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hardships and privations of that jour
 ney across county I need not speak,
 but there was something that solaced and cheered us and sustained us in that trying time. We knew that somewhere there awaited us a home, where We might worship God and in peace and according to the dictates of our own
 consciences. And we were not disap- pointed.
 We crossed the Missouri river at
 Sarpy Point on a boat operated by
 Peter A. Sarpy, coming thence up the
 Nebraska side to Florence, the site
 chosen for winter guar ters by Presi- dent Young. Immediately workmen
 began to put up houses, while others
 sowed crops. We had brought with us
 here little food and it was necessary ! that we should raise something to sub 1 sist on. It was not President Young s intention to locate here permantly. He
 knew it would be better for us to push on further west and time has vidicated
 his judgment amply.
 Tn the spring of 1S47 President
 Young and 143 other members of the church left Florence and set out across
 the great plains. After following the Platte river for a time and then fol- | lowing the trapper's trails he finally ar rived in Salt Lake Valley, enduing | hardships on the way there are incon- ceivable to those who have never cross ed the plains as they were compelled to cross them. As he looked out over the broad, beautiful valley MT. Young said:
 We have at last found our haven of rest That was on the 24th day of July,
 and ever since then that day has been observed by the Mormons as a holiday.
 The day is ovserved in social and re- lligious way and we all observe it.
 Soon after President Young and his | little party left Florence other pioneers followed them, but the main body of Mermons did not leave the winter
 quarters here till the spring of 1s4S. It was then that went to Salt Lake val ley. One of my companions on that journey was Elder Lyman. The next time that visited Florence was in 1860, when Elder Lyman and I were on our way to Europe to do missionary work
 Three years later we stopped here And that was my last vitis to the place un- | til I came here to-day.
 The first time I made the journey across the great plains I walked every foot of the way. This time I shall make it in a beautiful and luxurious Pull man sleeper. Great changes have been wrought in many thing since the Nor mons, led by Brigham Young, went from Florence to Salt Lake Valley to seek religious liberty. In nothing, per- haps, has the change beens greater than railway equipment. unless it be in the condition of the Mormons. We were then poor and struggling for our very existence. Now we are prosperous and lcomfultable and exceedingly happy. Many pleasant and many sad memories crowd upon he as look over the scene of our winter camp here. Dark clouds Ihovered over us then when we lived lhere. Rut the clouds long since broke land disappeared. and now the sunlight pours down upon us"
 President Smith is very busy man when he is at home in Salt Lake City He is president of the Mormon Church, trustee in trust of tte Church of Jesus
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TURF MATTERS.
Charter Oaks Early Closing Events
 and Other Gossip.

