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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-06

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-06
OLD TIME CELEBRATIONS.
Happiness the Order OF the Day Tran
aulfiity OF the Night.

/ Happiness the Order OF the Day, Tran
guilty Of the Night.
The dles of old newspapers are q
( priceless record oe the history and
manners Of their times IN the papers
Of 1896 the accounts of public rejolcluGS
show that these were few in number
and that the method OF keeping them
differed widely from our ideas Of feS-
tivities Washington's birthday was
perhaps the greatest holiday.
Industrious citizens" we are told.
appropriated the hour of noon for the
congratulations Of the day. Each fam
lily enriched the domestic meal with
bountiful provisions. and gay spirits
and temperate aud undissembled JOY
pervaded all classes"
There were speeches and professions
and illuminations for the less indus
trlous who were willing to give some
thing more than the hour of noon to
the celebration, but the most memorh-
BILE observance of the day was that of
the Harvard students
Saying to each other that II would
be disgraceful TO pretend to honor
Washington with riot and disorder.
they retired to their chambers before Q
O'Clock, and by the time the bells
ceased ringing there was not light TO
be seen In any OF the buildings"
This is equaled by the summing up
OF the celebrations Of Fourth OF July
for the same year. day observed with
great rejoiclugs No accidents are re
ported. and the editor concludes, In
short. in every place we heard from
happiness was the order of the day.
tranquility OF the night Youths
Companion.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-06
Trinity L RraZOS Valley.


Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 6.-Des-
pendent over financial troubles,
Louis NJ Levy, a retired merchant,
one of the most prominent mer-
chants in the city, yesterday morn
ing went to his store on Main street
faced a mirror in back room, and
blew his brains out with a revolver.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-06

Uvalde, Tex, Aug. 6.-Mrs. Be
senta Aguirre was run over and kill
ed by an eastbound excursion train
at / o'clock yesterday morning. Her
head was completely severed from
the body.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-06


Bunkley. with f :. Cronk Co, Both
| phones 81. II
Mrs. W. L. Acker and children
left this morning for Commerce 80
| visit relatives
The family medicine in thousands ~
bones for So years-Dr. rhacherSs L'"ss
and Blood S~~-o.
z. J. Braley. who has been visit
ing in the city returned to West
Texas last night
Miss Lois Mcclellan left this morn
ing for Amarillo. whore she viii Wis
it for a short while.
You and your wife and the rest
of the family take your meals at the
Eatitorium these hot days. e
Miss Emma Davis left yesterday
4 afternoon for Colorado Springs,
where she will visit for some time.
Alta and Roy Bratcher are spend
ing a few days with the family Of
Judge J. c. Christian at Rockwell
Dr.. r. L. schmitr and family re
turned last night from a weeks stay |
in Galveston enjoying the sea bree-
yes.
D. e. Hatch. representing the |
Beacon Paper company. was seeing /
the printing trade in Waxahachie to-
day.
Miss Gertrude Sachse Of sachse.
( who has been in the city the past
!, week with relatives, returned home
today
A want ad in yesterdays paper
] asking for the return of some tools
i belonging to the city had the desired
effect
Mrs O. f. Sanders of CIeburne.
who has been visiting relatives in
.ha city the past month. returned
home today.
a car load Of brick was brought
BE- from Ferris this morning by the
Contra. for the Brazos Valleys pas
sea-er station.
H. r. Livingston returned this
morning from Garland where he has
been for several weeks v.-a re.a-
ur-z and friends
jus, received car load Of new iron
beds. from $3.50 20 So. We trade
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06

Uncle Sam to be Of such Importance
that the crew Is not obliged to leave
the vessel, even in order to save life.
but 1t has never happened that these
men have allowed shipwrecked sailor
or crew to go unaided.
Without the two great octagonal
copper framed lights, each weighing a
ton, which every night Of the year dur
ing fair weather and storms cast their
beacon-like rays from the masts Of this
lightship for the benefit Of the thous-
ands of vessels sailing outside Nan
tucket Island, this part Of the coast
would be avoided as were the Scylla
and Charybdis of old.
As 1t is, 500 vessels have been
wrecked and lost around Nantucket,
and it is only the courage, and Scon-
stancy Of these men aboard the lonely
little midocean monitor that has kept
the total from mounting up far into
the thousands.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06
NEW IDEA OF CONSUMPTION.

