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New-York tribune., 1912-04-14

cHAKESPEARE is Of Yesterday, today,
y an5 III tomorrow, said well known
official I'm Washington recently during an
;nterchar,. Il views ON politics, art, htera-
rre and the tariff. He had in large degree
the oft Of -a. seer, and if he did not predict
some thing with absolute precision he shad-
owed them forth with a certainty that was
amazing In some instances.
aHe seems 10 have known everything,
and I'm willing 20 wager dinner for this
party tha, somewhere or other in his writ
jngs can bc found q quotation suitable for
every Sub-c.. and for every condition and
circumstanyo Of modern life.
There Was q thoughtful pause, and then
a Western senator pulled out slow, de
Iberate column Of smoke and remarked, Il
think that, while the bard may be etcrnally
tight abou, human nature, he'd be quite
lacking in material if called upon to reflect
essentially modern conditions.
"Wen. then, replied the Shakespearcan
enthusiast. name two subjects.
All right, smiled the Senator "and re-
memler that bet of the dinner goes. Here's
one. What about photography;
-Easy' exclaimed the expert. pho
.Ography is described by The glorious sun
aavs in its course and plays the alchcmist. -"
Thequotation was from King John, Act III,
scene l. This was established after the butler
had brought a volume from the library.
"Thats good enough for me, remarked
the Senator. "Now how about telegraph y
"Easier than the other, remarked the
Shakespcarean sharp; for YOU are quite ia
miliar Wit what Puck says in \ Midsummer
Nights Dream I'll put a girdle round the
earth in forty minutes Intended for laugh
ter; bu, the electric telegraph realizes the
promise with complete actuality.
"GucS, YOU are right, asscntod the Sena-
tor. "Th. dinner is on me.
1t is fact that men who have the habit
New-York tribune., 1912-04-14

-. same story more than once, once for after
tne losr S purposes. He can always cook up
dnl1r dn,ds p Occasionally he'll repeat a story
new ubont oJo a series of campaign addresses;
thfous~eh Hnre he has sprung a bit of comedy at
bu' vi he abandonS it to go through life
tlifle., liking its own way in the world. If
VaLds wall L', = foster parent, he'll not contest the
adoRTUd d.RTow does it come then, Senator, ! asked
Extraordinarily, that you have worked
ia'Isa n,cb a reputation as a vender OF chest
NUS ~, Glad YOU asked that question, re-
Nj S DcDew. I'll tell you. 1t is due
Pheu c'r ra,,scS: first, because my campaign
10 wv" w. have often been reported in the
SpeCb throughout the country, and then. if
preSS 10 IN r.pcat one of my own stories,
ever - Id. has already heard it, and they
eVas 3CI 20 exchange glances with one another.
Gs GSsn oaoDlc who write stories for the papers
iH iTI, hear something that they think is new
VIII VII they'll hang it on somebody. Let's
all, tbeyIl say, who can we hang this one
SEE s.o,,n;ebodv that's good natured and
on - fI ever dcny that he told it?' And likely
SOn not I'm picked for the victim.
as 6b iS' there are "a lot Of disadvantages con-
.C.nd o'| With being a famous storyteller. In
hTS'fTt t Srst nla... one can never be President.
y IIT nio INST VIII not take a storytellcr Sc
fToPiiv ',,piy Jnnlc>- hc gets big reputation at
.ornething else first.
.IcSarffld once remarked to me- says
~ @It's TOO bad, Chauncey, that
~ p.P' We got to .c known as an after dinner
!GGt1 Youyc blocked your chances of ever
Socoring %c, a reilly great man. Lincoln was
"'vtVorItSllcr. f., :, true; but was not known
q . sncb unit i.cr he became President.
iiter that p..u'. excused 1t.
Rrt the fa,. that one can't be President is
.ha least Of a.. troubles Of a famous story
.oneT .oI -, The worst thing is having to listen
wv, ~ erroncous r,.onS Of ones own stories
VA W by neopI. . ao are not good Storytcllers,
.5o .C,o ~ nersiist r. rlling over the point with
fendish abau-.".
Cbauncev Dcpcw rarely goes to dinner
that somebo.r with a prominent Adams
sople ADD, doesu ~. his eye and start of some
thing like tins. ,,,
aHeres good one that you probably
haven't heard Its true, too, because It
bannened t. .r uncle Of mine back home. '
WbbfrorDor ... man uncoilS a story that
a,s ;nvent, in the first place by Chauncey
N Depew. Ii Dcpcw doesn't laugh heartily,
tbe man telling the story will think he's a
crab, and j, he does laugh he will be accused
oi unseemly mirth over his own story.
Then, half the people Mr. Depew meets
New-York tribune., 1912-04-14
PROPHETIC AUTHORS
BY w. J. DARCY

