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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02
qze SPORTING WORLD


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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

have opened pressing and
cleaning shop on College street. All
work guaranteed. Prices right. Thee
Farley, u
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

Flirts who love romantic cores
pondence. would save time by usin:
a rubber stamp for the word dear
est
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

When Casey ran meat market
over in the patch certain Eng
lewood man undertook to have fun
with him, and asked; Can you give
me yard of porke" "Surtinly, sur.
Mulcahey,' he shouted TO his man,
Give Nisther Jones three pigs
fate.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

The small boy who told his teach
er that blood rushed to her head os-
cause her feet were not empty sot
his all right. all right
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

Beauty ana Purity both may 80
singing their way along.
but Beauty not always is pure. MS
said
While Purity never goes wrong
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

1t is frequently as difficult to
dodge a drunken man as an automo-
bile. You never can tell which way
either one is going to wobble next.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02
The young man FOR action,
The old man for judge,
The mother for counsel,
The daughter for fudge.

John d. Rockefeller, ii is said, al
ways has been very fond of cheese.
Seems IKE man with his capital
should be able 10 satisfy his appetite
even for cheese
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02
UNGLETS AND JOKELETS.

The young man, in wooing,
Her father must suit,
And sometimes while sueing
There's something Ito boot,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

WEATHER--To partly cloudy
weather, warmer. Wednesday unset
tied weather. warmer, Max. ~ Min.
a.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

MONEY TO LOAN on Diamonds.
See Pat wilson II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

TO RENT-115 acres near Sardis,
also 35 in pasture. S. II. Watson.
Waxhachie. Texas. tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

WANTED-Everybo in Waxaha-
chic and surrounding country to
read this column every day. 1t may
contain an advertisement of the very
thing you want. If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

SEND US your repairing and press
ing. All our work Is done by the most
skilled workmen and guaranteed to
be satisfactory. Porter will call for
all packages. Both phones Hosford
& Brown. II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

IF YOU want your house painted
right now. See Smith Bros. Phone
514. II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

WANTED-Wood choppers. Good
timber, 200 cords. Apply TO j. T.
Andrews, Rocket, Texas. cpd
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

PASTURAGE--Pl Plenty of grass, wa
ter and shade. Ed Williams. -
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

ESTRAYED---One medium size
black SOW Notify c. w. Gibson,
Waxahachie, Texas. IL
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02
WANT COLUMN

FOR SALE TWO good milch cows.
See II y. Nycum. IL
WANTED buy one medium siz~
cd iron safe. s l.. Smiley & Co. 3,
FOR RENT--A four room house on
Williams street. See Geo. l.. Griffin.
II
FOR SALE -Geraniums, ferns and
other plants. Mrs. Dora Ray. Dunn
street. l2p
FOR SALE-We have an eight hun
dred dollar. first lien note. Malcolm
4 Stroud III
SCHOOL CHILDREN-Plenty of
map paper for sale at the Daily
Light office. II
OLD PAPERS--Just the thing to go
under your spring carpets. You can
get them at the Daily Light office. II
CALLING CARDS-When you want
the latest thing in calling cards send
your order to the Daily Light office.
If
PROF. E. WILKINS, the well known
piano tuner, is here and will receive
orders at Hood & Curlin's drug
store. tt
! FOR SALE-Fine Jersey COW;
gives lots OF milk and never goes dry
NJ. H. Finch, corner Marvin and Far
| ley streets. II
FOR RENT-Tive room house in
Trinity University addition. Barn.
servants house and plenty of water.
Jas. S. Davis. tt
FRANK WHIPPLE'S TAILOR shop
does cleaning, pressing and repair
ing All work guaranteed to be first
lass in every respect. We mako q
speciality OF cleaning and pressing
ladies' clothes. All work called for
and delivered. ITO w. Main. tt
WE WILL DO your cleaning, press
ing and repairing in a first class
manner and do it promptly. Mr.. GUY
Page has charge OF this department.
and his work speaks for itself. We
call for and deliver work. Calvin
Bros. East Side Square. Both phones.
II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

SCHOOL HILDREN--Plenty of
map paper for sale at the Daily
Light office. II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

FOR SALE-We have an eight hun
dred dollar. first lien note. Malcolm
4 Stroud. ~
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

LET US do your pressing. We have
it done by a man who knows his
trade. Then your suit will hold its
shape. Matthews Bros. tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

FOUND--Collection book. Owner
can have same by paying for this
notice. Enquire at Daily Light. II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

