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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

Madrid. March ~ Cartegena H.
assuming gala attire for the coming
visit Of king Alfonso and King Ed
ward Prince Charlie Of bourbon.
brother In-laW ~ Alfonso. probably
will go with Alfonso Ia meet the
British king. and lt la expected that
the powager Queen Marin Christina
will sIsn make thr journey fo greet
Queen klexaudra
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

WE WILL do your cleaning, press
ing and repairing in first class
manner and do II promptly. Mr. Guy
Page has charge of this department,
Snd his work SPEAKS for itself. We
call for and deliver work Calvin
Bros East Side Square. Both phones.
If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

GET out of the narrow rut of pen
MES into the big shining world OF
dollars, and give me your subscrip-
ton to Hollands Magazine and
Farm and Ranch, $1.00 each. Mrs.
r. f. Butler. 0S
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Paint Nour Buggy for zoe.

10 800 with Devoe's Gloss Car
riage Paint 1t weighs TO ozs.
more 10 the pint than others. wears
longer, and gives gloss equal TO
new work Sold by Waxahachie
Lumber Co a
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

TYPEWRITERS- have secured
the agency for the Texas Typewriter
Co., and can now sell you any kind
of a rebuilt typewriter, as good as
new, on easy payments; also buy,
sell, or rent typewriters. K. +. Moore
Furniture company II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

n G. Bradford and Miss Pearl
Scott OF the Boyce community We're
united in marriage this morning at
the Justice of the peace office. Col
NJ W Mcknight performing the
ceremony
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

SEND us your repairing and press
ing. All our work Ia done by the most
skilled workmen and guaranteed to
be satisfactory. Porter will call for
all packages. Both phones. Hosford
& Brown tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

FOR SALE-F. J. X. Davenport has
100 bushels of Texas White Wonder
cotton seed for sale. Superior to any
thing in Ellis county. 05
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

WANTED-Every lady in town to
call at kemble Bros. and look at
their display of lace curtains and
madras cloth drapery. 06
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

LET US do your pressing. We have
1t done by man who knows his
trade. Then your suit will hold it's
shape. Matthews Bros. tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

FOR RENT--Three or four rooms.
furnished or unfinished, for house
keeping. Apply at 400 West Jeffer-
son street 3O1
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

FOR RENT--Five room house in
Trinity University addition. Barn,
servants house and plenty of water.
Jas s. Davis. If
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FOR SALE-All my household and
kitchen furniture at a bargain. Mrs.
r. +. Wall. 312 Rogers street IL
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

WANTED Everybody to call and
see our Easter novelties before they
buy ForbIs a. Armstrong OF
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

WANTED-A couple to board in
private family. Address with refer
ences, X. care Daily Light. 0s
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

LOST One lady'S gold shirt waist
pin, Initials T.. r, Return 10 this of
fic. and receive reward OF
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-28

FOR SALE One extra fine rubber
tired Kaufman phaetnn cheap for
cash C. n Anderson oG
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AsffI, r~n psss@ne ~ aBse
phoae s&z on
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30
CRACKED HER MAMMALS RIB.
Buxom Girl Hugs Parent. Who Sus-
tains Injury as Result.

Atlantic City, n. J.-Overjoyed at
seeing her mother, whom she visited
in anticipation of Christmas. Miss
Daisy English, buXom and pretty.
crushed the mother to her breast in
a fervid embrace and broke one Of
the matters ribs.
The mother. Mrs. Emma English,
who is rather frail little woman,
swung free OF her daughters embrace
and complained Of pain in her side,
which physician diagnosed quickly
as a fracture of the lower rib.
Miss Daisy lives in this city with
a sister and had not seen her mother.
who lives at Northfield for several
weeks prior to the visit. Mrs. Eng
lish saw her daughter coming up the
front footway of the little cottage
yard and ran to the door to meet her.
The hug was given with fond force
on each side, but Miss Daisy failed to
take account of her fresh young
strength until she heard the verdict
of the surgeon.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30

