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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-03
PERSONALS.

= PERSONALS. u
Miss Lola Curtin is visiting rela
tives in Dallas.
Ike Jolesch of Ennis was in the
city this morning.
w. M Tidwell of Ferris was in the
city this morning.
Prof. j. M. Parker of Italy spent
yesterday in the city.
Miss Lena Petit Of Dallas is a
guest of Miss Sallie Lee Shelton.
Miss Bessie Morris of Oklahoma is
the guest of Miss Mossie Morris.
Mrs. w. E. Mcknight and children
have returned from visit at Plano.
Miss Emma Mae Rhodus left yes
terday for Sherman to visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. I. Barksdale and
little son are visiting in Fort Worth
today.
Mrs. w. L. Acker and children
went to Commerce this morning to
visit relatives.
| Mrs E. J. Martin of Venus is Wis
iting the family of Will Moore on
West Franklin street.
Mrs. ]. N. L. McCurdy and Miss
Louise Flowers of Uvalde are in the
city, the guests of Mrs. H. H. Dunn
and Mr.. and Mrs. Rufe Bynum.
| Miss Fay Davis, who has been
T, visiting her aunt, Miss Emma Davis.
went to Ferris this morning to spend
a few days with relatives before re-
turning to her home at Cisco.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen e. Hardin OF
San Diego. Cal, were pleasant cali
ers at this Office yesterday afternoon.
They were accompanied by Mr.. c. M.
Parten, who lives near the city.
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FOR SALE-Nice four-room cottage,
good location, good condition, city
water, on East Jefferson street, dia-
gonally across from Natatorium. A
bargain and on easy terms. Atkins
Rocket Co. IS
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Hot Mineral water
delivered daily. b. S. McCourt. old
phone 461. tt
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loan 5000 for one or
two years. Apply to D. A. Cook, A.
Lasswell or J. w. Martin, managers
w. 0. W. 78
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REWARD OFFERED for anything
that's better or more up-to-date
than our printing. Both phones
l48. tt
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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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FOR RENTING second story over
M. w. Walkers jewelry store. See
VI. w. Walker. 10
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STENOGRAPHER: Miss Fora Tay-
Tor, Office with G. 9. Groce, Citizens
Bank Building oktf
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r. D. McCOMBsi Fire. Life, Accident
Tornado. Plate Glass and Live Stock
Insurance. tt
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WE can rent you beds, dressers.
stoves. cots and chairs for the Chau-
tauQua cheaper than you can take
them from home. r. e. Moore Furni-
ture Co. Both phones. tt
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TWO nice, well ventilated rooms
with board, $40 North Rogers street
Mrs. T. J. Bales. n
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Peach and plain ice cream in pals
at the Eatitorium Ice Cream Parlor.
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WHEN you have relative or friendJ
visiting you phone the Daily Light.
Every item phoned or sent in is ap-
preciated by the management. #
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NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS Copy
for page and half-page ads TOR the
Weekly Enterprise should readh this
Office not later than Monday. q tt
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FOR SALE--A family horse and
Jersey COW. Apply to A. Lasswell. II
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Mrs. w. L. Acker and children
went to Commerce this morning to
visit relatives.
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HONEY FOR SALE-1908 crop.
New Phone 80 Tom Burleson. II
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Buy your floor oil from F. s..
Cronk Co., and keep down the dust.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14
No Pay for
Untitled Contract.

Senator Clay of Georgia is pushing
his proposed law providing that there
shall be no mail subsidy payment
whatever on trips that are not made
On schedule time. The railroads are
much wrought up, but just why is not
easy in Justice to defend.
The mail subsidy is not at all bad
policy. On the whole, it is good
one, burt it fails of its purpose-and
failing of its purpose it fails of justifi-
cation-df il does not result in ser
vice both prompt as well as fast
IN schedule. The law at present pro-
vides for fines when schedule is not
maintained, but these fines have been
only nominal rather than corrective,
and Mr.. Clay's bill is directed against
this Iaxity on the part of the govern
ment not less than, in effect, against
the roads that do not execute their
contracts under the subsidy.
Senator Clay, who inaugurated the
movement for better mail service on
the part of the railroads, has formal
iy given notice that he will amend the
postal appropriation bill to provide for
the forfeiture of all pay for a trip
unless the trip be made on schedule
time.
He thinks such an amendment will
have the desired effect and that late
trains in the south would soon be
memory. Whether this be the result
or not, the bill is entirely proper in
its provisions The subsidy is not to
encourage the mail to try to be
prompt, but to make it prompt, and
the reward should be paid only when
the object for which it is offered is
obtained.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

