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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-07-23
ATTORNEYS Ask FOR
AD0P TON Of AMENDMENT
APPEAL MADE IN BEHALF on
AMENDMENT TO INCREASE
SUPREME COURT.
Waxahachie. Tex. July q. 1916.

Waxahachie. Tex, July Il, 1915.
To the Voters of Ellis County:
The undersigned judges and practice
ing attorneys of Ellis county. deem
il proper to submit to you the fol-
lowing concerning the proposed
amendment to the constitution of
our state, having for its object the
iprreass OF the membership of the
supreme court from three t3) to five
lt5) judges, which will be voted on
1.-THE 24th instant
The facts are that our supreme
court, composed of only three menu
bers is now about four years behind
with the business on its docket Tn
der our system. all cases go to the
supreme court by application for
writs of error from intermediate
courts of civil appeals, which makes
preliminary examination in each case
| to determine whether there is prob
ably error justifying them in retain
ling jurisdiction of the case, and the
court has to pass upon writs of err
ror from nine intermediate courts.
During the term of the supreme
court Just ended 4s1 applications for
lwrits of error were disposed of. and
iS42 such applications were left on
1.-THE docket. This work consumed so
much of the time of the court that
/, only so cases. in which writs were
granted. were finally disposed of by
that court during the term, and 271
cases were left on the docket. At this
rate it would take the court more
than four years to dispose of the
cases now before it, and this condi-
iiion amounts practically to denial
iof justice,
Every state OF the American union
with as much as one-half million
population. has more than three SUI
tpreme judges. and all of the states
with anything like the population OF
Texas have from five to nine such
judges.
We believe that the public inter-
est would be subserved by the adop-
Iticn of this amendment. and earnest
ly commend it TO your favorable con-
sideration Very respectfully.
+. l.. Hawkins. district Judge; w.
NJ Tidwell county judge: G. c.
Groce. C. NJ. supple. W. l.. Harding.
Bowd Farrar. ]. l.. Cannon. W. u.
Fears. Mark Smith. Yaney Kemble.
John II. Sharp. A. l. Detka. r. II.
Collier. Clyde f. Vim. J. c. Lump
kins. Frank Hancock. Tom Bah. Neil
Erwin, T. ]. Spencer. ]. T. Gill. K.
l.. sullivan. 7. \. Beatty. III. II. Stow
all. Walter Jones. Henry TREY. Earl
Brown. l. NJ Williams. VIII Han
cock. r ;. samples
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SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.
4 Vegetable Element That Is Rap-
idly Doing Away With the Use
of CaIOmel.

Curtin Drug Co. is one of the first
progressive concerns to offer for
sale the new system of medicine
that Is fast supplanting the use OF
oldfashioned calomel as liver
medicine.
Nearly everyone knows how cas-
lily the liver becomes sluggish in this
climate and how this sluggishness
effects not only all the other physi-
cal organs but the mind as we'll
The signal towers of this dread
condition, which some call malaria
are coated tongue, lack OF energy,
dull eyes, constipation. sallow com
rlexiou.
Taken with regularity this proven
scientific liquid vegetable medicine
in the form of CARSWELL'S LIV-
ER-AID will prevent or promptly
relieve all liver troubles.
On sale under money return guar
antee ty Curtin Drug Co. adv.
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ilization and liberty which We boast
so much today: the monuments pf
Gothic architecture that are being
laid waste and mourned today
sprang into existence in the Dark
Ages; poetry. music and art found
a home where they were fostered
and handed down to US by the iGnor-
ant men of the Dark Age!'' Magma
Charta and all the good that comes
from il was a child OF the Dark
Age. Thomas Aquinas wrote his
philosophy and theology. on when
the wcrid OF today builds all its
moral principles. in those days. To
cap it all on, the world is comnlenr-
ing to learn that. from the time or
Christ down to the present da;.
without single exception. no mor-
tai potentate has ever held the NOR
al political or intellectual influence
held b, Innocent III in the DARK
Age J.. A. KEALEY.
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soy. FERGUsOM's APPEAL
IN BEHALF OF GIBSON BILL
July II, 1915.
Hon. Jesse M. Parker. Mayor.
Italy. Texas.
Dear Mr.. Parker:

