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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-05-14
A SHOTS AT NEWS
DAILY HAPPENINGS OF THE
CITY BRIEFLY TOLD


~
Watch for the band Monday and
go to the auditorium.
Prices 10, 20 and 30 cents at the
auditorium. Meet me there.
Walter Casteel and Chas. Casteel
are moving to Dallas today.
The Farrell and Nelson Co. Mon
day night. Don't miss the opening.
All Fraters who expect to attend
the entertainment at Rocket Sat
urday night are requested t. meet at
the hall at $50 that evening.
The Home Mission Society of the
Methodist church viii meet with
Mrs. H. D. luminous Friday after
noon at 3 O'Clock.
The Austin college baseball team
arrived this morning from Sherman
TO cross bats with the Trinity team
in II series of two games. The first
game is being played this afternoon.
Why buy inferior shortening when
you can patronize home industry
and get pure and more wholesome
goods for less money.-SatchelI
* Co. d35-wl5
At the meeting of the Banker :
Association in Sherman yesterday
Judge O. f. Dunlap, president Of
the Citizens National Bank OF this
city, read a paper on Public Ware
houses"
The marriage OF Miss Ellie May
Arnold to Mir. Laurence Ludlow
Cohen OF Houston, will be solemn
ICED this evening at the home Of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. {. A.
Arnold.
We have several hundred patterns
of wall paper on hand We will close
Il at half price. They are all
bright, new and up-to-date goods.
Will be pleased to have you inspect
them. The Oldham Hardware Com
pany. II
Learn t. embToider and make
dainty garments for your wardrobe
or make pin money in the most re-
fined Much demand for
hand work now. Call at Woman's
Exchange. "a w. Franklin street
just above Campbell, g
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Woman's Exchange in New
Quarters.

After the l4th of this month my
patrons will find me in more con-
venient quarters at 20G w Frank
lin street. l am making tnis change
for the benefit of customers who OBJ
jeet to climbing stairs. Call at
once. You will be interested in
the new patterns for shirt waist, so.
IA pillows and c~enterpieees. Materi-
ais OF ali klnCs on hand.
AZ Wis WoMAS's EXCHANGE.
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A Sure Thing.

Il is said that nothing is sure ex-
cepc death and taxes, but that is
not altogether true. DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption is
a sure cure for all lung and throat
troubles. Thousands can testify to
that. Mrs. c. r. NanMetre, of
Shepherdtown, W. Va, says, II
had "A severe case of Bronchitis and
for a year tried everything ] heard
of. but got no relief. One bottle OF
DR.. Kings New Discovery then
cured me absolutely It's infalli-
bic for Group, Whooping Cough,
Grip, Pneumonia and Consumption.
T~y II. It's guaranteed by Herring
Drug Co, Druggists. Trial bottles
free. Reg. sizes SOC, Sl.U.
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WORLD WIDE REPUTATION

Whites Cream Nermifuge has
achieved "a world wide reputation as
being the best of all worm destroy
ers. and for it's tonic influence on
weak and unthrifty children, as II
neutralizes the acidity or sourness
of the stomach, improves their d.
gestion, and assimilation of food,
strengthens their nervous system
and restores them to health, vigor
and elasticity of spirits natural
childhood. &c at Hood Il Martins.
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For Those who Live on Farms.

DR.. Bergin, Paua, Ill, writes Il
have used Billiards. Snow Imminent
always recommend II 90 my frieds,
as ! am confident there Is no better
made. IL is a dandy for burns
Those who live on farms especially
liable To many accidental cuts
burns and bruises, which heal rap
idly when Billiards. Snow Liniment
is applied. II should always be
kept N the house for cases Of emer-
gency. 35c, 5Oc and sl.U0 u Hood *
Martins
Barbecued Meats at Grafton &
G~raftOn's. II
On ad. In the Daily Light want
bolmun will bring the desired result.
Cold drinks, Ice Cream and Cream
Of Sodas At Grafton Il Grafton's. Il
Fresh Chill alwaysaou hand at
Grafton q GraftOn's. II
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
THE AGE oF DISCRETION

