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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-14

"She seems to think so," put in the
jealous lady.-Baltimore American.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

THE great combinations of CAPT.
tai commonly denominated trusts
are doing more to bring about gov,
eminent ownership Of public utili-
ties than all the published or spoken
arguments in its favor could ever
accomplish, The combinations
are bringing the people to a realiza-
tion Of the grave dangers Of con-
centrated wealth in the hands of a
few private individuals, who, grown
arrogant, defy both the law and the
ethics Of common civilization, The
final result must be as disastrous
to the promoters of these gigantic
enterprises as it Is arduous today
to the masses.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13
no SETTLEMENT YET
Coal Strike Continues and Both
Sides Still Firm.
OFFICIALS RETICENT
Secretary Root Sees the president but
Has Nothing to Give Out-Presi.
dent Baer Gone to Consult
Morgan on the Strike.

Washington, Oct. 13.-Secretary
Root spent some time at the temper
AIRY White House Sunday night In
consultation with thes president re
garding the coal strike. Nothing
could be ascertained as tt what took
place. the secretary declining to say
anything about his visit and the of.
ficiaIs at the White House being
equally reticent.
Early Sunday evening the president
received Prof. jerks of Cornell uni
versity. who was accompanied by
Marcus II. Marks. a New York attor-
ney Prof. jerks was formerly a
member of the industrial commission
and has made study Of economical
subjects. What the visit of these two
gentlemen had to do with the coal
strike, is not known.
AT the temporary White House the
officials said there was absolutely
nothing TO say for the press on the
coal strike situation.
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania saw
the president for an hour Sunday and
at the close of the conference the
statement was made hat there Was
Nothing to say" OF course ii was
known that the senator came to dis
cuss the strike situation, but what
information he conveyed or what sug.
gestions he received can not be stated.
The senator departed Immediately
after the conference for Philadelphia.
Little information as to the strike
situation could be obtained in Wash
.ington. II Is understood that the OPP
orators are glad to have their side OF
sthe case laid before the president and
especially the work they are doing
to supply coal. 1t Is said they have
divided theacouutry into districts and
wifi attempt 10 equalize tn supply
so that no one community Will suffer
also that the railroads will make sim
lar arrangements to handle soft coal
so as to supply all who can make use
OF it in place of anthracite.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13
Death OF [. Z. Alexander.

&. +. Alexander, Of Midlothian
whose illness was noted in this
paper few days ago, died Saturday
afternoon. He had been in failing
health for almost year, but nc
serious symptoms of the disease de-
veloped until about ten days ago.
Mr.. Alexander was aboutfifty years
old and had been engaged in the
mercantile business at Midlothian
for several years. He was mem
Der of the church, a Mason of high
rank and carried an insurance policy
of 5000 with the Woodmen of the
World. He was highly esteemed by
all who knew him and his death
will be severe loss to his town and
community.
The funeral exercises were held
yesterday afternoon at the Midlo-
khian cemetery.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13
In the Courts.

The following cases were disposed
of In the district court today:
George Ranlxin VS.. X. & t.,
Rys Co, of Texas; Judgment by
agreement and plaintiH awarded
$500
c. B. Rouse VS.. Tobe Jackson,
dismissed for want Of prosecution
G. B@Rouse VS.. j. Baldridge ct
al, dismissed fer want Of proseeu-
ton,
Asuit for divorce was filed by
John n. Snlpes against Ida Srifpes.
Inghe county court the civil suit
Of FsM Cunyns VS.. A. r.. Akin
son Is on trial
A suit Cor damages was filed by
Addie Lewis against Ennis Liquor
Company.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13
ELLIS COUNTY MURDERS
Ferris and Leland are the Scenes
Of Two Homicides.

