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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-20
rhree Sweet out to- Sea.

Los Angeles. Dec. 1.-two men
and boy who we're in the casket Of
q captive balloon that was parted from
it's cable at Venice, seashore resort,
by a thirty-mile gale were rescued
four miles out ct sea.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-20

Swell Umbrellas for Christmas gifts
at w. o. Swenson's Jewslry store.
Prices the lowest.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-20

TAKE DR. plERcEs PLEASANT PELLETS FOR LIVER ILLS.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-02
CITY ELECTION.

By virtue of the authority vested
in me as mayor of the CITY of Wax
ahachie, Texas. notice is hereby Civ
en- that in accordance With the law
governing the election of city Of
ficers. there will be held an cleo
ton in the City of Waxahachie,
Texas, on the first Tuesday in
April, 1912, which is the second day
of said month, for the purpose of
electing the following officers for
said city, to-wit: City Attorney, City
Marshal, City Assessor and Collec-
tor, City Secretary. City Treasurer
and three Aldermen. being one AL
derman each for wards Nos 1, 2
and 3.
Ward No. / embraces all that part
of the city of Waxahachie which lies
and is situated South of Main street.
The election in said ward will be
held in WAITS office on the south
side of Main street and J. F. Wyatt
will be the presiding officer of said
voting box.
Ward No. 2 embraces all that part
of the City OF Waxahachic which
lies and is situated North of Main
street and East of Washington, Col
lege and Brown streets. The cleo
ton in Ward No. will be held at
Leach & Faulkner's tailor shop on
the East Side of College street and
r. H. Connally will be the presiding
officer at said voting box.
Ward No. embraces all that part
of the city of Waxahachie which
lies and is situated North OF Main
and West of Washington, College
and Brown streets. The election in
Ward No 3 will be held at the city
hall on Main street and J. M. Hill
will be the presiding officer at said
voting box.
Given under my hand and seal Of
office, this 1st day of March, A. D.,
1912.
Attest: (SEAL.)
e. B. PRINCE,
Mayor City of Waxahaehie.
CARROLL TODD,
! Secretary City Waxahachie. s303
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-02

hustling cotton raiser from Waxaha-
chic 2. reinstatcd his son, Houston.
w e. Digger from Waxahachie
was here. always find him cheer
fully keeping In good standing. Cliff
Adair from Waxahachie is one Of
our Light subscribers and gave me
a renewal. Jim Hudson, big, jolly
and busy, was here. e. R. Crutcher
from Waxahachie had been drop
ped but renewed +. G. Graves, an
old Ellis countian, who sold out and
moved to Plano or near there, was
here Saturday and Sunday. He look
ed we'll and seemed in good spirits.
~. H. Hamlin OF Forreoton was the
fist to greet me with the one thing
needful today. u. Mundon from Mid
lothian | was here today. Joe Kinsey
from Boyce came In and reinstated.
Jim Dixon from Grove Creek renew
ed for Claude Dixon at Emhouse.
About $3.50 O'Clock D. m. H. A..
Pierce invited me to seat with him
in his auto to Red Oak, his son,
John, being the driver. We got there
quick. | met and renewed w. II.
Rice and J. T. Hamm. We got back
before night. Down in the Lone Ce-
dar country last week I found the
people discussing the gravel roads
Of the country. The Italy precinct
road, it seems will run down to
within three or four miles OF Lone
Cedar and IL is about the same dis
lance to Avalon where there Is
pike. If the people of Italy precinct
would gravel from the county line
toward Avalon about a mile and the
Ennis precinct take up the work
there and make pike about three
miles they would give large COM
munity direct route to the whole
system of pixies. A mile left off the
pike running in the direction of
Lone Cedar and put on the Avalon
and Blooming Grove road would not
make much difference in it and
would more equally distribute the
benefits of the pike. To stop the pike
where it is planned to stop 1t will
leave some people six or seven miles
from the pike and yet paying their
part of the expense. There is an
abundance of gravel handy on the
Avalon and Blooming Grove road.
hope the Lone Cedar people will get
what the conditions indicate to a
man on the outside is due them.
BILL cox.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-02
FRANKNEss WINS FRIENDS.
st. Paul Railway Establishes Con-
fidenee Among Investors by
Candid Statement.

