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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29
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N,a Michigan Inv krrrs Ca, beard
and Youngsters tlikc Dfl.


Examination of tho rcs Ni.HIau
liquor law which hus just gone iu.
To- effect ai.oioses tha' if it g. ne'd-
D. enforced uo student 81 AMY coli
I..r coo school in tho state whether
ae Do. O. bog la knee pants or a. man
of miJdle age. eau buy ID glass of
u1aor 100 MigHiau.
Tile Jaw was drawn for The pur-
pose o, putting stop 20 The 'r,-
.gacutIug of saloons by college aud
school boys. especially i'm Ann AZ
Dor aud Detroit ln an effort to
make it alright the Legislators over
Ibid the matter. The Law forbids
saloon proprietors or their bartond-
'ors to permit any student in at
tendance at any public or private
institution OF learning i'm this state,
or minor. to play at cards, dice,
billiards, or any game Of chance
| In any part OF any building in which
such spirituous or intoxicating liQ-
luors are sold. or 10 sell or to give
TO any such student any such liquor,
except when prescribed by regu-
lar physician for medical purposes.
No age is mentioned 1t is known
that there are many students that
have passed the age Of minority. In
deed. a large number who study in
such institutions as the Detroit Col
lece of Law. night school, and the
Detroit College of Medicine, both
Of which institutions soon will re-
open, are OF middle age. not few
can BE found who are sray-haired
! men Of families And if saloon
I keeper sells them as much as a
class of beer lie has broken the law.
/ Former Judge William l.. Car
,peltar has prepared an interpreta-
zion of the Warner-Cg uton law,
but he has given tie barkeeps no
instructions on how to tell whether
q man with a yard Of gray alfalfa
is student Detroit Dispatch to
New York Press.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29
inheritance Tax Paid.

Colorado Springs, Col, Oct, %
The executors of the estate OF the
late William ]. Palmer, founder or
the city of Colorado Springs, have
paid TO the state of Colorado an in
heritance tax of $75,4t0.S9. This
is the second largest inheritance tax
ever paid in Colorado, the largest
being that of the estate of Winefield
s. Stratton, the Colorado Springs
mining king, amounting to 1884
600 The Palmer estate was APP
praised at s3,1G5,27067.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29
PROMOTES GOOD ROADS.


If within the next few years the
great Southwest does not become
the net work for comprehensive
system of good roads it will not be
the fault OF b. f. Yoakum, the head
of the great Rock Island and Frisco
system
With a view Of creating an in
terest in good roads, Mr.. Yoakum
invited number of the heads of
the farmers unions in the state of
Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and
Arkansas to be his guests on an
automobile tour over the improved
highways in New Jersey, New York
Massachusetts, New llamshire,
Rhode Island and Connecticut, and
in order that they could intelligent
ly understand what they saw he
had the construction work explain
ed to them by the highway Officials
of the states he visited,
The tour lasted nearly two weeks
and II the farmers were pleased
Mr.. Yoakum was equally delighted
with the work he had inaugurated
which he believes win not only heir
the farmers, but enormously in
.cr>ase the productive power of the
states, and incidentally the reve-
.nues Of all lines he represents -
St Louis Post Dispatch
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29
WELL STATED.

The Tyler tTexasl News makes
this clear-cut statement; IF the
people are not competent to con-
struct party platform demanding
the official to enforce it, then Ia,
people are not qualified to elec, a
man to make laws The News be-
lieves that the people are capable,
hence the servant who disobeys his
instruction should be called down
and out and replaced by one that
will"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

The report Of the Legislative IN
vestigating committee should not
have the effect OF causing US TO 90
TO the other extreme Men who
commit crime should be punished,
aud while conyicts are entitled TO
humane treatment they should not
be permitted to go through their
terms on the flowery beds of idle
ness and ease
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

Our exchanges are busy telling
what they think about the anniver-
sary edition of the Houston Chroni-
cal Wen, it was superb number,
but We enjoy its everyday dress for
it always comes filled with matter
which is worth reading,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29
Sbo WAS Pleasantly Surprised.

