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WALL Of WATER
STRIKES DALLAS
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fifty to hundred persons were
drowned in Dallas and vicinity
Nothing tangible, however, will be
known for a day or two.
Sheriff Acts Promptly.
Upon receipt of alarming reports
from West Dallas. Sheriff Led better,
accompanied by six of his deputies,
proceeded to the river and seized the
Nellie Maurine, steamboat that had
been in use to carry people to and
from Oak Cliff, and proceeded to
West Dallas. Sheriff Ledbetter acted
as soon as he was informed that the
situation in West Dallas, and parti-
cularly in the vicinity of the little
town of Cement, was growing more
alarming every minute. The seizure
was made because those in control of
the boat demanded $500 per hour
for its use.
All day the electric wires between
Dallas and Fort Worth were down
and no adyices could be secured from
there as to the amount of water that
was to come down stream in addi-
ton to the already exceedingly large
amount. The Western Union Tele-
graph company could not reach Fort
Worth in any way. The Postal had
one wire working via Waco and, al
though that was the only possible
way of getting a message into Fort
Worth, most efforts evidently failed,
as rush kilograms received no reply
Telephone Lines Down.
Superintendent johnson of the
Southwestern Telegraph and Tele-
phone company said that all tele-
phone lines going west out of Dallas
were gone and that it would be per-
haps week before communication
could reasonably be expected to be
restored
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WANTED-To correspond with the
fastest runner, the fastest swimmer
the most expert diver and the best
walker from each town in Ellis
county. Good cash prizes offered for
Fourth of July Program. Address.
Palmer Park. 46
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CALVIN BROS. are prepared to at
tend to your wants when they are
In the gents furnishing line. Clean
Ing, pressing and repairing receive
their careful attention and satisfac-
ton is always guaranteed. Phone
them and see. tt
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LAWN MOWERS accurately sharp
ened and adjusted by a new ma
chine 1908 Ideal Grinder. at Arthur
Mackoy's shop, back of Spalding &
McCartrey's store, 212 East Main
street. tt
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n HESE remarkable strides in business have not
been the result of chance good luck" but of
k5H far-siehted business judment, assisted by mod
Il ern methods. No one thing has contributed so
much to the wonderful success of the modern bust
ness house the old time one, as ADVERTISING
Publicity in all forms is today recognized as the one
essential to of the who has something to
sell. :
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New Oats.

l have some new baled oats. The
cheapest feed on the market. D. H.
Thompson. A
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PIGS FOR SALE have few pigs
for sale at 50 per head. S. E. Hill
burn, r. 3, Waxahachie, old phone
1913 rings. 46pd
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The man 0ho buys does not spend has
tame hunting over the UdrJous stores of
the town. He consuits has newspapers
or has magazines i
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NOTICE-The Panama purchasers
will please meet at the court house
in the district court room Wednes-
day afternoon at 2:30. w. c. Tay-
lor. 44p
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SSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSS
: Publicity Through the Printer