Italy. Texas.
Dear Mr.. Parker:
| acknowledge receipt of your fav-
or of July 18th enclosing petition
from five hundred citizens of your
county, asking me TO come and make
q speech in Ellis county on the Glib
son Bill. which you say is an issue
III the present campaign for the Leg
| ialature in your county.
Arrangements involving some
considerable time and extent to 90
and spend next week on the peni-
tertiary farm of the state will pre-
vent my coming to your county at
this time. 1t would have pleased
me very much To have discussed
this matter fully with your people.
In my opinion the Gibson Bill
viii do more to set Texas right be-
fore the financial world, and will
bring more aid to the farmers of
Texas than perhaps any other one
piece OF legislation that could be
| passed at this time To continue
the Robertson Law on the statute
books in its present form can have
no other effect than to perpetuate
an insurance trust in Texas. both in
i the writing of insurance and fixing
| of the rate OF interest to be charg-
ed for the loaning of money.
Texas has a great domain and a
great people. However, on account
OF our being comparatively new
country, we must have the assist
anee of outside capital. even if we
I have TO invite it by pleading with
the foreign investors to come to our
country. Texas can no more dictate
the taxes upon which foreign CAPT
tai that comes TO Texas and does
business with us than one of your
/ farmers could go TO a bank and die
tate the terms upon which he could
get a small loan. BY the adoption
of the Robertson Law by the Leg
islature of Texas, il attempted TO
make foreign insurance companies
loan money in Texas whether they
wanted to or not, and as a result
these companies have refused to do
business in Texas. and the field has
been left To few small foreign
companies and the home companies
to wcite insurance at higher rate
than Is charged by the companies in
other states, and TO charge the peo-
pie OF Texas higher rate of inter
est than is charged by the eOm-
panies in other states. To illustrate:
According 10 the sworn report. made
TO our Commissioner of Insurance
and Banking. of the Great Southern
Life Insurance Co. of Houston. Tex
as. and the American National Ia
aud perhaps one company in Waco.
Texas. and one company in Dallas.
Texas. hundreds OF thousands II
collars have been loaned ina the
state "a Oklahoma for six per cent
interest. while the same companies
charge the people of Texas seven
and one-haif and eight per cent in
terest. the Galveston Co. even loan
ina money on farms tn North Care
lima for six per cent interest. Now
the reason for this ls that they are
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This seems to be a time of revo-
lutions, of surprising events. They
are coming from such strange quar-
tiers and holding out SO persistently
that we do not know what to think.
The war in Europe will have its end
some day and the world will settle
down &c repair the damage that has
been Gone. Mexico will enjoy peace
and a stable government and all the
little social and political disturb
anees OF the present will become
things of the past and men will
wonder why they ever came about
But there is another revolution on
foot now. which will end only with
time. When it comes and makes
itself felt. men will not wonder
why il came about. because they will
know. But they will wonder why
and how the cause for ii was ever
allowed to exist. Just wait till the
great revolution in history comes
ON the world and hits it square in
the face For long. long time we
have been reading the history nj
the Middle Ages and we threw il
away in disgust. at least some of us
aid. pnder the influence of certain
historians who told us that We were
wading through the Dark Ages.
and that there was nothing worth
reading about; the people we're ig-
norant. priest-ridden and half saw
age and the leaders had no moral
principles.
About seventy-five years ago.
Dean Maitland wrote ''The Dark
Ages in which he contradicted all
this. bur that is as far as he went.
Heidi not give us anything to build
on. His book. however. set other
men TO thinking and some went
after the work in earnest Some of
them have been digging up docu-
ments. have gone and are going to
the bottom. first hand. and the re-
suit is that We are now being told.
by these students of history. that
what VAS called the Dark Ages
was aot Dark" at all On the CON
trary IL turns out that the DARK
Age" saw the birth of the very civ
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MOBILE, Ala. July 23.-lts pro-
visions being more stringent psob-
ably than those Of any similar stat
ute in the United States. the Merritt.
benson prohibition law is being en-
forced in Alabama. according 10 al
evidence. Opponents are hoping It's
very rigor may cause . reaction.
while friends of the measure say Il Is
proving that prohibition can actual
ly be made 10 prohibit.
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slcReynolds' Birti,tIay.

