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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-08

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-08

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-08

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-08

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-08

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-08
ODDITIES or THE WAR.
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LONDON--That King George is
human was strikingly illustrated ON
his latest visit 10 the wounded in a
London hospital
Passing through a ward, the
King asked a wounded Tommy
how he was fed
They feed us like cattle an
swered the soldier
lou don't mean they feed you
on nay?'' wac the Kings Immediate
rejoindsr
When the Tommy" recovered
speech the King WAS gone.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-08

plication Of medicine known
chaulmoogfa oil.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-08

Suppose we try bringing the idle
man and the Idle land together.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-08

LONDON The National cyclist' i
Union has given 1000 members 70
the British infantry while 500 men,
bers have Joined the Army Cyciist
Corps.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-08

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The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30

ing shoes. No one needs to be as
sured of the smart appearance Of such
toilette for the promenade.
But an equally pleasing picture pre-
sents itself If one imagines the coat
worn for travelling. The hat might
be Panama or small outing shape,
the shoes have tops of tan-colored
cloth, and the dress be a plain suspen.
der model worn with pongee shirt
waist. The coat would fit in and COM
plete perfect outfit for the journey.
These coats are all cut on flaring
lines, but they vary somewhat in
length. Pockets and buttons are fea-
tured in their finishing. There is q
great variety of styles in collars, and
in the covert models buttons, collars
and cuffs are usually all of the cloth
In selecting a coat for general wear
it is necessary to make sure that the
material has been shrunk or is water
PROCEED.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30
PLEA FOR THE OLD HOME LIFE
Return to II Would Be of Benefit to
tho Nation, Is the Opinion Of
New Yorker.

Again we hear the praises sung OF
"the old-fashioned mother"-it is a
theme to arouse tender memories and
to inspire imitation among the women
OF today, remarks the New York Mail.
The old-fashioned mother home-loving
and devoted to her children, caring for
them in sickness and in health, from
the cradle to the end-it was she who
made the home and kept it, and who
made the nation strong and great in
the stability Of its units, the homes.
But there was the old-fashioned ia
ther, too, who found his greatest pleas
ure in being by the side of the old-fash-
toned mother, with their children
about them. To him the family fire.
side was the best place on earth, and
he helped to make it such, and mother
and father were the best people in the
world in those days when they nightly
gathered their brood about them for
the family hour-the best hour in the
twenty-four.
Parents of today lose much by not
being old.fashioned, their children lose
more and the nation suffers most of
all, for no people can be truly strong
.When the hearthstone ceases to draw
with compelling force, and when ia.
ther and mother and children are sep
arated in the pursuit of the excite
ments that take the place of the old.
fashioned home life.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30

One Of the fads of the hour, which
is particularly strong with debu-
tantes and other youthful devotees of
fashion, is the Cleopatra headband.
This is a very simple hair ornament
to be called after the wonderful queen
whose name is associated in our
minds with all things splendid and I'M
perlal. 1t is made Of sparkling
rhinestones and binds the brow after
the manner of Egyptian and other
headdresses. And it is entirely Sue
cessful.
Two patterns of this new hair orna-
ment are shown in the picture. They
are among the prettiest of many de-
signs, all made in about the same
way. There is some variation in the
size of the rhinestones: the smaller
ones, used In the more elaborate fig
ures usually, represent more work in
making the band. and are therefore
more expensive. All the bands of
brilliants are mounted on narrow vel
vet ribbon and fasten with a snap
fastener or hook and thread eye, at
the back.
The Cleopatra band looks well with
nearly all the new coiffures, which is
one good reason for its popularity. It
is shown here worn with the Bobby
couture. This particular style seems
to have impressed itself on women
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30

