the presidency of the
United States is always marked by
great strenuosity and earnestness of (
appeal and vigor of expression and
action but behind the clamor of 1
contending parties and the shouting
of the legions and the gruesome pre-
diction of partisan pessimists great
mass of the people see what to them
brings confidence and comfort as
lovers of their country and that is
that whatever may be the views of
the candidates upon political and
economic questions however far
they may diverge one from the other
concerning such matters the fact
remains that they are always per-
sonally clean-minded men of high
personal character and worthy of
public confidence says the Houston
Chronicle.
.J'jlHke the jiiisltjnn in whici\ the^
people of monarchial countries often
find themselves the American people
do not have handed down to them
nolens volens. their rulers or exe-
cutives whom they must lake re-
gardless of their intellectual capa-
city or moral character but they
choose their servants and they as
a rule require them to be first class
and clean men.
I'pon on·- occassiou at a somewhat
famous banquet tiie late Richard
Coke the most stalwart of partisan
democrats in responding to the
toast. The President of the United
Statessaid it was a matter of
pridt and gratification to every
American that however widely the
people may divide as to policies and
platforms and candidates and what-
ever they might be betrayed into say-
ing in the heat of a political cam-
paign yet the truth was that from
the days of Washington to Benjamin
Harrison (then in office) there never
had been a president of the United
States who not a clean-hearted
high-minded honorable man.
it .-« ems now as if the people must
choose between William 11. Taft and
William Jennings Bryan. The two
men differ widely upon a number of
pending public questions. They rep-
resent the extremes of views upon
profoundly important issues but
they are both patriots honorable
men men who love their country
men whose public and private lives
have been lived along lofty lines
and whose hearts have been kept
clean and against whom nothing can j
be said in disparagement and the
knowledge of thiH fact is most com-
forting to the American people.
Platforms and policies will
change the exigencies of political
conditions will require a recasting
of lines of political battle but the
principles of honor and decency and
'ruth and the elements which enter
into true manhood never change
and the American people regardless
of party will always demand in
candidates for the great office of
president that they shall be men
worthy of honor and confidence and
trust patriots good citizens and
gentlemen.
Of all the elusive unturned incon-
sistent vacillating unmanageably
won't-stand-hitched creations of God
or maq^^fle is nothing worthy to
be comi^Wa to politics. In elusive-
ness politics has the American flea
skinned a full Oklahoma section; in
inconsistency It can teach the coy
maiden who looks moonshine in six
directions at the same time all the
points of the game. It is less brldie-
wise than a bucking calf as restless
as a hyena and as hard to manage
as a stampeded steer. It is harder to
tie than a Hindu fakir and when
tied it breaks its fastenings with as
much ease as Sampson snapped the
withes. Just two years ago Hoke
Smith was the tin god of Georgia
democracy. He had three opponents
all popular men yet he carried 110
out of 128 counties and his mapority
was so big that the adding machines
stood appalled before it. But^ last
Ihursday Hoke Smith was inglor-
iously defeated b> Joe Brown a man
he had unceremoniously kicked out
of the railroad commission soon af-
ter taking his seat as governor. Poli-
tics is simply a study in shattered
idols a dream of the vanities an air-
ship upon which hope rides for a
moment as upon exultant wings
only to see her fond fruition dashed
into smithereens against a wall of
thin air.—Honey Grove Signal.
THK PKOPLK PAY THE FKKIGHT
Governor Campbell spoke in Hills-
boro the other day and this is the
account given by the correspondent
of the San Antonio Express:
" ι ne governor nrst explalnea
briefly the gambling law the buck-
etshop law and other laws put on
the statute books (luring his admin-
istration and then waded into the
amendment to the full rendition and
automatic tax laws. He became elo-
quent at times and aroused the peo-
ple to much enthusiasm. When he
asked any man who wanted these
laws repealed to raise his hand not
a hand went up but when he asked
the audience if they approved these
laws to raise their hands it seemed
that every hand in the large audience
went up and they went up with a
shout. Hillsboro has one Of the lar-
gest court rooms in Texas and it was
well tilled. This is also the center of
the great black waxy land district
and it seems that there was some op-
position to the full rendition law
but since the governor's speech to-
day the opposition has crawled back
into its hole. From remarks heard
since the speaking it would seem
that there will be little if any oppo-
sition to the governor in this part
of the county.'
