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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
PROSPERITY Sweeps
OVER TIVE COUNTRY
OFFICIALS OF LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANIES OPTIMISTIC IN
THEIR VIEWS.
Attribute Most Of the Prosperity IN
tho East 20 Orders Sor War
Supplies From
Europe.

NEW YORK. Dec. l1.--Real
prosperity f. sweeping over the en-
tire country Is the opinion OF the
presidents OF six OF the largest
life insurance companies in the
tinted States. They expressed their
optimism in interviews granted the
United Press.
Prosperity In the east, they
agreed. is due largely to orders
from the European nations for war
supplies. Tney were unanimous in
declaring that prosperity is here.
TIE insurance men came here to
attend the annual meeting Of the
Association OF Life Insurance Pres
iaents. They are w. A. Day OF the
New York Equitable. ]. c. V. Cum
Minis OF Des Moines. Equitable Of
Iowa. Geo. b. Stadden OF Spring
field, H., Franklin Life; Geo. l..
Cochran OF San Francisco. Pacific
Mutual Alfred d. Foster Of Bos-
ton. New England Life; Joseph T..
Il. Clark of Cincinnati, Union Cen
trail Life.
THAT prosperity has struck the
east is shown by the extraordinary
demand for luxuries," said Presi-
dent Day of the New York Equit-
able. This. however. is not an in
dex TO the general prosperity of the
nation. The prosperity in the east
is due to war profits" President
Clark attributed the prosperity OF
the east to war orders. but made 1t
clear that there may be reaction
when the war ends.
II never saw such prosperity as
now prevails in America, especially
Fin the central southeastern and
southern states. Texas is in the
middle OF prosperous era. The
losses on the cotton market of a
year ago have been forgotten entire
~"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
FIRE BURNS DUllARO
0lD HOME ON HEIGHTS
LARGE Structure COMPLETE
~ ENtELOPED ~ FLAMES
WHEN DISCOVERED.
Furnishings Belonging t. MIR. r al
tun Were Destroyed - House
Was Covered b, $1,000
Insurance.

are Tom Bullard old homestead.
belonging now to the Josh Brock
heirs and controlled by Carl Tan
korsiey as executor, was burned
last night along with the house
hold goods OF Mr. Fulton who oc-
cupied Il. The houeo was insured
for $4,000 There wss no insurance
on the furnishings. The FIRE started
about 1890 o'clock and burned
rapidly. When an alarm was turn
ed in at the station the house was
completely enveloped in flames and
beyond control with the available
water supply but the fire boys were
able to prevent further spread of
the flames, even though the big
barn adjoining caught fire several
times.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
DIPLOMATIC CRISIS
BECOMING TENSE
MORE DEVELOPMENTS As TO
ACTIVITIES OF AUSTRIAN
AGENTS.
Newspapers Publish Facsimile OF
Letters Written By the Austrian
Charge, Baron Zwietiink.

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA
newspaper facsimile of letters pur-
porting to have been written BY
Baron Zwiedinek. Austrian charge,
to the consul general at New York
in August. 1914. was studied by
the state department today.
1T will be possible to provide
suitable passports to neutral coun-
tries with slight trouble" was one
of the phrases in the letter.
The publication of the letter at
a tine when startling developments
in the Austrian situation are ex-
pected resulted in a nervous ten
sion Secretary Lansing studied
the paper but withheld comment.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
ARMY CIRCLES Shocked OVER
sgIGIGE Of COL. CROMWELL

WASHINGTON. Dec. ll.-Army
circles we're shocked at the news Of
the suicide OF Lieutenant Colohe4
Cbrs S 8romwell al Honolulu, lie
vas stationed here several wears -
s..,eriptonaent OF pph,ic buildings
ana srsurGs. and was also military
and 10 former President Roosevelt
lie IS survived By a daughter. MIL
dr.d y. cmwell who is attendins ("
Washington seminary Ill he-l'h -
1esieved 10 have been tie cause He
Mas son OF former CONGRESSMAN
Brcmwc, If Cincinnati
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
WOMAN SAVED FROM GALlONS
SENTENCE IS GGMMUTEO

OTTAWA, Canada, Dee. 1.-THE
women of Alberta have won their
fight 10 save Mrs. Annie Hawkes.
OF Mcleod from the gallows. She
was Under sentence to be hanged
for the murder OF her husbands
paramour The announcement was
made today that executive clemency
had been extended. the death SEN
tence being commuted TO life inn
prisonment. Forty thousand women
signed the petitions asking for ex-
oomiye clemency.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
DIFFERENCES IN ALLIED
WAR COUNCIL SETTLED

