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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-16

II any Bailey man in Dallas failed
to get his name on the committee to
receive and entertain Governor Har-
mon We have not heard of it, They
are some when it comes to getting on
reception committees. They even
"slobbered" all over Bryan when he
was there, and some OF them got
their pictures i'll the paper in a
group with the distinguished COM
m0utr
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-16
THE ROOSEVELT METHOD.

1t is interesting and pertinent at
this time to recall a bit of Roosevelt
administration history,
Representative Murdoch Of Kan
sas early in his congressional exper-
fence introduced bill providing for
an honest weighing OF the mails, at
the same time showing that the cur
rent system, which had been in
vogue under several successive add
ministrations, was robbing the peo-
pie of something like seven million
dollars per annum.
Mr.. Murdoch could do nothing
with his bill. Then he appealed to
President Roosevelt. Mr.. Roosevelt
referred the matter to Postmaster
General Cortelyou. Mr.. Cortelyou
considered the reference and report
ed that the mail weighing was all
right; that it was in accordance with
an established custom, and declined
to order or recommend changes.
Then Mr.. Murdoch introduced
resolution demanding an investiga-
ton of the mail-weighing business.
This resolution could not be ignored.
1t was adopted and committee of
house members was appointed to go
into the question. Then the rail
roads, which profited unduly by the
weighing system, came forward and
voluntarily offered to make certain
concessions that would save the gov
eminent several million dollars
year This proposition was indorsed
by the house committee and accepted
by the postmaster general, although
it covered only about half of the
graft involved.
In the meantime Mr.. Murdoch had
pointed out to the president that it
was within the chief executives au-
thorty to correct the evil by eXecu-
tive order. Therefore, when both
congress and the postoffice depart
ment had failed to make thorough
the needed reform, the president
completed the job by official order,
! thus saving to the people several
! millions more per year.
The president was not strictly
regular" but his method was legal,
and it was intensely practical. 1t
brought the desired results, and at
ter the regular methods had first
failed entirely, and then, under eX-
| traordinary pressure, had been made
! to WELD only a half reform.
What the country wants of its Of
! ficials and governmental depart
ments is results 1t does not care
much about Methods, 50 long as they
/ are within consistent bounds of law
| and propriety. 1t has little respect for
tradition and precedent, when tradl-
ton and precedent are permitted to
block reforms that could be accom-
Iplished and without violence to eth
er law or order by departing from
them and employing new methods
The Roosevelt administration, with
its splendid place in history, is judg-
ed by results. And that is the way
/ Qthtr administrations have been
fiudeed and Will be iudged,-Kansas
City Star.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-16

Well executed field plays in
football game don't count for much
unless few touchdowns are mixed
in with them
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-16

~ now turned TO Detroit
of the final baseball
game befI-SAADetroit ana Pittsburg,
which is to decide the championship
of the world. When that is over, We
will have more time TO devote to
Bryan and Bailey and Cook and
Peary and other less important mat
ters
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-16

We imagine ~ 49,, p,.-.,.. g..
- ,",' go. ,',,,''- conclusion that
sar 20 ,la y want friends in or
- y sacrificl them. Past services and
pa Is amount to nothing,
Judge u'ess you are able to turn
the trick Which it is ordered shall
be turned naxt year.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-16

Texas is fast coming to the front
Both Bailey and John Henry Kirby
have been noticed by Bryan.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-16

ANY erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation OF any
person, firm or corporation that may APP
will be gladly corrected upon it being
brought to the attention OF the manage.
ment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13