Miss H. f. Bell, Wausau, WIS"
writes: Before commenced to
take Foley's Kidney Pulls | had Sc
we're pains In my back, could not
sleep and was greatly troubled with
headache The first few doses OF
Foleys Kidney Pills gave me renei T.
and two bottles cured me- the quick
rsults surprised me, and | can nom
estly recommend them" Sold by
b. W. Fearis.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

The organs of Texas are sull
grinding out protection music. They
have string out, and the question
rs, Are you the animal at the other
end of the string that dances TO the
music and turns somersaults when
ever commanded TO do SOP"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

Some senators and congressman
vote the democratic ticket at home
and the republican ticket in Wash
ington, and strange enough some
who claim TO be democrats all the
time, say this is the proper thing
20 do
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

TO the Consumer: DO you want
the earth? What if all you eat and
wear is taxed single taxed, double
taxed, and taxed over again, is not
radium on the free list, and should
you not feel grateful TO grand and
glorious government for making 1t
>1sSiole for you 10 obtain your daily
Of this article without paying
.sAe trusts?
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

Notwithstanding the scientific eli
fusious of some university presi-
dents and professors on the subject,
the great bulk of the common peo-
PIE still regard the religion of paul
and Silas as good enough Tor them.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29
w. A. OWNBY City Editor
Residence PhSne, Bell No. 2Sgl
N04

The man who CANDLES and loses
is down and out The man who
CANDLES and wins occupies a private
box in sociotys great drama
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

The Enterprise Furnishing Company IS
In no wise responsible for de BITS that may
be contracted by employees, nor will We
assume payment OF such debts under
any circumstances. Every employe OF
this office is paid promptly ior work
done. This is to protect ourselves and
the selling pubic-ENI ERPRISE PU b.
LISTING COMPANY, Per g. w NJ a.
Knight, Manager.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

A democrat who is unwilling to
stand on his party platform is the
last man TO trust II he runs for
office without a platform.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

Big reduction sale now on on
everything in our immense stock of
Furniture, Rugs, Mattings, Stoves.
Ranges, etc. We have Quality and
Variety, can fit you out complete.
We take your old in exchange for
new, sell for cash or installment.
See US before you buy. r. f..
Moore Furniture Co. If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

rvplAce yeuf roof ola shabby Plum
bins ~ that whlth BE- nos modern
ard absolutely tanIHfy' 20 will not
cpst aa much at sou think taf oar
charges are moderate
tr ts WISER
e. pas Plumbers hil than io paIt
and tay DOCTORS HIl
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

We prlLc anything you want from
visiting card to the largest size
circulars, Enterprise Publishing
company. If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-29

Who VIII Appear at the Opera
House Nov. 3. in 1.-THE Man
of Honor"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28
4 MORAL FOR YOUNG MEN.

When the will OF the late Mrs. r. p.
Tucker was read, and it was learned
that Nj. Carey x. Durfey was named
with Judge Womack as executor and
trustee, not q few people asked: "Who
IS Durfey?" Most business men in Rail
eigh knew him, but there were people
in Raleigh who had never heard Of the
quiet u man who for several years
had been employed by Mrs. Tucker to
transact her business. lie had lived
in Raleigh only ten years and Mrs.
Tucker never heard of him until q
few years ago. She found him clean
Of life, honoset. willing, capable. He
won her full confidence in his capacity
and in his integrity and she gave him
q trust that the richest man in Raleigh
would have felt it an honor to receive.
The estate is worth nearly a million
dollars and it is to be held IN trust.
That this unknown young a should
have been entrusted with equal power
with Judge Womack in SO important
a matter contains q moral.
Mr.. Durfey owes his success to his
industry, integrity and good sense.
While other young men, enjoying
what the world calls superior advan-
tages, were spending the time in
loafing, playing pool. and pleasure,
young Mr.. Durfey won a place and
q confidence that gives him a posi-
ton among Raleigh's most trusted
leaders. The road to success lies along
the path trod by this young man. It
is proper to state that when he came
to Raleigh, he became q regular at
tendant upon Sunday School and
church, and was as unostentatiois in
his religious life as III his business.
That is the type OF young men the
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28
HINDSIGHT.