Crime seems to have been on the
rampant in Ellis county Saturday
night, and as result two negroes
are dead and three are in jail with
charges ofmurder fled against them.
The first killing reported took
place at Ferris Saturday night about
ten O'Clock. There were no eye
witnesses and nothing but meager
information could be obtained.
From what could be learned 1t APP
pears that threee or four ne2ro
women were heard raising consider
able disturbance down on the rail-
road. Shortly afferward oneof the
number staggered up TO the depot
with her threat ,cut and bfeedlng
profusely.- Before expiring she told
some of the parties al the depot
that she had beeHsassaulted by two
other women. An Investigation
was instituted which soon resulted
in@ two arrests being made. The
murdered woman was known as
Mandy Flowers and fhe two under
arrest gave the names OF Mary
Walker and Hannah Stells. They.
were brought hetey yesterday evening
and incarcerated in the county JAIL
where they are being held pending
an investigation.
In difficulty at Leland Saturday
night Robert Walker, colored, was
lJIled, his throat being cut almost
from ear to ear. A negro named
Lavenia Washington was arrested
and lodged in jail at Ennis and a
charge of murder fled against her.
she will have a preliminary hearing
at that place.
Saturday night in this 'cisy in
difficulty with some negroes }. n.
Reynolds, a young white man living
in the country, received an ugly cut
in the back. A cash several inches
long was inflicted Six arrests have
been made and two negroes who are
thought to be implicate have fled
the country. Five of the parties
arrested are in jail and one was re.
leased under bond.
Yesterday about four O'Clock pm.
at Rankin Robert " atson shot
and seriously, ifnot fatally wounded
John Moseley. The weapon used
was a 4l-caliber Colts revolver and
only one shot was fired. The bullet
mas sed entirely through Moseley's
neck, entering aFthe front. Deputy
Sheritf's Minnick aud Forbes went
to Rankin rs soon as the matter
was reported to the sheritf's Office
and arrested Watson. They reached
here with him this morning goboat
one O'Clock and placed him in the
county Jail. The physicians think
Moseley viii die.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

TEXAS has lost two congressman
this year by death. First Reese
DeGraffenreid, who died some tv O
months ago, and last Saturday
Congressman John l.. Sheppard, OF
the Texarkana district, died at
Eureka Springs, Ark, where he was
staying for the benefit of his health.
Congressman Sheppard was an able
and conscientious legislator and the
state has lost a valuable servant in
his death
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

Dallas. Oct "a During the exeeu-
ton Of a quadrille on horseback by
members of Buffalo BilIs Wild West
show at the state fair grounds Sunday
afternoon two horses collided and
THEIR. riders--a man and woman
were thrown TO the ground The man
managed to roll out of harms way,
although for sometime be lay as II
stunned; but the woman was partial
~ caught beneath her animal as Il
fell and was injured.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

Beaumpnt. TEX, Oct Michael
Gardner, a white man, aged about so
years. was overcome by gas while en-
gagged in making pipe line connections
for the Burt Refinery company in the
yeliow pine district on 5pindletop
heights and died an hour and half
later Gardner was working alongside
many other men when he was over
come.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

Denver Col. Oct. l3.-Fre1erick A.
Keener one Of Denver's most promin-
ent citizens died here, aged rs. Mr..
Keener prior to coming to Denver in
1874, was In taa <7fo business in IL
lnols and with ais o.o.aag rated q
line Of steamers on the Mississippi.
He was one OF the builders Of the
Denver. Texas and Gulf railroad He
was a man Of great wealth.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

LAREDO, Tex. Oct. l3.-The eighth
day of the strike Of the Texas Mexican
and National railroad Of tiremen
Brought no charge in the situation both
sides remaining obdurate, the dremen
being determined In their stand not to
return to work unless they receive in
creased pay ard the railroad COM
panies equally as determined not to
make any concessions.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13
PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES
Items Of Interest to Parents
and Children.

