The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-10-26
VIEWS AND GOSSIP OF NEW YORK


New YORK, Oct. 26.-We are re-
minded that Jack McAuliffe. former
champion lightweight pugilist of the
world. is still in the land of living
by the filing of a suit in which lie
asks $4,000 damages, Just because
his name was attached to a nickel
( cigar. Mister" MsAuliffe is now a
stock broker, and. what is even more
respectable resides in Brooklyn He
claims that the use of his honored
cognomen by the cigar concern has
caused great mental anguish and has
subjected him TO ridicule and CON
! tempt.
I II is to be derived from his counsel
that Mr.. McAuliffe's crouch arises,
not from any prejudice against eli
CARS or pronounced antipathy to
fame. but because of the fact that
tthe cigar named after him is of the
/ five cent variety. The eX-pugilist
thinks that that lowers his dignity,
and that if the cigar manufacturers
wished to honor him, they should
! have chosen a ten cent or two for
quarter quality of weeds, and not
the cheap and vulgar smokes of the
hoi polloi.
! The decision of the courts will es-
| tablish an interesting legal prece-
dent. In the past, cigar manufactur-
/ ers have considered it a delicate
compliment to name alleged smokes
after pugilists, actors and actresses,
and the latter have accepted the hon
or as being the very height of fame.
Mr.. McAuliffe has evidently develop
ed case of ingrowing refinement
since he abandoned the mits for the
ticker.
Ingcrsoll's Daughters.
A new society which will attract
general attention because of the
identity of the promoters has just
been incorporated in New York
under the name of the American Soci-
ETY. for Humane Medical Research.
Mrs. Eva Ingersoll Brown and Miss
Maude Ingersoll, the daughters of
the late Colonel Robert Ingersoll,
the distinguished orator, lawyer and
agnostic are the moving spirits back
of the organization. Mrs. Sue M. Far
rell, sister of the colonel, and her
husband, c. p Farrell, publisher
of this city, are also interested in the
movement.
The organization is the outgrowth
, OIL tHS IeCeHi dutl-N ~ loCSNloh " uoaNS'
The objects, according to the papers
iof Incorporation, are to conduct elm
ical and laboratory research, in med
cal science, to maintain chemical,
physical, biological and phisiologi-
cal laboratories and to establish a
statistical bureau in this city
The daughters of Colonel Ingersoll
have long been interested il the
work of the Society for the Proven
ton of cruelty to animals and SINH
lar humanitarian movements. The
new society hopes to do away with
the necessity for vivisection and
other cruel methods of prosecuting
scientific research.
Virginian'S Joke.
Inhabitants of the Old Dominion
are possessed of rare sense of hui
NOR. and it was this that led demo
cratic gentleman Of Winchester. Va,
to send the following note to repub-
lican headquarters in this city:
Enclosed find $50 for the grand
| old party to be used to defeat that
demagogue, William j. Bryan"
When the eyes of Treasurer Shell
don fell upon the missive, he fairly
radiated delight, since contributions
from the SOutueIH StdtSS diC oSloolh
received at the G. 0. P. headquart-
ers in the Metropolitan Life Build
ing. When he examined the enclo-
sure, however. Mr.. Sheldon's enthu-
siasm quickly vanished. 1t was fifty
dollar bill, all right but it bore the
guarantee of the confederate state
of America.
But Mr. Sheldon's discontinue
was changed to JOY when wealthy
New Yorker, who happened to be In
the office, offered the G. O. P. treas
iurer a fifty dollar bill issued by Uncle
Sam in exchange for the Confederate
J currency The Virginia practical jok-
err may take upon his soul the re-
J sponsibility for that addition to the
republican campaign fund.
Treasurer Ridder q also has his
troubles with the jokers. An express
I package, sent collect" and alleged
to contain currency, developed moth
ling more valuable than bundle OF
socialist papers. One cent stamps and
single pennies have been received al
1.-THE. headq uarters of both parties. &C
lcompanied by letters expressing the
devout wish that the contribution
might help in winning victory
lNickels and dimes have been sent by
school children all over the country
and letters from the youngsters ex-
press more enthusiasm than the
adult contributors are wont to con-
fosc