For the woman of average means, a
separate coat, to be worn with frocks
Of varied character, Is necessity OF
the wardrobe. Such a coat needs to
be carefully selected, since 1t is to do
duty as a street coat, for travelling, for
driving in the auto, and for such occa.
sions as may demand sport coat.
But great numbers of separate coats
were designed this spring that are
suitable for all-round service, and have
much style to recommend them as
we'll.
Among them, coats of covert cloth
in tan and kindred shades and those
in black and white checks seem really
to fit in everywhere. They are full
Of style and snap; just the sort Of
garment that the American woman
needs and delights In.
A fine example Of the general utility
coat is pictured here. 1t is black
and-white check, with collar and cuffs
in leather color. These accessories
are often shown in emerald green and
in black with white pipings. so that
there is a choice in color. The coat,
as pictured, is worn over frock OF
black taffeta. A combination of black
and white appears in the Breton sailor
hat and is repeated in the low walk.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30
When Danger Comes.

In the presence of danger, our in.
telligence, our imagination, our will,
are unusually wide awake. We begin
to perceive the limits of accepted
forms Of thought, the inadequacy of
the standards by which we have been
accustomed to pass judgment on life
and on history, and the partial nature
Of truths we had regarded as final
and complete. A great disturbance,
like that Of an earthquake, is passing
beneath our life, and the elements of
that life, including those that are spir-
itual, are re-arranging themselves in
new perspectiyes. We are virtually
living in another world compared with
that in which We were alive year
ago.-Prof L. P. Jacks in the Yale
Review.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30

discipline of the railroad employees,
lack of cooperation between the men
who worked with their hands and the
men who didn't. So Pagan went on
studying in his little tower and he de-
termined to contribute, in some small
degree at least, to the solution of the
problem of railroad accidents,
One day conductor of a freight
train sauntered into the signal tower
and in an offhand way asked Pagan
for a train order. While Pagan worked
the telegraph keys with his bony,
weatherbeaten hands and waited for
the return clicks that would be an or
der from the train dispatcher, the con
ductor signed the blank.
Pagan picked up the blank and
looked at it.
Where is your engineman's sigma
ture?' he asked, handing back the slip.
you know there is a rule that these
orders must be signed by the conduc-
tor and the engineman OF the train. y
The conductor explained that the
ruling that called for the two sigma
lures was dead letter.
DEAD letter or not" said Pagan,
nerved by the knowledge that he was
doing his little share in preventing
useless accidents, Il will not give the
order till have your engineman's sig
nature. Not so long ago that trick
killed three trainmen, wrecked two
engines and cost the company some
thing like fifty thousand dollars" He
recalled the particular accident to
which he alluded. "You must go back
for your engineman's signature"
"You mean to say that I will have to
walk half mile and lose half an hour
in order to get that signature?'
| snapped the conductor. you are the
first signalman who ever picked me
up in this way"
"But l do demand it," said Pagan
| firmly, "and I'll fight to get it." In
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30
ARE YOUTHFUL AT FORTY.FIVE
Women of That Age in This Genera.
ton Do Not Look Over Thirty If
They Use "Precautions."

The American woman of forty-five q
generation ago saw her tOrty-tlve years
Enthusiastically reflected in her mirror
in worry lines, tiabby throat, grazing
hair and sagglng facial muscles. The
woman of that day turned away sadly
enough, no doubt, but her predominant
ing feeling was a sad resignation 10
the inevitable law which decreed that
it was not only natural but right for u
woman Of her advanced years to aD-
pear old. The woman Of fOrty-fve to-
day, yes, and even the woman of fifty,
would laugh il one advanced so absurd
an opinion. The life of today is more
wearing, more active, than was that Of
a generation ago, but her mirror re-
fleets smooth white brow, from
which the worry lines have been ban
ished by the forehead strap" and the
wrinkle plaster" and a firm rounded
throat and chin, the contour of which
is preserved by the application of as
tringents and the artful "chin-strap."
Her hair is abundant and we'll cared
for, and her soft skin is tinted with a
vegetable rouge that cannot be de-
tected.
Perfectly corseted and lithely youth.
full, she finds no difficulty in convinc-
ing the most arrant skeptic that she is
under thirty.-Vogue.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30

