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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-11-07
FULL OF STAGE CLOTHES.
Contents OF Trunk Sold Tuesday at
Wells-Farxo ''Old Hoss" Sale

! AS the concluding bargain Tues
Fargo & Co. Express sale the auc
tioneers disposed of stage trunk
contents unknown at first, but sub
sequently discovered to be tinselle
costumes and stage trappings. AT III
same time a drop curtain and severe
!. scenes were sold to railroad COZ
= W ssss4:. ha sn srss;sd -
by the. court or appeals. Both ver-.
ssiefr. '-~,'-- 'af- 4uanrdax- iR-the second
tractor and hereafter will serve, as
a tent -
sad tale of bad luck undoubted-
ly attaches to those guadily painted
canvas sheets. Tney were at one time
the property of some barn storm
ing dramatic company. who struck |
he proyerbial jay town and played
10 an empty house, walked to the
next town and engaged the local
tand, hoping to make enough to pay
'Xpress charges on their baggage.
The town was a bum show burg. and |
he box office was not kept busy on ! I
he opening night The sheriff at I
ached the receipts and the company
iisbande l. Their curtains and trunks
we're left on the hands OF the express
ompany and the manager forgot
hem t
There they remained until yester- G
ly. when O. grading contractor /
ousht thr curtains for tents. and h
ho trunks were sold to men without D.
ut love jn thoir hearts for the acme G
f professions. hut curious desire 81
1 .De what tho contents uf the Sal- ID
togss were They were filled with s
espanglrd petacoaJs. knights ar- a
I1r swords spurs and stage jewels. s
alters of fbg timr OF Loui- XIV. a
ie- OF Jhc time of Queen Anne pud
ul other evidences that the CONF :
5ut musf have bopu SNakv-pea. Z
su drama... assrreariou Houston
Hrru'tIr
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-11-07
CHANGES on 1HE KArY.

s.sdl AZ Y
AGENTS Qf the cQrporation did not
SOn, AssrsIaHI 1-TgrtIUOr- DTsriICo Ae-
torney James r. Hamilton, County
Attorney John w. Brady, Allen &
Hart, and Gregory, Ball q Brooks,
attorneys.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-11-07
CoNNoR CAUsEs coMMoTiON.
Vest buttons of General Freight
Agent Talk Of Officials.

Among railroad officials Yesterday
the allabsorbing topic of conversa-
ton was Bud Connors vest. or rath-
Ter, vest buttons, for the buttons
were what really caused all the COM
| motion Mr.. Connor, who is general
? freight agent of the Trinity and
Brazos Valley railroad, came in yes
! sssa~y morning from Fort WortS.
>. y = !.
'p. =. N q = III
.. m. i Lone Cedar Npv. fS. z: 10 d.
~ k5s..., -. aao s9ery ! fa4,.s. e
n44n III town Was ,intoduced to Buds
ndw vest buttons. They were notice
a$le, and the owner saw to it that
mo- one was denied good view OF
the precious articles.
The buttons were of real pearl
With rims of sure enough gold and
true diamond sparkler in the cen
er. They are beauties. and Berry
Vail in his paimiest days never had
nything quite so fine. The buttons
anne from Europe and were given
D Mr. Connor by his father. w. c.
onnor, president of the Dallas Ter
linal railway and depot COMPANY
Iouston Post
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-11-07

Mrs. j. A. Lipscomb of Memphis.
Tenn. is visiting her sister, Mrs. NJ.
l.. Raspberry at the home of her niece
Mrs w G. Johnson, on Kaufman
street.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-11-07
FAREWELL PERFORMANCES
1',onas DiAon'~ Reconstruction
Play Gr~ted by a Large Au-
tticnCe

