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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

The Ladies Of the Maccabees viii
have their regular meeting Wednes
day afternoon at o'clock sharp.
Several certificates are TO be deliV
cred. and other business of impott-
auce will be considered Every
member is urged to be present on
time COMMANDER
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08
BOIL WORMS THREATEN
COTTON CROP IN INDIA
Wide Spread Havoc Being Caused in
the Province of Punjaub.
Destruction of Crop.
Associated Press Special.

Lahore, British India August \. --
Ravages of boil worms have become
so widespread in Punjaub that the
belief is expressed that there will be
little or no cotton crop in that prov
ince this season
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08
Cotton Is Deteriorating.

Associated Press Special,
Mineral Wells, Texas, August s.
Hot winds have caused a serious de
terioration of cotton in this section
during the past few days.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08
Don't Forget

To visit the banana car on Central
track Only 80 cents to 81 per bunch
for nice bananas 110p
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08
News Received in WaNahachie-

News htttlttu III W dAaiidti'""
w. X. Ward received telegram
from Electra Monday night advising
him that the well had been brought
i'm and that it was one of the best
gushers that had been struck in that
field Tuesday morning the bringing
in of the wen was further confirmed
by telephone message from Flee
ira. Mr Ward was told that the we'll
was still flowing this morning and
the capacity was estimated at about
one thousand barrels a day, IT wa
stated that the well filled all the
tanks Monday night and ditch was
cut for the purpose OF turning the
flow OF oil through a cotton field.
This we'll is the property Of the Red
River Oil company, which Is com
posed mostly of Waxahachie citi-
zens
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08
Foley Kidney Pills

TONIC ACTION QUICK IN RESULTS
Give prompt relief from BACKACHE,
KIDNEY and BLADDER TROUBLE,
RHEUMATISM, CONGESTION of the
KIDNEYS, INFLAMMATIoN of the
BLADDER and all annoying URINARY
IRREGULARITIES. A positive boon to
MIDDLE AGED and EIDE RLY
PEOPLE and for WOMEN,
HAVE HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION
ga Davis GOT Washington ST., Connersyills
Ind is Ia his SjJh year. tie writes u5i u have
lately suffered much from my kldne' and t'ad'
der thadsevcre bsckaches and my kidney action
was too frequent, causing me- 70 lose much sleep
at night, and in my bin 1der there was constant
pain. j took Foley Kidney Pills Cor some time
nd am gov FREQ OF ri. trouble and again u1'o "a
be up and around. + obey kidney Pills have M
kishest recoAmeu 1auOl.
THE CURLIN STORES
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

When you need plul iher call
Runklev. with r. s. Cronk Co. Both
homes 81. II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

WANTED-By man and wife, room
and board in private family, walk
ing distance of town. References eA'
changed. Box 1862 or phone 1913 tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

FOR SALE-House on College
street rooms with bath. Barn and
garden. All modern conveniences
Apply to Mrs T, A. Owen, 404 Col
lepe street Mtfd7 -o-l
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

MATTHEWS-G CANNON CO., Tailors
do cleaning, pressing and repairing
All work guaranteed. Phone 17S. We
will call tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

LOST-Sunday afternoon, new
gray coat with black stripe. d. H.
Thompson, Jr., 22S Kaufman |
street los !
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

w ANTED-Good mich COW, for |
BOARD and care. Have good place
and win assure the best of and
feed Might buy if found sats-
| factory. Apply to Drewry, Daily
Light office Cup stairs) or 2lo
| Ferris Avenue. uhll
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

CORN AND OATS have l00o
bushels of best ear corn and looo
bushels of Texas red rust proof seed
oats for sale, free from Johnson
grass seed. Terms, cash or gilt edge
note. Apply to T. Frank Timmins,
Waxahachie. Texas.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

YOUNG LADY WANTED-To or
ganize club of ten of her friends TO
attend the next worlds fair az san
Francisco, California. in 1871 5. 100
subscribers to a popular magazine
pays railroad fair and all expenses.
Special inducements to organizers
Address, w A Helsley, Secretary,
Cleburne. Texas. 11tp
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

