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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19

In reporting the proceedings OF the
meeting of the Waxahachie Poultry
and Pet Stock Association Of March
) no mention was made Of the com
mittees on the Pigeon and Dog de-
partmepts. The pigeon interest viii
be handled by II. w Parks. chair
man w 0 Beatty, J. w. Ferris and
Sam Nycum
Dog department By W O. Beatty,
chairman r D. McCombs and J. w
Ferris.
1t was the sense of the Association
to have the above named committees
submit to the association at the next
meeting plans for the upbuilding of
these Two features. There will doubt
less be some nice premiums offered
as these features are deemed quite
an important part of the show
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19

About the newest contract between
modiste and madam is one by which
the former undertakes 10 clothe the
latter for a year for a fixed sum,
payable quarterly The customer
binds herself to buy everything from
The modesto, who, on her part, is
bound to supply whatever is reqHir-
ed for each change OF season. In
how much she spends on clothes, and
shopping Is immensely simplified,
while the dressmaker keeps her Gus
toner and makes something ont OF
her
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19
LOCkyaW CAUSES DEATH.
BOY Seized with Commissions HcsteP-
day and Died this Norni,'g

Lockjaw resulted in the death OF
.he 12-year-old son OF W e. Drake
al Maypearl this morning al O'Clock
The boy was seized with conyulsions
yesterday morning and suffered ter
rible agony until relieved by death
About ten days ago the boy stuck
a splinter in his foot, which broke
off in the flesh. A few days ago the
place began swelling and remedies
We're applied which caused the ejec-
ton of the splinter. Saturday the
boy took lockiaw which resulted in
his death this morning
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19
WRIT REFU SED.
Decision of Judge Brooks Is Adverse
to Express Companies.

Anstin, Tex. :. March l9.-JudGe Y.
h. Brooks of the Twenty-sixth district
court Saturday handed down his de-
cision in the express Injunction cases
in which Ahe express companies
sought to obtain writ of injunction
to restrain the state from collecting
the taxes under the Kennedy tax
law. The suit was also to determine
the amount OF taxes due by express
companies under this act. The court
refused the writ of injunction, there
by deciding in favor of the state,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19

The man who handles the local de-
partment of newspapers learns after
due experience not to expect very
many pleasant things, but he knows
as surely as comes the seasons that
single line in which there is an
unintentional mistake Will cause
some one TO he heard Also that when
he made pleasant mention 999 times
of some person, place or thing but
on 1hs thousandtA time fails to do
SO, he must not expect TO be forgiven.
Found Unbranded
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19
ENNIS STORE BURNED,
stock of Groceries and Feed Almost
Totally DESTROYED.

The stock of groceries and feed be
longing 10 the Caldwell Grocery
company al Ennis was almost total
~ destroyed by fire Saturday night
at 9 O'Clock The loss is estimated
at about So, 800, and it is understood
that it was about covered with in
surance The fire department kept
the fire from getting out OF the
building. The building, also the
property of the firm was not materi-
ally damaged
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19

TO the People Of Waxahachie and
Vicinity.
I wish to call your attention to the
fact that I have opened new bakery
on the corner Of North Rogers and
Water streets Everything brand
new Bread delivered to any part
of the city on regular routes
If W. C. HOOPER
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19

The district court resumed work
this morning after e short recess
which began Friday afternoon. me
case OF L. Grych against the houston
aud Texas Central and Texas Midland
railroads is still engaging the courts
attention
The jury -ciyil docket was taken
np in the county court this morning
The ease OF the Ellis County HSrd-
ware Company against e n lnErnm
la on trial
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19
JOHANN MOST DEAD.
Noted Character PASSES Away az t1n-
cinnati From ErysipeiaS.

Cincinnati, March l9.-Herr Jo-
hann Most, the anarchist, died IN
this city Saturday at / , O'Clock. The
cause of his demise was erysipelas.
Herr Most for several years has
been conspicuous figure IN thls
country on account OF his constant
espousal OF the teachings of anareh-
lists
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19
FRE.It,HTS COLLIDE.
Fireman Giles Killed and Fireman
Winchester Loses Arm.

