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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30
IfoI,Rl1STp\.

Forreston, March 23.-ReV. Cul-
we'll filled his regular appointment
here sunday.
We have had some real cold
weather for the past few days and
stopped corn planting
Mrs. Stanley Matthews was shop
ming in Waxahachie Monday.
Mrs. VIII Hancock was VisiiinS
her sister. Mrs. Charlie Hampton,
Monday
Four prominent doctors OF WaXS-
hachie gave Il musical program al
the high school auditorium Nednes-
day night. Also short talks In be
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30
The Deaf Hear.

ca. long OF the Central insji-
tute. Rio de Janciro, Hra@iL writes
that about 80 per cent OF the deat
and dumb of the city attend the
different activities OF the deaf and
dumb department, OF which DR..
Joao Brazil Snyado is the yolun-
tary director. This department has
ffftv-lhree enrolled and an average
attendance OF about twenty in class
cs which meet four times a week,
4 firth night is devoted TO reerea-
fion. On Sunday afternoons they
gather for their Bible lesson IN
which they have taken great inter
est. Many have made hasty re
views of the Old Testament in order
To gat acquainted with the general
.s.ope of the Bible, and have now
entered the work of the New Iesta-
ment, with which they are eSpe-
c;aIIv delighted. The character OF
Iesns. Christ has stamped ltseii
wonderfully on their hearts ana
minds,
Or. Silyado. III his report to 'he
ouarterlv "Workers Meeting, sald
.'rhe Nazarene. full of love, mas
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30
SACRIFICE Of
TIL: JAPANESE
fHF EigE CHRISTIANS" Gin r
II S4,.{l~ 10 ril MORE To
TIE KtH.
CARING; FOR SICK
mcfy Thousand Patient, Have
Been Treated in One Christian
Hospital in Ncsico--8hat
One : !iuIch Does.



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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30
IItt, on STNu X. .

Lice injuries calves, hogs, horses
and cattle. one or two applications
Of Ross Dead Quick" Spray will
positively rid stock of lice. 1t kills
the nits and eggs of lice and in
sects once tried, you will never
be without it Sold in Na&ahaehie
by Curlin's TWO Drug stores. adv,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

A police superintendent in india
has recently asked that some OF the
christian young men be trained for
nolicemen. As most of the christians
belong 10 the low caste. this shows
the impression made ON the mlnds
Of the outsiders by the characters II
the christians.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

On cold morning when the
mines are frozen and the furnace
won't draw. the tired business man
i. ant to turn anarchist, and it is
well he has no bombs handy.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

Drama has become a matter Of
fern, and some very comeiy forms
al that.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

Mercy and Evangelism.
- me basis of twenty three
Us study of conditions and needs
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

The Year Book OF India is 2a-
tfority for the statement that there
are more Protestant mission educa-
,ional institutions OF India.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

cent census. who ayowed themselves
atheists.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

The christian community in In
dia is relatively insisniicant-~less
than one and d quarter per cent Of
the Whole population.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

The daily ringing OF bell for
PRAYERS at mission station III III
dfa resulted in the conversion OF q
Hindu. Through inqnirins the
meaning OF it, he found out some-
thing about the foreign christian
religion and later came to the mis-
sionary and was taught to read the
Bible for himself.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

India, with its population of 49,
1887 souls, is the biggest jewel
In the British crown. India Is pre-
eminently land OF faiths. Out Of
the population of more than 3le,-
600 900 souls, only seventeen per
sons were found, according to re-
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

The Chinese government reports
more than 10000 schools under It's
control, and has primary and inter
mediate grades in every province
with total enrolment OF l,ooo,o1o
students. The mission schools are
said to be far ahead in quality OF
teaching. and seventy-fve per cent
al the textbooks used in the govern
mept schools were prepared ny
christians or under christian super
vision
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-30