dicncc.
| A farewell performance OF The |
/ Ciansman was given at the opera |
house last night. and this play which |
/ has swept both south and north like |
! q cyclone was greeted BY a large |
j and enthusiastic audience When the |
present tour ends The Ciansman"
viii go 10 New York for q short en-
| gagement and Will then Start on
| trip around the world According to |
present plans of the management
| the company will be absent from I
| America three years.
Among the actors who appeared
| In the east last night were Franklin |
| Richie Eugenie Hayden James j.
Ryan Maude Durand, Barry Max
well. Violet Mersereau, Mae Burgess, |
Ruth Hart, NJ j Jordan Bruce
Richardson and Guy b. Hoffman.
'4The Clansman" is briefly the |
story OF how the descendants of
| the Scottish clans, living in the
l
in the year of 1867 and threw Off
| the carpetbagger yoke. Their agency |
I In effectiug this result was the cele- |
! brated ku Klux klan. The hero OF |
the play, Ben Cameron, is leader |
/ of the Klan. His sweetheart. Elsie /,
| Stoneman. is the daughter OF an |
abolitionist, the organizer of the
hated union league.
Elsies father puts forth every eff
fort to enforce negro domination,
and Ben as stoutly resists. The lat
ter is arrested and clapped in jail
by the scalawag white governor of
the state, who is egged on by the mu-
latto lieutenant-g governor, Silas
Lynch A federal court martial SEN
tences Ben to death Elsie begs the
lieutenant to save him.
The latter says he will if Elsie will
marry him (the mulatto) Elsle
? faints at the shocking proposal
Stoneman enters and is maddenet
on learning what his trusted proteg
| l<S uNll ldo holN- iAS Ho' ~"~O"i>No
Lynch about social equality and in
deed has told him to go ahead an
marry white woman, but when n
44AA-
-. -44a,.-s4x y us-1eE4ra acting on the (
Italian i's,tidjer Whipped Tor 11sssSI-
= inx a white Lady. ~
learns Lynch wants his daughter
that is another story and his rage
and disgust are beyond bounds
Yet Stoneman and his daughter
are helpless in the hands of the mu-
latto. 1t is the Ku kluX Klan who,
headed by he rescued Ben. surround
the house, make Lynch prisoner
and free the old man and his daugh- |
| ter. Stoneman at last sees his gigan- +!
| tic mistake in trying to rule the /
country by carpetbaggers and ne /
groes and in instilling false ideas of /
social and political equality. He an
nounces that he will make yet anoth-
er trip to Washington TO induce the
authorities there TO withdraw the
! federal troops and allow the south
cru people TO manage their affairs
/ in their own way.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
WHAT is GOING ON TODAY.

Prominent women at Peace Congress meeting. Car
Meeting Of National Publicity Bill Organization Hotel
Victoria,
orphSps Sog at the circus Madison square O'
Launching Oc new city arsooats the Thomas winess
and the James Duane, Newburs. p m
Peace Congress. Hotel Astor. p. m
Dedication the Ensnssrns Societies Building west
S9th street, near Fifth avenue. . p m .,
sllo eas e @ ae sgEssss' 1S @ss SSH St '2
BY EoessoF Jses & T os 1ss2T Sg
Musical tea Of the national California Club. waldorf
Annual dinner Of Grookyn Democratic Club. the AS
sernbly. Brooklyn. p m.
gSrees MISSION. No AZ caihariRs street. p
First annual meeting OF the TrsSHt GhaRss6 GI e
fremont Prss6yteIiagg Church. l'4'h street ana
Annqs %s,6Fia ss'H5 s;5O G6 p no @ F'"'' ''
Free q the Board 9t EaHSstqn . sPx.8,6 %
avenue. Dr. Henry g Hanehett American an, MHsl l9,.
M9toF F5ank KssE s. The IN oPi PhiDPiTSsss & Sst !iIss 1s
Sarah w Lyons public seSooI 1o ss,h Street
between First and Second avenues Francis ;, u 8;
Moran. The Austrian TyroI 6ilqst5Sted1; Public BIC
Frederick r PaTngton, "A Litte IV I9GT Si n NS Ssr<
PT@fessdr Charles H. Bristol Ths er-
mudas'' (iiiustrated5; American Museum. TTth
street and Central Park West. Dr. William q p;
20 1900 4. D. Cniustratsdl: institute, Han. No
Ruins Of Irish Abbeys'' Illustrated; JudsOn Me-
mortal Hail. washington sGusrs SOUTH O SoFTes TSs
People Live in CongOland'' (Illustrated); Mission
Of the Immaculate Virgin. Great Jones and La
fayette streets. Miss Josephine Day Nye. Three
American HumOrists' New York Public Library
No. West 135th street. James B. Carrington'
american illustrators and Their work (illuS-
9ratedl: St Corneliuss Church. No. 423 West 46th
street Samuel L. Joshi india (illustrRted); Uni
yersitv Settlement. No. 1S4 Edrdge street. Harry
Austin Potter. Spain (illustratedl; West Side
NeighborhoOd House. No. 501 West S0th street,
/ Rogers Mount. california 0llustrated); Pub
lie school q 169th and Third avenue. W,
wallace Ker, "ElectrOplatng and ElectrOtyping''; (;
Public School IS, Park avenue. 215th and 210th
streets. Wiamsbridge MOhammed Barakatullahs
india illustrated
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
BRYAN AS PREACHER.
Says Japan Is Greatest Missionary
Field at Present.

