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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

FOR SALE Household, kitchen
furniture, home-canned fruits and
a nice lot of meat and lard. viii be
sold TO the highest bidder, Friday,
Feb. u. at w T. Morris on Grove
Creek. Oh. f. Spalding farm). Come
and get the benefit of bargains, 67p
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

Who makes plans and builds mod
ern homes? See S J. Erwin, con-
tractor once phone 400. II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

Either phone, No. 40. win get the
Waxahachie Livery and Transfer Co,
Prompt attention given to all calls.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander, Miss May
Brady, w. I. Hudson and little son
Charles Brady, are the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. c. L. Brady.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08
Fol !eys
Kidney
Remedy

Cures Backache, Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.
1t corrects irregularities i,
strengthens the kidneys so they
will eliminate the impurities
from the blood and tones up
the whole system.
Commence taking Foley 8
Kidney Remedy at once and
avoid Bright's Disease or Dia-
betes. so. and $500 bottles.
b. w. FEARIS.
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Remember this. If there are any
new creations in printing the Enter
prise Publishing Co.. is prepared to
furnish them to you If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

am here strictly for the business
and to give you the best up-to-date
photos in your city. Mrs. c. e. jack
son, the leading photographers If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

Phone Fl. A. Mcmillan at the Dali
ly Light office when you want any
kind of printing done. The best work
guaranteed. II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

Phone the Waxahachie Livery and
Transfer Co. when you want trunk
or baggage of any kind hauled
Phone 40. tt
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Montgomery, photographer tt
Guess who /. B. Wide-awake is. If
For Valentines phone Bird For
rest 270
F. S. Cronk & Co., sell roofing
cheap. tt
H. w. MADISON, contractor and
builder tt
See the fire extinguisher at F. s.
Cronk Co. tt
Don't miss the bill at the Lyric
this week. 65
The picture at the Empire tonight
is very good. 90
Before selecting your Valentines
phone Bird Forrest. 27O
Use the New Phones Long Dis
lance" Don't forget. tt
Tomatoe and cabbage plants, 25c
per 100. Bird Forrest. tt
Be sure and hear that fine Illus
trated song at the Empire. 90
Eighteen rolls toilet paper and
holder for s100 at Cronk Co. tt
Buy your pumps from F. S. Cronk
Co. All kinds. Prices way down"tf
Buy your floor oil from T. S.
Cronk Co., and keep down the dust.
! Carnation plants from bench in
bud and bloom, so cents per dozen.
267
! At the Lyric today the Messina
| Earthquake, the worlds greatest
disaster. IS
When you need a plumber, call
Bunkley, with F. S. Cronk Co. Both
Phones "a. tt
| Make you a pretty window box
while carnation plants are cheap.
Bird Forrest. 266
! w neil you Duy Sdl utu anu iloNti
| seed, get the best. We have them.
! Bird Forrest. tt
e. wilkins, the well known piano
! tuner is here. Orders received at
! Hood & Curlin's. dtfw3
For two days, Tuesday and We'd
nesday, we will sell carnation plants
! lid
Harding & Chase, the black face
comedians will be at the Lyric this
week. They are sure to please you.
65
Sale on carnation plants, Tuesday
and Wednesday, February and
! 10, at soc per dozen. Bird Forrest
266
/ Phone the Waxahachie Livery and
Transfer Co. when you want trunk
or baggage of any kind hauled
Phone 40. tt
| Phone Fl. A Mcmillan at the Dali
! ly Light office when you want any
kind of printing done The best work
I guaranteed. Il
! Remember this. If there are any
new creations in printing the Enter
prise Publishing Co.. is prepared to
furnish them to you If
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander, Miss May
| Brady, W. 7. Hudson and little SON
| Charles Brady, are the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. c. l.. Brady.
| am here strictly for the business
and to give you the best up-to-date
! photos in your city. Mrs. c. Z. Jack
son, the leading photographer. If
! Foley's Orino Laxative cures con-
stipation and liver trouble and max
es the bowels healthy and regular.
! Orino is superior to pills and tablets
/ as it does not grippe or nauseate. Why
! take anything else? B. w. Fearis. q
! Two Fires Near Ferris.
! The old H. l.. Allen home, eight
| miles east of Ferris, and belonging
| to II. o. James, was completely des-
/ NV at Cat nr
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LOST-A gold watch with firm name
of E. Ralston & Son on works, also
on face of watch. Number of case
2O.6O2, number of works 1862
1-2. Hunting case Finder please re-
port TO r. Broadhead & Co, and re-
ceiye reward Of $3.50. 63pd
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