r HERE has been phenomenal growth in all lines
~ OF business in the past few years. The small
ItE house of few years ago is the strong concern
III of today. The old house of few years ago is
today only memory Young blood and younger
methods have displaced the old business as the cleo
trio car has displaced the mule car, except in Waxa-
hachie and the lightning express has displaced the
post chase of grandfathers .
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PHONE H. A. MCMILLAN at the
Daily Light Office when you want
printing done of any kind. The best
work guaranteed. tt
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WHEN you have a relative or friend
visiting you phone the Daily Light.
Every item phoned or sent in is ap-
preciated by the management. tt
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FOR SALE-One half Jersey COW
with second calf Guaranteed to give
FIVE gallons milk per day. See j. W.
Kendrick or J. E. Harlem. As
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NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
for page and half-page ads for the
Weekly Enterprise should reach this
Office not later than Monday. If
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FREE-10c package Conkey's Lice
Powder and Csc Poultry Book. Bring
ad to Plumhoff Saddlery Co., Waxa-
hachie. 49pd
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REWARD OFFERED for anything
that's better or more up-to-date
than our printing. Both phones
i48. tt
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FOR RENT-Furnished rooms with
bath and lights for light housekeep-
ing. Apply 511 College street. As
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WE WANT to tell you we have first
class charcoal and solicit your Or
ders. Waxahachie Grain Co. Al
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fifty to hundred persons were
drowned in Dallas and vicinity.
Nothing tangible, however, will be
known for a day or two
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FINE COVERS for fine umbrellas a
specially at Arthur Mackoys Shop
No. 212 East Main street. If
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FOR SALE-Nice folding bed. Mrs
Royal Williams, corner Monroe and
Madison streets. As
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sTENOGRAPHER; Miss Fora Tay-
lor, ONCE with G. 8. Groce, Citizens
Bank Building. 'oktf
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WAXAHACHIE Hot Mineral water
delivered daily. B. S. McCourt. old
phone 461. tt
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Report Many Narrow Escapes.

Dallas, Texas, May &c. Whee-
Ter, who resided near Pennsylvania,
came almost finding watery grave
in trying to save his property. He
was seized with cramps and almost
drowned before being rescued.
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WEATHER-Toni and Tuesday
generally cloudy weather.
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ORDERS TAKEN at the Daily Light
Office for engraved calling cards. If
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lawn mower. VIII Moore Hardware
Co. 4S
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WEATHER-Toni and Tuesday
generally cloudy weather
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ORDERS TAKEN at the Daily Light
Office for engraved calling cards. If
WE want to sharpen and adjust your
lawn mower. VIII Moore Hardware
Co. 4S
WAXAHACHIE Hot Mineral water
delivered daily. b. S. McCourt. old
phone 461. tt
sTENOGRAPHER; Miss Fora Tay-
lor, ONCE with G. =. Groce, Citizens
Bank Building. 'oktf
FOR SALE-Nice folding bed. Mrs.
Royal Williams, corner Monroe and
Madison streets. As
FINE COVERS for fine umbrellas
specially at Arthur Mackoy's Shop,
No. 212 East Main street. If
WE WANT to tell you we have first
class charcoal and solicit your Or
ders. Waxahachie Grain Co. Al
FOR RENT-Furnishe rooms with
bath and lights for light housekeep-
ing. Apply 511 College street. As
REWARD OFFERED for anything
that's better or more up-to-date
than our printing. Both phones
148. tt
FREE-10c package Conkey's Lice
Powder and Csc Poultry Book Bring
ad to Plumhoff Saddlery Co., Waxa-
hachie. 49pd
PIGS FOR SALE have few pigs
for sale at 80 per head. S. E. Hill
burn, r. 3, Waxahachie, old phone
1913 rings. 46pd
PHONE H. A. MCMILLAN at the
Daily Light office when you want
printing done of any kind. The best
work guaranteed. tt
FOR SALE-One half Jersey COW
with second calf. Guaranteed to give
FIVE gallons milk per day. See j. w.
Kendrick or J. E. Harlem. As
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
for page and half-page ads for the
Weekly Enterprise should reach this
Office not later than Monday. tt
WHEN you have relative or friend
,,,t% NO
Every item phoned or sent in is ap-
preciated by the management. tt
NOTICE-The Panama purchasers
will please meet at the court house
in the district court room Wednes-
day afternoon at 2:30. w. G. Tay-
lor. 44p
LAWN MOWERS accurately sharp
ened and adjusted by new ma
chine, 1908 Ideal Grinder. at Arthur
Mackoy's shop, back of Spalding &
McCartney's store, 212 East Main
street. tt
CALVIN BROS. are prepared to at
tend to your wants when they are
In the gents furnishing line. Clean
Ing, pressing and repairing receive
their careful attention and satisfac-
ton is always guaranteed. Phone
them and see. tt
WANTED-To correspond with the
fastest runner, the fastest swimmer
the most expert diver and the best
walker from each town in Ellis
county. Good cash prizes offered for
Fourth of July Program. Address,
Palmer Park 46
MASTER BOILERS CONVENE.
Delegates are in Attendance From
United States and Canada.
Detroit, Mich. May 26.-All parts
OF the United States and Canada
we're well represented when the sec
ond annual convention of the Inter
national Master Boilers Makers as
ISOLATION was called to order in the
Hotel Pontchartrain this morning.
Addresses Of welcome by the mayor
and the heads of the Detroit manu-
featuring concerns, with the trans
portation of routine business, occu-
pied the opening session. One of the
snoSt Interesting ronnrtS of tho rom
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death, was placed. Soon the effect of
the treatment was manifest. Living
in the tent, his meals brought to him
from the residence hard by by his
wife, the oxygen began to build up the
diseased tissues.
At night, with no protection save
the canvas roof above, the doctor
sleeps in his open air house, and
gradually the strange life began to put
a bloom Oh his cheeks that had been
foreign to them for over a year. His
breathing seldom was stopped by the
hacking cough as it had been prior
to the trial of the open air treatment.
The cure is regarded by his medical
associates as well as the general
public as marvellous. Plenty of sleep,
strict attention to diet and the careful
nursing. of a devoted wife, together
with: undiluted and unstinted fresh
air, are making Dr.. Hilger new man.
In his. few months life out of doors
he has gained almost twenty-five
pounds in weight. No vestige of the
cough now remains. He is coming
into his own. He will be in condition
to resume his practice in a. few
months. What all the nostrums known
to medical science were powerless to
do the ozone of the Iowa prairies has
accomplished.
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DIES AFTER ANTIToxIN.
Father Took 1t as Precaution and
Dropped Dead.

