The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-01

GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.



arouse us to enthusiasm. Not day
has passed without it's hitherto I'M
published portrait of Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw," accompanied by columns of
balderdash regarding Thaw's men
tai condition, the heroism of his
mother and the lost virtue of his
beautiful wife. In spite of this, we
the people, have been but mildly in
terested, and some have been known
son, anyway"
Do not think, for moment, that
we New Workers have become sud-
denly smitten of an ingrowing NOR
atty. 1t is only that we do not care
for warmed-over drama and second
hand emotion. The Thaw case had it's
successful run" in New York last
year The second trial should have
been produced ION the road"
In my opinion, the most instruc-
tive phase of the trial has been the
exposure of the ignorance of the
alienists. Processing to be able to
give an authoritative opinion as to
the soundness or unsoundness of
Harry Thaw's mind they have been
unable to define the word mind
They do not know whether it is an
entity or a condition, a thingin-it
self or an attribute. And, for that
matter, who does?
A lola might find in the Thaw
trial the material for another novel
on heredity. AS the primitive cave
man of the twentieth century, a man
lied by old desires and ancient
hates, and stained by crimes of
many vanished years, and pushed by
hands that long ago were dust.
Thaw now appears to the eyes of the
observing.
Retire panic" Certificates.
The arrival of the first day of
February finds New York in bet
ter financial condition than it has
been in for several months. Practi-
cally all of the clearing house certi-
ficates, issued during the recent
panic, have been cancelled. The is
sue of this emergency currency
reached a total of $97 100000, but
of this amount only STA 900 900
was put into actual use. Immediately
after the financial clouds had begun
to roll by, the clearing house began
the movement for the retirement of
the certificates and the work has now
been satisfactorily completed.
The success of this plan in tiding
sion is being widely commented on
in financial circles and is univer
sally commended That it saved many
otherwise sound institutions from
serious endorsements, which might
have resulted from the sudden and
continued requirement of cash pay
ments during the height of the pam
ic, cannot be doubted.
Celebrate in Chinatown.
Down in the vicinity of Mott and
Pell streets today there is an abiding
odor of more or less sweet incense
and smell of burning joss sticks.
The Chinese residents of the me-
tropolis are celebrating their New
Year. The festivities are a trifle be-
lated, from an American standpoint
but none the less enthusiastic. AL
though the orientals are many thous-
and miles from their native land,
they are almost to man the devot
ed subjects of Tsi-Hsu and true as
steel to the religion of their ances-
tors. The celebration of the celes-
tials will continue through several
days, and, in consequence, the laun-
dry of many Mclean men will go
unwashed.
Ungallant Columbia Men
In New York there is an institu-
ton of learning known as Columbia
University. There have been times
when this fact has been the source
of pride, but the present is not such
a time. Considering the actions of
the Columbia students, we should
much rather, for our own reputation
have Columbia in HOboken or Kala-
mazoo This shame is due to the I'M
gallant decision of the members of
the Columbia Debating Union, who
have refused to meet Cornell be-
cause its debating team has a girl in
it's ranks Miss Elizabeth Cook, a
pretty little coed of the Ithaca in
stitution, is the one who has given
offense to the high and mighty Col
umbia debaters. President Wood
bury of the Columbia Debating un-
ion gives this reason for refusing to
meet Miss Cook:
TT is manifestly unfair for a
woman to take part, because 1t will
be impossible to refute her argu-