London Doctor Says the Disease
Primarily Derived From Cattle.
A London physician, DR.. w. Picket
Turner, who has made first-hana
study Of the disease for many years
advances the theory that the medical
world is attacking the problem OF con-
sumption by an utterly false route
His view, briefly stated, is that tub
erculosis Is an animal disease primar
lily derived, in all cases, from cattle
1t belongs, he says, to the mycoue
group Of diseases, diseases in which
the original source of infection is .
plant. Bovine cattle derive tubercu.
losis from timothy and other ALLEN
grasses by natural affinity.
Man acquires the disease by inges
tfon<or incubation, never by innala'
ton. It Is not hereditary; neither u
there any predisposition to 1t in ID.
individual. The bacillus in state Oh
nature is saprophyte, feeding on decay
of the vegetable world. But the Dac'r
lus becomes pathogenic- capable o.
causing disease lin cattle when tne'
are deprived Of actinism or the PROV
erty Of the chemical rays in sunlisn'
It would, IL all this be true, becon'
reasonable to assume that by restorins
actinism to- cattle the bacillus wou'o
again become a saprohpyte, In WHICH
case consumption would be extirpa's"
Current Literature.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06

Of ''salt horse" potatoes and parsnips)
and the pork jumps into the molasses
Because during heavy gales water
washes over decks In clean sweep,
the portfolios of the berth deck and
cabins which are below decks are never
opened. .
Sometimes the rolling Of the ship IL
such as to render seasick even those
tried old lightship salts, many Of whom
have spent years whaling and grown
accustomed to the crows nest" a
masthead lookout, where the pitching
and rolling Of a ship is most notice
able. In. fact, NAL de mer Is very
common on board the lightship.
OF all the perils that overhang the
Nantucket Shoals lightship's crew,
however, the direst is that of acting
as life savers in case where a vessel
has gone on the shoals or foundered
in the sea within sight But it's a
peril which these brave seamen never
finch from. +A
The lives Of these men aboard this
particular lightship are considered by
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06
NATION OF SALT EATERS.

A Barrel q Year Is Consumed for
Every Three Persons
The United States consumes 26,872,-
700 barrels Of salt annually, or a bar
rel for every three persons in the
land. Last year 1t went abroad for
only 1,151,133 barrels. In 1880 635
per cent of the salt used in our coun-
try was Of home production. Last year
95.7 per cent Of the product consumed
was produced within the borders Of
this country. In 1880 the consumption
in this country was only 1884, 1868 bar
rels. Thus we see that the people Of
the United States are using annually
three times as much salt as they used
twenty-six years ago.
Only 1891 ,O6O barrels were pro-
duced in this country in 1880, and the
consumers were forced to go abroad
for 3,427,6 barrels. Last year the
total production at home was 25 .96a.-
122 barrels.
The chief salt-producing States are
Michigan and New York. Statistics
recently gathered by the government
show that the combined output Of these
two States amounts to more than two
thirds Of the total production OF the
United States.
No attempt has ever. been made 10
ascertain what per cent OF the salt
consumed in the United States is used
for culinary purposes. The annual
output Is consumed in the Industries Of
meat-packing, fish curing, dairying and
the like. The chlorination OF gold ores
demands a large quantity, and great
quantities of salt in the form Of brine
are used In the manufacture OF soda
ash, caustic soda and other salts. Salt
Is cheap. The average price for 1905
was a little over q cents a barrel,
which Is lower than that reported IN
any previous year. Dry salt, Of course,
brings higher price than brine. The
average price for dry salt last ysa4
was 81.51 cents a barrel
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06
EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE KA1srp
He. II an EARLY Riser and His Meal,
Are Simple.

