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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-10-30
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The Baraca class Of the Metho~
dist church will have a social meet
ing at the church Friday evening,
November S. H. n. Peters is chair
man OF the arrangements commit
tee.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-10-30

VIM. a. Allen, Chaeon, \. Mex,
writes: My wife had cough
that nearly chokcd her to death
the worst / ever saw. we uied
everything we could think of but
did her no good. by good luck
happened to get a bottle OF
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
and it helped her at once 1t Is
the best cough medicine ever
heard of"
Curlir's Two Drug Stores, north
and west side square. Ads. az"
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Bird Forrest Il
BUCKETS Want I'VE aud ten
pound swamp bucket Must b."
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cents pr dozen j. b. Hines 80
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
FATHER WAS TYEREy

Fro mthe St. Louis Times.
 Jacob Niederhauser. aged S2, of Pon- tiac Ill.. is a resourceful man. Also, he is a man who knows how to perform a duty, when the matter is brought square ly before him.
 He had a housekeeper with whom he was well pleased. Also he had a son. a stripling of 49.
 The son sought the hand of the house. keeper, and was in a fair way of making a success of his enterprise. when Jacob Niederhauser saw how the land lay and realized that he was about to lose his housekeeper. Whereupon he proposed that he, instead of his son, be the bride groom; and by the proper method of giv- ing the woman in the case one half of all the crops he is to raise this year. he de- feated the purposes of his son.
 It is seldom that a story of such per lection can be related of real people. There must be hearty congratulations for the resourceful old man who has retained his housekeeper. and for the woman who won something more than the modest wage of a subordinate. and for the son who now will have a mother and a father. too. and who would have had neither, perhaps, if his original plans had worked out successfully.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The bees of Hybla were buzzing merrily about the palace on Olympus, threatening at times the lips of Venus and of Hebe, and the zephyrs froliclxed across the tes- selated floors.
 Jupiter yawned heavily and the doves of the love goddess flew away affrighted. What's doing among the earthworms?' he lazily demanded of Ganymede. The boy put down his golden cups and stared across the sunny fields.
 "They seem to be holding one of their festivals" he presently replied. T see long lines of young men in black gowns and fiat head coverings marching in and out of great stone buildings. Yes. and there are maidens in white. bearing flow CTS. And now hear the murmur of voices and the cadence of song'
 Jupiter yawned again.
 Some silly rite, I suppose. Listen a moment, boy, and mayhap you can catch a fragment of what they say"
 There was a brief silence.
 One of the young men has risen and is lowing. An, now I can near what he says. He is telling the people how The Absurd Olympian God-Myth Retard- ed the Dawn of a Higher Civilization
 What's that?" cried Jupiter, and he arose so suddenly that the Dryad fan wavers drew back in terror. "Whos he calling absurdl Here. push the thunder bolts this way. Gimme one with a short fuse"
 The master of Olympus seized the metal tube and flung it downward, and Vulcan struck the thunder plate crashing blow. Again and yet again the thunder crashed and the sky hung black across the Thes- salian plains.
 Ganymede roared with laughter.
 "The earthworms are running wildly" he cried. "The young men have scat tered, and the whiterobed maldens are soaked"
 Jupiter settled back in his cushions.
 "I'll teach 'em to let the god-myth se- yerely alone" he muttered.
 And presently the sun shone again and the bees of Hybla buzzed merrily.
 w. R. ROSE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
YOUTH- AND AGE
n the New York sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Our contemporary and neighbor, the World. suddenly converted the other day to realizing sense of the charms of the Hon. Woodrow Wilson, makes these among some other curious remarks about the Hon. Oscar W. Underwood;
 While Mr. Underwood has impressed his fellow citizens favorably, it is to be re- membered that he is young, and that his conspicuous public service has been short Time and opportunity will do much for him.
 MT. Underwood is a child of 50 odd. He was born in Kentucky on May 6, 1862. The venerable Mir Wilson was born in two or three southern states on December 2s. 1Si6.
 Young Mr. Underwood has been a repre- sentative in Congress since 1895.
 The public life of the experienced and ancient Wilson began in 1910, under the angelic influences of the Hon. James Smith, Jr., and other reactlonaries and tools of the interests. His first and pos- sibly his last term of public service began on January r, 1911. His political career has been short but time and opportunity to change his lifelong convictions have not been wanting to him.
 Does the Worlds present interest in him arise from it's infatuation for ''democratic suicide" or merely from it's fondness for the Hon. William Randolph Hearst?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
Restaurants in Many Cities

