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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
EXTRAVAGANCE IN THE RURAL
DISTRICTS.

The average cost of carrying a
ton of goods mile by lake is eight
tenths of a mill, and by rail seven
and six-tenths mills. The average
cost of carrying a ton of goods a
mile on first class roads is said to
be seven sents, and on common
country roads twenty-five cents.
The latest report (made by the
department of agriculture for 1900
shows 2,15i,570 miles of public
roads in the United States, of which
TIA per cent were improved In old
populous and rich states, such as
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois
Michigan, improvements We're re-
ported on less than ten per cent OF
the public roads. e1e
Almost every pound of freight orr
ginating upon or destined to a farm
moves over country road; most OF
it over a common country road
at cost some three times as high
as it would be if the road were first
class. Sometimes the goods actually
pay heavier toll for a few miles
carriage between railroad station
and farm than for all the remainder
of the journey.
The railroads themselves spend
millions to clip off one or two per
cent from operating expenses. here
and there; and, if farmers were
presented with a feasible scheme for
reducing their railroad freights even
one-quarter, they would feel that
there, indeed, was burning issue
Road Improvement receives much
more attertion than formerly, but
much less than it deserves. Satur-
day Evening Post
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
spLIT.LoG DRAG IN COLORADO.

An energetic campaign of educa-
ton and persuasion will be conduct
ed by the Business Mems association
among the farmers in~Pueblo coun-
ty ard all Colorado, in favor OF the
adoption or at least a thorough
trial Of the split-log drag. A mem
Der of the association has construc-
ted model split-log drag which is
on exhibition at the Business Mems
rooms in the Central block and far
mers are invited to call and examine
such a great factor in the Improve
ment of roads throughout the south
ern and eastern farming sections of
the country.
AS yet the drag has never been
used in Colorado and il the plans Of
the association are carried out Pu-
eblo will be the first county in Colo
RADIO to give the continuance trial.
The split-log drag can be easily con-
structed with the material at hand
on any farm In the country. Dragged
over the roads 1t leaves a level road
with good crown to insure proper
drainage and the improvement to
the road is completed with scarcely
any expense.
The business men of Pueblo sug-
gest the plan which has been adopt
ed by the farmers of other commun
tiles where the split-log drag has
been used to good purpose. The plan
is for each farmer to hitch his team
to the drag and work the road ad-
jacent to his farm. The neighbor
farmer then takes the drag and COM
pletes the good road around the next
farm and so on until all over the
county
I've want to call the attention of
the farmers to what has been &C
complished by this simple method"
said Secretary Palmer, ''and believe
that the agitation for the use of the
split-log drag will result in lasting
improvements to the public high
ways. Pueblo Star-Journal.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
He WANTED TO KNOW.
IN Incident That Tanned the Inquisi-
tive Man For a Time.

tive Man For Time.
There is not so much fun to be got
,ut of the inquisitive man. He is gen
orally mere nuisance, but occasion
ally he furnishes food for merriment
A certain down east storekeeper was
30 extensively inquisitive that it was
determined to teach him lesson.
Among his failings was a desire to ex-
anime the contents of every package
which his friends deposited in his store
for safe keeping He must see the in
side if he had to break the package
open. One day man left stout
leather bag. asking that no one disturb
it. The proprietor walked around rest
lessly for awhile and then stopped
near the bag. Apparently no one was
looking. In reality all the store loung
ers were In the secret and We're anx-
iously awaiting his next move. He
nervously fingered the cord that tet.
the top Of the bag for a minute and
then quickly united it. He had nc
time to look in before the contents
came forth. They consisted Of a score
of large and spirited hornets and the
way they lit on all the exposed por-
tons of that inquisitive man was Il
caution. He shot out of the store at q
pace that would have done credit to .
Splinter. They say that for year
afterward he hardly looked into his
own sugar barrel without asking per
mission.-St Louis Globe Democrat,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
STILL LOYAL.
Human Encyclopedia Not Influenced by
Display of Bunting.