Shreveport, March 10 At Lone
Springs early Saturday morning two
freight trains came together head-on
Fireman Giles was killed and Fire
man Winchester had an arm mashed
off The accident is alleged to have
been due to a misunderstanding OF
orders Lone Springs is east of his
city on the Louisiana and Arkansas
railway
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19
WILL HOLD CONFERENCE.
Great Trade Propaganda Among tn
Latin Countries to he Started

New Orleans, March 19.-GoFern-
ors of 27 different states, mayors and
boards of trade of 1000 different
towns and cities and editors of 5000
different newspapers in the wide ter
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19

Acme Ice Cream Is dispensed at
all the soda fountains in the city and
delivered on short order TO private
residences, boarding houses and ho-
tells Phone ID e. Kendall at Mod
ern Milling and Manufacturing Com
pany II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19
Danger of Pneumonia.

A cold at this time If neglected is
liable to cause pneumonia which is
so often fatal and even when the
patient has recovered the lungs are
weakened, making them particularly
susceptible to the development of
consumption. Foley's Honey and Tar
will stop the cough, heal and
strengthen the lungs and prevent
pneumonia La Grippe coughs yield
quickly TO the wonderful curative
qualities of Foleys Honey and Tar.
There is nothing else "just as good. T"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19

AeaF carriage uaa bass Hi affr
wtI receive egou4ps attention Fhnme
ss Faftcm Nsnn@S5v COMPANY
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19

Have your Roller Skates repaired
at T. S Cronk Co.'S. II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19

See Il. d. McCombs for fire and
tornado insurance. If
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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INsTALLMENTs

Roger Ransom marries Georgen Haven, beau
tiful hCirrss. at Grace Church. New York. AS the
bride and groom are leaving the church the Tor
mpr'S eyes rest on man whose race is dlsngured
Iy twisted jaw. The sight unduly alarms ntf-
The same man appears at the wedding reception,
where he whispers a few words to the bride. After
the reception Georgian begs her husband 10 POST
none the wedding trip and to take her meantime to
some quiet hotel. Her maid, veii.d, and wearing
Georgiaus clothes, accompanies the unsuspect ing
bridegroom to the hotel and, he Is registering,
FINISHES. Georgian, meantime, disSuissu, mas
slipped from the house of Mr.. Fulton Ia relative In
whose family she liyesl and disappeared Inc
frantic Ransom employs detective, who tracks the
with the twisted jaw to the Hotel St. Denis
and learns that Georgian has visited lin there n
few hours after the wedding. Ransom resolves TO
interview this Unknown, but before doing so he re-
Ceivcs a note from Georgian bidding him trust her.
and also reads In the evening papers that his VIE
has accidentally met twin sister. supposedly long
dead. who IL deaf and otherwise afflicted. and
whom she cannot leave. Ransom pooh-poohs this
report and goes 10 the man with the twisted
jaw. The hitter declares himself Alfred HaZen
at He admits that Georgian visited him at
the Hotel st. Denis and gave him money, but de
MES all knowledge OF her present whereabouts. He
also denounces the twin sister story as a fabri
years before. Hazen adds that in his opinion
GeorRian's mind has suddenly become unhnsed.
Ransom goes next to Edward Harper, Wall
street lawyer, who is Georgan's man of business.
tied his office since parting from her husband. and
that she has asked him to draw up will for her.
He will not tell Ransom her present address, but
admits that time and place have been set for the
fuses to divulge Relenting somewhat. he sends
Ransom scrap OF paper bearing the words, in
Georgan's handwriting. Hunters Tavern. Sitford.
Conn. at O'Clock, April 10 Harper believes the
says Georgian once brought Anitra yelled to his
office.
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Clock All of Glass.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
A somewhat futile feat Of painstaking In.
genuity has been accomplished after six
years continuous work in the construction
OF working clock every part of which ex.
cept the springs is made of glass. The con.
struction is a Bohemian glass polisher
named Joseph Bayer, who lives In There
sienthal and who is now seventy-one years
old.
The plates and pillars which form the
framework are of glass and are bolted to.
gether with glass screws. The dial plate,
hands, shafts and cogwheels are of glass,
and glass wedges and pins are used for
fastening the various parts Of the running
gear together.
All these parts are ground to the average
proportions of the metal parts of other
clocks of the same size. The teeth OF the
cogwheeis are cut with minute exactnees.
Only the balance wheel is heavier and
thicker than 1t would be in an ordinary
clock, but it is fashioned so as to properly
control the movement of the machine.
Like the clock Itself, the key with which
1t is wound is of glass. The completion
of the work was n matter of infinite pains.
Some of the parts had to be made over and
over again often as forty times before
a clock that would go and keep time was
produced. The builder sets a price on the
finished model of $500 marks or about
$e25. Labor is cheap in Bohemia
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CHAPTER VII.

