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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-07-03
CURES SCIATICA.

Rev. w. L. Riley, l.. l.. D., Cuba,
New York, writes: After fifteen
days of excruciating pain from sci
attic rheumatism, under various
treatments, was induced to try
Billiards. Snow Liniment, the first
application giving my first relief,
and the second, entire relief. / can
give it qualified recommendation
25c, SOC and sl00 at Hood Il Mar
TINS.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-07-03
WANTED-A horse for
his keep. :. T.. Fowler. 1t
Entertainment Postponed.

On account Of the rain The enter
tainmsut L. have been given al the
Park auditorium tonight compli-
meutafy % the Ellis county teach
ers has been postponed until one
nsght uext week.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-07-03
COMING EVENTS.

July 4-Matinee Races al the
WANAhachie speedway.
July s.- Enterprises excursion %
Farmers Congress at COLLEGE sta
ti0u. Rates - 20 for round trip.
July 2l.-Teu days seshIon Of the
WaNabaehie ChAutauqua and sum
msr Assembly.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-07-03
Concert Postponed.

On account Of rain the musical
that was % be at Park Auditorium
has been postponed but will be put
on AT an early date.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-07-03
The New Transfer Wagon

Fills all orders promptly. II you
are going away phone me your order
aud get attended 10 promptly
Phones g.. Conde AOslev 5-
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-07-03

II you are expecting any friends
or relatives phone me and | will see
that they are brought to your home
safely. Condo M0sley. IS
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22

SOIL 1t is the mirror of the human
problems of its environment. 1t IS
more nearly the organ of public op1n-
ion than the mammoth journals whose
strongest purposes are commercial.
Any historian who would write
knowingly and truthfully the history
of these times must get the bulk of
his material from the country news
papers They are the busy bees who
gather the pollen of all the indigenous
blossoms of their habitat and com
press these into the columns from
which the honey of true human his
tory is extracted.
Every community owes the prime rs
duty of support tOFIts local press. Ii
a man can afford to take only one pa
per he should take his home paper. II
he can go further and take a daily,
let that he but the supplement to his
county paper. The old Greek adage
know myself" should be expanded
into know thy neghbors' and the
way to do that is to support your home
paper. There is no better or more
helpful asset to any county than
good newspaper, filled with neighbor-
hood news, and dealings with all issues
of common interest as the weekly
press usually does-fairly and honest
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
The Servian Succession.

King Peter talks like man who has
in him the making of a sensible and
successful monarch. He derives his
succession from his lineal descent
from the peasant, Kara George, who
was aided by Russia in 1904 to eXpel
the Ottomans and establish himself
king of Servia as an independent
state. His dynasty lasted until 1873,
when the Turks again overran his
country. Then it was that Milesch
Obrenoyitch, herder of hogs, assas-
sinated Kara George, beat off the
Turks and compelled the sultan to
reco .snize him as hereditary prince or
Seryia
In 1882 Servia pronounced itself a
kingdom with Milan on the throne but
he was such a roue and rascal that in
1889 he was forced to abdicate to his
son Alexander. This latter has been
an eye-sore and stencil to all other Eu-
ropcan courts and his alliance with
the notorious Draga led to his undo
ing.
King Peter says he will punish the
assassins. as he should, restore the
constitution # 1889 and try 20 make
an honorable and serviceable sover-
eigE. If he redeems these fair words
he may escape the bloody record of
the Servian throne-holders- he
NAV not
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
NTississipni's Governor

In another column we print letter
from a well-informed Mississippian,
replying to certain criticisms passed
upon Governor LONGING of that state.
We give place to the letter all the
more cheerfully because OF the honor
able and progressive administration
which Governor Longino is giving TO
his state and for the high-minded pa
triotism that we discover in the spirit
Of his deeds.
So far as the Mississippi reputation
Is concerned we make no issue with
history The act was an unfortunate
one and did not fail for two genera
tons, at least, to affect seriously the
name and credit of the great state.
We presume now that it is SO thor
oughly buried beneath the ruins of
the civil war era as to have only an
academic interest. What our CORE
spondent says of its incidental prog
ress accords with our knowledge Of
contemporaneous history.
But with it Governor Longino had
nothing to do and whatever opinion
others may have Of the act should not
color disagreeably his acts and pur-
poses as the present governor OF a
regenerated and progressive common
wealth
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
Education in Georgia.