II is stated that nine-tenths OF
the two hundred foreign students al
Columbia University received theti
first intellectual impulse at mis-
sion school.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

and went to fight in the Venezuelan
revolution. When a revolution was
threatened in Cuba he turned there,
and in the course of three years
fought ~forty-three duels with saber,
pistol and yataghan. His father sue
ceeded in shipping him off to France.
where he enlisted in the Spahis. He
had astonishing strength and was ca
pable, 1t is said, even of carrying his
own tired horse on his back after
being carried about by it all day"
After leaving the army, Laber-
desque founded a club In Paris which
he called. Les Mousquetaires." All
the members were accomplished
swordsmen, and they made 1t their
business to maintain a censorship of
Partisan society. When the Mousque.
at all they sent him a challenge, and
he had either to leave Paris or take
q chance of being run through the
body. To keep in practise the men,
bers Of the club used notched swords
swords with the points bare, but a
notch of wood an inch below, so that
though n might wound an oppo-
nent, he could not make a wound
more than an inch deep.
Among his friends L~aberdesque was
noted not only for his bravery, but for
his lavish generosity. What belonged
to him belonged to his friends. And
how he loved to gather a little knot
Of listeners around him and with
magnificent gesture, rolling voice and
flashing eye recount his adventures to
them! There was a naive, childlike
vanity about the man that quite dis.
armed his hearers and made his Drag
gadocio the most delightful extrava-
ganZa.
He was just past 40 when he died,
but he had certainly succeeded in
examining a world Of living into those
40 years. One of his last duels was
with M. Messimy, against whom he
ran for a seat in the French chamber
of deputies. Messimy boxed Laber-
desQue's ears in a public meeting and.
Of course, nothing but blood could
wipe out an insult like that. They
met and M. Messimy was disarmed
by the famous thrust to the arm, not
much more painful or dangerous than
a barb wire cut. Honor was avenged.
Laberdesque leaves a widow, who
was the Marquise del Flores, a beauty
Of Cuban and Spanish descent. She
was a kinswoman of the Spanish am.
bassador to France.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
KING OF DUELISTS NO MORE
Death Removes Etlenne Laberdesque,
a Picturesque Figure Of French
Capital.

M. Etienne Laberdesque is dead and
the ~boulevards of Paris are poorer by
reason of his passing, remarks the
Kansas City Star. For Laberdesque
was the most picturesque of modern
swash-bucklers, and he might well
have strutted in the muddy streets
of Paris what time M. Francois Villon
and his friends made those streets
unsafe after nightfall.
A sort Of Twentieth Century
D'Artagnan, this L~aberdesque bristling
for duels with whoever failed to
please his fancy. He should un-
doubtedly have worn doublet and
feathered cap, and a sword might very
fttingly have been a part of his every
day costume. AS 1t was he knew how
to use a sword as well as any man
in Paris, and he kept his skill from
growing rusty.
Consider, If you will, how he fought
five duels with five friends of M. Max
Regis, mayor of Algiers, and when
the FIVE had been conquered, fought a
two days duel with the mayor him
self. Name Of a name! This was a
nan out of the heart of
OF course, those duels were not too
bloody; but on the second day the
mayor was pricked upon the arm a
smart touch, and the blood spurted
beautifully, and the seconds rushed in,
and fell to disagreeing and chal-
longing one another, and the specta-
tors took sides and shouted epithets
and d~efiances at one another; ay.
twas a most vociferous affair!
And M. Regis. dragged away by his
friends, b~randished his %unpricked fist
and shouted:
Il fought you to show l was not
afraid of your sword. You are, never
theless, an assassin"
Whereupon Laberdesque' challenged
him to another duel.
Though his clothes were the pro-
sale garb of modernity," says the Lon
don Globe, speaking of Laberdesque,
his spirit belonged to the days of
cloak and rufle, when men drew
swords on a quarrel and spitted their
~OPpOhCutS uSlIIy. no WIS LILO uSlO
Of more than a hundred duels. Tall
and broad, with a brown face, he
staggered along the boulevards a few
years ago, ready to pick a quarrel
with any one whose presence was OBJ
noxious to him and ask for satisfac-
ton at the point OF the sword. His
manner was grandiloquent and author
itative.
When he lifted his SLOUGH hat
with a medieval flourish. YOU could
almost see a cloak and sword behind
his lounge suit. He rolled his name
grandly as he delivered his challenge
to those who were luckless enough to
merit his anger. Laber-r-desque,' he
would say.
"~Laberdesque was born in Cuba OF
a Spanish mother. He quarreled
with his family at the g of eighteen
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
HOW TO BEAUTlFY THE HOME
Careful Selection Of Vines and Shrubs
viii Make Ordinary House
Attractive.