The st. Paul Railway recently
reduced its annual dividend rate
from seven Ito five per cent" says
Munsey's Magazine editorially. st
had been on seven per cent basis
for years, and, with it's efficient
management and strong hold on
public confidence, 1t could probably
have been kept there, at least for a
time, without difficult financial
manipulation.
Nevertheless, the management.
deemed 1t wise to deal frankly with
investors. The company has recent
ly completed its Pacific coast ex-
tension. running through an unde-
veloped territory, and not unnatur-
ally there has been some recession
of profits on the increased invest
ment. The parallel to a private bust
ness is complete and obvious. In
time, the st. Paul will probably be
stronger and more profitable for the
enterprise that has dictated it's ex-
pansion, and it will gain in the con-
fidence of investors because of the
conservatism that has dictated a
reduction of dividends.
There is no reason why a rail-
road should be expected to earn the
same dividend regularly, year after
year. No man expects his private
business to do that Every man I'M
derstands that the very expansion
which means bigger things Ia fu-
ture may necessitate a temporary
strinkage of profits"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-02
BY BILL cox.

and not only such weak ones as the
stronger should be able to manage
that the terms classes and masses
and the attendant conditions are the
result of mans ignorance and VIC
iousness; that crime is largely the
result of poverty and ignorance;
that by cooperation of all the
worlds products would be sufficient
to sustain all in comfort; that indl-
vidualism and commercial competl-
ton are a waste of productive forces;
that universal brotherhood means
universal peace. To sum it all up
the socialists teach that the present
organization of society is wrong.
that might has usurped the place OF
right; that the teachings aud exam
ple Of the Nazarine and the pur-
suasion Of Cody men on down the
ages have failed to awaken men 70
that sense of duty toward each oth-
er which would bring about equality
of opportunity to all mon; therefore
there should be complete reorgan-
ization of society and that the civil
authority should intervene and BY
statute compel men to perform those
duties to each other which reason
good example and mral suasion nave
failed to induce them to do.
The foregoing are practically the
concrete principles of Socialism OF
the present day Abstractly they
are making a world campaign for
the dismantiing of battleships and
fbe disarmament of armies, asking
that the expense of their mainten-
ance be saved to the people and that
III members of the armies and nav
es return to the industrial pursuits. |
they ask that the government as
ume ownership and management OF |
rhat are usually called the trusts, I
hey claim that woman is entitled |
o the same privilege as man and /
mong other things that she be
ranted the privilege of voting. Uni
ersal brotherhood of man, universal
eace, equal opportunities for all,
as opposed to competi-
ION anu Il t4IIIA Julie III tAiE NhoN
rine laid down by John Smith OF |
'ocohontas fame, that none must |
at except those that work seem % |
,e the leading tenets of this politi-
al party. II I have described them
DIRECTLY / do not know that ! feel
any resentment toward my modest
ard unknown correspondent for re-
sevrins 10 me as 3. Socialist.
Last Monday I did not get out
from town and met only one mar
who Impressed me as being entitled
TO special notice and that was j. J.
; King from Waxahachie Z. He
: good looking and | like the color 0
! his money Jack Davis. colored
: was reared in Ellis county, has tn,
. respect OF the people of both races
and by his own efforts has ancumu-
lated competency About the list
of the year he moved to Muskogea,
Okla. l got a card from him few
days ago reminding me that | had
promised to give him a personal amt
stating that many of his friends did
not know his whereabouts which was
proof to me that he is not afraid (
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-02
MUST BELIEVE IT.
When Well Known Waxahachie
People Tell 1t So Plainly.

3tOpit htfi 1t 30 4 nanny
When public endorsement is made
by a representative citizen of Waxa-
haehie the proof is positive. You
must believe IL Read this testimo-
my Every backache sufferer, every
man, woman or child with any kid
ney trouble will find profit In the
lreading.
Mrs c. c. Manning, 4o1 E. JEFF
| ferson street. Waxahachie. Texas
says: + was troubled for more than
a year by heavy. dull ache across
my back felt tired and 1anguid
most of the time and was subject to
headaches and dizzy spells. The
least cold / caught settled on my
kidneys, aggravating the trouble
Seeing Doan's Kidney Pills adver-
tised for such complaints, / procur-
ed box at one of the Curtin Two
Drug Stores. A few doses brought /
'elief and I continued taking the
'emedy until all symptoms of my |
rouble disappeared
For sale by all dealers. Price so /
ents. Foster-Milburn CO.. Buffalo, |
!. Y, sole agents for the United
states.
Remember the name-Doan s.
md take no other. (12J
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-02