Display of Bunting.
One Fourth Of July night in London
the Empire Music hall advertised spe
cial attractions to American visitors
All over the auditorium the union jack
and the stars and stripes infolded one
another. and at the interludes were
heard Yankee Doodle" aud Hail
Columbia" while quartet sang
Down Upon the Swanee River"
, Then came the turn of the human
encyclopedia. who advanced to the
front of the stage and announced him
self ready to answer. sight unseen. AL
questions the audience might pro
pound
y volley of queries WIS fred ut him
and the encyclopedia lreathlcssly Ia. |
the distance of The earth FROM Mars.
tie number of bones III til. uIala,
skeleton of square miles il the British
empire aud other equally important
facts
There was II brief pause. III which Al
American stood up. What great
event took place July 4. l11G?'' he pro
pounded in II load. glad voice
The human encyclopedia glarel at
him. 'Th' hincident you speak Of sir
was hinfanous houtragr. Every
body's Magazine
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
A WoMAN's TACT.
And the Way She Explained Her Oi-
plomacy to Her Husband.

1t being a holiday. the laundering
man made calls with his wife. The
first place they went the hostess said,
Julia is engaged"
SIS she, indeed?" said the mans wife
radiantly. (which one did she finally
acceptT'
The next place they were Informed
that Margaret was engaged and again
the mans wife beamel sympathetical-
ly and murmured: SIS she, indeed d?
Which one did she accept?" At the
third place It was the news of Jcssie's
engagement that was broken to them.
AS before, the mans wife put the ques-
ton. (which one did she finally takeT'
On their way home the nan said:
why did you ask which one every
time new engagement was sprung
that men were falling over each other
In the scramble to get them for their
wives 2"
Not Mt all said his wife II don't
suppose either of them ever had but
one offer, and 1t is wonder she got
that. | shouldn't be surprised II the
men back out even now before the
wedding day But you see, dear. had
to be diplomatic. Those people can do
me many favors. The surest way to
make myself solid with them is to pre-
tend to think their girls so popular that
every man In town was crazy to marry
them"
nv ,,-f, IL
groaned the man. "if ! had Your genius
we'd be milIionaires inside of six
months. New York Sun.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28

There is more Catarrn In this Sec
ton of the country than all other
diseases put together, and until the
last few years was supposed to be-
incurable. For great many years
doctors pronounced 1t a local dis.
ease and prescribed local remedies,
and by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced 1t incur
able. Science has proven catarrh to.
be a constitutional disease and
therefore requires constitutional
treatment. HalRs Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is the Only constitution
al cure on the market. It is taken in
ternally in doses from 10 drops to
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dol
lars for any case 1t fails to cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials.
Address: F. ]. Cheney & Co., Tole-
do, o.
Sold by Druggists, 15c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipatioD d
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
COBRA PURSUES GIRL SHOPPER
Clerk Hears Her Scream and Jumps
on Snakes Head.

Calcutta, India, Aug. 2S.-Shop-
ping in Calcutta is sometimes at
tended by risks unknown to those
who frequent the emporiums of
London or New York or other large
continental and American cities.
rms is we'll illustrated by an excit-
ing incident in the experience of an
European girl in the Bengal capital.
The young Woman had come out
Of the shop of cofffeeti00ReI in
Park street when cobra, which had
emerged from a neighboring house.
pursued her. The screams of the
panic stricken girl attracted the at
tention of European assistant of
the confectioners shop, who rushed
to her rescue and jumped on the
snake, alighting on it's head and
crushing 1t to death. The cobra
measured fully four feet in length.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
DOG AND MASTER ARE PINCHED
Animal Mistakes Play for Trouble
and Bites Woman.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 2S.--D. A..
Clarke's bull pup didn't like the as
pect of things when he caught sight
OF his master playfully scuffling
with a chambermaid at the Hotel
Knickerbocker, and, thinking Clarke
was in danger, went to his assis-
lance. The dog sank his teeth into
the body and arms of the young
woman, and her screams summoned
assistance. &
Policemen took Clarke and his
faithful pet to the North Side police
station. where they were locked in
separate cells. Clarke, who roomed
at the hotel, is charged with being
suspicious person. The authorities
charge the animal with the offense
of not wearing a muzzle.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28