The recent commandments of our
universities and colleges in Georgia,
the last being that of the University
of Georgia, give us renewed assurance
that the cause of higher education is
not languishing in the state That
fact is evidence of another-that the
people OF the state are not being over
much affected by the cutlery OF ultra
utilitarians Against the classic and
professional courses of study IN our
higher educational institutions.
It Is altogether too late i. the day
of progress to debate whether the col
lege-Dred man has advantages in life
over the non-collegian that are practi-
cal and determining upon their ca
reers. A leading banker of Atlanta
remarked few days ago that he could
readily distinguish between the eff
cheney of the college-trained and non
collegian employees Of his bank. The
like testimony comes from all employ
ers who have to rely largely upon the
trained minds and initiative skill Of
those who are their adjutants.
Georgia has been notable from her
earliest history for placing high es-
innate upon culture Not merely the
culture that is embraced in acquiring
facts and the data of classics and sci
ences, but that real culture which is
manifest in the skill of the disciplined
and correctly operating mind Of its
pOssessor
Modernity Is making some proper
and important demands in the way Of
educational specifications ii is wise
in our educators and legislators that
these demands are being taken into
account and elective courses are being
established in our higher training in
stitutions. In Georgia these demands
have had generous response and it is
possible IN some OF our city systems
and in our special schools for men and
women to prepare for special fields Of
future endeayor
What public opinion, fully enlighten
ed, demands in the way of education
for the oncoming generation is q prop
cr measure of what the municipality
and the state should supply It is
gratifying to say that Georgia educa
tional authorities seem to have adopt
ed such a line Of action and that, as
our means permit, they are erecting
for us q system Of schools that will
insure in the next generation a cul-
tured. patriotic and progressive citi-
zenShiD for the state.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
The Abolition of Direct Taxes.

One of the inevitable reforms of the
future will be tie abolition of direct
taxes upon the properties Of the peo-
pies of the several states as they ar
rive at fully settled industrial condi
lions. New York has already come to
the place where only the constitutional
tax of Is mills is levied for the inter
est and sinking fund charges on its
canal bonds. A constitutional amend
ment will be adopted in 1905 permit
ting even those charges to be paid
from the general fund and thereafter
there will be no direct tax levies in
that state. Ohio is now virtually in
the same condition. finding its reve-
nues almost entirely in franchise, IL
cense and other forms of indirect tax
alton.
How is it done? BY carefully listing
the values OF al privileges of the peO-
pie that are used for gain. assessing
them according TO their ability TO di-
vide profits with the state, and thus
making incomes-dollars and fran
chises-and not the laboring, saving,
wealth-producing people, pay the
states necessary expenses.
Under this system the man who has
worked half a lifetime to acquire a
$4,000 farm is not called upon TO pay
more taxes than a lawyer with $1U,-
600 annual income, or the owner OF a
building that returns 3 yearly rental
three times larger in money than the
farmers crop. The mechanic who
buys a 5000 lot and builds an $500
nj
system, paid taxes on a valuation OF
his property equal to 70 per centum,
at the least, Of its estimated COM
pleted worth to him as Q home Just
above him millionaire with home
costing 100000 would probably pay
on a valuation of it not greater than
$4,000 or $4,000, at the most. All
this kind oil Injustice is done away
with by the New York ana Ohio sys-
TENS. And it ought to he done away
with wherever and to that degree pos
sible.
There are many Of our states, Of
which Georgia is liy no means the
least. wherein values amounting into
hundreds Of millions Of dollars are es-
Gaping taxation altogether, or paying
but a 1.-THE of that they should, in
which the initiation of this reform is
urgently needed. a campaign OF
poDular instruction in the fundamental
principles of taxation and demonstra-
ton of the righteousness OF laying
burdens on money rather than on men,
women and children, would soon bring
an agitation in any state that would
not end until this reform should be
safely under way. Soon or late it viii
come but the sooner the better for
lust and humane government in the
state
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22

