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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-02
THE LONG { SHORT OF IT

| A little daughter of ID. d. Pittman
is i'll with typhoid fever.
Arch Blassingame is i'll with ty-
| phoid fever at the home of l..
Erwin.
Bud Fay, colored, is on trial in
the district court today on "a charge
of robbery.
There will be work in the Third
Rank at K. of P. ball tonight All
members urged to be on hand.
Tomorrow night is the regular
meeting night of odd Fellows.
There will be work TO do. r. s.
b oze, N. @.
| At the last meeting of the Ellis
County Poultry and Pet Stock AS
ISOLATION r. A. Davis, of Merit,
was selected as judge for the show
to be held next January.
h. G Gould, from near Nash, has
bought an interest in the meat mar
ket of Biliups d Co, and has moved
/ his family to WaXahachie. Mr..
Gould is an experienced cattleman
and viii be IA good acquisition to
this firm,
A marriage license was issued
yesterday evening TO DIR. :. H.
Bond and Miss Bessie Marchbanks
of Ennis. Miss Bessie is daugh-
ter of Gel. h. f. Marchfsanks and
one of Ennis most popular and ae-
complished young ladies.
Walter Timmins yesterday sold
his interest in the livery stable of
Davenport d Tlmmins to Bill Pat
ton. The firm in the future will be
known as Davenport and Patton.
Mr.. Patton is member of the fire
department and has been on duty at
the fire station for the past eight
years.
Uncle Dave Duncan was IN the
city yesterday in company with Hop
Noble, TO whom na recently sold his
farm between India and Bristol.
They were here to have the deeds
properly drawn up. Uncle Dave Is
Que Of Ellis county's best citizens
but viii shortly move to Oklahoma
To reside.
The Trinity University football
team is getting In shape to meet the
A. d Nj. team next Monday after
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-02
Electricity in Agriculture.

An effort is being made In Sweden
TO use electricity In agriculture. A
seed field IL covered by network Of
wire and a strong electric current Is
turned on during nights aud chilly
days but cat OF during sunny and
warm weather The system was in
vented by Prof. Lemstrom OF Helsings.
fors, Finland
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-02
Charcoal Eph,e DAILY Thought.

Wien All secs sr man droppiu' er
cent into dc colosseum basket undah
coYah oh or doliab said Charcoal
Eph. as ne passed the plate Al
cyarnt hep 'emdin he gwlue 1 try
& sneak inter heblen on some odder
fellers rain-check. Amt DAT 50. Mis-.
tab Jackson g." Baltimore News
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-02
Mahomets Vacation.

Mahomet when asked where he
would spend his vacation. replied
"Mahomet will go TO the mountain.
Upon counting his change, however
he found that he was short, SO was
compelled TO stay his two weeks yaca,
ton In the city. Later ON be made
capital out of the saying, and was also
enabled to take trip to the seashore.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-02

explained The
explanation is
simple. Food
does not uour-
ish the body I'M
less digested
aud assimilat-
ed. Diseases of
the stom &C b
and other or
gans of diges-
ton and nutri-
ton hinder the
proper diges-
ton and assimi-
lation of TIL e
nutrition con-
tanned in the
foodeaten. Thus
the strength of
food is lost,
wasted
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-02

~ 10 attribute Of maaahooa uuiversag1v
desired Few people understand that tise
only sosirce-nf physicist strength Ii food
ana Ihaf every cue who has sufficient
nonrasaing ftsod should be strong. But
,neFe are thousands OF p.atIy people who
have plenty of good food. How il that
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
FIRST MONT PELEE DRAMA.
A Play with the Martinique Volcano
in 1t Produced In Paris
In 1910.

