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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-06-14
6yiIIa.

The farneiX are busy harvesting
he grain. dc high winds have
killed lots OF be cotton and the peo-
pie are planning over. Several are
having to bun their seed. We have
never witnessS Il SO much wind At this
time of year
Several fran here went down te
patrick's Chafel Sunday 10 see this
Christian chnrcn which was blown
down durinE the wiudssorm last
Friday nighe
Russell fines Is nursing a bad
case of iauF ps
win MeEaroy and wife visited
their son. Tnwey, aud wife near De-
Soto SUNDAY
Mrs. sue@stolloy OF Louisville Wis
tied her sitter. Mrs. A. Il. Harris.
last week
Mr.. anti Mrs. Il, ~ McAllister
gave their little son Lester birth
day party Hst Wednesday afternoon.
Lester was six years old and is a
bright little fellow and great lover
of Sunday School Several children
attended Jle party and all had q
grand timaand all the ice cream they
could eat
Rev. Hirris will leave this week
to visit rsiatiyea at Baird, Snyder
Hamlin aria other places in the west
Rev. Harrfs announced Sunday
night that he would have some one
to fill his appointment here next
sunday
Mrs. iAugblin OF Oklahoma City
visited M, niece Mrs. l. N. Curry.
lest weelI She also visited her old
friend, Nj h. A. II. Harris.
The NJ @ w and Wootlmen Cir
Gle held their annual memorial ser.
vices at iloh Sunday afternoon w.
z, Laynes made the opening address
and Jud r. ] " Pierson Of Dallas
made ons OF tbs most interesting
talks we pave ever head on that oc-
casiou. Every one present got
some gesd ept Of it. The ". o.
w. decorated the graves of Mesars.
Charlie Eeesee, A. Quite and the
w G. ledies decorated the graves Of
Mesdames Annie Meeue and Ollie
Nelson, fhe singing was furnished
by Long Branch choir ana was en-
ioyed by III.
Earl 80 &c and family OF Gates
spent satTday night with his moth
or, Mrs. Cora Keesee.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-06-14

All members, Especially the Older
members, ara re- aested TO be at reg
ular meeting OF sEonewall Lodge No.
10. K ef r, tok ght WORK in see
ond rank and q Der important busi-
ness. i
~. P. 3oEBucK. c, c.
TOM BAIL, X. Of r. s
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-06-14

Mrs. yrtle Whitley 81 Taylor Il
visiting er sister, Mrs. w + An
derson. University addition
Mrs n Kepiinger went to Min
eral We'll today for few days
visit.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-06-14
the FREtcH CHEER
GENERAL P[AsH|NG

PARIS, ene Major General
Pursuing waS eheered this afternoon
tumultoousl4 when he entered thu
chamber of 3epnties with Ambassa-
dor Sharpe The deputies had 10
saspead hnA ness entirely IN ap-
plause @as great Persling ew-
cd pfofnselys
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18
THE SAND-LOT KID.

His throwing arms uncertain and his
technique's pretty raw,
The way he takes the catcher's throw
would never please McGraw.
He's anxious and impatient when he's
up there at the plate,
At times he picks out the bad ones and
starts swinging like a gate.
They'd laugh to see his awkward
stun in the Big League ranks;
But sand-lot kids like he is make the
Mathewsons and Planks.
He's fun Of pep and ginger when he's
playing on the lot,
He boots 4 few but always tries to get
'em when they're hot.
OF course. he doesn't hook the bag
when stealing. just like Cobb,
But when 1t comes to fight, the kid Is
right there on the job.
He doesn't rival Evers when he makes
an infield play:
He's Just a sand-lot kid, but SO were
Jones and Lajoie.
There's quite a lot Of inside stuff" he
doesn't know about.
He doesn't like to bunt 'em, but pre-
fers to slam 'em out
A clever guy can fool him with a foxy
change Of pace.
And when he plays the bag he's not a
Daubert or a Chase.
His playing's crude compared to that
OF any Big Time crew.
But Donlfn, Cross and Jennings once
were sand-lot youngsters. too.
4 -Baseball Magazine.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18
HOME,

What is the home that we dream
That poets have pictured as such?
Is it the work of the builder,
Or is it the Infinite touch?
Is It that cot built by fancy
Whence all our desires have led?
Or, is it that which we fashioned
With sheltering roof overhead?
What is the home that we dream
Is It merely to shelter us here?
Now. as I bark. through the gloam-
The answer comes sweet to my
Patter Of feet on the stairway,
The music of childish delights.
Soft spoken prayers through the
silence
The lisp of their whispered good
nights.
Books. my good friends and com
paniOns.
Look down upon me from their
shelves
Each shares the home with its mas
-,- ter.
And all loving children them
selves:
Comforts far more than / merit
surround me to cheer me and
bless
Lo. as an end of my musing
sense a soft loving caress.
What is the home that we dream of?
A mansion and cot are the same
Builders but fashion the body,
This Love maRes the heart and
the flame
Love and the prattle Of children,
The patter of feet in the hall,
Happiness. some one to share il
And tenderness over it all.
John d. Wells. in The Buffalo
Evening News
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18
Men VS.. Gravity.
No. 4.