BY the end OF this month, which is
the close OF the fiscal and statistical
year, our exports Of cotton will
amount TO about $4,000 COO That
will be $4,000.000 more than was re-
ceiyed for the crop Of the banner year
1901
This large sum is realized this year
on a less quantity OF cotton than We
exported iii 1S98-99 In 1898, for the
eleven months, including May we sent
abroad 3,72l 100000 pounds and got
for them 1922. 600, 000 This year, for
the same period. W have sent away
3.481,000, GOO pounds. OF the value Of
$30S, 100000. So that we get this year
$50 100000 more for 100000, geo pounds
less of cotton than In 1898.
AS to prices, those of 1898 averaged
5.97 cents per pound, while those Of
the year now ending averaged 8S7
cents per pound. These are all most
significant figures and shoulI have the
careful study of our farmers. There
are millions in cotton and as we have
many times pointed out, the most Of
these millions could be kept in the
south if our planters would only feed
themselves and economic to the point
of being he masters of their own prod
net
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
QUESTIONINGS.

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EVER tae qUeS'loi reeui' ~ 'ii0 i'''i''l-
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sun we t"us"V oi sumo 'ii9"'i ~ '''"'
Te this The gateway
rrbro,,gr which we st,a ia,1tway
9hal pass TO Sonic spieil"lu anu 9'o' Il" us
heaven
Where bliss unendms
All hopes UahSceholhE'
In blest compensation 70 US slidH ne
gwen
~. 100. oort,,,s eo,.rov
,1oon tha+ +be p,orroxv
On hles oil u's'S'er anu e''ei '
piaIlHSu'
And that these turmols'
All lleSe illce7Sdnt loii9
Shall still VeX our hVes III some o'her
land?
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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
The President in Virginia.

President Roosevelt possesses the
art of saying gracious and apropos
things when he wills TO avail himself
of his opportunities to that end. His
remarks at the commencement Of the
University of Virginia on Tuesday
were of that tenor In that rare Ell
vironment, saturated with the symbol
isns and suryiyals of one of the great
est of the worlds statesmen and hav-
ing for his audience people whose an
cestors were the peers Of all the no
bles of England, ne spoke with ac-
complished tact and truly admirable
conservatism
Theodore Roosevelt is neither puz-
Zler nor an anomaly. His breeding
and birth endowed him with an I'M
impeachable title as an American. His
ancestry on either side was good and
honest. so that he is not a century
plant of his family, but a real type OF
that composite of hloods that fruits
with increasing vigor in men and wo-
men of good impulses and strenuous
endeaYOrS.
He is a college-bred man himself, "a
scholar in politics" and the only pres
ident of the United States born and
reared and making his political reputa-
ton in city
Withal there is much Of the extrem-
ist in his personal equation Few
doubt that he honestly believes that
his way in public affairs is the right
and only way, but one of tho wisest
men of the age-we believe, on second
thought. it was Mr. Roosevelt himself
said that IAN honestly mistaken
crank is the most dangerous of lead
ers,"
Our hope is that there is more than
perfunctory promise in the speech
the president made at Charlottesville.
If he took occasion to regard the ca
reer of Jefferson, the monumental
fcuntafn he erected in the university
itself the broadness of his philan-
thropv and patriotism and the undying
truth of the political creed he enun-
ciated in his first inaugural address,
there is reason to hope that he will
show decided profit by his days So
fo,1rn at the university and Month
cello
If indeed. that masterful maxim Of
a, equitable democracy, equal rights
n all and special privileges to none, >
became fixed in his scheme of duty az
chief magistrate of the nation his flu
t,re will be scarcely less transformed
than was Saul's after the episode on
the way to Damascus.
Mr.. Roosevelt is entering upon the
Test of his life-the trial of his princi-
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
Is a Good Name No ProtectionP

