The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-14
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GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.

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New York, March Despite
criticism in certain high quarters,
the "malefactors of great wealth
continue to prosper. The Standard
Oil company of New Jersey today
paid quarterly dividend of SIS per
share, or Is per cent for the quar-
ter ending March 81.
AS a result of this disbursement,
our distinguished friend, John D.
Rockefeller, puts $3,S52.810 be-
tween him and the poor house Three
months ago he received a little pin
money of the same amount. His an
nual income from Standard Oil
stock alone is over SIS, 900, 900, or
about million and quarter
month.
For the past three years the New
dividend of SIS per share for this
quarter In 1903 it paid 500 in or
der to get rid of few millions in
superfluous coin, The dividend of
this philanthropic institution, which
has placed midnight oil, in the reach
of the most humble, is now at the
rate of $60,000,000 a year As the
total capitalization is 500, 900, 900,
this is at the modest rate of 60 per
cent
Irish to Celebrate.
1t has been said that New York
has more Italians than Rome, more
Greeks than Athens and more Irish
men than Dublin. The proof as re-
CARDS the sons of Emerald Isle will
probably be forthcoming next Tues
day, if the wearing of the green
counts for anything. Every Irish or
ganization in the greater city-and
there are not a few--is preparing to
celebrate st. Patrick's Day with a
greater outburst of enthusiasm than
ever before. All Irish bushes men
will close their places of business at
will give half-holday to all en-
ployes of the Irish birth
Abe HummeI Out Again.
Abe Hummel, attorney at-law, now
guest of the city at Blackwell's Is
land, will be dicharged next week.
Little Abe as he is familarly known,
~, Erct
Thaw trial, and was said to have
been Stanford Whites legal adviser
in his relation with Evelyn Nesbit.
Later Hummel came into conflict
with the law. and his enforced re-
tirement to the Island was the re-
suit. Upon his release, it is said, he
will make tour of Europe before re-
Stunning the practice of his honorable
profession in New York
Some time ago reports were fam
boyantly circulated by the yellow
press to the effect that Hummel was
dying From the same sources the
public secured the information that
the little lawyer, CARRIED in stripes, !
was engaged in the pleasant pastime
of breaking large stones into small |
ones. Those familiar with Hummels |
sojourn on the Island state that both |
reports were false and that the pris- |
oner has enjoyed the best of health, |
that he has not been forced to wear
the clothing of the other prisoners
and that his strenuous labor has
been in eating the delicacies and |
perusing the books and papers |
brought him by his faithful friends. |
Thus is the city administration re
lieved of the hateful charge that it |
has forced a man of Hummel's |
wealth, culture and ability to indulge |
in anything so vulgar as manual la
Dor.
Greatest on Earth.
Hail, Gentle Spring. We know !;
now, of a surety, that you are the
way, because the circus is here. The !!
very greatest on earth" arrived to-
day, with It's nerds OF ponderous
EN-, ffty-of rare wild beasts, its
its fifty dens-count
500 horses and its army of perform
ars, beasts and human. The first per-
'ormance will be given in Madison
square Garden next Thursday even
ng, and the intervening time will be {
Ised in rehearsing the new program.
The coming of the circus to the t
metropolis is a distinct event. Those |
Who imagine that New Workers are t
eyond such bucolic pleasures as
hose afforded by the sawdust
renas. the death-defying feat of
daredevil artists who have appear