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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-05
AN ALLEGED SWINDLER.
Man Arrested at Hiilsboro on Charge
of Cheating Blind Beggar.

Hillsboro, Dec. 5.-A man giving
| his name as c. A. Ballew, was arrest
ed here Saturday night on a charge
of swindling, his alleged victim be-
ing blind beggar and the amount
obtained being 20 cents. According
to the account of the officers, he
asked the beggar for that sum and
upon obtaining three nickles and
ten cent piece from the blind man
dropped a brass check in the latter's I
tin cup. Bystanders saw the trans /
action and notified the Officers with ,
the above result
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-05
OFFICERS Elected.

At the regular meeting of Elm
Camp, Woodmen of the World. the
following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
w G. McClain. c. c.; j w. Talea-
ferro, A. L.; Sterling Spalding. bank
er; c. O. Adkins, clerk; Chas Mont
gomery, E; Jack Neal w; S. Grif-
fin, s.; d. A. Cook. A. Lasswen, man
ayers; d. G. Thompson, w. f. West,
J. S. Berry, S. II. Watson, Jr., ply
sicians
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-05
Prayer Meeting.

The prayer meeting of the Main
Street Christian church win meet to-
morrow evening at o'clock instead
of this evening The bible study will
be the 10th chapter of Romans. The
elders of the church are requested to
meet after the prayer meeting
CHALMERS MCPHERSON
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-05
SKETCH OF HORNBtAk
New Superintendent Of Blind Asylum Is
Practical School Nan.

is 20 be superintendent of the blind /
asylum at Austin under the admins
tration OF Governor Campbell This
is the position that has been rendered /
him by the new governor and IL the
one he will accept II was generally |
known that Or. Hornheak was an ap-
plicant for the superintendency OF
the deaf and dumb asylum. but only a
few of his most intimate friends were
made acquainted with the fact that !
he had been slated for the other |
place. In fact, DR.. Horubeak did not |
know that he would be an applicant
for the superintendcncy of the blind
asylum until he visited Col Campbell /
at Palestine a few days ago 1t is |
known that Col. Campbell gave him
his choice between the two places
and DR.. Hornbeak selected the blind
asylum
Samuel Lee Hornbeak. dean OF
Trinity University and professor of
chemistry, was born at Bosqueville,
McLennan county, January IS. 1868.
Soon after this date his father, $. NJ
Hornbeak, moved to a farm near
Grandview that he might put his
older childen In Il collegiate institute
lat Oakland, Johnson county Trinity
University having been founded at
Tehuacana in 1869, the family NOV
ed to that historic village in 1871
for the benefit of larger educational
advantages. At this time Trinity
University conducted a primary and
preparatory school In 1874 the sub
ject of this sketch entered the pri-
mary department. For a number of
years he went to school in the win
. tor. 4
er's farm during the remainder Of
the year. In 1881 he entered the
: freshman class of the university and
continued regularly in school till his
/ graduation with the degree of 4. b.
in 1885. After finishing his course.
| Dr. Hornbeak spent six years in pub
! lie school work, serving in the capa-
/ city of teacher in rural schools, prin-
| cipal of high school, and superintend-
/ ent of city schools He spent the
| spring and summer of 1SSS in North
ern Indiana normal college, studying
methods of science. In the summer
of 1890 he studied botany and geol-
ogy in the School of Liberal Arts,
Chautauqua, New York, doing con-
siderable field work In 1891 he was
elected to the chair of science in Trim
ity university, which position he has
held continuously to the present
tima
InAl S94-95, on leave of absence. he
spent Nfive quarters in the University
of Chicago, doing graduate work in
the department of chemistry. In re-
cognition of his thorough work in
chemistry in the university he was
appointed laboratory assistant in
analytical chemistry in the University
Of Chicago in the fall of 1894 He
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-01-28
Literature s Celebrations