of deep thinking and whose processes float
with imagination often speak OF things TO
come in the future, Just as Leopard, poet
and eSsayiSt glimpSed the phonograph in
the early 80 III the course OF his delightful
"Academy of SyllographS
AS TO the power OF speech, said ne, IT
seems unreasonable TO doubt that men
should have the power of communicating ii
TO machines constructed 10y themselves, see
ing that this may be said 10 have been cs-
tabliShcd by Sundry prcccdcnlS; such as.
for example, Is the case OF the statue Of
MemnOn, and OF the human head manuidC-
tured by Albcrtus MagnuS which actually
became SO loquacous that Saint Thomas
AquinaS. losing all patience with it, smashed
it to pieces Then too there was the parrot
of NcvcrS. though II WAS a living creature;
but it could be taught 10 converse reason
ably. How much more may II be supposed
that a machine >cnSCd by the mind Of man.
and constructed 10y his hands, should DO as
much? And it would have the advantage
that it might be less garrulous than the par
rot Of NcycrS or the head Of AlbcrtuS, and
therefore need not irritatc its aCqHalntancCS
and provoke them 10 smash il.
Who shall say that Dumas, when he wrote
" ! ne Brgdlu III INC cary nan oI 'iIC I'St
century, did not forcscc the automobile ana
the dirigiblc balloon;
Here is how they appeared TO him and
how he used them to express profound emo
ton. "For those who are carried onward by
the hand Of Cod al the rules Of motion are
transposcd, and, when they have reached
their goal ii seems to them that they have
made the tourney not on foot, not ON horse
back, not in a carriage. bu, in some fantastic
machine, rolling through cities, villages, and
fields ike a locomotive, emitting smoke and
flame, or in balloon. sailing 50 rapidly
through the air that plains, Villages, and
cities vanish like mere spcckS lost in space
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imagine that he's crazy about listening to
funny stories and insist on telling him all the
stories they've ever hCard-whcthcr funny
or only near funny.
One would think that man who goes
about picking up new stories all the while
would be continually pulling out u notebook
or an envelop and jotting something down.
Chauncey Dcpcw makes use of a little red
notebook for engagements and such things;
but he says he never vet made a note of
story. He doesn't save up good stories for
his next after dinner speech. Get ChaunCcy
Depew to speak at a banquet and the
chances are that the stories he tells will be
based on things he has seen or heard within
a few days at most a week. If his stories
were all collected together they would fill
eight or nine volumes, SO he figures; but he
has forgotten thousands of his best ones, and
is reminded of them only when he hears
somebody else tell them.
Mr.. DEPEW was asked recently what he
A'A considered the best story he ever told.
"The best one, Judged by It's popularity,
he replied, "was the custard pie story. 1t
has been printed and reprinted al over the
country, and has been told, ] have found,
almost wherever English is spoken.
The Custard pie story was invented by
Mr. Depcw somewhere around 1890, when
they were trying to decide whether to hold
the Columbian Exposition at Chicago or
New York. He thought it up, without any
basis at all, to illustrate the attitude of New
York toward Chicago when the latter town
was claiming pretty much everything in the
way of urban grandeur and importance.
Everybody will remember the story. 1t was
the one about the waiter in the moderate
priced, American plan hotel, who told the
guest they had apple pie, peach pie, mincc
pie, and cuStard pie. The guest said he
guessed he'd have some apple pic, some
mince pie, and some peach pie. Whcrcupon
the waiter inquired, "WhatS the matter
with our CuStard pc;
Then the inventor of the story told II TO an
English peer and the latter wanted to know,
"What was the matter with the CuStard pie?
That incident then became a regular part
Of the story as it went the rounds. Later on
Mr.. Depcw told the little yarn in Paris, and
still another EngliShman intcrrogatcd. WAS
there anything at al the matter with the
Custard pic?" And that inquiry was also
made an addcndum 10 the story.
No hostess, even vet, after these twenty
Years since the story WAS started. can serve
CuStard pie al a dinner party without grave
risk Of somebody Springing Dcpcw famous
pie dnccdotc or making reference to II.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25
Girls Flower Club.

