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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-11-26

Francois Barbasse left his house
one morning in the frame of mind -
a man who has decided to jump off
the Eiffel tower.
Evidently there was no luck in life
for him. For the tenth time in less
than year he had that morning re-
ceived a letter in his mail that dealt
a death blow to his hopes. A lettcr
that contained Il polite refusal 20 MS
offer Of marriage made the week be
fore.
You must not think that this Letter
came for the tenth time from the
same hard-hearted beauty. No. in
deed! Francois Barbasse was not
capable of such opportunities. Be
sides. the real truth of the matter
was that it was not a woman he so
ardently sighed for, it was nome
and cOnjugal happiness. He dreamed
Of sitting at the head Of his own table.
when nothing would ever be served
that could possibly suggest the menu
Of a boarding house. And he longe3
for coy fire where he might smoke
his pipe in peace and listen to the
Idle chatter of a pretty wife.
For Francois Barbasse was by no
means insensibIe to feminine charms
He had fallen desperately in love with
Mile. x. whose beauty had for
long seemed to him he perfection OF
earthly grace
For a long time he suffered in sill
ence. Then at last he yentured to
propose.
Poor Francois. His request was net
with q clear and firm refusal, a no
wreathed in polite excuses, but new
ertheless a no.
Then for six months he was miser.
able indeed At the end of that time
he tried again.
But Mile C. was no kinder than
Mile K had been.
Fresh disappointment alas, Tor
Francois Barbasse
A month later. with a third young
lady. he made a third propCsaI. The
result was stiu the same.
And thus it went From one no
TO the next he descended the sIken
ladder of grace and beauty chat l-a
to marriage.
Consequently. the letter be had re-
ceiyed that morning wounded only his
pride His heart was not affected
But why. DO hear you ask. did poor
Bar>asse get So regularly and sadly
thrown down ON his proposals.
Why This is tre8dug on delicate
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-11-26
Burrah s4as ola Sacred Tree.

that has amy aufheste history is f.
puted ta bs tAa great Hhan 're- lr
Burmab % has FOR the Hast uaea'F
centuries been sacred t1 Bajata .-s
image hat nearly a'i ths HUrusse
Worship and $50 pr. De- ailu-sa IH
touch fhe trlrk nf fEs sacred 'rae
In tbc Mt hcn the IeaTe ues.r
falilns pilgrim aud guri7 sun'er
gather and carrf awhE the a-Ft .s
relics
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-11-26

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ramHa is caNat $500 several f
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IN @lih q fu'. bafrsi fFae his tae
SEARCH faltat tp uFHai fte EHntef
ana fhe vea8sr irHte sem8 haste
fn nF8sf ~ ssKa thn fwHalaaHf III MIS-
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-11-26
HORSE RODE TO FUNERAL.
Ironlc End to Career Of Hard-Worked
London Animal.

London Animal.
Here is true and pathetic story
of bus horse. 1t was told TO me a
day or two ago by medical friend of
mine who has an extensive and Pc
culia- practice in the south of London.
One Sunday morning, during the hot
test days, he was asked to come round
TO an omnibus yard as quickly as pos
sible. 1t seemed that one of the
horses, driven TO desperation by the
heat, had insisted on climbing into the
bus, instead of taking its proper po-
sition alongside the pole. The stable
men had endeavored to get the animal
out of the bus, but the poor horse,
during The course OF the struggle, had
plunged its head through one of the
windows and cut its neck The doc
tor, unfortunately. arrived TOO late to
be Of service. with the consequence
that the horse bled TO death And
here comes the ironic sequel OF the
grim little tragedy Even when the
horse was dead the men were unable
10 remove the body from the inside
OF the omnibus and thus it happened
that they were compelled To harness
two other horses To the vehicle and
drag the corpse to the nearest car
penter show, in order that the bus
n light be taken 10 pieces, Truly, it is
better to die rloriousiy that TO live
out life Of hateful and igno5le bond
age. 1t would be interesting to know
the thoughts of the other bus horses
on seeing their former comrade riding,
Ike any gentleman, through the
streets OF LondoH-Ihe Sketch
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Ill ODD
CNDHgTf.Ig
@90OGOO G0O0O -
The Little Waves OF ereftny.