Many Of the ablest captains of in
dustTy America has produced have
been III the railroad service and they
have led in the marvellous Develop
ment Of the West and opened I'd new
Venue of wealth in the South. They
We're SO busy, however, in the earlier
years extending their lines, and SO
busy in the later years Watering stock.
that they failed at 81 place that has
cost them and the whole country
heavily. Here is the story of their
hindsight as told by +. J. Edwards in
his series Of very interesting recoliec-
tons:
The late James D. Layng. one Of
the foremost railroad men of he
Northwest, who died on Iincoln's
birthday in 1905, told me which he
thought the greatest sin OF omission nv
the American railroads:
As ] look back over my career
OF naif a century, many Interesting
thihEs come to me But the one thing
from the past hat lands out above
All otnefs IS that act OF the railroads
winch should be known in history az
tnelr greatest sin Of omission. For had
they not committed it, / am firmly
convinced hat many Of the trusts
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28
a MODEL RAILROAD MAN.

Nineteen years g Charlie Gattis,
as everybody in Raleigh called him,
went into the Seaboard office as g
small bow. He was so clever, SO capa-
bic. so obliging n so ~resourceful
that he was promoted to the best po-
sition the Seaboard could give him in
this territory. He made business for
the road; he smoothed away hard
places; he was jealous to please pa
irons; End popularized the road with
all who had business dealings with
it. More thar that: he has been a
leader III whatever would advance
Raleigh's interests and by his faith in
the town. his optimism, and knowing
how to bring things to pass Mr.. Cat
It's has been a citizen to whom RAJ
eigh is greatly indebted. Raleigh felt
that he was a fixture and q perTna-
nence, and the whole town ~alternated
betWeen rejoicing at his good fortune
and regret at losing hin when he was
rendered the position Of General Pas
senger Agent of the Georgia and
Florida Railroad with headquarters at
Augusta. This is q promotion in
salar and in position, and when Mr..
Gattis goes next week to enter upon
his duties he will carry with him
the best wishes OF the whole city. And
his wife, who in ways of charity and
public good cause, has been most use
full, will be likewise remembered.
Their going is a big loss TO Raleigh.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28

Nursing a grudge, tending il, keep
ing II alive. nourislling it until it be-
comes q companion. What a foolish,
reckless occupation. You probably
know men Ugh in your town who
nurse q almost as big aS they
are, and show off the sTinning, home
~ Things on every possible occasion
and apparently with great pride. Now
a healthy sou can't keep a grudge
over night. It forgets or foTgives.
Lille IS too sweet, too beautiful, 10 be-
1oul with a nasty srudge, big or little.
Isn't hat so? A grudge doesn't hurs
anybody but the man who harbors II.
Recall the people who have exhibited
their cherished grudge to you. You
knew it for what it was instantly, ana
YOU didn't think any more highly OF
the exhibitor, did you? Ii all the
people carrying around these polluting
grudgcs would strangle them on
Christmas Eve and bury the remains
in unmarked graves. they would have
such a Christmas as they have never
known; and if on Christmas n1OrnIAG
they would send to the man or woman
a"ainst whom they q hello the
srudgc, q card bearing the !ege11
Merry Christmas"- Dear COO
why will people make themselves
wretched ana keep themselves wretch
ed when IL is 50 beautiful to he napps
and cIean-hearted ?'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28
DON'T BE DAZZLED nv FIN
HIGH PRICE OF COTTON

Cotton is high. but don't or
get that all other farm products
r also high. Don't get suent
Of YOUR feet, therefore, and 90
wild about cotton next spring.
Ihe average yield this year was
only 156 pounds of lint Der
acre; three years ago 1t was 2Oo
pounds per acrc-nearly 33 tx
per cent more. With such a
yield per acre this Hear. we
should have had a WELD three or
four million bales larger and
prices correspondence lower.
Cotton is high. but so are corn
and meat and grain. Don't
forget that in planning for our
1910 crops.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28
CHRISTMAS NOW AND THEN.

