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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
Kappa Chi.

The Kappa Chi met this week al
the home Of Miss Onuie Lee Old
ham An advertising contest was
the first entertaining feature. TWEEN
ty advertisements were given 20
identify from the picture. Cards
with pencils We're given the girls
and they were to draw some histor-
ical subject. Miss Myrtle Maledon
won the prize pearl paper knife.
Chicken salad, sandwiches, olives
and waters We're served Roses
made the floral decorations.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
WOMAN FATALLY HURT
BY RAILWAY TRAIN,
Mrs. J. NJ. Blevens Dies Soon Afte.
Crossing Accident.


Fort Worth, Texas, Jan &C.
Mrs, J NJ Blevens was killed by d
southbound Katy freight Thursday
evening and a 6-year-old daughter
who was in the buggy with her at
the time, narrowly escaped death.
She was driving to Keller and,
Judging by the statement Of the wit
nesses Of the accident, did not see
the approaching train. The train
crew said the horse became unman-
ageabie and lunged forward, draw
ing the buggy in front of the loco
motive 1t struck with considerable
force and Mrs. Blevens was thrown
about twenty-five or thirty feet, liv-
ing only ten minutes after the acct
dent The child escaped with a few
bruises.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COM
POUND

| is a reliable family medicine. Give
| it to your children, and take it your
self when you feel a cold coming on.
IIt cheeks and cures coughs and
chitis and pneumonia. For sale by
the Curtin Stores-Curlin Drug Co.,
North side So, Curtin Pharmacy,
West side SO. d&w
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
sHAKEsPEARE CLUB.
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Question for February 9Th.

Lesson. SCENE - Avs
development OF tho drama III
England prior to the Time ol
Shakespeare, Mrs. Il. M. Zines
| !. Briefly discuss Scottlsn man
ners and customs, reilglon, KING
ship, ETC., in a way that VIII lead
to a better understanding OF the
tragedy of Macbeth.
2. What probably suggested TO
Shakespeare the idea of writing
Macbeth?
3. What impression DO tee rhym-
ing end stopped lined of scene l
give you?
4. Enumerate statements made by
sisters which prove their power OF
prophecy.
s. What is the most significant
lime in scene /?
6. Why did Shakespeare, contra
nv to history. represent Duncan as
an old man?
Z. Give substance Of sergeant's
report.
/. 8 What comparisons for purpose
Of emphasizing Macbeth's bravery
! are made in Scene q?
9 Explain lines beginning, 'tAs
whence the sun" It'll that Bellon-
/ ais bridegroom, 'fmemorize anoth-
err Golgotha.''
10. What anachronism found in
Scene 2?
IL. How do the exaggerations of
Scene impress you?
r. What is the effect Of the abb
rupt ending of the lamentations OF
the sisters in Scene 3?
is. Do you think it would have
been loss or a gain had Acts 1. 2,
to- 49, o,,;+tado
IA. is tne portrayal u Maopeea
before coming nnder influence y
sisters satisfylngiy completes
Is. What is the significance of
Macbeth's first speech!
IS. Quote imaginative lines In
Banquo's first speech. Why is this
belief in wftchcraft here referred
to, especially appropriate at this
point?
~. what present ana what future
purposes are served by Banquo. De
ng present wnen the sisters denver
heir prophecies to Macbeth?
IL. what is the purpose Oh San
luo's Good sir, why DO you start
tic.
10. Contrast Macbeth's ana Ban
luo's manner OF addressing the
weird sisters
20. Does Macbeth make an etfoFS
TO dissemnleE what REMARKS SHOW
his inability ,,u
a. 70 you - " sins@ !
So ~, ~ n anyy - or an effort to hide
his real thoughts?
%. Does RossS announcement or
a greater honour, promised nave
any effect upon Macbeth
~ what IS the central thousnl -
Macneth sollioquy oesihnihs' W
truths are toio ha. mp eeaion
aoes TINS give you oi Maeoe'n ,
I. ENplalH lines DesiuHtH6 coillc
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
Shakespeare Club.