The grand road from the mountain goes
shining to the sea.
And there is traffic In Ii and many a
horse and cart
But the little roads Of Cloonagh are dear
or far To me,
And the little roads of Cfoonagh 60
rambling through my heart
great storm from the ocean goes
shouting Ger the hill.
And there IS glory IN Il and terror On
the wind
But the little roads Of Cloonagh are
dearer far and still
And the little winds Of twilight are
dearer 10 my mind
The great waves OF the Atlantic sweep
storminE on their way
Shining green and silver with the aid
den herring snoal
But the Little Waves Of Brenny have
dTenched my heart in spray.
And the Little Waves Of Breuny 60
stumbling through my soul
Eva Gore Booth
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ciaEped her In his arms And ia spite
OF the JOY OF his emotion. both eyes
were steady and well behaved. Hts
left eye, once so impish and so dam.
aging, beamed with perpetual smile
II was made Of Boston Herald
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-11-26

The letting OF an acre Of land has
Just been sold neav Bridg water (Eng)
by the burning Of half al inca OF can
die. the last biGdcr bef0-a the fame
died out being the purchaser. The
land was left foqr centuries ago for
church purposes. the testator direct
ing that the leNIns should be sold
every twenty one Nars by the burn
ing Of the candle. =" and the quaint
process has been observed periodically
eser since.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-11-26
"WHACkS"
And What They Mean.


a "whacN remember there's q rea-
son" so try and say thank you
then set about finding what you have
done to demand the rebuke, and try
and get back into line. for that's The
happy pace after all.
Curious bow many highly organized
people fail 70 appreciate and heed the
first little, gentle "whacks" of the
good old Dame. bnt go right along
with the habit whatever it may be
that causes her disapps0ral WhisEey.
Tobacco, Coffee Tea OF other unuat-
ural treatment Of the body. until sarl-
Gus Illness sets in or some chronic
disease.
Some people seem TO get on very
well with those things for wills,
and Mother Nature apparently cares
but little what they do
Perhaps She has no particular plans
for them and thinks il little use to
waste time in their training.
There are people. however, Who
seem 10 be selected by Nature to do
things. The old Mother expects them
To carry out some department of her
great work A portion Of these select
ed ones oft and again seek to stimu.
late and then deaden the tool 1.-THE
body by some one or more of The
drugs-WhisEcy. Tobacco. Coffee
Tea Morphine. etc.
You know all Of these throw down
the same class of alkalojds in Choml-
cal analysis. They stimulate and then
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21
THE SHELTER BELT.

We always pity that dweller on the
prairie farm who either does not know
enough or is too Indifferent and I'M
progressive to put substantial shelter
belt around his farm homestead. 1t is
SO easily obtained and cared for, is
such blessing and comfort both win
ter and summer, that there is no sort
of valid excuse for making and main
tanning a home on bleak, cherries
and unprotected prairie farm. Such a
grove has many uses. 1t will break the
force of both summer and winter
winds, it will save fuel both in the
house and barn. it will invite the birds
to make their home with you, In ten
years it will furnish a supply Of fuel
for the kitchen stove, it may possibly
charitably hide from the traveller a
rough and tumble farm homestead.
There is everything to be said in favor
of such a shelter belt and absolutely
nothing to be said against it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21
LIFE Is STRIFE.

The normal condition Of the ocean is
that of absolute calm. 1t Is the same
of the atmosphere. In the depths of
the ocean and in the far reaches Of
space above realm of cloud and storm
perpetual calm prevails. The earth's
surface touched by the heat Of the
sun becomes the great battle-ground
of the elements. The contending rush
Of hot and cold air currents, of mega
tive and positive electricity. each bent
on regaining an equilibrium, fret the
gray seas into foam and beget tornado,
lightning stroke, hail and rainfall. In
nature life depends upon the disturb
ance Of normal conditions, and, curl
ously enough, the development of man
does too. Calmness means death.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21
PROFITS OF Truck FARMING,

An Ohio reader wishes to know If he
can safely assume a debt to the
amount Of $500 for the purchase Of
a sixteen acre tract of land Of fairly
good quality, situated close to large
city, the land to be devoted to market
gardening and poultry. This is one OF
those questions which are more cas-
lily asked than answered, for it all de-
ponds upon the man. Some men may
incur debt of this size with i'm
punity, while others should make it
a point never to owe any man dol
lar Where a good market is handy
and the growing Of vegetables and
small fruits is intelligently carried on,
as much income may be derived as
from a good sized farm. We recent
ly asked a market gardener, Swede,
who of course was industrious and
saving, how much gross revenue he
could get from his ten acre patch in
the course Of the year. He said that
take one year with another be man.
aged to make the land average about
1925 per acre, and that his best profits
came from his greenhouse and hot
beds. This income would hardly
justify such load of debt unless a
man could, with his family, do most
of the work himself. There is always
very sharp competition in this line
in all our cities, and stuff is often sold
very cheap to the retail trade. For in
stance, as we were talking with him
his man sold ten baskets Of as fine
tomatoes as we ever saw for 10 cents
a basket, and the baskets held a peck
each. OF course good part of this
mans living was obtained from his
garden and was not included in his
estimate of returns given us.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21
Notice of Final Settlement.
In Districe Court.
STATE OF IOWA,
Winnesheik Comfy. o.