He. 10 an EARLY Riser and His Meal,
Are Simple.
The everyday life Of the German ON.
peror Is rather severely systenatized
says Wolf Won Schierbrand In Lipnn
colts. He plunges into his days work
with cheerful and vigorous alacrity,
He Is an early riser-in the summer
often at s and in the winter rarely aft
er Z. During the hunting season be
gets up even before those hours, Hs
regularly braces himself with shower
bath and then he slips into his undres
uniform (for, as William l. used to
say, dressing gowns are not worn by
the Hohenzollerns") and goes straight
to breakfast.
his meals, as rule, are simple rath
er than otherwise. His breakfast Is Of
the English kind" consisting of cotres
or tea, toast, eggs, beefsteak or cut
let Luncheon is served at 2, and be
partakes Of soup, one meat dish with
greens, one roast ana several entire
ments. Dinner at 6 is a more elaborate
meal. Kaiser and the kaiserin both In
sist on carefully and wholesomely pre-
pared food, and, although she never
cooks dishes for her husband or family
as has been enormously stated so oft.
en-she does frequently supervise the
preparing Of this or the other special
course. The kaiser Is fond of baked
meats and pot roasts and likewise Of
fish, oysters, macaroni, rice, force-meat
balls and of what is commonly called
hamburger steak. Usually, unless pres
sure of business prevents, he plans
with his wife at breakfast the menu Of
the day.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06
LEAD LONELY LIVES.
MOST DANGEROUS LlGHTsHlP
STATION IN THE WORLD.
That Maintained by Uncle sam On
Nantucket, Mass, II Noted
Hardy SaiIormen Who Constantly
Face Perils I'm Many Forms.

Probably upon no reef guard station
In the world have the lives of brave
and bold men been so often hazarded
as ND on the Nantucket Shoals light
ship, which is located forty miles south
from Nantucket, Mass. More than half
a century has elapsed since the govern
ment first stationed lightship at this
dangerous and lonesome spot. until
recently the lightship was a sail
equipped vessel, but now 1t Is steam
propelled; yet whether operated Dy
steam or sail the dangers and hard
ships of the men confined on 1t are
one and the same.
Forty miles out at sea, cOoped IN
the little she'll that, day after day and
month after month, swings and tugs
at its 7,OOO-pound anchor lying In IL
fathoms of water, the life of the Nan
tucket lightship sailorman is one Of
almost complete isolation from the
first Of November until the opening of
the spring months. During the bit
terest six months of the year there are
no reprieves or shore leave.
Sometimes for two months or more,
during the severest periods of the win
ter, these dozen men are without COM
munication with the shore save the
messages sent to them by wireless
telegraphy. Often for days their only
visible companion is the great red
brown buoy swinging in the sea half
mile from the ship. 4.
Even this object, which Is endear-
ed to the heart of every man aboard
the lightship, in particularly bad
weather breaks adrift from it's moor
ings or Is frequently shut out from
sight for weeks by the dense fogs which
drift in over the ocean like a pail from
the southwark, and then the melan-
choly Of the loneliness which pervades
these men is not lifted until a close
passing vessel or the infrequent ad.
vent of the winter sunlight comes to
chase away the monotony Of their
existence.
But loneliness is only one Of the
hardships of the men on the Nantucket
Shoales lightship, though it is the one
dreaded. There are the days when
the fog settles down over the isolated
vessel in thick, damp cloak, COM
pletely enshrouding the hulk from stem
to stern-days when only the far off
sound Of passing steamers ghostly
whistle or a sailing vessels horn, or
the systematic roar of the steam fog
horn aboard the lightship, Is all their
world.
Once for twelve consecutive nights
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06