How old must young man be, and
how big must he be for his age, be-
fore a young woman is justified in
taking his love-making, and particu-
iarly his proposal Of marriage. seri-
ously?
A good deal depends, of course,
upon the young woman, but if the
young woman is dependent upon her
self, as happens to be the case in the
Strong-Noake breach of promise suit,
tnen considerable latitude must be
allowed her personal and private
judgment, we suppose
Her attorney lays down the general
proposition that If young man is
old enough to vote and "as big as
house." he ought to know what he is
doing when he makes love to a young
woman, and he ought to know what it
means when he promises to marry
her.
This, however, is from the view
point of one who is presumably and
properly, because professionally, bias
ed in the young womans favor. From
the viewpoint of the defendants
father, on the other hand. the young
man who is barely old enough to vote
is only boy, and he should not be
held accountable for an act which,
to the parental mind, is simply a
youthful indiscretion.
There is a widespread popular in
terest in this matter, however, aside
from its merits. Young men are in
terested in it, because they are anx-
ious to learn how old they must be
before they can be held accountable
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
HOW WESTERN HERO DIED

When the Kansas river swept over
Topeka it was mentioned in the tele-
graph dispatches that Edward Graf
strom, chief mechanical engineer of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad, and one of the best-known
engineers in the West, was one of the
victims. How he lost his life, after
being instrumental in saving hundreds
of others, is now being told by his as
sistants in the railway journals that
his colleagues in the craft may know
how he sacrificed himself for his fell
low sufferers.
Thousands of persons were impris-
oned in the upper stories of houses,
on roofs, in trees and in other places
in North Topeka when the food ap-
preached it's worst. Only few skiffs
were at hand to rescue them and these
we're entirely inadequate for the work.
Somehow Mr.. Grafstrom hastily put
together in the Santa Fe shops a
roughly constructed side-wheel steam
er. 1t did great work in carrying pro-
visions, ropes and other necessaries
about the food district and brought in
hundreds of survivors.
On the last return trip on the night
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

when the food was beginning to sub
side the boat started for the south
shore without a load and without bal
last. Mr.. Grafstrom and the boat
struck an especially strong swirl of
water, and, roughly put together as it
was, it could not be controlled for a
moment. In that moment it struck a
submerged tree and was upset.
Six of the seven men in it escaped
by catching tree tops. Mr.. Grafstrom
was a powerful swimmer and under
natural conditions would easily have
escaped. But he had been working
night and day for nearly a week and
was exhausted. Whether his strength
was spent or whether some part of the
boat struck him as it overturned will
never be known. but he was drowned.
Practically his end was the result
of devoting his great mechanical skill
and his own strength to saving the
lives of imperiled fell w citizens. He
had had distinguished career in rail.
reading and had made name for him
self in the West. One Of his brothers
is a commander in the Swedish navy,
Another is an officer of the Swedish
government railroad.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
GAVE s1oo.ooo.ooo TO CHARITY

The movement toward the erection
in Central park, New York city, of
monument to the memory of the Baron
and Baroness de Hirsch is one which
should meet with the hearty support
of every person interested in the cause
of philanthropy. for they were among
the noblest workers.
Barno de Hirsch was born in Mum
ich, Bavaria, in 1881 and died near
Pressburg, Hungary, in 1896. He in
herited large fortune from his father
and this he augmented by his enter
prise as banker and railroad builder.
Baroness de Hirsch was born in Brus-
sells in 1888, and died in Paris in 1899.
From her father, a wealthy Belgian
senator, she received a dowry of
$20,00O,000.
In the last quarter of the nineteenth
century this worthy couple paid out
in various funds for the benefit of
their fellow creatures no less a sum
than the grand total of 100000, 900.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