>>><> = . = 80 >>>> =
. WANT COLUMN. =
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WEATHER-Ton and Wednes-
day fair Max. 1912 Min. >73
FOR RENT--A house. See DR. KEEP
linger. tt
FOR SALE-Jersey milk COW J V.
Harrison, $50 Brown street. 100
FOR SALE-My home. For terms
and price, see me. Gus Kemble.
FOR RENT-Six room house at 202
Briggs street Apply to Mrs H. l..
Wyatt tt
FOR Substantially new first
class furniture. c. A. Arnold, Haw-
kins street 1912
FOR RENT-Six room cottage, all
modern conveniences, close in. See
T. Frank Timmins. If
WANTED TO RENT-A residence,
| preferably in East End Address w.
]. X, care Daily Light. los
ROOM AND BOARD-Young lady
desires room and board with private
family Address wv" this office If
FOR SALE-Five room house with
| bu1 h,,;I =
a Fleming, SIS College street. III
| FOR RENT-House at corner OF
Williams and Ross street See Louis
| Giles at 211 North College street. If
FOR SALE-Desirab residence
property Commission to party eff
fecting sale See Dr. w F. West. tt
FOR kENT-SiX room house with
bath, all modern conveniences, West
Main street. Apply to ] Lee Penn tt
sTENOGRAPHER AND NOTARY |!
PUBLIC-Miss Lola Curtin. office |
with G c. Groce, Citizens Bank
Bldg. If
afternoon, new
gray coat with black stripe. d. H.
Jr, 22S Kaufman
street. 1OS
CANNON CO., Tailors
10 cleaning, pressing and repairing
All work guaranteed Phone 17S We
will call If
man and wife, room
nd board in private family, walk
ng distance of town References eA
hanged Box 1872 or phone 1913. tt
FOR SALE-House on College
treet rooms with bath Barn and
garden All modern conveniences
Apply to Mrs. T A Owen 404 Col
lege street wtfd7 -9-li
W ANrED-Good mich COW. for
board and care. Have good place |
and win assure the best of care and
feed Might buy if found salts
factory Apply to Drewry, Dally
Light office (up stairs or 20
ut. A,,on,,a dhtf
CORN AND OATS have 1000
bushels of best ear corn and 1000
bushels of Texas red rust proof seed
oats for sale, free from Johnson
grass seed. Terms, cash or gilt edge
note Apply to T. Frank Timmins,
Waxahachie Texas. u
YOUNG LADY WANTED-To or
ganize a club of ten of her friends to
attend the next worlds fair a. san
Francisco, California. in 1915. 100
subscribers to a popular magazine
pays railroad fair and all expenses.
Special inducements to organizers
Address, w A Helsley, Secretary,
Cleburne, Texas, l''p
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

Constable Merritt of Ennis was in
the city today
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-08

P. A. LeGrave, private secretary
to President Allen of the Texas
Baseball Lea rue, is in the city to-
day.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

say I'm wrong. So don't like to talk
about it.
No. am not self-made, friends,
neither did I ever plough Most men
you read about were once barefoot"
boys and did considerable ploughing in
their early days, but 1 didn't, OF
course I know that if Col. Mayes
doesn't throw this on the floor (floor it)
and II it is printed, all my chances, if 1
ever had any, to ever become "serv-
ant OF the people" in a political way
VIII vanish spontaneously with the
publication of this article because
there's no use in a man running for
once unless he's ploughed some and is
sen-made. 1t means a few more
votes, too, il he was once a barefoot
boy. went bare-footed some, like
every other Florida boy, because it
vas cool and / wanted to. Every boy
mas q desire to go without his shoes
IN the summer time because he doesn't
care then how big it makes his feet
grow, but ne always regrets 1t after
wards. went bare-footed for the fun
of it, but I always had shoes if I
wanted to put 'em on. That's what is
known by 1ogicians as a hurtful adj
mission, but it's good for the soul (as
well as the soie). I ought to be toma-
toed for that last crack, but am GO
ing to leave il.
I'm not self-n1ade. I went to COL
Iege until the money ran out. Then I
mad to scratch, and did so, To earn a
little l worked some during vacations.
but that was always against my will.
(Fm running myself politically with
every line write), Ny father carried
enough life insurance to send me to
college, and altho he died when I was
seven years old was able to go thru
the state university, but for reasons
best known to DR.. Andrew Sledd and
me / am unable to prove that now.
Chat is a fine ad for the life insur
ance men. Send them all a bill Mr..
Mayes).
But there are some helf-made news
paper men, and some very wonderful
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10
SELF-MADE NEWSPAPER MEN