To the unknown heirs of Joseph Heatherton
deceased; and the unknown heirs of his de-
ceased wife Mrs Joseph Heatherton:
You and each OF you are hereby notified
that there is now on file in the Office of the
clerk of the district court in and for said
county of Winnesheik, state OF Iowa, the fin
al report and petition for discharge of Ann
Heatherton, Administrators OF the estate Of
William Heatherton, deceased. late of said
county OF Winnesheik, that said report con-
tains full and true account of the monies
and other personal property received by said
Administrators together with the disburs-
ments made by her as such administrators,
and the said report will be brought on for
hearing and approval before said court at
DEBORAH, in said county of Winnesheik at 1880
O'Clock Il. NJ. of Monday the 2sth day of
November 1904, that being the LIST day OF
the regular November term of said court, and
you are hereby required to appear and show
cause II any you have why said report should
not be approved and the administrative dis
charged. DAN SHEA.
1876 Atty for Administrators,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

Good sense has returned to the
grain growers this year, and more of
them have put their grain into the
stack than for many years. The grain
was thus safely secured, the plows
were started on the stubble in August,
the straw will be worth twice as much
when thrashed late in the fall, and the
grain will be brighter in color and bet
ter in quality.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

A dairyman friend has tried this plan
with his cows during the dry and heat
ed term of August and early Septem-
Der: He brings his cows in from the
pasture at 10 O'Clock, puts them in the
basement barn and darkens it and then
gives them what silage they will eat,
varying this with feed of sweet corn.
The cows are turned out again toward
evening. His milk check keeps a June
pace.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

1t is pitiful to read of the injury sus-
tanned by the great wheat crop of the
northwest section this year, magnifi-
cent oceans Of wheat promising twen-
ty-five bushels an acre, in three days
smitten with a rust which silently fell
on them as did the plaques in the
time Of Pharaoh, and the life taken
out of the splendid crop. 1t is not
alone the unfortunate wheat grower
who suffers, but every man who eats
bread.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

1t seems likely that the Panama ca
nal will be dug by the colored men Of
the south. While there seems to be
no large surplus of labor of this class
to spare in the south, the black man
will make the best laborer to be OBJ
tanned, and the political and economic
difficulties connected with the impor-
tation df Chinese or japanese to do
The work kill be removed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

The Elberta peach made great rec
ord in the west this year. Beginning
down in Texas in June, it kept making
its way north through Arkansas and
then Missouri, winding up with splen-
did fruit from the latter state up
to September. This peach will have to
be classed hereafter as standard
southern product, as much SO as cot
ton
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

The automobile fellows are very anx-
ious that the farmers should improve
the roads and make nice smooth tracks
for the devil machines. The farmer
thinks, and not without reason, that
when he has made this sort of roads
there will be no safety either for him
or his stock with the crazy chauffeurs
making thirty miles an hour over them.
The farmer will never take kindly to
the automobiles until their owners
have more regard for the lives and the
rights Of other people.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21
"THE EARTH AND THE FULLNESs
THEREOF

This Biblical text has a peculiar and
forceful significance these glorious har-
vest days, when field, garden and or
chard vie with each other in rewarding
honest toll. Just as man in his intel
ligence, or too often his ignorance,
shall have treated the earth is he now
being rewarded; for his generous work
a hundredfold, and even thirty and
fifty fold where his mistakes and blum
ders have been cOndoned and in a
measure rectified. No employer Of
man so fair and just, none so generous
and responsive, as the earth. The cat
tie on the hills, the dairy herds by the
river bank, the cackle and gable of the
poultry yard, the bursting barns and
fields of tasseled, well cared corn, the
bending boughs of the orchard, the
white fiecked cotton fields, are the be-
ginnings Of national wealth. Because
of these, steamship and freight train
move ceaselessly, men wrangle in the
grain pits Of the market places, gold in
a continuous yellow stream flows into
banks, the factory spindles hum and
all humanity is busy as ants or bees,
and all because the crops are good and
the earth has yielded of her fullness.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

A Wisconsin nabob sought to mo-
nopolize a trout stream which passed
through his estate. Fishing was fine,
trout gamy and large. A row fol-
lowed when he pulled some poachers,
and at the end the supreme court held
that be could not deprive the public Of
fishing rights along the stream which
passed through his land. Some Of
these fellows would shut us off from
air and sunshine if they could. An
cient baronial rights were knocked in
the head in this country hundred
years ago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