The Shakespeare club met Tues
day with an unusually large attend
ance Mrs Tom Lake, first vice pres
ident, was in the chair in the alb
sence of the president, Mrs. Cole
man. The chairman of the tree com.
mittee gave a favorable report, and
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27

Mrs. Tom Cole was the hostess OF
this club this week. Her special
guests were Miss Gertrude Beach
um, Laura Mcclellan, Mesdames e.
c. Mccartney, j. ]. McQuattcrs,
Lynn Lasswell, A. ]. Rice, A. Me-
Cartney, Mrs. Phil Bailey of Dallas.
Mrs. Cole served sandwiches, waf-
ers, pickles. apricot ice,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
FINDS GERMS IN THE
HEAD OF TURKEY.
Meteorological Examination Shows
Fowl TO Have Been Harborfng
Meningo-Cocci.

Waco. Jan. 27.-A bacteriologi-
cal examination of the head OF a
turkey which died here recently re-
vealed the presence of innumerable
germs producing meningitis, and
this disease is believed to have
caused the fowls death. The germs
were found in the brain and along
the spinal column.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
HOPES TO DISCOVER
NEW ROSETTA STONE.
Director of American School of Ar
chaeology Leaves for Trip to
Central America.
Associated Press Special

Associated Press Special.
Washington, Jan. 25.-In the hope
of discovering an American "Roset-
ia stone" by which students of an
cient Central American ruins would
be able to deeipher =ieroglyphics on
temples and monuments left by the
Maya civilization, Dr. Edgar l..
Hewitt, director of the school OF
American archaeology is en- route to
Guatemala for the archaeological in
stitute of America.
At Quirgua excavations already
begun has brought to light that the
civilization of the Mayas was appar-
entity largely religious as many mas
sive temples, palaces, pyramids and
monuments exist.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27

Do not allow your kidney ana
bladder trouble to. develop beyoud
the reach of medicine. Take Fo-
ley's Kidney Pills. They give quick
results and stop irregularities with
surprising promptness. For sale by
the Curtin Stores-Curhn Drug Co.,
North side So, Curtin Pharmacy,
| West side So. DIV
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
To the Puhlic.

We have opened first class bar
Der shop and bath house in the
basement under McIntosh's drug
store on the southeast corner or
the square and will be pleased to
have our friends and customers call
on us when wanting anything In the
barber line. We are prepared to give
you entire satisfaction and will ap-
preciate your patronage
l255 ARMSTRONG & BEBEE.
Read the Daily Light Want ads
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
PILES CURED IN Q TO IA DAYS

PAZo OINTMENT fails to cure any
case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or
Protruding Piles in = to IA days
Your druggist will refund money If
soc. d
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27

Miss Howell of Los Angeles and
neice, Miss Ruth Wagner, are visis
ing her cousin, w B. Howell of
our city
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
FACTORY GIRL
GIVES UP
Too Sick to Work Doctor
Advised Operation. Re
stored to Health by
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Compound.
Poughkeepsie, N. y" ] run sew
ing machine in large factory and got

all run down. l naQ 70
give up work for ! could
not stand the pains in my
back. The doctor said |
needed an operation for
female trouble but Lydia;
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound b elped NJ :
more than the
did. +
one who ilRi1
get the Com :
pains, nervol1e
backache are gone d /
have gained five pounds.
/ owe my thanks to your
medicine for ii is the
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-27
Personal Mention.

Mrs. Lowry and children are Wis
iting in the home of her brothec,
DR.. Mitchell of Crisp
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-27

twelve hundred dollars in cost of low
horsepower, and driven by the own
or."
Analysing the situation, the consul
sees in this tendency of the French
lower middle class to raise itself into
the higher middle class, a necessary
increase of income, which will mean
for the manufacturer higher cost of
production; and as for the people
themselves, though the increase in
income may come, their larger and
larger appetite for Injuries is bound
to bring them in contact with the
comparatively high food scale and the
advancing price Of rents" 1t is the
familiar experience of the larger in
come leaving no greater surplus than
the smaller but serving the purpose
Of raising the standard of living and
of affording greater comfort and salts
faction.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-27

