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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-11-09
Mr.. Ousley Talks.


Hon. Clarence n. Ousley was next
introduced, and after expressing his
pleasure at finding that he was re-
membered by at least a few good
friends, he said it was JOY and a
delight for him to visit Waxahachie
and Ellis county. Launching into
his subject he said; II hold the
view that agriculture should be OF
concern to the business man just
the same as TO the farmer. One
reason perhaps why farming in this
country is not the success il should
be is the lack of business methods.
] believe better agriculture should
include better live stock.
Here the speaker stopped long
enough TO call attention of those
present TO timely aid rendered Ellis
county farmers by Farm Demon
stration Agent d. ID. Floyd and DR..
Jones of A. & NJ during the recent
epidemic of hog cholera. lie de-
clared there was little doubt but
that the farmers of Ellis had been
saved many times the price paid
their demonstration agent Con-
tinuing he. said:
There is notion IN the minds
Of some that towns interest in
agriculture is only the size of the
crop of cotton. Does il mean any
thing to the merchant that $40 per
bale is left in the county from ev-
cry bale of cotton sold because OF
the increased price? The economic
relation of business and agriculture
Is such as should give every man "a
very keen interest In diyersificatiop
the one thing that regulates the
price.
He called attention TO the fact
that through agitation the farmers
of Ellis this year have raised
enough feed stuff to keep probably
a million and quarter dollars an
home instead of buyins feed stuff
ihe farmers or Ellis are selling
some
Sir ouslsy said There Ia no.
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a richer spot in all the world than
Ellis county, yet the lands of this
county are not producing the crops
they produced in 1881 when ] first
came to the county, and its all due
TO our poor system of farming.
What the College would do is 70
improve the system. The business
man has an influence with the farm
ers. while many OF the farmers are
preiudiced against the college men.
Farmers do believe in the banker
and the merchant and will lend a
willing ear to suggestions regarding
their welfare. Since supply and de-
mand rules the price OF cotton, and
with q short supply this year, the
price is high and there will be q
tendency to go back TO the ruinous
one crop system, it therefore be-
hooves business man and banker to
join forces with the College in urg-
ing continued diversification. 1t
would be a good idea for the MEM
bers of the Chamber of Commerce
TO go about over the county with
Mr. Floyd and preach the doctrines
NJ diyersification -
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Mr.. Elliott.

Mr.. Elliott, also of College Sta
ton, made some appreciated re-
marks along the same line as that
suggested by Mr.. Ousley. The meet
ing held fifteen minute soyer time
and the members felt that the time
was we'll spent.
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Meeting of EIks.

The regular meeting of the Elks
will be held tonight. A iull at
tendance is desired
A. b. STEPHENSON, f. R.
Geo. l.. GRIFFIN, Sec
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LOOK At YOURSELF
Is Suffering Writing Lines
In your Face?

Many .
handsome
w o m q n
s in
the glass
and sees
the prena
ture lines
of the old
bag a +
r<.aJo hn
ginning to
s h ow in
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-22
CHAPTER ~.

George Lescott had known hospital
ity OF many brands and degrees. He
had been the lionized celebrity In
places Of fashion. He had been the
guest of equally famous brother artists
In the cities of two hemispheres, and,
since sincere painting had been his
pole star, he had gone where his arts
wanderlust backoned. He had fol-
lowed the lure OF transitory beauty
to remote, sections Of the world. The
present trip was only one of many
like it, which had brought him into
touch with varying peoples and dis.
tinctive types of life. He told himself
that never had he found men at once
so crude and so courteous as these
hosts who, facing personal perils, had
still time and willingness to regard his
comfort.
The coming of the kinsmen. who
would stay until the present danger
passed, had filled the house. The four
beds in the cabin proper were full,
and some slept on floor mattresses.
Lescott, because a guest and wounded.
was given small room aside. Sam.
son, however, shared his quarters in
order to perform any service that an
injured man might require 1t had
been a full and unusual day for the
painter, and its incidents crowded in
on him in retrospect and drove of the
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CHAPTER III.

