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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-07-18

ANY erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation OF any
person. arm or corporation that may APP
pear in the columns OF the Daily Light
will be gladly corrected upon it's being
brought To the attention ot the manage
ment.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-13
CHAIRMAN CHAS. D. MORRIS
AN ENERGETIC, RESoURCEFUL
PARTY LEADER.

The new state chairman, Charles
ID. Morris, is Il successful newspaper
"a lie began his newspaper and
political work at Trenton, but il nov
editor of the st. Joseph Gazette, a
daily paper of wide circulation ani
extensive influence. He is an clio.
qucnt speaker and fluent writer. lie
has campaigned all over the state,
has served the state committee in
several campaigns as the head of the
speakers bureau and has been prom.
inent in the councils and work of thc
party ever since he became Il voter.
No more loyal or devoted Republican
could have been chosen to head thu
state committee. lie believes that
the chief business OF the committee
Is to win elections and establish the
party in the confidence of the people.
He is a clean, upright man, who has
no use for schemes or tricks or mere
pretences In politics. He believes in
honest, clean methods with no apol
ogies; aud he believes in a square
deal between party leaders and the
people.
A close personal friend of Governor
IIadley, former Chairman Dickcy and
other recognized party leaders, and
having the confidence of the entire
party organization, with no align.
ments that will hinder him in any
way, he Is in position and has the
ability to lead the party successfully.
lie Is in the prime OF life, full of grit
and energy, is well Informed concern.
ing both national and state issues and
political conditions, and knows how
to get the best service from those
under his direction. 1t was fortunate
for the party that a man so wn'l
equipped, a nan so capable and uO
popular With the party organization
stood ready to tax" up the work
where former Chairman Walter S.
UiCkey left It.. His success will d..
pend, like that of Mr.. Dickey, to a
large extent, upon the loyal support
Of individual Republicans and the N,
g~anized party committees. Let az
Republican fail in this,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-13
DAME NATURE HINTS
When the Food Is Not Suited.

When Nature gives her signal that
something is wrong It is generally
with the food. The old Dame is al
ways faithful and one should act at
once.
To put Off the change Is to risk that
which may be irreparable. An Arizona
man says:
"For years I could not safely eat any
breakfast. l tried various kinds of
breakfast food, but they were all soft,
starchy messes which gave me dis
tressing headaches. I drank strong
coffee. too, which appeared to benefit
me at the time, but added TO the head
aches afterwards. Toast and coffee
we're no better, for / found the toast
very c%onstipating.
"A friend persuaded me to quit the
old coffee and the starchy breakfast
foods, and use Postum and Grape-Nuts
instead. 1 shall never regret taking
his advice. I began using them three
months ago.
1.-THE change they have worked in
Ele Is wonderful. / now have no moro
Of the distressing sensations In my
Ntomach after eating, and l lever have
headaches. l have gained IL pounds
IN weight and feel better In every way.
"Grape-Nuts make q delicious as
we'll as a nutritious dish. and / find
that Postum Is easily digested and
never produces dyspepsia symptoms"
There's n Reason"
Get the little book, "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs.
Ever read the above Istters A new
one appears from time 10 time. They
interest.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-13
Trouble In the Troupe.

They've had q frightful time in the
No. 6 Ton company. Hear about it?'
Nope"
Busted an walkin' back. That's
right. Went to smash on the Vim.
cennes Circuit. Utility Teller they
picked up at Sawville got mad 'cause
he was doubled as Marks an a blood
hound, an sawed the legs off the lad.
der. an Eva fell out O. heaven an
landed on Papa st. Clair. an Simon
Legree landed on Unc' Tom. an tho
real dog bit a hole in Aunt Ophelia,
an there vas merry hades to pay I'M
til the local manager called the patrol
wagon and had the whole bunch
dragged up the pike and dumped in
the woods. An the worst of 1t was
there vas a record house with nine.
teen good dollars in the box"
One genius is about all the average
family can afford.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-13
FAVORS The UNIVERSITY
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM APP
PROVES A SMALL TAX.

