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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-06-11
Union County Teachers Institute.

The annual Teachers Institute for
Union county will convene al Elk
Point, next Monday, June Is, with
Prof. Geo. W. Nash, President of the
Aberdeen Normal School. as conductor
The institute will last only five days
and every teacher who expects to
teach the coming year in Union county
is required by law to attend this in
stitute.
Pres. Nash will have charge Of the
work in Psychology. Diadactics and
Arithmetic, while having charge OF the
whole institute. DR.. Trettien, Profess
sor of Education in the State University,
will have charge OF the classes in Read
ing, Language and Child Study. Mrs
Lille s. Cooper, formerly teacher of
the primary grade in Elk Point, for sew
eral years now "a professor in the Spring
field Normal, will look after Drawing
and Industrial Work. Miss Kathryn
French will care for South Dakota
History and American Literature,
while Superintendent French will teach
the Grammar classes. There will be
also classes in Gives, United States
History and Physiology.
On Tuesday or Wednesday evening,
Nj SIS Isabelle Boy d, teacher OF Elocu-
tlou in the Spring field Normal, will
give a public recital. On Thursday
evening Prof Nash and DIR. Trettien
will address the teachers and citizens
on some of the leading educational
| topics of the day. On Friday afternoon,
at 2:30 O'clock, in the court room, the
grad uating exercises of the eighth
grade class will be held.
These exercises are all open to the
| public and an Invitation is extended to
all to attend. 1t is believed the teach
ing force this year will be unusually
helpful aud stimulating and every
teacher should arrange to attend the
| whole institute.
K. B. Frank will be at Elk Point on
Tuesday OF each week TO make first
class photographs. --latest styles will
be finished to suit and work guaran.
teed. More days OF the week will be
used as business incre asses.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-06-11
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FURNISHED BY The
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
Day Dreams.

If you have particular piece of
work to do. get it done. Don't wait
for the mood to strike you.
Don't dream. There are more pre-
cious hours wasted in day dreams
than any of us would care TO think
about if we counted them.
The queer thing about day dreams
is that so few Of them ever amount
to anything. The dreamer is only
semiconscious when building his air
castles, so, as rule, they have no
practical foundation.
While you are ut work, keep your
mind on what YOU are doing, and do
not let it wander off to What you
would like to be doing Only by keep
ing Your mind on what you are doing
now can you bring it fresh and keen
to the things you Ike doing best when
the time for doing them comes. Think
ing too much about even great happi-
ness takes the edge Off 1t.
The best time for day dreams is
after you have gone to bed.--New
York American
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
w. A. OWNBY City Editor.
Residence Phone, Bell No, 2sa,)
HONESTY Is RELIGION.

Many good men are more or less
careless about punctually redeeming
their promises to meet little obliga
lions. This should not be. Nothing
shakes a friends confidence in your
religion, or business integrity, more
than such laXness in coming up to
the dot.-Mckinney Gazette The
Gazette has compressed a big truth
into a few lines. 40 matter how reg
ular a man may be at church servi-
ces, how loud he may pray, or what
pretensions he may make ii you have
been carrying bill against him for
several months and he could pay it
If he would you put him down as a
wolf in Sleeps clothing.
Grove Signal. Whenever men OF re-
ligious inclinations reach that point
of reality which enables them to
grasp the idea that the debit and
credit account in the book of life is
largely a copy of the various books
which in life have chronicled the ac-
commodations given TO the individ-
nal there Will, perhaps, be more at
tglltiorl paid to the little balances
due the merchant, banker and bust
ness man generally. 1t is frequently
the case that a mans intentions are
right and his ability is wrong, but
this is the exception rather than the
rule. Honesty is more to be judged
by the little transactions than by the
big ones, and it Is a mighty poor re-
ligion that can not stand the homes
ty test. .....-
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
THE DEVILFISH.
He Is Not a Man Eater, but a Gently
Reared Monster.


Contrary to popular belief, the devil
fish is not a man eater according to
an official publication issued by the
Smithsonian institution, Washington,
after an authoritative study Of the sub
ject by Dr. Theodore Gill, associate in
zoology In the national museum THE
food of the devilfshes.' he says. $50
far from being large animals and oc-
caSionally man or so, as has been al
legged appears to be chiefly the small
crabs, shrimps and other crustaceans
and Young or small fishes. Rarely does
one prey on large fishes"
DR.. Gill says that in a number of re-
spects the young devilfsh grows up
under nursing and training remarkably
like that Of human being 1t is nour-
ished, for instance, from its mothers
milk. 1t is popularity of the devil
fish, he adds, that, instead of laying
many thousands or millions of eggs, it
normally has ouly a single young ole
at birth. 4 baby devilfsh is some
times as broad as five feet and weighs
twenty pounds or more.
DR. Gill adds that devilfishes move
about from place to place in n sort of
submarine fight, speeding themselves
along by flaps of the long winglike
fms
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
GOOD BUSINESS.
The Thrifty Young Man Found Prot
table Investment.