Sweetwater, Texas, Jan. 3D.
United States Demonstration Agent
for Nolan county, R. E. Mann, has
organized Boys Corn Club, which
now has eighty-five members, and
has also organized a Girls Flower
Club, having membership of nine
ty odd.
Arrangements are being made for
a county fair this year, and it is the
plan of the Young Mems Business
League of this city to offer prizes TO
these clubs for the best displays
made at the fair. The Girls Flower
Club is~one of the first to be organ-
lied in the United States.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25
OUR INDUSTRIAL NEEDS.
$500. 100000 Wanted for Cotton
Mills-Needed Factories VIII
Cost Billion Dollars.

NtliIS--LNttt1tu
Cost Billion Dollars.
Texas is a great State. We do
not fully realize the immensely OF
our resources. No one has ever yet
announced a true conception of the
greatness Of Texas. The fact OF the
matter is, we try to measure Texas
with yardstick and the mind be-
comes confused in a maze OF cal
culations without gaining the faint
est conception of the States great
ness.
Our cotton crop (our money CROP
is practically consumed in produc-
ton and if the gross receipts Of our
cotton crop of the past decade were
available for investments, it would
not build and operate the factories
necessary to manufacture the raw
material now produced on the farm.
| An intelligent basis of calculation is
necessary in order to approximately
estimate our capital needed for fac
tory investment. The latest FEEDER
al Census report on manufacturing
gives the capital invested in cotton
mills in the United States at $685.
1901 and the factories used $780,
| b47,64S in raw material during the
year. From this record, we develop
the general rule that it requires two
| dollars of capital to manufacture one
dollars worth Of cotton and to build
the cotton mills necessary to man
ufacture the cotton we raise in Tex
is would require $500,000,00o. Then
there is our timber, our livestock and
other materials and Texas is only
one-ffth deleyeloped in agriculture,
to say nothing Of the raw material
produced in other states and coun-
tries, which pass through our ports
in search of the foreign factory, all
of which should be manufactured in
Texas, will require at least bill
lion dollars to build the factories
needed at the present time in this
State and then there are our minerals
sleeping undisturbed, to make no
of our railroad mileage, pub
lie highways, industrial enterprises
and new cities and improved farms
which will be necessary to our
growth. To develop Texas during
the present century will require an
immediate investment of ten billions
and when we have realized that this
is most conservative statement,
which every man who studies the sit
uation closely is bound to conclude,
then we are ready to stand at our
ports and look towards the sea and
map out comprehensive plan fol
the mastery of the worlds commerce
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25
CHEAP MONEY.

The Borrowed Dollar Patriotic--VoI-
ume of Texas Money too Small.
|. Cheap money is the fount that
makes the brook Of industry flow.
Under its nurturing influence, the
germs of civilization flourish and
bloom like the tree Of life and its
blessings fall upon the land like the
dew of prosperity. Withdraw it
from circulation and industry with
ers, civilization blights, prosperity
stagnates and poverty stalks over
the land.
The borrowed dollars vaults heav-
onward with its magnificent sky
scrapers, delves into the bowels Of
the earth in search Of hidden treas
ures, spans the prairies with bands
of steel, thrills the air with the
scream of factory whistles and
searches land and sea on its mis-
sion Of commercial adventure.
The borrowed dollar is the most
patriotic Of our circulating medium.
No declarations of war are made
without its approval; it fights our
battles, dictates treaties OF peace
and at its bidding nations have
sprung into life or sunk into obliv-
ion. 1t is the first to answer the
call "to arms" its voice is in the
roar of cannon; it fills the knapsack
of the soldier and it cares for the
widows and orphans and is one OF
the best friends Uncle Sam ever
had.
In times of peace, it performs
deeds of industrial heroism by res
cuing sinking enterprises and lifting
up fallen industries and no worthy
enterprises ever appeal to it in vain.
Cheap money means prosperity to
the people.
II, by inviting cheap money to
Texas, we can reduce the rate of
interest only one per cent, we have
net saving to the borrowing pub
lie Of s1o,ooo,ooo per annum and
cheap money will enable many gi-
gantic enterprises to spring into life
by making 1t possible to finance
them.
Equal rights of money is as i'm
portant to our growth and devel-
opment as equal rights of the indi-
vidaal, for money is power. We do
not increase the wealth of the State
by transferring money from one in
diyidual or corporation to another.
1t is in bringing money into the
State from the outside that our in
crease begins. The volume of Texas
money is too small; we must get
development money from the out
Sde.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25
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 cold coming on.
1t checks and cures coughs and
colds and Group and prevents bron-
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, 1912-01-25
FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COM
POUND "CURES IN EVERY CASE.