PARIS. December Following
another conference Of the allied war
council it was stated "tnat all ques-
tons We're settled in accord ="
II is presumed. the announcement;
covers all reported differences con
corning the operations in the Bal
kans.
The announcement was made aftar
British Foreign Minister Grey,
Premier BRAND ard General Gal
leni had held long conference ct
the conclusion OF the war councils
session.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
DISABLED FRE|GHTER
ENROUTE To NORTH
FREiGHTER MINNESOTA PASSES
los ANGELES TODAY IN TOW
OF TUGS.
Company Agents Confirmed Reports
of Fire Aboard Ship But Said
Flames Had Been Ex-
tingnished.

LOS ANG ELES. Dec. 1.-The
Great Northern freighter Minneso-
ia passed here today going north
She was last reported of Santa
Barbara. An agent of the depart
ment OF justice intended boarding
the steamer TO investigate the re-
port that q German spy held aboard
was to be taken of but missed her.
Agents OF the company confirmed
the report of fire on the vessel.
but said the flames had been extin-
guished.
The fact that the steamer was
within the three mile limit suggest
ed that danger might be lurking on
the outside.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
THE GREEK ARMY MAY soon
De ORDERED OEMOHIllED

PARIS, December 11.-An Athens
news agency dispatch stated that
the Greek government will soon is
sue a decree demobilizing the Greek
army One of the principle demands
of the allies on Greece was that
King Constantine order the army
demopilized. The Athens news agen-
cy dispatch is not confirmed from
any other source.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11

Fredericktown. o.
No. ~ ron.

'sFredericktown. o.,
Mar. 10. 1901.
For value reed promise 10 pay
Fanny Berry Bell the sum OF TWEEN
ty-five cents with compound interest
az per cent when ! shall have
made my first speech in the state
legislature or the Z. s. congress or
shall have won my first fight III
either &C. {. DILL.
That note may account for the
fact that Dill is national lawmak-
or at so early an age He simply
couldn't wait any longer TO get that
debt off his mind The circnmstan-
ces were these:
Dill lived on a rented farm near
Fredericktown, Ohio. Mrs Bell was
the wife of the owner. On one
corner of the farm was the Salem
NJ. E. church and one day a box
social was announced for Saturday
night az the church. Mrs. Bell ask
cd Dill if he were going. Nope,
didn't have the necessary quarter.
he explained cheerfully
'.I'll lend it to you" she said.
Don't know when can pay it
back" he demurred.
PAY it back when you make your
first speech in congress- she sug-
gested
Dill. being terrible earnest
young man, he'd made no secret of
the fact that he vas, going to con-
gross some day. The farm lad ac-
copied the money and drew UP the
note ~
He had good time at the social,
pntroubled by his new financial
burden.
Five or six years later he fell into
de camp of Tom Johnson and be-
cemes one OF his secretaries during
bis gubernatorial campaign. After
tho campaign Johnson asked him
what nc was going to do
"fm going to congress-" said
Dill
"All right" said johnson; you
go ont west and pick out some good,
growing town and stay there till
they send you"
Dill went to Spokane. Washing
ton And here he is.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
Residence Burned.

The residence and contents of
Pink Saunders, residing about one
mile north OF Midlothian, was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday morning
about $50 O'Clock. The fire was
caused from defective flue. The
Midlothian fire department Went
out to the burning building but
were unable TO save the structure
Tie loss is estimated at about ST.
zee to $500. partially covered by
insurance
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11

OF .Pythias grand lodge OF Texas and
the twenty-fourth Pythian district
were scheduled to be neId held here
today
The feature of the program will
be the burning Of the last bonds
through which money was raised to
rebuild Castle hall. the first Pythi-
an building ever built by a lodge.
The last of these bonds recently
were bought by the two local
lodges.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
WILLIAM J. BRYAN MAY
BIZ HELD IN CONTEMPT.

NEW YORK, Dec. 114-W. J.
Bryan was cited today by Justice
Giegerich to show cause why he
should not be declared in contempt
of court for failing to answer
subpoena seeking his testimony IN
the trial between Greeks over the
sale of an obsolete warship to the
Greek government.
Instead of remaining here after
he was served at the hotel Baltimore
last Saturday Bryan Went TO his
winter home at Miami. Florida He
telegraphed Justice Giegerich sug
costing that his deposition be taken
there. The justice ignored tho tele-
gram and issued the contempt or
der.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
CRUISER MAY Be
WAITING FOR AUsiDLE
THE AMERICAN STEAMER TO
S4IL FROM GALVESTON LATE
THIS AFTERNOON.
Carries a Cargo OF Cotton Seed cake
fu. Denmark-MaS he SeI1eu
by British Cruiser.

