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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-11-19

\ proposition to incorporate May
pearl into an Independent district for
school purposes was voted on Satur-
day. The vote stood: For corporation
81; against Is; total 50. At the
same time the board of trustees was
elected. the following being MEM
beers: w. F. Wilman, Dr.. J. II. Cur
ry, Judge j. {. Reynolds. j. P.
Claunch. A. w. Dowd, F. s. Williams
and Ed Brooks.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-11-19
4 MODEL RANCH HONE
Hroshsv ~ War SECRETARY Has Pa
IatissI Country Residence.


what IL said 10 be the finest raacA
home IA Texas has Just been com
pieisa upon ia. ranch ~ e II TAFT
II Cincinnati brother of Secretary q
War " II Taft This ranch embfs.
ces several hundred thousand acres.
MI weil stocked with blootpd cattle
and horses. II wAs there that abe son
Of Secretary Root bpeut several
months year or twa ago and was
given an insight into real cowboy
life II is reported that President
Roosevelt has promised Mr. TAFT TO
ylsit The ranch next spring and en-
gage To the sport Of wolf chasing
and hunting lavpliues. or slid hogs
Many distinguished men from the
north and east have visited there.
but heretofore the accommodations
for guests have been somewhat mca-
ger Now that the new residence and
stables have been finished there
viii be no lack Of room for liberal
display OF hospitality toward all
who may visit the pace Joseph Green
The manager of the ranch. takes "A
personal pleasure In according a
royal welcome to the friends Of MIR
Taft who go there for the hunting
and fishing.
The ranch borders for many miles
upon the bay of Corpus Christi, and
II is upon this water front that the
new country residence and preten-
tious outhouses have been erected.
II is claimed that the residence is
not only the most magnificent ranch
home in the state but that 1t ecIipses
in elegance OF appointments and fur
niture any home in the whole south,
either country or city The building
was designed by Henry Phelps,
young architect Of San Antnoio, who
was given full freedom in the eXer-
else of his ideas a. to the comforts
and elegance of the proposed struc-
ture.
The style of architecture of the
residence is colonial. The roof is in
soft green finish, with the exterior
washed with the dull gray sea-wash
stain. The situation of the building
gives 1t the benefit of all the sea
breeze that may be blowing, and in
order that the full pleasure Of this
breeze may be enjoyed large brick
ed in gallery occupies the bay front,
with great doors leading into spa
cious reception hall,
The reception hall is lGX40 feet
in size. This hall is finished in pan
eled walls, stained a greenish brown,
with a ceiling of studded beams.
That the residence is built with the
idea of making it a sportsmen s
headquarters for the friends of Mr..
Taft is shown by the built-in gun
racks which ornament the large
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-11-19
FOi,istaSUp\

Forrestou. Texas. NOV. 10 Cot
ton picking IS jusf about up for
1907. except some scattering cotton.
Mr.. Herring NoCarycr of Forces
ton says he will gin $1,000 bales of
cotton this year. BE has giuUed 1900
bales to date.
MI Cadc Adkins left here Tues
d1s ou route FOB Kentucky tu accom-
ulus hb father aud mother back to
Texas where they VIII maEo theiI
home
Nr E.Eh Johnston has bis Hsw
residence just about completed
So. I.au Vhifefisid has Hrrr
Nu..us .n Oats ness lafesH
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-11-19

The partnership heretofore exist
ing between Peak, Jones & Bass has
this day been dissolved, George
Peak retiring The firm will hence
forth be known as Jones & Bass,
who solicit your painting and pa
perhanging New phone rs.
F'ELIX JONES,
LUTHER BASS.
Waxahachie. Texas Nov. -, l"o'.
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-11-19
LOCAL NEWS.