About three weeks later the whole fam
lily was moved irto the house on the
hillside near the river
The preparations for housing the leper
and his family were these:
A porch at the corner of the house
had been shut in with screens. The
room which opened to this porch had
been entirely walled away from the rest
of the dwelling. It had once been din
ing room and a door had opened from IT
to the hall at the foot of the stair.
That door had been buided solid
and plaster smoothed over the bricks
Early was to get his food from a shelf
which had been constructed beneath
one Of the kitchen windows So little
strip Of board was to be the one thing
his man and wife might have in com
mon. They could walk the lawn freely
that is to say, Early could walk 1t with
his guard near 10 see that Mrs. Early
e=.i the little children did not touch
him And they might talk together, all
or them, with the guard looking on and
without coming too close to each other,
Full Force
Slow In Coming.
Probably the full force of her anlic-
she had been established in the new
house several weeks. They were busy
"a FIRST fighting rats. reaches, and ear
wigs The kitchen was flooded, and
even in December they had but one little
stove. 1T was ike beginning married
life with two children" explained Mrs.
Early with a laugh. But after the
place had been set to rights" after
the man had started his garden and the
woman had her house in order, the
-clamping of it all came upon
them in full force,
Little ''Manley'' loved his father in the
manner of most babies two years old.
His first steps had been taken in the
shack several squares away. But his
first free romp on the grass was that
on this lawn down by the river. He
would see his father walking up and
down across the middle path. As one
watched. the little fellow would turn
and toddle toward the lonely parent
the father would then hold the child
awpy with stick
Once the pent-up hunger of his heart
broke loose. Isn't it wicked" he called
TO the baby's mother, Ito have to whip
your own child TO keep it away?' The
guards thereupon took away the stick.
It would never do, they said, TO have
the baby play with il.
Then came the second revelation OF
the depth of this woman's suffering.
She sent the mans children and her
own away We couldn't bear it," she
explained the first afternoon / talked
with her. I'D just as lieye the health
officers knew of it now. Any mother
will know what it costs to give up your
own babies when one OF them is only
six months old. But it was the best
thing 10 do"
Horror Of
The Brick House.
Now TO one who looks on from the
outside there seemed TO be even deep
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vigor Between times he learned to
play the violin some one had given him,
made himself case for the instrument
out of an old dry goods box, builded
and riveted a stanch trunk and re-
called his old lightness of heart.
To us who are outside and at liberty
the delay that has followed will not
seem unreasonable. The health officers
are charged with the duty of protecting
the thousands from the Affections of
the few. They cannot release a man
supposed to be leper-even when the
spread of the disease Is not clearly IN
derstood or the danger known to be
real-without Safeguarding the com
munity from undue alarm. But the
waiting had been almost interminable
to the Earlys.
Specialist
Brands Him Leper.
Another specialist came-Dr. Edward
Ehlers, of Denmark. He, too, male a
diagnosis. And within half an nour
OF his first inspection OF Earlys sores
he went tc the brave little wife and
said
1T is surely leprosy, madamei"
There was an immediate family coun-
ell. Early was positive as ever. But
It was the wife who found means Of
going on with the fight for liberty
Would Il not be possible stu. she ask
cd, to have her husband taken 70 New
York;
So there began and there is still con-
tinuing a correspondence testing wheth-
er the hope that burned 81 brightly on
the coming of DR.. Buckley and then was
81 nearly suatphpd amav on thu coming
of DR.. EhIers shall be realized It may.
Whoever knows the responsibilities of
health Offices will not wonder that time
is required TO answer. But II now the
decision should be adverse, il again this
wCman's heart IS 10 be made trenuIous
with hope and then heavy with dis
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13
DEATH CALL COMES
TO STEPHEN TERRY
Founder of the Holy Name So
ciety Leaves Thousands
to Mourn.

NEW YORK. June 13-The founder OF
the Holy Name Society, Stephen Theuy.
is dead. Death came after an illness
of a few weeks. the last act of Mr..
Therry being to renew his act Of con-
secration in the society which he form
cd more than half & century ago.
Mr.. Therry was a native of Ireland
and came TO this country when a child.
He organized the h-st Holy Name So
ciety at the Church of SI. Francis xavi-
ct. New York, April Is, 1854. The or
ganizaIion grew and spread throughout
the country until now il has more than
a million members.
For more than thirty years Mr.. Therry
was g member of the New York board
of education and one of the trustees
Of the City College.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13