Honolulu will have an entirely new
system of fire-alarm boxes installed
within a short time, if c. B. Potter,
manager of the DEMO Telephone Fire
Alarm Company, is able to convince
the city fathers that the DEMO tele-
phone fire alarm is an improvement
on the Gamewell system now being
used by the city to protect itself from
the raVages of fire.
The DEMO signal box was tested
in the presence of Fire Chief Thur
ston at the telephone Office last Sat
urday and the chief expressed him
self as pleased at the demonstration
which is said to have been very sue
cessful.
The DEMO signal box is said to be
far in advance of the old Gamewell
box alarm. In the DEMO system, all
that is necessary to turn in an alarm
is to break the glass in front of the
box and push the button.
AS it is operated over the tele-
phone wires, the pushing of the but
ton transmits a distinctive signal to
the telephone exchange and connec-
ton is automatically made with the
fre-department alarm office, which re-
ceives the alarm direct.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-27

formed in nearly every city he visit
ed.
TIL Gaelic League is nonsectarian
-and-in America-noupolitical. Since
it appeals chiefly to the masses o:
the people of Ireland, the majority
of it's members are of Roman Cath
Ole faith and nationalists in politics.
There are, however, among its most
prominent workers, men and women
of various creeds and political opin-
ions. Every effort is made to keep
the organization strictly neutral poll
| tical speeches being barred at meet.
ing and its membership unqualified
by any particular religious or pontl
cal views. st. Patrick's Day is the
great day among it's members both
il this country and Ireland, simply
because Saint Patrick is the patron
saint of that land.
The League is not content with the
introduction of Irish as a study in
the public schools Of Ireland, but
supports a corps Of organizers and
travelling teachers who penetrate to
every section of the Emerald Isle. The
organizers impress upon the natives
the Importance of propagating their
native tongue, music, pastimes and
customs. The travelling teachers, in
districts where the language has al
most entirely disappeared, hold class
es and secure local teachers comre
| tent to instruct the people. There are
hundred and thirty of these travel
! ing teachers and organizers. The Lea
! que also trains teachers, publishes
text books and masterpieces Of Gae
/ lie literature and encourages interest
in the native music, dances and
| games.
In the United States the same
thing is accomplished by the indivi
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-27

larry of approximately seventy thou
sand native words. An unlimited
number of new words are formed
from pre-existing native roots. Gram
matically complete, A. has all the
genders, all the infections and all
the moods (some of which have been
lost in French, English and other mo-
dern languages). 1t possesses ninety
five sounds and sixteen characters
which are not dissimilar to the Greek
symbols.
The Gaelic League was organized in
July, 1888, by seven men who met in
Ireland for that purpose. John Nc
Neill, DR.. Douglas Hyde and Father
O'Browney were the moving spirits.
DR.. Hyde was elected president of
the organization. At first they held
meetings and taught classes only in
Dublin. But soon they felt encourage
ed to carry their campaign into other
parts of Ireland, despite the disap-
prevail of the upper classes" who
frowned upon the movement. Their
enthusiasm, however, could not be
crushed and the propaganda was
spread throughout all ireland.
The fight to establish the study Of
Gaelic in the public schools was a
long and severe one and was won
step by step. In 1902, for example
it was taught as an extra subject in
but 235 of the State primary schools
of Ireland; and in 1909, in 1900 ma
tional schools, with over forty-siX
thousand pupils passing examinations
in it. To accomplish this, DR.. Doug
las Hyde came to the United States
six years ago to enlist financial aid
and sympathy of Irish-Americans He
is really the instigator of the Gaelic
movement in this country for
branches of the Gaelic League were
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-27

not only compelled to learn English
but were flogged if they spoke their
own tongue. Then, in the '4Os came
the Great Famine, and thousands of
the poor Irish either emigrated to
America or starved to death at home.
Only the Weather classes, in gen
eral, remained and multiplied - and
they despised their native tongue!
In 1861 there were but million
and-a-half Irish people in Ireland
speaking their mother tongue The
decline was steady, rapid and un-
checked until about a dozen years
ago, when the Irish movement was
begun. For example, it was estimated
that, in 1901, there were but a little
over six hundred thousand Irish
speakers in Ireland.
At present the system of state edu-
cation in Ireland is English, but the
Irish tongue is taught in the schools
Irish patriotism was found discour.
aged, and there is no means as eff
fectual in destroying patriotism as to
stamp out the native tongue. Such
in the past, say Irish leaders, has
been the policy of England Hence
to revive the use of the mother
tongue is to revive the national spirit
and pride in Irish industries and lit
erature. This is what the Gaelic Lea
que aims to do.
With the exception Of Basque, Gae
lis is the most ancient language OF
Europe. 1t was practically the only
language spoken in Ireland until the
Cromwellian settlement There are
parts of Ireland today in which it
is the only language used by the com
mon people, and in County Galway
there are nearly ten thousand people
who know no English at all.
The language itself has a vocabu
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-27
THIRSTING FOR LUXURIESI