Do the boys Of today enjoy their
Christmas toys of today as much as
the boys of other days who q ohIS
homemade things? The sleds were
then hewn out of trees felled by the
bows themselves and the little money
his own labor. Didn't that give g
relish that money and gifts that come
easy cannot impart?
1t is q good thing for the boys OF
this age to get a slimpsesof the DC
time Christmas in the country n
contrast those times with the present.
Presents are much handsOrner now
and more money is spent on them, but
Is there more real fun in that ship
ping craze and swapping presents
bought at stores than in the othec
harder times?
Here is q good picture Of the Christ
mas of the days of old, given by
Buck in the siler City Grit that is a
good aftermath Of this Christmas of
plenty:
LAS it is almost Christmas and we
are all looking tor a good time, l VIII
pencil q few thoughts in regard 10
what l enjoy now and What l ola
when i boy.
My father let me keep Christmas
IS long as the wood lasted. l had but
one OBJECT in view and that was q
gun and hunting. 1t did not matter
much as to whether l killed much
game or not, so / had the pleasure OF
shooting, though / had to shoot ac-
cOrding to my ammunition TOR my
money was made in the night when
l ought to have been in bed asleep.
Yes. / have WORKED many, many Nights
till midnight burning coal and getting
out barrel-sttVeS to get my powder
and shot for Christmas. Now, what
would boys today hin il they had
that to do in order to buy their
Christmas tricks?
Il often think what a good. easy
time the boys Of today have long be-
tore they are twenty-onc. They have
a horse and buggy and many Of them
have more none in their pockets
than I had had all my young life,
until ] received ten dollars from the
State as a bounty for being a Con-
fedarate soldier. and yet many boys
hin they are having a hard time and
cave home for a better place. /
wonder sometimes if they ver think
~ - ,tSo 81 H'h lot4 yea -
the Civil War. Many OF us, who were
fortunate enough to get back home,
did not have a dollar or a change
Of clothes. l remember buying sew
eral yards of lean cloth at q dol
lar Il yard and paid for it in work. I
would split 900 rails a day, but / fin
ally lacked twenty-five cents Of pay
ing for the outfit.
No. boys. when you think your dad
is the hardest master in the world and
You long to get away, just ask an old
soldier for a little advice. and IL ]
am not mistaken he will tell you that
you are a fool. The times have never
been better than they are now. and
the boys who don't have money and
q good time are not q tempting bait
for the girls and consequently they
need not be surprised if they get
nothing better than q nibble.'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28

Dec. %. 1903
WEI.KLN TONIC.
fCnarleS Sunner.1

fCnarleS Sunner.1
Time is the measure of lite on eartn.
It's enjoyment is life itself; its dl-
visions are fractions OF his heavenly
gift. Every moment is q jewel Of ines
Unable value. TAKE care of the mo-
ments and the hours and days viii be
safe. Time is opportunity. Little or
much. it may be the occasion Of use
fulness. 1t is the poin desired by the
philosopher where 10 plant the lever
that shall move h world. 1t is the
napkin in which are wrapped not
only the talent of silver but the treas
ures Of knowledge and the fruits of
virtue. Saving time, we save oil these.
The highest value of time is in the OPP
~portunity OF doing good. Our use OF
time determines our and
destiny and that OF our associates. BY
employing our time to the best ad-
vantage our days may be filled with
usefulness. So live that
When old Time shall lead you to your
Goodness and you fill up one mona
ment,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28