hurry. I am not as careful of my
speech as should be. One day in this
friends presence 1 said, Well, I tell
you, old man, between you, and /"
Like flash he was at me. You mean
between you and me- don't you?" he
said. YES" said, Il should have said
between you and me- because ME is
the object Of the proposition Be
TWEEN and ME- is the objective form
of the pronoun for the first person"
Il don't know anything about that"
he replied, that's all Greek to me, but
I know I would never say between
you and l." It had grated on his ears
of musician. He didn't know why
he wouldn't say it, but he wouldn't
say it.
That's rather wonderful to me, You
say he has read enough and heard
sufficient number of educated people
talk to know better. Yes, but that
above is only d simple example. These
self-made newspaper men write long,
compound sentences every day that
have never been written before, SEN
fences that are better than any cur
rent literature produced prior to them,
but these sentences are dramatically
perfect. In spite of all said to the con-
trary, the best writing in the world to-
day appears in the big daily news
papers, composed under pressure. The
Associated Press dispatches, eloquent
in their simplicity, but saying exact
ly what the author wants to say, are
not surpassed in present-day English.
Newspapers coin words and the next
publications of the dictionaries contain
them, You would be surprised to know
how few of the Associated Press cor
respondents are college-bred men. l
have never seen any figures about 1t,
but I know that the majority is with
the self mades, the men with ears for
language.
I was with another one of these
wonderful fellows one day. He lives
in Pensacola and is a star man on one
of the local papers, but the grammar
school was where he said goodbye to
tuition. He asked young man
(who, by the way, wasted a lot of his
fathers money while he was being
chased from one college Of the country
to another) where John So-and-So
was II saw Bill and he at the Con-
cordia Club about five minutes ago,
said the man of considerable college
experience but little education. The
self-made newspaper man looked at
me and Winked while a smile romped
over his kisser, He didn't know that
the college man, who wanted to speak
correctly in the presence of journal
lists, should have said Il saw Bill and
him" because HIM was the object Oh
the verb SAW, but the self made
newspaper man was sure that it was
time to laugh when a college man said
81 saw Bill and he"
He never writes none We're In
stinctivelY he always writes none
was which is correct, but he doesn't
know that the reason for it is that
NONE is a contraction of NO ONE.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

mob. just out of reach of the meat ak.
crazy mad I didn't blame them.
They had come of work with their
mouths all made up for turkey, and
not table was set. not a spark Of FIRE
In the stove and $50 pounds of turkey
scattered over the section Of alkan
plain which formed the floor.
The battle was short. The men ran
in behind the cook. tripped him and
the minute he was down had a rope
around him.
Hang him. hang himw they roared
and started of with him to the meat
pole.
In all my life I never was so scared
as / was that day. l didn't care in
the least whether the man was hang
ed. drowned or died In his bed. Yet
civilization rose up in me. and knew
I had to save him / ran like a deer
to get around the crowd and reach the
meat pole first, and all the while l
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

