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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The 12year-oid son OF Mr. Davis.
who lives near Hilisboro. Tex. was
gored by a mad COW. His condition
Is critical
Four men have been arrested IN the
Indian Territory suspected of murder
ing T. j. Smith. farmer living near
Hughls. /. T,
Texas has sent 121 naval recruits TO
San Francisco, Cal. in the last two
weeks
r. T. Pickett. justice of the peace
at Merle, Tex. was shot aud killed
at that place.
Denison, Tex. is short On water and
IL the drouth continues the situation
viii be serious
The A. NJ. Miller stock farm and
ranch near Baliinger, Tex. has been
sold 10 Missouri parties for $50, 600. It
contained 10000 acres.
A. X. Choate, living near Mount
Vernon, Tex. was shot and killed
Caldwell Anderson has surrendered.
An attempt was made to wreck the
Katy passenger train near Peak. |. T.
Thirty spikes had been removed from
the rails.
The little child of ]. p. Mclaughlin
living near Malakoff, Tex, fell out Of
the door and broke its neck
The new courthouse at Ozona. Tex.
has been dedicated. 1t cost $4,000
Ellis county, Tex, went dry by a
majority of 557 votes.
Mayor Hicks of San Antonio, Tex.
has been nominated for senator for
the Fourth senatorial district.
James Trotty, street-car track SUI
Ierintendent ..tsc at Dallas. Te&as
frcra sunstroke.
Fire at Livingston, Tex, destroyed
three blocks of buildings. entailing
loss of about s45 900
]. II. Mason. who claims to be from
Dallas. Tex, shot J.. r. Campbell at
Navasota, Tex. seriously wounding
him.
Dairymen Of San Antonio, Tex. are
using einbalming fluid to keep their
milk from souring.
Jennings, La, is to have car shop
of the Southern Pacific road. Three
hundred thousand dollars win be spent
there.
]. w. Jarrett, an attorney of Lub-
book. Tex, was killed by an unknown
party and his body was not found for
three days.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

snys azssssaa work - Afrses = Fs.s
kr@s ing wupaesfasfY.

snys azsssAaa work - Afrae@ = 80
ar@s ing wupdesfasfy.
New York. sept II Boshop DOS &.
KarkseH 81 the Methodist EpIscopal
church. who has just returned from his
sixth tour a. the missionary bishop q
Africa. has left this city for Chicago.
Il am much encouraged over our
mission work in Africa he said. In
each Of our missionary. centers on tn
coast we are developing Industrial
schools and churches among the ma
tives. maintaining their languages and
developing excellent teachers and
preachers 10 q Tia. in east Rho
desia. We ~ 2 special effort
to found Gale industrial
missions aEo~s "a natives
Regarding tba p3nIeal outlook in
South Africa BlsaoD Hartsell ex-
pressed the belief that time and pa
thence will restore harmony between
the English and Dutch.
II think the confederation Of the
different colonies in South Africa will
come. he explained. Cape Colony
probably will move slow in the mat
ter. Natal also may move slowly, but
Orange Colony, the Transvaal and
Rhodesia are very much in favor of the
with a central govern
ment, The population in this territory
south of Zambesi, not counting the
Portuguese of east Africa and German
southwest Africa. is more than 100000
white people and several millions of
blacks. The increasing population
among the British race viii be raised
from this time forward.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02
FIGHT oVea A FARE.
Comaaefar Of Car uss Rawdy Ttns'
wnh Passengers