Charter Oaks Early Closing Events
 and Other Gossip.
 Nominations must be made to the Charter Oak s1o.OOO purse, the Capital City s2,5OO for trotters, and the Con- necticut $2.5Oo for pacers on or before April 25. The last two events will be decided by three in five heats sys- tenn. The Charter Oak is for 2:09 trot- ters and will be decided under still an improved scheme, vixz: Each heat will be a race. It will be remembered, that in 1903 no race throughout the entire circuit gave so much real racing quail fly as did the Charter Oak, and it has been talked of and patterned after since. This year every heat will be a new race, and at the close of each heat the drivers or owners will draw for po- sitions. This is not novelty racing. It is a sound business proposition that owners of horses eligible to start in the 2;09 trot for the $l0,000 must recognize. Then, too, it means racing hard and fast from the opening heat Then divi- sion of the purse is as follows: In the first heat, $2000 to the first horse, $500 to the second and $500 to the third The same division will be made in the sue ceeding two heats. excepting in the award to the third horse. In the sec- ond and third horse will be awarded $500 in each heat. There are only three actually early closing events, as the management intends to announce new classes later on.
 The track at Charter Oak is rapidly nearing good condition. Wednesday, James Brady drove a quarter at close to a 2:2O clip.
 At Mat Darcy's stable is now located the grand young stallion Ferino Wilkes 2:2S1-4 over a half mile track, trotting, by Alcantara. dam by Daniel Lambert Ferino Wilkes is as handsome as the once celebrated Black Whirlwind of the East (Thomas Jefferson). He is very fast and promises to take a record close to PIP. Over a half mile track last year he was close third in 2;19 1-4 and second in 2:2O 1-2-Hartford Times.
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to halt. He halted long enough to hear | it all out: the story of the suffering in
 the big coast cities, of schools closing.
 hospitals without fuel, of the poor shiv-
 ering in their homes. Then he set his
 face grimly and said
 Yes, I will do it. I suppose that
 ends me; but it is right, and I will do l it.
 T don't agree with labor in all it's de-
 mands," added the secretary. T think | it is unreasonable in some of them, or some of its representatives are. But in
 the main line it is eternally right, and
 it is only owing it and helping it to | it's rights that we can successfully
 choke off the exorbitant demands And in my soul said amen, and was
 glad that with such problems to solve
 the President had found such friends to help.
 Many times during the anxious days l that followed I thought with wonder of
 the purblind folk who called Roosevelt nasty. For it seemed sometimes as if | the insolence of the coal magnates were
 meant to provoke him to anger. But no word betrayed what he felt, what thou sands of his fellow-citizens felt as they
 read the reports of the conferences at
 the White House. The most eonsum-
 mate statesmanship steered us safely
 between reefs that beset the barley at
 every joint, and the country was saved from a calamity the extent and conse- quence of which it was hard to imagine.
 Judge Gray, the chairman of the com mission that settled the strike, said,
 when it was all history, that the crisis Iconfronting the President was more
 grave and threatening than any since
 the Civil War, threatening not only the comfort and health, but the safety and good order of the nation" And he gave l to the President unstinted praise for
 what he did The London Times" l speaking for all Europe in haifing the entrance of government upon new l field full of great possibilities said ed- , itorially, Tn the most quiet and unoh- trusiye manner, President Roosevelt has done a very big thing and an en- tirely new thing"
 He alone knew at what cost. Invalid, | undergoing daily agony as the doctors scraped the bone of his injured leg he
 wrote to the governor of Massachusetts who sent him .'the thanks of every man. woman and child in the country" Yes, we have put it through. But,
 heavens and earth! it has been a strug- gle"
 The story of the strike and of how it l was settle by the Presidents commits sion none of us has forgotten. That commission did not make permanent peace between capital and labor, but it took a longer stride toward making a l lasting basis for such a peace than we had taken yet; and can easily un- derstand the Presidents statement to | me that, if there were nothing else to 1 his credit, he would be content to go
 out of office upon that record alone For l 1t was truly a service to render. I Ind supposed that we all understood, until
 I ran up against capitalistic friend of the ''irreconcilable" stripe He com plained bitterly of the Presidents mix | ing in: had he kept his hands off the strike would have settled itself in a very little while; the miners would have gone back to work. l said that
 saw no sign of it.
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Frank Botsford starts the record of Seymour this season in trout fishing, He brought home A of the sDeckled beauties of the mountain brooks Thurs day. Several of them weighed over a pound apiece
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IN SMITHS OLD HOME.
MORMON PRESIDENT VISITS IT
 AT FLORENCE, NEE,

He Becomes KsmlnI.esnt-Tsns Of How They Made Florence Their First Camp After They Were Driven Away Erona Naavoo
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
MARKET
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Will be Tried for Murder.

At the spring term of the district
court last year Frank sutton was
indicted by the grand jury for the
killing of Ed Harwell. AT the time
of his arrest and on up till the day
set for his trial Sutton was appar-
emily suffering with an alteration
of the brain. The day on which be
was to have been tried for murder
he was taken before the county
judge and tried on charge of luna
cy. A jury adjudged him 30 be of
unsound mind and recommended
that he be sent TO one of the states
insane asylums. In the meantime
the case of murder was left on the
Grimm al dock ct pending bis recovery
A few days ago the asylum officials
notitied Sheriff Minnick that Sutton
had recovered and was ready 70 be
released Deputy Sheriff Sweat
was dispatched to Austin to bring
Sutton back to Waxahachie. He
arrived with him yesterday and
lodged him in the county Jail where
he will be held to await his trial for
murder. which will probably come
up at the next term of district court.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01

The many friends in Waxahaehie
and Ellis county of Mr.. II. ID. Hud-
son will learn with sincere regret of
the death of his another, whose de-
mise occurred near Brentwood Fri
day morning. Mr.. Hudson left for
Brentwood Thursday night in re-
s5onse to a message giving the in
formation of her critical condition,
but did not reach his mothers bed
side until about two hours after her
death. The funeral and interment
took place Saturday morning.
Mr.. Hudson arrived home this
morning. The Light joins his many
friends in offering words of condol-
ence in hts bereavement.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
NEWS m BRIEF.

