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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-07
A MEDFoRD STORY.
Legend Of the Phantom Ship and IT.
Mad Pirate Captain.

Legend Of the Phantom Ship and It's
Mad Pirate Captain.
The town Of Medford, Mass, has a
legend Of a phantom ship beside which
the Flying Dutchman is only peace
full merchantmen. The Medford story
runs that ship laden with rum and
gold and silver bars put out from tina.
place IN the days when the Spanish
main was infested with pirates !;
was headed for West Indian port
but got into the doldrums and was so
long becaimed that water and provi-
sions gave out, and all hands persisted
Of thirst and starvation. When the
wind came up again the ship sailed
away with her CHASTITY crew, was seen
by buecaneer. chased and over
hauled.
The pirate captain made fast to his
prize without firing single shot, and.
attributing the vessels nonresistance
to fear or lack Of arms, he was the
first man to leap on board. But the
| rope with which the captured ship
had been carelessly dashed to his own
parted under the strain Of the seaway,
and he found himself rapidly borne
away from his comrades on what he
soon discovered to be floating coffin
A stiff breeze filled the sails of the
| derelict. and before his own vesse.
could overtake 1t night descended Oh
the ocean, and the pursuing ship lost
sight Of 1t altogether. Left aloRe III
pitch darkness on the grewsome craft,
the pirate went mad with terror and.
Selling the wheel, raced away before
the wind and, according to the legend
was condemned to range the seas for
ever thus in command OF his horrible
prize.
Woe TO the ship that encountered 1t
scudding along by moonlight or In the
lightnings glare, manned by skeletons
and stcered by shouting. gesticulat-
ing mailman. and when on several oc-
casions 1t was sighted In the fog of
Medford 1t was considered as the her
aid Of storm and disaster and the loss
Of many ships.-New York Press
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-07
Jenry's Quick Method.

Jenny's uncle, who was school.
teacher. met her on the street one
beautiful May day and asked her II
she was going TO the Maypole dance.
"No, | amt going"
"Oh. my little dear" said her uncle,
you must not say I amt going. You
must say I am not going" And he
proceeded to give her little lesson In
grammar You are not going. He Ia
not going. We are not going. You are
not going. They are not going. Now
can you say all that. jenny
Sure. I can" she replied, making O
courtesy. There amt nobody going
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-07
RELIGIOUS AcR0BATs.
Dangerous Aerial Slide Annually Per-
formed In india.

Dangerous Aerial Slide Annually Per-
formed In india.
India offers many curious things In
the way OF religion, and the strangest
Of them all Is the aerial slide. which Is
performed annually Al Zulu. in the
Himalayas. At a point where there Is
cliff overhanging a precipitous gorge
several hundred feet In width and a
hundred feet In depth rope is made
fast to the rock The other end OF this
is carried across the gorge and there
secured to a stake. The total length
Of the rope between the two points is
when drawn taut $3.50 feet. and the
end attached to the clitf Is several hun.
dred feet higher than that fastened Oh,
the opposite side of the ravine. Thus
slide Is contrived, and 1t is n danger
GUS one to all appearance
Ii is down this incline that the per.
former has his path. For the lofty
journey sort of saddle Is provided
which the rope passes. But before Il
start is made the whole length OF the
rope is wet to prevent the saddle from
catching fire from the friction. The
performer sits astride this seat, and TO
his legs are fastened bags Of sand.
which serve two pnrposes-they enable
him to maintain an upright position
during his lightning-llke descent, and
they increase The momentum The
lower end Of the rope is carefully
wound with bits of carpet to check the
speed before the stake is reached
Without this precauiion the performer
would be dashed to pieces.
The terrific velocity of the desccn;
for the first few hundred yards i ;,
shown by the stream of smoke that
trails from the wake Of the saddle. de-
spite The fact that the rope has been
wet. Aftarward the incline diminislies
somewhat. and the pace becomes CORE
spondingly slower By the time the
goal is reached he jheri, as the per-
former is called, Is able to come to n
standstill without disaster
This slide in the air is supposed to
reveal the will Of the gods as to the
crops of the approac hing season. If
the perilous trip is accomplished IL
safety plentiful harvest Is assured
Naturally, therefore, every care Is tax
Ell to minimize the dangers OF the per
Torrance. The ceremony is OF ancient
origin. and those who engage In 1t as
jheri form 4. small caste apart.-New
York Tribune
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-07
The Annual Floxer Show.