William j. Bryan. who perhaps would have been
more successful preacher than candidate for
public Office told the Foreign Mission Board OF
the Presbyterian Church yesterday afternoon that
Japan was the greatest missionary field to-day. but
that men Of mature minds only should be sent
there
About hundred men interested in missions
met Mr.. Bryan at the Presbyterian Building. No.
loo Fifth avenue. his presence there being on ac-
count OF engagement made on the slope OF
Mount Lebanon in Palestine year ago, when he
met a prominent Presbyterian Of this city. Mr..
Bryan's talk in familiar. conversational vein'
and his hearers were vastly entertained
Il fell in with intelligent Englishman in the
Orient" said Mr. Bryan, land got to talking
about national life and tendencies in respective
countries. After a long homiy, my British friend
asserted. climax. that this nation was given
over to commercialism. and that In our headlong
rush for wealth and supremacy in commerce we
had little time for anything else.
Il told him. said Mr. Bryan, that he was mis-
taken. and that he had not looked deeply into the
subject told him that to India, from when We
much money through missionary channels as
does England. which annually draws from 4ndla
He could hardly credit the statement at irst. !"
SrdoS SaId MT Bryan put SonvnceG ni fO on bi1 m 10
carry the argument further told my a EngIlsh 1sIiS
each year to maintain an armv in india as sne
spends for educatiOn in that country a., -. 1T,
we Americans cannot boast that the sun never sets
on our empire, we can boast that the sun never
sets philanthropy"
Continuing Mr.. Bryan said that missionaries ur-
questiOnably do good wherever they 60 put ne
added that they make errors Of Judgment lie et-
tributed the setback Canton two years ago 10 an
error of Judgment on the part of a missionary
Japan said Mr.. Bryan, lis the gateway OF ILle
Orient. Buddhism is a decaying religion, an ana % -
have a deep veneratiOn for these old religions, ana
the mind OF the japanese is open and teasnSDIle'
His mind Is ready for the reception OF the CnliS-
tlan religion" -
advertising his own generosity when he told OF
schools and colleges maintained by people or THIS
country. - o,o,o- .bis
particuiar line IL financial conditions remain tIie
same with me-" said the Nebraskan- -, ~. =.
Jefferson dinner OF the Harlem DernocraIIe Cl4O ~
last night ne sent letter OF regret 4SdAO D.
Hopper IS president OF the club
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
THEATRICAL INCIDENTS.

Mr.. Joness popular play of "The Hypocrltes' will
be brought to the Grand Opera House on April q
and Mr. Robert Lorraine will appear there. on April
g. in Man and Superman."
Miss Ellen Terry appeared at the Hollis Street
Theatre Boston last night I'm Captain Brass
bounds Conversion" She will continue to act there
till April q.
Mr.. c. n Cohan will! appear at the Academy Of
Music next week in his speciality, Little Johnny
Jones"
The attraction at the West End Theatre this
week is a play. called Parted on Her Wedding
Tour" based on a novel by Miss Laura Jean Libby
entitled Miss MiddetOn's Lovers"
Mr. William Morris's stock company. at the Lin
coin Square Theatre, is acting. this week. in THE
Lost Paradise" by Mr.. De Mile
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
RICHARD HENRY TAYLOR.

Richard Henry Taylor died suddenly on Wednes-
day evening, April 10, and was buried at White
Plains last Saturday afternoon. He was born in
New York City, the second of the late Lyman
and Hester Taylor. When q young man he was
In the lumber business. and later he became inter-
ested In the Broadway Insurance Company, from
which he retired about ten years ago He was a
member and trustee of the Eighteenth Street Meth
odlst Episcopal Church until in 1873 he became a
member OF the Presbyterian Church of fremont.
He was in the Five Points Mission. TO which he
was liberal contributor About four years ago
he removed to Brooklyn and attended the services
at the Central Presbyterian Church. Mr.. Taylor
was a stanch Republican He leaves wife and
an only son. Henry Forester Taylor, who. with
the four grandchildren lives in Morristown. n. j.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
LYRIC THEATRE.
THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY"

The ingenious. fanciful. romantic and interesting
drama. called The Road 10 Yesterday" by Evelyn
G. sutherland and Beulah DIX which was presented
at the Herald Square Theatre December 81, 1905.
and was current there til Saturday night. April s.
IS now visible at the Lyric Theatre. where it will
remain during the rest of the present season. It is
fantasticaI with the wild notion of pre-exstence in
other bodies but it possesses sterling virtues and
IL affords healthful enjoyment. The acting of Miss
Helen Ware and OF Miss Julia Blanc-the one as a
gypsy girl, the other as 'witch,"-has made a
particularly favorable impression OF dramatic
talent The cast is unchanged. Mr.. White WhttIe-
parts. The transfer OF this play TO the Lyric was
made last night-after a week in Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
DIR. HENRY DE WITT JOY.