In making a garden of the home
grounds, the planting around the
house itself should receive the first at
tention. A careful selection of vines
and shrubs will make an ordinary
house attractive, and a beautiful one
ever more charming. Study your own
house and it's architectural defects.
Luxuriant masses of vines will break
up the spaces of a wall that seems
blank and forbidding, and will con-
ceal any crude carpentry that the
veranda may display. Large shrubs
banked against a house that stands
too high above the ground will give
1t the effect of fitting more closely
into Its surroundings, while the ap-
parent breadth of a house that is too
narrow can be increased materially
by a deep planting of %shrubbery at
the sides.
Even If a house is Of good proper
tons, the harsh lines of its foundation
must be concealed, and any irregular
tiles in its outline, such as the an
giles formed by steps or extending
wings, filled In with shrubbery. Flow
ers are not good for this purpose;
they do not make masses that are
rich enough to frame a building, More
over, they are on duty for less than
half the year.
Choose shrubbery of varying height
to avoid monotony. Pearl bush, Tar
tartan honeysuckle, American haw-
thorn. lilac and syringa are excel
lent tall shrubs that will succeed un-
der most conditions. Rugosa roses,
Spirea, Van Houtei, the dropping
golden bell. Japanese barberry, and
the deutzias are useful in front of
other shrubs to make a good transition
to the grass.
Drape the veranda with vines, not
only for their beauty, but for the pri-
vacy they will give. Virginia creeper,
a variety of climbing roses, and
masses of feathery, white Powered Gle.
mats that blooms in the fall, clematis
~paniculata, will make the yeranda de-
lightful for six months every year.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
Home Town|
Y Helps Y
BERLIN A sMoKELEss TOWN
Police Regulations the Principal
Cause for Clear Atmosphere In
German Capital.

Visitors who go to Berlin to make
Industrial Investigations, being usually
aware of the fact that the Kaiser's
capital is n of the largest manu-
featuring cities in the world, are
amazed that the air is SO free from
smoke, and set about to find the cause.
They usually go about 1t In the wrong
way, and come to the conclusion that
It Is all a matter of coincidence.
There are many reasons why Ber-
lin Is smokeless, and these reasons
range all the way from police regula-
tons to the economy of the inhabi-
tants in the use of fuel. There is ac-
tually no law against smoke, but
Clause q, Part 2, Paragraph 10, says:
The necessary measures for the
preservation of the public peace,
safety, and health, and the averting,
preventing, and removing whatever
may be detrimental to the general
public or to the individual members
thereof belong to the function and
duty Of the police.
That is quite sufficient, and yet the
reasons why the police rarely have
to enforce this clause in regard to
smoke are TO be found elsewhere. In
the first place most of the big fac
tories we're placed, for that very rea
son, On the eastern edge of the city,
and the prevailing wind blows from
the west, so that it is only one day
out of five or six that the smoke is
blown across the city. Second there
is the fuel used. This is Ignite or
brown COAL" AS a mineral it is not
SO "old" as American coal, is much
lighter in weight and is almost en-
tirely consumed on combustion. For
use 1t is usually compressed in the
form of %briquettes, which burn stead
lily with almost no smoke.
One of the most important factors
in making Berlin smokeless, however,
Is economical. Locomotive iremen
and the stokers in factories receive
premiums for the coal they save.
They are ordered from day to day or
from week to week to keep up a GER
tain standard of heat, using a fixed
quantity of coal; if they manage to
keep up the standard with less fuel
they are allowed a certain percentage
of the value of the fuel saved. This
is one reason why Berlin stokers are
so eagerly sought for by the trans
Atlantic liners to ENC their furnaces.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