two equally rare volumes which were
acquired last year These are per-
feet COPIES in admirable condition,
OF the original edition Tin quarto) of
"A Midsummer Nights Dream" 1000,
and of the second edition Tin quarto)
of THE Merry Wives of Windsor"
1919. The recent history of these
newly-acquired qTartos increases the
interest normally attaching to them.
They long formed part of the ia
nous Rowfant Library of Frederick
1t will be remem-
bered Ihat in 1904 the whole of that
splendid collection was sold to a
New York bookseller, who subse-
quently disposed of the Shakespeare
cana to an American connoisseur. In
the spring of last year the American
collector re-sold most of the Locker
Lampson Shakespeareana in London.
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THE iFJRST SUBMARINE
BY Hon. NJ. 3. Cook.

This little torpedo boat had a spar
| some 20 or 80 feet long projecting
from its bow, and this spar had
| hinge joint, something like a mans
| arm at the elbow, and ON the outer
end of this spar was affixed a large
torpedo.
In cruising around the harbor this
spar was raised in the air and look
ed much like a jack-staff, but in at
tack, same was by means OF the
hinge lowered until it was on level
with the boats water line when cruis-
ing IN the bay, and was of course
submerged when the boat took
dive
On the evening that the attack was
to be made the position of the IRON
sides was carefully noted and when
darkness came on Lieutenant Jones
and his brave comrades entered this
strange craft and made for the outer
bar, with the intention, as at first
stated, of trying to sink the huge
ship, IrOns.des, but luckily for said
ship, after dark, another vessel drop
ped anchor nearer in shore and thus
Devil, and received the torpedo that
was intended for the larger vessel.
The explosion Of the torpedo just
below~the water line tore such a large
hole in her side that the little tor
pedo boat ran into this opening, and
as the big vessel went down carried
with it her destroyer and its brave
crew.
The warship sunk by this first sub
marine boat was, l think, the Wa
chusetts. If l am not correct, her
name can easily be found out by
writing to the navy department at
Washington, D. c.
Since the war, divers have de-
cended into the hole of the Wa
chusetts and found the little torpedo
boat with the skeletons of its five
brave crew incased in same.
The theory at that time was that
when the torpedo at the end of the
spar should explode, the recoil would
be so great that she would be driven
astern. but in practice it did not
work that way, and Lieutenant Jones
and his comrades lost their lives with
those of the crew of the Wachustts.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

The Mississippi legislature is called
upon to consider a resolution to dis
band the state troops because a mob
took a negro from two companies of
troops at Brookhaven and lynched
him. The resolution is fatuous. The
remedy does not lie in abolishing the
state guard That would only be
turning the state over to mobs in
future similar cases. The remedy is
to at once courtmartial the officers in
charge of the troops. AS soldiers, they
should have obeyed orders-to the
death, If need be. If they be punished
to the limit that the law permits, the
mob that they permitted to humiliate
the uniform would probably hesitate
to try such things again. for if these
recreant officers be adequately pun
ished, other officers under similar cir
cumstances would act more like sol
diers and less like partisans.,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