Governor Campbell has appointed
Mark Smith as a delegate to the
deep water convention which will
meet in Chicago in October. II is
hoped that Texas will be represent
ed in that meeting. In the opening
of the Panama canal, it is important
that Texas take good care of her
deep water port facilities. The canal
has already had effect on Texas and
Texas can have more benefit from
this canal than any other state
Ennis News.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
Il Paid.

A little boy Of five years, playing
with his sister one day, leaned too far
out of the second story window, lost
his balance and fell into the yard be
being injured, and his parents and
friends were so delighted that they
gave him quite q number Of pennies
nickels and dimes
The next day. after he recovered
from the shock of the fall. he was
counting his money and on seeing his
little sister enter the room exclaimed
Gee. Gladys. lock at all the money
| got for falling out of the window
Why don't you try it?'-Delineator
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
HORSE LOSES IT'S TAIL.
Frantic Animal Then Runs Away,
Throwing Driver Out.

Nevada, Ia, Aug. 28.-While en-
gagged in threshing on the farm, Ce-
Gil Mullen, who was driving a team
belonging to Homer White, neigh
boring farmer, drove up near the
machine, and while fighting flies
one of the horses switched it's tail
into rapidly running belt The tail
was literally torn from the horse,
leaving only short stump.
The animal became frantic and
ran away, tipping over the wagon
and throwing young Mullen to the
ground. While no bones were brok-
en-, he was badly bruised
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
Chained Books,

The finest known collection of
chained books is that in Hereford
England cathedral. 1t includes about
1900 volumes arranged In five book
cases, Of which not less than 500 are
secured by chains three or four feet
long, each with a swivel In the center
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
Manhocd's Estate.

1t is Il very foolis, convention viii ii
lays down that we nre grown up whcr
we have reached our twenty first birth
day The real majority is reached
when we begin TO earn our own bread
and butter and to bring forth the light
which has been fostered in us by the
care of others for the last ten or fifteen
years. Self dependence and self rel
ance-that is the real manhood
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28

Business interests in Waxahachie
seem fully aroused to the necessity
of a curfew law. They are entitled
10 some kind of protection from the
of home to run abroad at night A
curfew law would protect business
interests and restrain some children
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28

We are not attempting to say
what the cotton prospect is, but
even those who are loudest in pro-
nouncing it bad say that conditions
are improving
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28

All the world may not exactly love
lover, but 1t always takes quite an
interest in his letters when they are
read to the jury.-Puck.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
DARBY PLEADS MELON TINE.
Mayors Stern Heart Melts Wher,
Prisoner Suggests Luscious De-
lights OF the. Patch.

Allentown, Pa, Aug. 28-John-
son Brown. a huge darby, stood be-
fore the mayor, charged with va
grancy. The mayor said sternly: II
have good notion to give you Is
days"
"Fo de Lawd's sake, yo Honah,
don't do dat" the darkey gasped.
Don do dat; dom do dat! Don yuh
know dat dis am de watermelon
season in Jersey, and Use ought to
Use ought to be thar, Judge!"
How long will it take you to
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
get out of town." queried the may

get out of town." queried the may
or.
Tell dat fat pleeseman to shove
dat white trash out der way to give
me room to git, and den watch out"
The order was given, the crowd
gave way; there was sound like a
horse galloping and several minutes
later huge cloud of dust was seen
rapidly travelling Jerseyward.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28

If bad roads are expensive and
the county is able to have better
ones, why not have better ones?
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
PLUMBING

should be looked after at this sea-
son of the year 1t is important for
the health Of your family that your
drainage and Plumbing should be
examined by an expert. We are glad
to figure on
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
Waxahachie Cotton Mills.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the above mill will be
held at 2 O'Clock p. m. on Tuesday,
September s, 1908, at the Ellis
county courthouse.
f. A DIIROSE
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28

NEW CONTRACTS.
and on either large or small Jobs
our prices are always fair and a.
tractive.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28
E. A. DUBOSE,

Secretary and Manager.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-28

Obituaries. resolutions OF respect, cards
OF thanks-ali matter not NEWS-will be
charged for at the rate of 5 cents per line
Poetry at double price.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31
Killed for His Money.