The annual flower show of the
Daughters of the Confederacy will
be given next Thursday and Friday
and the event is being looked for
ward to with much pleasure. The ex-
hibition will take place in the Trip
petit building on North Rogers street.
Attractive prizes haye been offered
and the indications are quite favor
able for large number of exhibits.
A small admission fee will be charg-
ed and the citizens OF the town
should patronize the show literally.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-07
THE HEN Is A BIRD.

Come. gentle reader, let us con
slider the case of the lowly but victor
ious and unparalleled hen. Her exact
status before the American people is
clearly to her credit, and her exam
pie OF Industry and benevolent activ-
ity is surely inspiring.
To begin with, the hen sharps in
form US that there are in the Uniesd
States 233,5s8.005 OF her. not count
ing retired veterans. immature pull
lets. and young chicks. In her col
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Jury 1t the Thsatsr.

An unusual spectacle was witnessed
at the Theater Royal. Nelson. Auck-
land, when the Jury. who had been
locked up three nights because they
could not agree to n verdict in muir
der case, were allowed to witness a
living picture display. 4 They had ex-
pressed desire to attend the theater
rs a relief. and the Judge consented
Auckland News.
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A Work Matser.

"Binks n weak financially, iSn't her
He hasn't much money. but he gives
employment to great many nsn."
who are thsyr' al
"Other peoples bill collectors Lon.
Con Tit-Bite.
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Human nature never changes. II a
man promised to do better than men
have done IN the past, do not believe
him
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After pretty girl has been mar
ried about four years, she begins to
look as If she might be her sisters
mother
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Silence is sometimes the sSverse&
criticism. Baxter.
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Want ads. time savers and mope2
makers.
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When a man begins to tell q story
and introduces it by asking II we
have heard it, we can get away.
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Did anyone ever know man to
Ipologize. to his wife,
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A man never does anything i'll the
way woman says it should be done.
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Nearly every man accepts TINS nc
ion; Everybody knows me.
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SUNFLOWEK SERMONS
Atkinson Globe.

ora Atkinson Globe.
Nature is always stronger than Gull
ture.
be tired
Did anyone ever know a man to
apologize, to his wife?
Nearly every man accepts this fic-
ton: Everybody knows me.
A man never does anything in the
way woman says it should be done.
Women never blow their noses,
except when a'one with their fami-
lies.
1t is necessary to meet good luck
half way. but bad luck will chase
you.
A woman never gets along with
the driver CT milk wagon longer
than three months.
z What has become of the old-fash-
.loned man who was satisfied with a
good living?
Talk about your sensational
ilals Wait until you hear The re-
ordine angels testimony.
lou can praise one man to 2nothcr
without offense, providing the man
who is praised is deed.
Ohio claims to be the mother OF
presidents, but Nebraska Is having a
Mother Hubbard made.
We would like to know man who
can put piece OF gum in his mouth,
and keep from chewing it.
When a man begins to tell q story,
and introduces il by asking II we
have heard it, we can get away.
After pretty girl has been mar
ried about four years, she begins to
look as If she might be her sisters
mother
Human nature never changes. II a
man promised to do better than men
have done IN the past. do not believe
him
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We would like to know a man who
can put piece OF gum in his mouth,
and keep from chewing 1t.
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No one ever thinks that boy may
be tired.
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except when acne with their fami-
lies.
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-AF4- Atchinson Globe.
Nature is always stronger than cul-
ture.
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Ohio claims to be the mother of
presidents, but Nebraska is having a
Mother Hubbard made.
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Obituaries, RESOLUTIONS OF respect cards
OF thanks-all matter not NEWS-will be
charged for at the rate OF cents per line.
Poetry at double price.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06
CHEEKY OLD COUPLE
Find Grape-Nuts a Blessing