The Republican party Of Missouri,
always a friend of education, at III"
platform convention recently he'll,
approved the proposition to provide Il
separate and permanent fund for the
support of the state university. Con.
stitutional amendment No. II, to be
voted on at the NCYCmbcr election,
provides for a tax OF three cents per
500 on the assessed valuation of
property in the state for that purpose.
The university, under the present
law, depends entirely upon biennial
appropriations of the legislature, and
is compelled every other year to be
come a supplicant before the House
and Senate for aid. The Legislature
has been literally inclined, but, owing
to the fact that many other institi-
tons must be provided for from tho
general revenue fund, which Is not
sufficient to meet the requirements
of all, it has been necessary to scale
down university appropriations to the
lowest possible point, University np-
propriations have been paid principally
out Of the inheritance tax, the receipts
from which fluCtuatc so violently and
Unexpectedly that they can never be
estimated even for three months
ahead. AS q result, the university
has been compelled tC lose a number
Of it's most valuable instructors for
lack of proper equipment In its de-
~partmcnts.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-13
Mrs. Briuas' Speech.

n brevity is the soul OF wit, one OF
the wittiest speeches on record was
made by a woman. Mrs. Briggs lived
in the northern part OF Indiana, a long
distance from any village. Hearing
that the Rev. Mr.. Goodwin was to
preach In a township some twenty
miles distant, she resolved to be pres.
ent, and as no other way offered, she
walked the twenty miles.
The pastor heard of this and was
80 pleased at the appreciation which
Il showed that at the close of the ser
mon he mentioned the fact to the con.
gregation, and called upon Mrs. Briggs
TO tell them how she came.
Rising slowly, She looked over the
audience with great s%olemnity, and
said:
Il hoofed It,"
Then she sat down again.-Youth's
Companion.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-13
MISSOURI FORGING TO THE
FRONT,

In addition to improvements
in the public service, there has
been inauguratcd and success
fully conducted a progressive
policy for the development of
the undevclOpcd resources of
Missouri by bringing to the at
tention of the people throughout
the country the vast stores of
u~ndeveloped wealth and the
vast extent of unoccupied soil
that is today to be found in the
state of Missouri.
At the conclusion of the last
Republican state administration
in 1871, Missouri stood fifth
among the states of the Union
in population and wealth. Dur
ing the forty years of Demo-
cratic administration she retro.
graded to sixth in population,
because no effort was made to
encourage immigration, or to de-
velop the undcvelopcd resources
of the state, with the result that
only One-half of the soil of Mis-
souri, has as yet been cultivated,
and the development of our min.
eral and industrial wealth has
scarcely begun. - Republican
State Platform, 1910.
The management Of the
finances OF the state has also
abundaDtly fulfilled the promise
for a progressive, efficient and
economical administration OF
state affairs. For the biennial
period ending January !, 1909,
the appropriations amounted to
S10,441, G25.8S, including the pub
lie schools, while the revenues
available for their payment
amounted to SS~,l91, 254.07. The
appropriations for the biennial
period from January !, 1909, to
January /, 1911, amounted to
$l0,23I ,930.15, of which approx
mately 81, 100000 was for def
cheney appropriations and re-
appropriations which had not
been paid in the preceding BIZ
eDnial period on account of lack
OF funds. AS the state auditor
estimated that the revenues Of
the state for the present bien-
NAL period would amount to but
s ZOO, 900, the people we're con-
fronted with q deficit in the
states finances of over $1,000.
900. This probable deficit has
been completely and effectively
met. - Republican state Plat
form. 1910.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-13

: REPUBLICAN LEGISLATIVE
!. RECORD IN 1909.