more forcibly and more favorably than
any other recently launched Some
persons have gone so far as to have
their hair bobbed at each side. in or
der to adopt the new style, but hair
dressers manage to achieve the right
effect without resorting to SO extreme
a measure. If the hair is not too long
it can be rolled and turned under at
the sides 1t is coiled at the back,
rather fiat to the head.
Do not imagine that the Cleopatra
band is confined to the use Of youth.
full maids. 1t looks unusually we'll
with those styles of Embarrassing IN
which the middle part in the hair Is
used and lends its brilliance to many
a stately couture that matrOnS al
feet.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30
Scarfs Match Hanainqs.

The scarfs for the furniture OF your
room may be made to match the
hangings by cutting out single mo-
tits of cretonne and applying them
to the scarf ends. Place them on
the material in an attractive way and
haste. They can either be sewed with
an over-and-over stitch around the
edge or buttonhole in place. If, how.
ever, you wish a quicker method, ma
chine stitch close to the edge around
the entire motif.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30
Pagan Saw It All But His Hands Were Tied.

this way and others Pagan established
his reputation as an unusual sort of
signalman and with the railroad en-
ployees he gained little popularity by
his new reputation. Soon they began
to ask about him. who is this man
Fagan?" they would say. And before
long they learned a few facts of his
hardworking life.
Fagan's Varied Career.
Fagan-James O. Fagan-was born
and humbly bred in Scotland, where
he went to school, and, through nat.
ural craving, studied all he could learn
about electricity. His first job was as
an apprentice on board a cable-laying
hulk that sailed first to Portugal and
then to the Canary islands and South
America. Then he turned up in South
Africa, where he did some fight.
Ing, and in 1881 he drifted to New
England, where he got a job as teleg.
rapher for the Boston G Lowell rail-
road. Five years later he became
signalman at the - station at West
Cambridge, and there he had been
ever since, earning two dollars and
a half day, In return for which
he managed the switches, took and re-
ceived telegraphic orders and commu.
nications and watched the rails.
About six years ago, several years
after he had made up his mind to
study the question: of preventable &C.
cidents and after he had done a great
deal Of thinking, he climbed down
from his tower for day off. He went
to Boston and made straight tracks
for the editorial Office of one Of the
biggest. most conservative of monthly
magazines.
Pagan hadn't dressed up for the &C.
casion, and he looked gaunt and a
trifie unkempt when he asked to see
the editor. But he managed to get an
Interview. A half hour later he left
the office of the magazine with the
order for an article dealing with the
problem Of accidents on the railroads
OF America and suggestions for their
prevention.
Fasan went back to his tower and
continued to watch trains and operate
Telegraph keys and throw the switches
as conscientiously as ever, but at
night when his duties were over he
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30
YaWn for Your Health.

Doctor Naegeli, professor of medi-
cine at Liege university, commends
the practice of yawning as a physical
reviver. A good yawn, the professor
maintains, is excellent for the lungs,
and for all the breathing organs as
we'll. But there is an art in yawning,
he says, just as there is an art in
breathing. Every yawn should be as
deep as possible, SO as to bring all the
muscles of the throat and chest into
action, and also to fill the lungs with a
current of fresh air.
Doctor Naegeli has known of many
alleviated by persistent yawning, says
the London Chronicle.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30