GALVESTON, Dec. 1.-THE
American steamer Ausable has
cleared for Esbjerg, Denmark. win
q largo of cotton seed cakes ana
viii san late this afternoon the
Ausable is one of the American
transatlantic company steamers
British cruiser, recently seen OF
the harbor. is believed to be walt
ing for
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
COST OIL 25 cts. TO TAKE
HIS SEAT IN GUEGRtsS
WASHINGTON. December !

WASHINGTON. December H.
from Washington state rises
No ia congress- AID makes
his maiden speech tl's COINS
Id eos him twenty-five celts. 80.
more than that - cents Plus COM
farnd interest thereon for IA years.
The oonkros sman. This sessions
5olneo has owed tha. quarter ever
nee he was &C. iiis creditor Is
Mrs Fanny Berry Ren M Gilead.
Ohio and she Aas his note 10 prove
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
THE STEAMER HOCkhG
IS ORDERED RELEASED

HALIFAX, Dec. 1.-THE admi-
rally court today ordered the release
or the American steamer Hooking
seized and brought to this port by
British cruiser on the ground that
the American Transatlantic COM
pany, owners, were backed by Ger
man money. The Hooking was
placed in custody of an agent of the
crown pending settlement OF the
dispute with the United States.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11


. BERLIN. Nov. 2.-(By 4
= Masl)--when Former Ambas- Z
. sador Drmbs was made a mo- :
. BILE by Emperor Franz josef :
. Just after he was recalled 1T :
. the request Of the United Z
. states he was the victim Of q Z
. practical joke in Berlin.
. In Austria Hungary there =
. are three ways OF being no- :
. BILE. You may be a won :
. Dumba. . "zu Dumbx" or wen =
. und zu" Dumba. There Ia. as Z
. example. Count zu Rcventlow. =
. the naval critic. and any num- Z
. Der OF persons with won" be- Z
. fore their last names. indi- =
. eating nobility Some are Z
= proud of the "von.s others Of Z
. the "zu."
. The telegraph report saying Z
. that DR.. Dumba was ennobled =
. did not indicate whether II was =
. to be "Dr. Won Dumba" or DIR. =
. "zu Dumba.'
. This is where the practical =
. Joke came in. In English =
. won means "of." .'Zu" means
. ito" So, said the gossipers: Z
. "Dr. Dumba is already "za Z
Q Dumba Ito Dumb-a) SO he Z
. must have taken the title 4
. .von'' or, perhaps. won and Z
. gu" which may mean here 4
. and there Dumba.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
NO HEADACHE OR
NEURALGIA PAIN
Get . 10 csns package Of DR..
James Headache Powders
and dou's suffer.

When your head aches you simply
must have rciief or you viii go Wild
It's needless to suffer when you can
take remedy like d.. .Iames' Head
ache Powders and relieve the pain and
neuralgia at once. Send someone to
the drug store now for . dime package
of Dr. James Headache Powders.
Don't suffer- In /; few laoIsnta you
will feel tine--heaflseae ssone-.no more
neuralgia pain.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
BELGIAN POWDER PLANT
WRECKED BY EXPLOSION

PARIS, December IA violent
explosion OF the Belgian powder
plant at Granville near Havre shook
the surrounding territory, blowing
windows and doors out Of buildings
nearby. 1t is believed a numbef OF
persons were killed.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
h0NG THE MOVIES.
WV = . . . . . . . =


~ Among the Woo Doc
rs.n a Mutual two reel lea
|the leading attraction at
katre today. This play fea-
famous Bo8tock Anilae.s
pt. Jack Bonayita. George
laying Z Cub comedy in the
"a Shotgun Romance" and
i reel is IN American como
i with gripping climax i'll
|of Spider Barlow Cuts In,
! Winifred Greenwood and
|Coxen Monday the Dixie
+ "Tbe Sins OF Society" q
BRADY five act feature star
Warwick with an all star
hding Frances Nelson.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11

bueiness. 80 That 1t becomes neces-
CRY for snis firm to build cold
storage for next year. 80 as 20 hsa-
do the large increa.e OF country
produce.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
Al the Empire.