After one is seventy the questionaof
nourishment is very delicate one.
When old age comes on we do not
need so much food as during the more
active years. but the digestive organs
are very sensitive and care must be ex-
ercised in its selection.
No food has the strength giving
properties and is so easy to digest by
old and young as Grape-Nuts.
For years have been troubled with
writes our aged minister.
Il finally began using Grape Nuts
and have had no trouble with my
stomach since, feel perfectly well and
strong, and though 1 am II years old
feel like a boy.
Then, too, my wife has been troub-
led for years with biliousness and sick
headaches. Since she began to use
Grape-Nuts. about eight weeks ago,
she has no further trouble.
"She is quite well and strong, much
more CHEEKY and happy than in other
years. Grape-Nuts and Postum occupy
an important place on our breakfast
table, and in our daily food. 1t would
be hard for me to tell what we owe to
Grape-Nuts.
There's a Reason
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read The Road to Well
-ville.v in pkgs.
Ever read the above Ietters A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
INTEREST,"
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06
HARTMAN RETURNS
IN RUGGED HEALTH
Expresses Pleasure at Cordial
Reception Given by Citizens
Of the Coast
Many Projects Involving Mil
lions Planned for the Pa
cific Northwest

PORTLAND, Ore.s Sept. Sc. H. Har-
riman, railroad king, master of finance
and man famous throughout the world
Wherever the telegraph ticks and news
papers are printed, arrived in Portland
late today. The special train which
brought the srailroadman to Portland
was made up of the private car Arden,
occupied by Mr.. Hartman and John
Muir, the eminent scientist and Harri-
mans secretaries Hill and Price. Pre-
ceding it was the car occupied by Cen
eral Manager e. e. Calvin of the South
ern Pacific and his secretary, Horace
Jenkins. The car Oregon, with General
Manager O'Brien, Chief Counsel w. w.
Cotton and Secretary Walter Guild, was
the third in the train, and diner and
baggage car completed the equipment.
Wall street at various times in the
past has used reports of Harriman's al
legged i'll health to excellent advantage
In raiding the market. If this is a rule
that works both ways his early reap
pearance among the canyons of lower
Broadway ought to be the signal for the
most rampant bull market that ever de-
lighted the spectators on the long side,
for Hartman is the picture of rugged
health. He is bronzed by the suns of
klamath and flushed with the health
that comes from the care free outdoor
life he has been leading.
The railroad king emerges from his
protracted communion with nature in
rare good humor, and there is cordial
handshake and pleasing smile for all
with whom he comes in contact during
his ride through the Willamette valley
today.
Harriman spoke freely of his object
in visiting the Pacific northwest and
talked shop" with everybody who
wished to talk "Shon" with him hut
only upon matters of interest to this
region.
For the Pacific northwest Hartman
has many projects under consideration.
These projects involve the expenditure
OF vast sums of money, and details of
the expenditure and it's apportionment
have not yet been worked out. The
Tillamook branch from the main line of
the Southern Pacific in Oregon, the line
into central Oregon and the Puget
sound extension head the list of South
ern Pacific extensions in this region,
and the line to Coos bay, which has
been asked for, certainly will be built
at some future time, depending largely
upon the certainty of the revenue that
the Coos bay road will earn.
Another expensive cutoff to avoid
grades is now under way between
Hunting and Lewiston, Idaho, but its
early completion will depend entirely
on the state of the money market, al
though work now in progress will not
be abandoned. Other plans involving
Southern Pacific betterments have not
yet reached a stage where the railroad
king cared to discuss them
An informal reception in honor of
Hartman and the visiting railroad Of
f1cials was held at the Portland Com
mercial club tonight
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06
MRS. DUNPHY GETS
$6O,OOOALLOWANCE
Judge Graham Awards Vile
Lump Sum for Alimony in
Divorce Decree