ing week, and l find myself wishing
they were all from you
Il wish SO, too" was my unexpected
response.
He looked at me keenly. "Have
you missed me?" he questioned
abruptly.
yes"
He had risen to his feet, as had 1.
He stood in front of me looking me
straight in the eyes.
will you be my wife?" he asked,
without further preamble.
was no longer a young girl to
start and blush. l was simply a su-
perfluous woman, and a lonely one. l
answered his question with another:
do you love me?"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

through the liquid. but an imitation
stone loses all its briillancy under wa
ter. II you look through a diamond
at a black dot on a piece of white pa
per you will see one black speck quite
clearly. If the dot is blurred or null
tiplied the stone is probably O gen.
uine.
Place one drop of water upon the
face Of a diamond. touch it with a
point Of a pencil-the drop will keep
its globule form and the stone remain
dry. If the brilliant is an imitation
the water at once spreads out
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

saw opening before me a door into
a brighter world, into a lighted place
away from the black desolation, the
monotonous dreariness, the fear of
loneliness and of a long, solitary life.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has said
Fear is the multiple of suffering"
l had proved the truth of this. In
the open doorway 1 saw standing a
man whom liked, who was c%ongenial,
who would care for me, and who
would let me care for him. And 1 put
my hand in his and turned to the
lighted door.
Do I regret it? No.
Am happy? Does any human be-
ing have in this world more than
n period of complete happiness?
Copyright, by Moffat, Yard &c Coz {
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

striking a bargain. The facets on a
real diamond are rarely 80 regular as
those of really good limitations. With
the latter the greatest care has to be
taken in grinding and polishing, SO
that there shall be no regularity in
the reflections Of the light.
A file cannot scratch a real diamond,
but quickly Injuries an imitation. A
sapphire is the next hardest stone TO
a diamond and is an even better test
than the file.
Thrust a diamond ring into a bowl
Of water and the stones VIII glitter
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

been shown he cried out excttedly:
Here's another of them like we've
had beforel"
The earnest young woman turned
with surprise. Why, did you really
recognize it?" she questioned.
"Yep--yer en- spot ZEN every time"
was the prompt response.
Can you. truly?' she Queried.
touched and pleased.
"Surest thing you knowi" the small
critic replied.
The art missionary thought a mo
ment, then said softly to him. "Yes,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

He took my hands in both Of his.
Il hardly know" he said slowly, what
is meant by love, / care more for you
than for any other woman; ] admire
you; / find you are the best compan-
io~ and comrade In the world. l miss
you and long for you when ] am not
with you. am proud to be the friend
of a m with you mind, your
courage, your tact. And I am not a
foolish boy, but a man of forty. You
have known n perfect love, SO l do
not ask you IL you love me, but l be-
lieve you are fond of me. l hope l may
make your life happy, WIN you mar
ry me?"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

would come back to me, worse than
ever, If that were possiblel
Several days passed before / saw
him again. One Sunday evening he
called as usual, 1t was good to hear
his pleasant voice, to feel his cordial
hand clasp. to talk of the things that
interested us both.
Perhaps he and l we're thinking the
same thoughts. ~forsuddenly he sighed
DO you know" he said, that
have missed you miserably this week?
And yet have EEL o twice"
l made no reply. His face and tone
were serious as he added; Il have
accepted three invitations for the com.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
HOW HE RECOGNIZED THEM
Youthful Picture Gazer Mas Not Inn
pressed by Beauty Of the Faces
OF the Madonnas.
An art missionary was giving an

An art missionary was giving an ex-
hibition Of pictures to a crowd Of set
Element children. One small boy
seemed especially Interested In the
Madonnas and listened attentively to
her explanation of the meaning con-
veyed by each picture.
When half a dozen Madonnas had
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
wouId Have Moro eard.ns.