appointment, there need be no fear that
she will give up hope. She viii not. She
mas been tested For not even the in
slant after DR.. Ehlers had spoken would
this soft-voiced, retiring little woman
admit discoursg cement.
Is there not in such a story as this.
some lesson for you and me? How
wonderfully this weak little woman has
kept the faith. How promptly she took
up her share of the soul-bu Ckling bur
den which Providence put upon the
shoulders of her husband! How Infinite
" pathetic is the story OF her separa-
ton from her children!
Two Deaths
Have Come to Her.
These four are accounted as dead
so speaks the Ia mud-''the blind, the
leper. the poor. the childless." Fate
has visited two kinds of death upon her
sturdy spirit Through it all. from the
shadow of a BRICK wall that interposes
the very substance of tragedy between
her and the husband, she has looked
confidently cut to the day when she
may pass out of the notoriety OF leper
dom, out even Of the public notice of
Salvation Army work. out Of even such
attention as Is given TO you and me, to
a life unnoticed in the country. with her
husband. her children. and her God
A faith like that Of Ruth, the wife OF
Boaz. is behind that longing. and in ex-
preston of it you might have heard
an afternoon or two ago, in clear, low
woman's voice-in harmony with little
organ and ptth lustier tones sounding
through the brick wall behind the or
ganist-these words OF simple belief
floating up the grassy hill from the
direction of the river:
lust one touch as He moves along.
Pushed and pressed by the jostling
thrOng,
Just one touch and the weak was
strong,
Cured BY the Healer Divine"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13
PEARY Is OWNER
OF TWENTY ISLANDS
Arctic Explorer Invests His Sur
plus Money at Casco Bay,
Maine.

BRUNSWICK. Ne. June IA real
estate dealer here declares that
Robert Z. Peary, the north pole ex-
plorer, pays taxes on more island
property in Casco Bay than any other
person. During the last few years
Peary has been carefully investing all
his surplus money from his writings
and lectures IN Maine island property.
When a boy in school he made
Saturday trips TO Eagle Island. and
by odd jobs during his college career
earned money sufficient TO purchase
that bit Of land, where he has since
built his summer home In late
years he has purchased additional
Islands. until now he owns twenty or
more OF the most beautiful in the
bay.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13
PITIFUL STORY COURAGEOUS WIFE
ONE OF SORROW, BLASTED HOPES, AND FAITH IN GOD

er horror of the brick wall that divides
the house into its two sections. There
il stands. the very form of the Law
impersonal, cold. beyond ali resistance,
with no reckoning of human hearts.
All around it the woman is free to
move. Now she sweeps beside it. now
she dusts down the WALL now she goes
to its edge to pass through to the man
she loves best in all the world the bread
and milk he has for his supper, land
occasionally a little pudding, but he
doesn't often eat it." It is the form
and the seal of John Early's separation
from his fellow-men.
The man says new he never believed
himself a leper That may well enough
be- According TO his account, he found
his feet and limbs swelling so badly
that he sought a doctor and said TO
him. much as you or I might speak Of
smallpox or whooping cough: You don [
think 1t leprosy. do you doctor?'' Now
that physician had never seen a case Of
leprosy, according 10 Early. and did not
know the form OF blood poisoning pro-
duced by the caustic liquor of a wood
pulp mill So the doctor called in the
health officer, and the commitment to
quarantine was made.
The woman did believe 10 at first. She
talked with all the authorities of the
Health Office. she acquired-ss We
migbt-some knowi edge of cultures.
ana she was persuaded. Not for long.
however. The shadow of that wall maze
her think of the problem. anew every
day. Why should it be? The doctors
say there are no new cases; John has
not been in touch with any old case;
how could he have caught II? Ana
again, why is this eruption on his skin
called leprosy when so many others
down at the mills have th2 same trouble
and are not called lepers?
Money Raised
BY a Newspaper.
Under lead of a newspaper. the peO-
pie OF the District had contributed S1,1o0
for Mrs. Early's sustenance and COM
fort Much Of this money was at hand
He had a pension issued to him as one
who had contracted Ieprosy in the army
OF So month. Why not 50 outside the
city and find out If so dreadful a mis-
take was being made?
So, twice, the little woman business
woman and business man OF the family
both" as she says-journeyed alone T.
New York. There she found spe-
cialist. Dr. L Duncan Bulkley. Would
he come and make a diagnosis He did.
God was kind. indeed! he had sent Or.
Buckley and this great specialist in
skin diseases did not believe her hus-
band had leprosys
The machinery for his release TO the
Jurisdiction of New York was started.
we DO not know, bat it is easy to mag
ire that a new spirit possessed the fam
ily IN the old farm house. At any rate,
this Is true: The telescope organ and
the mandolin were brought out, and
from that Gay to this they have been
singing together, those two, through
that wall Of dead bricks and mortar.
Early struck into his garden with new
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13
TO RAE HOUSE
BUILT BEFORE 1870

