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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-04-08

Ackcr Submits His
Monthly Report to Board

Following is the report made by
Superintendent w. l.. Acker of the
city public schools to the board of
trustees for the month of March;
Number children within age en-
rolled, male 555, female 564, total
111a.
Number children under age en-
rolled, male 90, female 81, total As.
Number children over age enroll
ed, male 7, female 0, total 7.
Entire enrolment all children,
male 5s4, female 5S5, total 1859.
Average daily attendance, male
449, female 49, total 900.
Number cases of hardness, male
25, female Z, total 32.
Number pupils perfect in attend
ance, male 900, female 200, total
.429.
Number enrolled In colored
school, male 1913, female zoe, total
.399.
Number days school has been
taught, 23.
Pupils on Honor Roll: Walter
Mincey, Tom VIM, James Dunaway.
Ruth Hancock, Marie Velte, Orlene
McCombs, Ingle Barker, Rena Can
trell, Maud Kennedy, Leota Chris
TOPPER, Edna May Jones, Laura Sue
Plummer, Mary Sleeper, Mae
Wilkes, Walter Acker. Edward NIL
Ter, Myra Clam, Estelle wilkins,
Lucille Blank, Kathleen Connally,
Matte Smith, Mamie Thomson,
Ethel Nycum, Clyde Smith, Roxie
Asbury, Abigail Curlee, Louise
Hornbeak, Alleen Kennedy, Annie
Martin, Emmie Owen, Katherine
Hornbeak, Edith Spears, Charles
Simpson, Mildred Thompson. Clar-
ice Roberts, Archie Mcpherson. Pat
tie Caldwell, Leone Works. Margar-
ct Kemble, Lucille Harding, Clara
Boyd, Belle Works, Gladys Wilkes,
Harlan Miller, Alpha Penn.
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Trinity University has secured
Mr.. Lemuel b. c. Josephs of New
York to give his Interpretation OF
the Merchant of Venice Mr.. Josephs
has appeared in the role OF Shylock
throughout the middle states and
the southwest and has been well re-
ceiyed. 1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Josephs had charge of the de-
partment at Trinity University two
years ago, coming from Dallas twice
week. His work in the university
was of the highest order. He will be
at the university auditorium Friday
evening, April 3, at O'Clock. The
admission viii be one dime.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-04-08

The members OF the improvement
Society OF the Main street Christian
church will have a white sale at the
Gibson building Friday, March 9th,
at 9 a. m. Ice cream, cake and straw
berries will be served throughout
the day. Home made candies and
Easter eggs will on sale. A cordial
invitation is extended to the public,
children especially invited.
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At the Majestic.

Manager Reymuller offers the
Majestic patrons a fine bill for the
remainder of the week The program
includes one single and one double
act the performers being Neal Abel,
eccentric singing and dancing come
dian, and Parish & DeLucke, high
class vocalists.
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LET THE PEOPLE KNOW IT-If
you have fine cotton seed. or fine
corn, or fine chickens, or fine cows,
or fine horses, or anything you may
want to sell, you should let the peo-
pie OF Ellis county know 1t by plac-
Ing an advertisement In the want
columns of the Waxahachie Enter
prise--the paper that covers Ellis
county. An nd will not cost you
much, and you will more than likely
get the desired results. Try 1t once
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-04-08
HARRY WILLIAMS IS INJURED
Waxahachie Boy Falls IRON Tele-
phone Cable in Oak Chif.

Harry Williams, former Waxa-
hachie boy, and brother to Royal
Williams, mailing clerk at the post
office, was the victim Of an accident
In Oak Clifl Tuesday afternoon In
which he sustained broken leg. The
Tim es- Herald OF Dallas gives the
following account az the accident:
Tuesday afternoon while Harry
williams and his partner. linemen
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MADE 1T A LIFE STUDY.
DIR. j. 8. LeOnhardt Found the Cause
and Cure of Piles.