Without any argument pro OF con
I am costrained to attempt the DELI
milton of word which is engaging
tha attention of the reading public.
During the past decade a political
party has grown from an isolated
individual deno1ninated a visionary,
found only occasionally, in suen
numbers that in almost every state
in the union there is state organ
fzatfon and at our biennial elections
full ticket is put out fer the con-
saeratfon of the voters A few
members of state legislatures have
been chosen from the ranks OF this
partv several cities have endorsed
ii at the polls and It has one member
in the lower house Of our national
congress II has assumed that pro-
portion requisite to call forth the
attention of the pulpit, the journal
and the political rostrum Through
the medium Of the press and lecture
binder the common people nave
learned of the existence of this
growing force in our Industrial sys-
tenn and | hear the question ire
duentIy asked What is Socialism,
What are socialists and what DO
they teach or propose?"
1t is not my purpose to answer {
ot,aotfppr IN anita ,
INTO the minutia of the different t
enets of individual socialists t
all technicalities and leay- a
ng off the definitions of Telegraph a
rs, We will say that socialism as i,
and taught by its advo- I
ates signifies an industrial system s.
nder which the members of society "
re regarded collectively one uni T
arsal corporation. tt
Socialism teaches that all men are al
Others; that all effort Of the indi- g
dual should be directed toward We
6 upbuilding of the common pt
aalth; that air. water, land, the cC
rds of the air and the beasts Of tt
e field are the common heritage II
all men; that the will Of God was P
I'd Is that all men should be equal e.
lrtakers Of the bounties Of nature. b
rat the golden rule should be the q
ale OF action in men dealings with c
aeh other; that those who are COM z
nerciany weak are as much entitled
10 protection against those who are
com nesrcially strong as are ths
p.,ysieally weak entitled to the Am
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-02
MARCH 3, 1912.


The Call of the First Disciples
Mark i:14-2S: Luke Will.
Golden Textile harvest truly
is plenteous. but the laborers are
few. Pray We therefore the Lord Of
the harvest that he will send forth
laborers into his harvest Matt, ix:-
| 37-3S.
| I'D Verses 14-15-How do you
understand the phrase, preaching
the gospel OF the kingdom of God r.
| t2.l What is repentance2
CD If a man Is truly penitent
does he necessarily believe the Cos
fpel? Why or why not?
l4.) Verses 16-1S-Take the two
occupations, literal fishermen and
fishers of men, and say when
would be the more honorable call
ling to one whom God had called to
be literal fisherman.
t5.) Did Jesus invite or command
them to follow him?
CD How do you account for the
strange fact these two men SO
promptly forsook their bets and fol-
lowed him?
I'D Verses l9-20-Why did Je-
sus have a preference for un1earned
fishermen rather than scholars to
baooma his chief anostlac9
~
- -
sus hheW THESE men ~ auNahoe anu
selected them Ior Ihelr Ilthess LOT
the WORK
ID Does God ever call any man
TO a WORK LOT Whlch ne IS not lit
ted2 Give your reasons.
too Verses 21-22-Ts every man
under obligation to keep the Sab
bath day and to do some good on
that day, as Jesus did? Give your
reasons.
~ viii any nreacher who
knows tba mind If God astonisb bis
hearers as Jesus didq
ft9A Verses 23-7s-wbat nroof
Il tbaro +ba+ TODAY verv had man
nosssassad with tba worst devil we
know NAV nv coming 10 Jesus be
euddan1v madc very good MANI
f13 T.uka v.1-3-sbo ula AL
true nreaehe rs be as popular and
| draw crowds like Jesus did at this
time? why or why not?
CAD There are thousands Of PEG
pie on the streets and at different
Ifesorts VINO never ateeha any piaee
= w. SIP Vhs = y tne uues q ~
49, 49, 49, y ~ = ssaie 'ne sospei :
f151 varses WA. naana. !.
49, & 49, 49, on :
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-02

The Woman's Mission Society Of
the Methodist church will meet at
the church Monday afternoon at 8
o'clock promptly and a full attend
anee is urged
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-02
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS
On the Sunday school Lesson
Rev. DR.. Linscott.