Foley's Orino Laxative cures con-
stipation and liver trouble and max
es the bowels healthy and regular.
Orino is superior to pills and tablets
as it does not grippe or nauseate. Why
take anything else? B. w. Fearis. q
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

Sale on carnation plants, Tuesday
and Wednesday, February and
10, at soc per dozen. Bird Forrest.
266
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

Watson Anderson of Dallas spent
Sunday in the city.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

Mrs. c. Gidcumb of Dallas is Wis,
iting Mrs. T. j. Bales on West JEFF
ferson street.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

Harding & Chase, the black face
comedians will be at the Lyric this
week. They are sure to please you.
65
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

For two days, Tuesday and We'd
nesday, we will sell carnation plants
at soc per dozen. Bird Forrest. 266
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

T. ]. Cole, T. j. Stroud and T j,
Bales left Saturday night for Dun
dee on a business trip.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

j. T. Williams spent Sunday il
Fort Worth
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

E. Wilkins, the well known piano
tuner is here. Orders received at
Hood & Curlin's. dtfw3
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

w, NJ. Roger is in Dallas today,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08

w. a. Gather went to Dallas tn
morning.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10

THE SPLENDID CATHEDRAL IN SYRACUSE.
SICILY, AND TYPICAL SCENE IN MEsSINA.
almost ut the extreme northeast point
Of the island and Is divided from Gala
bria by the strait of Messina. 1t Is in
close proximity to Mount Etna.
Messfna. next to Palermo the chief
commercial town of Sicily, with up,
ward Of $4,000 inhabitants. is situated
on the strait Of Messina and is over
shadowedtsby a range Of rugged. rocky
peaks. II has experienced many vicis-
STUDIES. 1t was founded by Cumaean
pirates and Chalcidians about 40 B. G.
1t was an important place in the
time Of the Romans and bore a part
In the naval wars Of Caesar and Pom
pey. In A. d. 843 Messina was taken
by the Saracens. who in, turn were
dispossessed by the Normans in 1862.
During the eighteenth century Mes
sina was overtaken by two overwhelm-
ing calamities-a fearful plague in
174O, from which 10000 persons died.
and an earthquake in 1873 which de-
stroyed almost the entire town.
The calamitfes that have visited
Italy and Sicily have. endeared the
italian king and queen to their sub
jects. for they have been untiring In
their efforts to succor the distressed
and protect those in danger. King
Victor Emmanuel had no sooner learn
ed Of the earthquake shocks which
created such terrible havoc in Sicily
and southern Italy than he at once
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10

JUDdE DANIEL THEW WRIdHT.
took place on Aug. %, 1906. The COM
pany ran an open shop and had an
agreement with the Iron Molders' I'm
ion of >'crth America by which all dis
putes were to De referred to CON-
mittee for settlement. Nevertheless a
strike occurred. and as the attempt to
tie up the plant failed the Interna-
tional Union of Metal Polishers de-
clared boycott against the company
and its products and inserted its name
In the unfair" list Of the union Off
cial organ. This action was indorsed
by the Central Trades and Labor I'M
ion and the Metal Trades council of
st. Louis.
In November. 1906. the American
Federation Of Labor held its annual
convention at indianapolis and order
ed the inclusion of the Buck Stove and
Range company In the I'VE don't pat
ronfze" list of the American Fedora
Zionist, the official organ Of the feder-
alton. 1t is also asserted by the Ma
tfonal Association of Manufacturers
that misleading statements were sent
out by the American federation.
The Buck cornpany's prosecution Of
the officials Of the federation began in
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10