igm. II
Or. TATE OF Ennis was In The el,y
today
F. $ cronk q Co. sell roofing
cheap y
The CITY Drug store serves no,
chocolate Il
Drink a hot chocolate at the cily
Drug Store Il
Hot chocolates every day at tl-t
cozy Corner 20
Illustrated songs al the Empire
theatre tonight
| See +. s Cronk & Co. before you
buy your roofing. u
| see H. -. Mctombs for Fire and
! Tornado Insurance, Il
Mrs Ed Hudson is visiting het
parents NJ Hillshoro
Ctty Attorney EskrIdse was a Wis.
| itor to Fort Worth today
Fresh chocolates and homemade
candies at the Eatiiorium. II
Tom Perry OF seagoyilIe, Dallas
| county. is IN the city today.
r. b. Ross has returned from a
visit to his parents at Paris.
Plenty of iron or felt roofing at
+, S. Cronk Co.'S; prices right Il
Buy your pumps from +. s. Cronk
Co. All kinds. Prices way down. II
When you need a plumber. call
Bunkley. with F. s. Croak Co, Both
phones 81. II
The great slaughter sale at Mrs.
Daltons is still on. Any hat in stock
at a bargain. 1876
Just received new shipment Of
all kinds of fresh candies at the
Cozv Corner, 50
William Shelter. advance repre-
sentative of Chas. b. Hanford, Is in
the city today
The family medicine In thousands %
bones for So years-Dr. Thacher'A Liver
ind Blood S~--'n
Two fine pictures, illustrated
songs admission 5 cents. Empire
theatre tonight.
Miss Grace Davenport of Fort
Worth is here to attend the Joyes-
Griggs wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gambler of At
lanta, Ga. are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Williams.
Miss Mary Pierce, who has been
visiting her brother in West Texas,
has returned home.
Ladies' tan shoes-thc swell gold
en- brown-iust received and on sale
at Jolesch x Chaska's. If
Seal-Shipt oysters, once used, al
ways asked for afterward. / handle
no other. H. n. Nycum. If
Mrs. car Terry of Corsicana ar
rived today to attend the Joyes-
this evening
Jake Myers, white pauper on the
county farm, died last night. The
body was buried on the farm today.
When you want the best chocolates
n one-half and pound boxes, call at
Torbis & williams the Coy Corner
IS
Ladies. it YOU want hat made or
trimmed. leave your order with Mrs.
Dalton. She will do the work right.
1876
Attend, Monday night Nov. 25th,
Musical and Spelling Bee at Gibson
building. Admission 10 cents. Bush
els of fun. 80
Skip the stetson halter over
Empire theatre, cleans, reblocks and
retrims an kinds of hats. New
Phone 2Sf %
/ clean. reblock aud retrim all
kinds of old hats. over the Empire
Theatre. Skip. the stctsou halter
new phone 2N4. 9,
II A suit for divorce was filed iu th
| disuiu court today Dos Neluc Dun
au aauu-, O. w. Duncan Abau
d1umv' - alleged
Au amateur oJoE cannot ftI. r
make delicate. -t,urr Iu#0.Hu
Ideh or seatSbipt oysters ara us,.
. have Them o. A. >t.um
Have Skip. tbe Sfgs1u halter 81
..aau un tina. UIJ ba. auB mabe
,5ok as good as uew. Nsa rhua
csc. over fHa Empire theatre.
&c., Hnd N. William s...r w.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
Opening Campaign Books

The speeches of William J. Bryan, John W. Tomlinson and others at the meeting in New York of the national publicity law organization fairly meet and formulate public sentiment on that subject MT Bryan frankly said the evil was not confined to any one party. The only sure way to regulate cam paign contributions, he went on to say, consists in requiring the publication of campaign subscriptions. "Ten days in advance of the election" he said, "a supplementary statement should be filed, giving the contributions up to that time, and 1t should be made un- lawful to receive any contributions after 1t was too late to publish list of them" MT. Bryan and MT. Tomlin- son agreed In declaring there could be no honest politics when any interest could purchase before election prom 1Se lndL CeTldlH IHln6o oldtii pS uohU after election, especially when that promise is concealed from the voters.
 Congress is to be asked next winter to pass publicity bill The republl- cans control both branches of it, and if they refuse to pass comprehensive and effective bill it simply means that they have secrets they dare not share with the people, and that they intend to gather another great slush fund in 1908. They may get together one equal to that of 1904, but they cannot readily exceed it unless indeed they work the standpatters to a finish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
MIME. NAzIMovA's GENIUS.