In days when the Indian held tba
Dark and Bloody Grounds a p,onaer
telling oak and poplar logs for the
Rome he meant to establish on the
banks of purling watercourse. let his
ak slip, and the cutting edge sasbad
his ankle. Since to the discovered ba.
longs the christening, that watercoursa
became Crippleshin, and so It is TODAY
set down on atlas pages. A few miles
away. as the crow files, but many
weary leagues as a man must travel
brother settler, raeked with rheuma.
tism, gave to his creek the name Of
Misery. The two pioneers had come
together from Virginia. as their ancez.
tors had come before them from Scot.
land. Together they had found one
OF the two gaps through the mountain
wall. which for more than a hundred
miles has no other passable rift. To.
sether, and as comrades, they had
made their homes and founded their
race. What original grievance had
sprung up between their descendants
none of the present generation knew.
perhaps 1t was farm line OF disputed
title to pig. The primary incident
was lost in the limbo Of the past: bu
s0r fifty years. with occasional inter
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possibility OF sleep. samson. too,
seemed wakeful. and In the isolation
of the dark room the two men fell into
conversation, which almost lasted out
the night. Samson went into the con-
fessional This was the first human
being he had ever met to whom he
could unburden his soul.
The thirst to taste what knowledge
lay beyond the hills; the unnamed
wanderlust that had at times brought
him restiveness so poignant as to
be agonizing; the underlined attuning
Of his heart to the beauty of sky and
hill; these matters he had hitherto
kept locked in guilty silence.
In cove or lowland pocket. stretch
ing into the mountain side, lay the
small and meager farm of the Widow
Miller. The Widow Miller was q
South" that is to say, she fell, by
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tie of marriage, under the protection
of the clan head. She lived alone with
her fourteen-year-old son and her six
teen-year-old daughter. The daughter
was Sally.
The sun rose on the morning after
Lescott arrived, the mists lifted, and
the cabin of the Widow Miller stood
revealed. A tousle-headed boy made
his way to the barn to feed the cattle,
and red patch of color, as bright
and tuneful as a Kentucky cardinal.
appeared at the door between the
morning-glory vines. The red patch
Of color was Sally.
She made her way. carrying a
bucket, to the spring, where she knelt
down and gazed at her own image in
the water.
Before going home she set down her
bucket by the stream, and, with a
quick glance toward the house to make
sure that she was not observed,
climbed through the brush and was
lost to view. She followed path that
her own feet had made, and after a
steep course upward came upon bald
face of rock, which stood out storm
battered where rift went through
the backbone Of the ridge This point
of vantage commanded the other val
ley. Down below, across the treetops,
we're a roof and chimney from which
thread of smoke rose In an attenu-
ated shaft. That was Spicer South g
house and Samson's home. The girl
leaned against the gnarled bowl of the
white oak and waved toward the roof
and chimney. She cupped her hands
and raised them to her lips like one
who means to shout across great dis
lance, then she whispered so low that
only she herself could hear:
Hello, Samson Soulful"
She stood for space looking down.
and forgot to laugh, while her eyes
grew religiously and softly deep, then,
turning, she ran down the slope. She
had performed her morning devotions.
That day at the house of Spicer
South was an of day. The kinsmen
who had stopped for the night stayed
on through the morning. Nothing was
said of the possibility of trouble. The
men talked crops and tossed horse
shoes in the yard; but no one went to
work In the fields. and all remained
within easy call. Only young Tama-
rack spicer, a raw-boned nephew. wore
euI'an face and made a great show
Of cleaning his rife and pistol.
Shortly after dinner he disappeared,
and when the afternoon was well ad-
vanced Samson, too, with his rife on
his arm, strolled toward the stile.
(To BE CoNTINUED)
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BIG EATERS HAVE BAD
KIDNEYS AND BACKACHE
Take Glass of Salts at Once If Your
Back Is Hurting or Kidneys and
Bladder Trouble You.