Ut, j. 8. DtOhHArUJ FOuHu IHe OHUec
and Cure of Piles.
DR.. ]. s. Leonhardt, the celebrated
specialist Of Lincoln, Neb., proved.
after years OF study, that the cause
OF piles Is internal--bad circulation.
Then he perfected Hem-Roid. an In
ternal remedy, and In 1000 different
cases 1t cured SO per cent. BY Dr..
Leonhardt's order, Hem-Roid is sold
under an iron-clad guarantee. If 1t
falls, the money Ia paid back.
800 at b. w. Fearis, Waxaha-
chic, Texas, or mailed by DR.. Leon
hardt Co., Station b, Buffalo, N. Y.
Write for booklet. DIS
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Announcement.

To My Friends and Patrons:
This Ia to notify you that have
opened new tin shop at 1o7 North
Rogers street. am prepared to do
all kinds OF tin work, roofing, gut
tering. flues and general repair
work. Call and see me. Phone con-
nections. w. SCHUSTER. 6
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Foley's Honey and Tar Is SAT

Foley's Honey and Tar IL a safe
guard against serious results from
spring colds. which inflame the
lungs aud develop into pneumonia.
Avoid counterfeits by insisting upon
having the genuine Foley's Honey
and Tar, which contains no harmful
drugs. d. w. Fearis, druggist. d
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Corsicana, Texas, April S.--A
horse belonging to Mrs. Mccullough
OF the Phillips Chapel community
was shot and killed by an unknown
party Monday night.
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Substitute for Oats.

Kaffir corn chops and bran takes
place of oats and IA cheaper. Try
sack each. $500 delivered tor both.
ID. H. Thompson. ,
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Observation-Disclosures

Representing c. A Stevens Il Bros, chicago
Has now ready Tor your inspection
the beautiful fashion plates showing
the most select and complete line Of
Suits, Cloaks, Skirts, Waists, Furs,
and Trimmed Millinery. Also Misses
Suits, Cloaks and Skirts and Chill
dren's Cioaks. Never before has IT
been our pleasure to show 80 many
beautiful styles and materials, and /
know that II you will favor me " ith
call you will thoroughly enjoy looking
through the line, whether you wish to
buy or not
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WHY throw your money away for
amateur work when you get any
kind OF work done in tailoring"
from tailors OF IS years experience.
There Is no risk but satisfaction.
M. Kurzlieb, ll6 College street.
Phone 571. If
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tend to your wants when they are
in the gents furnishing line, Clean
ing, pressing and repairing receive
their careful attention and satisfac-
ton is always guaranteed. Phone
them and see. II
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TOMATO Plants hava for sale
about 900 extra fine variety Eastern
Beauty" tomato plants. Herbert Her.
ring. 422 Monroe street. oh
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PHONE II. A. MCMILLAN at the
Daily Light Office when you want
printing done Of any kind. The best
work guaranteed. II
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When you need plumber call
Bunkley, with f. 8. Cronk Co. Both
Phones 81. II
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FOR RENT--Fjve room residence,
with sewerage connections. Apply to
Mrs. Emma Johnson, 406 West Main
street. 8
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For fishing or picnic parties we
have tallyho, wagonette or any kind
of rig you need. Waxahachie Livery
and Transfer Co, Ring 40. IL
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WANT--You to try my Kaf'ir corn
chops. Good for horse. COW or chick
ems. d. II. Thompson.
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Read what TIE advertisers say.
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We carry all the reliable standard
remedies. a. at this season OF the
year a general publication OF the
system Is a paramount necessity II
you still have Winters cold you
don't seem to get rid Of. try our
medicines.
- me Pure Drug
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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-05-13
COUNTRY DRIVE IN RUSSIA.
Speed Proportionate to Price Paid
Through Village" Roads.