Peat movie favorite Mary
appearing at the Empire
today in a Victor three reel
/ feature. LII Nor Wes-
N Paul pelzer ma Glen
4 the csst Of all star play
be single reel is "Bill's
and Plumbers Bin an
Pedy starring Victor Potel.
Ship ny Turkeys.
\ T B. Cain & Co. of the
Fket shipped two car loads
FL turkeys Friday. one car
New Yosk ana the other 70
These two cars carried
10000 pounds. This firm
Hdy shipped nearly 100, 600
n turkeys this season. and
creature about it, the tur-
e all raised in Ellis county.
I hesan business in Waxa-
Poout three years ago, buy
Es$s md country produce
|has gradually increased his
ire turkey and produce
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11

NTiENs Dee Il A number o.
Greek steamers are detained la al
lied ports. the Athens paper He~gia
stated today
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11

1t is getting so a man doesn't
have to get tight in order 10 be corr
sidered sociabIe
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11

Another reason boys leave the
farm is that they can get away
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
roo LATE TO CLASSIFY.

PLANTING SEED First year and
second year Mebane cotton seed.
pure: two years old. z. T. Richie.
at Wallace & Ralstons warehouse.
224
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IiIcrnOOl.
Chicago Grain.
Local Market.

The Waxahachie dealers are pay
ing the following prices for country
produce today:
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-11
SPECIAL MEETINGS OF
X. OF r. GRAND LODGE

FORT WORTH. Texas. December
meetings OF the Knights
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-25
FIRST PRIZE POLICE IDIOCY.

Maybe you think that you've seen
the vilest of the vile in the way of
police management but get this latest
from Chicago.
Hereafter. every boy who is brought
into that citys juvenile court is going
to have his finger prints taken.
That's the way police officially treat
a regular hardened criminal. So when
some youth is picked up he will be
thrown right into the same basket of
suspicion as the honest-to- goodness
bank robber. train bandit and pick
pocket.
The knowledge that they are under
police eye all the time ought to have
fine effect on youngsters-not!
The fact that about 90 per cent OF
the boys brought into court are dis
charged with merely little advice
from the Judge or because they were
arrested through some cOpper's over
authority makes this new system ex-
ceptionally rotten.
Instead Of trying to correct and help
boys who might get a poor start in
life, this finger-print proposition is
bound to have a bad effect y kid will
feel that he is criminalized as soon as
he presses down an linked finger on q
pad of paper.
But that is the system the wise juv-
emile charges have decided upon. so
the boys whom coppers drag in will be
hauled up before the finger-print eX-
pert Of the civil service commission,
and there come forth with a tell-tale
print that will always hold them too
I blame close TO police surveillance.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-25

TO get out OF the c.ty. the judge re-
marking that the town was too hot
for his kind" meaning. We presume,
the jobless kind
Isn't it pity? strons. healthy.
willing workers just shufhed from one
town 10 another. kicked from pillar to
POST without being given even a
chance 10 find work And at the same
time every town and hamlet is sub
scribing to various and divers relief
funds" Plenuous funds 10 relieve I'M
fortunate Russians. Bclgiaus. Ger
mans. Hottentots. Esquimau and those
col all nationalities-save our own
VINO may be Ia temporary distress
In each one of theses wanderer
throbs heart and lives soul. Some,
alas, are Migrants from choice, but
the far greater number are not. They
are asking only for a Fair show" Is
there no milk OF human kindness in
Americas bosom for its own unhappy
ones? Are they to be kept forever
moving on until they fall into the
cutters. Migrants, criminals in fact.
and beyond redemption?
1t is a great problem and every city
faces it.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-25
THE MELTING POT
GOMEZ TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