We call the attention Of the
people of Missouri to the bills
passed by the Republican House
of the last General Assembly as
constituting a record of legisla.
ton enacted in the interest OF
the people and in compliance
with the promises Of the Rcpub.
lican platform of zoos that en-.
titles the Republican party TO
the continued confidence and
approval of the people of Mis-.
souri,.
The Republican House passed
. the following bills: The bill
providing for a public service
commission to regulate the
rates and the service of public
service corporations; an anti
pass biz; a bill prohibiting dis
ordinations by railroads in pas.
senger rates: a bill comforting
upon the board of railroad and
""i iouS' INV
power to fix passenger rates; a
bill separating the brewery from
the saloon; a bill providing for
district local option in cities of
$4,000 Inhabitants; a bill amend
ing the local option laws by in
~creasing the size OF the towns
and cities which should he gov
erned by the vote of the county;
a bill increasing dramshOp IL
Censcs; Il corporation franchise
tax bill; a bill providing for a
board of control for clCcmosy.
nary and penal institutions; an
election bill applicable to Kan.
IA City and St. Louis, making
needed changes in the election
laws and providing for the ap.
pointmcnt of a bipartisan clCC-
tion board; a bill providing that
cases on appeal should not be
reversed on account of tcchni.
calities not affecting the merits
. OF the litigation, and a bill pro.
viding for home rule for the
/. large cities {" the state.
All of these bills, which were
/. passed in the House and defeat.
; ed in the Senate, we're opposed
!. by a lobby of special interests
consisting of a larger number of
I. prominent and influential Demo.
: cratic politicians than were to
!. be found in both branches Of
. the state Legislature.
!. We offer this record Of things
. accomplished through the work
!. Of The executive and legislative
. departments, and things en-
!. deavOrcd to be accomplished, as
/. a guarantee of the public SER
vice that the Republican party
!, will render to the people of Mis-
: souri, If continued in power
. Republican State Platform, 1910.
., !, =. =, :. 3. =. =, = - 4. =. =. =. y =. :. .xs =,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-13
HONEST ELECTIONS UNDER
GOVERNOR HADlEN.

The promise of the Rrpub.
lican platform of 1908 that the
election OF a Republican COVER.
nor would bring to an end dis
honesty and fraud in elections
has been fully realized. In the
general city elections held in 81.
Louis. Kansas City and st.
Joseph, in four special elections
held in Kansas City, and in the
general state primary there was
no claim that a single dishonest
vote had been cast or a vote
dishonesty counted. And this
result was secured through the
appointment Of efficient police
and election officials in those
cities and the insistenCc upon
the part of the governor that
the elections must be honest
and that no excuses would he
accepted from any public Off
cial charged with their conduct
for a failure in this regard
Republican state Platform. 1910.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-13
TWO Eaithful ofGclals.

We heartily indorsc the public rec.
nrds of Jacob +. Gmclich, our lieu
tenant governor, and Frank A. Wight.
NAM member of the board of railroad
and warehouse cuIpluIssioners.-Re
publican State Platform, 1910.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-13

But the pure food laws do not make
any provisions for love that is adul.
terated with filthy lucre.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-09
own YOUR HONE.

When you have read the text of this
Ssalk you may say, much as you might
Ssish. you cannot own home, be
cause
You are only wage Garner.
Or draw small salary.
saeVeTfheless | say to you buy a
nome In almost every city or town 1t
as possible to buy lot or acreage on
Dsyments, with small cash payment
Down, or house aud lot on similar
= terms.
aaving made the purchase, you will
A1a q way to make the payments as
taaey come due. You Will begin to save
y &sfead Of spending your money on
Ehfngs you do not really need.
Try it!
Y You cannot more than fail, and You
win be no worse of than now The
saS01nces are nearly all In your favor
Ea Ut il known you are paying on an
I mvestnent your credit viii improve.
and on pinch you will be able to use
me land contract for a modest loan.
Make the plunge!
You win discover a fascination you
sAaye never known before. You are
sfsse for entirely new sensations. Pri-
vale ownership win get you out of
your present rut Of unrighteous con-
seatnaeHt A grip on your own prop.
rty will enable you TO see over the
sa5ge of things.
You will be a better citizen
Rncarza nslfuraiIu voI1 will ha On an
weakened interest in local government.
You viii want to know where and how
your taxes go. Your interest in public
afairs win take you to the primary
And 10 the polls with new zest.
Quit paying rent.
Of al the ornaments on the mantel-
shelf rent receipts are the poorest ex-
Aabft. Substitute tax receipts They
aen different story.
Buy real estate.
&c 1t is only twenty FIVE feet front.
buy real estate. And get slice as big
Us sou can pay for. preferably acre
Sge located in the line of the growth
- population.
Real estate cannot blow away No
enc can steal It from you. And unless
gcu make big blunder you cannot
Lose. Your purchase win grow In value.
Own your home.
That ownership will give you a new
sense Of satisfaction in life. 1t win
add to your self respect and independ-
ence. II win provide refuge for your
loved ones.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-09