now in existence would not have been
created, and the roads would not have
been p~iudgeoned by the trusts for
years into giving rebates. Let me Illus
trate my point by telling you a story.
There came into my office n day.
whe [ was general manager of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsbure.
a mar whom / had known as q dealer
IN poultry and dairy products. It was
his custom to so all through the agri-
cultural districts Of Ohio and buv
poultry, butter and eggs from the
farmers and ship them to market. He
was OF an inventive turn Of mind, but
not much of q business man. He made
just q fair living in this vocation.
HE said to me that he wished I
would lend him one Of our freight
cars-any old car would do-becausc
he had an idea which he thought
might be worth while. He explained
that he believed he could fix that
q up so that it would be possible to
transport poultry, fruit and perish
able objects, and be sure that thep
would be in good condition when de
llVered to the city merchant.
y told him that l would lend him
a car. and two or three weeks later he
asked me to come and see what he
had done with it. He had fitted il up
with a COunle Of re~frigerators and
with pipes for ventilation and 10 carry
OF TIE Ice water rs it melted. He told
me that a car thus liked up would
Keep poultry and butter and eggs in
good condition for weeks.
That was the BEGINNING OF the re-
frieerator car. All hat THIS man
nredicted OF it came true. rut what
fid the railroads do about it-what
cd they see III this crude invention?
NothIno-not even the great forces Of
me railroad world. They left Il 10
the beef trust and the fruit trust to
SEIZE upon the idea. Those trusts
Hn'it and own the refrigerator ears.
mt II All the r ilroads had built re-
fr'gerat"r GAYS of their own-had had
nlenty Of thern-then the beef trnst
f"r example. would have been unable
70 htudeeOn the roads into giving them
rebates for furnishing their own ears.
bnner threat OF seniing their business
elsewhere. And without rebates given
70 them. mary Of the trusts Of today
would not have coInc into existence.
I am sure
Mr.. Laying paused a And"
he continued, I have ALWAYS thought
that if the railway nag had had
as good foresight as they now have
hindsight, they would also have built
oil pipe lines along their rights
OF way. and tank cars, too, ana then
it would have been impossible for
the Standard Oil Company to have
forced h roads into giving it cxclu-
sive rebates-with the result. per-
haps, that there would lava been n"
Standard Oil Company as We now
knew II.
1T is indeed q great sin Of omts-
sion that the railroads of the country
have charged up against them. For
years they nav been paying the pen
aIty-and they probably will continue
to do so even unto the third and fourth
generation of the railroad managers
who originally committed this great
sin
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28

The Northern Louisiana and Missis-
sippi people have gladly welcomed the
sleet and snow that have held those
States in their grasp in the last few
days. The retreats OF the boll-weevil
have been encruSted with ice and the
bOll-weevil has been hit hard. It is
worth thousands af dollars to cotton
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28
ALL FOR S1.7O

There has never een offered i'll
North Carolina 50 mucll good cadin
for SO little money as We are Offering
under the following propositions: For
S1.7O we will send the Following 1or
one a
The Weekly News and Observer, an
eigi:t-Paee weekly, newspaper.
The COnInOner. an able weekly
Journal. published by William Jci-
Hings Bryan.
The Farmer and Mechanic, sixteen
page North Carolina home and farin
weekly journal.
Thus for one Dollar and seventy
Cents you al get ali these papers
one year.
v. c. MOORE, Manager.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28

world needs and when such young
men have capacity, there is always
promotion for them.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28

The year 1909 now closing was 4
good one to the growing town of Bur-
lington, and the enterprising News
gives the following story of the build
'"The following is q list of the i'm
~provements made in Burlington during
1909, gotten up hurriedly and very in
complete. These include the buildings
completed and in course Of construc-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28

Besides the above $4,000 has been
spent by the Street Railway Company.
$4,000 has been spent in the
creation OF dwellinS-houses OF four
20 up, scattered all over the town.
Not a bad year, and we have this
much planned for next year, including
our public building
It would be a fine thing il every
editor in North Carolina, in the first
issue OF his paper after Christmas,
would gather like statistics about
building and progress in his town and
print them. It would make q story to
gladden. all who are happy to see
North Cardinals progress.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-28
UNCLE WALT
The Poet Philosopher

Ere he sailed AWAY from home
Willie Watson wrote Il pome. Warbled
hc. with punctured lung. something of
Il serpent's tongue. which. he said, a
high-placed dame. used to
WILLIE iEiurc and defame. PeO
WATSON. pie cried: 20. hulIy gee!
Who's the dame OF high
degree: Give her name and station,
pray" Willie Watson sailed away.
Twas the I'm OF the age: guessing
cred who the bare sncte, with foun-
tain pen, SO hard: and the papers
IaWed the air, specializing in despair;
'TWixt whose javyboncs is it hung
that outrageous serpent's %ongue
Tell, o tel. the truth today" Willie
Watson sailed away. Then the poet
reached this shore, where our native
hardIets roar. and he stepped on Free
donr's ground, and reporters rallied
round asking whose the dame or
maid, that our little Willie tia yed?'
To the crovd the name he flung, of the
girl with serpent's tongue. Q the
brethren Of the press sec the depths
OF sorditiness, know what malice can
III fsevc, see the webs that hate can
weave: and they size up maids and
llds, notsicmen and kings and cads:
=aalta they sing this simple Law: .Willie
Watson. sal. away"