Medical Lake-With his gray head
beaten to an almost unrecognizable
pulp, his body battered and bruised
and many of his teeth knocked out,
the body of Ira Messenger, a we'll
known citizen of Medical Lake, was
found by fishermen Sunday morning
lying near the trail leading to Clear
Lake. A two-foot length of gas pipe,
covered with blood, was found by
the body. The dead mans pockets
had been rifled and his clothes torn
into strips by the murderer.
The crime was committed about 10
o'clock Saturday night. At that hour
Arthur Hubbard, whose home is less
than 20 yards from the scene of the
crime, was awakened by some one
shouting his name, as If in distress.
Hubbard seized his gun and ran out
the back door in the direction of the
cries, but finding no one returned
and retired.
Suspicion has been directed to-
ward a soldier missing from Fort
Wright. Three men found loafing In
the suburbs of Medical Lake have
also been arrested pending investi-
cations.
The dead mans wife Is visiting at
Beach, Wash. His mother and sister
reside at Medical Lake.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31

knothole In the door with .22 rife.
Later young Craney did not see WV
ian go behind the door and the shot
struck him to the left of the nose
and came out at the top of the head.
Death followed during the night.
John M. Crawford, general super
intendent of Washington state fish
hatcheries, has laid out the ground
and commenced work on the new
hatchery on Lewis River near Wood
land. The state will expend $4,000
on the hatchery that will have an
output of about $500, 900 salmon
fry. 1t is proposed to handle nothing
but chinook for the present, taking
steelheads later.
July 80 to August /, inclusive, are
the dates set by Adjutant General
Hamilton for the annual state rife
competition. The shoot will be held
on the American Lake range and
each company will be represented by
q team Of six men with not to exceed
two alternates. The Washington
state rifle team for the National COM
petition will be chosen Immediately
after the state shoot is completed.
After throwing her 7year-old
daughter from the breakwater at
Lake Washington, in Seattle, last
week. Mrs. Tressa Markley, wife of
Norman e. Markley, an attorney
formerly of Eugene, Or, committed
suicide by leaping into the lake her.
self. The little girl crawled out of
the water and after more than an
hour of climbing up the steep hill,
reached the home of Arthur Mottin-
ger, where she told her story. Half
an hour later party Of searchers
found the woman's body in the lake
short distance from where she had
leaped from the breakwater.
Commissioner of Public Lands
Ross announces that 1t will be neces-
sary to postpone until October the
September sale of state, school and
granted lands. The sale was to have
taken place on the first Saturday of
next month, applications having been
received from practically every coun-
ty in the state, but the last legisla-
ture failed to correctly estimate the
tremendous amount of business that
would be done in the State Land De-
partment, and as a result appropria-
lions then made have fallen so far
short that, without the cooperation
of the press of the state. business
will be almost at a standstill and
thousands of dollars lost to schools
and educational institutions of
Washington.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31
Mexico for MeXicans.

Mexico City, July 21.-The anti
foreign feeling in Mexico is assuming
large proportions, and a bitter con-
troversy over the question is being
waged between the foreign and ma
tive press. La Patria yesterday pub
lished an article in which it pro-
claimed the time ripe for a policy
whose slogan shall be Mexico for
Mexicans." Most of the TRADE Is d.
rected against the Yankees" term
of contempt used by Mexican editors
in designating Americans.
Among other things La Patria de-
clares that If Americans think the
governments of Argentine, Chile or
Brazil more enlightened than that of
Mexico, they should journey to those
parts, the sooner the better.
After referring to the efforts on
the part of the foreigners to kill the
proposed new mining law restricting
corporations in Mexico, the paper
says:
I'VE repeat our attitude toward
foreigners. We are not boxers, but
patriots, and when we take a given
decision We take it, not as against
foreigners, but for the benefit OF
Mexico"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31
Drill Into Vault Room.