A millionaire, hoping to encourage
his young son In ways of thrift, prom
ised to give him 2 per cent a month in-
terest upon any money that he might
save out of his allowance and deposit
in the paternal treasury. The young
man was getting IS week for pocket
money and promised to show his ap
probation Of his fathers affectionate
offer He began to make deposits
without delay and kept the practice up
with remarkable regularity.
The old gentleman noticed presently
that the deposits exceeded the whole
of the boys allowance, but accounted
for this by supposing that he had
saved some money previously. Besides
this, he received money frequently
from his mother. So the fond parent
rejoiced in the saving disposition that
his son was displaying.
This continued until the boys de-
posits assumed such dimensions as to
demand an explanation. 1t then turned
out that most of the money he had
been depositing had been borrowed.
Inasmuch as he was drawing Interest
on his deposits at per cent per month
and was paying only 10 per cent per
year for them he had found the bust
ness decidedly attractive and profitable
Parsons Weekly.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
Installation, W. o. W.

Tuesday night, January 5th. 1909
the officers-elect of Elm Camp No
46, and those of Harmony Grove No
400 will be Jointly installed at the
W. O. w. hall, WaXahachie. Texas.
This meeting will be open to men,
bers of each organization, together
With their families. and to any visit
ing Sovereign or member of Circle.
A nice short program is being pre-
pared To assist in the entertainment
which includes an address by Sow
j. T. Mcclure OF Waxahachie. An
important feature of the evening
will be genuine old-fashioned bas-
ket supper, and each Sovereign is
expected to bring well-filled basket
or if preferred, see either Sow.
Shores. Ralston or McClain.
d235w49 LEM WRAY Clerk.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30

ter of the contests there has much
changed in the last few years of
cooler politics, and in partisan mat
ters now the democratic minority is
often overwhelmed by sheer force of
numbers.
Senator Cullom came to the SEN
ate from the go,ernorship of Illinois
on the 4th of Nj oh, 1888. He bears
striking reseh.i'lan to Abraham
Lincoln. and, next to Stephenson of
Wisconsin, is the Oldest member of
the senate, having been born in No
yember, 1929. Stephenson is five
months older, but is much the more
vigorous man physically Cullom S
term does not expire until 1913,
While Stephenson has just won re-
election which will extend his term
to 1915. Cullom was a presidential
elector on the Fillmore ticket in
1856, and won his way to the lower
house of congress in 1865. He was
eight years governor of Illinois, and
tAen succeeded David Davis in the
senate.
Senator Teller first entered the
senate on December 4th 1876 fol-
lowing the admission of Colorado to
the Union. and is really the oldest
member OF the senate in point of
service, but his service has not been
continuous. He resigned in 1882, to
enter President Arthur's cabinet as
secretary of the interior, and at the
end of that administration re-enter-
ed the senate, on March 4th, 1885.
He left the republican party on ac-
count of its opposition to silver, in
] 500. and was reelected to the SEN
ate as an Independent silver republi-
can in 1897. and was again re-elect-
ed in 1908, as a democrat He will
retire on the 4th of March next not
having been a candidate for re-elec-
ton, and Will give place to ex-Gov
Hughes, a younger and more yigor-
Gus democrat He is the best known
public man the state of Colorado has
contributed to the service of the
government.
Senator Daniel is the flower of the
old Virginia arlstocracy.. In distin-
guished personal appearance he
bears striking resemblance to the
great English poet, Lord Byron, both
in classic features and in the lame
ness. which, in the senator's case,
resulted from asevere wound re-
ceived during the civil war. He was
La Confederate soldier, from the
opening to the close of hostilities,
and was thrice wounded. being so Sc
riously crippled the last time, In
May, 1854, in the Wilderness, while
serving as major and chief of staff
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
The Better Part.

A delightful little story is told OF
Prosper Merimee, the French author
He was once guest at royal hunt
when hares, pheasants and other
game were driven before the emperor
and bis followers. and the servants
picked up the victims OF the sport.
Among all the members of the hu t.
Ing party Prosper Merimee alone hid
no trophy TO display.
How does this happen?' asked
some one.
Where game Is SO plenty the merit
OF a marksman seems to me to lie in
hitting nothing" replied Merimee,
with grave courtesy, 80 ! fred be-
tween the birds"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
Walters on Horxsbaek

In great French houses OF days gone
by dinner was announced by the blow
Ing of hunting horns. and 1t Is ON rec
dishes We're brought in ny servants In
fun armor mounted upon caparisune,l
horses, a practice we could only look
for during the reign of chivalry. OF
the attendants at dinner the carver and
server took precedence over all the
others. They stood probably on each
side of their lord. The server, 1t may
be mentioned. was the officer who
placed the dishes on the table.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
BEST NEW YEAR RESOLUTION.