If the full rendition law can be
impartially enforced it can not be
reasonably faulted save only as it is
a temptation to extravagance. That
last is the danger point in the full
rendition rule just as it is in indi-
rect taxation. If the tax eaters have
two billions in sight they are going
to devise ways and mean? to extort
contributions from the people which
they would not dire employ were
there only one billion on tin· asses-
sor's rolls. The light in this state
must ultimately be right here: the
abolition of useless offices and a re-
duction in governmental expenses.
And the people must learn that they
pay the freight; that there is in re-
ality no shifting of the burden of
taxation. The money that goes into
tin· state treasury: the money that
goe^ into the county treasury: the
money that goes into the city treas-
ury it doesn't drop down out of the
clouds nor is it found al the end of
the rainbow. It conies out of the toil
of tile people and the people's one
concern should be economical gov-
ernment Waco Times-Herald
\\ HAT IH)KS IT M KAN 7
In various sections of the state
especially in the most densely popu-
lated sections and where there is the
greatest concentration of wealth and
business interests the people are
railing out substantial and conser-
va H\ ·· men to become candidates for
the legislature Ellis county has just
indorsed a man for that important
office: he is being supported by the
best bysiness men of that section
and men who bitterly opposed each
other in the recent factional strife
are now a unit in the support of a
fit man to represent them In the leg-
islature. They are the bankers who
endorse the motto: "Fewer laws and
better laws;" they are merchants
who believe in the same doctrine;
there are farmers who join in the
common cause to condemn and
stamp out radicalism; and what does !
it mean? It means that the conser- J
vative element of the citizenship of
this Imperial state will no longer toi-
erate the legislative policies which J
tend to impede her progress and-i
dwarf her material development; It
means that the work of commercial
clubs throughout the state by the |
concerted energies of their secretar-
ies is bearing fruit and that their
slogan which has been heralded
abroad and which has received so
much official defiance and criticism
is being recognized and its merit de-
clared. It means the dawning of à
new era of prosperity for Texlis a
restoration of confidence a more lib-
eral use of capital in constructive
development more encouragement to
immigration and less self-serving
demagoguery. It means that the !
people are getting tired of having
th1 state books inflated with un-
constitutional laws which reflect
upon their intelligence and which
subject them to legal entaglements;
which deprive them of the rights of
legitimate 'contact and compels
them to invoke \he slow process of :
the courts for repress involving loss '
and delay.—Anson Western Repor-
ter.
The Waxahachie Enterprise is
pursuing a most conservative and
commendable course since the May
primary in view of the very radical
attitude which it assumed against
the junior senator and it should now
come across and help send Jack Beall
back to congress. Texas needs Jack
in congress a long time yet and the
fifth district will suffer if it makes
a change. With Bryan in the White
House—a condition which is sure
to come about—the services of the
old experienced congressmen will
be needed more than ever and the
south cannot afford to change the
tried and true men who have served
so faithfully under the difficulties of
an arbitrary and domineering repub-
lican administration.—Western Re-
porter.
Electrical Flashes.
Peru is to have a wireless system.
A new tvne of metallic mirrnw
has been invented for electrical j
searchlights.
A new hydro-electric power plant 1
of 4000 horse-power is to be erected I
on the Trinity river near Big Flat j
California.
Walter J. Willenborg of Virginia j
a 14 year old school boy. has con-
structed a wireless plant at his home
and invented a small portable wire-
less apparatus which he carries about
with him in his pocket.
One manufacturing plans turns
out 5000 telephones every day.
American engineers have construct-
ed a trolley road to the pyramids.