The supreme court Of criminal ap-
peals in Texas has rendered deci-
sion that will certainly not find popu-
lar approval. The case was that OF a
man charged with slandering the char
acter OF a young lady. The prescott
ing officer of the sta proved by many
witnesses that the lady was accepted
as an equal in all the best homes Of
the community" and was reputed to
be most yirtuous person. Pleading
to the jury the officer declared that
he believed "vox populi" is 'yox Del, d"
and therefore the lady had been SLAM
dered contrary to the verdict of her
neighb0rs.
The supreme court reviewed the
case fully and reversed the judgment
of conviction on the ground that a
general good reputation for chastity
was not conclusive as to that fact. In
effect, it threw public opinion out of
the case altogether and sent it back
for more specific proof that what the
defendant said about the lady was I'M
true.
OF what profit then, is a good name
to woman? What protection is there
to her against the gnaWing, singing
tooth of SANDER when her daily walk
in public honor before her neighbors
is 10 defense to her good name? We
very much fear that decision like
this one in Texas will be a great slim
ulant to the trade in siX-shOoters and
shOtgunSi
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
A Jov of Journalism.

A few days ago Colonel Alexander
X. Mcclure, the veteran editor and
Nest0r of the Philadelphia press, said
that the happiest days of his journal
istic career were those in which he
was 1.-The editor of a country weekly
paper in western Pennsylvania!
There are thousands of the older
men in the profession today who can
heartily say "ameni" to Colonel Nc
Cures experience. They remember
those joyous old days in some ram
shackle print-shop in a country town;
the old Washington press; the roller
boy: the roller mould and the casting
of a new roller; the sitting up at
night to mail the itiOn of six hun
dred-that six hundred more formid-
able over public affairs and world in
terests than the charge made at Bal
aklava by that other six hundred of
old England The country editor
who is his peer? He writes and the
people hardly contain their patience
a week to know what he has wrote
on the burning issues of the day! He
gets invitations to all functions, free
passes to all shows, appointed on all
sorts of commissions where there is
no pay, gets cake from the wedding
cord woo1 for subscriptions, and, oc-
casionally, gets it in the neck" from
q contemporary.
The country press is an inseparable
factor from the forces that make UP
our civilization 1t is on and of the
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
English Mill Owners Alarmed.

English cotton mill owners are be
! ginning to calculate how far ahead
of them is their finish. At a meeting
| in Liverpool recently the chairman an
nounced to his colleagues that Amer
lea is growing in population at an
enormous rate, taking an average OF
! half million cotton goods users from
Europe every year, and the time IS
coming when the United States will
probably require all the cotton she can
produce for herself
1t is not strange that our English
cousins are beginning 20 sit up and
take notice of the increased American
consumption of cotton. The growth
of our southern cotton mills is OF itself
fact sufficient TO warn them that
the words of the mill owner above
quoted are fully warranted.
In 1929 we raised 7.140SG7 bales
of cotton and exported to Europe
1856, 100 bales, or something more
than three-ffths of the crop. In 1886
we began to decrease our exports OF
cotton and in 1S99-1900 we retained
for home consumption nearly four-and-
One-half-tenths of the crop o. 10000
coo bales. As our average crop for
eight years has been 7,2S6,S25 bales, it
can be seen that if our mills do not
decrease their demands materially
we are now using nearly two-thirds of
our production.
Our immigration for the last decade
3.>At420-cq equal to One-tenth OF
the population Of the United Kingdom
and this means an annual diminu-
ton of European cotton goods markets
equal to twO-thirds of million pur-
chasers annually No wonder our
British competitors are beginning to
feel the pinch of our home progress in
cotton milling and invasion of the mar
hets where cotton goods are staples Of
merchandise.
What we need TO Go in the south is
to keep right on pooling our capital
in the building OF cotton mills Fluc-
tuations prices Of the staple will
continue so long as our raw surplus
is marketed in Europe and priced for
us by the Liverpool exchange. But
when our population catches up, IS it
soon will, to the measures of our cot
ton crops and the capacity OF our
mills to take it here at home, there
will be no surplus for Liverpool to jug
gle with and the price-fiXing boots for
cotton and cotton goods will be on the
legs of Uncle Sam. His legs are in
the south so far as his cotton inter
ests are concerned and it is orr duty
to ourselves to pull EN- for all they
are worth
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
The eIf-Feeding Farmer.