ones. In fact, I believe, without hav-
ing any statistics on the subject. that
the majority of newspaper men are
self-made. I have known intimately
some of these fellows and it is -bout
them that l am going to tell you.
1t seems to me that of all the self
made men in the world there ought to
be less self-made newspaper men than
any other kind. 1t is easy enough to
see how a boy can grow up in any
other kind of business and learn 1t, but
it does seem that a man who earns
his living with his pen Cor type
writer), one who receives his weekly
check for juggling with mother tongue,
would have to have studied the Eng
lish language little while, anyhow.
But I know some of the greatest
writer's in the country never saw the
inside of a high school and couldn't
possibly tell you the difference be-
tween noun and pronoun. Some of
this nations greatest editors, the most
eloquent writer's in the country, men
of enormous vocabularies and power
full phraseology, do not know the der
ivation of a single word they use,
couldn't tell to save their lives the
difference between number and per-
son and they don't know what a clause
is, still they set it off with commas and
never have one in the wrong place in
a sentence. That thing worried me a
long time, I couldn't understand it.
Maybe it doesn't seem as wonderful to
other people as it does to me, but for
quite while I couldn't understand it.
and it bothered me a great deal. But
l have finally come to the conclusion
that they simply have AN EAR FOR
LANGUAGE just like unframed
musicians have an ear for music. The
self-made newspaper men are ignorant
of the rules of grammar; the born
musicians cannot read notes. l have
decided that this is the secret of the
success of the self made newspaper
men; they have ears for the language,
were born writers of English.
To be clear I must illustrate by ex-
ample what l mean. I was closely as
ISOLATED with one Of these remarkable
self-made writer freaks" if you'll
permit that label. He was as inter
been managing editor and telegraph
editor on some of the largest daily
papers in the South. He was, think,
the best letter writer I ever knew. He
never made a grammatical error. And
he did not know a participle from an
adverb. He hadn't been to school but
two or three yeas when he was a boy.
/ looked up to him like musicians adj
mired Blind Tom, I used to watch his
copy and listen to his speech in an eff
fort to find some flaw. 1t was my am
bition to "catch him. because every
day he lived on his errorless pedestal
was becoming more and more con-
WINGED that l had wasted lot of time
in college when he was out reaping
the real experience of newspaper life.
He never crossed his wires, tho. The
long trained musicians used to try to
catch Blind Tom, too, but he never
struck the wrong key. Often, in a
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10
OUR CHRISTMAS
ON The PLAINS
4. NEVER shall forget our Christmas
dinner in a construction camp in
"a $h. roo~ 1non -.E5 -. @o~~,rar Noio

Z NEVER shall forget our Christmas
dinner in a construction camp in
u the year 1900. said a former Colo
radoan. We were building a res
ervoir out on the plains about ten
miles east Of Pueblo. We had $50 men
"a the job, all white men.
We had poor cook on the job and
couldn't seem to find any other. AS a
result there had been men leaving
every day and constant grumbling all
the fall, and 1t came to a head Christ
mas day.
1t was a beautiful, bright Colorado
Christmas. The men were to work
in the morning. have turkey dinner
at noon and lay of in the afternoon.
The old man had bought three poundr
Of turkey per man-45O pounds. Thu
birds had come out the day before.
About ten minutes after noon heard
a kind Of an angry roar outside. |
never heard anything like it before,
and it made me Jump. 1t meant trou-
BILE Of some kind. I hurried out and
saw surging mob at the door Of the
cook tent. The men were all shaking
their fists in the air and yelling with
one steady, hoarse. prolonged yell. |
went around behind the tent and slip
ped in. There stood the cook raging.
lighting drunk. brandishing meat ak
and emitting a steady stream Of pro-
family. In front Of him surged the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

ran I was cursing the cook. When
they got to the meat pole they found
me on box facing them with gun.
What do you want?" they roared.
Get quiet" said /.
Those in front called out. Shut up"
When they were still said: Boys, I'm
sorry this thing has happened. It's
my fault for not watching this fool
closer. But we can wash those tur-
keys and have a good dinner yet if
some Of you'll turn In and help me.
They aren't hurt any. AS for this
scum Of a cook. don't care any more
about him than you do. But I'm in
charge here and l can't let him be
hanged. You can go ahead and hang
him if you want to. but you'll have to
kill me first. Now go ahead"
I waited. but no one stirred. There
were plenty Of guns in the crowd. but
NO one was ready to undertake the
Job Of killing me. gave them only a
minute to think. Then I said to the
man that held the rope. unite him"
He did 1t. Get out Of here" said
to the cook. The fellow got up, white
as death with fear.
Then turned to the men and asked
II there were any who had ever done
any cooking. who would help me. Halt
q dozen volunteered. We washed the
turkeys and put them on to boil.
never worked over anything In ms
life as did that Christmas Dime,
The men were still silent aud suilen
and didn't know but they'd hang m:
il the dinner didn't suit them. tried
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