MANCHESTER. Mass, June 1s.-The
decision OF the town to purchase and
Taze the Old Corner Store Building
means the removal of ~ revolutionary
relic and one of the Oldest landmarks
here. It will be torn down 70 allow an
addition TO the town square.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13
(contInued 90 Fourth Pasel

'Manley' at home. blood of this mans
blood, and flesh Of hts flesh, but the
blessing of the great mystery was upon
her.
was her husband or her child to
be excluded from the city. like a corpse?
Was she to speak TO them TO whom
her heart was corded and who needed
her love as the lungs need air, only at
distance? Were they to live with none
but lepers? We're her own flesh and
blood TO go about with garments rent
and heads bare. crying ''Uncleanl IN
cleann' Had God shut her and them
her husband who had served Him so
Loyalty and her pure-hearted little
Emanuel whose very name meant God
With Us'-altogether out of His sight.
II may be this Madonna did not think
these things. She herself says only:
God alone can know how terrible II
was" But there is a sense in which love
is God. And as. If YOU reach man,
you must touch his love Of self, so II
you would reach a woman you must
touch her love of those she shelters.
one outward sign there is which indi-
Gates that this woman's nature was
stirred as. perhaps. not even the death
OF these same loved ones could have
stirred it. Il only cried once" she
said to me. though I'm what you might
call a regular cry-baby,"
More than 5000 years nave elapsed
since Moses wrote those words: His
clothes shall be rent, and his head
bare" In the meantime leprosy had
overrun the world-from Norway to st.
Helena, from Kamchatka TO California
Fs- aa r.
greatest scourge. The Crusaders had
carried il from the land OF the Chosen
People TO France and England. to Ger
many and italy. New laws had been
established. Lepers In Europe had come
to wear a long gray gown. with hood
drawn over the FACE. and to carry
wooden clapper TO give warning of their
approach. Inns. churches, mills. and
Warehouses; were closed TO them; they
were forbidden TO touch the well or TO
eat with them; they could not wash IN
the streams or walk IN narrow foot
paths
For Early
Only Isolation.
In America even these later laws were
superseded. For Early there was to &c
only isolation, A guard was TO stand
near him every hour Of the day OF
night. He was TO touch no one. That
was all.
Four months the wife and little boy
lived IN cheap shack near the reser-
walton east Of the Capitol wherein stand
the workhouse and the Jail The 1eper's
quarantine was a wire fence He saw
and talked with his wife every day.
At first both maintained a confident
trust in their religion. But as the
woman's danger drew near the mans
whole manner changed. I'VE expected
every day" said Mrs. Barry, ito hear
that John had broken quarantine"
The new little boy came December
and was given the name of Paul
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13
HOME NOW READY
FOR DIES PLANCHES'

MANCHESTER. Mass, June 1s.-Tt Is
expected that Ambassador and Baroness
Mayor Des Pianehes viii arrive here to-
m3rrow for the summer.
Their home has already been opened
and everything Is in readiness for their
arrival.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13