Edwin Markham, writing in Sue
cess Magazine. says: THE noblest
resolution that any citizen could
make for the New Year would be
the resolution to live more faithful
ly by the Golden Rule, that sublime
principle of conduct for this world
and for all worlds. Failure to live
by this law causes the chief sorrows
and collisions among men.
LET each earnest man search into
his words and ways, determined to
find the special manner in which he
breaks the Golden Law-his spe-
cial habit that works injustice or I'M
happiness in his shop. his office, his
home. his city. He will find. perhaps,
that in the shop he is in the habit
of misplacing tools, and this hinders
the work of his comrades; that in
the Office he Is in the habit of being
late in keeping appointments, and
thus steals other peoples time; that
in the club he is in the habit of be-
Hitting worthy competitors, and thus
joins the gang of thieves who steal
regulations; that in the home he is
in the habit ,monopolizing the con-
versation, and thus fails to draw out
the powers of others; that in the city
he is in the habit OF splitting on the
sidewalk, and thus spoils the COM
fort of his townsmen; that in bust
ness he is in the habit of misrepre-
senting his goods. and thus robs UNI
der the cover of custom.
These are problems in the Col
den Rule; and here are ample space
and verge for New Year resolutions
space and verge for building char
acter. character which is the great
est thing in man.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30

1t has often been claimed that
this government can live within it
self, and that it is gradually reach
ing that condition is shown by the
following paragraph from the Dallas
News: "A decrease OF $500, O0o,-
900 in imports for the year 1908
shows how readily the people of the
goods when they have to. And the
decrease of sl50.000,000 in exports
shows how the foreigners can do
without ours only about half as
easily as we can do without theirs.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
Franklin stock Company

The Franklin Stock company S
engagement at the opera house will
be resumed tonight. The offering
Will be Samson OF Yale, = a bill
that has, won popular favor wherever
presented. A special New Years
matinee will be given Friday as also
the regular matinee Saturday
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED.

The supreme court of Missouri
has recently decreed that the Stan
dard oil company of Indiana and the
Republic Oil company of Indiana
can 10 longer do business in that
state The court also dissolved the
Waters-Pierce Oil Co Each of the
three concerns was fined $4,000.
The Waters-Pierce company does not
lose its charter; it merely has to dis
solve and reorganize, a performance
not altogether new to it.
What is the good to the people of
Missouri? Nothing. absolutely moth
ing They will go on getting their
oil from the Standard they can't
help themselves. Our antitrust laws
are not worth the paper on which
they are written. taking the prices
the people must pay into the ac-
count Al economic evil can't be
cured by heavy fines and prison
stripes.
Free commerce with all nations
is the only remedy for the trust
evil; all else is a waste of time and
money.-Waco TimesHerald
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30

when things are not running Just to
suit you Look the situation square
ly in the face and do your best to
work out the problems that con-
front you. By allowing yourself to
become pessimistic you only help to
make the situation a harder one
DeniSon Herald,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30

to General Early. that he was unable
to return to the army. The left leg,
in consequence, is shorter than the
other, and he uses crutches. He is
the most finished orator of the SEN
ate, and there is about him the pol
ished manner and fine courtesy Of a
former age. He was born in 1912,
was in the midst of the readjuster
fight in Virginia, and succeeded VIM.
Malone in the senate, in 1887. He
is said TO be sure of another re-eIec-
ton when his present term expires.
in 1911.
tifty-One senators out of the
whole membership of ninety-two are
serving their first terms-an unns-
ual amount of new blood" for this
DISTINGUISHED body. Twenty-four are
serving their second and eleven their
third terms.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
To make themselves a lasting rep

To make themselves lasting rep
only to create an intelligent election
law 10 take the place of that absurd
and \pmfuzzling conglomeration OF
technicalities that is imposed on the
voters in the Terrell election law"
No one can understandingly vote
and the Star would, in the name of
its readers, respectfully ask for a
common old-fashioned election law.
Too much fashion for us.-McCul-
Tough County Star.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30

\ newspaper man is no more in
fallible than any other ordinary NOR
tai, and that they make no more
counted one of the seven wonders of
the world.-Orange Leader, Few
people stop to realize that the aver
age daily newspaper is product of
not over seven hours Of work. 1t is
case of rush right up TO the very
press. When it is considered that il
is the product of humans it is Won
der, indeed, that more errors do not
creep in.-Denison Herald.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30