Peculiar sub
iect for me to
Isn't it?
You thought 1
was going to start
off by saying that
l was was. one.
Didn't you? No,
I'm not one. That
headline is just
there to fool you.
In fact, some
people have been
kind enough to
break the news
to me in a gentle
way that l am
not any kind of
a newspaper man,
but 1 always had
too much ego to
believe that, al
tho most of the
people who have
d | s C u s S e d the
No%%A~ sLI.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

had the best dinner the camp could
turn out, boiled turkey, boiled potatoes.
canned squash. canned corn. canned
peaches, dried apple pie. hot biscuit
and coffee.-New York Press.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

desperately TO remember all the cook.
ing I'd ever seen my mother do, and
thanked God when l found that one
Of the men could make pies and an
other soda biscuit. About O'Clock we
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

The object of the average explorer
seems to be to acquire enough mate
rial for a lecture
Yes; that is my wife's aim when
she explores my pockets. "-Louisville
Courier Journal
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10
A Terrible Blunder

A Terrible BIunder
to neglect liver trouble. Never do it.
Take DIR. Kings New Life Pills on the
first sign of constipation, biliousness
or inactive bowels and prevent viru-
lent indigestion, jaundice or gall
stones. They regulate liver, stomach
and bowels and build up your health.
Only Csc. at w. A. D'Alemberte's
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

What broke up the suffragist pa
rade?"
"a shopkeeper hung out a sign an
snouncing IS silks at Is IL 3-4d."-
Christian Intelligencer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

Cy-Come on, Hannah, let's take a
look at old Wall street
Hannah (nervously)-Don't you
think we'd better do our shoppin' first?
Life
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

How does this noted healer, who
cures his patients by touching them,
differ from a regular physician?'
why, he touches them before he
cures them. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

Mrs. Back Bay shall want you
to be dressed at o'clock, Ellen, 70
receive any friend that may call.
Ellen-Oh, Lor, mum! Aain't you
goin' to be in?-Boston Transcript.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

and is therefore singular in number.
There is but one point in this article
and ! hope I have made that clear. l
wanted to show you, if possible, the
wonderfulness of self made newspaper
men. wanted to set them upon a high
er pedestal before you. OF course, they
must have all applied themselves well,
worked hard and read much, but I
shall always hold that they were all
born with AN EAR FOR LANGUAGE.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-14

for the real motive of the Govern ment's demonstration. Other pos sible factors are "after-reflection upon the possible consequences of the rate decision against the railroads, the uncertainty as to the coming extra session of Congress, and the pending decisions of the U. s. Supreme Court in the antitrust cases
 It is not often that Wall Street halts. Its habitues usually consider themselves able to accurately forecast coming events and to discount them in advance. But now the street halts, and confesses a lack of proph- etic vision. to which conclusion it may have been moved by it's error in fore casting the rate decisions Of the Inter- State Commerce Commission
 When Wall Street admits inability to predict solutions of pending ques- tions, it is time for the average spec ulator to halt and await events. The street" enjoys exceptional facilities for advance information, but is at fault this time
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-14
NOT TO RELEASE WALSH
LeayenwOrth Prison Authorities Have No Orders-Ex-Banker Very
 Feeble.

Leavenworth. Kan, March h. The officials of the Federal Peniten- tiary report that they have no in- formation concerning the release of John R. Walsh, the ex-Chicago bank CT.
 No preparations are under way to get Walsh ready to go out, and he is attending to his light duties in the record office of the prison as usual Walsh's duties are to read the news papers and clip out items about crimes and criminals for the crime book.
 Walsh is much more feeble than when he was brought to the peni- tentiary. On damp days, he can hardly get out of ped, and he does not leave the dormitory, where he sleeps.
 Walsh is not confined at night in a regular cell, but he sleeps in the do. = mitory with about thirty trusty pris- oners. He is watched day and night by attaches of the prison medical de- partment.