and days the bell which was used
aboard the old ship there was kept
ringing at twO-minute intervals, with
the result that when the fog had lifted
and the noise ceased, the men were
unable to sleep for the first night on
account Of the unaccustomed silence.
But there is still another danger be-
sides that Of being run down. When
the winter storms of the Atlantic sweep
across the shoals, tossing the lightship
like shuttlecock and burying her
athwartships, these men aboard, cling
Ing in their hunks between decks or
standing watch through the bitter cold
hours of the night In the lee Of the
oak bulwarks, indifferently sheltered
from the icy sleet and spray, know
not at what moment the great anchor
chain may part under the lunges OF
the rolling vessel and Get them adrift
in the inky darkness in q battle for
life.
Twenty-fo -four times the Nantucket
lightship has parted her chains, usually
In the heart of the bitterest winter
gales, and been swept to sea. Only a
year ago vessel and crew thus adrfft
from moorings were given up for lost.
Once during the period Of the old sail
ing lightship's maintenance the vessel
was fourteen days in picking her way
back to port after having been driven
far to sea.
49, S X
are always dashed to the stove ana the
walls to prevent them from flying
about under the stress Of the rolling
ship. Each member Of the crew when
he sits down to the little mess table
below decks has his coffee cup and his
tin plate securely held In place by 4
number Of pegs set In the table Some
times even then the coffee goes Tying
into the Dlumdulf or the scouse (made
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06


One does not usually connect cro."
diles with a health resort-rather Wv
reverse but the creatures are qulle :.
feature Of the Indian bathing place
Manghapir, about nine miles from ~
rachi. This town Is place OF piislm
age for piousA Hindoos, but 1t Is cnle !.
famous for the value of Its waters =
the cure Of the dread scourge Of w
rosy. The waters are hot, and mo..
than go per cent Of the sufferers VIZ
battle there annually, it Is said' -
cured. The crocodiles are rather nov
worthy In that they live In the ~
water. APPARENTLY suffering no incon
venience from its temperature or me-"
cInal qualities-Wi World Mag
xinA
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06
The Old Maid Aunt..

II you want to be interested, visit a
family where there Is but one baby
and two or three old maid aunta Sis
tiers always love each other In a way
to attract admiration, and an old maid
loves her sisters baby almost AZ much
as the mother. And away down deep
In her heart an old maid thinks the
baby loves her as much a. It loves il
mother. II we could have our wish We
would wish to be baby In family
where there are two or three old maid
aunts; then we would receive attention.
Globe
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06
Strenuous JOb.

HAS young Dudeleigh any occupa-
tionr', asked the dear girls mother.
Indeed he has" replied tho 4
Hes raising mustacha."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06

You can usually tell Z man ana his
wife at dance BY the devotion they
don't show for each other.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-06

Many . deaf person has sound opin,
ouA
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08
lrame. door, sidea lad flttluga.

frame, floor, sides and fittings.
Besides cutting down the danger
Of teleseopinR and reducing deteFi
grafton to a minimum, the value Of
the all-steel postal car, the railroad
officials say, Is thar 1t protects the
entire train from fire danger by inter
posing an linburnable barrier between
the locomotive and the coaches. The
additional safety secured TO POSTAL
employees and the contents Of the car
Is another important advantage.
In the new Southern Pacific postal
car the main features Of the lower
framing are two massive II inch l.
beams that weigh 81 1-2 pounds per
foot. 1t is mainly due to these beams
that the steel car can Withstand over
200 per cent more shock than an or.
binary car with wooden stills. Mon
olith laid over two courses of cor.
ruRated steel form the floors.
inside the car is lined with ashes
tos, while the ceiling, like the out
side and the roof, is Of steel plates
In every direction the car 10 strongly
braced, and to take up heavy shocks
on the end frame steel plate Il
inches wide ia rIvited across the tor
framing. The whole car Is SO com
pleiely bound together that the mos
severe shock might possibly tuckl,
the entire framing, but could no
telescope the car.
Electric lighting and steam heat
ing, automatically regulated, ado
still further to the freproof qualitie
Of the Car. All the fittings, rack
and apparatus used In handling tn
mails are Of steel or brass.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08
oRCHARD's TESTIMONY.