Mr.. Jas. MeCaffery, Mgr. of the
Schlitz Hotel, Omaha, Neb., recon-
mends Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound, because it cures i'm every
case. II have used it myself and I
have recommended it to many
others who have since told me Of
its great curative power in diseases
of the throat and lungs" For all
coughs and colds it is speedily eff
fective. For sale by Curlin's Two
Drug Stores: Curtin Drug Co.,
North side square, Curlin's Pharma-
cy, West side square, d&w
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25

In the court of criminal appeals
at Austin Wednesday the case of
VIII Murphy was reversed and re-
manded for new trial. Murphy
resides at Midlothian. He was re-
Gently convicted in the district court
here on charge of seduction ana
given two years in the penitentiary.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25
| WOULD BEHEAD TRUSTS
| DEALL SUGGESTS CURE
Texas Representative to Introduce
Bill Providing Capital Punish
ment for Members Of Cor
porations.

Austin Cunningham, the Wash
ington correspondent of the San An
tonic Express, sends his paper the
following;
There is one way, and one way
only, to punish corporation that
has violated the federal antitrust
statute, and that is to put out of OF
business absolutely, says Represen-
tative Jack Beall. Texas member OF
the Stanley committee which has
made history in Its inquiry into the
affairs of the United States Steel
Corporation Mr.. Beall has been one
of the leading examiners on this now
famous committee. Today he believ-
es in capital punishment for trusts.
Dissolution and disintegration
are Intellectual methods of coping
with the powerful industrial COM
bines that persist in throttling COM
petition and that create philanthrop
lists of the liberty giving, peace
promoting type, according to the
Texan. And to demonstrate his earn
estness in this regard Mr.. Beall to-
day asserted he shortly will intro
duce in the House bill--an indie
pendent measure, not proposed as
an amendment to the Sherman Law
which shall provide that when
ever an American business combine
is convicted in the Federal courts OF
having violated the antitrust stat
ute it shall follow, without more
ado, that receiver shall be appoint
ed to take over the business of the
concern and that he shall be in
structed to terminate once and for
all the existence of that organiza-
tion or any part of it as speedily as
possible, but with as little injury to
the individual stockholders as may
be-
To Introduce Measure.
Mr. Beall says he will introduce
such a measure within the next few
weeks and hopes to see 1t enacted in
to law during this session of con-
gress.
Frankly, I do not believe there
will be any changes made in the
Sherman law soon, despite the ac-
tivity to amend it and to make clear
the statute under the reasonable
and unreasonable Interpretation of
the Supreme Court in the Standard
Oil and Tobacco cases" said Mr..
Beau. Another twenty years might
follow before construction could
j be obtained from the Supreme Cour'
and we would again be in guam
dairy to know what does and wha
does not constitute a trust. I be
lieve the remedy I propose to pro-
vide in my bill will effectually COM
mand obedience under the law as it
stands"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25
Highest price for Cattle.

San Angelo, Texas, JAN 25.-The
high price for range cattle in this
section of Texas is advancing and
is this week higher than the pack
ers' quotations. Last week bunch
of cows wer sold to Itasca ranch
men, the price paid was $4,000 per
head, which is practically $500
above the range price of two months
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25

vcry severely with displacement II could not
lie on ny feet for a long time. My physician
.reatcd me for several months without much re-
lief. and at last sent me to Ann Arbor for an OPP
Grafton. | was Eicre four weeks and came home
auilceing wos e han before Ny mother advised
7y9und. and die. To-da.r / am well ard strong
: nd do all own house york. owe my health
to LYDIA T. einE hams Vegetable Compound and
advise cvc y worn n Who IS afflicted with any
female con- aint to try it. =" llrs. ORy-LLE Rock,
r. r. no. s, Paw Paw, llich.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25

ago. A few days age 4b-.,r.oo 81
$57 was paid Byrd & Mertz, per
head for steers. This is the highest
price ever known In the history OF
the state to be paid for ordinary
CRASHED cattle.
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. ANNOUNCEMENTS. =
. O . o = O = o = = o = = =
CITY ANNOUNCEMENT

