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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-19
STAGE ANNOUNCEMENTS.


Dec. ga Race for Widow.
Dec. CIV. b. Patton in "The
Slow Poke"
Dec. 29-Chas. Grapwln in The
Awakening of Mr. Pipp.
Dec. elaine Corcorau I'm THE
Freedom of suzanne
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We are pleased to announce that
Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs,
eoMs and lung troubles is not affect
ed by the National Pure Food and
DRUG law az 1t contains no opiates or
other harmful drugs aud We recon-
mend it as "a safe remedy for children
and adults n ". Fearis
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a doll piano and a big doll. Your lit
tie friend. Eliza beth Walter.

Waxahachie, Tex, Dec. 1S.-Dear
Santa Claus: VIII you please bring
me large trunk and pretty doll,
doll buggy. set of dishes and ia
Bile, nuts, apples and candy OF all
kinds. Evelyn Bratcher
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WaNahachie, Tex. Dec. 49, Dear
Santa claus Please bring me a doll.
70 doll trunk. % set of dishes. some
candy. nuts. e little wash tub. q lit
ME- red chair. rims, some apples, q
urlp cradle, aud story book Good
bye Your little girl friend Flor
encv Neltg.
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Waxahachie. Tex, Dec 1S.-Dear
Santa Claus ! only want few
things this Christmas, and ! know
YOU will bring them. Please bring
me doll with go To sleep eyes, a
little trunk TO put my dolls clothes
IN. nice little story book and every
think you have that Is good 70 eat !
am your little friend Alma Mae
dele Pickett
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Prices CSC 10 90
Seats on sale at Hood a ruriins

have yhanged and so the old love
Eoes out tor the new and trausplants
Younger star who will iu time be-
aa dpur Ca the hearts of she theateF
going public as Was oncs this great
actor Mr. Patton has made anpaf
dleivd strides tow ards the pinnacle
~ aueeess and he O. TODAY one of
the maet promising voun8 actors on
iht American stage.
Hsat tb. Advertisement
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d. what's koins to happen 1i ms
iswelfy store 4 bstslst aad b,t~eeu
HOLIDAY 1EWEi.hf SALE
a NhAt ~ announce ~ sou t'
psnehant fof ltWelrY nos me VINE
ta bus it HiaxH. bracelets euU bh'
toaa az au4thlHE else Fna may y an.
Na have thrm u aH variety ana a,
Nay hafaW Iha usaal prices tali an'
.as th.n taA nahr purchase
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SANTA CLAUS LETTERS.

WaXahachie. Tex. Dec. 1S.-Dear
Santa Claus: Please bring me a
train, a big horn to blow, pretty
book. bushel of chocolate caramels,
and any thing more that you may
have for me. Hour little friend
Horace Coleman Pickett
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NaNahachit. Tex. Dee. o.. Dear
santa CLAUS Please bring me a ring.
"a doli. cradle. little baby doll
some nuts. candy. apples, oranges.
a wash tub and wash board. "a good
stor, book and horn Good hNt
Your little friend Marie Nelir
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WaNahathte. Ten. Dee U.s. Dear
santa Claus 3 want horn. suite
mohile. train, popgnn. horse. boats
lltils doll hooA aud ladder That lf
au PARIS NtComhH
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With much love and thanks. Good
bye. Your little friend. Herman
Matkin Ragland

Waxahachie. Tex. Dec. l7.-Dear
Santa Claus: | viii try and be a good
boy II you will bring me what | want.
want a horn with slides, a whip,
book. a tool box and some leggings,
some Roman candles. fireCrackers,
nuts and fruit. Good bye. Your
friend Leigh BunkleN.
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Thomas TcNcrsOn's Bible.

The jefferson Bible. with its beauti-
fu, red Morocco binding. made no little
trouble in the House while IL was a
single forgotten volume reposing under
lock and key at the Smithsonian lnsti-
tuition. Now that it has been photo
graphed and reproduced in numerous
copies. the little volume has multiplied
care for the Senate. Hardly n man OF
the ninety but has had thousands of
requests for the book, and more are
coming in by every mail.
1t seems that some enterprisinc busi-
ness man advertised the Jefferson
Bible prominently in well-knOwn
magazine. He announced that ii could
be had for nothing II one would writ"
TO ones Senator or Member of Con
grcss. concluding his advertisement
with the further statement that he hal
gone TO considerable expense in having
the advertisement printed. and hoped
readers would turn TO his business an
nouncemcnt on another page.
So II Is that requests are rolling in
upon Senators especially, for the pub
lie seems to have taken the idea that
they are more legitimate prey than
gentlemen at the other end of the
Capitol. Each Senator's quota is bur
thirty copies. and the only good way
out OF the dilemma appears TO be to
print more, just as Congress has done
with the horse book and other popu-
lar Government publications. Better
send for one before the second reprint
Is all distributed.
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Honduras has . debt Of about ont
hundred million dollars or about H. ,3O(
q head.
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Who For Next President!