Editor Pensacola Journal:
My attention has been directed to
the following, printed by The Journal
of Jan. IS:
'Au interesting claim is made in
New Orleans by a committee of ladies
and gentlemen appointed to inyesti-
gate the history Of a certain Subma-
rine torpedo beat said to have been
built with the idea Of using it in pro-
tecting the city from capture by the
federal fleet In Their report the COM
mittee added to their array OF facts
in the history of the primitive sub
marine craft the statement that it
was the first instance of the employ
ment of that sort of vessel in naval
warfare, thus making the Confeder-
ates the first inventors of submarine
torpedo beats, ais well as of armored
battleships''
/ know nothing of this torpedo boat
at New Orleans, but in the interest of
correct history, | Will state that there
was a submarine torpedo boat built
by the Confederates at Charleston, S.
c., and the same was in commission
in the harbor Of Charleston in 1864.
This strange craft, which made a
history for itself in that year in the
waters around Charleston, was called
the Devil from its eccentric way OF re-
fusing at times to come to the sur
face after being submerged, for in the
practice manueverS with crews Of five
brave men each time two crews lost
their lives in this well-named boat, in
side of Charlotte harbor, but no soon
er would she be raised than another
crew Of brave Confederates would
volunteer to man her.
The third crew-under the COM
mand of Lieutenant Jones, of Mobile,
and four other men-ihaving eventual
ly mastered the mysteries of this
water craft, planned an attack
on the celebrated Old Iron Sides,
which was UP TO that date the most
formidable warship in the federal
navy.
The Ironsides was on blockade duty
OFF Charleston bar, at this period, and
her large black sides could be plainly
seen from the city with the naked
eye on any clear day.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14
VOX POPULI.
HE WANTS NO TAR
IN THE CITY SEWERS.

I'm n = III SE"EhSs
Editor, Pensacola Journal:
While reading your paper this morn
ing, see where the harbor and san
itary committee of the city council
reports faYorably on the ordinance
granting the right TO the Pensacola
Gas company to connect a drain pipe
from the company's plant to the Sani-
tary sewer at the corner of Laura
and Tarragona streets. which, in my
opinion, would prove "A hardship and
some expense in time to the people
who live below that point, for the rea-
son that tar and water won't mix at
one time.
The gas company had a private
drain pipe running south on Tara
COMA street to the bay, and I have
never seen anything but tar and other
refuse from the company's plant run
through that pipe. l have been told
that at one time the pipe stopped
uD.
The city council has passed an or
dinance which will compel all houses
to connect to the sanitary sewer
when it is completed. Now, if the gas
company is permitted to connect its
drain pipe to the sewer, and tar won't
mix with water, it is nothing but rea-
sonable to say that the tar will roll up
in paper and hang on to paper until
such a pile of it gathers in the pipe
and stop up the sewer about five or
six blocks away from the corner of
Laura and Tarragona streets
Now is the time to protect the sew
En- Permit nothing to enter the sewer
that won't readily mix with OF dis
solve in water. If it is the same kind
of refuse that the gas company wants
to run into the sanitary sewer that
runs through their private main on
Tarragona street, it would be best to
deny them this privilege of connect
ing with the sewer
HENRY It REIRNE
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

1t was very inconsiderate of Major
Hancock to do anything which. what
ever the facts, should have caused the
findings of a courtmartial to reach
Washington at this time. Either Mr..
Taft must break his political plans
and go to Washington to review the
evidence and findings before sending
the paper to Commander-in-chief The
odore, or else the case must hang fire
month while Mr.. Taft is busy trying
TO prevent the republican nomination
from falling into the hands of some
body else In any event, somebody is
going to blame Mr.. Taft, either way
and of course, it's all Major Hancock's
fault. .
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14
The Farmer.

Let US never forget that the cultiva-
ton OF the ea<zh is the most important
labor of man. Man may be civilized in
some degree without great progress in
manufactures and with little COM
merce with his distant neighbors, but
without the cultivation of the earth he
Is, in all countries, a savage. Until
he gives up the chase and fixes him
self In some place and seeks living
from the earth he is roaming barba-
rian- When tillage begins other arts
follow. The farmers are the founders
OF civiiiSatiOn.-Daniel Webster.
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Transfers-Esh. a. long