Dr. Henry De Witt JOY. for seventeen years at
tending physician at Sailors Snug Harbor died
suddenly yesterday from a stroke of apoplexy at
his home. No. so Davis avenue. Livingston Staten
Island He in his sixty-sixth year. and had
a wide reputation consulting physician.
Until a few days ago he was nble to give advice
to both patients and physicians. About five years
ago, shortly after he retired he stricken with
paralysis
Dr. Joy born in New York. He grad
uated from Williams College. and later from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons. He went to
Staten Island lSS3 after considerable service
a surgeon in the New York Eye and Ear Hospital
and of the steamers of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company. He leaves wife and one
son The funeral services will be held at the house
to-mOrFOV night.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
DAVID CRANE TlERour.

David Crane Tiebout. formerly vice-pTesdent OF
the National Citizens Bank and well known
charity worker. died yesterday from a complica-
ton OF diseases at his home No. 468 Franklin ave-
nue. Brooklyn. He eighty-one years old, In
1852 he entered the bank and worked his way up
through every position TO the vice-presdency. He
retired in 1902 after half a century OF service The
bank is now known the Citizens Central Ma
tional Bank, of No. 32O Broadway.
Mr. TteboUt had lived in Brooklyn since 1863.
He was member of the famous New York Hose
Company No. So. vice president and director Of the
Mercantile Library Association OF AstOr Place
treasurer Of the Central Congregational Church;
Brooklyn; member of the Congregational Club Of
BROOKLYN: the Brooklyn Society for the Improve
ment OF the Condition of the Poor and OF many
other charitable organizations He married in 1850
Miss Mary A. Morrison. She, with two daughters
and four sons. survives him.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
TEXT AND PRETENT.
ION The Brooklyn EagIe.

@-s Brooklyn Easle,
49, sayeiy OF parties, 20 say the least is en-
$3.50 ~ these interesting Jefferson Birthday
,ssn.t lne destinles Of empires arc not involved
VA t0ey say, but the resources OF American
mont ana 81 American instruction are re-
~. - ana Increased BY them. Whether holding
lnsss s.iitIc or the stage himself, himself being
sssis tle te1t or the prefext OF those who tempo
.e.gy hold the centre OF the stage Nr Roosevelt
80 t,e oe equally sratiied. When Washington was
sf...,li PIC M February or jackson the 18th OF
Tss55ahs or Cleveland tina 18th OF March, Mr.
fss,sts 'tIb somehow or other, continually re-
s-5t- ~ wlnthcr 1Qr contrast or for compliment
~ ftlier case with direct contribution 10 the
fi.t - oi iie people and with direct concession
s.. -lt vas holding she centre OF observation no
i,rd,,t ,ntaf Other contgibut0rY DersOnages were
S.lt plictfe consideration. THUS ID goes. ROOse-
~, lte me text Others are the protexf. Zach
Esu-s ..s,Do1 different name. but al sang Annie
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
WILLIAM n. Williams.

West Orange. n. J.. April Is (SpeciaD. William
N williams who served for eighteen years as tax
collector In West Orange. died to-day aged severn
ty-eight years Because OF failing health he re-
signed as tax collector two years ago Mr. Will
iams was born in Mount Pleasant Place. He went
to New York in 1916 to learn the trade Of cabinet
maker, but came back TO West Orange three years
later He married Miss Phoebe A. Underhill. of
Westchester County. N Y. in 1854. and she with
a son. daughter and several grandchildren. survives
him. Mr. Williams served on the Board of Educa-
ton for several years, and for tWenty-one years
was member OF the Essex County Board of
Chosen Freeholders. He retired from dhis office in
1887 10 become tax collector. He was Democrat.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
PLANS CATHOLIC HALL FOR CORNELL
Bishop MeQuaid Purposes to Erect Building
When Conditions Warrant 1t.