Sparks-I wonder why it is a woman
lets out everything you tell her? Sharks
My dear boy, woman has only two
views OF a secret-elther 1t In not
worth keeping or 1t is too good to keep.
London Opinion.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30


With local applications, as they can
not reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a blood or constitutional
disease, and in order to cure it you
must take internal remedies Hall s
Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces. Halls Catarrh
Cure is not quack medicine 1t
was prescribed by one of the best
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and is regular prescription. 1t is
composed of the best tonics known,
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the two ingredients is what produ-
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F. J. CHENEY e CO., Props, Tole-
do. o.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation d
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
Tit For Tat.

First Teacher-You told me TO re-
mind you to punish Willie Thompson
this morning for impudence. Second
TeAcher-I'n do It tomorrow. I'm
called before the school board today
for Naturalization
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
Notice.

Your city taxes, If not paid by
December 81, 1908. will become de-
linquent after that date. Don't wait
until the last day to pay. else you
may forget II. 81
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The Fort Worth Record make

The Fort Worth Record makes a
discovery. That paper says: There's
no reason for man to get swelled
up because he's so fastidious that
faced vest promptly at 6 O'Clock
every night. Every waiter does
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30

A great man IL made up Of qualities
that meet or make great occasions.
lowell
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30

Hoarse coughs and stuny colds
that may develop into pneumonia
over night are quickly cured b. Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar, as 1t ,soothes
inflamed membranes. heals The
lungs, and expels the cold from the
system. B. W. Fearis. d
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30
Anti Tuberculosis Stamps.

The sale of the tuberculosis stick
ers or stamps will be continued until
January /, at the drug stores, Jew
elry stores, banks, Mrs. Monica IS
Exchange, the Sims Library, and
the Racket store. Help in a good
cause by purchasing some OF these
stamps for your New Years post
cards, letters and packages.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-30

Obituaries. resolutions OF respect,cards
of thanks-ali matter not NEWS-will be
charged for at the rate of cents pei line.
Poetry at double price.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-08
MILYOUKOT BOYCOTT'ED.
Unable to address DOuma OzCing to
Lack of Quorum.

St Petersburg, Feb. THE tribulations of Paul
Ntlvoukov arising from his recent lecture in New
York on the political situation Russia, We're In
creased in the Douma to-day by the formation or
a parliamentary boycott, designed TO make MS
further political activity in Russia impossible Thls
decision was shown a discussion of the motion
recently made by NJ. Guchkoff, leader of the octo-
brst party, that the Douna authorize the COM
mittee on National Defence to hold secret meetings
10 discuss the naval programme and other strate-
gic measures. When NJ. Milyoukov arose and
moved toward the tribune the Octobrists ana Con-
servatives left the chamber, leaving the Douma
without a quorum.
The members of the Opposition and M Mllyou-
lov faced the demonstration calmly. not utterlns
a word NJ Khomyakoff. president of the Dourna,
was compelled to announce intermission, and
when after the recess had ended, NJ Mlyoukov
again mounted the tribune the Octobrists and Con
servatives again passed into the lobbes in body,
causine an adjournment of the session
The weapon chosen TO humiliate the Consutu-
tional Democrat leader. however, cuts both ways
and threatens TO entire suspension OF
tbs legislative activity of the Douma, as NJ Mil
voukov announces that he intends to de1end MS
right 10 speak and that he will claim the moor
until a quorum is present In TINS ne Will DC
unanimously supported by the Oppositlon groups
Which have passed resolution saying that the
babavior of the Octobrsts is affront to the en-
tire Onpositfon.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-08
NEU RIO GR1NDE TREATY.
Plans to Irr1gate Lands Along RiUer
Marking Boundary.

Mexico City. Feb. 1T is highly probable
that the treaty of 1913 between the United
States and Mexico fixing the boundary line
along the Rio Grande will be abrogated and an
other one signed and ratified a result of the
negotiations which are in progress.
The question at issue is not to make the Rio
Grande more navigable, but TO destroy its pres
ent navigability in the interest of agriculture
and the development of the adjacent land
either side of the stream. The treaty of 1878,
establishing the Rio Grande the dividing line
between a part of the frontiers of the two coun-
tries. stipulated that neither country should for
any purpose divert the channel of the stream or
take from it a sufficient amount of water TO
render it unnavigable to a certain distance from
it's mouth.
The two countries investigating the ad-
visibility of entering into a new treaty which
would permit taking unlimited supplies of water
from the Rio Grande for irrigation purposes re-
gardless of the effect navigation.