Blaine day in Ligonier That celebrated
politician spoke here in the afternoon.
and three girls were born in the town,
all within an hour OF each other. They
were sadie Frank, Beulah SchlOtten-
back and Clara Sack. All OF them are
now married.
WE are going 10 offer a suitable
prize for the golfer who drives the first
green at the new country club. 500
yards. II ought TO be easy going, all
the way down grade, for long ball art
lists like ]. j. w, L. c. H, and +. NJ,
jr.. and we expect one of these TO cop
the prize, whatever that is
Was Andy the Goat?
CDewsey, ore, Pioneer Sum-
Andy Virgil blew into town Friday
from the mountains north of here
where he had been running with
sheep.
American royalty may have q
chance TO break into European titles
when this war is over if the reigning
families remain mad enough at each
other not to mix. Besides, them Eu
ropean felers will need the money.
SEVERAL times we have had our
of the execution of woman by the
German government, but on each oc-
casion we have been restrained by the
memory Of Mrs. Surratt and the pro-
verb. People who live in glass houses
shouldn't throw stones at their neigh
bOrs chickens" 1t is charitable to
say that presumably Edith Cavell was
regarded by the Germans much as We
regarded Mrs. Surratt. but now, as so
years ago, you can't forget she was a
woman.
But How Can Tights BE Ample?
(FTom the Winter Garden Story.)
With the exception OF four girls ap
pearing as toy dolls" in the Toyland
scene of the first act, every show girl
was amply provided with tights.
ANSWERING the question, we have
always thought that the ampleness of
tights depends upon their contents.
G. \. +.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-25
LOW SPIRITS PROPER.

a German war correspondent writes
that upon visiting the troops at the
front recently he found them taking a
bath in sugar watts. A little later they
were saturated with odoriferous gas
squirted into the trenches by the Eng
lish. The CORRESPONDENT adds that the
effect was to make the German SOL
diers spirited"
We believe il. Once, when we were
a boy, our hired man went wild tur-
key hunting 10y moonlight. He shot a
gOhbler of the roost and it fell in a
clump OF chapparal. The hired man
saw a dark object in the bushes and
reached in to yank II out 1t. wasn't
the turkey at ALL
We distinctly recollect that the hired
man was low-spirlJed FOR a week and
so we're We. We had to do the chores
while he cheered up. Low-spirited +?
Well, we guess yes
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-25

Even Berlin newspapers report that
the women and children" are fight
ing in Serbia against the Teuton drive.
And an American Of Serbian birth
who is in close touch with affairs in
the fatherland declares that before
long there will be an army of Ser
bian women. in the field equal to the
country's male fighting force"
No racial sympathies need obscure
the gallant struggle that is being made
today by the heroic little Serbian ma
ton against overwh Ginning Dads. 1t is
doubtful whether history affords any
finer example of national heroism.
Belgium might have fought just az
effectively if it had had warning and
time for preparation. Serbia is show
ing the spirit of Belgium combined
with power of resistance which,
considering everything. is amazing.
Serbia is about three-fourths as
large as Ohio, and has a considerably
smaller population. Imagine Ohio
daring the power Of Austria and twice
hurting Austrian armies back in utter
defeat, passing through typhus
plague that Frustrated the national
and killed hundreds of thousands, and
then rising up without a sign of fear
to resist the combined power of Aus
tria and Germany-and all this on
top of two Balkan wars fought with
in three years. which must have been
almost as exhausting to Serbia as our
civil war was to the United States.
Serbia has allies helping her now.
But allies or no allies. it would prob
ably have made no difference. II
seems impossible to doubt that, even
without any assurances of help from
Russia or England or France, the
Serbians would have manned the
trenches and fought to the last man
and almost to the last woman and
child, in defense of their native soil
Such a race can be defeated as the
Greeks were at Thermopylae, but il
cannot be conquered.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-25
IN ORDER TO LIVE.

The scientific world is just now
greatly interested in the discovery and
successful use of processes for fixing
atmospheric nitrogen now especially
we'll under war in Norway and Ger
many But, as TO nitrogen, every
reader Of this paper ought to be an
Interested scientist.
All animal and vegetable life on
earth depends upon nitrogen. 1t is
in two forms-one limited or fixed,
the other free or atmospheric. We
eat the limited sort in the plants
which take it from the earth. Hence.
since men first were, they have been
eating the earth, eating themselves
out Of house and home. and as surely
as this goes on there will sometime be
no men on earth. To live. men have
got to replenish the earth's rapidly
diminishing supply of nitrogen, con-
vert free nitrogen into fixed.
Large areas of land in even our
own country are already barren be-
cause the nitrogen has been eaten out
of it, the supply of fixed nitrogen in
any soil being limited. But our every
square yard of land or water surface
in the airs nearly seven tons Of
nitrogen. Man has got to get it out
and fix it,
Needing nitrogen in the manufact-
ure of ammunition with which to kill
folks. the German chemists are using
processes to fix" nitrogen by which
all folks live. Out of the horrible war
may come cheaper heterogeneous food
for the whole world, at least a solu-
ton of the great problem of supply
ing that which all living things must
have. fixed nitrogen. Shall we say,
God moves in a mysterious way, His
wonders to perform ?"