The Russian popular idea of driving
horses is to fog them along mile after
mile without moments breathing
space. The speed is proportionate,
within limits, TO the price paid, but
the horses are never at any speed al
lowed to slacken.
The high road to Ruza runs in q
series of ups and downs like an end
less "switchback." yet the "jamshik"
(driver) never once allowed his horses
to rush the last of a declivity to carry
them up the next rise, but kept the
pace steady up hill or down. regular
rate of one verst in five minutes. We
insisted several times on giving the
poor brutes few yards at walk, but
at last had to acquiesce in the custom
OF the country, with the result that at
Ruza it seemed better to take an.
other team for the remaining four
miles across country.
The way now lay over what arc
called through village" roads. These
are simply a tract of mother earth
bounded on one, sometimes on both
sides by rough ditch, and only other.
wise differentiated from the surround
ing arabic land by the surface being
cut up by wheels instead of plows-
and the Russian plow hardly cuts a
deeper furrow in the fields than
wheeled traffic on such a road"
In order properly TO understand
some of the conditions of rural life in
Russia it is necessary to travel in the
simplest manner Of the native, our i'm.
pressions Of the same road when we
returned behind pair of fine horses
in properly balanced carriage with
sufi cheney of springs were wholly mis-.
leading, If more enjoyable.
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osity was especially keen. He looked
down the bamboo pipe. but could see
nothing.
Then he began to dig around the
pipe. He had considerable wrench
put on his nerves when voice came
out Of the end of the pipe right at his
ear:
"Honorably condescend to go away
and permit me to die. peacefully
But the policeman did not go. He
dug some more and finally unearthed
a pine box, the length of mans body.
and about three feet wide The bam-
boo pipe led through an opening into
the box. The policeman pried off the
cover Of the box, securely nailed down.
and dumped the self-appointed corpse
out.
Yamada Katsutaro. the man who
would thus have died. told the prefect
OF police that he had wanted to die
In a seemly fashion because he was
out Of work. The lack OF food had sug-l
gested to him the practicability OF
starving himself to death. but In order
to be sure that he should accomplish
this purpose he had determined to
bury himself in a securely nailed cof-
fin and await the ravages of hunger.
He didn't want to auffocate first, hence
the bamboo pipe.
The day before the policeman dis
covered him, Yamada said he pro-
cured the box and the services of
coolie. Then he dug the hole out
on Egeyama and after giving the
coolie his obi and 80 sen. his last bit
OF money. he was nailed up In his
coffin. lowered into the grave and COW
cred under six feet of soil.
Yamada promised never to try bury
ing himself alive again. and the police
let him go.
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the saddle on, and climbed into It, and
then the trouble began.
The giraffe didn't have any bride
on, and no name to hold on to, and he
was built so that the saddle slipped
Gown by his rump. and when the ami.
NAL turned around and saw he had
the cowboy where he wanted him.
he started off towards the forest
on hop, skip and jump, kicking
up his heels like a bucking broncho,
and the last we saw of the expedition
the giraffe was jumping over a wire
fence and took to the woods, with
the cowboy dangling by one stirrup,
swearing in the Wyoming dialect.
Then we went back to the house to
play golf, and the Michigan man sent
some servants into the woods with
a stretcher to bring in the remains of
the cowboy.
AS we dismounted at the veranda Pa
lit a cigarette and said to the man
You certainly have all the comforts
of home here, and all the facilities for
enjoyment that anybody has outside
Of a travelling menagerie. except draw
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-05-13
He Enjoys the Comforts of Home

kept In his private forest outside of
the clearing. He had a race track In
the clearing next to the forest, and
told Pa that every morning his herd
ers turned lot of lions. giraffes
rhinoceroses and zebras into the track.
and the family chased them around
the track in automobiles, and Pa said
he would like TO enter into such a
race, and the man ordered the herders
TO turn in the animals.
The cowboy wanted saddle horse
and lariat rope, and they fixed him
out, and when the herders announced
that the animals were on the track
all right we got into the waiting autos
the man and pat sat on the front seat
with the chauffeur. and some of us got
in the back seats and started out.
When the animals saw us coming
they started down the home stretch.
and the auto gave chase, and we
yelled and fired guns in the air, and
the chauffeur put charge of bird
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-05-13