The lonely island of St. Kilda lies
out in the Atlantic about eighty miles
west of the Lews. 1t has under hun
dred inhabitants. whose ways are
somewhat primitive. A steamer al
ways goes in time for the bird nest
ing. and during the summer months
another steamer sails on special dates.
The cliffs. which beat back the whole
force of the Atlantic. are of stupen-
dous height. One of them. Conachar,
is about 1900 feet high and is cut
down almost perpendicularly to the
waters edge. Wild fowling is the sta
pie industry. and a party of islanders
have killed as many as 1900 solan
geese in a night. The air of ST. Kilda
has been described as .'full of feath-
cred animals; the sea is covered with
them; the houses are ornamented by
them; the ground is speckIed with them
like floWery meadow in May; the
women look like feathered Mercuries,
for their shoes are made of gam
nets skin. Everything smells of
feathers"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-09

baggage car, az the cruel railroad COM
pany ruled, so the Pullman was char
tered. In addition to having his own
private car. the dog carries a little
bag around his neck, in which is a
tiny handkerchief for use when need
ed. Paris feeds on boiled rice and
has his own bathtub in course of con-
struction."
That is one picture.
Here is the other, in the same news
paper:
This baby died from exposure. Day
before yesterday Mrs. Dolan and her
brood were evicted from their tene-
ment shack by the landlords agent.
AS one of the neighbors tells the story,
Mrs. Dolan had just returned from a
days washing and holding the baby
in her arms, was dishing up some po-
tatoes tall there was for supper to
two little tikes that hung to her skirts
and talking of what good time they
would have when father got out of
jail. The constable tumbled the poor
furniture in the street and turned the
family outdoors. Neighbors offered to
take them in, but they declined. The
woman and children spent the night
In an old shed near the canal. 1t grew
cold In the night. In the morning the
baby was dead"
That's all.
All excepting this:
Why, 1000 years after Christ, in the
most prosperous land in all the earth.
should dog be pampered and fed and
transported like prince, while babe.
made in the image of God, is thrust
out and left to perish of cold and
privation?
Why7
Let statesmen who pirate of our prog
ress and economists who write of the
beneficent order of our Christian civil
lization answer that 'fWhy?'
If only the rich and idle, the selfish
and the self centered, would draw
aside the curtain that hides show the
other half lives;' If only
But there are the two pictures.
And why?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-09
A MOUNTAIN STREAM.

1t takes its rise on the continental
divide.
On the crest of the range the melted
| snowdrops and the rain divide These
go eastward and those west. The trio
king eastbound drops form a stream
let down ravine, which soon becomes
a brook. Gathering impulse at every
leap, 1t lodges the rocks and joins to
itself the streams that flow in like dir
| rection, so that when It reaches the
base of the mountains it justiffes the
name of river.
When the first SHOWS are melted In
early June (the first SHOWS to melt are
the last that falD its banks will scarce
contain the flood. Later and for the
remainder of the year it is full fed by
the earlier SHOWS that have been pack
ed away into the crevices and ravines.
And now the river gently flows
through the meadows of "the park"
where resort hotels and summer cot
tages are builded, carrying in It's deep
er pools the gamy trout-rainbow and
speckied and the other fighting species.
Then, gathering itself for another
long leap downward, it shoots into the
great gorge and starts on its trip of
more than twenty miles and a descent
Of full $500 feet to the valley of the
foothills.
What journey!
Hemmed here between the eternal
hills and there by the frowning precipi-
tous rock. it dashes on its course, here
in filmy cascade and then quieted for
a moment. and now in foamy rapids
and then in plunging waterfalls of
dashing spray.
And seldom are you out of the sound
of it.
What does it say?
TO the civil engineer who bewails
the loss of power 1t merely says, go
ing down" But to the poet Its muir
muring thunder, softened into the per-
petual sigh Of Joy, loudly whispers,
"To the sea-to the sea and the clouds
againt
And then. halting at the canyons
mouth, for the first time is the hand of
man laid upon it. A 1.-THE of it's spar
king waters is piped ten miles away
to quench the thirst of cityful. And
the bulk of the stream, as II. weary Of
its journey, glides quietly into the pro-
sale bitches to irrigate the valley.
And out Of the lateral bitches when
its work is done It seeps. seeking its
own again. Used over and over to
fructify the fields. 1t moves on into
other streams and thus to the sea.
How like useful human life!
The same modest birth and creeping
infancy, the dashing course of lusty
youth, the full flowing of quiet bless.
ing to the world and on to the great
sea!
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-09
4 BLACKSMITH Politician.