From American Spectator.
At considerable expense American
Spectator has obtained opinions and
expressions OF the same from all OF
the prominent candidates for Presi-
dental nomination. These are all I'M
genuine. having come to us over our
own private line. the least longest
wire In the world. The pithy. cpl
grammatic summing up will. OF course,
be thoroughly appreciated. The fol-
lowing tcrse expressions are In an
swer TO our query. VIII you be a
candIdatei''
Taft-My candidacy is n weighty
problem. and there is heavy respon-
slblllty attached.
Cannon-I will IL I do.
Bryan-The third Is the lucky trial
shall not get out of communication
with my friends.
Shawl have always universally
considered myself n strong candidate.
Hobson-Of course. 1t Is an Office OF
limited ponsibilities-but-
Fairbanks-You'l really have to ask
Mrs. +.
Funston-Am too busy to think OF
1t. but they do say l was born in
Ohio.
Foraker may have TO do 1t just
The Delta independent., 1906-07-20
THE JUNGLE.
Mr.. Sinciair's Story of the Awful
Methods of the Beef Packers,

No more powerful or terrible book
has been written in recent years than
The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair 1t
seems incredible that such depth of
human misery as the author relates
could be permitted even by the most
callous money maker or the most
sou1less corporation; or, on the other
hand. that such vileness and filth in
the preparation of human food could
be permitted; yet most of Mr. Sim
clair's statements are from personal
knowledge and observation. visiting
the great packing plants. as he did
mostly in disguise. Moreover. his
statements have been abundantly cor.
roborated by President Roosevelts
special commission, whose confidential
report containing descriptions of deg
radiation. filth and food pollution, is
too vile to print In newspaper.
The hero of THE JUNGLE is Jurgis. a
great, broad-shouldered Lithuanian.
who gloried in work, for the mere sake
Of 1t. even IL he had had no incentive.
In the far forests of Lithuania. where
he and his father had lived all their
lives. children of nature. Jurgis had
heard of free America, and that as
much rs SO. a week was to be earned
city of Chicago. And after many argu-
ments and much discussion. he had
prevailed upon his father. and Ona the
sweet blithsome lass to whom he was
betrothed, and her mother and several
children and relatives, to emigrate to
| splendid America, where a man may
not always remain peasant, but
where he has chance to imorove him
self and rise In the world. Ten dollars
week was an unheard of fortune.
The peasants. Of Europe make few
cents day,
So they all went to Packingtown. and
the first day that Jurgis stood in line.
being altogether the finest specimen
Of man in the yards, he was beckon-
ed to by the boss and given job. He
went home jubilant. Two other mem.
bers OF the family. one great strap
ping woman. also got Jobs at once,
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that would exist between the repre-
sentntives~ OF conqueror and van
quished.
The high art of diplomacy. that SO
well masks the iunermost thoughts OF
those who rise to the heights of an
ambassador. doubtless viewed the So
cial Intercourse between Baron Rosen
and Nfscount Aoki as most natural
But to the uninitiatcd the part of the
host taken by one-Baron Rosen-
who acted rs Russias peace envoy.
lent peculiar glamour to the occasion.
The treaty OF peace between Japan
and Russia marked the close of one of
the bloodiest wars of history. The
dinner given by Baron Rosen in
honor of the representative of the
victorious Japan goes farther. in that
1t takes up social intercourse upon n
plane exactly rs though war had never
been wagcd.
Those who were present at this
most interesting social function We're
the Minister from the Netherlands and
Nine. van Swindercn, the Counselor of
the Japanese Embassy and Nine
Miyoka. Count and Countess Secken-
dorff. Baroness Elizabeth Rosen. the
charge daffairs of Spain, Senior Don
Luis Pastor: Baron Schlippenbach, and
Prince koudacheff, Of the Russian
Embassy.
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Jurgis laughed at the discomfort every.
where manifest. They are not men,"
he exclalmed What of the speeding
up" pract!ce of the packers? II was
but play to him to keep abreast of the
fastest He was working TO wed Ona
They were all cheated shamelessly
by the sharks which infest the great
packing district. they could not speak
English and they We're at the mercy of
these parasites. But as new obliga-
tions arosr in the buying of a small,
worthless house, sold them by an
unscrupulous agent, etc, etc, Jurgis
but smiLci grimly. confident in his
strength energy and great love for
Ona. Il viii work the harder" he says.
And then came misfortune. Ona. a
mere bloom of girl of II. had to go
to work-temporarily Then a young
er child Then Jurgis had fateful
day, after many months of faithful and
herculeau service for the great corpora
ton. IL the melee of a wounded
steer running amuck, he slipped on the
bloody floor and sprained his ankle.
Did the packers give him a short fur
Tough with pay while he was recover
ing: at Least they held his place for
him? Neither. He returned to work.
not very strong looking through pain
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RUSS BANQUETS JAP.
BARON ROSEN ENTERTALNS THE
FIRST JAPANESE AMB4SS4.
DOR TO AMERICA.
Cordial Diplomatic Relations Estab-
lished Following Bloodliest Mar In
Modern history-Eount Aoki the
Guest of Honor,