my patrons usually find me very
accommodating, said the undertaken,
"'but there is one arrangement they
frequently make that l fight against
religiously. That is the impressment
of children into service as pallbear-
ers. To my mind it is a reprehers
sible practice. From the purely SEN
timental standpoint it probably looks
pretty to see a little child carried to
the grave by it's playmates. Doctors
and undertakes, however, are sell
dom sentimentalists, and as they look
at the thing from strictly profess
sional point of view they see harm in
the custom rather than beauty.
TT is harmful to the children. This
thing of serving as pallbearers is not
a pleasant duty for anybody not in
ured to the business, and naturally it
is particularly trying on the nerves Of
children. Many a time have l seen
the little tots shaking in their boots
as it came time for them to lift the
coffin and on few occasions l have
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
DANGEROUS KIDNEY DISEASES CURED
Pe-ru-na Creating National Sensation in the Cure
of Chronic Ailments of the Kidneys.

Major T. H. Mars, of the First Wiscon-
sin Cavalry regiment writes from 1925
Dunning street, Chicago. ILL.,, the following
letter:
"FOr years suffered with catarrh of
the kidneys contracted In the army
Medicine did NOT help me any until a
conrade who had been helped by Pc
runa advised me to try IL. I bought
some at once, and soon found blessed
relief kept taking II four months,
and am now well and strong and feel
better than have done for the past
twenty years, thanks to Peruna. -
7. II. Mars.
At the appearance of the first symptom
Of kidney trouble, Peruna should be taken.
This remedy strikes at once the very root
of the disease. 1t at once relieves the
catarrhal kidneys of the stagnant blood,
preventing the escape of serum from the
blood. Peruna stimulates the kidneys to
excrete from the blood the accommodating
poison, and thus prevents the commissions
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

for the love-making they do. and tie
matrimonial promises they give.
Young women are interested in it
because it concerns them greatly &c
know how old a young man must be
and how big he must be. before thev
ere justified in believing his profes.
sions of affection and in accepting his
pledge of marriage.
Parents Of young men are fnterest-
ed in it because # is of the greatest
importance to them, especially If
they happen to be wealthy, to learn
how old and how big their sons mus
ne before they can be trusted to go
into the wide world where their az
fections are likely to be ensnared.
Next to the marriage contract
itself, the most sacred contract that
can be made between man and WON
an is the promise Of marriage, and
from time immemorial courts and
juries have so regarded it, and have
so decided it in breach of promise
lawsuits, especially if the evidence
for the woman has been in the form
of letters.
Courts and juries are proyerbially
sensitive to the influence of love let
tiers. They may be inclined to side
with the man up to the moment the
letters are produced, but if the let
tiers are of the kind that the judge
and the jurors remember having writ
ten in the days when their tender
emotions held full sway, the chances
for the young man. no matter how ole
young man he may be, or how bis
or how little, are very slender.-Chi
cage Inter-Ocean.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

No particular race, creed, or country
was selected as recipients of their mu-
nificent benefactions, which were
worldwide in their scope. The list Of
hospitals, orphan asylums, schools and
other kindred institutions which prof
tied by their open-handed generosity
is too long for complete enumeration.
Among those in this country are the
Hirsch trust, in Montreal, Canada.
500, 900; the Educational Alliance,
New FORK city, s30O.OOO; the Clara de
Hirsch Home for Working Girls, $780,
900. All these institutions are nom
sectarian. The Garfield hospital.
Washington, received 100000, and
the Lying-in Hospital, New York city,
100000.
Aside from the question of honoring
the memory of these eminent philan-
thropists there is also the possibility
that a monument, at least partially
commemorative of beneficence, will
stimulate such feeling in others with
resultant benefit to future generations.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
GIL NYE TO MAJon POND.
Cha oscteristic Letter of the Late la.
mented Humorist.