Albert Wrensch. of Pleasantdale
X. J. hatches chicks in an electric
incubator. He says a greater percent-
age of eggs hatch under electric heat
than by any other means.
Professor Albert C. Geyser of the j
Cornell .Medical College has produc-
ed κ device called the Cornell Tube
which will absolutely elminate all
danger connected with the use of
the X-ray.
On the first day of the opening of
the tunnel under the East River from
New York to Brooklyn 1 40000 pas-
sengers rode through the tube. Even
this enormus amount failed to make
any perceptible difference in the
crush at Brooklyn bridge.
Denver has adopted the plan of
lighting every dark alley in th«:ity j
with arch lights. Since the m^Bci-
pality adopted this scheme Slaw |
breaking after dark lias practically ]
ceased. Fewer policemen are needed '
and the residents claim their holies |
I
and property are safer. ι he city)
streets ;ire as light as day almost.!
on the darkest night and there arej
no dark corners for toughs to hide ι
in.
The Uirbine steamship Mauretan-1
ia of the Cunard Line has the dis-;
tludion of being equipped with the!
largett electrical plant afloat. It j
comprises four turbo-generator sets
each with a normal rating of 37Γ>
Kw This boat is the largest and fas-
test ocean steamer in the world.
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To Act on < ll'chartl Case.
Boise Id.. June 30.—A meeting
of the Idaho pardon board will be
held tomorrow to act on the case
of Harry Orchard condemned to exe-
cution this week for the murder of
former Governor Steunenberg. It is
thought that the board will commute
Orchard's sentence to life imprison-
ment despite the fact that he has
confessed to the crime with which
he is charged as well as to over a
score of other diabolical murders
Low I'rlce Refrigerators.
For the balance of this month we
will sell our refrigerators at a reduc-
tion in price that will be sure to
move them. We have sold this re-
frigerator for eight years and do not
hesitate Ίο recommend it. The con-
struction of the f'.ues and trap in
this refrigerator makes It the great-
est Ice saver on the market. See them
at Oldham Hardware Co. 7 4
EXPLORER IX MANCHURIA. |
Hardships He Suffered In the Wilds
of Northern Sea.
There arrived here yesterday from
the far east a passenger on the
Bteamer Ashtabula Frank N. Meyers
an explorer in the service of the de-
partment of agriculture who for the
last three years has been ransack-
ing the primeval forests of Asia in
the interest of I'ncle Sam and the
people of this country. He brought
back with him a story of adventure
on hitherto untrodden trails tales
of hardship and suffering and a col-
lection of young trees that he be-
lieves will be Invaluable additions
to the forces and orchards of Amer-
ica. He also brought two monkeys
guaranteed Immune against any
ordinary kind of cold and able to
whistle tunes. The whistling Is Unit-
ed States the tunes Chinese.
Among the agricultural specimens
brought home by Meyer are bamboo
trees of different species and this
bamboo the explorer' regards as the
most valuable part of his collection.
A lumber famine in the United
State is a certainty" said Meyer
"before many years and it will mean
much to the country if before that
Sime we can introduce the bamboo
ree. The bamboo is the most useful
free in the world. It grows quickly
nd thetyls no limit to the purposes
•or which it can be utilized. In China
tile bamboo is used for making stakes
fences baskets roof tiling water
pipes rope and hundreds of other
purposes. The green sprouts of the
banfiboo are edible and boiled or
friefl are to be preferred in my opin-
ion to asparagus.'
Meyer also has brought a large
nuhiber of ornamental trees such
as dwarf lemons and spruces. The
njlonkeys he caught in the moun-
tains north of Pekin where they live
in the snow. He brought them for
the zoological gardens in Washing-
ton. where the climate has hitherto
proved too trying for the ordinary
monkey. A peculiarity of these mon-
keys is their ability to whistle.