Chas. z. Raymond to Z. D. Renfroe-
The S. E. Il of the S. W. Il of Sec "a
TIP. 6, n. r. 81 W.-S400.
e. d. Renfroe to Jas H Black
Same property as above-$400.
J. d. McCurdy to Sallie L. McCurdy-
All of the II of the 5. E. Il of Sec 60
Up 6, n. r. 30 W.-s1.00 and other valu-
able considerations.
= Pensacola Realty Co. to J. G. Watson
Lot 10, Block II, Britton Place-s1 90 and
other valuable considerations.
j. ;. Watson to J. E. Parker,-Lot 16,
Block IL Britton Place 5000
Pensacola Realty Co. to ]. F. Parker
Lot 10, Block Il, Britton Place-$5OO
Same to G. w. Mayers-Lot 10, Block
16, Britton Place-$I5O.00
Edward Bauer to Willie Bauer Trus-
tee for herself, Nettie, Beulah, Johnnie
and Lorena Bauer-A lot so feet front on
Bay of Pensacola by $50 feet in depth and
being a portion of the Gabriel RiyaS
Tract-$42.00 and love and Affection
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

Men of reason cannot fail to SYM
pathize with the Alabama restaurant
men, who find themselves, under the
ruling OF the lower courts, compelled
TO close up at O'Clock all parts of
any place of business in which liquor
is sold. They contend that the COM
plete screening off of such portions
OF their restaurants as contain LIQUOR,
and rigid observance of the dry rule
after 8 O'Clock, meet the spirit and
Intent Of the law, and refuse to shut
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

down as to the restaurant business
proper at o'clock merely because
liquor is sold in portions of their
places of business that are used to
operate bars prior to 9 o'clock. There
can be no real reason to assume that
the position they take is contrary to
the intent of the 9 o'clock law, even
though violative of the law as inter
preted by the lower courts.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

First Small Boy-Fm goin' ter gil
square with pa fer lickin' me.
Second Small Boy-How are yer go
in ter?
First Small Boy-When de next cir
Gus comes along I'm goin' ter say dat
I don't care ter go.-New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

Taft is trying to make political cap
ital in speech On What would Lin
coin do today?" The less Taft agi-
tates that question the better chance
the republicans will have of beating
Bryan. Whatever Abe Lincoln's
faults, he never did belong in any
such company as the republican party
of today He was too much of "peo-
piles man.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

their social position There is an
other feature about army life which
is not realized. Most OF the time
girls parents must be at some cold
and distant outpost or fort, where the
life to a eirl is most depressing. So
want my school to be a home and
center Of education and culture for
the army girls who are thus left in
the east by their parents.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

Sidney Lee writes to the London
press to say that the trustees of
Shakespeare's birthplace have just
succeeded in adding to their collection
two rare editions of Shakespeare's
work, to take their place beside the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14
A Lighfship
Off Mouth of
the ST. Johns
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 13.-The senate
committee on commerce today author
lied favorable report on bill pro-
v1ding for the construction of a light
ship opposite the entrance to St.
Johns river, Florida, at cost of
1926, 900.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14
ALL SORTS.
TIE CYNIC.


say it to comfort me over and over,
Having wearisome heart to be-
guile,
Never had a woman tenderer lover
For a little while.
oh, there never were eyes more eager
to read her
In her saddeSt moon or her mo-
ments gay;
Oh, there never were hands more
strong to lead her
For a little way.
There never were tenderer promises
given
g. love that should guard her the
ages through.
AS great enduring and steadfast as
heaven
For a week or two.
Well, end as it does l have had it,
known it;
For this shall 1 turn me to weep or
pray?
Nay, rather 1 laugh that I thought to
own it
For more than day.
-Theodosia Garrison in the Smart
Set.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

commission and look for a job of
painting and plastering, but l will not
There are plenty of other officers, too
who are in just as bad circumstances
as / am
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14
Real Estate Transfers.