All announcements made below
are subject to the action of the
White Mans Primary to be held
February 6, 1912.
For City Attorney
CLYDE WYNN
For City Assessor and Collector
CARROLL TODD
CHARLIE KENNEDY
For City Secretary
JOE EVANS
j. H. (JOAQUIN) RAY
JIM KELLEHER
DAN WILSON
w. r. (Billie) HUGHES
For City Marshal
JIM sHIPPEY
For Alderman of Ward e
T. o. CHEATHAM
For Alderman of Ward 8
R. D. McCOMBS
COUNTY ANNOUNCEMENTS
All announcements below are
made subject to the Democratic Pri-
mary to be held in July, 1912.
For Representative Place No. l.
DIR. TOM WHITE
For Representative, Place No. a
ROBERT L. SULLIVAN.
For County Attorney
TOM P. WHIPPLE
CHAS. A. PIPPEN
For Tax Collector
GEO. F. SMITH
C. w. BAILEY
Cor Commissioner Precinct No Al
MONROE J. DELK
LEE MOORE
or Constable Precinct No. l.
JIM HAMM
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25

When you need a plumber call
Bunkley, with F. S. Cronk Co. Both
phones a. tt
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H. & L. C.-West Bound.
Ne SO, west bound arrives 11:1s
a. m. Connects at Garrett
train from the north and
south from Corsicana.
No. 81 west bound arrives $40 p m
N. Connects at Garrett
with train from the north.
No. 85 leaves 81 III
No. SO leaves 6:46 p IN
East Bound.
No. 80 leaves 11:25 a. n. Connects
at Ennis for Houston.
No. Sc leaves 9:l1 p m
Ne. S8 leaves 500 a. m. Connects
with north and sou-hhound
No. "a Eastbound leaves 5:10 m
m. Connects with south
bound to Mexia and north
hound to Dallas.
Trinity 4 Brazos Valley Southbound
No. | leaves .... 1920 a. m
No. 3 leaves 1918 a. m
Northbound.
No. 2 leaves .. $40 p. NJ
No. leaves ..... 6:22 a. m.
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Licensed to Wed.

John Walter Helms and Mrs. Ed
ma Ellen Hileman.
Wiley Smith and Mrs. Callie
Snipes.
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Please Reed These Two Letters.

following Mrs. Orvle Rock Will prove now uIWse
It women dangers of surgical operation When
taking Lydia H. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound
She was four weeks hospital and home suffering
Chen after all that suffering Lyd T. Ink
hams Vegetable Compound restored her health
Hrt.s s11 IS 51IlTs OWN STATEMENT.
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Rockport There worse case OF wonens ills
than tell what suffered For
two years able anything was il bed for month
doctor nothing but operation would cure My
father suggested Lydia D. Pdham Vegetable Conund 50 to
nlease improved wonderfully, so am able to
travel ride horseback Ia ze long rides feel any i'll effects
from It. can only srerng give Lydia Pink
trial before sub hitting operation"
Mrs MARGARET MEREDITH r. F. D. No 3, Rockrort Ind
We will pay reward who will to
ami ruto that either OF these
women paid in for their testimonials that te org
did entirely unsolicited
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE.


NJ, X. & T.--NOrth Bound.
No. 6 Flyer leaves .7;16 q On
No. 16 Express leaves 1856 p m
No. 2 Express leaves S:36 m
No. 10 (Limited) leaves 6;36 m
No. s leaves ........ GAS IN
South Bound.
Ne. 3 Express leaves ....9:45 a m
No. / Express leaves ..7:46 p m
No. (Flyer) leaves ..9:29 p m
No. 9 (Limitad) leaves 1926 a m
No. Z leaves .......... 1855 p m
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25

For 80 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy FORTE
male ills. No one sick with wOman's ailments
does Justice to herself who VIII not try this IA
nous medicine, made rom roots and herbs 1t
has restored many suffering women TO health.
es~mx~,write to LYDIA e. III y5EIIAM MEDIC1NECO.
Et2&&' CONFIDENTIAL IYfN, MASS. TOT advice.
Vour letter will be opened, READ emu answered
by q woman and held in stlfct Confluence
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-25

s.TIITsIeT1 NrIVEyS WIS WORSE CASE.''