They do not help to build school
houses for your children; the local
merchant does. They do not assist in
the support of your churches; the
local merchant does.
But there are some things the cata-
logue houses do for you and the
| first and greatest of these is to assist
materially in bankrupting your COM
munity. The dollars they take away
never help to make a city of your vii
lage. They will never increase the
value of your real-estate holdings by
making local improvements.
Let US look at the subject from the
standpoint of the farmer, for it is the
farmer who is the greatest patron of
the catalogue houses.
The town or village one, two or
three miles from his home is his mar
ket for the butter and eggs and other
produce of his farm. The half dozen
or more merchants of the town, each
anxious to obtain his full share of the
business of the community, maintain
! competition that affords to the
farmer at all times top prices for the
| products OF his farm. 1t is these half
dozen merchants that make farm
profits possible; the profits are in no
| way due to the catalogue houses of
the cities.
But the farmer persists in sending
his dollars to the city. He wants a
| buggy, or set of harness, or a pair
of stockings, or any of the necessities
or Injuries of life, and to get them he
takes out his mail order catalogue and
looks at the finely printed cuts, reads
! the well written description, and, pass
| ing the local merchant by, the mer-
chant who has purchased his produce
| at the best market prices, the mer-
! chant who has helped to build the
community, he sends his dollars to
the catalogue house in the city and
takes what they choose to send him.
What is the result?
One after another the doors of the
local stores are closed, and where at
one time there were half dozen mer-
chants, each bidding for his share of
patronage by offering fair prices for
that which the farmer had to sell,
there is now but one merchant who
has a monopoly, not only of the sell
| ing, but of the buying as well, and he
pays what he pleases for the farmers
| produce.
| The farmer can continue to send his
money to the catalogue house in the
city for his supplies. but he cannot
send kis produce to the same pIaD~
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30

in blackboard. 1t was 60 miles
across the desert of sagebrush and
sand. AT noon the team gave out,
and shutdown caught us a long way
from Ojo Alma.
I'VE had reached a small stream
when the Indian made signs that we
would have to spend the night there.
We got out of the blackboard, and
the Indian hobbled the ponies. He
gathered a lot of sagebrush and start
ed fire. After awhile we went to
bed, the Indian on one side of the
fire and l on the other, rolled up in
blankets. l never slept wink. 1t
was the longest night ever spent.
When the coyotes began to howl close
to us was glad to hear them, for it
somewhat broke the monotony Of
waiting out there on lonely desert,
miles and miles from any person,
with only an Indian for company.
al wasn't afraid. and if 1 had been
It would not have helped matters.
There was no danger. would sooner
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30
Dead Man Sat Beside Him,

New York.-Harry Melbourne drove
a heavy furniture van through the
Christmas shoppers Sixth avenue for
nearly an hour with dead man on
the seat beside him. With John Par
ken, As years old, the regular driver
of the van, Melbourne went to house
in West Thirteenth street to get
load of household goods to take to
Harlem. The two men carried out
chairs, tables, beds and other effects
and had large pile on the sidewalk
when Parker reeled and complained
of feeling i'll. Melbourne supported
him and led him to the wagon. Prop
ping him up on the seat and wrapping
blanket around him he finished load
ing up the big vehicle alone. At Thir-
ty-first street Melbourne drew his
wagon up alongside the curb, made
a hasty examination and found that
Parker was dead. A physician called
from the New York hospital said that
Parker had died of heart disease and
apparently had been lifeless for near
ly an hour.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30
TRADE AT HOME.
Why Farmer Should Giue
His Support to the
Local Merchant.
PRESERVES HIS OWN MARKET
Depreciation of Village Property
Must Inevitably Mean Deprecia-
ton Of Agricultural Property
and Encouragement OF
MONOPOLY,

Copyright. 1906. by Alfred C. Clarke
The most serious problem that con-
fronts the rural towns and villages
OF this country is the competition Of
Tered local enterprises by the cata-
iogue houses Of the large cities. 1t is
problem for which a solution must
be found if the prosperity and sta
hliity OF the nation is to stand.
And the solution of this great prob
lem lies in the hanF; of the people of
the towns and villages and the farms,
especially the farms
The people Of the rural communities
have everything to lose and nothing
to gain by sending their money to
the catalogue houses, by passing by
their local merchants and sending
their dollars to the concerns who have
absolutely no interest in their com.
munities.
These catalogue houses do not paw
taxes in your town; the local mer-
chant does. They do not build side
walks in your town; the local mer-
chant does. They do not contribute
to the building of roads over which
the crops of the farms are hauled to
market; the local merchant does.
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Finds Family Are pisaureeabIe.