That social ceremonies follow peace
conferences was demonstrated the
other evening. ut Washington, when
the Russian Ambassador and Baroness
Rosen gave "A dinner TO the japanese
Ambassador and NiscountesS Aoki.
While the historic Portsmouth Peace
Conference was concluded many
months ago, and. politically. Japan and
Russia then resumed diplomatic rela-
tons SO abruptly terminated at the
commencement of the Russo-Japanese
war, this function marks the resump-
ton of social intercourse between the
representatives of these gr0at nations.
Although Niscount Aoki only ar
rived in Washington n few weeks ago,
considerable interest has since been
manifested in the personal relationship
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BRIDE AT SHIPS HELM.
MRS. G. ". ROBINSON ASSISTS
HER HUSB4N IN DARING
OCEAN RACE.
Foot Yacht Braves
Dangers Of Gulf Stream and Treach-
erous Waves Off Cape hatteras-
Winner Received $500 Upton Cup.

After daring ocean race OF $50
miles. the sloop Gauntlet. with Mrs
Thora Lund Robinson at the wheel.
finished second in the contest for
which Sir Thomas Upton offered a
$500 cup. The course of the race ex.
tended from Grayesend Bay, New York
Harbor. to Bermuda Mrs. Robinson
is the two months bride of George W.
Robinson. the owner of the boat 1t
was daring race for each of the three
small yachts that competed, but more
SO for the Gauntlet because she was
the smallest of them all. being only 2S
feet long from bow TO stern. The yawl
Tamerlane. which won the cup was 40
feet long and the yawl Lila. 80 feet
All OF the craft belong to the Brooklyn
Yacht Club. For eight days these tiny
boats were at the mercy OF wind and
wave, so much so that the yawl Lila
was compelled TO put into Norfolk har
Dor to save itself from destruction
while the smaller yacht bravely stuck
10 its task. They had to cross the gulf
stream $50 miles on Hatteras. one of
the stormiest spots on the Atlantic.
Experienced yachtsmen were much
surprised that the little Gauntlet was
not wrecked or foundered somewhere
on the way.
But TWENTY YEARS OIL.
Mrs. Robinson Is only 90 years old
but ever since childhood she has been
used to boating and swimming. For
several seasons she has sailed an eigh.
teen.foot knockabout. making her sum-
mcr headquarters near Amboy. on the
lower New York bay. Though small.
she IL athletic and skilled in handling
a craft and Is said TO be without fear
on the water. Storm or sunshine Is
all the same to her.
''One OF the conditions OF our mar
riage on April nth" said Mrs. Robin
son before starting In the race. was
that should 20 In this contest. George
tried TO dissuadc me a few days after
we We're married. hut I made him keep
his promise. Although I am rated as
the chief mate and bottle washer. II
you will. of the Gauntlet. I have an
idea thnt ! may superintend things be-
fore ! get through.
Yachting Is not new to me. sail
ed n knockabout for years In the lower
bay. learned TO swim because ] was
eapsized 30 many times that | had TO
learn. r
Mr. Robinson and myself are to
stand watch together, while J. l.. Dun
lap and II. Higgins, the remainder of
the Corinthian crew. will alternate in
keeping watch. Steer? Why you don't
suppose I'm going to be a passenger?
I can. and am going to. do everything
that n good navigator must do"
STUMPED PROFESSIONAL SALTS.
Professional sailors stood aghast at
the courage OF the Corinthian tars In
undertaking such n perilous voyage.
Disaster was predicted from the first.
The yawl Lila lost her mainmast
shortly after the start outside Sandy
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proposed to accompany the yacht, and
1t was with CONSERVATION that the re-
gatta committee learned that she
meant to go. Refusal to permit her to
start, threatened to disqualify the
boat, and all appeals were in vain. Al
last the committee yielded and permit.
ted her to start.
The Tamerlane finished the course
at Hamilton. Bermuda. at 3 O'Clock
June Bird. while the Gauntlet did not
arrive until "a hours later. The result
was in doubt until the finish OF this