wrote his article. 1t was better than
the magazine had expected, and an
other followed and finally Pagan wrote
a book on the railroad situation.
Became Suddenly Famous.
Then when the book came out and
everyone who knew anything about
railroading had read It, the railroad
authorities under whom Pagan had
toled for twenty-odd years suddenly
discovered him The president OF his
own railroad concern sent for him.
Then another railroad president
looked him up and received l1agan IS
an authority and an adviser. Pagan
had suddenly become the most famous
sienalman in America, and Theodore
Roosevelt, then president OF the
United States, sent for him to confer
with him also, and listened to him
as eagerly as had the railroad presl.
dents as he told, simply and plctur.
esuuely, his ideas for improved rail-
road operation.
Other men had studied the came
problems before, but they had been
fnanciers or college professors who
contemplated railroad economies from
quiet study. Or at best they had
been practical railroad men who had
had but a short apprenticeship on the
rails. But Fagan-Fagan the eagle
eyed and the gaunt-faced-had spent
% years in his watch tower and had
watched the tracks and switches for
almost a generation. He knew the
language of the telegraph keys and
the spirit of the rails and the hearts
of the locomotive engineers, and he
was able to speak with authority
But what then? OF course Mr.. Fa.
gan was at once promoted? lie must
have been traffic manager, general
manager, superintendent or an officer
of the company, with salary ten Or a
hundred times what he was earning
before. But that Is the romantic
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30
AMOUNTED TO SAME THING
Reading This Anecdote, One Feels
That Mr.. Choate Could on occa.
sions Be Mildly Sarcastic.

You know how, sometimes, a word,
very common word, and one that you
have used innumerable times in one
way or another, will, of a sudden. en-.
tlrely escape your mind. Thus it was
with Mr.. Choate on one occasion dur
Ing his ambassadorship to the Court
OF st. James. He told about II at q
dinner he attended in London.
He said that he went into a hook
shop in the Strand a few days before
to purchase a copy of Dante's IN.
ferno." 1t was his intention to present
the book to a young friend who par.
ticularly wanted to read 1t. Much to
Mr.. Choate's chagrin, the instant he
stepped in the store the word Infer.
no" entirely escaped his mind.
He told the salesman that he would
be back in a minute and he walked
away down to Whitehall trying to
think of the last half of the book he
wanted. OF course it was Dante's
something" but Dante's what ?"-
that was the question.
Finally he gave up trying to recall
the full title and went back to the
shop. The clerk asked him what he
sought. He made a bold stab Il
want a copy Of Dante's He'll" he re-
piled
The clerk darted back to the rear of
the store BY and by he returned with
empty hands Il am very sorry" he
said, but we haven't got He'll by Mr..
Dante, but we've got Twenty Years
in South Africa. by Ceci, Rhodes, If
that would do"
And feeling" conclu,. es Mr. Choate,
that that was practically the same
thing, took the book"
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30
Good Company.

As friends and companions, as
teachers and CONSIDERS, as recreators
and amusers, books are always with
US, and always ready to respond to
our wants. We can take them with
us in our wanderings, or gather them
round us at our firesides. In the lone
ly wilderness and the crowded city,
their spirit will be with us, giving a
meaning to the seemingly confused
movements of humanity, and peopling
the desert with their own bright crea-
tions.-Iohn Alfred Langford.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30
Productivity Of Organisms.

Many estimates have been made of
what would happen If organisms multi.
piled without let or hindrance. We
came across a new one in Prof. ]. F.
Abbott's excellent General Biology"
AN ordinary mosquito Matching from
the egg reaches maturity and lays her
own eggs ten days afterward. A sin.
gle female lays about four hundred
eggs, half of which become females.
II single female should hatch on
April l, and lay her quota of eggs ten
days later, on July 1, 80 days later, if
all lived, the progeny would number
102,914,592, 1884, 4S0, OOs, 0O4,001, mosqui.
toes" We have not verified this.-Ex-
change.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30

thing about the story Of this mans
life. Pagan is still the signalman, and
he still spends his days in the watch
tower at West Cambridge, and he still
earns, aside from what he gets from
his books and articles, at most $3.50
day.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-30
Outino Collars.