Edmonton, ALA weird tale of
cannibalism among the Indians of the
far north was brought in the other
day by John McDougall. son of the
first missionary 10 the Canadian
northwest, who is in the employ OF
the Hudson's Bay company, and l.. s.
c. Ward, an independent trapper. A
member of the Rib tribe. when provi-
sions ran short, killed and ate his
wife and three children, one by one.
but soon died from the effects of over
eating.
MacDougall and Ward are enthu-
siastic over the possibilities Of the
great wilderness. They tell OF salt
wells of inexhaustible wealth, Of sup
plies of game limited only by the abil-
tiles of trappers to carry it away and
of lakes full of excellent fish, but at
present inaccessible on account OF the
lack of transportation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30
LOVER CAPTURES HER IN TUG
OF WAR WITH BROTHERS.
KNOT THEN QUICKLY TIED
frate Father Accepts the Inevitable
and Forgives-Story Showing Ro-
nance Still Lives in Ten
nessee Hills.

Dresden. Tenn-A good story of a
lover who captured his sweetheart
and carried her off and married her
In the good old Roman way came
from the Twentieth district of this
county and is told as follows in a
local newspaper:
1t appears that Ed Grief has been
much in love with Ella Francis for
some time. The courtship, however,
was carried on very much against the
wishes of the young woman's par
ents. For some six months they had
kept their eyes upon her at church,
at school and at home. If they were
not watching they had some per-
son always near whose intention was
to keep down the match.
In that mysterious way known only
to lovers, however, they kept up a
correspondence with each other, she
assuring him upon every occasion pos
sible that her heart was still true.
One recent Sunday morning she con-
veyed the intelligence to her lover
that she was going to visit her uncle
IN Hyndsver community, and would
likely be accompanied only by her
two brothers, aged Is and II years.
This news was sufficient for the
young man, and he made preparations
accordingly.
He came to Dresden and procured
the necessary license. He then Sc
cured the services of Squire W.. W.
House, bosom friend of his, and
posted him near the roadside where
the wagon was to pass. At the hour
of ten the wagon came rolling along,
and sure enough the young woman
was in it, sitting on the front seat
between her two brothers. AS it
passed Grief came out of the bushes,
halted it and reached for his sweet
heart
The brothers, seeing what was about
TO happen, whipped the mules but
Grief had taken the precaution to
build rail fence across the road just
In front. He swung on the wagon
, with all his Strength, and the team
soon came to a standstill. He seized
Miss Francis with both arms around
the waist, while the brothers hung
on to her feet, but like all lovers in
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30
BEAUTIFUL SENoRiTA OBJECTS
TO DlSTASTEFUL MARRIAGE.
RUNS AWAY FROM HOME
For Three Months She Roams Country
In Male Attire, Part of Time
as Member of Robber
Band.