When Central park. New York. begins
to look bare and the weather bureau
issues warnings for n cold snap and
snow the bulletins in the west are pre-
dieting rain. with warm soutilerly
winds
The cXodus from the east begins In
early November. Many of the large
hotels and popular resorts have their
accommodations engaged months in
advance by the winter pleasure seek
ers who ut this time find California all
In holiday attire. Nature covers the
mountains and highways with wealth
of scarlet manzanita berries. nom
edible but very decorative fruit which
resembles the English holly. The
manzanita grows on a spreading bush
about four feet in height. 1t Is large
ly used for Christmas decorations.
In the southern part of the state the
popular winter resorts for bathing,
boating and fishing are Coronado. Cat
alma. Rcdonda. Santa Monica and the
farfamed Long Beach of Los Angeles,
When Senator Philander Chase Knox
goes into the next cabinet as secretary
of state Il vacancy in the upper branch
of congress will be left, and the ques-
ton of how it should be filed is en-
crossing the attention of legislators
and politicians in PENNSYLVANIA. A
leading candidate for the post is
George T. Oliver of Pittsburg. Mr..
Oliver is publisher Of the Pittsburg
Gazette. which he bought in 1900 He
was born in Ireland in 1913. came to
this country in early life. graduated
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10

of decorated automobiles. etc. are
more in vogue than snowshoe races
skating contests. tobOgganing and
sleigh riding. In fact. the latter amuse-
ments would be out of the question.
Among the New Year customs yacht
racing and rowing contests take
lead. Many Of the young women of
the cities on the coast are expert in
Craftsmanship and in climbing aloft In
the rigging Of ship.
Southern California has sometimes
been called the Italy Of America. There
winter" means green hills. carpet
Of wild flowers. children playing out
doors. butterflies floating. fruits ripen-
ing and high on the horizon such snow
peaks us the untransferred easterner
never saw.
1t is said by scientists that each year
brings difference in temperature
from the preceding year. and while
New York Is gradually becoming
warmer California grows the faintest
degree colder. AS the matter stands
now. however. winter in California Is
more like prolonged summer than
anything else. Except that the dates
on the calendar tally with these that
mark a blustery day in New York.
there is little to suggest that the sea
son has changed Although the tenn
perature varies In different parts of
the state, really cold days with frosts
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10

1901 In consequence of their publica-
ton In the American Federntionist,
Of the name Of the company ID the
We don't patronixe'' list. The original
action was test case, wherein it was
Googht to enjoin the officials from such
publication.
On Dec. II, 1907, Jsjdge Gould Of the
1sderal court Of the district Of Column
~ issued Z tenn orary Injunction
0oaght BY the Buck company against
IT, American Federal lion Of Labor. He
forbade the latter to. prosecute q boy
e0tt against the company or to place
H. name on It's unfair or 1--WE don't
patronize'' list. In his Judgment he
found for the statements OF fact ID
presented By the Buck company. The
Injunction was afterward made per
manent. It was for violation Of this
Injunction that Judge Daniel Thew
Wright Of the same court imposed SEN
fences Of imprisonment on Mr.. Com
PERI. Mr. Mitchell and Mr.. Morrison,
they being president, vice president
and secretary respectively Of the fed
Grafton. The terms were a year for
Mr.. GOmpers, nine months for Mr..
Mitchell and six months for Mr.. Nor.
r1son. They appealed from the order
and were released on bail bonds. 1t was
quite natural an order committing them
to Imprisonment should produce q SEN
sation, even though the appeal which
they took from the order prevented
their Incarceration at present IN jail.
II IL believed that 1t win be at least
glx months before final determination
" the case b reached. Mr.. Taft win
then Be president. and It may become
biz duty 70 consider whether OF not
10 order Of the court. n ease Of its
conffmatioA shonld BE- modi6ed
Judgei Wright has AaA . very ineefs
lltinG edreef. He Wae appoanbsd -
- pouatioa h The supEeme court q
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10
REX E. BEACH.