Fearful that the kiss he had given
his little daughter yesterday morning,
on leaving for work in Philadelphia,
might have communicated diphtheria
germs to him, Ely Weitzel of No. $40
West Lafayette street rushed off to
the office of DR.. S. N. Wiley here on
learning that his house had been
quarantined, and fell over dead after
the physician had administered pre-
ventive dose of antitoxin.
Mr.. Weitzel appeared in his usual
good health before the administration
Of the drug, and explained to the doc
tor that he had kissed his fve-year-
old daughter, Ruth, who had been all
ing in the morning, the family not
knowing the serious nature of her
ailment.
After the drug had been injected,
Mr.. Weitzel observed to the doctor
that .it did not hurt He had about
finished putting on his overcoat when
he exclaimed: ooh, my head hurts.
i believe / am dying He fell upon
q couch, and in few minutes was a
corpse.
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RN RLMckAIL.LArI.bn

clergymen of New York The an.
nounced purpose of the league is to
raise funds for the suppression of the
slave trade in Angola, by the estab-
lishment of missionary stations
throughout the Portuguese territory.
According to Gen. Pienaar, the
league has already several thousand
members, who have contributed large
amounts of money toward it's pur-
poses. The money, he declares, is not
even collected by him, but is in all
cases sent direct to the president and
acting treasurer of the league, Rev.
DR.. D. J. Mcmillan, paster of the New
York Presbyterian church. He as
serts that he receives no salary or
compensation of any kind for his work
in helping to raise the money, but is
travelling On his own resources with
the sole object of trying to make Por-
tuguese West Africa fit place for
civilyized persons to live in,
Among those who have shown their
confidence in Gen. Pienaar by permit
ting the use of their names as officers
and committee members Of the An
COLA league, besides DR.. Mcmillan, are
Rev. Josiah Strong, D. D.; Oliver
Bainbridge, Rev. DR.. w. r. Hunting
ton, Mrs. Almon Hensley, Rev. Milo
Gates, Mrs. Frank Brown Keech, Rev.
John c. Bliss, D. D.; Miss Lillian M.
Elliott and Rev: DR.. J. w. Campbell.
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Congressional Bell Signals.