AS one sees that the tyranny of
Gessler brought to light the heroism
of Wilhelm Tell six centuries ago.
ii is an easy transition from the
record of happenings historic TO
those more IN the domain of the
world of letters Tell, probably. will
be overlooked this year-unless it
be in the Swiss Cantons themselves
for he shared generously in last
June's honors TO Schiller, but litera-
ture has other names to depend
upon. She may not go back quite TO
400 B. c., when befell the deaths of
both Sophocles and Euripides. but
she will honor the birthday anniver-
saries of Corneille. and Mill. and
Amari (the Italian historian). and
GoZzi (the Italian dramatist). Yet
another name for her recalling
comes in the fact that, two hundred
years ago the 2Sth of next Deem
Der, died that Pierre Bayle, philoso-
pher and critic who stirred the en-
thusiasm of such men as Voltaire
and Hallam.
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The quadri-centenary of Buchan-
an, already referred to, brings back
an amusing story of that curious
scholars wit. He had tutored
Queen Mary; he had written some
excellent billingsgate which Tin
spite of its Latin dress) had thrown
him into prison; he had translated
the Psalms; and then he had be-
come tutor TO royalty again, with
the Scottish James VI (afterward
James l Of England for pupil This
young monarch said yes" all too
readily, thought Buchanan, so one
day he offered for his signature a
document which. after an empty
question or two, was signed without
a sentence having been read. Behold,
King James had abdicated in favor
of his ehOolmasteT-and the admo-
milton upon too ready acquiescence
TO petitions which followed was Civ
en- such point that later history has
been able TO find no fault with "Jaco-
bus" on that score.
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Art and Relation

Art shares with architecture its
1906 centenaries. The one will re-
call not only Rembrandt. the i'm
mortal Dutch master who was born
on the 18th of June, 1906, but also
the deaths of George Stubs (1S06).
the English animal painter; James
Barry t1S06), the delineator of the
great events of his natrve England's
history. and. greatest of the trio.
Andrea Mantegna, who departed this
life in his Italian home in 1906. To
the world of painters, too. comes
the chance to honor once more the
memory of Benjamin West. the first
American artist to be elected to the
Royal Academy. and its president.
Just a century ago was he for the
second time elected to that office.
Architecture adds to these FIVE an
niversaries Cd the erection, in 30e,
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against his Spanish army, at Mazda,
in July; and, in October. England
russia, Prussia, and Saxony formed
their coalition against him: but
these happenings look now rather as
the exceptions which, in 1906, proved
the rule of Bonapartian success. Ra-
gusa, Naples, Szalfeld. Auerstadt
Jena, Erfut. Halle, Berlin, Lubbock.
Ratkow. and Magdeburg, all wit
messed the triumphs of the French
eagles. The Confederacy of the
Rhine brought the German prince
lings fiocking to his standards; the
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Berlin decree Numbered from the
captured capital against British
commerce, and Louis Bonaparte
took his seat upon the newly-erected
throne OF Holland.
While these things were happening
upon the continent. England her
self was watching the impeachment
of a prime minister; that so-called
Delicate Investigation" was being
made into the character of no less
a person than Queen Caroline. and
a gorgeous funeral pageant was bear
ing the remains of Horasi 10, Wis
count Nelson. to their last resting
place. The first two of these events
reach their even centenaries on
April 20 and May %. The funeral
of the great admiral wound it's way
through London's draped streets on
January 8.
That same day January 81 Sir
David Baird and Sir Home Popham
were retaking Cape Colony; on July
10 a Sepoy mutiny broke out at
Vellore, India. as If in warning of
the worse one which was to follow
fifty years later; and on October IL
Jean Jacques Dessalines, the negro
Emperor of Haiti. was assassinated.
making way for President" Chris
tOphe.
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~
Citizens of the Worid

In the complete table of the years
various centenaries. literature may
commemorate nine events, art eight.
religion five, industry ten, and his
tory, in general an even dozen and a
half. Many Of this fifty will, quite
naturally, be sighted, but there IS
educational gain in each great name
recalled. 1t is by no means a proof
Of q return to Comics worship of
humanity that today should honor
the memories of Franklin. REM
brandt van Ryn. and the younger
Pitt. They We're no more of one
land and time than We're CHRISTOPHER
Columbus and Andrea Mantegna. or
Pierre Corneille and John Stuart
MiuTand these four, also, are fit
subjects for 1906 to commemorate
the first two dying three hundred
years ago. the French dramatist be-
ing born in 1906 and the English
political economist in 1906.
That last-named year (1S06) is es-
peeially rich in the opportunities it
now offers for historic celebration. It's
opening day saw that Presburg
treaty signed which redivided CEN
tra4 Europe, depriving Austria of her
Italian holdings. Almost its last
dayo saw the drawn battle at Pull
tusk between the French and the Al
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TIE PreseRt-Day AN
RiversaryHdbit, Not
Satisfied With Frank
lin sBicentendry, Will
= commemorate Other
Great Names and
Events in History,
Literature, Religion,
Art, ana Industry