Cha 6scteristic Letter of the Late la.
mented Humorist.
More han one successful lecture
star has had to thank Major Pond for
his start. He had keen discrimination
and not infrequently sought out and
dragged upon the platform an obscure
genius who never thought to see him
self before the footlights. Such a
genius was Bill Nye When the ma
jor found him he was acting as post
master and editing the Laramie Boom
erang over a livery stable. walk
down the Alley, Twist the Gray Mules
Tail, Take the Elevator Immediate
lyl'D
Pond persuaded him to try lecturing-
ing, and as there proved to be both
money and useful publicity in it, Nye
was grateful, and used for years to
remember the major with characters
tic notes, ole of which had the follow
ing exhaustive signature:
Yours with heart full of gratitude
and system full of drugs, paints, oil
turpentine, glass. putty, and every
thing usually kept in first-class drug
store. Bill Nye.
"P. S.-Open all night. "-Bostor
Transcript
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
COMFORT.

much pain in my back : ne
time went on 1 could hardly
endure it ; j could not stand
except for a few moments at
a time l grew weak and
exhausted / could not even
do light homework =; l could
not stoop or bend my head
ached severely twas in pain
from my head down to my
heels ; centering in the kid
neys it was a heavy, steady,
sickening ache ; ] could not
rest nights, and got up
mornings weak and tired. 1
thought / was about done
for, when I saw Doan's Kid
ney Pills advertised. Within
a week after commencing
their use l began to improve,
and from that time on rapidly
grew better. / used five
boxes in all and was cured +"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
Few Gold ThimbIes Used.

Gold thimbles," said the jeweler,
ARE rarely to be seen nowadays. Time
was when every young woman had
one. They were regulation birthday
or Christmas present. But the young
American girl of to-day would be dis
gusted with the gift of gold thimble
She would much rather have one Of
those long, red automobiles or a good
saddle horse. The word thimble in
the past was humble. 1t was worn.
YOU know, on the thumb.-Philadelphia
Record.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
A FEW ODD SUGGESTIONS.

They Are Of Interest to Mothers and
Pretty Girls.
up in Bucks county last week, :"
said a traveller, IAN old woman re-
counted to me some odd superstitions.
These, she declared, she and all her
friends believed in implicitly.
zone regarded newborn babies
When the baby is taken for the first
time into strange house to dine an
egg and piece Of bread should be
given to it by the houses owner 9th
erwise the child will have bad luck for
ten days.
Another regarded manageable
maids. When a maiden is Smelling
peas she should, if she find pod with
nine peas in it, put it over the house
door; then the first young man to en-
ter the house through the door will
marry her Philadelphia Record.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

Peruna cures catarrh Of the kidneys simply
because it cures catarrh wherever located.
II you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will be
pleased to give you his valuable advice
gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
His Conscience Troubled Him.

Look here, are you the man l gave
square mean to one cold, bleak Feb
ruary morning?" Pm the man, mum. I"
We'll. do you remember you prom
Used to shovel all the snow out of my
back yard and then sneaked off with.
out doing lt?" Yes, mum, an me
conscience smote me. OATS de rea-
son l tramped all de way here trough
de blazing sun to finish de job"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
Wroth AGAINST bismarck.

The wrath of Parisians is being
hurled at the memory of Bismarck In
some recently published letters the
entry of the Prusslan troops into the
French capital in January, 1871, is
thus described by the Iron Chancellor:
Thousands of light-hearted Parisians.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
Where Solomon col His Wisdom

The little boy was asked by a Sun
day school teacher to write all he
knew about Solomon and hand his pa
per to her the next Sunday. The fol-
lowing Sunday he handed her a slip of
paper on which was written: King
Solomon was a great and wise man.
He had 100 wives. After that he did
not believe in God. New York Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
KIDNEY

Aching backs are eased.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling Of the
limbs and dropsy signs
vanish.
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment, high
colore d, pain in passing,
dribbfing, frequency, bed
wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills
remove calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation,
sleeplessness, h headache,
nervousness, dizziness.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
A niuInn Cat.

A farmer at Ballina, New South
Wales, trained black cat to act as
a retriever. The animal was also fond
of diving in the sea for fish, and re-
Gently it brought out two-pound null
let. Its career was ended by being
swallowed by a shark.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
Too Great a Risk.