It is not exactly the Standard Oil company of New Jersey that is es- tablishing a chain of restaurants in the cities of the country, buying sites and erecting buildings in the course of it, but it is Standard Oil men who are doing this as an excellent means of investment.
 The new restaurant company buys land or buildings in city to suit it's purposes. It does not rent in any case. The independent restaurant keepers begin to see, however, trust concealed in the new rival.
 A nationwide chain of cheap res- taurants is to be established, all con trolled by the Standard Oil men who have organized the restaurant cor poration. A trust that brings to a town cheap eating house cannot be called a harmful trust, especially if it keeps within the terms of the pure food and drugs act, and many cities will watch with interest the new res taurant combination
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
sEAsIcKNEss NOW RARE

Harriett Quimby in Leslies.
 Only a few years ago it was a common
 sight to see passengers lying deathly
 pale in steamer chairs. refusing every
 thing in the food line offered by solicit
 ous stewards Many did not appear in
 the open air at all being unable to leave
 their cabins. Now, on any of the larger
 steamers, the passengers snap their
 fingers at the waves. They are as much
 at home as they are In hotel on land. The difference between ocean travel 30 years ago and now was entertainingly
 set forth in a chat with G. Scholz, chief steward of the Hamburg American steam CT Amerika. MT. Sholz has had charge
 of the commissary department on ocean going steamers for over 30 years. MT Scholz said that in the old days
 20 per cent of the passengers were seasiclS
 and not 10 per cent went to their meais regularly. On the Amerilla, during my
 recent return voyage from Europe. I noticed that at least 90 per cent of the messengers were at the table at every
 meal.
 | Thirty years ago, MT. Sholz said, the company endeavored to give passengers
 the very best. but the fresh meats, eggs fish and poultry We're not as well pre- served as a fastdious diner would wish At that time these were all packed on ice, and if the ice gave out the food suf-
 fered. Now no such difficulty is possible Under the modern system of refrigera-
 ton. everything is in as perfect conditoin as in the best hotels
 In the olden days. if the steamer was detained or delayed on it's voyage, it was sometimes necessary to reduce the number of dishes served; but now such a con- tingency is out of the question. The same elaborate menu for breakfast, luncheon or dinner is served at the end of the trip
 as at the beginning. In fact, the cap tains dinner, which is usually given the cay before the passengers land, is the greatest gustatory event of the trip
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
Ignorance is the curse of God.
 -2 King Henry VI.
Women Delegates at Chicago

California sends to the Chicago con- vention Mrs. Isabella W. Blaney, dele ate at large, and Mrs. Florence C.. Porter, a district delegate from San Francisco.
 These delegates will demand that a plank favoring equal suffrage be in- cluded in the republican platform, and Miss Jane Addams has been selected to argue for the plank before the platform committee. Mrs. Blaney will carry the fight, it is said, to the floor of the convention.
 There is no little at stake, for in six states about one million women will vote in the November election, and no party can afford to disregard the women of the land, however dis tasteful woman suffrage may be.
 The shouting and confusion of na- tional conventions may not be agree able to the women delegates, but it is plain they will pay small attention to such incidents. They are seeking the ballot for all, and the tumult will not change their convictions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

trust is believed to be at the bottom of Nicaragua's troubles.
 If American interests are plotting policy of territorial expansion, the country should know what is behind the scenes. Senator Nelson is not a man who speaks without information. He expresses his convictions, and these convictions are based on ascer- tained facts.
 As to Cuba the cause of the move ment among negroes in Oriente pro- vince has never been satisfactorily ex- plained. It is said to be mysteriously connected with a law which forbids racial parties, but no one seems to know what the situation is-or what the rebels in the rebellious province complain of. The mystery of the up- rising may relate to large interests that desire annexation. At any rate the administration should be held to strict accountability if it attempts to an annexation issue fos- tered by big interests for selfish pur- poses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
Rising XnIucs

There has been a good deal of activity in the real estate business recently, as every one here knows, and it is safe to say that we will have a healthy boom in realty the last half of the present year." said A. l.. Fulenwider. While values are perhaps high enough for the present in some parts of the business district the level of prices in Birmingham is nothing like so high as it is in other cities of ap- proxmately Birminghams size. There is certainly a good margin for a healthy advance, and this advance is sure to come in the very near future
 Business generally is ready to boom, and just as soon as the national conven- tions are out of the way we will see bet ter times hereabouts than ever before. There never was as much building, cer- tainly never as much large construction work under way, as there Is right now.
 Birmingham is growing fast and it's rate of increase will be greater from this time on."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
As to RoosereIt,s strens,h