Single statehood meetings we're held
/ in Arizona Saturday.
Bessie McMilin. four years old burn
ed To death In Woods county okla
homa.
O. c. Hicks. a wealthy citizen OF
Springfield. III. died AT Llano Tex.
of consumption.
A fire j0 she slx-story building at i2t
Mercer street. New York. did nearly
$500 600 damage.
Shreveport has been selected as per
manent meeting place Of Louisiana boil
weeviI commission.
AT Wilmer. Dallas county u. IL
Weaver. wealthy farmer was killed
An arrest was made.
Hardwick mine. where so many lives
were lost last week, is declared danger
Gus by mining inspector.
a. n. H2gberry q Worcester. Miss.
suicided at St Augustine. Fla. by
shoot ng himself in the head
Western National bank viii be es-
tablished at Fort Worth MArch / Gov
ernor Lanham viii be a stakeholder
Miss Emma Won Hadden.a recIuse for
fifteen years was found dead She III
supposed to have frozen to death
N insane man, half clad ran along
Chicagos streets loudly yelling he vas
the avenger Of Mary queen OF Scots
On preliminary examination az
Gainesville. !, NJ. Stevens, charged with
assault to murder by Mrs. A. Taylor
was discharged.
Boiler shop. brass foundry. cab shop
and three engines "a. Texas and Pacific
shops in Marshall were destroyed by
fire. Loss is over $50 o00
Coroner's jury in stratton mine ac-
cident near Victor. Colo. by which the
fan of cage caused fifteen deaths.
says the owners are to blame
Miss Nancy Bryan died at Lincoln.
Neb-. Saturday afternoon. Colonel w.
j. Bryan. her brother, failed to arrive
before her death. train being delayed.
Jack Gallagher. a prominent drug
gist of Durant. l. r, was found in a
dying condition and expired before
medical aid could reach him.
Miles Marlborough OF Paris. Tex.
while visiting his daughter at New Boz
ton. died suddenly while seated. He
was a prominent member OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic.
National house of representatives
struck out second mileage section OF
appropriation bill ny 1877 TO 0. The
measure carried $50 O0o. Urgency de-
bin then passed.
When Mrs. Matilda GarFity OF CtneIn-
natl was told her baby was dying. sns
eaptiea n can OF coal oil on her cloth
ing and set II on FIRE. She and the baby
eaFned t0 death-
As the ontaEae es discussion be-
tween James conroy and John Free
land At ParkeEsbarg ". Va. as To
merits Of two Negro preachers the
former was shot i've times fatally.
Bail Of kalgene Faulkner and John
chapman ~ Dallas. charged with the
death of Fate Bane.. was placed nv
Judge Smith Of Fort wa-ta - $40 600
lsane was burned 10 death In a Dallas
'alaon. Il heirs alleged his clothing was
saturated with coal OH and hs set On
are II happened tive a. three years
1go
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
Nearly Forfeits His Lille.

A runaway almost ending fatally
started q horrible ulcer on the leg Of
J. b. Orner, Franklin Grove, Ill.
For four years 1t defied all doctors
and all remedies. But Rucklen's
Arnica Saive had no trouble To cure
him. Equally good for burns, skin
eruptions, bruises and piles. 25c at
Thomas & Moore's drug store,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
Lyceum Attraction.

The next number on the Lyceum
course at Trinity University chapel
will be given Wednesday night, Feb
ruary ;. The attraction will I've the
Metropolitan Grand Concert Com
pany. Single admission 30 cents.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01

Virginia Lady ard caughtsr Terribly
Treated By Unknown Negro.

