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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
THE SOUL MATES AND SOUR
GRAPES OF MATRIMONY.

According to the New York Tri-
bune. the owner of which is ambas-
sador from the United States to Eng
land and a social luminary of the
first magnitude, there has never yet
been a generally accepted answer to
the question, What constitutes an
ideal husband" Women differ,
declares the New York contempor-
airy, some liking husband who
goes to his club and enjoys himself
solus," leaving the wife free for gos-
sip or cards at home OF elsewhere.
Others prefer a yoke mate who has
no wish to wander from his own fire.
side. But there is little doubt that
great many wives, whatever their
preference in husbands may be,
haven't just what they want. Won
an is limited in her range. She is
handicapped by reason of the re-
strictions custom and society have
laid upon her. Sometimes it is ira
hgic, but the ordinary woman man
hges to survive her disappointments,
L, keep her preferences to herself,
and to even thrive on heart hun
ger"
l The school girl whose fancy in
sists upon a blond prince with vel
vet coat and a picturesque castle
compromises, a few years later,
upon a good-looking bookkeeper,
with a pair of tan shoes and an in
stallment plan cottage, mapped out
in his mind. The young woman who
thinks she is welded to art and
could marry only an artist gets over
| it bravely in few years and pros
| pers the suit of an enterprising
drummer. And the aspiring literary
! lady, with visions of fame and for
| tune torturing her by day and by
night, and who conceives her affini-
! ~ to be a composite of Byron, Pope,
Shelley, George AIDE and-maybe-
/
disappointments, handed to her in
the form of lemons" from publish
ers, is glad to give it all up and sur
render to the opportunities of some
| earnest young sutton who is teaching
school by day and studying medicine
by night.
These enforced reforms in WON
ans fancy would be pitiful if it We're
not for her happy faculty of idealiz
ing. If she can not marry her ideal
she can adjust her ideal to circum
stances and weave a near-silk cover
and almost convinces her that she
has merely made a series of luck.
escapes.
But the few women who do mar
ry their ideals-are they always bet
ter off than their sisters who hav'
adapted their ideals to the eXigen
cies of circumstance? 1t is doubtful
For ideals change and men ant
! women change with them Perhap!
it is better for neither man nor WON
an to set up an iron-clad ideality anC
use it as an memorable pattern. Ever
as idols sometimes are QUILTED with
| feet of clay, our ideals too often
| prove to have heads of wood, and
not half as much money as would be
convenient-Dallas News.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
IS StVtNTY-ONt YEARS
THE SAGE OF PRINCETON RE-
CIPIENT OF MANY CON-
CALCULATIONS.
Career of Cleveland.

1837-Born at Caldwell, Essex
County, New Jersey March IS.
1855-After academic education,
became clerk in law Office in Buffa-
10.
1S59-Admitted to the bar and
began practice of law in Buffalo.
1S63-Became assistant district
attorney of Erie county, New York,
1SS1-Elected mayor of his home
city, Buffalo, New York.
1882-Nominated and elected as
governor of New York on the dem
ocratic ticket.
1SS4-Elected president of the
United States as democrat, over Jas.
G. Blaine, republican, by majority
of 81 electoral votes.
1SS6-Married in White House to
Frances Folsom, June 2.
1SSS-Nominate for president
of United States by democrats, but
defeated by Benjamin Harrison, re-
publican.
1SS9-Returned to law practice,
locating in New York.
1S92-Again nominated for pres
ident by democrats and elected, de-
feating President Harrison.
1S97-Retired from presidency
and active political life, and took up
his residence at Princeton, n j.,
Princeton University comforting upon
him the degree of LII. D.
Princeton, n. j., March 1S.-This
is a great day in Princeton. 1t is the
birthday anniversary of Grover
Cleveland, the only living ex-presi-
dent of the United States, who for
many years has been the most dis
tinguished citizen of this old college
town. The famous statesman today
enters upon his seventy-second year,
having been born on March IS,
1887. Scores of prominent people,
including many members of the
Princeton faculty, today called at
the Cleveland family home, West
lands, to pay their respects to the
aged man who has now become
known as the Sage of Princeton"
A steady procession of messenger
boys began early this morning to de-
liver the kilograms of congratula-
ton that are pouring in from all
over the land and from foreign coun-
tries. Princeton students took an en-
thusiastic part in the days obser-
vances.
There is every prospect that the
number of congratulatory messages
received today will exceed in num-
Der those arriving year ago, when
Mr. Cleveland reached the scriptural
limit of three score years and ten,
proving conclusively that with the
passing years the popularity of the
Sage of Princeton" is steadily grow
ing. While he has not actively en-
gagged in politics for several years,
his opinion is eagerly sought by
democratic politicians and statesmen
all over the country and by the
newspapers. For a time he was held
responsible, in many quarters, for
the panic of 1898, just as President
Roosevelt has been blamed for last
years financial furry, but this feel
ing has now apparently died out and
there is every probability that Mr.
Cleveland will live many years to
enjoy the justification of his course
that is now being accorded him.
Mr. Cleveland has steadily turned
deaf ear to all temptations of re-
turn to public Office. He has stead
lastly taken the position that any
American who had been called to
the presidency has received the
highest honor in the gift of the Am
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
Dallas VS.. WaxahaChie Ceam.