Meyer was treated with the great-
est consideration in China but in
Manchuria and Korea Japanese of-
ficialdom every obstacle that they
dared in his way. He was obliged to
go to Port Arthur for a military pass
port that would take him through
Manchuriai Even his credentials the
best that I'ncle Sam nnnM fnvnieh
did not entirely disarm Japanese ;
suspicion. j
Meyer was atttacked by outlaws
at Khabarowsk in Seberia. One of
them threw a bag over his head
while t«o others grabbed his arms. |
He managed to get one arm free ι
With this he drew his dagger and j
drove the blade through the body of!
the man in front of him. When this
man fell the others fled. During the ι
last three weeks in the wilds he
lived entirely on boiled oats and ar-
rived at Vladivostok in a state of
exhaustion.—San Francisco Chron-
icle.
The Efficacy of Prayer.
Amofg my esteemed neighbors there
is a family known for the piety of ltt
members and their implicit confidence
in the efficacy of prayer. One of the
daughters. Miss Kate B.. has almost
reached the age when she could be re-
ferred to ungaliantly as an old maid.
She is the target for many u good na-
tured quip pertaining to her alleged
hopes and endeavors in the direction
of matrimony.
Not long ago a certain society of
young men whicli had Interested itself
in a campaign for higher saloon license
sent n committee to vfcit the homes of
the district and obtain signatures to a
high license petition. When this com-
mittee. numbering half a dozen mem-
bers. asceuded the front steps at the
I! home my friend's wife was the first |
to see it through the front window. |
"Ijflws John!" she exclaimed to her
husband. "Keç all those yeuug men j
coming to visit us."
Mr. H. glanced out of the window. |
noted the number of the invading force !
and remarked. Willi an air of convie- !
Hon :
"Humph: Kate's lx>en praying 1
again." San Francisco Call.
War on Anarchist Sheets.
Washington. June 30.—A crusade
which will probably result in the
sunresslon of all anarchist papers
and periodicals with the exception
of those devoted to purely philoso-
phic anarchism will be commenced
tomorrow by Postmaster General
Meyer. A thorough investigation of
all papers suspected of violent ten-
dencies will be made by postal of-
ficials and it is possible that a few
socialistic sheets may fall under the
ban of official displeasure.
Issue New Tar!It's.
Washington June 30.—By an or-
der of the interstate commerce com-
mission in full effect after today all
carriers engaged in export and im-
port traffic with countries not ad-
jacent to the United States are re-
quired to publish their rates and
fares to and from foreign ports and
if the tariffs show through rates
with ocean carriers to also show the
inland rates ar.d fares.
Head the A-"vertleem«nU.'
UNIQUE CHURCH IN ILLINOIS.
Protestants unci Catholics Take
Turns in Holding Services in It.
In the Island park just west of
Romeo on the Chicago drainage
canal may be seen an isolated
church building that the builders
think stands alone in one of the
most unique church records in all
Illinois
The digging of the canal caused
the building of the church and the
bywork in an usual church partner-
ship. Protestants and Catholics uni-
ted in this bit of church wcrt"k and
have shared the ownership of the
property ever since.
When thousands of men were en-
gaged in the construction of the big
canal. Christian people in the vicini-
ty of Romeo felt the need of a build-
ing in which to hold church services
where workers might attend church
on Sunday. Both the Catholics and
the Protestants joined hands In rais-
ing enough money to build the sanc-
turary and by zealous work the pro-
ject was accomplished. Each side
took its turn in holding services and
a number of noteïk ministers of the
two faiths have preached frotn the
same little pulpit.
The little structure standing a>-
most alone in a bit of woods seems
to have a charm that guards it
against desecration of any kind.
Hundreds of fishermen picnickers
and others pass along the roadway
every day in the week but in all the
time in which it has stood there not
a window pane has been broken it j
has never been unlawfully entered
nor the organ or other property with-
in disturbed. It is known simply as I
Island Park chiirnh —Phlfown Vou-c ί
TO DEDICATE HALL.
Modern Woodmen Will Formally '
Open New Lodge.