E. l.. Cary Tn April Putnams.
 This of course, Is to say that Madame Nazimova is an actress of the highest type of the ina ginaive and creative type Her Nora may very well attain to an artistic perfection In detail of which it now falls somewhat short. With 8 greater command of English she doubt less will be able to achieve mellowness of utterance which will modify the effect of shrillness in Nora's high-pitched chat ter-tthe 'lark's" chatter has been diff ficult problem for more than one accom- plished actress. She will perhaps find 1t possible to place less insistent emphasis on the telling phrases by which the arti- fcial antitheses noted by MT. Archer in the construction of the play frequently are marked but it is hardly probable that she can more completely persuade us of the human truth in the character she impersonates To re-read the play after seeing her performance is to realize that she has missed not a single intellectual triumph in the realm of organic construc- ton.
 In ths character of Hedda she had an opportunity to display her extraordinary ability to depict mysterious psychological forces, to treat a complex soul of the duskiest hue in a way to solicit our sym pathy for its moral situation. In Nora mote" is simplicity, and nothing shows more conclusively Madame Nazimova's quality as an actress than her unbroken absorption in each of these characters in turn. without in the slightest degree mix ing up her points of view She appears as a true maker" modelling her images with impregnable fidelity to their indi- yidual forms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
TAX ON LOAN COMPANIES.
Col. r. G. Bush Discusses Recent Leg
 islaton.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 The discussion by the Commercial club and the communication by MT. w. P. G. Harding to your paper with reference to tax on loan companies, as levied by re- cent state legislation, should be seriously considered. It is neither fair nor reaeon- able that criticism of legislation should be construed as criticism of legislators. It is only through friendly discussion or criticism that attention can be called to important matters of this kind.
 Our method of enacting laws in this state necessitates haste, and it is impos- sible within the limited time allowed, to give due thought and consideration to many measures affecting the states in- terest. Until the south becomes much richer and we have large surplus of capital, we must secure foreign capital to carry on our developments, and for town and city building. Our buildings for business and many of our homes, can not be erected without outside aid. For instance, without outside financial aid we would not have the Woodward building, First National Bank building, Brown Marx building, Title Guarantee building and other modern structures in our city and have the benefit of taxing them for state, county and city purposes. With out such aid we will never have the mod ern fireproof hotel which is contemplated and which we so much need.
 The money lender feels that he is en- titled to a fair rate of interest on his cap- ital, and If we impose an unreasonable tax on him he will make the borrower pay it, or retire to other fields. It is probably overlooked that in taxing the lender of money invested in Improvements we are receiving double taxation, as we create a new subject of taxation in the improvements and at the same time tax the capital of the lender In fact. in this particular instance, it might be called triple taxation, as the property as inn proved is taxed, the mortgage is taxed and a tax is imposed on the capital of the lending company, or heavy license inl- posed for doing business, which is in tended as a tax.
 We must not make the mistake In thinking that Alabama is the only state in which money can be loaned to ad- vantage. If our people should be con- pelled to go into other states to secure financial aid, they would labor under great disadvantage and be put to extra expense. This matter properly present. ed should receive favorable consideration by the legislature. There is nothing un- becoming or inconsistent in repeating laws that appear to be harmful, whatever the intention may have been at the time they were enacted. It is, therefore, to be hoped that the suggestions that this important matter be reconsidered will re- ceive favorable consideration. Yours truly T. c. BUSH.
 Birmingham, April F. 1907.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
Good Car Service.