Rochester. April 15.-Bishop McQuaid gave out a
statement tonight announcing plans for erecting a
Catholic hall at Cornell He stated that there are
upward OF two hundred Catholic students at Cornell
and he purposes TO house of residence there
when conditions warrant 1t. containing lecture
hall and chapel. where students OF his church can
receive religious instruction He believes that this
can be done in a way that will be satisfactory IN
him and 20 the college authorities.
year ago Bishop McQuaid suggested 20 the
archbishOps, when In session at Washington that
a plan similar 20 this should be adopted IN connec-
ton with all the large Catholic universities in
the country, but he says no attention was paid 20
the matter. He will therefore take independent
action in regard 20 Cornell, which is In his diocese
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16

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New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
John A. VAN RusKIRK.

bloomfield. N. j.. April 10 (SpecaD.-JOhn A.
Van Buskirk. an old volunteer fireman of New
York and of the original members OF the
Harry Howard Hose Company. died at his hOme'
No 214 Ashland avenue. this morning, after an
illness of several years. He was born In New York.
but for the last twenty years lived in this town,
Mr. Van Buskirk for many years engaged in
the real estate business in New York. He was a
grandson Of Isaac Kip and his mother a
cousin OF Bishop Kip, OF California. He was sew
enty-sx years old. He leaves wife and two
<l.r,n
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
SALE OF JAMES FAY COLLECTION.

From the first days sale at auction OF the an
tiaue art objects of James Fay. in the old Harmo-
ME Club Building Nos. 45 and IS West 42d street.
yesterday $500 was realized Two hundred lois
were sold marqueterie dressing bureau brought
the highest price, s65. Many OF the specimens
OF chippendale and Louis NJ furniture were sold
al low Drices The sale wl continue for eight
days. Among the oil paintings to be sold Is life
Size portrait OF President Lincoln by William T.
Mathews which hung for many years in the
COrcOran Art Galleries at Washington. President
MCKINLEY introduced q bill Ia COngress TO puF-
chase Il for the government.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
anREAM cITYn AGAIN.

Joe weber Miss LOTUS. Otis Harlan and the
other members OF the Weber forces who have
been playing and singing Dream City and "The
Magic KNIGHT on the road for the last few weeks
came back 10 New York last night delighting big
audience at the Grand Opera House. They viii re-
main in Eighth avenue for the week. and Victor
Herbert's merry burlesque OF i10hengrin will
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
MEMORIAL DAY ARRANGEMENTS.

Major General O. o. Howard will be the review
ing officer OF the Memorial Day parade. and at the
evening exercises in Carnegie Hall Governor
Hughes will preside and the principal speech is 20
he delivered by the Rev. DIR. j. L. Campbell Of
Cambridge. The address at the Soldiers and Sail
orsr Monument will be made by George b. Loud
Colonel Simpson Hamburger will be grand marshal
Of the parade with Colonel Joseph B. Lord as ad-
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
Mr.. BEACH LECTURES At LILLE.

Lille. April 15-Great interest was aroused In the
law faculty this afternoon by the opening Oh
course Of thirty lectures American law ana
American institutions The lecturer. Charles r
Beach jr, OF New York. received a most coTdial
reception. He will stay here until the en9 ot Jy.
uity and later will deliver lectures in southern
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
AIEREn c. RuRToN.

Alfred c. Burton. for twenty-thres years on the
staff OF "Tha Brooklyn Eagle" died yesterday at
the OF his sister. No 52s 5th street. Brooklyn
Mr. Burton born I'm Yorkshire. England. in
1862 After being graduated from Radcliffe College
at the age of fourteen. he came to America. and
began his career an ONCE boy on The Sun"
At the ago OF twenty-one he became city editor of
The Brooklyn Eagle and continued on that
paper until last year. Three months ago ne de-
veoped a cencer in the throat which was the cause
nf
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
MRS. sALoME HANNA JONES.

Mrs. Salome Hanna Jones. sister of the late
Senator Hanna. died in Roosevelt Hospital on
Sunday night. Mrs. Jones lived in Cleveland be-
fore her second marriage. She was then Mrs.
George Chaplin. Mrs. Jones was sixty-four years
old. She leaves two sisters and two brothers They
are Leonard Hanna, Melvin Hanna. Mrs. S. Prem
tiss Baldwin and Mrs J. Moore. all OF Cleveland.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
CHARLES KEssLER SMITH.

Ex-Judge Charles Kesser Smith died on Sunday
night, from Brights disease. in the French Hos
pita No. $50 West S4th street. He seventy five
years old. He at one time counsel for Boss"
Tweed. and we'll known the person who
issued the writ against Jay Gould in the celebrated
Erie Railroad stock case when the latters forces
were holding the Grand Opera House against as
sault. He had a long and interesting career as q
lawyer and Judge. He leaves a wife and an
adopted son, who at present living in France.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
IRVING PLACE THEATRE.
BENEFITS.

At the Irving Place Theatre tonight a comedy
entitled Nit Vergnugen," by Messrs. Moser and
Girndt viii be aeted,-Messrs. George BIschel and
George Herrnstadt taking a benefit. On next Fri
day evening Herr Will Thaller will take a benefit
appearing in the comedy of 'GebH1ete Menschen"
("Educated People'O. by Victor Leon.