PROF. E. WILKINS, the well known
piano tuner, is here and will receive
orders at Hood & Curlin's drug
store. tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

FOR SALE-Geraniums, ferns and
other plants. Mrs. Dora Ray. Dunn
street. Up
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

ENGRAVED CARD6-If it is en-
1rayed calling cards you want leave
your order at the Daily Light office.
If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

FOR RENT--A four room house on
Williams street. See Geo l.. griffin.
II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

OLD PAPERS-Just the thing to go
under your spring carpets. You can
get them at the Daily Light office. II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

FOR SALE-Fine Jersey COW;
gives lots OF milk and never goes dry
NJ H. Finch, corner Marvin and Far
ley streets. II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

CALLING CARDS-When you want
the latest thing in calling cards send
your order to the Daily Light office.
If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

FOR SALE-Two good milch COWS.
See II y. Nycum. IL
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

WANTED To buy one medium siz~
cd iron safe. s l.. Smiley & Co. 81 II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-02

FOR RENT-Five room house in
Trinity University addition. Barn,
servants house and plenty of water.
Jas. S. Davis. tt
The Carlisle independent., 1907-02-07
SURVIVAL OF MAN

tBy Charles F, Woodruff. NJ. D.
 So much popular attention has been given to the diminishing birth rate in civilized races that it Is astounding there has been so little said as to its real significance as natural law which has been operative in all species of plant or animal. man included, whenever the conditions of existence demanded it. In the struggle for ex- istence there are thousands of factors determining survival, and the number of offspring from one pair of parents is strictly regulated by these factors In the long run a species must re- main stationary numerically or dimin- ish, for it cannot increase to over run the earth. Hence the death rate is exactly equal to the birth rate as a rule, and there Is death for every birth It may be stated in other terms. No matter how many offspring there are, nor how long the parents live, nor how often they produce, all the off spring perish except two on an av- craze, and these two take the place of
The Carlisle independent., 1907-02-07

the number of the worlds people at that distant time can be had From the figures given of the armies of the ancients fair estimate of their popu- lations may be made. and it shows that numerically the old peoples were weak. War in those times was so regularly recognized as part of life that at least one-tenth of the male population was regularly in service. Consequently, when we read of con quering army such as Alexander's, set ting out with 30000 foot and 5000 horses. those figures probably repre- sent the full extent of the national re- sources
 From figures such as these it would appear that the Persian empire in it's heyday did not contain so large pop ulation as Pennsylvania does today; Egypt, under the Pharaohs, probably had smaller population than New York city, and many of the beautiful ancient cities which industrious arch eologists afe daily bringing to light had fewer inhabitants than many | u-CldSS DOSL lONUS III tHc United States today. When Colum bus discovered America there were not, from indications observed, a million inhabitants in the entire western hemisphere.
 The greatest increase in the world S population was observable during the nineteenth century, which. with it's scientific spirit and remarkable in- yentions, spread the benefits of hy- giene and sanitation. Yet wars and railway accidents surpassed the rav- ages of any hundred plaques known to history In the United States alone, during the last ten years, there has been an average of 1000 persons killed and 65,000 injured a year. The Ma. poleonic wars depopulated France and the civil war In the United States and the recent Russo-Japanese war far surpassed in extent the casualties of the greatest conflicts of antiquity.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-02-07
As Wallace SotD Lincoln.
Famous Author Wrote Entertainingiy
 of First Meeting.

The charm of Lew Wallace's Auto biography consists not only in the fact that the author was a famous general and famous novelist, but that so many of his recollections are rem iniscent of the great.
 One of the most fascinating des- criptions is that of his first sight Of Abraham Lincoln. It was in 1850, as a tavern in Danville, IL
 Wallace writes as follows:
 There was one of the contestantsf who arrested my attention early. part ly by his stories partly by his ap' pearance.
 His hair was thick, coarse and de liant; it stood out in every direction His features were massive, nose long, eyebrows protrusive, mouth large, cheeks hollow, eyes gray and always responsive to the humor. He smiled all the time, but never once did he laugh outright His hands were large, his arms slender and disproportion' | ately long. His legs were a wonder. particularly when he was in nara l tion he kept crossing and uncrossing l them. sometimes it actually seemed
 he was trying to tie them into bow | knot
 Altogether, I thought him the | gauntest, quaintest and most positive l ly ugly man who had ever attracted 1 me enough to call for study. Still, when he was in speech, my eyes did
 not quit his face. He held me in un- consciousness.
 About midnight his competitors
 were disposed to give in; either their i stories were exhausted, or they were tacitly conceding him the crown From answering them story for story. he gave two or three to their one. Al last he took the floor and held it. | And, looking back, I am now con vinced that he frequently invented his replications; which is saying he pos sessed a marvellous gift of improvisa tion.
 Such was Abraham Lincoln And to be perfectly candid, had one stood at my elbow that night in the old tavern and whispered: Look at him closely. He will one day be president and the savior of his country, I had l laughed at the idea but a little less | heartily than I laughed at the man.
 "Afterward I came to know him ! better, and then I did not laugh
The Carlisle independent., 1907-02-07
Famous Illinois TaUern.
Where Lincoln, When a Circuit Rid
 ing Lawyer, Swapped Stories.