M. NJ. Richey, manager of the middle and western districts of the Southern railway. is making fine record" said J. R. Ryan, vice president of the Corona Coal and Iron company With MT. Richey's promotion to his present posi- ton the car situation improved at once. As representative of a large coal com pany l used to complain of the South ern's management. l, like other shippers, certainly had cause for complaint. l am glad now to say that the Southern has not only improved but 1t Is in excellent condition in the Birmingham district.
 MT Richey has risen to the occasion. He Is not only an able transportation man, but he is more strenuous than ever. He has got behind the various officials under him and has inspired confidence all along the line. All shippers on the Southern are as greatly pleased today as they were wrathful a month ago. With coal In demand and an adequate car sup ply such as we have now, it would be strange if operators did not wear broad smile. Yes, MT. Richey is making the record of his life.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18

latter is being overcome by the organ ization on a large scale of the South ern Cotton association, and the South ern Cotton association is finding ways and means for financing the great scheme of warehousing at home the surplus bales of crop, or if need be the entire crop. When the south can warehouse and handle it's great crop it will begin to be independent, strong and prosperous, and it cannot as section get to that desirable condition until it does handle from seed to mar ket it's chief crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
InqulrIng About Acreage.

W. L. Pryor, special field agent of the bureau of statistics, United States de- partment of agriculture, is in Birming- ham. MT. Pryor has been in this section of the state for several days making in- quiry as to the amount of spring blowing and spring planting done to date He is ascertaining the condition also of meadow moving lands and spring pas ture. This is preliminary to report by the department of agriculture early in May.
 Next month the department will have the four field agents at work in the south to inquire diligently into the cotton acre age for the report to be issued early in June. This is one of the most important reports of the year. an effort being made 10 forecast the acreage planted to cot ton in the south In securing this infor- nation the agents of the government are given free rein in their inquiries, and farmers, merchants, agricultural imple- ment dealers, country bankers, fertilizer people and many others ara interviewed. In addition the agents take drives into the country and examine into actual condi- tions themselves.
 MT. Pryor reports on the crops in Mis- sssippi, Alabama and Tennessee. He is a native of Mississippi, and is a practical farmer as well as an experienced statis- tician
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
Warehousinu Cotton

The New York Mail warmly com mends the efforts of the south to handle the cotton it grows. Here is," it says, Ca staple crop, the demand for which is constantly increasing all over the world, valued in the total at the present time at about $750000000 a year: and out of the aggregatae the middlemen gather in fully $60,000,000 annually, or nearly one-twelfth of the money yield. Still, they contribute ab- solutely nothing to the production of the crop, but simply "skim off this cream from the top of the business at the expense of the cotton growers the farmers of the southern planta- tions. They prey on the necessities of these farmers, who have no cash
 capital, generally, speaking, and must hawk their earliest baled cotton in the nearest and most easily available market. Warehousing the crop close to the plantations would stop all this
 These institutions would receive and store the cotton, make reasonable cash advances on it to the owner, and not rush it forward to demoralize prices in the central market, but hold it for the most profitable time for marketing"
 The reason why the south has not handled it's staple as the west handles
 it's grain, has been due in part to the lack of money and in part to lack of organization and united action. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
Jest. a twelvemonth In a hospital.
 Loves Labor Lost
Alabama Population Estimates

From 1900 to 1905 the census bureau estimates that Alabama's population was increased S.6 per cent, bringing the total up to 1,9S6,347, or an increase of 157,650 in five years. This estimated population is that of June 1, 1905.
 Fourteen states took interdecennial censuses, and in those states are 726 counties Two hundred and twenty four of those counties showed in the midway count decreases, and 133 more had increased less than five per cent. Upon these no doubt the guesses as to the other states were based and Ala bama is given a fair average of per centage, which will have to suffice un- til count is made in 1910.
 The population of Alabama on June l, 1906, is estimated by the census bureau to have been 2,017,S77. We are gaining inhabitants at the rate of about 31 900 a year, and at this rate we will have on June 1. 1910, just about 2,150,- 900 inhabitants, or about Al to the square mile. In 1900 we had 36 to the square mile. The area of this state is 51,99S square miles.
 We give the estimates of the census bureau pertaining to six Alabama cities. as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
GRAVES REPLIES TO CRITICS.