New Bedford Standard: In view of
the well known saving propensity of
the plain people of France, which has
been to a large degree inherent and
has been Zealously fostered by the
government through its system of
loans on land and the sale of interest
bearing bonds, it is interesting to
note, through the report OF the Ameri-
can consul at Harve, a growing tend
ency on the part of these people to
break away from their plain living
and to go in for some of the Injuries
of life. Consul Dunning says that the
lower cost of living in France than
in this country has not come out Of
the fixed charges of life such as rent,
food, clothing, and fuel, but has been
the result of an absence of those lux
uries which the similar class in Amer
lea indulge in. While the American
family has musical instruments,
electric lights, ornamental furniture,
l5bor-saving kitchen appliances, illus
trated periodicals, modern bathrooms,
pantented food in packages, and many
other characteristic American ad-
juncts," to quote Consul Dunning, the
French family of equal station has so
far considered all such objects as be-
yond it's reach.
Now the american spirit" seems
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dual leaders Of tho Gaelic organiza-
tions in the various cities. The Gae-
lie tongue is studied and papers are
prepared and read in that language
which is also spoken 1T meetings by
those who are masters of It. Much
attention is given to Irish music, es-
pecially to the playing of instruments
peculiar to ireland and the singing
of those songs most likely to foster
and keep alive a national spirit and
a sense of patriotism
The teaching of the Gaelic tongue,
however, is by no means the sole
endeavor of the League. There is a
lighter side to the work-especially
in Ireland Various Gaelic League
festivities are held there from time to
time. Among them is the feis, at
which all sorts of competitions are
INDUCED in; the aeridcheacht, or out
door fete; the cuirm choil, or con.
cert, and others that are regular fea.
, lures of county life in ireland.
Every year in August the ard-theis
or congress, is held in Dublin, the
| headquarters of the League. After
the work of the organization is re
viewed and officers elected for the
coming year, the festivities begin
There are contests in playing the
harp and the Irish pipes, in Irish
dancing, in singing and in story tell
ing. Concerts are held each even
ing with songs in Irish, and Irish
dramas are presented. Excursions are
made to various spots of historic in
terest in the neighborhuod, and an in
dustrial exhibition of Irish good!
arouses keen interest among tho
craftsmen. Indeed, this latter phase
of the work has been quite instru
mental in securing for the Irish In
dustrial Development association tbs
Irish trade mark which is a guaran
tee against spurious goods marked
Irish made" In addition to this bis
celebration various lesser ones arc
held in all parts OF the island
That the Gaelic movement is meet
ing with sincere appreciation in this
country is unquestioned. Four Of on
universities now have Celtic depart
ments. Harvard was the first to enteI
that field; then the Catholic Univer
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-27

customary, took up her Irish Ian
guage week collection" for the same
purpose. This year, over in the land
of the shamrock, they are doing the
same thing on st. Patrick's Day and
during the remainder of the week.
The people are solicited to contribute
by posters pasted on the walls, col
lectors with boxes stationed outside
churches, handbills, and a general
house to house canvass. Nor are the
sons }of iOld Erin in this country
Sinking their financial responsibility.
1t may not be clear to the average
reader just why the preservation of
a tongue which, by some is ranked
among the dead languages, is of such
great import to the descendants of
the original Celts. A glance back
over the history of Ireland is enllght-
ening. Way back in the dim ages the
Irish Ianguage-called by those who
speak it Gaelic-was spoken in Cen
trial and Western Europe, in Spain, in
Asia Minor and in Ireland. But as
time went on these Celts were con-
quered by other races and either for
got their native tongue, under the
harsh rule of their masters, or fled to
other lands. At the present time
there remains but a mere fringe of
Celtic speakers in Wales, the Isles
of Man, Brittany, the Highlands of
Scotland and in Treland-a scant
three millions in all.
Until nearly the end of the seven
teenth century at least three-fourths
of all Ireland spoke the Irish langu-
age in it's pristine form. Its decline,
however, began in the eighteen cen.
fury. From then on its decadence
was rapid. The English system of
national education was introduced in
the year 1881 and Irish children were
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-27
DEMO- IRE. ALARM SYSTEM
MAY DISPLACE THE GAMEWELL