On the floor of the house the door
keeper has his desk and it is here that
the bells are struck that give notice
Of the needs Of congress. One bell
calls for tellers, when the house is in
committee of the whole; two bells
indicate call for yea and nay; three,
declare recess; with four bells the
red light over the door goes out; five
bells mean "call of the house, under
which the sergeant-at-arms is sup
posed to summarily arrest any mem
Der on sight and bring him in, wheth-
er on foot or horseback; any member
who is not present at a call of the
house is subjected to a severe repri-
mand.
Looking down the corridor, the
going out of the red light gives curl
GUS suggestion Of the tail end Of
passenger train dashing through a
tunnel. While the red light burns
bright and clear it means that con-
gress is under way, but when the
light winks and goes out, then the
visitors understand that the wheels Of
Legislation have ceased to revolye.-
National MAGAZINE
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the imperial government might find
itself compelled against it's will to
reach out protecting arm or army.
It is declared by men who profess
to be familiar with Gen. Pienaar's
plans that force Of five hundred men,
fully equipped, with, two Maxim -Nord-
feldt guns, is being arranged for and
will be put in the field as soon as the
requisite sum of $150,OOO is raised.
These infOrmants go even further,
and say that Gen. Pienaar's plans in
clude the use Of airships from which
to drop explosives on the Portuguese
forts and on any warships that might
be in the harbor of st. Paul de Loan
da, while an elaborate cable code for
the transmission of military informa-
tion in the guise of simple social
messages has been compiled.
While admitting that the plan which
he says has been abandoned did con-
template the raising of such a force,
Gen. Pienaar declares the airships
and cable code are news to him, and
undoubtedly are fabrications of his
enemies, the Portuguese, who are
afraid to have him go back to Africa
and are diligently misrepresenting his
intentions.
In the meantime, Gen. Pienaar has
organized in this country the angola
league" on the 1etterheads of which
appear the nanfes of many prominent
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VOL. "a. NO. p.

Gen. Francois Joubert Pienaar
formerly Boer leader and now a
British subject, gave personal assur-
ance that his mission to America is
not to cloak plans for an armed in
vasion Of Portuguese West Africa.
When Gen. Pienaar was confronted
with evidence connecting him with
activities secretly directed against
Portuguese territory in West Africa,
he admitted that he had contemplated
the organization Of force of adven-
turers to take possession of Angola,
but asserted that he abandoned the
idea a few mopths ago because of rep
reservations from the British foreign
office, which refused to sanction his
enterprise. Gen. Pienaar added that
no part of the money he now is rails
ing in America for the suppression of
the slave trade in Africa will be di-
Verted from its proper object.
Among the Beers now in America
there are some who have failed to
convince themselves that Gen.
Plenaar has abandoned his plans for
Jameson raid' upon Portuguese
West Africa. These Beers argue that
1t is not to be expected that the Brit
ish foreign office would give its public
approval to any such fiilibustering ex-
pedition. If, however, the British
flag were once raised over the Portu
guese possessions in Africa, they say,
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counts for much, the college training
for even more, and the necessary
course Of study that would seem to be
part of the required initiative must
perforce be simpler, less complex, to
the college man whose mind has been
more or less attuned to such inter-
fests than to the man who suddenly
elects to become a diplomat or who
has the honor thrust upon HMM
rare instances this last.
The would-be aspirant for diplomat
ic : honors-the college graduate, as
has been said, has the, advantage here
can apply to a school of diplomacy,
diplomatic college as it is sometimes
termed in Washington, where there is
a course of studies to be entered
upon; but, if a college graduate, this
is said not to be obligatory. Applica-
tion must be made to the diplomatic
bureau of the state department, the
candidate stating his desire to become
i a diplomat and giving his! qualifca-
tions. In return the would-be aspir-
ant for honors receives small
pamphlet setting forth what is neces-
sary to study and number of que
tions to be answered. Then the'-
must be an examination /. in interna
tional law. This can be taken else
where, SO it is said, and then, to
quote one who knows, pull does the
rest-"pyll," which in these days
means after all that the candidate,
his qualifications and merits be prop
erly presented, to the powers that be-.
London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and ST..
Petersburg would seem to possess
especial attractions for the young
men Of to day, for among the names
well known there are more enrolled
at those embassies than elsewhere,
although within the last twelvemonth
there have been appointments to posts
much further distant. Among recent
departures for diplomatic posts Of
minor Importance have been Steven
Van Rensselaer,, the son Of the late
Kiliean Van Rensselaer,, who is now
en- route to Lisbon, where he is to
have the post of Secretary formerly
occupied by Francis Potter, who has
been, transferred to Paris. Seth Pierre
pont, nephew of Seth Low, a recent
graduate of Columbia, a member of
the well known Pierrepont and
NStuyvesant families, has gone to
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n. G AN dePESLEE