Present today 53S. " y
Several new pupils entered this
morning.
ThesHigh School pupils are max
ing splendid use Of tie lihrary.
Clarence Mofett and Bernard Clark
entered the seventh grade today.
Onenew pupil was enrolled today
in room s, Willie Wesley. 4
The ninth grade latin class are
epdeavoring to master the principles
of pronunciation.
Jennie Shelton is w'elcomed in
room 10, after an absence OF several
days. y kk
Gladys Rosser of the sixth grade,
who has been absent some time on
account of sore eyes, is back at
schoo! today.
The seventtisgrade had compost
tons today. Subject, Captain John
Smith. The compositions were
outlined a. follows: /, Boyhood;
?, army life; 3, trip to Anlericat 4,
relation TO jamestown colony; 5,
explorations; 6, death.
Ia a very enthusiastic spelling
match in room SIX last Friday.
Marguerite Mizall and Sadie Avera
stood the longest on their side.
Arson Cole, captain on the other
held them quite awhile but the girls
finally won.
PROGRAM FOR SOCIETY no. g.
Reading-Laurenc Harding.
Composition-Rtfby Edwards.
Song--Aby and Louis Harris.
Compos tion-Dana Fearis.
Reading-Fioy Fincher,
Song-Abie Knoch.
Recitatien--Ot Jennings.
Debate--Roy Lee, Eva Lamherth,
Marguerite Mizell, and Dean Locke.
Reading-katie Lee Langsford.
Recitation Leonard McElrath.
Compositions - Rubie McCanless.
Recitation-Fr Miller.
Reading Glenn Miller,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

does not loose interest in just be-
cause he has long ceased to be a
stranger. Buffalo BIN wild West
has a choice bunch Of selected bron-
cho demons, too vicious to be worth
breaking, even if it were possible TO
ever break them, and two OF them
have regulations as killers. At
every performance IN the arena, the
cowboys rope, saddle and ride these
equine devils, an animated proceed
ing in which nobody can fail 20 take
excited Interest. The Wild West
will be with Us soon, and the great
military drills of the foreign bodies
of soldiers. ethe battle scopes, the
bucking horses, Indian war dances,
and all the well knewn features Will
be seen. A grand mounted street
parade will go over the principal
streets of the city here on the motn7
ing of the engagement.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

Wflkesbarre. -, Crt.s73,-Tbe Erie
company Sunday might posted notices
a. its collories az p.tgst0a requesting
sall striking employees 90 raiafn TO work
today The company assured all men
who returned ample protection.
THIS is believed to be the iiTst move
on the part Of the coal companies to
bre8E he suikc under the protection
auf troops.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

Funny Sayings Clarence Smith.
Current Events-Henry Brady.
Recitation-Bessie Miunick.
Recitation IL attic Pallet
Song Gladys and Nargery Ros-
ser.
Reading Bessie Smith,
Recitatiou-D oliie Williams.
Recitatiou-M Mary Wise.
Recitation-M Mamie Walker.
COMMUNICATING Smith.
PAPER Philpott Smith
Debate a titrmNiye: Margaret
White and Tom Spauldiug. Mega,
tive: Brooks Tingle and CorinBs
Trppet,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13
Bargain nav IN Nalnnn,.

Waxahachie, Tex. Oct, 13.-The uu-
usual spectacle of barg n sales. or
closing-out sales. of saloc1 goods was
witnessed here Saturday ght. AS To-
cal 6ption. went into effect at midnight
all Mhe saloons put the prices Of their
goods down to cost and below and did
. thriving closing.out business.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

THE coal barons think combina-
tion of capital perfectly proper
right and legal; but the combination
of laborers to protect themselves
and maintain wages is morally
wrong, Illegal and menace to the
country. The error of the coal bar
ons is in believing themselves to
constitute "the country"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

Knoxville, Tenn, Oct b. David
Cant bf San Angelo, Tex, the nomi-
nee suf the Democrats of Tom Green
coanty. Tex, for district attorney, b
dead here Of tuberculosis. He ahas
been visiting his mother here. since
August.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
COUNTY TICKET

COUNTY TICKET
Ror Representative:
J. Nj. ALDERDICB
For District Clerk:
Tom BURLEsoN
For County Judge:
LEE HAWKINS
For County CLERK:
Rufe HENDRICKS
Ror Sheriff
j. P. MINNICK
For County Tax Assessor:
JOHN MCELRoY
For Tax Collector:
BILLIE BRATCHER
For County Superintendent Public II
struct,on:
E. d. CREDIBLE
FOR Justice Peace, Precinct No. l:
E. P. ANDERSON, JR
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