shot into the hind hams of a lion
that didn't seem to be in much of a
hurry. and the lion turned on us, and
Pa told the chauffeur to stop, and he
would settle with the lion.
Pa got out with a horse whip and
started for the lion. which gave a roar
like distant thunder and as / looked
at Pa with the frock coat and silk hat,
walking towards the lion, | thought
that was the last of Pa, and begged
him to come back, but he said: Never
you mind about me; | have seen lions
before" and Pa walked up to the lion
and gave him cut with the whip.
and yelled: Get back into the Jungle.
you tom cat"
Well, really, that lion ought to have
turned and put his tail between his
legs and galloped for the woods, but
Pa had made mistake in his lion, for
the animal went up to Pa and took a
mouthful OF his pants, and shook him
like dog would shake a rat, and
Pa yelled for them to take away their
ZION IL they didn't want the animal
injured.
The animal rolled Pa over on the
ground in the dust, chewed his silk
hat, and Pa got loose and made a rush
for the auto and crawled under It to
fix something, and just then the cow
boy came along on a pony and threw
his lariat over the lions head and
pulled him away across the track, and
Pa came out from under the machine
and took a big monkey wrench and
started again for the lion, bare-head-
ed, and so mad he fairly frothed at the
mouth, after he saw that the lion was
choked nearly to death, and then
Pa mauled the apparently dead lion
until the cowboy dismounted from the
pony and got his lariat rope back.
Pa gave the lion a couple of kicks,
and got back into the auto, and the
Michigan man patted him on the back
and said: "Old man, you are king
of beasts, sure enough" and Pa said:
20, / don't know; never did like a
cowardly lion, no how"
We chased some more animals
around the track, and the Michigan
man said he hoped the toothless old
lion would not die, as he was saving
him for Roosevelt to practice on when
he came TO the ranch after the 4th of
March.
The COWBOY went across the field
where tame giraffe was grazing in a
tree top and took the saddle off his
nony and mt N on tho giraffe and
we run up to where he was and the
Michigan man asked him what he was
going to do, and he said he was going
to ride the giraffe, as he had ridden
almost everything that walked on four
legs except a giraffe.
The Michigan man told him he had
better leave the giraffe out OF his
repertoire. because giraffe was
mighty. uncertain. but the cowboy got
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-05-13
NEW SECT sHUNs CLOTHING.
Live In Woods Near BerIln-coid Has.
No Terrors for Them.

London.--A curious coroilary to the
recent debates in ,ne German reich
stag on the beauty Of the Academies
Of Physical Beauty may be seen in the
curious pamphlet. three or four copies
OF which have arrived In England, de-
scribing a new German sect
The cardinal law of the new sect
is complete abstinence from clothing
of any kind. This is observed for
sanitary and moral purposes. The fol-
lowers of the new faith have estab-
lished themselves In colony In
forest clearing about twenty miles
from Berlin. and in the Immediate
vicinity of this lonely spot stranger
may casually come across men. women
and children not wearing stitch OF
clothing. The police are not inclined
to interfere as long as the colonists
keep within their limited area.
The education of tho children Is said
TO be uncommonly good. There are
the usual e; Establishments Of masters
and mistresses. with domestic serv-
ants. A high state of morality is
claimed, and II is declared the rigors
OF the Prussian winters have not the
slightest effec. on the people who have
grown hardy by exposure 10 wind and
weather. and lead an outdoor exist
ence.
A branch o. the colony has been cs-
tablished In secluded nook at one
of the Swiss lakes.
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on Jaas Drive Him Insane.

Painesyille, GA victim of linse ed
oil drinking. INDUCED in to some ex-
tent by numerous men denied their
drink through the operation of the
Rose county option law In Lake COIN.
ty, Theodore Redlar OF Kirkland vas
sent to the Newburg state hospital Ior
the insane.
He was Jailed here after a bs tile
with deputy sheriffs and tore on his
clothes while In his cell. He drovs his
wife and children from home. tore UP
SITS In bills and flung the fragments
et the woman and children.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-05-13
JAP YOUTH AWAITED
DEATH IN A CRAVE
WAS TIRED OF LIFE, so BURIED
HIMSELF, BUT DIDN'T WANT
TO SURROGATE.