An insurance agent called at the
house of newly married couple and
during the conversation urged the hus-
band to take out policy, but when he
heard the lair young wne say to her
husband, Yes, do So Charlie, and I'll
bake you some nice pastry for your
supper" he stood moment, as if con
sidering the risks, and then he closed
is book and fed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
FAD HARMFUL TO CHILDREN

seen one of them keel right over. BY
the friends that sudden weakness
was attributed to grief, but it was
nothing of the kind. Probably the
child did feel badly over the loss Of
its companion, but sorrow would
never affiict it so sorely. 1t was pure
nervousness that caused the collapse.
have known an exceedingly sensi-
tive child to be all unstrung for
weeks after such an ordeal
Fortunately parents do not insist
upon the practice so much as form
erly. Even if they do incline to the
idea at first l generally find it pos
sible to talk them out of the notion
unless the child has been precocious
in such matters and has requested
that certain little friends act as pail.
bearers. which sometimes happens In
that case l find all arguments I'M
availing and much as l dislike the
custom l am obliged to conduct a
funeral with youthful pallbearers. -
New York Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
lido JennIe,a plscoverv-

When electric lights were intro
duced into the small town on Martha's
Vineyard, where little Jennie lives, she
went out walking one evening with
her mother. Suddenly coming out from
under some trees she saw the magic
light for the first time in her life ''Oh,
mammal" she cried. fairly dancing
with excitement; mamma, looki See
the moon; it's on a stick tonight"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
Why He Wanted a Wig.

II am going to buy a wig" said a
bald-headed man, as he ruefully rub
bed the bare spot on the top of his
hsad. mo, it isn't out Of pride. do
not object to the appearance of my
shining pate. But the flies nearly
drive me frantic. They never light
on the head of a man who has plenty
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
MANY CHILDREN ARE sIcKLY.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children.
used by Mother Gray, nurse in Childrens
Home, New York, cure Summer Complaint,
Feverishness, Headache. Stomach Troubles.
Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. AT
all Druggists, 25c. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted. lie Roy, N. Y.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
Cheap Passenger Rates Via ~sansa
&c Route"

To Boston, Baltimore, Minneapolis
Detroit, Atlanta and other points. For
particulars, address c. F. Warren,
General Agent, A. t. & S. F. Ry., All
Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

Mrs James Beck Of 314
West Whitesboro Sire ct ,
Rome. N. Y, says: q was
troubled with my kidneys for
eight or nine years: had
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13
Mrs. Anderson, a prominent
society woman of Jacksonville,
Fla, daughter of Recorder OF
Deeds, West. saws:

UCCuSs WSSls says
There are but few wives and
mothers who have not at times en-
dured agonies and such pain as only
women know of. / wish such women
knew the value of Lydia +. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. It
is remarkable medicine, different in
action from any other ever knew and
thoroughly reliable.
4" have seen cases where women
doctored for years without permanent
benefit who were cured in less than
three months after taking your Yege-
table Compound, while others who
were chronic and incurable came out
cured, happy, and in perfect health
after thorough treatment with this
medicine. l have never used it myself
without gaining great benefit. A
few doses restores my strength and
appetite, and tones up the entire
system. Your medicine has been tried
and found true, hence / fully endorse
it. - Mrs. r. A. ANDERSON, 225 Wash
ington St., Jacksonville, Fla "a $4,000
forfeit II original of aboUe testimonial proving gems
fne1ess cannot be produced
The experience and testimony
of some of the most noted women
of America go to prove, beyond
a question, that Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound viii
correct all such trouble at once
by removing the cause, and re-
storing the organs to q healthy
and normal condition.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

W hich are
sure to follow
if the poisons
are allowed
to remain. 1t
gives great
vigor to the
heart s action
and digestive
system, both
of which are
apt to fail
aniII- -
this disease.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

German Customs Tariff Decree.
The new German customs tariff pre-
scribes that on entering goods the i'm
porter shall make declaration as to the
country of origin.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

Mrs. Windows Soothing syrup
For children teething softens the gums reduces IN.
dammation alsys pain wind coiic. 25e bottle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-13

To Cure n Cold in One day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. Csc.