1t is scarcely to be expected that the
dramatists ever seeking some new field
for the scene of their efforts will long
allow the volcanic explosions at St.
Pierre to escape them. But even the
earliest to utilize any scenes of the re-
cent eruptions will not be pioneer
in drawing inspiration from Mont
Pelee, says the New York Sun.
1t has been recalled by Frenchman
with a long memory that Adolphe
d'Ennery, author of "The Two Or
phans," "A Celebrated Case" and
about a hundred other melodramas,
succeeded in getting before the public
first with a play based on the volcano
at Martinique. 1t was called 1.-THE
Earthquake at Martinique" and was
acted in 1910 at the Theatre de la
Gazette in Paris.
The old play in spite of its horrors
is said to have been very effective on
the stage. In it the villain who muir
dered an old man led his wife and
daughter into a crater Of the volcano
100 feet under the surface of the earth.
There was a sudden earthquake and
the villain fell into cavity and was
killed, while the woman and her child
were rescued.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
ELK TEETH AS .VESTMENT.
One of the Chief Assets OF Nom
tana Man who Has a big
Fortune

elk teeth by the bushel are one OF
the chief assets which John Losekamp,
of Billings, Mont, enumerates among
his big fortune" said f. NJ. Hoskins, a
Butte man, reports the Denver Post.
"Losekamp keeps n general store ut
Billings and for many years it was His
custom to trade supplies of one kind or
another for elk teeth, which, by the
way, were used for charms and amulets
long before the Elks took them up as
the emblems of their order.
"The action of the Colorado lodges
in agreeing to wear no more elk teeth
because the demand for the teeth
caused wholesale slaughter of elk,
had n marked effect in reducing the
price. Other lodges respected the mo-
tive, and quite a boycott on elk teeth
was on for n year or more. 1t seems,
however, they are in demand again.
''Losekamp has been selling his at
two dollars apiece for ordinary teeth
and getting fancy prices for the very
best. His stool is sufficient to supply
the demand for years, but he makes
no effort to sell them, as he wants to
leave them as a part Of his estate be-
lieying they will increase in value fast
er than any other kind of property"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES.
Many Things Were Lacking That Are
Now Considered necessary
for Comfort.

People who talk of the good old times
should read these facts compiled by
Popular Mechanics. In the good old
times:
There was not public library in the
United States.
Almost all the furniture was import
ed from England.
An old copper mine in Connecticut
was used as prison.
There was only one hat factory, and
that made cooked hats.
Virginia contained a fifth of the
whole population of the country.
A man who jeered at the preacher
or criticised the sermon was fined.
Two stage coaches bore all the travel
between New York and Boston.
A day laborer considered himself
well paid with two shillings day.
The whipping post and pillory were
still standing in New York and Bos-
ton.
Trousers were fastened with pegs or
laces.
The church collection was taken inla
bag at the end of pole, with a bell
attached to arouse the sleepy contrib
utors.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10

want you to kill me. l want to die"
'Where is hep"
The girl looked into the guides
eyes. DO you wish to see him,
Giles?"
See him and kill him, yes"
Something strange came into ths
girls eyes. "At dusk tomorrow he
will walk alone along the trail that
the railroad men have blaZed below
Beaver Creek. You wouldn't kill him,
would you, Giles?"
Kill him, yes, but not murder him.
I'll meet him and We'll fight it out"
''He carries a pistol" said the girl.
At dusk the next evening Giles
Blossom stood by tree at the side
of the blazed railroad trail. The sec
ond growth of timber had already
sprung to the height of a mans
waist. The guide heard a sound. Not
40 yards away with his body partly
concealed by the underground a man
was coming toward him. The on.
conner wore white flannel outing
shirt and his cap was pulled well
over his eyes. Blossom stood in the
center of the trail. ITS the man."
he said to himself. Then he spoke
self, for | am going to shoot" The
stranger stopped short, raised hand
holding a pistol and fired.
There was another shot, this time
from the guides weapon. The stran.
ger tottered and fell.
Holding his pistol in his hand Bios
som went forward slowly. There was
no movement. He reached the side
of his fallen adversary. The cap had
fallen back. Oh, the horror of it.
Giles Blossom saw, looking up at him
through the dusk, the face of Susan
Hale. The clothing near the heart
was stained. Blossom realized. The
girl had purposely sacrificed herself.
Another shot broke the silence of
the twilight woods. Giles Blossom
died by his own hand.
They found them there together.
The woodsmen guessed the story.
The native charm of the Adiron.
dack woodsmen has largely gone.
The deer are vanishing. The trout
are dying in the sawdust-flled
streams. The holy song of the her
nit thrush is less and less often
heard as the sun passes away from
Marcy's crest. The private cars Of
the dwellers in towns are on every
side track of the wilderness piercinp
railroad. Mans civilization advances.
Gods civilization retreats.-Chicago
Record Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
LOATHE SIGHT OF GOLD.
That Is the Eject Of Constant Con.
...t with the Metal Upon
Mint Employees.