Tokyo, Japan.--A youth OF Kobe.
who sought TO commit suicide by bury
Ing himself alive and paid an accom-
plice 20 cents to spade the earth upon
his coffin, achieved some degree of no.
toriety even in japan. where new
things are happening every day. He
failed of his original purpose. how
ever.
policeman was strolling along the
bank of the Minatogawa river outside
of Kobe one day last month. when he
happened to spy Joint of bamboo
pipe sticking a few inches above a
mound of fresh earth. Being Jap
anese and also policeman. his curl.
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rica, and exploring the country, and
being made a king of tribe, and they
called Pa your highness." and Pa
lied enough about his adventures to
send him over the road for disorderly
conduct.
The women drew out the cowboy,
and he lied some on his own account,
and the children got me to going, and
you know how 1t Is with me when
get to going.
When the breakfast was over we
were all heroes. and Pa pulled out a
handful of uncut diamonds and spread
them on the table by his plate, and
gave each one a diamond as big as
hickory nut, and left a lot of smaller
ones on the table with the bread
crumbs for the servants, and when we
left the table the whole family bowed
low TO us, and stood back until the
king and the cowboy and had passed
out On the veranda.
Gee. but they seemed to think King
Edward wouldn't be ace high to Pa
and Pa swelled up so | thought he
might bust.
After smoking some so cigars, Pa
told of what towards lions and tigers
were, and how he could take riding
whip and chase lion up a tree. and
the Michigan man proposed to have an
exhibit OF his Wild annals, which he
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-05-13
Copyright. 1908. by W. G. Chapman)
lCopyright In Great RritninA

NOopyIisht' l'Vo, py w. u Chapman.)
Copyright in Great Brittany
We have spent couple of days at
the Michigan mans ranch I'm darkest
Africa, where he has brought civiliza-
tion right into the jungle, and after
spending six months with negro saw.
ages and wild animals, and menagerie
people, 1t has been the most enjoyable
two days ever knew.
1t is good sometimes to see our
selves as others see us, and not hav.
lug looked into a mirror for half n
year, we found that we were about the
most disreputabe looking tourists
that ever came in sight of beds. with
linen sheets on, anu pillows.
noticed that the family of the
michigan man and the servants looked
at us with suspicion, and turned up
their noses at us, but | never realized
what it was all about until they
showed us to our rooms that night,
and found that my face and hands
were black with dirt and smoke, and
my clothes were greasy and patched
with buckskin patches. sewed on with
strips of rawhide, and my torn coat
was pinned together with thorns.
could see Pa and the cowboy all the
time. and knew that they looked like
tramps, but | thought was all right.
The Michigan man showed us to our
rooms. after Pa and the cowboy had
drank few quarts of highballs. and
they were going to go to bed with
their clothes on, but / knew they
would ruin the beds IL they did. so
insisted that we all get in the bath
tubs and take our semi-annual bath.
and as the man left us he said we
could find clothes to put on in the
morning, in a closet, and to leave our
clothes out in the hall and he would
have a servant take them away with
the tongs and burn them in the fur
mace.
That sobered Pa and the cowboy
little and they decided to try the
baths.
Well, we didn't do 2 thing to the
running water, and before we retired
we had washed ourselves so clean.
with real soap, the first we had seen
since we left Germany, that Pa and
the cowboy had to be introduced to
each other, and / was so clean that
didn't know myself, and we put on pa
jamas that we found in the room.
and crawled into the clean beds and
slept till morning, after putting all our
clothes out of the room, to purify
the air.
In the morning we dressed up in the
clothes the Michigan man told us we
would find in the closet, and such a
transformation was never seen be-
fore.
Pa found a pair of gray pants and
a frock coat and a silk hat, and when
he was dressed and had on a white
shirt he looked like a senator from
South Carolina.
The cowboy found a golf suit, with
short pants, long socks, and puttee leg
gins, and Tam O. Shanter cap and
he looked like an escaped Scotchman,
while found Buster Brown suit that
fit me, and all wanted was dog to
be complete, and we went down to
breakfast, and made a hit. the family
acting as though they were proud to
have us in their midst.
During breakfast they all drew Pa
out, and he told them of his expert
ences capturing wild animals In AZ