We do not profess to know much
about railroading. but we do pro-
fess to look upon grain. coal and
ore, as products which can be
hsndled by the railroads much bet
ter than they are being handled
now.
Men, or men aided by machinery,
are now being used where gravity
can do the work better and cheap
er.
During war we need all the men
we can get, and any machinery we
can dispense with saves metal and
the fuel to operate the machines.
consequently II we let gravity work
to its full extent we can release
many men for other service, and
can save metal and coal; a condi-
ton which is beneficial in peace as
well as in war.
Our first statement may seem
startling. but let US examine 1t, and
let US begin with grain.
At least two great railroad lead
ers, James ]. Hill and Charles NJ.
Hays, sensed the need for handling
grain by gravity. Mr.. Hays saying
that 1t would be worth millions OF
dollars to the Grand Trunk, and
had either Of these two men lived
long enough the gravity method OF
handling grain would have been in-
troduced. but since these two COM
manding figures have passed away,
it remains for some other leader to
blaze this trail of efficiency.
That it can be done has been prac-
tiually demonstrated so long age
as 1909 at an elevator on the Hill
lines at Superior, Wisconsin, anc
high officials of the present man.
agement Of the Grand Trunk, after
careful investigation, have made
important statements in this con-
nection. one being that one thou
sand gravity box cars would hau
as much grain as three thousand or
dinary box cars. and another being
that it was easy to fix the elevators,
and that all the elevator superin'
tendents wanted this change which
would double their capacity for un-
loading cars.
With these facts before US it seems
strange that no railroad is handling
its grain in gravity box cars, and
We are indeed nonplussed until we
think OF that innate phase OF hu-
man nature which makes it so easy
for most of US to say "let the other
fellow try it first" OF course, some
body must take the initiative or it
never will be done. but it requires
a man who is far visioned and
courageous to begin such a radical
change.
Our world war calls for men and
grain. and the longer the war the
more will men and grain be in de-
mand, hence we feel we are doing
our country a fundamental service
in bringing this matter to public
attention with the, hope of finding
that far visioned and courageous
leader, in office or out OF it, who
will step to the front and make
this change.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18
An Attack on Miss Rankin.

Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin has
not made the most sensational kind of
a hit with the home folks il the
Montana press is any criterion of the
feeling there. Some of the editorial
comment on her course in the House
has been exceedingly bitter, largely be-
cause she has allowed herself to slip
into an untenable position as an apollo
gist for I. w. W. demagogues and
gentry of that class.
The Helena Independent says that if
Miss Rankin carries out her threat to
run for the United States Senate next
year the lineup will be 'the I. w. w.
organizations. Miss Rankin, radical
union labor, theoretical mothers,
slackers. traitors and pacifists versus
Montana farmers, Montana mining in
terests, Montana lumber industries,
legitimate labor unions and the real
mothers of Montana"
Apparently the present antl-Rankin
agitation in her home State is due to
the I. w. W. crisis in the mining dis
tricts and the fact that the Congress-
woman had failed to give due weight
TO the sober, conservative elements in
the State, which believe they have
been disgracefully misrepresented by
Miss Rankin's course.
"All that the Independent need say"
the newspaper continues. "as to the
false ideas which this girl is giving
people of the United States with re-
gard 10 Montana is that the wives of
the Butte miners know she is not
speaking the truth; the wives of Mon
tana farmers, who now see what crops
have been produced standing in the
field because men will not work; the
wives of the industrious, law-abiding
members of labor unions throughout
the State know Jeanette Rankin is
not telling the truth"
Miss Rankin is called the spokes-
woman in Congress for the I. w. W..
the 'lawless organization of idIers."
This charge is one which the Con-
gresswoman should not allow to go
unrefuted and unrepudiated for an in
slant, because the I. W. w. may soon
be under official fire as a tool and
prostitute of pro-Germanism. For
that reason the accusation is entirely
different from one which merely held
Miss Rankin to be the advocate of
malcontents and reckless agitators.
Most women are conservative. "safe
and sane" by temperament; it is Curl
Gus that the first one elected to Con-
gress should be under a bitter fire as
dangerous apostle of radicalism.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18
New York, Day by Day
BY o. o. MCINTYRE.