csmasetss Of Car as. R"wdy Tina.
wnh Passengers.
New York. Sept. "a large party
returning from the Zion cemetery.
Queens county. To- this city became In
voived ia "A riot and about two dozen
men, women &nd children we're in
Jured
The trouble started shortly after
the three trolley ears had left the
cemetery on the Long Island City rail-
way The conductor Of one OF the
cars. fnding !, impossible TO collect
fare from a passenger. brought the
car 90 stop
An argument ensne3 during which
che coHcuctor was struck on the head
with loaded cane He called 10 the
uaofnrman whiie the passengers raj
Wed around their eomrade- Employees
irons other cars hurried forward and
fierce AEht ensaed Passengers
who we're uut armed with canes drew
trowsfs which some had brought from
home 80 usa 1a The cemetery.
After ara@u battle the passengers
rcsnued iAeir seats and the car pro-
ceeded
The trouble broke oar afresh when
Calvary cemetery was reached This
time the three motormsn and conduc-
tors we're reinforced and got the bet.
ter 81 the argument
Finally the cars were boarded again
and reached Long Island City without
trouble Three men and a doxeH
women ia the party who were hyster-
teal, had 10 he treated before they
would resume their journey home,
Three arrests were made
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02
french election eaarkers.s

The election barker" is peculiar to
French soil. AT critical moments In
candidates speech the barker puts
him out by initiating dog. and a
really good man at the business Is
worth good money at such times. Hair
dozen Of them In Paris earn enough
at election times to last them for a
year
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

Stories OF dogs which have drowned
been not infrequeni, but the narrative
of the intelligent beast Ia Hoboken
which was condemned to death. and
after receiving sentence Ia court tried
10 bite the magistrate who sealed his
doom, In refreshingly novel What
can be the limit of canine understand
Ing Of human speech
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

Clarence H. Mackay. who succeeds
70 a vast estate By the death of his
father. has been In training a long
time for the duties be new takes up.
He is either vice president or direc.
tor in most OF the corporations with
which his father was connected and
Is believed To be fully capable OF as
Stunning control.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

Saratoga. N. Y. Sept Mot troll
ley car moved Sunday night on the
Hudson Valley railroad. A strike of
the motormen began Saturday The
goo men out are members of the Troy
division of the Association OF Street
car Employees. which has a membership
OF 700
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. Wv. NJ
Richardson has been nominated for
congress by the Democratic voters Of
the Eighth congressional district.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

FOR SALE-My furniture: One
Mahogany suit, one pax suit, book
cabinet, ball cabinet iron bed, eight
rocking chairs, ldEling table and
eight chairs; aIsoA good fresh cow.
Mrs. Nj. A. Purnell, III Brown ST.,
Maxahachie, Texas. l3lpd
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

WE HAVE "A limited number Of
school books bought /atf 4 special
sale that Will save yVd l5Ifo y per
cent Deegau's Book StJre. l34
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

BRING an exclusive @ook store we
can serve you better land quicker
than elsewhere. Deegau's Book
Store. Ia
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

Dairymen Of San Antonio, Tex. are
using einbalming fluid to keep their
milk from souring.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

MRS. GENIE WATSON Teacher
of piano and strinRed instruments,
lessons begin SeptemberF sth 1892.
306 Oldham Ave. I45pd.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

WE sell Sewing Machines At popu-
lar prices, from SD IT, ~. NaXa-
hachie HARDWARE 60. If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-02

wANTED-Everybody : in Waxa-
hacbie to read this eotaann every
day. 1t always contains inieDest-
ing ads.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28
Evolution of the saloon.

The saloon of to-day is so essentially
4 product of modern life that the men,
DRY of men who have been in the bust
ness of selling liquor at retail for
twenty-five or thirty years goes back
over the whole story of it's growth.
The change from the old-fashioned
tavern, with it's tap-room and parlor,
to the modern saloon, with it's bar and
little shut off back room, is one not
only of form. but of reputation and
standing in the community. In the
old tap-room there was always a large
fire and a number of little tables, while
the bar at one side was generally
something like that in bank and
what was sold across it was drunk at
the tables or standing before the fire,
for there was not enough room for
both serving and drinking in front of
the bar itself. The tap-room was
kind of lounging room in town as well
as in the country, particularly for the
poorer customers; the better class were
more apt to stay in the front room,
where their drinks were brought in to
them. Gradually the bar grew, and
the rest of the tap-room shrank,
while the hotels drew off the richer
town grew more nervous and the sense
of pressure and lack of leisure became
more pronounced, the habit of per
pendicular drinking" and of tossing off
a drink in front of the bar, and then
hurrying out, put an end to the old
habit of lounging at table and taking
ones liquor slowly. In these days the
bar has become the main and prac-
tically only feature of the long mar
row room of which most saloons con-
sist. The revival of some of the old
sociable tap-room features would I'M
auestionably raise the general tone of
saloons, but many people who are in
terested in the question feel that a
more effective improvement would be
made by the substitution of something
else for the saloon. The cafe, as it
exists in France, particularly the side
walk cafe, never seems to have taken
root in this country, even in that sea-
son of the year to which it is adapted.
A man prominent among the retail
liquor dealers of this city says that
one reason why many people go into
SALOONS, particularly On Sunday morn
iugs is nacause of the lack of public
toilet conventances 1t has been OBJ
served that nearly so per cent of those
who drop in at a saloon for this rea-
son stay or have drink. If the city
of New York were not worse provided
in this respect than any other city of
one-Quarter its size in the world a
great many drinks would be lost to the
saloons-New York Evening Post
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28
Years Coinage in United States.