With the demolition of the old Kel- ley tavern, torn down to make room for a barn, there passed one of the famous old hostelries of Illinois. Built in 1899, the old tavern became the stopping place of all west bound trav- elers, it being the only hotel between Danville and Urbana on the state road
 For years it enjoyed great popular ity, especially during it's ownership by Joseph Kelley, who operated 1t from 1S40 until 1864. During the sos it was the regular stopping place of the old time circuit riding lawyers, among whom were Abraham Lincoln and Judge David Davis. Both Lincoln and Davis were warm friends of Kel- ley, whose ready wit and great fund of stories made him favorite with both men.
 Often Lincoln's coming, being her aided about the surrounding country, drew scores of farmers to the hotel, and not infreQuently residents of Ur- bana drove down to enjoy the contest between the two great story tellers. However we'll equipped with new ma terial was MT. Kelley he always found himself vanquished by MT. Lincoln, whose fund of anecdotes seemed in- exhaustible. Old residents say that the two champions frequently told stories almost all night, Lincoln sit ting in an immense armchair with wide rockers and buffalo robe cush- ion, known to the household as ''Abe's chair" The old chair is still in the possession of the Kelley family, one of it's most cherished heirlooms.
 The old tavern played an important part in the social life of the commun- ity. Here during the winter months assembled all the young people for miles around to dance and enjoy themselves. In the yard were held the turkey shoots on Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the pioneers as. sembled to prove their wonderful skill with their old muzzle loading firearms. Whisky on these occasions flowed freely. and some famous fights have occurred about the old building, but for the most part the early settler was good natured, even in his cups, and no serious damage was done in these encounters.
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been popularly held. At the time of the exodus it is doubtful if the then narrowly prescribed world contained more than 15,000, 900 of people. Prof. Flinders Petrie, the eminent Egyptolo- gist, in recent work, has called at tention to what he considers an error in translating the original Hebrew Scriptures. He maintains that instead of 6O0.OOO Hebrews leaving Egypt there were really about $500. His interpretation and demonstration are ingenious and need not be refuted here.
 Some Unreliable Data.
 It is only by estimates based upon questionable figures that any idea or
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number are better able to produce good ones, and if the animal must feed and protect the young, the drain Is too great if many offspring are produced. There Is then a selection or survival of those which are the most vigorous that is, those having the fewest of. spring. In time this process results in very small birth rate. Some sea. birds, for instance, lay but one egg year
 These are the rules operative also in the case of man. There was a time when he was struggling for existence in far different way than he now does. He could not give much care to his children, and when they contracted diseases he simply watched them die. for he was ignorant of the ways of curing them. The infantile death rate was enormous, as it is at present in the savage races.
 The brain of primitive man in. creased in size from the survival of the most intelligent in each genera tion during this awful early struggle with severe environment, and then civilization gradually arose by reason of this increased brain. Men were able to raise children which formerly perished.
 Families Grow Smaller.
 The human race-at least in it's civ iliZed branches-is gradually becom- ing confined to the lines of small fam. lilies.
 The resulting types will be some what feebler than prior ones, but that
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the parents to keep the species numerically steady.
 It is evident that if new enemies of the young appear, the species will per ish unless more offspring are pro- duced, and there is a survival or se- lection of the types breeding the most. This process goes on until we reach such cases as the fish, which produce millions of eggs to enable two ind- viduals to survive.
 Struggle for Existence.
 On the other hand, 1t frequently happens that sheltered breeding places are selected where there are no enemies, and all the offspring are raised. Those which produce the least
The Carlisle independent., 1907-02-07

An autograph letter of Abraham Lincoln, writer more than half cen tury ago to his lifelong friend, Thomas J. Turner, of Freeport, H., afterward a colonel in an Illinois regi- ment, is here reproduced as an object of national interest.
 The value of this letter to the tam lilies to whom it has descended-like an apostolic succession-may be estimat- ed from the fact that it has passed from deathbed to deathbed as sacred charge in the Turner generations, the
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man to whom 1t was written treasur ing the series of Lincoln's correspond ence in order to bequeath to members of his family souvenirs whose value ne foresaw with prophetic eye.
 Any letter of Abraham Lincoln would be of interest to the people or Illinois, especially one written before the period of war and turmoil, when the Springfield lawyer was engaged in the vacations of peace. The owner of the letter-a Freeport man-is now living in Chicago.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-02-07
Birth Rate Of Past.