Mr.. Ransom had never heard of Sitford,
but upon inquiry learned that it was a
small manufacturing town some ten miles
from the direct route of travel, to which
it was only connected by a stage coach
running once a day, late in the afternoon
What spot for a meeting of this kind!
Thy chosen by her? Why submitted to by
0is busy New York lawyer? Was this
mother mystery; or had he misinterpreted
Mr. Harpers purpose in passing over~to
him the address of this small town? He
preferred to think the former He could
hardly contemplate now the prospect of
falling to see her again which must follow
any mistake as to this being the place
agreed upon for the signing of her will.
Meantime he had said nothing to Ger
ridge. This hope too personal TO
confide in man of his position. He woul6
go to Sitford and endeavor to catch
glimpse of his wife there. If successful, the
whole temper OF his mind might change
toward the situation, ii not toward her.
lie would at least have the satisfaction of
seeing her The detective had enough &c
do in New York.
April the 10Th fell on Tuesday. He was
not minded to wait so long but took the
boat on Monday afternoon. This landed
him some time before daylight at the time
worn village from which the coach ran to
Sittord. A railway connected this village
with New York necessitating no worse
squat. old-fashioned ferry boat; but he
calculated that both the lawyer and Mrs.
Ransom would make use of this, and fell
the risk would be less for him if he chose
the slower and less convenient route
He had given his name the boat as
Roger Johnston. which was true so far as
it went. and he signed this same name a
the hotel where he put up till morning.
The place was an entirely unknown one
to him and he was unknown to it. Both
fortujtous facts, he thought in the light
of his own perpleNity as to the position
in which he really stood toward this mys-
ferrous wife of his.
The coach. as l have said, ran late in
the afternoon. This was 10 accommodate
the passengers who came by rail. But
Mr.. Ransom had not planned to go by
coach. That would be to risk a premature
encounter with his wife, or at least with
the lawyer. He preferred to hire team
and be driven there by some Indifferent
livery stable man. Neither prospect was
pleasing. 1t had been raining all night
and bade fair to rain all day. The river
was Clouded with mist: the hills which are
the glory of the place We're obliterated
from the landscape, and the road-he had
mud.
However, there was no help for it. The
journey must be made. and seeing a LIVERY
stable sign across the road, he lost no time
in securing the conveyance he needed At
O'Clock he started out.
The rain drove so fiercely from the north
west-the very direction in which they We're
traveling-that enjoyment of the scenery
was impossible. Nor could any pleasure be
got out of conversation with the man who
drove him. Rain. rain, that was all; and
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in the two rooms in whose future occu-
pancy he was so vitality interested. A
maid stood in the hall. A man within
was pushing about furniture. The land
lady was giving orders. His course down
stairs did not lead him so far as those
rooms, so he called out pleasantly:
II have written till my head aches Mrs
Dec. l must venture out Notwithstanding
the rain. In which direction shall find the
best walking?'
She came to him all eagerness and smiles
ITS all bad such a day" said she, but
it's muddiest down by the factories. You
had better climb the HILL
Where the cemetery is?' he asked.
Yes; do you object to cemeteries? Ours
is thought to be very interesting. We have
stones there whose inscriptions are a hun
dred and fifty years old. But it's a bad
day to walk among graves. Perhaps you
had better go east I'm sorry we should
have such storm on your first day. Must
you go out?'
He forced suffering look into his eyes,
and insisting that nothing but outdoor air
would help him when he had a headache,
FASTENED downstairs and so out. A blind
ing gust seized him as he faced the hill,
but he drew down his umbrella and hur-
ried on. He had purpose in following
her suggestion as to walk in this direc-
ton. Dark as the grasses were, he meant
to search the cemetery for the graves of
the HaZens and see what he could learn
from them.
He met three persons on his way, all of
whom turned to look at him. This was in
the village. On the hillside he met no.
body Wind and rain and mud were all;
desolation in the prospect and all but desc
lation in his heart. At the brow he first
caught sight of the broken stone wall
which separated the old buryins place from
the road. There lay his path. Happily
he could tread it unnoticed and unmatched.
There was no one within sight, high or
low.
He spent a half hour among the tombs
before he struck the name he was looking
for. Another ten minutes before he founo
those of his wife's family. Then he had
his reward. On a low brown shaft he read
the names of father and mother, and be-
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VOGUE OF THE PLUME
Ostrich Feathers Never Before
So in Demand.
GAINSBOROUGH SET STYLE
Eighty Dollars Given for a Single
Set.
ARIZONA DIvERTING INDUSTRY
Rightly Believed That Birds Would
Thrive in America as Well as
in Africa.
ARIZONA DIvERTING INDUSTRY