Seattle-Cracksmen drilled their
way into the vaultroom of the Seat
tie Safe Deposit Company's vaults,
In the heart of the business district.
Sunday night, but before they had
lighted the fuse attached to pocket
of nitro-glycerin, attached to the
main door of the inner strong box,
A. ]. Elwell. the manager, who visit
ed the vaults with Ed Batheim, of
Portland. commercial traveller, on an
emergency case and frightened them
away. The front doors of the vaults
were found blocked by a large piece
of timber which had been placed
against them from the inside. The
burglars had entered by drilling
through three steel doors from the
rear entrance to the vaults, which
are in the basement.
Had the inner vault been cracked,
valuabies worth more than 81 ,O0O,-
900 could have been secured. Just
how much was secured will not be
known until a check list of the goods
can be made by the owners of the
property. The great number OF
empty jewel cases scattered about
indicates that the amount Of loot
taken must have been large.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31
| NEWS Of OUR STATE
Girl Captures Burglar.

Seattle-Oscar Kildall, confessed
burglar, is in the county jail. where
he landed as the result of the pluck
and sprlnting ability of Miss Bessie
Carlin. Kildall acknowledges that
his vocation has been breaking into
houses and looting the quarters In
the slot gas meters.
One afternoon last week when
Miss Carlin, stepping from her room
into the hall, saw Kildall at the gas
meter. The burglar fed with the
girl after him. Down the steps they
few and up the street. Miss Carlin
gaining at every step.
When they had gone three blocks
the girl was ten feet behind. She
cried out to some men just ahead to
stop the fugitive One of them oblig-
ingly stuck out his foot and Kildall
tripped headlong. AS he picked
himself up, the breathless Miss Car
lin bounced on him.
Then, single-handed and indig-
nantly declining assistance, Miss Car
lin marched him back to her house
and upstairs and locked him in the
bath room. Then she telephoned the
police.
Miss Carlin weighs 1870 pounds
and Kildall 1853.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31

he purchased an automobile and is
now hob-nobbing with the Prince Of
Whales. The good will and other
valuable assets of the Journal has been
in the air ever since, just waiting to
light on some one who wants to get
rich in the newspaper business in
Leavenworth.
Room here for another newspaper
Just for fun and intellectual expan-
sionl
No, no! Bless your soul, we absorb
all that quality ourselves. We have
a monopoly on that. But if it's lucre,
filthy lucre you're after-ah, there you
have US. Come a-runing. Can't you
see from our newspaporial countenance
that, like the democratic party, we're
suffering from too much prosperity
Now, if you're one of those monopolisti-
cally inclined newspaper adventures,
and can't abide opposition, come any
how. Assume our indebtedness, and
we'll get out for reasonable considera-
ton and you can have the whole field
to yourself. We've wanted to retire for
sometime, collect the interest on our
government bonds and go on a globe
trot around the world.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31

The first national convention OF the
Independence party met in Chicago
and on Tuesday nominated Thomas R.
Hisgen of Massachusetts,, for presi-
dent, and John Temple Graves, Of
Georgia, for vice president. The
nominees bear the reputation OF being
good men with clean records. The
head of the ticket is a warm admirer
of Theodore Roosevelt, and as an in
dependent candidate for governor Of
Massachusetts, recently made most
remarkable showing of popularity.
Mr.. Graves has long been prominent
in the state Of Grorgia. The ticket
will have no effect on the election
other than to draw some votes from
the democratic ticket and reduce Mr..
Bryan's vote.