The Modern Woodmen of America j
will dedicate their new hall over '
Mistrot. Bros.' store Wednesday!
night. July 1. at 8:30 o'clock. Prom-I
inent speakers will be present. Hon.
S. P. Skinner of this city will deliv- !
er the address of welcome. Col. A.
N. Hooks state deputy of Dallas i
and ι . >eaker of national r"putation
will tell about the great convention !
of M. W. Α.. recently held at Peoria ι
III. Hon. Pat M. NefT. state lecturer !
of Waco will be present and speak j
on Modern Woodcraft. Mr. NefT is ι
county attorney of McLellan coun- j
ty and is an orator that pleases his I
audiences on any occasion or sub- j
jecl. Tou will mise a treat If you
fall to hear these men. There will be |
music and cold drinks served at in-
tervals—free. Ladies and gentlemen
come and enjoy the evening with us. I
Admission free. COMMITTEE. |
Fine Prospects for Cotton.
San Antonio Texas. June 30.— I
Reports from all over Texas are very
enthusiastic about the cotton cropi
In Southern and Southwest Texas
the cotton was never larger or more
advanced at this season than at
present. Rains have been general all
over the state for the past two
weeks in fact the only danger
seems to be that southern Texas may
have too much rain if the present
average downfall continues.
NASH.
Nash Texas June 30.—The re-
mains of Lonnie Lanier who died o#
typhoid fever at Forreston were laid
at rest in the Glenwood cemetery at
this place last Tuesday. The corpse
was followed to the cemetery by a
large procession of friends and rela-
tives. Rev. Harris conducted the fu-
neral services.
The Order of Eastern Star gave an
ice cream supper for the benefit of
the chapter and realized Î40.
Children's day services will be
observed here next Sunday.
W. A. Lanier of Victoria was here
to attend the funeral of his brother
and also visited Frank Bradford and
family of Midlothian.
Miss Birdie Jackson of Forreston
visited Miss Grace Satterfle^ last
Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Graves and fam-
ily of Boz visited T. L. Miles Sun-
day.
Miss Lula Satterfield is visiting in
Waxahachie.
C. M. Wakeland wife and daught-
er from Ennis are visiting George V
Wakeland and family. j
Miss X^ottie Toungate has returned
from a protracted visit to relatives ι
at Arlington.
Several from here went to hear
Gov. Campbell Saturday. They re-
port (hey were well pleased with the
governor's talk.
WHAT IS HKM-ROII»? .
A Tablet Taken Internally That
Cures Piles.
Piles (hemorrhoids) are getting
more common every day because we
live unnaturally ovéreating over-
working taking little exercise grad-
ually causing a deadening of veins
and (issues in the lower bowel. Blood
stagnation is the cause of piles and
a condition that can't be permanent-
ly cured with ointments.
Dr. Leonhardt's Hem-Roids is the
only internal remedy that cures piles
by freeing the circulation. Sold un-
der guarantee at B. W. Fearis'. Price
$1. Dr. Leonhardt Co. Station B
Buffalo N. W. At
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Used By Thousands
and would be used by thou-
sands more if they Knew its
value. Try it
"TOWN TALK" FLOUR
Sold by first class grocers.
Modern Milling ù MTg Co.
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tFans! Fans! Fans ! :
t We have plenty of both Ceiling and Desk J.
♦ Fans in stock for immediate delivery. . . £
♦
Also plenty of New 6-lb Flat Irons Î
for $4.00 each this month only. ... ♦
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Waxahachie Electric ^ Gas |
COMPANY — t
CHILEIvFUL NEWS.
There is a place in town where you can get clothes
statisfaction. No "if's" "and's" or "but's"—iust
satisfaction or your money back. Every garment
made to individual measurement. If you come to us
once you will come to us always. No words
wasted in our ads—we simply want to show vou.
Suits to order $20 $25.00 $27 50. $30.00 or $35.00.
East Side Square. CALVIN BRJ
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