Written for The Star
The wise and daring investors who
| transplanted ostrich farming from Africa
/ to the United States are congratulatins5
| themselves now.
! They are reaping n harvest this wtnte:
such as perhaps they never dreamed of,
| for the plumes of the gawky bird are at
the top wave Of popularity that has lasted
ever since the days when Gainsboro'Igh
! painted his world-famous beauties with
huge hats covered with ostrich feathers.
| Since that day, if not before It, in fact.
| the ostrich plume has lain very close to
the feminine heart but its vogue this
year surpasses all records.
The fair votary of Dame Fashion may
| array herself in all that is beautiful and
costly, her dress may be purest silk. her
| fingers blaze with diamonds, her coat be
precious fur, but she is not happy unless
the whole be surmounted by picture hat,
with two, three or perhaps four superb
ostrich plumes.
1t is almost impossible for milliners to
meet the demand for high grade feathers
and if they were dependent solely on the
stock imported from Africa it would be
quite out of the question, but the Amer
lean ostrich farms at Pasadena, Jackson
Vile and Phoenix have f1ourished, and
the big bird has proved himself such
f1ourishing American that a large part OF
the supply is now home product
The ostrich feather is the basis of the
hats of this year. Take off the plumes
and what remained would be hopeless,
but with the plumes almost any shape
looks well.
But. like every other good thing. the
plume sends the price soaring. Fifty
dollars is mo uncommon cost for hat
trimmed with only modest feathers, and
the particular customer who seeks, for
example, plume say twenty-four inches
long. must not be surprised If called upon
to pay $50 for the feathers alone, without
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DO that. Oh she's a dreadful trial, Mrs
Dec; you have motherly face, and | can
tell you that the girl is just eating up my
life. If she weren't my very self, deafened
by hard usage, and rendered coarse and
willful by years of a miserable and half
starved life, 1 couldn't bear it, especially
after what I've sacrificed for her. I've
parted with my husband-but I can't talk,
can't 1 would not have said SO much If
you hadn't looked so kind
All this her husband heard, followed by a
sob or two, quickly checked, however. by a
high strained laugh and the gay remark:
I'm wet enough, but she'll be dripping.
I'm afraid she'll have to have her supper in
her room. She got out at the new school
1t must be a weltering pool. If I'm dressed
in time I'll come down and meet her at the
door. Meanwhile don't wait for US; give
Mr. Harper his supper"
Her door closed, then suddenly opened
again. eff she don't come in ten minutes
let some one go to the head of the lane.
But be sure it's careful person who won't
startle her. I've got to put on another
dress. SO don't bother me. I'll hear her
when she enters her own room and will
speak to her then-if dare; I'm not sure
that shall" And the door shut to again.
this time with a snap of the lock. Quiet
reigned once more in the hail save for Mrs.
Docs muttered EXPLANATIONS as she made
her laborious way down stairs. Had this
good woman been less disturbed and not In
SO much of hurry, she might have noted
that the door of her literary guests room
was ajar. and stopped to ask why the lamp
remained unlit.
For five minutes, for ten minutes, he
watched and listened, passing continually
to and fro from door to window. But his
vigilance remained unrewarded by any fur
Their movement IN the hall, or by the sight
OF an approaching figure up the road. He
began to feel odd, and was asking himself
what sort Of fool-work this was, when
CHATTER of voices rose below followed by
heavy steps on the veranda, One or two
men were going out. and, as it seemed to
him, the landiady. too, for he heard her
say just as the door closed:
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husband all in one day: and for what rea-
son, do you think? We know. because she
don't keep no secrets from her old friends-
She's found this sister, and its her as has
ordered me to chip away this name She
wants 1t done today, because she's coming
here with this gal she's found Folks say
! she ran across her In the street and knew
her at once Can you guess howl!
From her manner
Lord, no; from what hear she hasn't
| own self when she looked at her.
How interesting, how very Interesting,
| stammered Mr.. Ransom. feeling his newly
| won convictions shaken again. Quite re-
| markable, the who,e story And so is this
inscription n, ion he added, pointing to the
| words Georgian Toritti,' etc did the
woman have two husbands, and was the
Alfred Hazen, whose death at sea is COM
memorated here, the son of Torith of
Hazen?'
of Toritti," grumbled the man. 20 .ntly
diSpleased at the question OK
browed devil who it won't do to talk about
here Mrs. Hazen was only a slip of a gal
but couple o months. folks have sort O.
forgiven her and forgotten him. To US
Mrs. Hazen was always Mrs. Hazen; and
Alf-well, he was just ALI Hazen, too-a lad
with too much good in him to perish in
them murderous waters a thousand miles
from home"
So they still believed Hazen deadi No in
.imatlon Of his return had as yet reached
Sitford. This was what Ransom wanted to
Know. But there was still much to learn
Should he venture an additional question i?
No, that would show more than a stran-
gers interest In topic purely local.
Better leave we'll enough alone and quit the
spot before he committed himself
| Uttering some commonplace observation
ABOUT the fatality attending certain fami-
lies, he nodded a friendly goodbye and
made for the entrance.
AS he stepped below the brow of the hill
he heard the first click of the workman's
hammer on the chisel with which he pro-
posed to eliminate the word .Anitra" from
the list of the Hazen dead.
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Incrcases Rapidly.