The American men and women must
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BILE. because we eat too much and all
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When your kidneys feel like Jumps
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thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot In
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Whitewater beverage. and belongs in
every home, because nobody can make
mistake by having good kidney
flushing any time.--Adv.
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wounds that would have taken a less
charmed life. And in grisly reminder
Of the terror which clouded the peace
OF his days stood the eight-foot log
blockade at the rear of the place.
which the proprietor had built to
shield his daily journeys between
house and store. But Jesse Purvy was
not deluded by his escapes. He knew
that he was marked down."
The years of strain were telling on
him. The robust, full-blooded face
was showing deep lines; his flesh was
growing faccid; his glance tinged
with quick apprehension. He told his
intimates that he realized they'd get
him." yet he sought to prolong his
term of escape.
Yesterday morning Jesse Purvy had
risen early as usual, and, after a sat
isfying breakfast, had gone to his
store to arrange for the days bust
ness. One or two Of his henchmen,
seeming loafers, but in reality body
guard. were lounging within call. A
married daughter was chatting with
her father while her young baby
played among the barrels and cracker
boxes.
The daughter went to rear win
dow and gazed up at the mountain.
The cloudless skies were still in hid
ing behind a curtain Of mist. The
woman was idly watching the vanish-
ing fog wraiths. and her father came
over to her side. Then the baby cried
and she stepped back. Purvy himself
remained at the window. 1t was a
thing he did not often do. 1t left him
exposed, but the most cautiously
] guarded life has it's moments Of re-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-22
How Suckers Bite.

One Sunday morning, on his way
to church, deacon observed a boy
industriously fishing After the lad
had landed several. he approached and
said: my son, don't you know 1t is
very wrong to catch fish on the Sab
bath day? And, besides. 1t is very
cruel to impale that poor, helpless
beetle upon that sharp hook" Said
the boy: "Oh, say, mister, this Is
only an imitation! 1t amt a real
bug" "Bless mel" replied the dea-
son. well, thought it was a real
bugl" The boy, lifting fine string OF
fish out of the water. said: so did
these suckersl"
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good policy to meet rather than com
| bat his requirements It was essex
tial to his purposes that the officers
Of the law in his country should be in
sympathy with him. Sympathy soon
became abject subservience. When a
South had opposed Jesse Purvy in the
primary as candidate for high sheriff
he was found one day lying on his
fate with bullet-riddIed body. 1t
may have been coincidence which
pointed to Jim Asberry, the judges
nephew, as the assassin. At all events.
the judges nephew was a poor boy,
and charitable grand jury declined
to indict him.
In the course of five years several
South adherents, who had crossed
Holman's path, became victims of the
laurel ambuscade. The theory Of CO.
incidence was strained Slowly the
rumor grew and persistentIy spread,
though no man would admit having
fathered 1t, that before each Of these
executions star-chamber conferences
had been held in the rooms above
Micah Hollman's Mammoth Depart
ment Store" 1t was said that these
exclusive sessions were attended by
Judge HOLMAN, Sheriff Purvy and GER
tain other gentlemen selected by rea-
son OF their craftsmanship. When
one OF these victims fell John South
had just returned from law school
down below" wearing 'sfotched-on"
clothing. and thinking "fotched-on"
thoughts. He had amazed the COM
munity by demanding the right to as
sist in probing and prosecuting the
affair. He had then shocked the com
munity into complete paralysis by re-
questing the grand jury to indict not
alone the alleged assassin. but also
his employers, whom he named as
Judge Holman and Sheriff Purvy.
Then he, too, fell under a bolt from
the laurel
That was the first public accusation
against the bland capitalist, and 1t car
ried its own prompt warning against
repetition. The judges high sheriff
and chief ally retired from office and
went abroad only with a bodyguard.
Jesse Purvy had built his store at
crossroads 25 miles from the rail-
road. Like Holman, he had won a
reputation for open-handed charity,
was liked--and hated. His friends
were legion. His enemies we're SO nu-
merous that he apprehended violence
not only from the Souths but also
from others who nursed grudges in
no way related to the line Of feud
cleavage. The Hollman-Purvy combi-
nation had retained enough of Its old
power to escape the laws retribution
and to hold its dictatorship, but the
efforts of John South had not been
altogether bootless. He had ripped
away two masks, and their erstwhile
wearers could no longer hold their old
semblance of law-abiding philanthro-
pists. Jesse Purvy's home was the
show place of the countryside. Com
modious verandas looked out over
pleasant orchards, and in the same
Enclosure stood the two frame build
ings of his store--for he, too. com
bined merchandise with baronial
powers. But back OF the place rose
the mountain side, on which Purvy
never looked without dread. Twice
its impenetrable thickets had spat at
him. Twice he had recovered from
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CHAPTER II-contInued.