81 have visited the minis of three
countries" remarked a traveller, a med
zeal man, according to the Chicago
Tribune, "and | have found all the Of
fetal guides in them broken down in
nerve and victims of insomnia. Every
one of these officials is required to
give bonds, not only for his own hon
esty, but ocover theft by visitors whom
he conducts over the place. 1t is Gus
tomary to hand money about among
the visitors to show the coins in their
different stages of development. IF the
party be a numerous one the nerves
of the guide are strung to such pitch
that at the Hotel de la Monnaie, in
Paris, the man confessed that the sight
of coined gold and silver was odous
to him, and that he had come to look
upon everyone who visited the mine as
possible robber.
Besides the effect upon the nerves,
in nearly every case it has affected
the eyesight. One of the guides told
me that 30 years of continual gazing
upon gold and silver bad affected his
sight so that he is unable 10 distinguish
certain objects unless they possess pc
euliar ride cent qualities"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
THE M'KINLEY DEATH COT.
Which the Asst ssinated PresI-
dent Breathed His Last.

Although various people in New
York, Boston, Chicago and other cities
say they nave the cot on which Presi-
dent Mckinley died, they are all alike
in error, states the New York Sun.
According to Francis Almy, Of the
Pan-American exposition, two cots ex-
actly alike were in the Milburn home
for the use of the wounded president.
After Mr.. Mckinley died one Of them
was sent to DIR. Matthew ID. Mann, one
of the physicians in attendance. The
other was replaced among the cots
owned by the exposition company.
Both were originally taken from the
hospital at the exposition.
"There has been some talk" says
Mr.. Almy, "as to whether the second
cot should be sent to the Buffalo His
torical society. 1t seemed to be the
feeling that it should not be preserved
as the cot upon which the president
died, but should lose it's identity and
be put with the other hospital cots and
sold with them, regardless Of its use
during the presidents illness.
"That was done. The cot was placed
with the others. It's identity was lost.
No one knows who has il now. The
cots were sold to persons and institu-
tions in different parts of the country.
81 cannot tell whether Mr.. Mckinley
died on the cot which went to DR..
Mann or on the other one"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
The railroad came. Traffic had not

The railroad came. Traffic had not
yet opened, but one day locomotive
drew the private palace car of one of
the roads directors on to a siding at
the end of the spur track. The director
with some friends had come on a tour
of inspection of the road and was to
spend some time in hunting and fish
ing. The directors son was with the
party. He went on hunting trip
alone, taking Susan Hale's father for
a guide. He stayed for several days at
the Hales' woodland home. The city
bred man found that there was other
game in the woods besides deer.
In Susan Hale's eyes this newcomer
was not as other men were. 1t was
done i'll and done quickly. Susan Hale
disappeared. All that could be found
out was that the directors son had
secured permission to have the locomo-
tive take the car back to the nearest
main line connection, then to return
without him.
One year later Giles Blossom thread
ed trail down the side of Marcy and
came to an opening from which he
could see the roof of old George Hale's
log house. This opening had been his
trysting place with Susan. How many
times he had been there during the
year that was gone Blossom himself
alone knew. The sun was touching
Marcy's tops with its last rays. A her
NIT thrush was singing its vesper
hymn. There were lines IL the guides
face. He looked down toward the spot
where through a break in the fence
about the Hale clearing Susan had been
accustomed to appear. He saw some
thing that made his heart beat. He
looked again. Susan Hale was coming
across the opening through the woods.
She saw him and came toward him.
She had steeled herself for the task.
"Giles," she said, 81 am here again"
The guide looked at her. "Where
Is he, your husband?" he said.
The girls face went scarlet. 81
went away with him, Giles" she said,
shut I wasn't taken in marriage.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
BURIED AMERICAN HISTORY.
Old William burE in Virginia That
Was Intended as "A Chartered
City Under Royalty.