WASHINGTON. July 2s. SD
preme Justice MeReynolds today ce;>-
brated his 5srd birthday annivef-
sary.
Today is also the birthday OF many
men prominent in public life. includ-
ing DR.. Albert Shaw. former Govern
or Simeon 5. Pennewill OF Delaware,
and Representative Alfred G. Allen Of
Ohio.
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us Liver Tone" Starts Your Liver
III Than Calomel and You Don't
Lose a Days Work

IN mp your sluggish liverl Feel
md cheerful. make your work "A
ere. h. vigorous and fall oi amhi-
But take ma nasty. dangerous
ri bsvsuSe il makes Yea SICK and
70, lose days work
Dm.l u mercury or quicksilver
causes necrosis ol the bones.
III crashes into sour biie like
Dite. breaking u up fhas's when
ri that awful nausea and craw1ing.
een t. me II yea Uant ~ enjoy
.ni..si. rcnilest liver aad bowel
Dsng YOU ever experienced Just take
|rpniu. Vi harmless Dodsoht Liver
s. For sale by Curiin's
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4 Yale Anniversary.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. July 2s.-
Appropriate ceremonies we're held
here today In COMMUNICATION of the
death. July -. 1871. OF Elihu Yale.
founder Of Yale university. Vale Was
born in Boston but Was buried IN
Males.
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Dodging a bill collector may be ex-
citing but it would hardly qualify DIS
good sport
Evening journal., 1915-07-19
GREAT WAR PLANT
RAISES MAGIC CITY

NEW YORK. July 19.-The Sun
says, from Biuefeld W. Va:
From waste fields to a thriving
community Of $4,000 inhabitants in a
few weeks is the transformation
which has taken place just across the
Virginia State line from here, on
spot which will be listed on the map
as City Point.
Immense powder mills. the largest
and most modern in the world, now
nearing completion and belonging to
the DUPONT de Nemours Powder
Company, are the magnet that has
drawn 1900 wcrkmen 10 this new
metropolis of the Old Dominion State.
In this city Of uncompleted homes
and thousands of tents, which stretch
in every direction, LIQUOR has been
tsbooed. Although the workmen EN-
ployed in the departments already
completed and the mechanics and
laborers working on the uncompleted
buildings arc for the most part drawn
from all parts Of both States, the abb
sence of liquor has resulted in an or
derly community. though the town is
yet in its inception
One of the novel features of the
| big powder plant is the fact that
while 1900 men are employed there
the only regular payroll maintained
by the company is for the managers
of the different departments. Eacf
Of the 1900 employees is hired and
discharged each day. Every nigh
each employe is paid for the day ant
his employment, IN so far as thu
company is concerned, is ended. II h'
shows up again in the morning he IL
again hired and put TO work. rhil
method of handling a force Of 1900
while a novel one. has been found &
give the best results at City Point.
For the most part the town looks lk
la big camp. Special officers are provide
by the powder company 10 enforce til
law and maintain order. Offenders al
punished promptly, and while som
liquor has been eonfseated in the tow
liz is impossible for a'man to drink it an
obtain employment with the powd'
company the next day If he Is found on
High explosives for the European GO
ernments are already being turned OF
at the new plant in tremendous quaint
tics. Carload after carload is shipp'
daily 10 seaports, where it Is loaded f
European ports. Tri-nitro -toleune, OF
Of the most powerful explosives know
and in the last few years used in Il
British army and navy, is being pr
duced in large quantities.
Evening journal., 1915-07-19
AUSTRIA PLOTTING
american SABOTAGE
$6,OO0,OOO Will Be Asked
to Fight Shell Making
For Foes
NEUTRALS UNFAIR,
TISZA is QUOTED

LONDON. July ga despatch to
the Morning Post from Budapest says:
1T is stated that the government
contemplates the mobilization Of all
the Austro-Americans and Hungarian
Americans, of whom there are some
100000. in the United States, so as
TO interfere with the manufacture of
war materials. IL the American Gov
ernment will not meet the demands OF
the central empires"
The despatch quotes a member Of
club OF which Count Tisza, the
Hungarian Premier, is a member, as
saying:
1T is a great mistake on the part
of America tc believe that we are
utterly powerless. for il worst comes
TO worst. we have more than 10000
600 men, mostly In the Eastern States
Germans, Austrians and Hungar-
ians--who are ready TO menace the
business Of munition manufacturers" "
Muenter Feted In Viennal
1T is not quite clear that all this
means the despatch continues,
unless II refers TO the bombs and re-
volvers OF J. Pierpont Morgan's as
sailant, Muenter. who is feted in Vi
enna and Munich as German
martyr
There are 5000 Hungarian socie-
ties in America which can create trou-
bic and foment strikes, but for such
| an undertaking some central organic
| ing body is necessary and the Ameri-
/ can authorities may have something
TO say on that subject, Underground
agitation, on the other hand. would
/ be Of very little use, though there arc
many thousands OF Hungarians en-
/ played in the factories OF America
that are turning out war material for
England and the allies. Though agents
Of German organizations are doine
their best TO impress them with the
ideas. these people pay little or nc
attention 10 them"
Count Tisza. in giving his follow.
ers some idea Of his policy, the
despatch relates. is reported TO have
said something TO this effect.
We have been at war for nearly
year now, and have tried TO behave
modestly. as every great militar,
power should behave We have
worked hard and shed our blood an'
achieved a position in the war whicl
iustifes our taking into consideration
the unfriendly attitude and preten
sions Of certain neutrals who interpre
neutrality entirely IN defiance Of III
spirit Of the word and in accordanc
with their own interests and sent
ments
Should Take a Stand, Says Tiszas
r I'VE think the time has arrive
q when we should take q stand, and
4 the name OF right and justice, raise
/ protest against the menacing and di
loyal attitude of certain neutr
states
q These general phrases. the Morl
i ing Posts correspondent point on
v relate partly to Roumsnia and part
/. to America, but the Premier did NJ
= give any indication as 10 the preci'
Il steps he will take
Evening journal., 1915-07-19
STRIKE Discussed
BY british Cabinet
BY Ed L. KEEN.