II hain't a-wantin' ter suspicion ye,
Samson. but know how ye feels
about yore pap. l heered thet Bud
6picer come by hyar yistiddy plumb
full Of liquor an lowed he'd seen
Jesse an Jim Asberry a-talkin' ter
gether jest afore yore pap was kilt"
He broke of abruptly, then added:
Eye went away from hyar last night.
an didn't git In twell after sunup-i
Just heered the news, an come ter
look fer ye"
"Air you-aIl 1owin' tibet shot them
shoots from the laurel?" inquired Sam
son, quietly.
EFF VEAL hain't 1owin' hit, Sam
son, we're plumb shore tibet Jesse
Purvy's folks will low hit They're
Jest a-holdin' yore life like hostage
fer Purvy's, anyhow. Eff he dies they'll
try ter git ye."
The boy flashed a challenge about
the group, which was now drawing
rein at Spicer South's yard fence. His
eyes were sullen, but he made no an
Bwer.
One Of the men who had listened in
silence now spoke:
in the fust place, Samson, we hain't
a-sayin' ye done hit. In the mex place,
ef ye did do hit we hain't a-bIamin'
ye-much. But reckon them dawgs
don't lie, an. eff they trails in hyar
ye'll need US. Thet's why we've done
come"
The boy slipped down from his mule
and helped Lescott to dismount. He
deliberately unloaded the saddlebags
and kit and laid them on the top STEP
Of the stile, and, while he held his
peace, neither denying nor affirming
his kinsmen sat their horses ant
waited.
Even to Lescott 1t was palpable tha
some OF them believed the young he'll
TO clan leadership responsible for the
shooting OF Jesse Purvy, and thai
others believed him innocent, yet none
the less In danger of the enemy's ven
geance. But, regardless OF divided
opinion, all were alike ready to stand
at his back and all alike awaited his
final utterance.
Then, In the thickening gloom, Sam.
son turned at the foot OF the stile
and faced the gathering. He stood
rigid, and his eyes flashed with deer
passion. His hands, hanging at the
seams OF his jeans breeches, clinched
and his voice came in a slow utter
ance through which throbbed the ten
slty OF a souLabsorbing bitterness.
1 knowed all bout Jesse Puryy's
Dem shot. When my pap lay
ardyin' over thar at his house / was
little shaver ten years old
Jesse Purvy hired somebody ter kill
MIN an l promised my par
that I'd find out who tibet man was
an tibet I'd git 'em both---some dav
So help me, God Almighty. Pm a-goin
ter git 'em both-some dayl" The
boy. paused and lifted one hand as
though taking an oath.
I'm a-tellin' you-all the truth
But didn't shoot them shoots this
mornin. hain't no truce buster
gives ye my hand on hit. ri
them dawgs come hyar they'll find me
hyar, an of they hain't liars thev'l
go right by hyar. don't low ter rur
away, an ! don't low ter hide out. Tn
a-goin' ter stay right hyar. Thet's al
I've got ter say ter ye."
For a moment there was no reply
Tnen the older man nodded with ,
gesture of relieved anxiety.
Thets all we wants ter know. Sam
son." he said, slowly. Light. men an
come In"
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Friend of the Farmer.

DR.. Marion Dorset, bi-chemist of the
federal bureau of animal industry. Ia
the scientist who first isolated the
germ responsible for that farm scourge
cholera in the hog. That accomplished,
he perfected a serum to combat it,
protected his processes by patents and
then turned them over to the pubic
To be used without charge.
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Her Platform.

At the Marshall home there was
much discussion of woman suffrage
and other political questions, and lit
tie Vera had always been a very much
interested listener.
What win you do when you can
vote?" a visitor asked her.
Help to put candy on the free list"
was the unexpected reply.-Youth'a
Companion.
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|Flnknam 3 v SScSS
bile Compound they
would enjoy better
health. ] suffered
from q female trou-
bile, and the doctors
decided I had .
humorous grow tn
and would have to
be operated upon
but I refused as ! do
not believe in opera
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Copyright. sOIs. by w. J. Wat, 8 ce.)
SYNOPSIS.

On Misery creek, at the foot of a rock
from which he has fallen, Sally Miller
finds George Lescott, landscape paint
sr. unconscious. and after reviving him.
goes for assistance. Samson South and
Sally, taking Lescott to Samson's home,
are met by Spicer South. head of the
family. who tells them that Jesse Purvy
has been shot.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-22

For many generations Perth, and not
Edinburgh, was the capital Of Scot
land.
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WOMAN REFUSES
OPERATION
Tells How She Was Saved
by Taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.

Louisville, KY think If more sut-
fering women would take Lydia Z.