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York, Aug. 1.-THE dramatic
ally tangled web of love and misery
that caused the young Chilean wife
OF Jack De Saulles. the former foot
ball star of Yale. to kill her husband
has interested Broadway more than
anything else since the Thaw tragedy.
For the De Saulles tragedy was an
echo OF Broadway revels-it is a story
of a brilliant career ruined and an
international romance blighted by the
lure of the White Lights.
1t fell to my lot to interview Mrs
De Saulles after her suit for divorce
at New York hotel where she was
registered as Mrs. Smythe" to es-
cape public notice.
She is a mere wisp OF a girl with
dark mahogany hair. dark limpid eyes
and just a trace of Spanish accent
With her was her boy-the innocent
cause of the tragedy-and on the table
was a pair of little white boots she
had just bought for him and which
she fondled during the interview.
When De Saulles returned from
Chile with his bride the Great White
Way opened her powdered arms and
received to her treacherous bosom her
college hero-idol.
And Jack De SauIles saluted her,
pressed her seductive hand and claim
ed her as his own. And into his hea IT
and brain and soul she planted the
creeping vine that sooner or later
strangles her fools.
The dazzle of Broadway had him
from the start. He had surrendered
to the wiles OF Broadway's handmade
ems. And how they grinned! They
knew that one girl. no matter how
rich, how beautiful, how pure, could
not hold Jack De Saulles. And they
were right.
Sergt. Maj. Mcleod, the shot-up hero,
who calls II want you" from posters
all over the country, is in New York
securing recruits for the British army.
There is a bit Of military informa-
ton which Sergt. Maj. Mcleod gives
that is of interest to young Ameri-
cans who will soon go to the trenches.
The chief annoyance of the soldier
in the trenches is something not near
so appalling at first thought as high
explosive shells. On the contrary II
is something SO minute that it is hard
ly visible. The name of 1t is vermin.
Here you have the prize vermin-
catching method of the Western front:
Get a bag of salt from your COM
pany cook" he says. go down to
the bank of a river or canal, peel your
shirt of. turn it inside out, lay it
down on the bank and sprinkle on ali
the salt 1t will hold. The vermIn will
begin to eat the salt. it will make
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

them very thirsty. and after q while
they will have to 60 down to the river
for O drink. And at that moment.
grab your shirt and run"
AT one of the uptown draft examina-
tions an irascible young man made
1t clear that he did not care for any
part of war. While surgeons were
humping him he explained that he
would not claim exemption but that
he wished heartily that the govern
ment had asked him to do any service
except fighting. He hated fighting on
any account.
A surgeon looking over his official
examination paper. noticed that the
young man was a chauffeur.
We'll" the surgeon said. ut is a
l0-to-1 shot that you will be driving
an ammunition wagon or something
Of that sort. How would that do?"
The young man looked thoughtfui.
THE only Job ia like in war" he
said, would be to operate a taxi foI
a retreating general"
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

Atlantic States. He is always good for an evenings
tertainment.
No. don't believe in lying or in the benefit of
socation with liars but Bills harmless cuss-such
liar that everybody is on to hm-so he's really HARM
less. Anybody who appreciates art in any form readily
recognizes Bill as past master his chosen method
of entertainment.
And so it is with newspaper that wanders from the
path of truth in search of the sensational agtaes for
agitations sake and the like 1t may afford momentay
entertainment but its veracity doubted when it
may be telling the ruth-and the reader looks for
6cation of any news of seeming real Importance in
regular newspaper-the kind of newspaper that lasts
and grows.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

The second court victory of the ad-
Vertising vigilance committee of the
Retail Merchants Association in their
campaign for truth in advertising is
applauded by the rank and file OF
Washington merchants who have taken
1t upon themselves to cooperate with
the various citizens committees to
exterminate the few cases Of attempts
to defraud the buying public through
misleading advertising.
Truthful advertising is one of the
greatest of all public services and the
general standard of advertising in the
Nations Capital is second to no other
city in the country.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

Miss Jeanette Rankin's foes are all
ready beginning to hit back They an
nounce she is appealing for labor votes
to defeat Senator Walsh when she
runs against him for the Senate. The
reports would be more plausible were
II not positively stated by the sole
woman member OF the House that she
would be satisfied to be reelected to
her present DpsitiOD-
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

In relieving the White House Of sut-
fragette pickets, Maj. Pullman has
automatically relieved the community
OF a mob OF hoodlums and irrespon-
sibles. And for this double relief
Washington ought to be truly crate
fuI
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

Representative Ben Johnson, of Ken
lucky. has placed five men upon the
blacklist among those who are men,
TONED for the District Commissioner
ship. To be popular, every candidate
for the place, ought to claim exemp-
ton from the seIectIye group.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18
Bernstorf to Constantinople.