United Press STAFF Correspondent
LONDON. July 19.-That the gray-
est crisis England has faced since the
war can only be sverted by the gov
ernment taking over the South Wales
coal mine was the growing convic-
tion today in official circles here
when the cabinet met in special ses-
sion to discuss the great coal strike
Emphasizing the seriousness OF the
situation, every member attended 20
days cabinet session.
Government Investigators believed
the miners will not object seriously to
the temporary naturalization of the
mines. They pointed out that this
would remove the chief bone of con-
tention-the belief on the part of the
miners that the owners are piling vi
huge fortunes by selling at wal
prices" Unless this is done, settle
rent appears remote, the investi
gators frankly told President Runci'
man, of the Government Board oi
Trade today.
In some quarters, 1t was suggested
today that the mine owners grant thi
full demands of the men. pending fu
ture negotiations, while the men re
turn to work. Several cabinet ofi
cials, however, rejected this idea OF
the ground of the governmental weak
ness.
Thousands Of miners who spent thu
weekend at seaside resorts, following
the calling Of the strike, poured int
Cardiff today. where the miners ex
ecutive council was meeting.
Dispatches from Cardiff said tha
the majority of the men stood hrml,
behind their leaders in thenegotiation
with the government.
The coal situation is rapidly becom
ing serious while the South Vale
mines remain idle. The available sup
ply is diminishing rapidly.
Evening journal., 1915-07-19
mRY rnRrMAN TALKS.

NEW YORK, July 19.-The Thaw
case. though thought dead has come
to life again. 4 newspaper inter
view with David Robinson. foreman
OF the jury. that found Thaw sane,
may be the basis for new action on
the part of The State. II was seen to-
day. Seen N the Atlantic City hotel,
where Thaw was staying. Robinson
told reporters that the jury had disre-
garded that part Of Justice Hendricks
charge In which he said the jury must
construct their verdict on the basis
that Thaw was insane at the time he
killed Stanford White
The jury said Robinson. had never
considered the slayer OF White insane
and returned It's verdict on the the
ory that Thaw was justified in shoot
ing the architect Rohinson's state
ments we're hotly repudiated today by
other members OF the jury.
"The unwritten law" they said, had
never been considered by the jury In
its deliberation of the case. and Rob-
inson was termed by them as "a pub.
1 licity seeker"
Evening journal., 1915-07-19
cHApern wIrH ASSAULT.

George Bradford, commission me7-
chant at Fourth and French streets. was
arrested this afternoon by officer Kane
on a charge Of assault and battery on
Guseppi Morzsggozzigi of No. 2ll East
Sixth street. The latter was badly cut
about the mouth and his injuries were
treated at the Delaware Hospital. Five
stitches were put in his lip Bradfcrd
denied that there had been any blows
struck, but that Guiseppi fell against a
basket and cut his lip in that way
Guiscppi claimed, however. that he had
been assaulted Bradford gave $500 bal
for a hearing in City Court tomorrow.
Evening journal., 1915-07-19
POTTER'S field FOR Man
BELIEVED once PREACHER
Bv ND United Presa.