From the Atlanta Georgian and NeWs.
 Of course the reprint this monring from the Washington Star had it's chief motive in the desire to exploit the epithet of phrase maker and fluent talker" as applied to the man who writes the policies on this side of the street.
 We are getting used to this. It is such an old, cheap form of depreciation and it has been tried so long.
 Those who use it fail to see what poor compliment they pay the people in thinking they can be stirred or inter- ested by mere words. Words are the signs of ideas, and the people who live in this enlightened day are not such dolts and fools as to be moved by mere sounds without sense of sentiment.
 without sense or sentiment.
 to depreciate things they cannot answer ought to remember another Georgian who suffered so cruelty in this way at their own and other hands.
 Poor Henry Grady, What pity he could not have lived to see and to enjoy the vindication which death brought to him from these same critics. We who write remember how he, too, was called mere phrase maker,' weaver of fine words and "a fowery talSer." Time and again when this pen was young it has repelled this senseless depreciation which mean envy vented upon a great mind and a great soul.
 When he made that brave and tender speech at the New England dinner which put the capstone upon fraternity and put his name on every praiseful lip and in every patriot heart for the service he had done the republic, the little critics snarled rhetoric at him, and the Charleston News and Courier deliberate ly wrote of our Evangel of Peace that Henry Grady was merely a leaf floating on a current already created
 But Henry Grady dead was all right. He was in nobody's way. He endangered nobody's prestige and the little critics who are long since dead and utterly forgotten, were foremost in carrying flowers to his tomb
 We have had overtures time and again that all our sins would be forgiven if we would write in halting sentences or speak with limping tongue. We have been offered amnesty for bad English and permanent peace for jangling words. We have never been willing to sell out at the price suggested foF the value of such applause.
 We still beeive that a good picture is worthy of good frame. We are still of the opinion that good idea is all the better if it is imbedded in good sentence.
 And we make blod to say that most of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.

By TennySon.
 Year after year unto her feet,
 She lying on her couch alone, Across the purple coverlet.
 The maiden's jet-block hair has grown On either sire her tfanc-ed form, ,c Forth streaming from 8 braid of pearl, The slumbrous light is rich. and warm,
 And moves not on the rounded curl. The silk, starr broildered coverlid
 Unto her limbs itself doth mold Languidly ever; and. amid
 Her full black ronglets downward rolled. Glows forth each softly shadowed arm
 With bracelts of the diamond bright; Her constant beauty doth inform
 Stiffness with love, and day with light. She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart The fragrant tresses are not stirred
 That lie upon her charmed heart, She sleeps: on either hand upswells
 The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwalls
 A perfect form In perfect rest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18
Earthshocks of a Year

One year ago today San Francisco was well-nigh destroyed by earth qualxes and by fires that followed them On August Is came the shock that left Valparaiso Chilli sore stricken. In February occurred the disaster at Kingston, Jamaica, and on Saturday and Sunday last several Mexican states south and west of Mexico City were terribly shaken, and five cities in them were utterly demolished.
 All of these earthquakes clung pretty closely to the Pacific except that at Jamaica, but Jamaica and the awful outbreak of volcano in Martinique 20 to show that the Pacific side of the hemisphere is not the only theatre of recent convulsions and throbbings i'll the earth's crust.
 It is, however, plain that the Amer icas did monopolize in the past year the great quakes. Other countries are often shaken up in this manner, nota- bly, Japan, but in the year just ended no great loss of life occurred in that way in countries outside of the Amer icas.
 The convulsion ii Mexico affected Q wider territory than the earthquakes earlier in the yea did. The damages the latter wrought were confined to comparatively small areas, but the Mexican earthosake shook up several states, and tie Pacific coast all the way from Acapulco to Salmacruz was rent and torn by it. Fears are enter tained that he Isthmus of Tehaunte- pee may haze felt the shocks with great res,ultMt loss of life and prop erty.