Even in a country SO recently con-
scious of the past as our own, there
are buried cities awaiting the pickaN
of the historian. Of these, none is
perhaps more interesting, certainly
none more picturesque, more colon
ial and-even to-day-more English
than old Williamsburg, in Virginia
that middle plantation" which in
1882 was Laid out and paled," to be-
come chartered city, the capital of
great colony under king and
crown.
It's three streets of the reign of
William and Mary are its only thor
oughfares and two back streets,
hardly more than grass-grown lanes
of to-day. Duke of Gloucester street,
broad and genially hospitable,
stretches leisurely from the founda-
tions of the ancient capitol building
on the east (of whose walls not one
brick is left nor one white pillar of
it's porticos) to the iron tnrnstile
gates of William and Mary college
grounds at the western extremity of
the town.
On the right, as one enters the
college gate, is charming mansion,
the residence of the president of
William and Mary, and upon the left,
across the campus, stands the old
Brafferton building, the earliest
school for the education of Indians
erected on American soil. In the
time of Gov. Spotswood, says Coun-
try Life in America. it was necessary
to resort to strenuous efforts to in
sure attendance, for the students
were mainly hostages, the sons of
chiefs of neutral or friendly tribes
during Indian warfare.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
The Same Old Story.

J. A. Kelly relates an experience sim
liar to that which happened in almost
every neighborhood in the United
States and has been told and re-told by
thousands of others He says: Last
summer ] had an attack of dysentery
and purchased II bottle of Chamberlain 8
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
which / used according to directions and
with entirely satisfactory results. The
trouble was controlled much quicker
than former attacks when | used other
remedies. Mr. Kelly is Il well known
citizen of Henderson. N. G. For sale by
Henry Hinrichs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
DAWN.

ship with cargo laden to the guards
Has come to port! Lo, how her ,nasts and
spars
Ibove the kindling clouds begin to lift.
md her great peak has dashed the skies
with light!
'or all on earth she brings royal gift,
hore precious than was ever sung by
bards
Her hold is stuffed with incense and with
myrrh,
md round her clings a fragrance and a
scent
Df Thule or some distant Orient,
With whiffs of diviner air, the swift
Bidereal blast that bore her from the stars,
The woods and hills rejoice to welcome her,
As though she bore to earth some envoy or
Bome God-accredited ambassador
Bent hither from beyond the Pleades.
Near and more near she draws! The
heavens grow bright
With her approach! Lo, in what vessel
yards
Were her stout timbers hewn? What work
man laid
Her starry frame? What fearless pilot
weighed
Her anchor, steered her through the chart
less seas?
william Prescott Foster. In the Atlantic.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10

turesque in their way as the noun
taineers of eastern Tennessee. Per-
haps some day novelist may find in
the place and people as they then were
the material for a story that shall
live.
Giles Blossom was a guide, as had
been his father before him. He was
born within sight of the towering peak
of forest-clad Marcy. Blossom was a
rugged fellow. The saying is homely
and old, but of this man eminently
true, his heart was in the right place.
He was 25 years old, and had been a
guide through the whole northern
woods since he was boy Of IS.
Susan Hale was the daughter of
guide who lived on the other slope
of the mountain. Sometimes Giles
met her. There was not too much So
ciety in the wilderness. From the
breaking up of the ice in the spring
until the deer season closed in the fall
there was occupation and some com
panionship for the woodsmen. 1t came
from the outside world and was made
up wholly of men who, though city
bred, loved the woods for the woods
sake and for the wild sport which they
afforded.
From the time that some few revo-
lutionary soldiers and their wives had
entered the wilderness and made their
homes there had been marrying and
giving in marriage in the scattered
families of these people who lived so
close to natures heart. Giles Blossom
loved Susan Hale and her father smiled
on the sutton. AS for the girl herse
she was trained to obedience. 81 like
you, Giles" she said "You are differ
ent from some of the others. Jim
Crawford wants to marry me, too. He
cuts the throats of the deer when they
break through the crust in winter. I
heard you say once that was murder,
and that every creature should be
given chance for his life. Giles. !
think a man who would kill the deer
that way would beat his wife. It's in
him"
1t isn't long story this, the story
fixed that Giles and Susan were to 90
over to the Saranac to the little Epis-
copal mission, and there to be married
when the snow was melting from the
crest of Marcy.
This was at the time of the begin
ming of the end Of the wilderness Of
the north woods. The spur of a rail-
road had been pushed through into the
heart of the region. The woodsmen
at first hailed the advent of the read
with joy. at will bring us more par
ties TO guide and more money for our
purses" they said. There were some
few thinking ones among them, how
ever, who said: "The railroad means
that soon we will have no woods into
which a blind man could not find his
way"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10