1911, by Rev. T. s. Lin
scott, D. d.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08

can do. But if SO, there are few
other modern business relations
where courtesy is not an asset of a
high value.
A democratic people are peculiarly
given to standing on their rights
and their dignitaries. The unshorn
and grimy man who marches up to
your desk to ask a business ques-
tiOn. may not look as II he were
worth consideration. But he is an
American. II you make him stand
ten minutes while you finish. dictat-
ing a social letter to your stenogra.
pher. he will probably resent the
assumption that he Is not given as
prompt attention as the man in the
store clothes who came in ahead oil
him.
II later it turns out that he had
some offer to make that might b.
valuable to your business. 1t will
take higher bids on your part to win
him away from your rival. who. good
naturally, gave him a smile and a
chair and a hearing without needless
delay.-Exchange.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08

A few days ago smooth indiyid-
ual went out on the highways AMI
byways in the vicinity of this city
with a proposition to sell certain
amount OF soap, giving in addition
he promise of premium TO the pur-
chaser. The amount involved in each
deal was $3.50. rather more thar
the average household is accustomed
to invest in soap at one time. Not
withstanding this. and the further
fact that the man was an absolute
strf niger withou; any credentials to
establish his reliability. q large pro-
portion of the people whom he ap-
preached parted with their coin with
the utmost cheer. Nay, as he him
SCI coniided &c an official later. they
an after him and begged him to
take their moscy. Il was ;.ir; of
Ills clever Came-being a GOO; Judge
Il hum9n ra.G"e-to reprcs al. that
.e could sell on.y one cr.ler 10 A
persons; but this was obyiated by
'elling additional orders TO other
members OF the family. Some people
were so carried away with the idea
that they bought orders in the names
CT all the members of the family.
living and dead. The peculiar part
OF the whole business is that if any
well known and reputable person re-
siding here had gone out with such
proposition he couldn't have made
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08
COURTESY IN BUSINESS.

Much comment has been caused
by the recent action of the keystone
Telephone Company of philadelphia
in ordering its operators not to say
please to the subscribers, and ask
ing the subscribers not to saw
please to the operators. 1t is es-
iimated that the use of this little
sweetener of business life costs the
public and the company five days in
a year of time.
Arguing from many such incidents
some writers think they see a ten.
dency to cut courtesy out of Ameri-
can business life. And yet. if so.
this is tendency that many of our
big concerns are fighting very hard
against.
recent magazine writer speaks
of hearing a prominent American
manufacturer. in the court yard of
2 Swiss hotel, commenting on The
courtesy that pervaded tae
place. and saying that he would give
$4,000 if that courtesy could be-
come the habit in his home office an.
salesrooms. He added that his fore.
men were much more inclined to
swear than say Good morning"
The position of telephone employ
es may possibly be exceptional. Per-
haps words of courtesy do clog the
processes of shifting lines and
switches, which need to be conduct
cd at high rate of speed, and a
celerity of connection will perhaps
smooth the public's ever sensitive
fur better than anything manners
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08
PAUwAY ITEMS.

Misses Ruth and Vera Williams
and Miss Willie Hurn, of Haskell
took dinner with Mary and Matte
Burgner, Sunday.
Miss Carrie McClelland is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Bell Hall. of Chris
tian.
Rev. Mann will preach his regular
sermons at aHskell Saturday night
and Sunday. Everybody cordially
invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton were callers
at Burgner's farm Sunday evening.
Mr.. T. Waits called on Miss Hazel
Cardwell, Sunday evening.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08

A land agent, of Eureka, ILL.,. in
terested in lands in the vicinity OF
Arcadia, returned to his home a few
days ago and told large number
Of prospective home-seekers tina,
they would have to go long ways
further south than Lakeland. "a:
only last week they had a killine
freeze at Lakeland. We would like
to meet that gentleman and see what
he really looks like. For a cham.
pion falsiiicr he certainly would
prove a pri2e-winner. As every one
knows not evon the tendercst yc2c-
tation was killed this winter. bana-
mas and other tropical fruits having
escaped withou, the slightest injury.
The land agents mp that way can
boost their Florida holdings all they
wish-all parts of the State are
good-but we believe it is very poor
policy TO stoop to tell lies about one
part of a State in order To boost tho
other.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08
! Hats of Straw
| and Ribbon.