Mrs. Philip Martineau, who has
come to this country to show Ameri-
cans how to make gardens, deplores
the fact that there r 10 few gar
dens in this country. She says that
Americans are so used to things on a
big scale that they do not realize what
can be done with a garden plot no
bigger than a handkerchief. London.
with all its smoke, she says. has more
gardens than New York.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

you are right. You can distinguish
them from other pictures. There is a
tenderness. a beauty. a sort of brood
ing mother7love such as you never
see anywhere but in the face OF Mary
as she looks at the Child Jesus"
NAV, faint that" was the dis
gusted rejoinder. IT'S them rings
around their heads that gives EN-
awayl"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
A WaYfarer,s Ruse.

please, mum, could l trouble you
for a bottle of wine and a plate Of
pate de foie GRASP"
What"
Il merely said that, mum, to prove
to you that l have seen better days.
A few cold biscuits win do"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
shadoMa.

Gould you sing that song about the
twilight when the Pickering shadows
softly come and go?" said the senti-
mental youth. "Sir!" exclaimed the
lady at the piano. Il don't approve
either of the current fashions In
gowns or Of the promiscuous refer
ences to them"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
RaetIIne.

Mr.. Flatte-That was the best piece
of ragtime l have heard on our piano.
player, dear.
Mrs. Flatte-Well. that was one of
those porous plasters l got In there
by mistake.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
NOT HARD TO TEST DIAMOND
Simple Methods by Which the Genu-
Inc May Be Distinguished From
the Artificial.

Marvelously beautiful as are the imi-
tation diamonds OF today, an expert
enced eye never mistakes them for the
genuine article.
The average person. however. can
easily be deceived. and the following
simple tests should assist him when
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
DAILY rhouaht.

Cultivate the great art of leaving
people alone. even those you think you
aave a right to direct in the minutest
partlcuiar.--Bulwer Lytton.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
In Every Community.

Every town has It's men who take
pleasure in running after other peo-
pies hats when they blow or.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

inseparable.
Health and cheerfulness mutually
beget each other.-Addison.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
WHY | MARRIED AGAIN

ERHAPS the calendar hang
ing above my desk, telling
me what day Of the month
this is, has set me think
ing of the reason that led to
my second marriage. For
this is the anniversary Of
my first wedding day. II
seems strange that
should remember this,
and that there is nobody
The Twin City star., 1914-03-06

and with the problems In political life
for the past forty years Major Lynch
is well qualified to write intimately
concerning the subject treated In his
book.
There is no way Of accounting for the
wonderful sagacity and wisdom mani
tested by our people during the recon
struction period. How they learned so
quickly to conceive and plan legisla-
hon Of such farreaching importance Is
a puzzle, but that they legislated wise
ly the laws of many Of the southern
states do attest. The administration Of
colored officials in the state of Missis-
sippi, whatever may be said to the con-
trary, was manly. 1t must be remem-
bered that the race had no historians
to record its acts; its critics were its
enemies.
The Twin City star., 1914-03-06

been a member of the B. M. q. four
times and will be in the next session
to be held In Boston. During these
sessions he has made many friends
with the leading members Of the order
throughout the country and is now
mentioned for one, Of the grand d.
rectors, and It is expected that he win
return from Boston with the honor for
his state. He is treasurer Of the Past
Grand Masters council No. % and
president Of the Indiana Patriarche
regiment.
DR.. Harper all these years has not
been asleep, because he has purchased
and owns some good real estate. He =
one Of the men who are doing some
thing and who are helping to make
things happen In this part Of tho coun-