Reading. ia. ~. 13-Geo. F.
Eacr. presiden, ct ,he Reading coTp
pany left her. Srreey night on a
special train for New Work His sud
den departure was occazioned by a
telegram tos have been sent him by
J.#P. Morgan MIR. Baer declined to
state the object OF his trip
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-13

WANTED-Ones couple or two gen
men to board. ferms reasonable
Gall at 400 College street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12

dilemmas? This committee is helping in the General Assembly as d committee. Indeed, it is getting downright sensitive over it's inoperativeness and reflects sad ly on the wit and truth of Spurgeon's S words: If God had referred the Ark to a committee on naval affairs, it wouldn't have been built yet" and was startled to read not long ago in a fine magazine article that 'it was wonderful what Christ had done for the world, when you remembered He was never on q com mittee."
 The conclusion to which we are driven is that every woman must make this thing of getting a law for qualified su- perintendency a family affair and a per sonal matter-like Noah did: Must as units in a Christian commonwealth stand for something in the sum total of good to be achieved ere we rank as a State where by our resources we rightfully be- long.
 To those who would condemn us as be- ng out of our place in stepping from the lome to beg that corrupt politics be elim- mated from schools, We must put the ;n- terrogation with which our Master an swered when His mother missed Him and questioned his straying from the family circle: "Wist ye not, I must be about my fathers business?"
 Kate Morrissette.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12
PHYSICAL CULTURE
 AT GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

The new departure which Professor Floyd, Superintendent of City Public Schools, has inaugurated in adding to the corps of instructors MT. J. A. Weiss. ner as teacher of physical culture, Is one to be highly commended
 To reach the best mentally a good ster is to arrive at ones best physically.
 On Tuesday and Friday mornings near noon, the entire attendance. 200 pupils of the Girls High School gathers in the auditorium and with stays discarded and physical culture costumes donned. they, under Professor Weissners tuition, go through selective exercises calculated to develop every muscle properly and there by bring strength and grace.
 Weakness never adds to nor accompa- nies grace. but even in slow and delib- crate movement grace comes from re- served force, just as the most delicate tones of a beautiful voice are not pro- duced when there Is a strain.
 A well poised body. the parts of which are evenly developed, is calculated to aid in the making of well balanced mind. So this new departure in the high school is a welcome one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12

The slice of cake containing the dime was cut by Miss Mary Ashley: the one containing the thimble was cut by Mas ter Eason Cook, and the one containing the ring was cut by Miss Herselee Ga latas. The guests were:
 Jessie Moore, Carolyn McPherson, Dora Savage, Elizabeth Mayce, Irby Jones. Helen Chaffee, Brooks Forehand. Mary McPherson, Louise Minnis. Nellie Brock. John Minnis, Joe McCombs. Stewart Me Combs, Kate Durr, James Durr, Ida Bell Gay, Louise Holt, Tedie Shepard, Clelo McPherson, Wilton McPherson, Graves Little, Olivia Bogacki, Elma McPher- son, Archibald Mcqueen, Helen Martin, Edith and Robert Hodsson,, Ruby Kirk. patrick. Terrie McPherson. Bessie Nc Pherson, Julia Brock, Evalyn Tyson. Ka' tie Mcbride, Elizabeth McPherson. Lois McPherson. Myrtle Garrett, James Gar rett, Roy Garrett, Jules Galatas, Sidney Galatas, Eason Cook, Hilda Castleberry Herselee Galatas, Mattie Hargrove, Ruth Galatas, Willamena Cartnal, Lucille ORear, Sallie Wood, Milton Wood. Sallie McPherson, William Wilkerson, Elizabeth Wilkerson, Mary Ashley, Mary Ellen Harrie, McGrega Snodgrass.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12