The Young Author Of "The Barrier
and Other Popular Stories.
One of tho books of fiction now most
In demand at the libraries is 1.-The Bar
rier," by Rex E. Beach. comparative
" young author who. after having pass
ed through many exciting experiences
in little known quarter of the globe
where life flows at full tide, now shows
an ability to write stories of unusual
1.-The Spoilers took everybody by
surprise. He Is one of those authors
who write in that appa rently easy, OF
hand way which Is only possible to the
most original. Not long ago at a din
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10

THE recent earthquake shocks in
the island of Sicily and in
Calabria. which is In the
southern portion Of Italy, Gre
ated much suffering. In addition to
widespread loss of life. In many por
tions of the districts affected the peo-
pie have been afraid to dwell within
the walls Of their homes, even If the
latter were not destroyed The uncer
tainty Of the situation for many thou
sands has filled all Italians with the
deepest distress, for they fear the day
when that part Of the country which
seems to have been most blessed by
nature will be destroyed by the blind
forces which nearly nineteen centuries
ago overwhelmed Pompeii and Hercu-
laneum. All reports show that the
present catastrophe constitutes one Of
the greatest c0lamities recorded in his
tory.
Calabfia and Sicily form the center
of the earthquake district in this part
Of the world. The last serious earth
quake in Calabria occurred on Sept. 8.
1905, when about 5000 persons lost
their lives. while over thirty towns
were destroyed. Two thousand two
hundred alone were reported as being
buried at MartiranO.
Calabrfa forms the southern part of
the former kingdom Of Naples The
full force of the present earthquake
seems to have centered on Sicily. The
two principal cities affected there are
Messina and Catania The former is
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10
SHORT STORIES OF MANY PECpLE Fl

1T would not take many families Of
the size Of that represented in the
picture at the head of the column
to make a fairly populons city.
Patrick Cavanaugh is the American
citizen who is carrying out the Roose
welt principles as to anti-race suicide
by bringing up the family shown. He
lives ut Alameda, Cal. and has recent
ly petitioned the legislature to pass a
law exempting heads of such large
households as his from taxation. In
the photograph reproduced above Cav
anaugh stands at the left end Of the
column. his wife next him. and their
children. numbering twelve. form a
series of stops, ending with the little
Tot AT the extreme night. As Cava-
haugh and his wife have scarcely yet
reached middle age. they have hopes
that their family may one day be even
larger yet.
The New Years festivities of south
erD California take on quite differ
communities where snow and
ice generally prevail ut this season. In
the balrny climate Of Los Angeles and
Pasadena and other cities of the
southern California coast floral pa
rades. carnivals of roses. professions
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10
QUEEN HELENA.

Vesuvius created so much terror in the
sprin.. of 1906 and when the ashes
and lava from the burning mountain
buried populous communities. over
whelming hundreds of people and driv-
ing thousands from their homes, both
king and queen exerted themselves to
THE utmost in the work Of relief The
king himself went often into danger
in his anxiety to see that everything
possible was done. Since the recent
disaster occurred he has been still
more active. He gave $4,000 from
his private purse to the relief fund.
and the queen, too, contributed a large
sum from her personal fortune. The
king also directed the ministers Of war
and marine to hurry supplies to Mes
sina and other places along the Sicil-
ian and Italian coast where the shock
of the earthquake, the tidal waves of
the sea and the rumblings of the vol
cano. Mount Etna, had combined to
create reign of horror and desolatiOn
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10

W.
him. The result. ac- RE.
cortling to rumor, was the authorized
expenditure Of $4,000 in detective
work. 1t is said that altogether about
100000 Is available for use in rum
ming down grafters and Furnishing
them.
The councilmanic upheaval will re-
suit in the naming Of an entire new
ticket for mayor and councils before
the coming election. The Voters
league decided to indorse neither Of
the candidates which the Republicans
are putting forward. nor, since Mayor
Guthrie cannot be reelected owing to
a city law. do they favor any of the
timber the Democrats offer. A new
candidate to be run on the Voters
league ticket is now what they are
looking for There is to be a candi-
date for councilman in every ward
where there seems to have been graft
ing.
The Voters league announced that
it had received assurance of federal
help in the forthcoming prosecutions.
Mayor Guthrie was chosen executive
OF Pittsburg in 1906 He is native
Of the city and was born In 1S4S. He
was graduated In 1866 from the West
ern University OF Pennsylvania and
two years later from the law depart
ment Of Columbian university, Wash
ington He married in 1886 Flor ace
j. Howe. In 1876 he was ass, e
counsel Of the Tilden electors BE are
the Florida returning board. He has
been associated with various reform
movements and In 1902 was Demo-
cratic candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor # Pennsylvania.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10
THE WkICTIT 4 I|0K DEC ISION