Another game has been booked
with Trinity University, and the Dali
las team will go to Waxahachie to-
morrow. Trinity has fast team, it
is said, and it is expected that the
Collegians will make the Dallas
players put up stiff fight to win.
The game which was to have been
played with Austin College at Sher-
man today has been called off be-
cause the students of the college are
busily engaged in taking examina-
lions this week.-Dallas News.
The game will be called tomorrow
afternoon at 4 O'Clock on Trinitys
diamond
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

THE TEMPLE OF JUSTICE
Damage Suit Continued.

The damage suit of L. c. Thomp-
son ct al against the Ferris Press
in the district court Tuesday morn
ing. After number of witnesses
had been examined attorneys for the
in order to file an amended petition.
When the amendment was filed at
torneys for the defendant asked for
a continuance, which was granted.
The jury for the week was ex-
cused until Thursday mornig.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
Thrown Down by Dog.

Mrs. w. NJ. Hanney, wife of Con-
ductor Hanney of the Houston and
Texas Central, while entering the
gate at her home, 1875 Broadway,
was thrown down by dog that was
running up the walk at a rapid rate,
sustaining a broken arm and many
painful bruises. Mrs. Hanney had
just recovered from a tedious ill
ness.-Fort Worth Star
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation of
any person, firm or corporation that
may appear in the columns Of the
Daily Light will be gladly corrected
apon its being brought to the xtten-
ton Of the management
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

H. F. Daily, farmer, living three
and a half miles southwest of Waxa-
hachie, Texas, says: my wife used
ms Kidney Pills with good sue
cess. She had trouble from her kid
neys for several years, which while
not serious enough to lay her up,
was very annoying and would, no
doubt, in time have become more Sc
we're. There was a constant soreness
across the small of the back and the
least cold settled on her kidneys
causing the secretions to act too fire.
quently besides being scanty. When
saw Doan's Kidney Pills advertised
at B. W. Fearis' drug store, ! got
some and my wife used them. She
says there is no medicine to be COM
pared to them. From our experience
it is a pleasure to endorse the claims
made for Doan's Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. FosterMilburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other. w5
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
The Enterprise Publishing Com

The Enterprise Publishing Com
psny Is in nowise responsible for
debts that may be contracted by en-
pl0yes, nor will we assume payment
of such debts under any circum-
stances. Every employe Of this office
In paid promptly for work done. This
10 to protect ourselves and the sell
Ing public --ENTERPRISE PUB
LISTING COMPANY, Per g. w. Nc
Knight, Manager.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
Real Estate Transfers.

Martha n. Sheppard to c. D. Bry-
son, 3 acres out of the James Nc
Namara survey; $3.50.
c. E. Schuster to J. B. Naughton,
lot in Waxahachie; $500.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Representative Jack Beall is
right. A divided people can not eX-
pect much help at the hands of the
government. Let's all pull for that
public building for Waxahachie.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

A live issue, and one in which
every citizen can interest himself, is
presented in the action of the Cen
trail in disseminating the short run
trains between Waxahachie and
Garrett This action is an outrage
that should be resented.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Politics may be an exciting game,
but building sidewalks and cleaning
up your premises is a game that
could be played with greater profit
to yourself and to your fellow man.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

in the coming campaign will find
us ready to fill their orders for cards
and other campaign literature on
the shortest possible notice. and in
the best printing. Enterprise Pub
fishing Co. If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

We are going TO, and do here and
now, make application for member
ship in Jim Lowery's buttermilk
club. If elected We propose to try
and keep cool. It's a hard job we
know, but here goes.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
Farmer Loses Meal ,

Deputy Sheriff Tom Godfrey of
Howard was in town Wednesday and
meat had been stolen from Charley
Dixon, a farmer of that community
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Gather up the rubbish that now
encumbers your premises, phone the
street commissioner and it will be
removed at the expense of the city.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Obituaries, resolutions OF respect.
cards Of thanks-all matter not
NEWS-will be charged for at the
rate of 5 cents per line. Poetry at
double price
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

How would you like TO live in a
community where only one man was
accredited with being truthful?
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Did you ever stop to think that
perhaps it is you, and not your ideal
that has changed?
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
tResideEce Phone. Bell No. 2Ss.)
". A. OWNBY City Editor