The ostrich, when once in the mood. is q
very strenuous layer. 1t generally nidges
fifteen to twenty eggs. sufficient for set
ting. and i'll the course OF a season Will
hatch out several broods. Where the barn.
yard fowl turns out its progeny in twenty
one days, just twice that time is required
for the ostrich.
Experiments have Gemons;ra ted that the
hens time for Matching eggs can be cur
tailed to nineteen days. but the ostrich de-
clines to be hurried and it always takes the
full time. Both the male and female take
turns in sitting on the eggs. The nest is an
excavation in the sand, and the male bird
lodges the rays OF the by doing the
work in the night time, the female sitting
all day.
Plucking the plumes is done every eight
months At that period the plume is cut
off, and later when the stub dies it is
plucked out. This operation does not cause
the bird any pain.
The plumes are then assorted with respect
to size and beauty, those of the male being
considered in point of size and quality as
very much finer. Its piumage is always
black and white, while that of the female
is drab.
The wing feathers frequently run to twen-
ty-four inches in length. The tail feathers
are also used, but they are not as long nor
valuable.
The plucking of an ostrich has to be done
carefully, for kick from one of the pow
erful legs of the bird is enough to disable
man. or even to endanger his life Tho
clipping generally takes place in small
quarters. where the ostrich has no chance
to use it's deadly legs to advantage, and to
lessen further the danger the head Of the
bird is covered with a sack, SO that 1t can.
not see the ravagng of it's plumage.
Outside of the first cost of the birds, os-
trich farming Is not costly venture. Tho
food bill is not big one and a farm of a
couple of hundred acres is big enough to
take care of as many birds as any farmer
would want to handle. The herds have to
be kept in Enclosures. for while many OF
them become tame, others never lose their
wildneSS and tendency to pugnacity.
The ostrich in this country is feeling so
much at home that it is more than a dream
of the future that nine-tenths of the plumeS
nodding over the American woman's hat
will some day be the product OF her own
country.