The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-03-08


cause he tells us of our spiritual
failings and we should consider 1t
our duty to pay the man who deals
US our mental food. We should take
Tie paper because of it's Influence on
our neighbors. Tho we never open
| the paper ourselves, yet the very
idea that We take a daily will raise
us just that much in the estimation
of our friends. They may be induced
TO subscribe. We should take the
Light because it comes to us each
day bristling with news while it is
fresh. The man who takes the week
ly is week behind the times The
weekly is all right when one can do
no better, but with our rural delivery
system, even the farmer can have his
daily. Times are too rapid now and
news grows stale too fast for one to
be satisfied with any thing less than
daily. The Daily Light is really
the towns paper. 1t is the connect
ing link between the buyer and the
seller. 1t tells where to buy ice and
fans in the summer, and coal and
blankets in the winter. 1t tells about
the churches, the trains the theaters.
who is married, born and dead 1t
tells where to have your tooth pulled
and your laundrying done. 1t tells
about bargains and millinery open
| lngs. You find out where to buy
everything from a SIS range to a
. cent file, from a barrel of flour
i to nickelS worth of crackers.
The little paper does itself an in
| justice when it says it covers the
field of Waxahachie. 1t doesn't pull
the bushel measure of narrowminded-
ness over its light and say: This far
will | shine and no further" In fact
its rustler, and ambitious True
| to the lair of light, its rays shine
| in straight lines in every direction
and no mind can compass the out
posts of its purifying influence
Through the agency of Mr.. Joe West
and Mr.. Lamb and others of Uncle
sam servltors it is penetrating out
into the highways and hedges. 1t
| lnvades the farmers premises, ii be-
seiges him on his threshold In fact
| 1t likes the farmer and wants TO get
| acquainted with him 1t tells his
wife and children when they go to
! town hot, Hurried and tired 10 go to
| the Rest Cottage, where they can
| find rest, comfort and hospitality
and a fresh drink. It's also the con-
meeting link between the farmer and
merchant. The Light tells the farm
| ers to come right on to town and at
tend the poultry shows, and the
swine breeders meeting. 1t not only
lights the farmers way TO these
meetings, but tries to fire him with
enthusiasm and load him with am
billions TO own some like EN-" The
Light throws out its headlight. IL
Illuminating the way over the bad
roads, and at the same time trying
to get people to see the error of bad
roads and the value of good high |
ways. The little paper is constant |
II Monday paper is put on the shelf, |
or the baby makes paper dolls out |
OF II, it is hardly missed, before !
tuesday S is on hand,-and Wednes- |
day S. The Light is condensed-fts |
very brevity is one of its strong fea-
lures. 1t doesn't boast of thirty or /
forty pages. No reflection is cast on |
the big dailies. They have no great
er admirer than the writer, and the
American Press could not get along
without them. but the very bigness
OF these papers over shadows little
inches and corners of home life that
only the little country daily can
make bright. The briefness and con
ciseness OF the home paper enables
the farmer 10 read ii through while
his wife rs getting dinner on the
table. She can read IL while she
churns or rocks the baby TO sleep |
or course the parusal of the
paper, or dozen. or a dozen dozen.
Is not expected TO make encycloped-
ians of its readers The Light strives
after no such ambitious heights. But
IN venture the farmer who takes
he little paper and makes habit
Of reading 10 through every dav I,
honestly and thoroughly, will al the ,
end OF the year have fund Of use
ful knowledge that he hardly knows
how or where he acquired.
The Light rs the friend OF edu-
cation. Already the paper is send
.ng lbs flashlights To to the future. 4,
Already great skyrockets are firing .
into The air aud bursting into a
thousand sparks nf Information. her
aiding the coming OF the summer I
normal
The banner of the Chautauaua il
being uHturled aud illuminated that I
be peaplv may see. read and an.
.irfstaud What the Chautautms Is
s hen it sill meet aud where
The beacon light ~ the sims Ia. .
hFary ls elimm~riuK ia the distance.
The Daily LAEht points 10 IL with
pride Already Is tells as the leaders
are fienfallvely filling lamps. trim
NinE wicks polishing shades. stretch
'HF sire aud generating electricity
hsi on the ssth # April everything
All hs in hia4s ~ Kiorg ON
hef dAY re Sims Library. that mobile
monument ~ education and progress
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AeiFs masf beautiful and cultured
s01u~m all vie wtth each other in ,
toaug humAaw 80 be oceasgan Men
y tnituenee aud talent will SAY Ana
"a thinEs that wlll rebound go ths I
haaoF and Kiury az WMxahArhte in
sas and 1895
On ths same dag the great ~nlar |
eeusaf0r - Trfnlty University wfll
Be aanehed INTO ais final orbit that
be may he more furrihly. vigorously
and sMtlifnliY aA anAs these infracmfe.