Roosevelt. He had been affiliated with
labor problems during the latter part
of his legal practice in Cincinnati. O.,
and most Of his fights have been for
the protection of labor interests.
While judge In Ohio he rendered
several decisions favorable to labor,
one of the most important Of which
was when he issued an injunction
against one of the largest manufactur-
ing companies restraining it from using
union labels when no. union labor was
employed by it.
Judge Wright was born In Cincinnati,
o.. in 1864. His father and grand
father were lawyers before him, his
father, Daniel Thew Wright. serving
on the supreme bench Of Ohio from
1873 to 1876 and his grandfather, Dan
lei Wright, being one of the first law
yers at the Ohio bar
Judge Wright's grandfather taught
Longfellow while he was a student
working his way through college, and
his father later became pupil of
Longfellow at Harvard
Judge Wright successfully held the
Offices of town solicitor and mayor of
Riverside. his home town; second and
first prosecuting attorney Of Hamilton
county and Judge of the court Of COM
mon pleas. being in that post from
1892 to 1897. He was married in 1887
and has three daughters. One Of them,
Miss Claire Wright, is debutante of
the Washington season.
While he was Judge Of the common
pleas court George B. Cox of Cincin-
natl sent committee OF three poll
ticians to make request of Judge
Wright. What the request was has
not been made public, but the judge
sent back word that Mr.. Cox could
go to the bowwows for all he cared.
As a result Judge Wright won him.
self friends among the Independents.
but lost the support of the Republican
organization and a chance to succeed
himself upon the expiration of his
term
Until his appointment to his present
post Judge Wright had no other office
after his retirement from the common
pleas bench Old residents of Cincin-
natl recall that in the flood period Of
1884 Daniel Thew Wright worked
night and day in skill towing the
residents Of Riverside and their house.
hold goods out Of the danger zone
Again. during the Cincinnati riots, he
volunteered with his brother Rogers
'for the defense of the city," particu-
larry resenting the attack on the court
house by the mob, and served for sew
eral days as a member Of an artillery
battery stationed to guard that build
ing.
John Mitchell. vice president of the
federation. is member of the execu-
tive committee Of the Industrial de-
partment of the National Civic fedora
ton and of the Industrial peace COM
mission established under the act of
congress psssed when President Roose-
welt devoted his Nobel prize money to
the establishment Of peace and equity
in industry.
Daniel J. Keefe. labor leader who
stands close to President Roosevelt
and President Elect Taft. thinks
Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell and Morri-
son will never serve out their SEN
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10
In Italy
The Calamities Of the Past In
the Same Districts - Efforts
Of the King and Queen to
Succor the Distressed.

train at the station one of the deputies
who addressed the king observed:
1.-THE presence OF your majesty will
suffice to console the stricken popula-
ton"
The king turned sharply upon the
speaker and said abruptly. "Dom't
talk nonsense"
The incident indicated the depth Of
his emotion When the violence Of
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10

AN UNCON vENTTONAL PORTRAIT OF REX E
BEACH.
ner given by Colonel Harvey Of Hnr-
per's to Mark Twain on the occasion
of his SEVENTEEN birthday Mr.. Beach
made speech which appealed to all
his hearers as something altogether
new In the way of after dinner ad-
dresses and proved him to be hu
morist Of very high order. Indeed
Richard Watson Glider when asked in
an interview short time afterwarG
whether there was successor to
Mark Twain In sight replied. II no
ticed Mt Colonel Harvey's dinner the
other night that there was successor
to Mark Twain standing plainly in
sight If his DISTINGUISHED master. anG
I noticed t!iMf his Distinguished mas
ter was i:nr*nseiy aiuused by the ar,
Of his sus cessOr.''
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-10

from Bethany college. in West Virginia,
In 1865. studied law and was admitted
to the bar Of Allegheny county in 1871
and practiced for ten years thereafter,
when he engaged in iron and steel
manufacturing.
burg has had the task put up to him
OF upholdfng the credit Of his city In
the face Of charges that grating has
been going on upon an extensive scale
among the councilmen Of the munich
pality. The mayor has appointed q
committee Of safety to carry out meas
tires for unearthing crooked dOings and
Furnishing the guilty. 1t Is said that