There seems to be a chance for Roose- welt to get the republican nomination next week, and from my democratic point of view I hope it will turn out that way" said we'll known citizen of considerable experience in politics. ''If Roosevelt is nominated the democrats will be almost sure to nominate Underwood. MT. Under woods chance is excellent, as 1t is, but the Alabamian is positively the only dem ocratic statesman who could be counted on to beat Roosevelt at the polls
 "I was in New York recently, and I talked with eastern men who have visited Birmingham. It Is a very pronounced opinion among business men that as be- tween Roosevelt and Underwood, the lat ter would receive large republican vote as a protest against third termer to say nothing of other objections to the ex- President.
 Roosevelt may be popular, but the Re- publican Anti-third Term league recently organized in St. Louis will be in evidence in every large town in the United States should Roosevelt be the republican can didate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
Cuba and Mexico

Senator Nelson of Minnesota, re- publican, charges that the American owners of sugar plantations in Cuba and the mine promoters and owners in Mexico are striving to bring about in- tervention and annexation. These in terests are powerful in the inner financial circles of the republican party and have the ear of the admin istration. Senator Nelson openly says that he is impressed with the idea that the disturbances in Cuba and Mexico are inspired and financed in this country" The asphalt trust is known to have financed . revola- tion in Venezuela. and the banana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
schnoIs nnd Colleges

'While those of us who are particu- larly interested in educational work are glad to see the institutions of higher learning prospering. everyone should try to hasten the day when the rural dis tricts will be supplied with adequate school facilities said an educator.
 q read in one of the papers recently an article by Mir. Abercrombie, ex-pres- ident of the University of Alabama, in which he told of a white school In q prosperous agricultural section being closed for several months because of lack of funds I gathered from the same ar ticle that there were more colored teach CTS in Alabama than white teachers, and that negro children were being better educated in some seccons of the state than white children.
 s.The legislature should submit to the people an amendment to the consttn- tion allowing school districts to tax themselves for school purposes Such a measure came very near passing in the last session of the legislature, l hope there will be no question about its pas sage in the next legislature.
 ''As to the universities and colleges they are much more prosperous than was the case a few years ago. The tni-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ENGLISH

From the New York World
 Thomas Hardy notes an appalling increase of slpshod writing in the British press and ascribes it to "the increasing influx of American journals fearfully and wonderfully worded"
 The fault exists, as the most cursory examination of English newspapers will show, but to attribute it to American journalistic influences Is as absurd as to aliege that the equally bad writing in current British fiction is due to the example and inspiration of American novels. American newspapers, gener- ally speaking, are better written than British newspapers. They are almost uniformly free from grave faults of style, and considering the haste with which the articles are prepared they are models of clear and precise writ ing
 But the quality of American news paper English which most sharply dis tinguishes 1t is its tendency toward simplicity and away from "journalese." Fine writing" has been almost wholly abandoned. With the American re- porter things do not "commence,' as they did with George Ellots aue- tioneer and still do with many British reporters, and in American newspa- pers edifces are no longer erected movements inaugurated and collations partaken of to anywhere near the ex- tent they are in England.
 The wonder Is that in the circum- stances American newspaper English should be as good as 1t is. Professor Lounsbury has testified to its excel- lence and British writers for the press might do worse than copy it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
Re..rding Extra Sessions

q was glad to read the positive state ment that Governor oNeal would not call an extra session or the legislature until after the November election; that he would put it off as long after that as possible,' said member of the Cham Der of Commerce. "The quadrennial ses- sions are too far apart. perhaps. but 1t Is a great relief to business men when we are assured of a whole year passing 2 without session of the Legislature.
 Turmoil in state politics is certainly disqueting to business. All the southern states have too much politics. l believe Alabama and Georgia have more cam paigns than any of the other states. When the constitution is amended so as to provide for biennial sessions, the ex- tra session will probably be very rare
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Not Related to Jefferson Davis

Tn a telegraphic Item dated at Col orado Springs, Col. which I read re- gently 1t twas stated that Rebecca K Davis, wife of Henry B. Davis. Jr,, a grandson of Jefferson Davis, had brought suit for divorce on the ground of non-support," said a high official of the Florida division of the United Daughters of the confederaey. That statement was erroneous. or rather mis- leading. The average reader would take it to mean that grandson of MT. Da- wis, who was the President of the Con- federate states, had failed to support his wife
 The late President Davis had but one grandson bearing the name of Da- vis-Jefferson Davis III-and he is happily married; was married about IS months ago"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
A GENEROUS MILLIONAIRE