An allowance of 100000 for her sup
port was awarded Mrs. Edith NJ. Dun
ply by Judge Graham yesterday in
signing the decree divorcing her from
James Clay Dunphy, the cattle ranch
owner. This was in accordance with
the petition of Charles w. Slack, attor-
ney for Mrs. Dunphy, who asked for
the allowance in a lump sum instead
of monthly alimony, stating that Dun
ply would only dissipate his fortune-if
he were permitted to retain it and that
it would be almost impossible to coll
lect a monthly allowance from him.
The sum of 100000 is less than one
third of the interest of Dunphy in the
estates of his mother and father.
In his decision Judge Graham stated
that as Dunphy had not denied either
the allegations of cruelty or infidelity
the wife was clearly entitled to di-
vorce, and the only other question for
the court to decide was what would be
reasonable allowance for her sup
port
The court is of opinion" the Judge
stated, that any allowance made for
the wife's future support is to be in
consideration of and a substitute for
any interest in the community prop
erty or Inheritance in the property of
her husband, and something in COM
pensation for the wrong done her. And
this proceeds upon the theory that the
husband has entered upon an obliga-
tion which, among other thingsy has
bound him to support his wife dur
ing their joint lives, and has given to
her right to share in the fruits and
accumulations of his, skill; that by his
own wrong, which thus deprives her
of that compensation, he must make
her compensation.
THE court is to fix the measure Of
that compensation by having regard to
the circumstances of the parties re-
spectively; these circumstances furnish
ing. the best means for determining the
extent of her loss. In my judgment
the sum of s60,000 would be reason
able allowance for the support and
maintenance of the plaintiff, and it is
so ordered. The further sum of $3.50
is awarded to her as counsel fees"
j. III. Meredith, counsel for Dunphy
in his argument before the Judge
earlier in the week, suggested that
500 month be awarded the wife as
alimOny
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06
CAUSES ARREST OF
HUSBAND AND ELOPES
Philadelphia Woman Tricks Her
Better Half and the
Police

PHILADELPHIA, Sept 5.-If a
woman wants to elope and her husband
is in the way she should have him ar
rested This is what George Wright of
S13 Brandywine street says his wife
did. and he has asked Magistrate Cor
man to find him homes for his two
children, whom he found in a Washing
ton asylum. where, he said they had
been left by their mother.
Recently Mrs. Wright called on Cap
tain of Detectives Gallagher and told
him that her husband had beaten her.
She said she had found a bottle under
his pillow that contained poison and
that she was afraid of her life. She
even showed the identical bottle. Com
forting the woman. Gallagher told her
70 go home and to report if she We're
further abused.
A few days afterward she came again
and with a still more pitiful story, and
this time swore out a warrant for
Wrights arrest. The police were so
affected by her story that they chipped
in for the children. But when Wright
came up for hearing his wife did not
appear against him.
According to Wright, while he was
in prison his wife left home with an
other man, taking their children as far
as Washington. ID. C. He traced her
movements until he found the children.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06
TO RESTORE SHASTA'S
FALLEN MONUMENT
Expedition Will Climb Noun
tain This Week; VoIun-
teerS Wanted