Madrid.-Truly an amazing story is
that of Senorita Esperanzi Vasquez. a
wealthy merchants daughter, who,
after being missing for three months,
was found masQuerading as a male
tramp. and it now nun in a convent.
She is only - and her father is a
leading citizen of Santander. The SEN
orita, was carefully brought up and
educated. She is a tall, good looking
and well built girl, who was known
as regular daredevil, and the hero
inc OF many merry escapades. With
men and women alike, she was in.
tensely popular
One night, three months ago. the
Vasquez mansion was ablaze with
light, as great ball was being given
to celebrate the betrothal of the Sen
orita Esperanzi and the Senior Pablo
Cerda of Bilboa. The next morning
the senorita was missing. Day after
day passed and there was no word of
her; no clue by which her wherea-
bouts could be discovered. She had
simply vanished
pearance was the sensation of the
district. Then her discovery caused
an even greater sensation Disguised
as man, she was found in q tramps
refuge type of lodging house run
by the municipality of Paula Christi
ia, in district of Madrid Clad in
rough mems clothes, the girl had been
a ledger for three days. On the night
before her discovery a dispute arose
between her and a burly giant, the
bully and terror of the place The
bully struck her, knocking her sense
less
When the police rushed in, doc
tor was sent for and thus it was found
that the tall, well built, comely lac
was in reality a girl. Then it came
out that she was the much-sought Els
peranZi Garcia VasqueZ
The girl was reconciled to her fam
lily, and her lover pleaded for an i'm
mediate marriage, but instead the
senorita has just taken the veil il
the Hermanas de Carload convent il
Madrid, and swears she will spend
her life as sister of mercy, tending
the poor and nursing the sick
She told a remarkable story of hel
wanderings in the three months. L
was because of the distasteful be
trothal that she determined to leave
home.
The household, in the early morn
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to his house for dinner, where they
could at the same time have the pro-
lection of the law
The boys in the meantime had
gotten out of their notion to visit
their uncle and had struck for home
and told the story. Francis. finding
his daughter had beaten him, rode
one of the mules back. looking for
the fleeing couple. He learned that
they were at the Justices residence
and called with the voice of a roaring
lion
Squire House went out to see him
and after much discussion and per-
suasion he agreed to take his daugh-
ter back and receive his new son-in-
law into the family. They put the
girl on the mule, while the father and
son walked homeward together, dis
cussing the weather and crops like
oldtime friends.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30
COLLEGE, Gets a Mule.

Oberlin. GA big mule in Peters
hall was what greeted Janitor May as
he entered the building early the
other morning.
No sound did the animal make ex-
cept the shutting of his hoofs as he
stood on the second floor in the gal
lery overlooking the central court He
was large specimen and it required
the united efforts of May and Folk,
the college carpenter, to get him out
of the building.
The stairs were broad and it was
not very difficult COR bunch of col
lege boys TO lead him up, where he
would have caused trouble had he not
been discovered by the janitor
Whether it was a class stunt has
not been learned, but it is attributed
to the freshmen.
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her to walk, swagger. talk from her
chest and put her hands properly in
her pockets.
She was treated with great con-
sideration and finally position was
secured for her as footman in a
nobleman's house. The suggestion
was that she furnish plans and in
formation of the house so that the
band could rob it. The girl declares
that she did not intend to do this. but
seemingly agreed in order to enjoy
the experience and adventure But
she only stayed the one day, for she
found she had to share the sleeping
accommodation of one of the other
men servants.
The robber band were angered at
her behavior, so she escaped and be-
came wanderer in the land-a
tramp. Frankly she says she did not
enjoy herself and is glad of the haven
of rest and peace which the convent
has now given her.
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SPANISH HEIRESS
R0VED AS TRAMP.

ing, tired out with the ball, was sound.
l. asleep. The girl. dressed in her
toughest clothes and taking only such
money as she had in her purse, quiet
ly walked to the railway station and
boarded milk train bound for Bilboa.
From there she took another train 20
lonely country station and began
tramp over the highway to Madrid.
The first night she slept with the
female servants in a cottage back of a
big mansion.
On her second day she fell in with
a male tramp who suggested that she
assume male attire and join an ad-
venturous band of which he was a
member. She agreed and he intro.
duced her to the chief, who gave her
mans clothes, cut her hair and taught
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30