The present-day Anniversary
Habit" not satisfied with Franklin's
bi-centenary, viii commemorate 9TH
er great names and events in his
tory, literature. art, and industry.
There is no magic inherent in a
period OF one hundred years. The
century in only convenience. Yet
the children of an older growth. who
think they run this world. speak of
even hundreds" quite as though
they had never grown beyond the
malke-believe games Of youth. So
memorial days have become a habit
of the time; last year it was Trafai-
gar and Schiller and Cervantes; the
year earlier. Dumas and Hawthorne
and Disraeli; yesterday it was
Franklin-''Poor Richard" in every
magazine and from half the school
platforms in the Union.
Nor has this just-closed bi-cen-
tenary celebration seemed enough,
for the year 1906 recalls no less than
fifty of the names and events which
made past history, and, with the
Franklin fetes merely as prelude, the
worlds OF industry and scholarship,
arteand religion, are preparing TO
commemorate this or the other hap
pepings. Quaint old George Buchan-
an, Latinist and tutor to two mon
areAs OF England, will be honored
next month by but a little company,
but the celebrations in honor of the
tercentenary of Rembrandt's birth
are to be elaborate. and all present.
day political differences are to be
forgotten throughout the British
Empire during the days which recall
the deaths an even century ago of
those statesmen-orators, Pitt and
Fox,
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CENTENARLES RECALLED BY 1905
IN THE WORLDS FAST HISTORY

11O6Henry of England Tnchebray Nor
12OGMongo empire established conquero Genghis
13O6Rober THE Bruce leads
volt
1SO6Tranny of Gessler in Switzerland Wilhelm
Tell
1606ames charter Plymouth
17O6-Aay 2S) Marlborough defeats Families
1S06January The Pesburg reddng Europe signed
806April 29 Impeachment of
806-tAIay 22) Caroline; Investigation
1S06Ioy remuneration of
the German
1S06"The ministry of all the talents
SO6-(October jena
anniversaries falling which
wohgure through various cenenaries of their
Births. Deaths
15O6-George Buchanan 400 B. CSophocles
.eoe 1406-Pope Innocent
1506-Chrsopher Columbus
1606-Rembrandt 1506-Andrea Mantegna.
,.oo ~. 1606-Guy
" A 17O6-Pierre Bayle.
1S06-John Stuart 1S06-Wiliam Pitt
1S06-James Barry
18O6-A1ichele Amari. 1SO6-Chares Fox
lSO6-George Stubs
IoVo-Oaro GozzL 1SO6-J j. Dessalines.
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As to Commerce