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK. July 19--An unmarked
grave in Potters Field probably will
contain the body OF Henry Lombard,
homeless. ragged she'll Of a man
who died last week in the inehriates
ward at Harlem Hospital. Back OF
Henry Lombard lies past According
to the police, there is but little doubt
that Henry Lombard" is the one time
curate Of the fashionable ST. James
Episcopal Church at Madison avenue
and Eighty-hrst street In the other
days he was the Rev. Henry Rollings.
Rollings was unfrooked by the
church two years ago for alcoholic
excesses and "indiscreet conduct"
Evening journal., 1915-07-19
MANUAL OF Prayer
OF UNITY IS OUT

A manual Of prayer Of unity has
Just been issued by the Protestant
Episcopal Commission on Faith and
Order II is intended for those who
are used to li.urgical foFmularies, but
the committee hopes that they may be
acceptable to all Christian people. A
committee prepared the manual,
which has been published by the com
mission. but the commission does not
assume responsibility for the prayers.
The book includes an office prepara
kory TO the holy communion. a service
Of intercession, a general litany. lit
any of the Holy Ghost. suggestions 10
private and extempere prayer and othe
PRAYERS The contents are from man.
sourees-English, from the Latin, In
Roman missal, Archbishop Laud, copti
liturgy of ST. Cyril and others.
Copies will be sent to all clergyme'
Interested who write TO Robert H. Gar
liner, Gardiner, Maine.
Evening journal., 1915-07-19
churchill FORESEES
ATTACK ON HOLLAND

LONDON. July 19.-The Daily Tele-
graph today prints what purports
10 be an interview granted by
Winston Spencer Churchill, former
First Lord nj the British Admiralty.
TO the London correspondent of the
Nieuw Rotterdsmsche Courant, and
sent by the Daily Telegraph's Rotter-
dam correspondent. II deals mainly
with the question Of Dutch neutrality.
] Mr. Churchill in the interview. did
not conceal his opinion that geopraph-
/ ically and strategically the territorial
arrangement of the mouth Of the river
/ scheldt appeared 10 him unnatural
and that II doubtless had done harm
TO the cause Of the allies.
If Antwerp had been able to obtain
transports along the Scheldt, Mr.
Churchill said, the city need not have
fallen At the same time he admitted
that had the Netherlands permitted
such a violation of its neutrality il
would have been attacked and prob
ably occupied by Germany. and no.
body he said, had a right to expect
such a sacrifice from the Netherlands
Mr.. Churchill was emphatic in stat
ing that the allies would not under an,
circumstances attempt to exert press
ure on the Netherlands to make 4
abandon its neutrality, but while there
was no danger from the allies thu
Dutch were doing we'll to be pre-
pared, for, he declared, "a free Neither
lands cannot exist with a German
Antwerp. and Germany may be force
to attack Holland Germany" MI
Churchill continued. lis getting int
the position Of a wild beast in its Gag
that sees the flames getting nearer an
nearer and makes desperate dashe
left and right. Fortunately. you hav
a great and brave army. And the
your wonderful water line!"
Repeating that Holland had nothir
10 fear from the allies, even now
when peace came 10 be concluded. Al
Churchill ended the interview by e
pressing the opinion that the allies mu
win. When reminded that the Russian
we're drawing back the former Fir
Lord Of the Admiralty added:
"Well, then, perhaps not this yea
] then next year. Our people are toul
: and tenacious"
Evening journal., 1915-07-19
seO.0O0 FOR nLR KINnNEss.

BY The United Press.
PHILADELPHIA. July 19.--Sixty
thousand dollars has been bequeathed
TO Florence M. Moberley. 1856 West
Seventhy-third street, New York, be-
cause she was kind TO Mrs. Sarah T..
Patterson, late n this city, while
holding the position OF companion to
the aged woman, wife Of the Rev.
Herman G. PATTERSON, deceased. The
will. which was probated today. divid-
ed the residue Of the estate. which Is
valued at S50O.00o, between various
institutions of charity related TO the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
Evening journal., 1915-07-19
ENGLAND Wants Peace
AMONG American WORKERS
Bv The United Press.

By The United Press.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass, July 10
Instructions from the British govern
ment to prevent industrial disturb
ances in American factories making
war munitions cor the Allies have
been received by the House Of Nor
gan, New York City according to in
formation received today by Daniel R.
Donovan, chairman of the Labor For
ward Movement for Springfield
Mr.. Donovans information is TO the
effect that D. A. Thomas, agent for
the British government, has transmit
ted his governments orders TO the
Morgans. Mr.. Thomas has the plac-
ing of all orders for Great Britain and
her Allies. 4e is believed to be the
same man who is assuming promi-
nence in the Bridgeport situation and
who is described as the man Of mys-
terry"
The instructions given by Thomas
TO Morgan is not 10 resist the de-
mands Of labor in any OF the factories
which have received war orders foi
the Allies through the House Of Nor
gan.