From Leslie's.
 Generousl New York has many gen. erous millionaires. Monuments to their generosity can be found all over the city. They appear in the shape of hospitals, libraries and schools. It is seldom, however, that citizen who has paid to the city couple of mill lion dollars for piece of property of fers to give 1t back in such away as to give the community all the benefit. Henry c. Prick, one of the most mod est but ablest of our captains of in- dustry, bought the Lenox Library building as the site for city resi- dence. He has offered to have the slightly structure carefully taken down and re-erected in Central park, in place of an old and discredited building called the Arsenal. Ii is not surprising that this offer has been received with great satisfaction and delight by the hundreds of thousands who enjoy the pleasures of New Yorks most beauti- full and expansive, recreation ground. Mir. Tricks thoughtfulness, as we'll as his generosity, deserves the highest commendation and the promptest recognition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
TIME

By Sir Walter Scott. Why sittst thou by that ruined hall, Thou aged earle so stern and gray? Dost thou it's former pride recall, Or ponder how it passed away" "Know'st thou not me?" the Deep Voice
 cried;
 .'So long enjoyed. so oft mlsused- Alternate. in thy fickle pride. Desired, neglected, and accused Before my breath, like blazing flax. Man and his marvels pass away. And changing empires wane and wax, Are founded, flourish, and decay. Redeem mine hours-the space So
 brief
 While in my glass the sand grains
 shiver, And measureless thy joy or grief. When Time and thouSshalt part for
 ever,''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
Business in a Political Year

Never has politics ragged as it has this year in Congress, in primaries, and in conventions big and little, and yet trade is optimistic and active. The factories are crowded with orders and general business as measured by the railroads and by bank clearings is far above the big total of last year. Prices have steadily risen in the stock exchanges, and they are higher than they were when the year came in and the period of politics was duly inaugurated.
 The truth is panics do not as a rule come in presidential years. No President was elected in 1887, 1857, 1873, 1893, or 1907. The impression that presidential elections render gen eral business dull is not borne out by recorded facts.
 No year in the history of the coun-
 
 try has been fuller of political dis cussion and tactics than the present one, and yet it has had no baneful ef- feet on general business. Stock prices are sensitive to general movements, and yet today Wall street is hopeful and prices are firm or advancing. The steel mills are busy and steel has come to be regarded as barometer of business. The indications are that new records in general business will be recorded at the end of the calendar year, and that the November election will prove beneficial rather than hurt ft,l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
A DREAM THAT CAME TRITE.

A DREAM THAT CAME TRUE.
 Some years ago we remember reading in a magazine quaint little story that re- Prince Charming. Although the heroine of the story was sweet-tempered and not at all bad looking, she had gotten fairly well advanced along the road of life with out ever having love affair This was all the more distressing to her, because she had romantic nature and would often think while making wonderful pies. what pleasure it would be to see them deVoured by an affectionate, pie-loving husband. One day a circus came to town. The mature spinster reached the circus grounds so late that she decided to con tent herself with visit to the side show
 When she entered the tent she was at- tracted to cage containing ..ferocious wild man" This unfortunate person seized upon a piece of raw meat and pre- tended to gnaw it with great relish. Struck with pity, the spinster took some cake, which was all that was left of her lunch, and quite oblivious of the danger she ran in coming so near the monster" she thrust the cake through the bars of the cage and told the wild man. to eat 1t. Now, the wild man" was only a fake wild man, of course, and his heart was moved by this act of kindness. He felt a desire to rehabilitate himself and quit the vagabond life which had brought him to his present degraded condition The spinster left the tent, but as soon as the wild man" could get out of his cage he followed her-followed her on her long and tiresome walk home, and he still had on his makeup. The spinster had hardly reached her cottage before her strange visitor also appeared on the scene, re- vealed his identity, and told her he was going away to make man of himself. He left and the. spinster just waited She felt, somehow. that he would come back, and he did-came back decent. self re- specting fellow with love in his heart. Thus we see how it is possible to make a Prince Charming out of the most un- promising material. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13
No Provision for Commerce Cour

No Provision for Commerce Court
 The legislative, executive and judi cial appropriation bill has been sent to the President, and it contains no provision for the continuance of the commerce court of the United States. .Ia the President sings the bill as it stands it means that his pet court, like his tariff board, is to be abol- ished.
 The vote in the Senate on the com merce court feature was 36 to 23. The democrats and progressive republicans voted against an appropriation for maintaining the court, while the standpatters voted in favor of it's continuance.
 This result is all the more surpris- ing because it was made after the supreme court had decided that the commerce court could not pass upon the facts in given case. It can consider questions of law only, it's powers being those of the circuit courts in reviewing the orders of the interstate commission.
 Congress, however, has decided that the commerce court should be abol- ished altogether, and it is in posi- ton to exclaim, "If so soon now l am done for, I wonder what I was begun for"