Should you have occasion to visit the
Office of the state auditor of Colorado
you may meet a heavy set man with
honest Irish eyes whose hearty ways
will make you feel at home.
That is "Roadyn Kenehan.
And should you be stranger with
a newspaper mans habit Of acquis-
itiveness concerning affairs he will
chat with you for half an hour and
not grow impatient.
Ask him about his political career
and he will say nothing.
Last year one day Ready Kenehan
took of his leather apron, washed his
hands in the cooling tub and strobe up
the hill to the statehouse.
An hour before he took the oath OF
Office as state auditor he had been
shoeing horses in John Murphy's shop.
Kenehan is the sort of labor leader
who not only leads, but labors entire
" different from the walking delegate
whose hands are as soft as dry
goods clerks.
For thirty years he has hammered
an anvil and shod horses, mules and
bronchos for wages. But always he
has been student of affairs
For twenty years Kenehan has been
secretary and treasurer Of the Inter
4
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-09

national Union Of Journeymen Horse
shoers And during all that time no
iii gotten gold has touched his cal
loused palm.
Honest as the day is long, Kenehan
has served in the Denver city council,
on the board of supervisors and has
been member of the state central
committee Of his party.
And he has never quit his forge for
a day. save once a year to attend the
horseshoers' convention.
Kenehan claims to be nothing more
than blacksmith and is proud of his
business, but woe to the state en-
ployee who sends padded bill into
his Office for approval!
1t is a positive pleasure to meet this
fine man. who is practical and straight
forward, but who is also an intelligent
student of economies, with breadth of
vision.
Here is the lesson:
1t is your duty to engage In politics,
but you should not depend upon that
precarious business for q livelihood.
Stick to your business, young man.
Be above the temptations of bribery
in politics, and when office fails you
as it will-you can go back to your
forge or farm or Office honest and in
dependent to the last
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-09
HUMOR OF The DAY
An 0verWorked Word.

! II don't thing smoking is healthy"
says Gertrude Atherton, but it is
mere provincialism to object to it on
any other ground. AS well argue that
society should not dance or whisky he
mentioned in fiction. What these viz
! tuous danes need Is to see something
of the world before they attempt to
run it. The country is rotten with
provincialism."
What convenient word that word
"provincialism'' is! We should have
hard work getting along without it.
I Whenever we find ourselves cornered
tn an argument we may easily get out
by accusing our opponent Of being
| tainted with provincialism. II you
have been divorced a few more times
than one may be if one desires to pre-
serve correct form you have merely to
say of those who frown upon you that
they are afflicted with provincialism.
If you have served a term in the peni-
Tertiary because of financial tranSac-
lions that were not sanctioned by law
you may comfort yourself with the
thought that the society which turns
its back upon you is rotten with pro-
vincialism. If you are accused of be-
ing unmindful of your matrimonial
obligations dismiss the matter with
the declaration that those who would
criticise you have a provincial out
look. Let us thank the inventor of
the word provincialism. 1t is the
handiest word H. our language, and
there seems to be no possibility Of
going back of it. When one has been
accused of being provincial one may
as well decide to say no more, for
nothing remains to be said.-Chicago
Record Herald.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-09
Trains Queer Idea.

Mr.. Robert Barr tells in the London
Idler Of the last time he saw George
Francis Train. II have discovered the
great secret at last" Train said,
"after wasting all my previous years.
/ have discovered the secret of life,
the mystery that the ancients tried in
vain to penetrate. Human mag
netism," he continued, sis the cause of
our existence When the share given
to each of us is spent we die. We
recklessly squander this magnetism b.
shaking hands. / have ceased to shake
hands, except with children. Children
so overflow with a surplus of mag
netism that they augment the stock in
a man OF my age. Since l ceased to
shake hands with grownup people
become younger and younger. / never
walk down a crowded street, for the
mere contact Of clothing absorbs mag
netism."