Hats of Straw
and Ribbon.
The new hats for spring wear
taken as a whole. are fascinating bits
of straw and ribbon. demonstrating
the artistic ability of the modern de.
signers of headgear.
The color combinations are won.
derful. Sometimes the brim is Of
straw. while the crown is a Devil.
dering swirl Of ribbon.
Hats of straw 30 fine and supple
that it is a difficult matter to distin-
guish them from taffeta will be much
favored for early wear,
The prince Of Wales feathers are
to adorn many hats resembling those
worn by Prince Charming in the
fairy tale.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER

The friends of Mr.. 7. F. HoIbr.,
feeling that he h, faithfully us
efficiently performed the du.le, q
County Commissioner fron Ds,.u.
No. ., and being desi.ous 0. 9.
curing a continuance Of Ak ya',
liable services in that capa i,y an.
nounce him as candidate Tor ~.
election, and urge all citizens N.
terested in good roads and a p-o,s,
administration of county affairs =.
give him their votes.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08

The communication In this paper
yesterday from Judge Eppes Tucker,
one of our Oldest and most substan-
tial citizens, endorsing the gas plant
proposition, struck a popular chord,
Judging from comments heard. So
far as its present light directs, the
Telegram agrees with Judge Tucker
that this enterprise should be en-
couraged to establish itself here.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08

Although the multitudious men,
bers of the great human family ap.
pear to be hurrying hither and yon,
crisscrossing one another's paths and
going every which way. all men are,
in fact, headed toward one common
goal, and that is the home of happi-
ness. Hardly any two Of the seek
ers after happiness agree upon jus.
the same spot as being the most like
ly locality for her to have her dwell
ling place. Nor can they agree upon
which is the best path to take to
find her in the shortest time, says
Nixon Waterman, in Boston Monitor
One man AYERS that she is most
likely to reveal her place of abode
to the simplest pilgrim who, unen-
numbered with the handicap of
wealth. goes seeking her empty-hand-
ed. Another AYERS that key of gold
will serve to unlock all the gates that
may bar the paths leading to her
mystical retreat. Some think she
dwells in the midst of the big. busy
city and in the stately homes that
front upon the glittering boulevard
Others say she is to be found only
in the quiet country homes, out amid
the grassy lanes and the purple pas
lures and the fertile fields where the
simple yeomen till their acres and
tend their focks.
And, In measure, all are quite
right in their points of view, for hap
piness Is wherever men look for it, II
they look for it in the right way.
Says Epictetus: Happiness is not in
strength, or wealth, or power, or all
three. 1t lies in ourselves, in true
freedom. in perfect self-government,
IN a power of cOntcntment and
peace Happiness is not to be found
away off yOnder; it is right here.
"Happiness grows at your own fire.
SIDE" says Dolglas Jerold, "and is
not to be picked up in strangers gal
leries.' The people who go ahead
to find 1t must take it with them.
Maurice Maeterlinck has set forth
the fact that If all who may count
themselves happy were to tell. very
simply, what it was that brought
happiness to them. the others would
see that between sorrow and Joy, the
difference is but as between a glad.
some. enlightened acceptance of af-
fairs and hostile. gloomy submis-
sion; between large and harmo-
NOUS conception of existence and
one that is stubborn and narrow.
us that all?" the unhappy would
cry. But we, too. have within us,
then, the elements of this happi-
ness. Surely you have them with
IN You. There lives not a man but
has them. Like most other things,
happiness is largely habit. The
man who rultivatcs the habit of look
ing on the sunny side of things will
md something of a pleasing nature
In every prospect that presents it.
self. Joy is not i'm things. i, is in
US, says Wagner.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08

To the Democratic Voters Of Polk
County:
beg to announce my candidacy for
the Office of State Senator from this
district, subject to the action Of the
Democratic primaries. the date Of
which will be announced later.
Respectfully,
H. J. DRANE.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08

date for State Senator from -
county. Having the viii = f's
the peoples bes, Interests ,.,' seize
such ability as l possess !, ~, ~. U.s.
tort to do so. should they e1,,r ~. e.
with this commission. | ras,as. .. as
solicit the support Of all M ...
JOHN F. cox
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-08
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.

The friends Of J. C. Brown hereby
announce his candidacy for member
Ct the State Legislature from Polk
county. They know Mr.. Browns
worth and efficiency, and recommend
him to all the voters of the county,
assuring them that they will make
no mistake in casting their vote for
(X) ]. C. BROWN.