According to Harry Orchards story
Of hts life be is one of the most de-
PRAYED stretches that ever bFeathsd the
breath OF life. His recital Of In
Vulnerable crimes committed without
the least show Of feeling brands the
man as degenerate Of the degenar
ataa; Bend In human form, going
up and down the earth seeking vict.
inns whom be may destroy. His co
partners In crime, II such there are,
must be convicted on other evidence
than Orchards. No one would be-
llevs his unsupported testimony.
While there are many circumstances
tending to show that Il Is too true,
the prosecution must secure other ev-
idance TO convict Haywood.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

has been demonstrated mechanically in
various ways during the last century
for the purpose Of illustrating the mo
ton Of the earth on Its axis. When q
top IL spinning fast It stands erect OF
nearly 30, but wabbIes when It slows
down. Brennan's plan to keep balance
Is two nywheels rotating In q vacuum
in opposite directions. Friction IL re-
duced to minimum, and the power TO
quired to keep the Hywheels in motion
Is very small.
During the trial before the scientists
OF the Royal society in London the In
vestIgatoFs tried in vain to wreck the
model by pIling loads on one side q
the cars. Brennan claims that one day
he will send his train across wide
river ON a single wire hawnar for .
bridge. There are many things which
Q layman can imagine might happen
to one rail machine, but thay may be
dissIpated by actual experience. skep-
teal people told Stephenson, the In
ventOr Of the steam locomotive for .
track Of two rails, that even collision
with wandering cow would deTail It.
He said the engine could stand II, but
the "coor would be the worse for the
encounter. Perhaps the scary feeling
we have about trusting our lives and
limbs in bicycle cars running 400 miles
an hour and poised by balancing gear
wiliyield before facts. Mostofourgreat
inventions, the telegraph Of Morse
the ocean cable Of Field, the telephone
OF Bell, were scofted at as witchcfaf'
or something Ike that We travel faS
enough for safety on two rails, but Il
the single rail road is going to be cheap
er and also reasonably safe we MAJ
yet inscrlbe the name Of Brennan OF
the roll with Newton and Watts AMI
Stephenson as benefactcr Of man
kind.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08

The Journal admits that IL shields
Orime and snppFessea the news.
The public has been aware Of this
fact for a number Of years and the
volunteered information Il Rratult-
,oua. IL the newspapers suppressed
every BIZ OF news that causes heart
,aOhes their columns would be like
those of the journal. The public Ia
interested In having II captain why II
suppressed the financial report Of
James Roche. expert accountant, to
the city council, but II will never
explain that and tell the truth. The
Press does not create the news, II
pfinta the news.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-08
The writor ana the soldier.


Recently two Macs died in this cOun-
try on the same day, Ian Maclaren ana
Douglass Mac liver, They were Of
Scotch blood and both noted In their
way. Ian Maclaren wrote stories that
caused muItitudes to lament his pass
ing, but Mac Iver, who had fought un-
der half the days Of the world, died
unknown and in poverty. Napoleon in
the end lamented that he had done
nothing to conquer the hearts Of the
multitude. This latter day soldier Of
fortune had bravely lived up to a trade
that Is popularity supposed to win hon
or and immortality, and yet he might
have been glad to exchange his lot
with his scribbling cOuntryman, who
was an obscure minister In Scotland
when Mac Iver's name was in almost
every battlefield bulletin sent out from
the tent Of Robert d. Lee.
Not long ago literary men complain
ed that "the colonel with his spurs
monopolized the chief seat In the lime
light The feeling may have been borr
Of envy, for the soldier answers to thC
name Of a man who does things. Ye'
the sword r. only potent In a MARTA