In disposing Of that he Is absolutely
dependent upon his local merchant.
and by his patronage OF the catalogue
houses he has killed competition. and
must now take whatever is offered for
what he has to SELL
Mr.. Farmer, are you helping to kill
the goose that is laying your golden
egg?
Are you sending your dollars to the
catalogue houses and by SO doing kill.
ing the local industries OF your town?
Are you putting your merchants out
OF business, and creating monopoly
that will pay you what it pleases for
the products of your farm?
If you are doing these things it II
time for you to stop and consider the
future. You will have to look but .
little way ahead to see the result, and
it will not be an attractive picture that
greets you. The prosperous com.
munity of which you are now a part
will fade like the summer flowers be-
fore the winter winds, and almost n
quickly.
1t is the fact that there is q market
within close proximity to your farm
that makes your acres valuable The
men who maintain this local market
for you are the men who cause the
railroad trains to stop at your town
Take them away and soon the town
will be wiped off the map. The
| churches will close for lack of support
The schools will cease to be a pride,
and your sons and daughters will lack
the opportunity that is theirs by right
| of birth, and your acres, that are now
valuable because they lie in close
| proximity to a market, will show .
depreciation that will astonish you.
Your interests are identical with
those of the merchants of your town
By sending your dollars to the city
you may cause the merchants to close
their establishments, but when they
| are forced to this they can pack thei,
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NARROWED ON DESERT
WITH NAVAJO INDIAN
Colorado Girl Keeps Lonely Vigil Be-
side Sagebrush Fire, Even Wei
coming HowIs of Coyotes.

Denver, Colo.-Camped all night on
the desert with a Navajo Indian. That
is what Miss Grace Gertrude Dalton,
a young nurse, of Durango, Col, did,
and she smiles as she tells the story.
oh, it was nothing" said Miss Dali
ton. You see, l was just going from
my uncles trading store for visit
with relatives. and our team gave out,
and we had to camp out over night
on the way-the Navajo was taking
me on the trip. The Indian took me
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30
YANKEE IN DIAMOND FIELDS.
Commissions to Study Country
Which Produces Such Men.

Which Produces Such Men.
Mr.. Alfred Mosely is an Englishmar
who admires American ways so much
that he sends commissions here to
study US.
Mr.. Mosely does not admire US
without reason. 1t is not a very
specific reason. Its name is Mr.. Gard.
ner F. Williams, and it is by way o.
being an American mining engineer
Mr.. Williams directs the diamond out
put of the world.
Mr.. Mosely made his fortune In
South Africa. He watched Cecil
Rhodes dream of empire develop and
knew the men who made 1t real The
one who took his Imagination was
Gardner Williams
Here was a man who had lef.
Michigan at the age of 15 to go with
pioneering father to California in
the flush days of the early mining
camps, had had taste Of California
mining. had gone when still young
man to explore in South Africa and
had become general manager OF the
great monopoly of the diamond
mines.
A fighter of financial battles and a
manager of men, a writer, scientis,
and one Of the worlds greatest en-.
gineers, he so stamped his personals.
ty on the people among whom he
lived that he was feted and cheered
by all South Africa when he retired
last spring and came back to the
United States to build home for his
leisure years in the land Of his birth
Worlds Work.
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five feet to one side Bell told the
two workers to hold fast to his legs
and the young bookkeeper crawled
out on the window ledge. over the
coping and swung. head first, far to
the side toward the balcony of the
adjoining house. Louis Schwartz.
standing on the fire escape rail, was
just able to reach Bells outstretched
hands when the bookkeeper was let
down almost to his full length by his
legs. THE young bookkeeper pulled
both men to safety.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30
NGETS SWEETHEART
In OLD ROMAN WAY.

such cases he pulled her loose, and
they struck across the open field to
find the justice. He was not very
far away, and the knot was tied be-
fore you could say Jack Robin
SON.
After the marriage, the couple,
fearing the father, who had just lost
daughter, and gained a son-in-law.
might carry out his often-expressed
desire to thrash the life out of both
Of them if ever this important event
which had just occurred did occur,
got in the Justices buggy and drove
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trust the average Navajo Indian than
lots of the white men. They are fine
fellows, and can be trusted in any
case"
Miss Dalton is a buxom blonde.
pretty, and about % years of age
With an aunt she visited the ST. Louis
Worlds Fair, accompanied by a tall.
handsome young Navajo, whom they
took along as a servant. Miss Dalton
and the young man attracted much
attention on the streets of st. Louis.