Whether the blouse is of silk, tulle
or crepe, the collars are shaped like
the collar On a mans outing shirt and
are held together in front with a bow,
linked buttons or long bar pin.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-05
A Victory fnr bic Rnsiness

The decision Of the United States district
court holding that the United States Steel cor
poration is not a trust in restraint of trade
within the meaning Of the Sherman law is vic
tory for big business. The court holds that II
IL not the size Of the concern but Its power for
harmful monopoly, that makes Il amenable TO
the law. Here is the meat Of the whole matter.
too frequently entirely overlooked by the critics
of big business" The court says: Mere
size OF bigness Of business is not necessarily a
monopoly Of business at the expense of all others
engaged in e."
The demands Of modern life have been met
by development of industry along lines that
have been revolutionary in their effects and yet
but a natural result Of evolutionary growth.
All the great enterprises Of the age have been
built similar principle, the combination Of
units for the greater efficiency in production.
Disturbance has followed and some harmful
effects have flown from these processes. until
remsdied from within or without. Courts have
inferfered. and not always wisely, as, for exam
pie, when the Union Pacific was prevented from
purchasing the Central Pacific. That the sher-
man law is Intellectual when Il comes to the
actual dissolution Of big business combinations
is shown by the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases.
These trusts" we're dissolved. yet out of that
segregation arose new arrangement of bust
ness just as strong as before. Although neither
of these combinations has been able to get a
monopolistic control Of its line. neither has the
consuming public reaped any material advan-
tsge from the dissolution.
The principal effect OF the decision in the
Steel case, though subject to reversal on appeal,
will be to reassure business men that they are
less likely to be hampered in the pursuance OF
legitimate enterprise. and that business need
not suffer merely because 1t is big"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-05
international Comfy.

The departure from New York of personal
messenger from Count Bernstorff to the impe-
rial court OF Germany, under safe conduct from
the other belligerents is a proof that the ma.
lions have not altogether turned savage under
the influence Of war. Time was when a herald
took his life In his hands when he carried a
message from his liege TO another lord. Here
we have a messenger, charged with secret
communication, guaranteed an unmolested pas
sage through the lines of the enemy, in order
that he may rSach HIS home government. No
finer evidence that International comfy is still
a vital force could be given. 1t shows that some
vestige of the restraining influence Of civilisa-
ton remains and that when q settlement OF
differences is approached after armed conflict
has spent Its rage. reason and not brute strength
win be determining factor.
The mission OF this special messenger Is to
give the German chancellory Count Bernstorff's
personal report on the attitude OF the American
people, in order that no misapprehension may
warp judgment when consideration is given to
President Wilson's rejoinder to the note from
Won Jagow. This action. following the couver-
sation between the president and the German
ambassador. is significant OF the desire OF both
countries TO maintain the peace that has so long
subsisted between them, and encourages the be-
lief that the tension will be relieved when the
facts are fully understood on both sides
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-05
The Public Utilities Service Problem.

Chicago has municipal ownership partner
chip with its traction service by which the city
gets So per cent Of the profits after deduction
OF operating expenses. and certain other stipu-
lated charges, which arrangement when made
was regarded as the ideallatic solution of a puE-
fling problem. The experience of the partner
ship has not brought as much money into the
city treasury as was originally expected, al
though It has doubtless put the city in better
position to meet the public's demands. Just
now, however, a new complication Is presented
In the pressure OF the conductors and motormen
for wage increases. which in the aggregate
would amount to several million dollars. and
whose grant the private partners insist would
reduce their share below the point of reasonable
returns. But whether the city's 55 per cent be
much or little seems TO cut no figure, for the
proposal 10 made that the city voluntarily stand
three-fourths OF the wage increases on condi-
ton that the private partners agree TO have one
fourth charged up 20 them.
II is fair TO assume that, despite threats Of
a strike all controversies will be threshed out
In some way by negotiation or arbitration. and
the situation is cited merely 10 show that the
problem OF dealing with the public service utili-
ties does not beset any one city alone. This
problem has been solved over and over again in
various ways in different cities but Just
will not stay solved; in other words, each city
has to solve II for itself every little while as its
local conditions change.