One of the last purchasers at the
warerooms Saturday evening was
gentleman who has been looking for a
bargain piano for more than a year.
and after he had made careful in
vestigation of the remaining pianos be-
longing 20 the late T p Cuiley Estate
which are all marked down TO the
very lowest figure In order to make
quick and final disposition OF every in
strument for Estate settlement this
Week-remariSed:
THE PICKINGS EASY"
It's just like going out into Grand
mothers apple orchard after the fruit
has, all ripened and selecting the choic-
est and finest Iustered, for here this
week buyers will have equally the same
freedom-and the choice will be excel
lent for the early "Pickers' and the
harvest of piano bargains being gather
ed at this sale by the provident buying
public VIII soon be a matter Of record in
the annals OF piano selling in this city.
NOTHING BUT REAL BARGAINS.
The bargain offerings here are not
found to be used instruments OF I'M
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13

known make or origin but the majority
of the instruments Sold TO dee and re-
naming on hand ready for the first
buyers. are made by world-fame0 man
ufacturers and guaranteed by them.
The reputation and financial standing
of the makers of these instruments
being sold is the very highest in the
piano trade OF today and such a guar
antee in reality is the buyers only pq4s-
tive assurance of safe piano inve#-
ment.
ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION
Ask yourself the question If II Is pol
Icy to pay dealers. agents. and can
vassers' commissions in purchasing your
piano while such real bargain harvest
is on at this stoFe-and your answer wili
guide your steps direct TO 5z3 Eleventh
street NV, where the pianos are all dis
played and plainly price-marked for
your selection as 70 preferred Make,
Style. Finish, Price, and Terms. Every
one should realize the exact eircuni-
stances of the opportunity and clearly
realize why merely cost, and in many
instances even less than cost, is asked
on the remaining pianos.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-20
TWO DREADNouaHTs READY.
German Battleships to Be Launched
This Month,
oreign Correspondence of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
BERLIN, September 10. 1909.
During this month will be launched the
"Dreadnoughts'' Ersatz Oldenbury and
Ersatz Siegfried. which were laid down
last year.
The first battleship will be launched
from the Imperial construction yard at
WilheImshaven September 30, and the
Siegfried fro mthe Howaldt private yard
at Kiel September 25 or September 81
The keel of the Siegfried was laid down
only last Christmas. and the rapid con-
struction of the vessel in nine months
creates precedent battering even Official
expectations.
This feat Of construction Is all the more
remarkable as the Siegfried is the first
battleship built by the Howaldt works,
whose first work for the German admi-
rally dates back only to 1901. when the
smaller cruiser Undine was built. Since
then, however, this yard has made spe-
cial improvements for accelerating the
building of the biggest class of battleships
and now holds the record against all
other German yards.
How quickly Germany is building all
kinds Of ships is shown by two other re-
cent records Of the Howaldt works. The
1,oOO-ton transport ship Kronprinz Gus
tav was built in five months and eighteen
days, and the mail steamer Presidente
Quintana. 1000 tons, was built in 100
days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-20

tain no game, we though the Eskimos,
never were in want Of fresh meat, and,
unlike what you will find in most books. !
don't imagine you will find in my diary
or in those OF the others, which are fairly
voluminous, any evidence that I was con-
Quoting clinic or a continual squeal on
the cold.
II can tell you this member of the class
of 1908 has been up against some queer
conditions, and I have learned many
things since l saw you last. Possibly the
queerest, but not the most uncomfort-
able, was when my Eskimo and / had run
out of fuel after being hung up at Cape
Fashaw Martin for four days by heavy
winds. We had to beat in the teeth of a
could hardly be induced to face them,
which nipped and froze our faces for
twenty-five miles when 1t was so cold we
had to run practically the whole way to
keep warm, but 1 could appreciate the HUI
morouS side of it.
''One thing is sure, this arctic shows,
as you have often told me when up
deal of the time, there is nothing like
going at everything with a grin and good
naturally, like the Eskimos. and no mat
ter how scared, as when / had an angry
Eskimo, whom l had thrown. point his
rifle at me and look as though he meant
business. or when crossing ice which
bends beneath you and the thermometer
in the. minus fifties, so If you break
through, ce1t fne-no matter how wor-
ried or put out, to keep that grin that
won't come off there, and don't show a
sign of fear, as the Eskmos are none too
sandy anyhow, and it's up to you to fur
nish the ginger, steam and sand to keep
them jollied and care free no matter how
you feel. GEORGE BORUP.''