tiny boat, as the Tamerlane had to al
low 1t l6 hours and 10 minutes owing
to the difference in their length.
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dren. The poor husband is stunned.
"Napoli, She 20 back to Napoli.
No. no. All. Dio Milo. You don under
stand" lie goes on, wisuully. Il
work three year an sava da money TO
bring her to me. Your boss he can
nOta send her back-we live all right
on nine dollar week. ! take her away.
You leta me co-eh:'
It's hard on YOU" says the "ti>er
but its the law
Luigi scorns the notion.
Law: You TAXA my wife away;
you senda my littlea boy and girl back
TO Napoli, an you say it is da law.
Ma. IA. America is a free country.
l pay for her to comea to me. | don't
steal, so whata de law got to say:''
But threats, tears. reasoniugs are
all in vain. Luigi at last stealthil
offers the blue-coated official 81, hi
all. wrapped up in Il handkerchief.
bribe. The officer frowns and say
firmly:
Il cannot. didn't make the law
can't help you. We have to do til.
every day"
Every day?" Luigi's eyes gro
wide with pain. You doa this ever
day: All. Dio! Every day you break,
dl heart
Then he goes TO Maria, lakes her in
his arms. and explains brokenly what
it all means.
They will not leta you stay-Maria
mia-we have waited long-we muSta
stilla wait
In the face of her fearful dismay he
even tries to be cheerful.
Say, looka here" he cries: you goa
back to Napoli now, an bimebye |
cetta da more money. l make may
be twelve-fifteen dollar Wees. Then
senda for you an Fabio an Tessa.
an they letta You stay
But Maria is overcome.
Back to Napoli? Alone?" she sobs.
\ sudden thought comes to Luigi.
No. no: not alone. | goa too. II
they senda you. goa too
He rushes over to the officer with
his poor seven silver dollars. only to be
met with the cruel truth. Not half
enough for your ticket
Meanwhile the boat is returning.
The officer lays his hand kindly on
Maria'S shoulder. The children look
wonderinGly on. Painfully the little
trio pick up their bundles and turn
back to the great gates. Luigi EN-
braces them between his sohs.
"Don'ta cry. carriSSima: don'ta cry
l soon make twelve. fifteen dollar
week and buya da peanut stand. an
keep da little home. Then you come
again to stay. Don'ta cry-you goa to
the Nader in Napoli. All. Dio! We
have waita three year an l must Senda
you back. Maybe next year l send for
you again.
As they pass out of his sight his
voice fails him and he falls sobbing
against the gate.
The author is said TO have got his
idea for the piece from Il newspaper
paragraph read at the breakfast table
describing in three lines Il case of the
sort.
Robert Patton Gibbs. who played
Luigi. studied his type with the help
of Neapolitan who has been long
enough away from home 10 know the
salient characteristics of his own
people. The extra wome.. who nit so
well into the picture are caretakers Of
the Hudson theater.
I'VE used TO rehearSe the piece every
now and then down in the coal cellar
explained Mr.. Gibbs. and these two
women used TO come and weep over
=
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There are three hundred millioo
British subjects In Asia.
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Hook, and had to put back for n new
spar. which was Immediately prepared
to permit her to restart the following
Tuesday. The Tamerlane's navigator
seeing the Lila's plight. decided that 1t
would be an unfair advantage to con-
tinue in the race, and she, too. put
back. The people OF the littl Gauntlet
did not see the accident to the Lila, 1t
Is supposed. for the sloop kept right on
in her sea-smashing trip to Bermuda.
The three yachts that contemplated
the trip fay at anchor OF the Brooklyn
dock all morning, with their owners
and crew busily at work preparing
them for their severe test. On board
the little Gau. .let, Mrs Thora Lund
Robinson was a. busy a. the rest max.
ing things shipshape about the boat.
Until the day before the race NO one
took seriously her statement that shs
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Live HcaIthiIy.
Horace Smith