Human bodies buried in limestone
countries are often turned to solid
stone by the limewater which pene-
trates the graves. In other soils there
are elements which sometimes SO EN-
balm the buried dead as to preserve
form and features unchanged. Many
such cases are on record. Robert
Burns body was disinterred in 1915 to
be removed to new tomb. To the sur
prise of all his friends the features
were found to be as perfect as at
burial. When the body Of John Hamp-
den, the famous English patriot and
leader, was disinterred by Lord Nugent
200 years after burial the form and
features were as unchanged as II the
corpse had been recently laid in the
grave.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
The Gentle Rnnko Artist.

One of the clever little tricks Of the
day is the conversion Of a circular into
a personal communication. The very
latest device is to have the circular, in
the usual facsimile Of typewriter type,
printed on dampened paper. The effect
delights the heart Of the most expert
artist in public deception, says the New
York Press. The slight moistening
blurs the ink ever so slightly and leaves
the sheet trifle uneven of surface,
thus giving it the appearance Of having
been especially dictated for the re-
cipient and put through the Office copy
ing press. A two-cent stamp completes
the little fraud, which harms nobody
and may catch customer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
The Duty OF PARENT

Prevention is better than cure, aud
yet remedy like Mexican Syrup for
coughs, colds and consumption, if not
used to prevent consumption by curing
a cough or cold in the beginning can be
depended on to even cure after the lungs
begin to waste away. No other remedy
is 80 nice to take, or so quick to cure,
and many families often buy new bot
tie before the old one is all used up, SO
that they may have it always in the
house. Only 25 cents at drug stores
For Sale by f. G. Bnerstatte.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10

Every mother should be quickly suspi-
cious of worms, when her children act as
if they were going to be sick Worms
are known to be the first cause of much
i'll health. Young and old very often
are suffering from worms when a mother
thinks it is something else. Remember,
very harmless, yet always effective
remedy for stomach, tape or pin worms,
is % cents bottle of Mothers Worm
Syrup. For Sale by F. c. Buerstatte.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
The Shadow of
Mt. Marcy 8 3

TODAY in the Adiro.dacks sounds
the shrek of the locomotive. The
trails are highways; the canoe has
been supplanted by the steam launch;
the open shack of the hardy hunter
has been replaced by the summer no.
tel; the pack once carried on sturdy
shoulders over windfalls and through
tangled forest mazes has become the
luggage" of the express car. Twen-
ty-five years since "a primitive people,
few in number dwelt in the then wild
northern woods. They were as pic
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
STOPPING A STONE WALL.
An Illustrative Instance of the Slow
ness of Congress In Getting
Into Action.

The work of preparing all measures
Is done in secret, and no one person or
leader, and no party, Is responsible
for what is done or left undone. The
country does not know why this item
Is inserted in an appropriation bill.
why that economy has been practiced.
or what is the reason for some bit of
extravaganza, writes II. L. Nelson, in
Century. Sometimes the committee
demonstrates that evenit might be en-
lightened by discussion and criticism.
and perhaps the letting in of light
would show that advantage might fol-
low If congress and its committee
should leave to the discretion of ex-
ecotive and administrative officers
some Of the details of expenditure.
have been told of a "brea st-high stone
wall" at West Point, for example.
Years waxed and waned while superin-
tendents pleaded for $4,000 for the
construction of "breast-high stone
wall" on the road leading from the
wharf to the plane, the road running
along the edge of precipice. At last
congress moved, and the $4,000 wall
was built. Having moved, it was now
impossible for it to stop, so it went
on year after year appropriating 500,
600 each year for "breast-high stone
WALL" until "breast-high stone walls"
became a drug at the military acad-
envy. They ran around the post and
threatened to choke 1t up. Superin-
tendents beggedcongress to shut them
off and finally succeeded