Miss Charlotte Lund of Oswego,
who has been studying for the last
three years with M. Jean de Reszke,
made a successful debut in Paris and
was hailed by the American colony as
a promising new American soprano.
A grandniece of Ole Bull famous
violinist, Miss .Lund has a hereditary
basis for her talent. She always had
leanings toward musical career and
played the organ in church in Os-
wcgo, her native place.
A famous composer, hearing her
sing in Florence, decided that her
voice was worth cultivating, and she
thereupon began to study vocal music
She remained in Italy for two years
for that purpose and then went back
to America and sang in church choirs
in Boston, Philadelphia and New
York, besides taking part occasionally
in concerts.
Then Miss Lund was struck with
the desire to sing in grand OPERA and
she went to Paris two years ago to
study with M. Jean de Reszke. She
made rapid progress and gave several
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Ruskin as a Chess Player.

Many people have overlooked the
fact that the Ruskin loved the game
OF chess. Some Of his letters reveal
this. interest. He was at one time a
constant visitor to Maskelyne &
Cookies entertainment, where he once
played game with PSYCHE" and he
tried his skill against ether chess au-
tomata. Indeed, it was a matter OF
pride to him." say his latest editors.
that he had obtained more than one
victory over the famous Mephisto at
the time when. it was performing at
the Crystal Palace with considerable
eclat. He was vice president Of the
British Chess association"
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Height Of Land, Depth Of Sea.

The mean height Of all the land now
above the sea is referred to by Lyell
as being 1000 feet. The mean depth
OF the ocean is at least 10000. feet,
that is, it exceeds the height of the
land twelve times.
This is because the extreme heights
of the land, although probably no less
than the extreme depths of the sea,
yet are exceptional heights, while the
ocean maintains its depth over enor-
nous areas. =
Owing to the fact that the surface
OF the ocean that of the land is as
two and a half to one the ocean would
accommo modate the whole of land thirty
times over were it all pitched into the
ocean areas.
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Girls Taught Life Saving.

A course in life saving has been
instituted among the women students
of Columbia university for the pur-
pose of making them as adept as men
. in rescuing drowning persons. They
receive the regular life saving drill,
including the grips and breaks, tow
ing to shore and artificial respiration.
A fully dressed girl is thrown into the
water at one end of the swimming
tank, and other girls are obliged to
rescue her from the opposite end and
take her back, which is already done
In fifty-seven seconds. This new de.
parture in co-education has become
immensely popular.
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ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS

was working at Barnes Island Cove
he saw a large wild goose setting in
the edge Of the water. The wind, was
blowing a good breeze at the time, and
the goose had evidently got in the lea
and was taking his afternoon nap
Mr.. Moody crept UP and seized him
by: the neck and got one of the worst
beatings Of his life from the. wings
of the bird, but he held fast and took
his prize home and has him still alive,
and will keep him to show to his
friends as a proof of the. wonderful
feat he accomplished.