Horace Smith.
The English Poet. Born l779 Died
lSi9
Te who would have your features horid.
1.-the limbs. bright eyes, unwrinkled fore
head.
From ages devastation horrid
Adopt this plan
Twill make, IN climate cold or torrid.
\ hale old man cor woman).
Avoid in youth luxurious diet:
Restrain the passions lawless riot:
Devoted to domestic quiet
BE wisely gay:
So shall We, spite OF ages nat
Resist decay.
Seek not in Mammon's worship pleasure
But find your richest dearest treasure
In God. His word. His work. not leisure.
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to get that Roosevelt fellow out.
Roosevelt--Didn't l say all along
that there would be no third tern
for me. After what's happened l sup
pose you'll believe 1t now.
Henrst-I have enough capital TO
command labor.
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Heaven On Earth.

Be such man, live such life, that
II every man were such a man as you
and every life life like yours this
earth would be Gods Paradise.-Phil-
lips Brooks.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-10-24

The legislature will be asked mex.
winter to provide for the purchase of
the Platte mounds in Lafayette coun-
ty and the creation of a public park
in which they shall be feature. The
proposed park will include the site oil
old Belmont, the first capital OF Wis
consin, and part OF the plan will be
to restore the building in which the
first legislature met, and to provide
for its preservation.
There is no finer scenery in the
state than there. The mounds and
the country north of them were orig
inally heavily timbered with oak. wal
nut, elm, etc. Much of the forest
remains, though it is rapidly disap-
pearing
The group known as the Platte
mounds comprises three elevations
rising out of the Pecatonica and
Platte rivers. The largest is called,
in the maps of the United States sur
yeys, the West Platte, but is locally
known as the Platte mound It is
eighteen miles from the Illinois line
and sixteen from the Mississippi be-
low Potosi
1t is 200 rods long and so rods wide
at the south end, growing narrower
toward the north. Its summit is l.
445 feet above the sea level, and 400
above the surrounding prairie.
Three miles east is the East Platte
or Belmont mound, named Bell Mont
or Beautiful Mountain, by the French
voyagers, the first white men to see
it. 1t is 120 rods long by 80 rods
wide and 300 feet high, and it is
shaped like an inverted bowl. A large
spring near its western base sends its
water north and east to the Peca-
tonica river
Standing upon Platte mound one
may scan on a clear day the whole Of
southwestern Wisconsin. Blue Mounds
rears its proud dome far to the north
east, and Military ridge, hiding the
Wisconsin river and extending west
to the Mississippi. bounds the hor-
zon on the north. On the west and
south the bluffs Of Iowa and Illinois
limit the view like chain of distant
mountains, among which Scales
mound, Sinsinawa and Pilot Knob arc
especially noticeable. To the east
the prairies extend as far as the eye
can reach, cut by the silver threads of
the Pecatonica and its numerous trib-
utaries.
In whatever direction one looks the
finest farming and grazing country in
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-10-24
INSURANCE MAN CAUGHT.

Insurance adjusters are about as
clever and smooth as any class Of
men to be found" said an oIe-tims
merchant the other day "Theii
logic is always oiled and ready to rui
without the least jar or friction
Once, however. one of the tribe goi
slipped up on. His logic got side
tracked on derailing switch. l was
running a country store which was de
stroyed by fire. The adjuster came
along, and then came the battle e
get settlement satisfactory to both
sides. We were going over the items
burned in the basement. Now, what
else was there? asked the adjuster
There were 20 bushels of potatoes
which | paid rs cents bushel for
but at the time they were worth 81
cents bushel,'
Hold on, said the insurance man
We're only paying you for what you
lost. No inflated values 90. They
cost you S.. What else?'
There were lour barrels of apples
which had rotted on my hands and
was going to throw out that day
The fire prevented it. They weren't
worth a cent, bit they COSTUME SO a
barrel.
The adjuster saw he was caught.