Volunteers for an expedition to the
peak of Mount Shasta for the purpose
OF replacing on the mountain tip the
big monument which fell several years
ago are being sought by w. G. Need
ham, who is now at Shasta Retreat a
resort in the mountains. Five young
men have Offered their services, and
10 more viii be required to execute the
task
Owing to the small amount of snow
on Mount Shasta this season as a re-
suit of the torrid summer, the monu-
ment which was lost after it fell has
been located. 1t lies embedded in rock,
snow and ice at the head of Muir gla-
cier. The monument is three feet in
diameter and about 20 feet long, made
OF sheet steel with a metal cap.
The volunteers are E. A Sullivan and
J; karmel of San Francisco. P. G. HoL
tie and J. NJ. Kennedy of Berkeley and
Ray Templeton. The start will be
made from Shasta retreat, Siskiyou
county. tomorrow, reaching the timber
line at O'Clock in the evening The
party viii rest there until / O'Clock
Tuesday morning, when the ascent of
the main mountain win be begun
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06
SAN FRANCISCO BONDS
ARE A GOOD INVESTMENT
Trustees Anticipate the DeveI-
opment of Big Demand
for New Securities

The chamber of commerce has called
the attention of it's members TO the
opening of bids for municipal bonds by
the clerk of the board of supervisors
next Tuesday afternoon at o'clock.
The rumor to the effect that eastern
houses would be bidders for the bonds
has aroused the trustees of the cham
Der, who desire capitalists of San Fran
cisco to bid for the securities and thus
keep considerable of the money in this
city.
The fact that Pittsburg recently is
sued several millions of per cent
bonds and the fact that they We're over
subscribed leads the trustees to the be-
lief that San Francisco's issue of per
cent bonds are a much better invest
ment than any now before the public
The bonds, bids for which are to be
opened Tuesday, are for sewers,
schools, hospitals, hall of justice and
for fire protection. They are dated
July /. 1908. and mature at various
dates beginning in 1911 and continuing
until 1880.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06

lar illades the final demand upon her son
which resulted in his announcement on
Wednesday of the breaking off OF the
engagement
The manner in which this copy Of
the divorce complaint is alleged to
have reached Mrs. MacMillan's hands
IS no less Interesting than the story
OF its existence. Goodwin. it is said
was permitted by his wifes attorneys
to inspect the original some time ago
and 10 prepare copy of it. Good
win, to all appearances, is stili
as much cnamored' of his late lead
ing lady as he was last spring..
when he sent George Weldon, his for
mer theatrical manager, to. San Fran
cisco for the supposed purpose OF
breaking up the MacAfillan-Goodrieh
match And it was by the hand of a
close friend of Nat c. Goodwin that the
copy Of the EIliott-Goodwin divorce
complaint is alleged to have been de-
livered to Mrs. Macmillan.
Goodwin reached New York a short
time ago from Europe and has just left
for san Francisco TO attend the Cans
Nelson fight on September g. Miss
Goodrich is still shedding the warmth
Of her beauty on the European conu-
nent, Macmillan is somewhere in the
vicinity of Reno. New. and the divorce
complaint is reposing in the safe OF
Maxine Elliott's attorneys.
Goodwin has never looked with
favorable eye on the attachment that
was once supposed to exist between
Edna Goodrich and Macmillan. From
the time that the beautiful member of
tho original "Florodora" sextet parted
from her first husband Edwin Stacey
OF Cincinnati, and Joined his company
as the successor of the glorious Maxine,
Goodwin has followed her with jealous
eyes. When she closed her engagement
with him last spring and sailed for
Paris after her engagement TO Mac
milan had been announced by the lat
ter's mother, Goodwin also sailed for
Europe. Then Miss Goodrich rushed
back, met Macmillan at Reno and went
with him 10 San Francisco. The date
OF the wedding had already been set for
June 10, but after reaching San Fran
cisco they were joined fby. George
Weldon, Goodwins friend, and few
days later il was announced that the
wedding had been postponed.
For a time everybody concerned de-
nied that the engagement had been or
you'd be broken off. Even Goodwin
@eclared that his journey to Europe
had not been to meet Miss Goodrich.
But after she crossed the Atlantic the
second time, he also crossed And now
Macmillan himself announces that the
engagement is off-the romance at an
end. Or has it only begun?