Roanoke. Va. Feb Il. Mrs. George A.
Shields was criminally assaulted by an
unknown negro. who attacked her with
an axe and razor. fractuFing her skull
ard gashing her throat Her daughter
was also badly Injured by a blow on
home he found his wife and daughter
unconscious. The injureB lady managed
to gasp ~ large black negro man
came through the kitchen and attacked
me in the dining room.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
AGENT SHOT.
Safe Was Robbed and He exchanged
Shots With sardits.

Joplin Mo. Feb. lin an exchange
of shots with two mask ed men who bad
rified the depot safe william II. Broad
street station agent on the Frisco sys-
wounded. One of them covered Broad =
street while the other secured $1,000
As they were leaving the agent ex-
cha nged shots with them. One bullet
hit him in the face.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
FLYER OERAILED.

Ono Person Was Killed and Thirteen
Others Injured.
Kansas City. Feb. 1.-The Colorado
flyer on the Missouri Pacific. which left
Denver Saturday afternoon for Kansas
City, was derailed at Miller. Kan, Sun
day while running at the rate of forty
miles an hoIr. The engine and rear
car, Pullman, alone remained Upright
on the track. One person was killed
and thirteen injured, one seriously. The
dead William. Brown. Ransom. Kan
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
FATAL TO FIVE.

That Number Of Rocknren Lose Tseir
Lives by an Explosion.
we're instantly killed IN the TIansIe Hill
colliery of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal and Iron company The VIC
TINS. who We're rock men, are Morgan
Jones, John Mackey. Joseph Junius.
Adam Savage. John Hederick.
The men were Killed by an explosion
of powder in a steel cage in which
they were being hoisted. The explo
sion ripped the cage apart and the
mansled forms of .he men fell 300 feet
to the bottom Of the shaft. The head
of one of the men was blown off.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01

Foley's Honey and Tar Is best for
Group and whooping cough, contains
no opiates, and cures quickly, Care
full mothers keep it in the house.
Sold by Il. w. Fearis
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
A. T. and A. NJ.

Waxahachie Lodge No. 80, will
meet Tuesday evening, February
2nd, 1904. at Z O'Clock Work in f.
&. and Masters degrees.
J Lea Cannon, W. NJ.
Il W. l.. 7, Leigh, Sec.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
COUNTY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

For County Treasurer
A. b. mcknight.
For Tax Collector
GEORGE SWEAT.
T. ]. TINGLE.
SIMP SPENCER.
For Sheriff
JOE p. MINNICK.
For Supt. Public instruction
J. ID. COGHLAN.
For Constable Precinct No. l.
BEN F. ABBOTT.
The cash must accompany each
announcement. This rule will not
be deviated from.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01

Winter coughs are apt Ia result in
consumption ii neglected. They can
be soon broken up by using Foley =
Honey and Tar. Sold by Il W.
Fearis
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01

FtN%~ -
wilson. MANAGE
TIPS FROM yFE Wire.
Liverpool opened 20 points up this
morning.
July opened at 1851 in New Or
leans this morning.
If cotton advances this week like
1t did last week then 20-cent cotton
will be a reality.
II want to buy some futures"
The ancient maiden whee2ed;
81 want to be a cotton bear
! hear they're getting squeezed"
Even May is no longer sweet six
teen; she is II today.
The bulls continue to have things
their way.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
CARTRIDGE Exploded.

Bloomington, Ill. Feb. IA dyna-
mite cartridge exploded under street
car. Miss Beunadiue Ives was badly
hurt.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
r. K TIME TABLE
Il L Il. c.. West Bound.

Il i Il. c.. West Bound.
No, IS leaves 80 am
No. - leaves z IA pm
no. n arrives .55 pm--Does not run west Waxa.
80. IS {m;Eedb leaves As am-Daily except sun.
East Bound
SO 4 leaves 94s an Connects at Garrett=for
Dallas aud at Ennis for Houston.
No. r. leaves $3.50 pm-otarts from Waxahachie
No, So leaves 70 on
Nc. 81 leaves 4 ~ pm-Dsiy except sunday
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-01
For Sale. Rent or Trade.