II the mention here of the Cathe-
dral of st. Peters suggests the past
events which may in this twelve
month be commemorated by relig-
Ion, one may add four others. Boni-
face III ana Gregory XII were ele-
waited TO the Papacy in even hun
dreds" of 1906; the one thirteen
centuries ago, and the other in
1406, in which year, too. befell the
death of Pope Innocent VII. In 1906
Stephen Langton, who played so
splendid part in the Magma Char
Ia episode. became Archbishop of
Canterbury. IN 1906 June 23) the
Peace Of Vienna for the first time
brought official" liberation TO the
Protestants.
II is the utilitarian age. Past dates
in literature and art. even in his
tory and religion, often seem mere
academic conventions. Commerce
and industry are in the saddle-and
commerce and industry may in 1906
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pause an instant from the living in
terests of the moment TO realize.
perhaps TO honor in some way or
other. a dozen happenings of as
many yesterdays, which have proved
of large importance to the world.
OF greatest value among these
will seem the granting (1606) of
their charters to the London and
Plymouth companies. for that helped
TO call into being this United States.
1t is properly noteworthy, too. that
in zoo B. c.. gold was first coined
into money. The other dates OF
such a table read:
1906. Yucatan discovered by So
lis and Pinzon. the Spanish nayi-
gators.
1906. Madagascar discovered by
the Portuguese.
1906 Sugar cane first transport
ed to the West Indies.
1906. Australia discovered by the
Dutch, under Captain Hartog.
1906 De Quiros discovers the New
Hebrides
1906 Formation Of the London
Butchers. Carriers and Fruitiers'
companies.
1906. Edmund Gunter iHvents the
"Gunter chain" for surveying.
17O6. Establishment Oo2don) OF
first life insurance company. "Ami-
cable"
1906. English mills and factories
first warmed by steam.
1906 The honeysuckle first intro
duced into England. from China.
'The events OF the past" wrote
once a celebrated German analyst,
may well be held to have a double
value. They not only stand for ad-
vance. when yesterday was today,
but also do they fifty keep alive in
this present the memory OF those
men and happenings which have en-
abled today 10 be born from yester-
day"
WARWICK JAMES PRICE.
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A NopoIeonjo TweIUemoDth

A NGp0Ie0nio TWefUemonth
Vienna was evacuated, January II,
1SO6-and the twelvemonth began
to run all in the favor of Napoleon
the Conqueror. To be sure. the Eng
iish Admiral Duchworth defeated
his fleet in February, and the Eng
lish General Stuart turned the day
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lied forces. The intervening months
had held more than a score of news
items" which have gone to the
making of nineteenth century his
tory.
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Tue Sides to the Years Ledqey

IWO Of0eS 20 tHe rear S LedgeT
If the English of today are. none
too proud of their trials of Mel
Vile and Caroline. yet they may
properly recall that Ministry of All
the Talents" which. in the same
year, brought such men as Gren-
vile. Fox. and Erskine TO power.
If history now speaks of the loss
of that magnificent Holy Roman
Empire" which passed tust a hun
dred years ago. when the weakIing
Francis lost his opportunity, yet it
may with pride look farther back
(1206) TO the founding Of the Greek
Empire in Nieea by Theodore Las
carts, TO NouTeddin's splendid vic
tories in Syria, and to that empire of
the Mongols, set up in Asia by the
eyeT-victoriOus Genghis Khan.
Nearly every land may find in the
centenaries of 1906 two sides to its
ledger. Scotland. for instance. may
now recall one of her strongest and
one of her weakest kings: The
Great Bruce" who came to her
throne in 1906 to lead her to that
historic revolt against the nation
across her southern line. and the
first of her Jameses. who (14O6) had
been ruling the Highlands scarce
two months when captured and i'm
prisoned by the English.
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Of the first Cathedral of St. Peters
in Rome. no less a person than the
Emperor Constantine being its build
er; CD the laying OF the cornerstone
for the present st. Peters. by Pope
Julius II. in 1906. and CD the erec-
ton 1S06D OF the Partisan Point des
Invalides and the beginning of that
beautiful city's Are de Triomphe.
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Where the French Of today will
boast as they talk Of Jepa, they
may, too. recall with humiliation
Families, where Marlborough defeat
ed Eugene in 1706-TiEchbray, with
its consequent annexation OF Nor
mandy to England. VIII seem too
far away 1106) to worry over.
The Jasper news., 1906-08-16
WIPE OUT TEXAS FEVER
COUNTY COURT CC-OPERATES
WITH STATE AUTHORITIES
Infected Cattle To Be 0reaseds Aad
Quarantine rlust Be Strictly
Observed