We met fruit man recently who
lives in southeastern Nebraska. He
was engaged in harvesting the fruit
from 100 acres of peaches, from which
orchard he had sold 10000 bushels at
net profit to him of $4,000. This
beats corn, hogs and alfalfa. He is To-
Gated forty miles west of Omaha and
has raised peaches successfully for
seventeen years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

1t was very pretty sight and a
very unusual one-a large field Of
grain recently cut and the shocks set
with mathematical accuracy both
ways in straight lines. This field was
a fit subject for a camera. This in
Nebraska.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

A tramp was recently killed while
riding the blind baggage, and when
the coroner sat on him it was found
that he had $3.50 sewed in the lining
of his old coat. He was, in spite of
this. beating his way from Texas to
North Dakota. Queer types are these
hoboes
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

A scientific friend of ours claims that
grain fields-wheat and oats-are less
liable to be smitten with rust where
the prairie winds have a free sweep
over them than they are where pro-
tected from the winds by belts of tim
Der. The rust, which has almost ruin
ed the wheat crop of the Dakotas this
year, would seem to have done its work
in spite Of the winds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

A matter of So month in wages
is very small thing in the pay of the
hired man on the farm If he is the
right sort of a hand. The careful,
thoughtful hand may easily save his
employer ten times this amount in the
care of machinery and stock. There
is not enough difference made in the
wages of farm hands-the scads, the
lazy, the shiftless, the careless, getting
always too much and the best men not
enough.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

Hereditary instinct is nowhere more
noticeable than with dogs. While hav-
ing common origin, training and en-
vironment have developed the hound
with the keen scent, the pointer and
setter which point their game, the
collie which iDstinctively takes to the
herding and care of stock, the retriev-
er, the greyhound, the spaniel, the
huskie of the arctics and score Ct
other types, the puppies of each breed
naturally taking to the special work
and service for which their ancestors
had been trained.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

Law is queer thing. 1t is said that
Egyptian mummies of the time of the
pharaohs, imported into England as
specimens of a sepulture and civiliza-
ton 5000 years old, have to have an
inquest held over them before they are
allowed to be turned over to the col
leges and museums which import them.
We do not vouch for the absolute truth
of this story
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

The wooden sidewalk in our towns
and cities will soon be as much of a
rarity as is the old stake and rider
rail fence on our farms. The cement
sidewalk is here to stay.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

1t is a never ceasing wonder and
marvel how nature will take the rain
fall, the sunshine, the heat and out
of the same sort of plant food make a
thistle, rose, a skunk cabbage or a
Deach
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

A late government bulletin on for
estry in the Hawaiian Islands refers
to a native tree the foliage of which
condenses moisture 80 rapidly that,
falling like rain, the water keeps the
ground beneath muddy at all times.
In some cases this water is collected
by placing a metal tray under the tree,
and the water is thus saved and used
for watering the stock.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

Either the humming bird is short on
bird sense or else the fowers-cannas,
salvias, asters and the like-furnish a
continuous supply of nectar, for we
watched one of these little fellows Wis.,
it the same Gamma blossom twenty
times within the short space of fifteen
minutes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

A leading stock paper recently pub
lished diatribe against the mule and
referred to our old friend in most con-
temptuous and uncomplimentary terms.
While by no means perfect, the mule
still remains the one sole instance
where man improved upon the work Of
the Creator. ,.,s';. -. IL
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

A bullfghter in Spain has just re-
tired with a fortune of $1,000,O00 earn
ed in the arena. In this country it is
easy to find plenty of men who have
made more than this by just watering
the stock
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

1t appears that Uncle Sam, uninten-
tionally, of course, worked regular
shell game on about 125,O0O people in
connection with his Rosebud lottery
land scheme But little of the tract is
worth over 81 an acre and has no fu-
ture save as a range pasture, and men
tumbled over each other to get quar-
ter at "a an acre after living on it
fourteen months.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

The present war in the east is Great
ing a market for American -four, the
Japs having discovered that, prepared
in the shape Of hard tack such as the
American soldier is furnished, it is
cheaper than rice, the standard Japa-
neSe ration
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

Two things mark the first steps in
agricultural progress in new country,
when the farmers begin to sow clover
and when they quit burning their
straw piles.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

A common idea prevails that light
frost which will pinch the leaves OF
the corn is a good thing for it in has.
tening its maturity. We think this is
all wrong and that the ear is never sc
well developed as when it ripens I'm.
touched by frost
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

What is a correct stand of corn de-
ponds somewhat upon the available
plant food I'm the soil and the amount
of moisture the plant may command
during the growing season. If the soil
be thin and poor two stalks in hill
will be better stand than three, and
if the rainfall be shy one stalk will be
better than two. Three and four stalks
in hill may do where the soil is rich
and moisture unfailing, but mean only
fodder under the first named condi-
lions.