The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-11
TALES OF THE TELEGRAPH.

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TALES OF THE TELEGRAPH.
This is a funny way for phi:an-
thropist to act: Anna G. Ross De-
peyster. of Johnstown, n. Y, 10,
wears old. and with two husbands
dead married Earnest Bolton.
Young man 26 years of age, one day
this week The papers in telling OF
THE marriage say the ancient bride
is a prominent philanthropist. If she
really is a philanthropist, why did
she not adopt the young man in
stead OF marrying him?
A live story from the telegraph:
A year or two ago Captain Yarde.
Butler, of London, Tilted Mrs. Ath-
erton. to whom he was engaged,
and married Miss Denise Orme an
actress. Mrs Anterior sued the
groom for breach of promise and re-
covered The captains wife has re-
turned to the stage to make enough
money to pay the damages her hus-
band owes for bruising Mrs. Attn
elton affections.
If you insist upon going back to
nature, gently slide there by degrees.
Mrs Lulu Kreitzer, of Dayton, O.,
age 40. a widow, disguised with wi
low's weeds and afraid of her neigh
bors tongues if she discarded black
for colors, had a happy thought:
SIZE would return to nature, and
rothing She appeared on the
streets in the nude, and when Off
! GERS tried to arrest her, she shot and
! killed herself.
i You do not have TO wade through
lot of pages in "A Little Brother
! To the Rich, or any other late nov
| ell, TO learn about the love affairs
! of New York society people, read
| the telegraph. The very latest story
| Of that kind is that Mrs. Elsie Van
derbilt has been given her decree of
divorce from Alfred Gwynne Van
! ierbilt, and that she will marry Viii
/ ling Spencer, the young and hand
some son of a Philadelphia million
aire. The telegraph tells of how the
young and handsome lover fol-
, lowed her to Paris, of the trips they
land, and says that the gossips talk
ed before Mrs Nanderbilt's divorce
of the infatuation of the handsome
young lawyer from Philadelphia. The
only thing the telegraph leaves out
is the description of the kisses anu
embraces of its hero and heroine.
! Mrs Oren Elliott, of Graham, Mo,
has sued for divorce. charging that
| her husband cursed her. Her hus-
band is deaf and dumb, and had to
10 the cursing with his fingers. but
| ii never occurred to Mrs. Elliott to
| look the other way:
/ The Rev j. H. Moore, pastor of
the Christian church of Taylertown,
| Pa. attacked card playing, and the
women applauGed Then he went af-
i ter dancing, and they patted him On
! his clerical back. Then he went af-
! ter the powder puff, and they arose
on their feet and roared. The private
puff was their sacred, inalienable
right and they wouldn't stand for
an attack upon it.
! Mrs Helen Deco, of Denver,
, pouredg coal oil on her dress land
set it atire. Then, when she was be-
/ ing taken to a hospital, she prayed
God to let her live till she had told
| the story of her life, So many peo-
| pie want to tell the story OF their
lives, that this prayer isn't surpris-
| ing
The wife of the Rev William
| Richie of Charlottesville. Ind. had
hired girl who was a treasure.
One day the preacher and the hired
girl disappeared together, and he
sent word back that he had tan.h
the girl away to keep the neighbors
from stealing her. But even after
such thoughtfulness his wife refus-
ed TO forgive him.
The Rev Taylor. an evangelist at
Wellington, wound up by a glowing
attack on sin by comparing the devil
to the buzzard, that carrion bird. A
young man named Bussard in the
audience, thought the preacher was
attacking his family, and he ascend
ed the pulpit and knocked the
preacher senseIess.
Flower Show.
Five dollars cash for best whitma-
nil fern. S. collection of budding
plants second best fern Ferns
bought at any time this year, up to
the day of the flower show subject
to entry.
SO. BIRD FORREST.