The report OF George E. Roberts, di-
rector of the mint, for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1901, shows total coin
age during the year amounting to
76S99,132 pieces of the value of $780,
34O,7S1 OF this 500 ,065, us was in gold,
s24 29S, $50 was in silver dollars, S1O,-
966 648 was in fractional silver and 81
600, 563 in minor coins. There also
were coined at the Philadelphia mint
255 900 gold pieces of the value of $780,
Ola for the government of Costa Rica
The coinage of silver dollars was Who'll
iy from the stock of bullion accumu-
lated under the act of July IA, 1890.
The amount of this bullion on hand at
the end of the year was 52,562 1927
standard ounces. The estimated pro-
duction of gold in the United States
during the calendar year 1900 was $79,-
III 900.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28
WEARING THE SWORD
EMBLEM or AUTHORITY SANCTION
ED BY THE AGES.
Military Pomp and Glory Would
Amount to Little without That Adorn-
ment-Called the silent Teacher Of
Patriotism.

For centuries, in armies, the sword
has been the emblem of authority. 1t
is sign that the man wearing it is an
officer and is on duty. The figures on
his straps or his collar may show the
grade of his Office, but the sword shows
without his telling it that he is on duty
and represents authority. Having the
sanction of hundreds of years as the
emblem of authority. what substitute
could be adopted to show that an Off
Ger is on duty? The patrolman has a
club, which shows that he is on duty
would such badge be less cumber-
some than the sword for a military
officer?
There is reason to believe that for
years to come the emblems of visible
authority like the sword will be need
ed. Every year legislatures are devils
ing schemes to keep up a weIl-disci-
plined militia, but who of those having
experience would think of discipline
and soldierly conduct without the
sword bearing officer? Even the en-
listed man who refers to his officers
sword as a 'toad-stabber' will appear
to be no soldier upon examination
Who would accept a commission or
who would go to the expense of pur-
chasing "a resplendent suit of military
clothing and equipment if the sword
should be abolished? In such an event
that marvel of gold lace and cooked
nat. known as the governors staff
might be mistaken for an over dressed
battalion of privates if their loins
were not begirt with the authorizing
sword.
From the earliest period of which
there is record the sword has been the
synonym of authority and power. 1t
was "a flaming sword which turned
every way" that kept man from steal
ing back to the useless life of the Gar
den of Eden; it was the cry of "the
sword Of the Lord and of Gideon
which made the army of 800 victorious.
The man wearing the sword has been
the leader in the struggle for free
dom.
The sword is everywhere associated
with robust patriotism. 1t is the sword
of Bunker Hill' that. in the song Of
that name, rouses the spirit of patriot
ism.
Substitute for the sword any other
emblem of authority. the billy, for in
stance. and what would become of the
soul-stirring song. In thousands Of
homes, north and south, can be found,
hanging in some conspicuous place. a
rusty old sword. 1t is the mute witness
of a four years struggle over a prin-
ciple.
Grandfathers tell grandchildren
where that rusty old sword has been.
and what the wearer saw, and of the
deeds of which he was a part. 1t will
remain for generations to come the
silent teacher of patriotism
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28
HEROINE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
The First Woman Who Ever Sat for
Sun Picture.