Go to see him or phone him. Who2
j A Synco. What for? For Wood
for Charcoal, or If you want to rent
niue-Toom boarding house, or If
you want to buy mules, horses or
mares, or If YOU have COW To breed
He has two fine Jersey bulls; or If
You want 10 bay house and lot. he
has ali of tbs above for sale. trade
or rent. See him. He will treat
you right. Thanks to the general
public fer their ( ast patronage aud
favors. With best wishes .for "A
prosperous New Year,
/ am yours,
j. A. SYNCO
Old Phone 90 New Phone ia
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Pittsburg. Feb. Up 10 Sunday
night 1862 bodies had been recovered
from the Hardwick mine.
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The Daily Markets Z
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FROM yFE WIRE.

b. private wire tor. d. MePsak i Co.. Pr
wilson. mAnaasT.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-04-13

were separated. But there was no
such thing as keeping them apart. The
baby rubbed the skin off its forehead
and trunk trying to get through tho
bars. and both walled so long and
piteously that the keeper was obliged
to put them together again. AH
A shy baby camel that passed
through the hands Of this same trainer
refused to look upon the world ex.
cspt from it's favorite station, between
its mothers legs. The mother, too,
would show her displeasure at any
effort toward intimacy by splitting VIC.
lently at every one in sight.
The kangaroo also is very fond of
her offspring. and will patiently carry
1t about long after 1t is ready to hop
On its own account.
But for display Of pure affection
the mother monkey beats any other
animal, and when there is an addition
to the family circle there is general
rejoicing. A baby monkey sticks fast
by its mother, and asleep or awake
1t seems always in her thoughts.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-04-13
What Snakes Like to Eat.

A menagerie menu is really much
more complicated affair than it may
seem to the outsider. II is not just
matter of so many pounds Of meat. so
many loavos of bread, so many bales
Of hay. Snakes for instance. are very
fastidious eaters. Rats, mice, birds,
guinea pigs, toads, frogs, fish and
worms have to be provided for the
various reptiles. None OF these can
be kept In quantities ready for use,
but must be fed to the crawling, wig
Cling epicures either alive or still
warm. Many snakes will starve them
selves rather than touch food that has
been dead any length OF time.
Bears need a good deal Of dieting
and especially in the matter of meat.
They are also fond OF eating between
meals" and thrive best when supplies
of bread and vegetables are strewn
around their dens so that they may
eat when the fancy seizes them.
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A Horse Which Thought.

Instances Of great intelligence IN
horses are almost as numerous ~
the horses themselves, but there are
few which make prettier stories than
this, related In La Nature by Par
isian.
At Vincennes, in my childhood. he
writes, my father had two spirited
horses of fine blood. One day while
one OF them, Prunelle, was passing
between two walls with my little sis
ter on her back, the child slipped and
rolled between the horses feet.
Prunelle stopped instantly and held
one hind foot In air. She seemed to
fear to lower that foot lest she should
step on the child. There was no room
for the horse to turn nor for q man
to pass In.
In that uncomfortable position. with
lifted foot, however, the horse stood
patiently while an attendant crawled
between her forefeet and rescued the
child.-Montreal Herald.
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Game Of "Hands."

Long time ago, when we we're all
very little. most of us found it great
fun to play the game CT hands" We
piled our hands up, you remember. one
above another, until the heap was as
tall as we could make it. Then. sud
denly, some one cried, Ready! Now!"
and we all drew our hands out as fast
As we could.
Here Is new way to play hands
a way that seems all right for us big
ger children. And sometimes it may
serve to amuse the very little ones.
too.
You name all the hands. In this new
way of playing. The girls hands have
boys names. John. Henry and so on;
the boys take Helen and Sarah and
other girls names for theirs. Then.
when all the players are quite sure
OF remembering each the two names
belonging to him or her some one
calls out the names. one after another
and the hands must come out. II any
one fOrgets the namo of his or her
hands and fails to withdraw them,
that boy or girl must pay forfeit.
And II the boy or girl calling forgets
the names--a list may be made. IL
liked, to help out with this part Of the
fun-he or she must pay forfeit, too.
The players may call out the names
in turn IL this way is liked better, or
each player may have certain names
to call out In the order fancied. But
the game must always be played
quickly. and no player may call out
his or her own name.
Sometimes the hands are named
after the days of the week. the months
Of the year, or in such manner; some.
times they are given the names OF
the children playing-only no player
must use the name that really belongs
TO him or her.
Try this new-old game some time
when you want quiet yet merry
amusement, and you're pretty sure to
be glad you did.