Following is a list of the real estate
transactions recorded yesterday as fur
nished by the Pensacola Abstract Co:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

81 -hink shall get the support of
not only New Workers, but of the en-
tire American public in my effort to
build near New York a school for
army daughters" says Mrs Elizabeth
(B. Custer, widow of Gen. Custer.
Men and women in civil life who
are making their millions and raising
their daughters in luxury and sending
them not only to the finest schools in
America, but aboard, have no idea
what a struggle it is for an army Off
Ger, on his meager allowance from
the government, to raise and educate
his daughters in a manner becoming
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

An army lieutenant writes, with
reference to the proposed increase in
pay: 81 have changed station four
times within the past nine months
(no expense. of course), starting from
the Philippines and ending here-the
last ditch. l am post quartermaster.
commissary and a few other things
of lesser Importance. but not neglig
ible. my wife is i'll; / am cooking
three meals a day with my own
hands; l can't afford to hire cook,
as they are $40 a month here, which
is nearly third of my own salary.
Painters and plasterers get s. and Sc
Ia day for eight hours work. Does
the richest nation under the sun ex-
pect an officer of its army to do his
own cooking and homework? Can he
do it and attend to his various official
duties? / can't, even by working six
teen hours a day instead of eight.
Now, what is a man to do? Hire a
cook, live a little less like a tramp
and let his notes go to protest, or do
his own cooking and let his duties
suffer? Maybe I should resign my
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-14

Among the volumes were the two
which have now become the property
of the trustees, and were dedicated in
perpetuity to the use of the British
public.
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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-11-12
BLEDSOE COUNTY IN COURT
Resists Payment to Fall City
Construction Company for
Courthouse.

The following from the Chattanooga
Times, gives the status of the court
house middle in Bledsoe county:
The Falr City Construction company,
of Louisville, KY, has entered suit
against Bledsoe county for the payment
of $tS, 900, which the plaintiff claims
is the amount due for the construction
of the Bledsoe county courthouse at
Pikevlle The defendant in the case
alleges that the work was not done &C
cording to the agreed specifications,
inasmuch as the building shows infer
ior construction in many respects.
The defendant points out that there
are several cracks in the building and
that the floor is manifestly unsafe.
Proof by both sides of the case has
already been taken by special COM
mission in the federal court, and will
come up at the December term. The
construction of the building was com
pleted during the past month. Bledsoe
county will be represented by the firm
of Spears g. Lynch, W. B. Miller and
John G. Myers. The construction
company will be represented by Attor-
neys Watkins Thompson, of Chattanoo-
ga, and Lewis Pope, of Pikeville. The
people generally throughout the coun-
ty appear, it is stated, as being very
much dissatisfied with the work done
by the company. The payment of this
contended amount was refused the con-
struction company by Judge J. r.
Colyar, of Bledsoe county, who was
succeeded at the recent election by
Judge Solen Robins, who Endorsed the
action of Judge Colyar and continued
the lawsuit.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-11-12
BROWNS FERRY.

Special 10 tie Ne7oS.
ED. W. J. Harwood of ROope, de-
livered a very able sermon at the
Primitive Baptist church here Sunday,
Andrew Jackson went to Chattanoo-
ga Thursday.
Mack Brown called on James Massey
Thursday.
Frank little, of Hill City, attended
church here Saturday.
James and Arch McNabb, of Kelly S
Ferry, visited in our vicinity Sunday.
W. J. Harwood and r. j. Massey
went to Chattanooga Saturday.
G. l. Foster and little daughter,
Alice, went to Chattanooga Thursday.
Charlie Ellis went to Chattanooga
Tuesday night
W. M. Downy and family, of Hill
City, was visiting in our vicinity Sun
day.
G. M. Sharp, of Stanly, called on
r. j. Massey Sunday.
Isabel jackson called on Mrs. Massey
Friday.
Ada Fryar, of Lookout, was visiting
her grandfather, J. B. Thompson, Sat
urday.
Joe Jackson called on George Boone
Sunday.
Mrs. Mary little, of Valdeau, was
visiting friends and relatives here Sat
urday and Sunday.
R. J. Massey called on Gilbert Levi
Sunday
George Gossett went to Chattanooga
Friday.
Lille Levi visited her grandfather
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Levi went to
Chattanooga Wednesday.
Valley Bird.