The south needs great many
things in her business of making life,
liberty and happiness a pleasurable
and profitable pursuit of her people
One sort of man she needs more
than anything else, and she needs him
not as an occasional freak, but as the
whole corpus of her grand army of ag-
riculturalists. His name is THE Self
feeding Farmer" No country on this
continent offers better occasion and
instruments for his development and
independence than do these southern
states. That we can support ourselves
without the aid or consent of any otn-
er people WIGS fully demonstrated dur
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22

ing the civil war We can better do 1t
today than ever before in our history
If we do not prepare to raise ample
food crops this year our farmers will
be in hard lines next winter and
spring, when the short crops of cereals
and cattle in the west send prices of
provisions into the clouds The Con
st1tution Will be faithful in warning,
but unless each of it's farmer readers
takes the warning as individual to
himself and becomes a self-feeder be-
fore this years harvest is ended, we
know already the tales Of woe he will
be ready to tell us before Christmas
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
Cleveland Yet Blocks the Wav.

The denial by Mr.. Cleveland of the
Bailey interview published Friday is
an unfortunate denouement We make
no doubt that the principal value of
the publication was received with con-
fdence and great satisfaction by the
democrats OF the country Had Mr.
Cleveland let it stand it would have
proved solvent for many of the past
and troublesome problems of the party
and given him d large accession Of In
fluence in helping the democracy to
harmonious and prosperous conditions.
There was nothing stated by Mi
Bailey that could not have come from
Mr.. Cleveland with perfect grace and
propriety Since it has pleased many
of his admirers TO propose him for a
fourth nomination and third term
presidency, all in contravention of the
party principle set forth in the Spring
er resolutions of 1875, it would seem
very natural thng, provided such were
the truth, for Mir Cleveland to permit
an influential southern newspaper that
has always been friendly with him to
announce that under no circumstances
would he seek a nomination to the
chief magistracy in 1904
Having fastened however. to rcpu-
diate that single purpose of the inter
view and to overthrow the effect of it,
what now can be The logical under
standing Of Mr. Cleveland attitude
toward the party?
Either he is a receptive candidate
for that fourth nomination ana comb
dent that he could be chosen a third
time to the presidency. or he is not
The interview said he was not. Mir
Cleveland says the interview was a
trick, full OF falsehoOd and misrepre-
sentations of his real thoughts and
purposes. Ergo MI Cleveland has not
effaced himself from the candidatoriat
list and is indignant that any one else
should report him as thus self-offaccd.
Ergo. again, he is yet facing the pres
idential lightning and willing that it
should halo his rod.
Mr. Cleveland was made to appear
much better in the interview than he
does now in his denial OF H. Thou
sands upon thousands Of democrats
who were prepared to laud him as a
patriot above personal ambitions, q
statesman true 10 an unbr0ken prcce-
dent and one willing To aid by self
sacrifice the hopes Of his party, have
been stopped in me prelude OF their
ppoienc
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
Defend the Lives of the Birds

Many of the great agricultural states
of the union have balanced accounts
between the farmers and the bird
hunters. All the other states OF
farms, orchards and truck patches are
being urged to do likewise There are
sufficient reasons to convince any pro-
phetic legislator that the wholesale
slaughter of native birds should be
prohibited by the laws.
The enormous increase of tree an9
plant maladies and the prevalence OF
the weed problem are both explained
by the extinction of the birds whose
providentially assigned vocation is to
protect plant life from insect pests
and to destroy the seeds Of useless
weeds in the farmers fields. Half OF
the southern states have adopted laws
to protect the native birds. The other
half should do so and thus invite again
the prevalence OF these feathered SEN
tinels over our fields and orchards.
Georgia is one Of the southern
states that has no such law and when
the matter is brought to the attention
Of our general assembly there should
be no hesitancy over the adoption of
a proper statute to cover the case.