For that tired feeling take WaXa-
hachie mineral water
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Men may be political strangers and
still be friends, but to be this they
must be honest with each other.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

We are not on to all the ms and
outs of politics, but are you?
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

heart, and rung in awful cadence
through the rayless realms of the
damned -Houston Chronicle
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Try gravel in liberal doses and see
if the streets are not lastingly i'm
proved thereby.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

When the city is willing to do the
meanest part of the job why do you
hesitate TO clean up?
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
OVERTURNED
Hundreds Of Waxahachie Readers
Know What 1t Means.
pharmacy

NHVW W -VTtdI1s.
The kidneys are overtaxed;
Have too much to do.
They tell about it in many aches
and pains
Backache, sideache, headache,
Early symptoms of kidney ills.
Urinary troubles, diabetes, Brights
disease follow.
A Waxahachie citizen tells here a
certain cure.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Waxahachie Chapter No. 73 will
work in the Mark and Pastmaster's
degree.
G. c. SWEAT, H. P.
SO w. L. p. LEIGH, Secy.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

A plea in confession and avoidance
is not an answer to argument.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Build your life on good founda-
ton: Honor is better than gold"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18

Entered at the Waxahachie Post
ONCE as mail matter of the second
class.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
Sapo.

For cleaning glassware, enamel
ware, silverware, brass, gold or any
other metal or earthenware. F. s.
Cronk Co. tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
l. o. G. T. Meeting,

Thursday night, March 10, is
regular meeting night of Waxaha-
chic Lodge, l. o. G. T. Business of
vast Importance is to come before
the lodge and a full attendance is
desired.
c. A. ARNOLD,
H. L. BUNKLEY,
c. M. BRADY,
SO Trustees
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-18
Candidates

For the Committee
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-09-30

stuck TO her young body like plasters. Almost
fainting with heat she staggered down the narrow
boardedin stairway. and out on the side yard.
The men had exhausted every subject and the
travelling man finishing his cigar under the
willow tree, standing on the spot of bare ground
which marked the only playthng of the children
of the family, the swing.
When Melinda saw him standing there, she
knew how appropriate it seemed to him, as
a new paything, Oh the grounds of the old. The
swing had never made her long for wider
dwelling place when she swung up in the
branches than this man for broader life She
had been forbidden the swing now she was SO
soon to become wife.
As she came up hesitatingly the travelling
felt a deep pity surge up in his heart. 1t
shame that her poor young beauty had to be
poured as libation upon the altar of agricul-
ture, but it fact that it would, just as those
who had gone before and those who came after
He knew that the sweetness, tenderness, beauty
and individuality of the women part of the
price eXacted by the land. For if the fields gave
back MANIFOLD. often when second victim had
to be sacrificed. but womens best possessions were
gone, sometimes not even to be remembered, and
that made it all the more pitifu
Melinda was urging herself forward. taking her
fate in her hands From what she had read in
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-09-30

lot, the girl said sadly Indeed they did more
than she could realize.
A farmers life must be pleasant one" he
suggested, trying to speak easily, but linching
under the mournful gaze the COW brown eyes
gave him
AT his word the fire he had lighted sprung to
life:
A pleasant life. | wonder if you knows what
a farmers life is, and that of his woman. It's
Just work, work. work all the time They don't
have no clothes that nice. For years the house is
too mean for anything, and SOS the barn. Then
the barn gifts built first It's save save until the
womans soul is dried up saving. and then the
barn gifts built. and she hates it. The horses and
cows is housed better than her Maybe there's
funeral procession before the new house gifts
built and then the first wifes children have to
stand around in the new house minding the sec
ond wife She don't have no extra good time
neither it's when the third wife that things
grow easier, and they rent the farm and live in
town The eyes of the girl showed that this was
her idea OF the acme of prosperity
The travelling looked embarrassed and took
hold of the swing mechanically
That's what my life's going to be-" the girl
said, all the fire gone
I'm awfully sorry" the said awkwardly
Then as the rope of the swing gave him notion
Mont LET me swing vo,,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-09-30