The ancients did not leave any very authentic records of the population of their cities or countries, but such frag- mentary information as has descended to our times shows a steady and con- tinuous growth in the number of the worlds people, says the Philadelphia Ledger. While the birth rate, propor- tionately. was perhaps greater in some parts of the world 1000 years ago than 1t Is to-day, long years of warfare and convulsions of nature, to say nothing of accident, assassination and disease, kept the growth of population within a narrow rate of progression.
 Only the barest estimates of the population of the world are possible before the nineteenth century. Even now universal census Is wanting, but the present means of estimating lead to more reasonable results than were possible so recently as hundred years ago.
 The cry that the human race is dying out was not unfamiliar in ancient Rome and in Sparta. Efforts were made in those states to rectify the failing birth rate by enacting vari ous laws. In the meantime a new world has been discovered and the globes population, despite innumer- able natural and artificial drawbacks, has grown probably hundredfold
 Many misconceptions of the size of the population of the ancient mon archies and people, it seems, have
The Carlisle independent., 1907-02-07

One of the most valuable of the gov
 ernment's unique collection of patent models, the finest In the world. is No. 6,469. granted May 22. 1S49 to Abra. ham Lincoln for method of lifting ves- sells over shoals. The device consists of the application to a river steamer. of two oT moro collapsible floats made
The Carlisle independent., 1907-02-07
CINlG94X9l Q

Philadelphia.-The latest estimate of the total population of the world is 1.487 ,900,000, yet French statistician. Or. Meslier, has just published some ngures by which he strives to prove that the human race is dying out
 Limited to the birth rate in Europe an and few other countries of white population, Dr. Meslier appears to nave established his case. His figures, at any rate, are startling, but. as he leaves out of consideration some of the most populous countries and pro iihc peoples-the Asiatic races-it is doubtful if he maintains his position.
 Taking the years of 1881 to 1903, he says that for every thousand married women from 15 to 5 years of age taken from different countries the births have decreased in England IS per cent, ten per cent. in Scotland, ten per cent. in Bavaria, seven per cent. in Italy seven per cent in Sweden, II per cent. in Russia r per cent. in France. r per cent in Den mark, Is per cent. in New Zealand, 24 per cent. in Saxony, p per cent. in the state of Victoria and 33 per cent. In New South Wales. As the census returns of the United States for 1900 are as yet incomplete, there are no satisfactory figures upon which Dr. Meslier can carry his comparisons to this country
 If the birth rate figures are missing, the morta alitv statistics of soma oe of the principal cities of the United States show that there is an appreci- able decrease in all but two cities New Orleans and Columbus-between 1890 and 1900.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-02-07

boat by upright poles. When a vessel so equipped strikes shoal water the bellows are inflated by pressure on the poles, which Is supposed to raise the boat clear of the bottom. When the bellows are to be defiated a wind. lass raises the poies.-N. Y. World.
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is an advantage also. Feeble children are now raised which invariably per ished in prior ages. Survival Is the proof of being the fittest for survival. of course. If future man is to be much frailer than present man, 1t will be natural process. Present types are much different from the powerful brute of prehistory and keep them selves alive by intelligent forethought great physical strength, and are driv- ing him to the wall.
 The same journal which gives a highly sensational account of the ter rife reduction in the birth rate will in another column describe the awful famines in far-away lands involving millions of people.
 The Russian peasants have huge families, in which the infantile death rate is tremendous, because they live under very unsanitary conditions which none except the most vigorous children can survive. All the weak lings are killed off, and the survivors are those remarkable men who, when drafted into the army, are able to ac- complish such marvels of endurance. On the other hand, the English baby, no matter how frail, Is saved; no mat ter how sick, it is cured and grows up. The nation is known to be far less TO- bust, as far as muscle and brute force is concerned. than 1t was a couple of centuries ago. It is difficult to get soldiers strong enough to carry the gun and ammunition, while in Rus sia nearly all are able soldiers.