At yesterdays session OF the county
court Sheriff John A. Marrs was order
ed to give assistance to the state vet
erinary surgeon in the matter Of guar.
antining cattle in the county which are
afflicted with Texas fever.
This year as almost every year there
are few cattle in the west end Of the
county among which the Texas fever
has broken out. 1t is an easy master
to keep the .dissase in check by
greasing the affected cattle and thus
killing the ticks which are on them aud
then quarantinipg tho cattle until it 10
certain that the ticks are al dead. The
ticks are brought in from tho Indian
Territory, which is below the cattle
quarantine line.
1t is supposed that no cattle will be
brought across this line, but it appears
that in spite of all precautions few
cattle are from time to time smuggled
across this line to be sold to Joplin and
Webb City butchers, as the priec 10 be
thus obtained is a tempting one. The
Territory line, which is the governor
quarantine line, comes to within about
three mile, Of the southwest corner of
this county, so it is but short diive
from the Territory to either Joplin or
Webb City and this drive, it is some
time made, law or no law. Incidentally
in come the ticks and the Texas fever.
1t is greatly to the interest OF the state
and the county to keep the disease out,
hence the fight made on it. The little
profit made by those Territory residents
who manage to thus market their cattle
here is much moro than Offset by the
losses of various residents-of the county
who from time to time lose cattle from
tho disease thus brought in. This
makes the losses all the harder to en-
dure. Press.
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THE aMILE nIdH' CITY
DENVER BOASTS OF THAT DIS.
fsNclIoN
That City Also Knows How
To Entertain A Con-
yention

We had not been 10 Denver very long
before our curiosity bad been aroused
rs to the significance Of the expression,
"a mile high" when used 10 connection
with the City OF Denver. We noticed
this In big letters on the buildings; 1T
was to be seen on souvenirs and was
used 10, various other ways. Our first
impre ssion was that the Denverites had
preem pied the atmosphere TO the extent
of one mills above the city and that the
tourists we're not supposed to appropri
ate any oil the territory within this linn
It without special permission from the
city authorities. We were mistakened
in this Interpretation however, as we
.lesrned, uponinquiry, that the altitude
If Denver wss just ono milo above sea
level. There is a tablet somewhere 10
the city, we are told, that rnafas the
spot which is exactly q mile above the
sea. There are many ways 10 which a
city gains notoriety and this is probably
one way. Why can't Jasper advertise
herself as '..a half quarter mile bighn
or something like thats
When we arrived in Denver the whole
city was 10 the midst Of the most selabo-
rate plan Of decorations We have ever
seen. We hardly expected the city to
go to SO much trouble in honor OF our
visit, but We learned afterward that ouI
visit was not the cause of this trouble
and outlay. The Benevolent and Pro
tective Order Of Eiks were going to hold
The Jasper news., 1906-08-16

Wantsd:-by Chicago Wholesale and
mail order houss, assistant manager
tman o. Somen) for this county and nd
joining territory. Salary $40, and ex
penses paid weekly; expense money ad-
yanced. Work pleasant; poSition per,
manent. No Investment or experiences
required, Spare time valuable. Write
at once for foil particulars and enclose
self ,addrsse ed envelope. Address,
GENERAL MANAGER, lA E. Lak'
st, Chicago.
The Jasper news., 1906-08-16
g. w. STRATTON

to make 10 view of the fact that Mis-
souri, has many times the number of in.
habtapts.
As we stroiled through the corridors Of
this magnificent structure and stopped
before the door bearing the inscription,
estate Governoi " we experienced fee.-
ing Of awe when we realized that We
were on the spot where had recently
been enacted one of the most unusual
and exciting political dramas in the his
tory Of our country. In this room was
map acting as the Governor of q great
state, who was placed there by the
whims Of a partisan Legislature and who
IS looked upon by some OF his constitu-
ents as an usurper enjoying the fruits
OF stolen property. However this may
be the method Of his elevation to the
governorshipis peculiar. On the face
Of the returns Of tho last election the
democratic candidate Adams was de
clared elected. The republican cardi-
date Peabody contested the election OF
his opponent on the grounds Of fraud.
When the case reached the legislature
which happened to be republican, al
though unfavorable to Peabody, that
body, apparently more on political
grounds than on the merits OF the
contest, made an agreement to
oust Adams and seat Peabody with the
distinct understanding that he should
immediately resign, the governship then
falling Upon the lieutenant governor Nc
Donald. The scheme was carried
througbswith the result that Colorado
had three different governors within one
day.
! We will bid ,adieu to the governor and
take a walk with one of Denver's more
humble citizens. In our last letter we
we're on the trail OF our old boyhood
friend Guy Van Smythe. We finally
had him "treed" iu piano store down
+ town where he is successful piano
tuner. Guy came within one vote OF
becoming the bass drummer for the 'kid