DULL murmn of voices assembled
from the front porch to a window
in the room over the parlor,
reaching the ears of a girl who
was listening. She was a pretty
girl as to face, but her hair was
coarse and i'll kept, and its ends
We're broken. Her figure which
was young, lacked all the elias
ITCHY of youth, and was clumsy
and thick set On her large feet,
as fiat as those of a negro, We're
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-09-30

is wasted in personal adornment.
Melinda Perkins had come to life.
self had been awakened that day, as sh
about her fathers dining room waitin
great table OF company. The one who
her that there was an inner self. was
blackhaired travelling man. isolated her
day. and not the sullen farmer in Sun
whom she was to marry the following
Like so very many OF the farmers
Melinda was To be married TO 81 kenI
he had bought a good 160-acre farm,
a wife before harvesting. Her sister
married two years before and now gal
leSsly among the other married wome
Il didn't care much" came throue
lips as the girl hung to hear the
hearty bluff voice of the travelling man.
which carried in it delightful sug-
gestions of cosmopolitan life, till
saw him, and She rested her chin in
the hollow OF her rough hardened
hand
Somehow | want things different
from jimmy Why Jimmy hasn't had
one Bit of fun i'm all these two years
Her man don't even give her egg and
chicken money Mine will though"
With a vicious little click of the teeth,
already doomed to extinction. for wo-
men on the farm do not think of teeth
rs things to be preserved, but trouble
some portions of their being which
cost pain 10 remove and money to re-
place
From the porch the listening girl
heard the travelling man:
Don't tell me that you don't have
pretty girls That daughter OF YOURS,
Mr.. Perkins, Melinda did you say?
She's a peach Some of our city girls
ought 10 see her roses, they'd go crazy.
The roses glowed and the trembling
lips We're held by cruel fingers, to con
troll cry OF JOY.
Il am pretty she Whispered. u
am pretty. He thinks SO" Poor child,
she had never asked whether 81 ad
mired her or not. She did not care.
81 liked her bread, pies and general
beat her man and that was all he
cared for Thinking of this She listen
ed again. her hair clinging to her
damp cheeks, and her clothing emitting
the rancid odor which belongs to so
many women OF that stamp, who al
though they keep spotless houses. can
not ne UldQC 10 UNDERSTAND lIlt Ndlue Oh
plenty OF soap and water on clothing
and persons.
Once more She heard that voice say
ing: Il should say yes. 81 old man,
you're ii winner but for Gods sake,
This a little lower take better care OF
her than the rest do of their wives
TO the haming-cheeked girl came
Sis moony answer, given between
pauses. ooh guess she'll git along al
With the words of her lover, Mel
and threw back her heavy hair Iiastil.
il at the nape OF her neck, and hurri
dress she had worn to the Union" {
morning. although she knew that it {
saved for the wedding 1t had been
the front room in which the sun w
that she was bathed in sweat, and h
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The great soft eyes sazed at the
forbidden plaything and dumbly with
in her breast She felt a subtle some
'hliis stlrrlns which spelled out her
dreary fate apart from all broadening
Influences along the lines laid down
for her by the women OF the soil who
had lived and suffered before her
Then quietly and patiently she turned
from the two objects which represented
and Went blindly stumbling down into
The barnyard to milk the lowing COWS
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himself ON the mercy of the wife This good lady
moved with compassion, consented to shield him
and straghtWay dressed him in the livery of hel
servants, for in those good days commodores' wives
had liveried servants, for which grateful govern
ment paid. The ship sailed away with the refuge,
on board all unknown to the commodore or hi,
officers, and when the of the incident got t,
the State Department there was a great com
motion
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-09-30
Why Officers Wives are Not Per-
mitted to Go to Sea with
their Husbands.
BY ADMIRAL RoBlE.l D.EVAN.s WIFE

Looking back over almost forty
years OF naval service from any stand
point for | think that women serve
Uncle Sam, too, when their husbands
brothers and sons Wear the uniform
my life seems replete with soul-stir-
ring events. In my time, the wives
of naval men We're not permitted to
go to sea with their husbands. as in
the good old days OF which have
heard my mother speak. And that
reminds me that the exact reason why
women are forbidden TO go on ships
of war has never been authoritatively
stated. When ! was young wife,
romantic story used to go the rounds
though told with bated breath 1t was
about the wife of commodore, whose
ship touched at South American
port where one of those perennial rev
olutions was in progress. The leader
OF the revolution made his way dis
suised to the ship during the absence
OF the commanding officer and threw
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-15
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EPHRAlM NEWS NOTES.

Ephraim. Oct. 1.-THE little 7-months-
at their home at Manti after an illness
Of a couple of weeks. The funeral ar
engagements have not yet been made
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Christensen of Redmond died at their
nome at an early hour this morning
The funeral services over the remains
Of Mrs. Elizabeth Quinn were held at the
Methodist church Saturday afternoon at
O'Clock Rev. A E. Mork of Mt. Pleas
ant spoke of Mrs. Quinn as being noble
woman. Those who were present at the
services from out of town were Mr. and
Mrs. Real Nelson of Mt. Pleasant Mr.
and Mrs. Orson Coward of Payson Mr.
and Mrs. George Wheeler of Salem and
George MOrtensen of Castle Valley. The
remains were inferred in the old Gene
terry.