Sun Picture.
The death last Tuesday morning at
HastingS-on-the-H Hudson of Miss Anna
Catherine Draper, the first woman who
ever sat for her photograph brings
forcibly to mind the fact that the art
Of photography has been developed
from Daguerre's crude invention to its
present perfection within the compass
of a single lifetime.
In 1889. when Daguerres discovery
was first announced, the famous scien-
fist. DR.. John w. Draper. then a mem
Der of the faculty of the University of
New York, was pursuing his researches
in the chemical phenomena of light.
whose results are among his most val
liable contributions to science. Da-
queries announcement interested DR..
Draper greatly, and he at once made it
the subject of special study. He was
the first person in the world to utilize
Daguerre's process in the portraiture
of human beings. His sister was the
sitter for the first Photographic por-
trait from life, taken siXty-two years
ago, on the roof of the old university
building, Theodore Winthrop's Chrysa-
lis college, if tradition is trustworthy
AS the length OF the exposure" was
six minutes. during which Miss Draper
had to sit absolutely motionless in the
full glare of the sun. with her face
thickly covered with a white metallic
powder, her services to science in
volved sufficient of personal incon-
venience and discomfort to give her a
claim to be entitled the heroine of pho
Biography, and to be held in honor by
the countless thousands to whom the
art of photography, with all its cog
nate and related arts, is now a source
of pleasure, of education, of culture,
of livelihood, of wealth.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28
RuBiEs AND DIAMONDS.
The Former Are b scominE More Rare
and Cost More Than Latter.

The Former Are II Becoming More Rare
and Cost More Than Latter.
All the world loves a ruby-or
should; and all who know their Ease n
alton will W. leone some facts co Germ
ing them which have been given cur
rency by Paris technical journal, LIE
Diamant, which are of timely interest,
in view of the increasing popularity of
these gems and their recent material
advance in price
There are three varieties-oriental,
Siamese and the spinel. The first Is
the most beautiful of all colored gems.
They are becoming more and more
rare and, weight for we ght, are valued
ten to twenty fold the price of dia-
monds. The best come from Ceylon,
India and China.
The Siamese rubies are very dark
red. the spinef is less richly coiored.
The largest ruby known is one of the
crown jewels of Russia. The shah of
Persia has ruby of IFS carats. Gus
tavus Ado1phuS of Sweden had one of
the size of a small egg and of perfect
water, which was presented to the
czarina of Russia in 1877. 1871 France
had in its crown jewels eighty-one
oriental rubies.
Gems of small inarinsic value are
just now commanding prices higher
than they would be valued at by eX-
perts, which is always the case with
stones which become fashionable. and
it is a safe ruiz. that those who buy
stones of this class should exercise the
same care they would or shou in pur-
chasing diamonds. The demand has
called out a large number of second
and third class rubies from their hid
ing places, and in new mountings they
are masquerading as jewels of great
price.
The ruby is skillfully initiated, says
the New York Times, and not few
are worn which are only of the grade
Of paste diamonds without suspicion
on the part of their owners that they
are not what they are assumed to be.
No bargains in desirable rubies are to
be had in the markets of Europe or
America. Those worth buying for in
vestment are snapped up on sight by
the gem SharpS, and the person who
purchases from them will in every in
stance pay their value.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28
DIR. Henry In a Crusade.

The Rev. DR.. Henry of New York
visited Edinburgh and Glasgow re-
Gently in connection with the "Twen-
tieth Century Million New Pledge Cru
SADIE Crowded audiences hung on
his words in both cities. At his Edin-
bnrgh meeting. DR.. Henry said the
church needed to be federated against
the traffic. The church and the public
house were mutually antagonistic. II
organized Christianity was to con-
tinue. the traffic in drink must go. The
church and its members as custodians
of the public conscience, as represent
ing the keenest moral insight and the
best moral judgment. had devolved on
them the first obligation to secure the
solution of this great problem. 1ndi-
vidually the churches were not strong
enough to cope with it, but com ined
they had the money. the men. the So
cial influence and the political power
to do whatsoever they pleased.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28