others could hardly be expected to keep
 It is charged that laws on this subject are not enforced except in two or the
 Northern States.
 Referring to deductions drawn from the twelfth census report, given in an au- thoritative article of recent date, publish ed in The New York Commercial, l find the following:
 Only one child is employed to every | ninety-six adults in this State (Minne- | sota). The average for the country is one child to thirty-three adults. Washington | and Oregon are the only States where
 the percentage of child labor is less than
 in Minnesota. They have only one child
 employed to more than hundred adults. Wisconsin has one child employed to ktwenty -four adults and Iowa one child Ito thirty adults. New York, Maine and
 other Eastern States have excellent child l labor laws, which are rigidly enforced, | but the Southern States bring down the | average. In North Carolina, one child is | employed to every five adults"
 Thus 1t is seen that laws on this sub- | Ject are effective.
 | If infant labor Is a losing game for the | mills and "the best mills want the law, | why the objection to a reasonable and | conservative enactment relieving the mills | of this incubus of unremunerative help? The proposed law. If the writer under | stands it. is not directed against cotton | mill owners particularly, but is intended | to~protect the child from the ignorance of shiftless parents, at whose door the | fault chiefly lies
 There is no place within the bounds of l Alabama where schools cannot be held
 at State expense for four months In the year, and in almost every mill village and town, an eight or nine months school
 Is maintained. Whether we have compul-
 sorry education or not. in a majority Of cases the children taken out of the mills will be put in school if for no other req son than to 'get rid of them" as gen. tleman told me not long since.
 In conclusion. let me say that If Mrs.
 Orr has been misunderstood by "oareless
 readers" who allow their enthusiasm to
 blind them. this blindness and misunder- standing has, most unfortunately. been shared by the editors of some of our best dailies. The Mobile Register, and even papers outside the State, have comment ed editorially upon the stand taken by the Federation through It's President A recent issue of The Chicago Post says:
 "The statement of Mrs Orr and her will ingness to accept an agreement from the mill men In lieu of a law on the subject, is a rather sorry commentary on the at- titude of the Federation towards evil"
 Have the Clubs gone back upon their pledges. or does the President only voice her private sentiments?
 It would be of interest to many to know how the club women stand on this question. s. J. L. L.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12
Educational Qualifica- tions for County School
 Superintendent.

ening influence of isolation in the ordi-, nary country school. [
 A superintendent should know how to make out library catalogue and he and his school are fortunate if he is resource full in ways and means of securing the libarry; he should be able to direct the professional reading of teachers in stan dard books, old and new, and in periodi- calls; he should possess the tact to bring the country homes in close touch with the scholos not only by judicious use of the columns of the county paper. but by suiting the manual training or the children to the environment Of each school and by instituting a correspond ence, too, between the studies and en- vironment; he should adorn the gospel of education in the rural homes he visits; he should visit the schools, not perfume torily, but to find what teachers teach, what pupils know. what are the physical conditions-and he should keep a careful record of his observations to guide him in suggestions to those above him and those below him in authority.
 It seems only common sense to require that a supervisor should be equal to the best teachers he superVises, only simple justice to exact that broad generous cult ure which comes from intimacy with the best literature and sympathy with the best men of his times.
 It is not asking too much to ask that his character be such that all his infiu- ence is for good and his words are an inspiration.
 We know how stringent are the rules of promotion in the army. how disgrace ful is a coward or incompetent in the military force, and how disastrous in time of war 1t is to be outgeneraled. Do times of peace not call, too, for eternal vigilance? We will be outgeneraled in every field where victory is the reward or character, industry and education, unless we improve our rural schools through qualified superintendent.
 Could anything less than genius advise teachers in emergencies like that of the teacher in Texas who, according to The New York Tribune, received one dread ful day the following note? Let me say I have a kinsw oman who vouches for 1t that there are parents in Alabama and Georgia who paralyze teachers with just such notes:
 son easier somes to do at mites? This is what he's brought hoam two or three mites back:
 If fore gallins of bere will fil thirty to pint bettles, how many pints and half bottles will nine galins of bere fl?' Well, we tried and could make nothin of 1t at all, and my boy cried and sed
 he didn't dare go back in the mornin
 without doin it. So I had to go and buy nine gallin keg of bere, which I could i'll afford to do, and then he went and porroWed iot or wine ana Dranuy pot
 ties. We fil them, and my boy put the | answer down. I don't know whether it | is right or not, as we split some while | doin it.
 "P. S.-Please let the next some be in 1 water. as I am not able to buy more l bere.'
 Now, must we not put our geniuses l or our nearest approaches to genius, 1T | the department of rural superintendency
 to come to the help of teachers in such