A register at headquarters records
the number of the box and the time
of sending, the whole operation TAX
ing from five to ten seconds.
But it is in the home that the
DEMO corporation claim that their
alarm is away ahead of either the
telephone or any other fire alarm sys-
TEN, In the private establishment
the DEMO fire alarm is installed near
the telephone and uses the same
wires.
When the button is pushed-turu-
ing in an alarm-the telephone is
automatically disconnected while the
alarm is being registered and this IS
no sooner done than the phone con
nection is automatically restored.
The DEMO system is used exclusive.
ly in New York City and throughout
the East. 1t has recently been in
stalled in twenty-one cities on the
Pacific Coast, and at present a sys-
tenn is being installed at Medford,
Oregon.
The DEMO people claim that while
turning in an alarm by telephone in
wolves a necessary wait of from five
to twenty minutes, their system will
do the work in fifty-seconds.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-27

to be invading France. In five years
there has been decided heighten-
ing of the popular appetite for luxury
which has been at the bottom of the
advanced cost of living the world
over: the average family Is less and
less satisfied to live under the old
conditions in which economy rather
than physical comfort was the rule, "
to quote the report. The fact is in
stanced that in one French city OF
about one hundred thousand inhabit.
ants, in the last two or three years
one hundred mechanical piano play,
ers have been sold at more than two
hundred dollars each, Ten years ago
such a thing would have been entire
ly impossible anywhere in France. In
the three years between 1907 and
1910 automobile imports increased
from a million and a half of annual
expenditure to only a million eight
hundred thousand. while in 1910 the
imports of automobiles for use IN
France from the United States alone
were valued at one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, as against only six
teen thousand in 1907. This the CON
sui comments, lis vitality significant
OF the changing conditions ia the
French middle class, as practically
all these American cars are under
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sity, at Washington, .. c., followed
sgit with a chair of Jeltic Column
bia University was the next to rec
ognize the Importance OF the study
and, not so very long ago, the Uni
versity of California established a De-
partment of Gaelic.
Interest in the Gaelic movement is
SO keen in America that, in some
cities, Gaelic organizations exist with
out connection with the Gaelic League.
An excellent type of this is to be
found in the Gaelic Society OF Wash
ington, d. c., which was founded as
a result of a visit OF Or. Hyde to
Washington about six years ago.
Some of the most notable men in lit
erary and musical circles OF the Ma
tional Capital are associated with the
Society.
No less a parsonage than Matthew
Arnold has paid an impressive trib-
ute to the Gaelic tongue, for he
wrote: IF were asked where Eng
lish poetry got these three things
it's turn for style, it's turn for melan-
choly and it's turn for a natural magic
for catching and renderingg the
charms of nature in a wonderfully
near and vivid way-I snould answer,
with some doubt, that it got much Of
its turn for style from a Celtic source
with less doubt, that it got much of
its turn for melancholy from Gslttc
source; and, with no doubt at all,
that from a Celtic som ce it got nearly
| all its natural magic" ..
Professor Holger Peserson, of the
University of Copenhagen, has said
81 should be very sorry If the Irish
language should die out for thereby
Irishmen would lose their own ma
tionality and become H=glishmen. As
soon as the Irish language ceases to
exist, there would be no Irish nation.
And that would be a great loss for
it is the Irish nation that bestowed
medieval learning upon Europe"
DR. Hyde, the first president Of the
League, sums up the work accom-
plished by the organization in the
I following pungent sentence: 1--WE
found ireland imitation-English; we
are leaving il genuine Irish"