The Christian Nation, discussing
Anarchy and Rum. says: This nation
believes that wine is a safe companion,
but the demon of the cup laughs at
the false confidence of the nation that
lets it live to prey upon human lives.
The murderer of the President came
from Nowak'S saloon. The anarchists
of the Chicago Haymarket massacre
came from the saloons, and when some
of them were released from the prison
at Joliet they got saloons of their own.
Schwab, who was suspet ted of sharing
in their plot keeps a saloon in New
York. Most has his headquarters and
issues his incendiary paper, Free
DOM from a saloon, and the writer
morning as Most we..t atnut among
his flock AS the legitimate business
of the country stood still while our
President was laid away, the saloon
went on. 1t was the day of its victory,
while with its red eyes it looked out
on the streets leering at the nation
that dares to trifie with it's power.
Czoigosz loses his life as the penalty
of his crime, but what of that? The
saloon is raising many children to
prove to those who have sold it the
right to live, while it robs the nations
of their rulers and wives of their hus-
bands, that it mocks at those that de-
ride its power. 1t avails little to hang
up ehigfes of the assassin, the child
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28

on the poor creatures that married
them-with the emphasis strongly on
the pronoun.
So She was married to John. and
John was married to her and, as has
been stated, everybody was satisfied.
Another year passed, during which
John builded a square dwelling with
no nonsense about it, and set a row of
hard naples along the front walk, and
purchased 4 COW. Then he bought a
simple wicker perambulator and
opened a ledger account with the lead
ing doctor.
Life for the blissful couple was on in
real earnest, and life in real earnest
is a pretty serious matter.
It was then that the covering of the
ideals began to loosen in places and
fall off. By the end of one more year
the process was complete. John
grow1ed at the cost of living. Emma
neglected her back hair. He discov-
cred with a shock that the cooking
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28
Compressed Air JaGs.

A Liverpool doctor has noted that
men working in a caisSon are pecuI-
iarly susceptible to the action of slim
ulants; in fact, a small portion of al
cohol suffices to intoXicate them. He
further noted that they We're instan-
taneously sobered on coming into the
open air. Putting the two ideas to-
gether he has hit upon a charming in
vention-a compressed air public
house. The idea is that a man can get
deliberately drunk and have a rollick-
ing time in a couple of btters or a
single small Scotch. and walk out af-
forwards, sobered instantly and auto
maticany. and feeling absolutely no i'll
after effects from his "debauch."
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28
LINCOLN AND "sWEAT-Box."
Characteristic sweeping Order by the
Great War President.

Characteristic sweeping Order by the
Great war President.
On one of Mr.. Lincoln's excursions
to Fortress Monroe. on the steamer
Hartford in 1868. his attention was di-
rected to a narrow door, bound with
iron, the use of which he was anxious
to learn. Taking off his hat,-for he
was several inches over six feet in
height,-he entered the enclosure.
which he found to be little more than
three feet in length or width. He gave
orders that at a signal from himself
the door should be Immediately
opened. 1t was then closed and the
steam turned on. He had been inside
hardly three minutes before the signal
was given. President Lincoln had eX-
perienced enough of what was then re-
garded as necessary punishment for
American seamen. There was very lit
tie ventilation. and the short exposure
to the net and humid air had almost
suffocated him. Turning to Secretary
Welles of the navy department, the
President ordered that no such en-
closure as the sweat-boX should ever
after be allowed on any vessel flying
the American flag. 1t was not All hour
after this order had been given before
every sailor on every ship in Hampton
Roads had heard of it. The effect was
most remarkable on the older sailors.
many of whom had themselves expe-
rienced the punishment Of the sweat
box. Some Of them wept from Joy
But the good results of this act or
President Lincoln We're not confined to
the American navy. Great Britain.
France. Germany and other European
countries heard that the sweat-box had
been abolished in America as inhu-
man. One and all of these nations in
turn fell into line. and to-day the
sweat-bOX is not to be found on any
vessel flying the flag of a civilized ma,
ton throughout the world.