Berlin, via London, Aug. 1.-THE
appointment of Count Won Bern
storff, formerly German Ambas assador
to the United States. as German Am
bassador at Constantinople. is fore
cast. Count Won Bernstorff has ar
rived in Berlin. and has been in
conference with the Imperial Chan
cellof, DR., lichaelis
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

Miss O'Brien, Of New York, evident
ly believes that 10000 in the hand
is worth s225,0OO in the courts. Where
in she shows good judgment, though
the lawyers may not indorse her point
OF view.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

Yield not yourself to grief. my friend
Because some joy has reached its end
For though your sorrows deep anC
sore
For things now gone to come nj
more,
Tis better rather to be glad
IN thinking on the Joy you've had,
Nor mar with an excess Of tears
The pure bliss of the yesteryears
Copyright. l9lTl
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

II he is a believer in preparedness,
supt Whitaker has probably start
ed to dust off some Of the choice cells
In the women's section of the Occa-
guam workhouse.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

We think that Sir Douglas Haig
should adopt the Grant motto: 81
propose to fight it out on this line
II it takes all summer"
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

''one of the first things about con-
scription is that you can't say you
accepted the position" says the New
York telegraph. No. nor rejected the
offer, either.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

There is only one worse bore than
weekend At some house party, and
that is to hear the other fellow tell
what a bore It is.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18
What They Say at The Washington Herald
AN INTERESTING
OLD LIAR

Said a well known
Washington business man
the other day:
when | go back
home to spend a few days
| invariably look up an
old fellow whom | verify
believe to be the biggest
liar In anu Of the Middle
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

the problem for Us by their develop
ment OF a system of athletics which is
a distant contribution Of the colleges
TO national need.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18

In Italy fuel made of old news
papers rolled and compressed Is
coming into use as q substitute for
firewood
The Washington herald., 1917-08-18
VACATION HERAIns
SATURDAY. AUGUST IS, 1911.
A LINE o. CHEER
YIELD NOT.

Written especially for The Washington Hgrald)
By John Kendrick Bangs.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-19

present dan~Cr OF reCrudesepCc. on
tie vindward side of the volcano new
vegetation h4s fully established itself.
apd even the forest Is being renewed.
The famous spine o. obclek. which
once rose more tLan GOO feet above
the cone. disappeared nearly IN wears
ceo. One the site OF the ruined cts
Vi 81. Pierre there are 80 now build.
irgs and two hundred people.
Successful attempts ldy. reCentlf
heen made 10 manufacture subs,t
tlte for rubber tubing ont IF masse-
= solicited glue These tubes. whose
trade name is "Sonjatau." are ever
better thJn those Of rubber tot Ger.
tim purposes according to Technical
honatshefe. since they are more inn.
pcrKious 10 gases ana more resistant
70 heat. It is also claimed tba they do
Tot grow rotten 81 quickly rs rubber.
and that when increased in suitable
envelope they viii Withstand high
pre- sure.
Moreover they are very cheap, gas
tribes of the new material COSTING oul.
50 pfennis per meter The inventor D,
Prof. J. Taube and he states that they
are peculiarly suited for conductors
# petroleum. and gasoline as we'll as
gases. However they are attacked by
water, which obviously limits theit
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-19
DEVICE MEASURES
HEAT Of STARS
LATEST MACHINE HAS MOST
DELICATE THERMo ELEc.
TRIO BATTERY
Extensive Experiments are Conducted
by U. S. Officials

Perhaps the most delicate thcrml
electric battery ever CONSTRUCTED Is
that used by the W. ". Coblentze, d
physicist of the United States bureau
Of standards. in the radiation pyro-
meter with which he has succeeded
IN measuring the heat that reaches
the earth from l12 celestial bodies
eludinS los stars. These measure
ments are the first extensive series
pl the kind ever made, and the work
was done by Mr. Coblent2e in the Lick
observatory AT Mount Hamilton. Cal,
last summer. As an es1mple Of the
amount of heat that the earth receive,
from the stars, Mr.. Coblentze esti-
mated that ii the rays OF rolarS, or
the North Star, were focused upon
eramme of water it would require
100000 years for The temperature OF
the water 10 be raised one degree
centigrade. The suns rays will accom-.
Irish the same work in ab0u, one min
ute.
The distinctive thing about the py.
rometer devised by Mr.. Coblentze IS
S extreme delicacy, which makes it
sensitive to change in temperature
Of millionth of a degree. with the
aid of three foot reflector, his in
strument will register the presence
Of candle fifty two miles away
The vital part of the instrument is
= thermal battery made by joining
two wires Of different metals either
platinum and silver or bismuth and
silver and covering the junction with
l heat absorbing surface painted with
lamp black. The wire used is SO fuo
hat it can scarcely be seen without
the aid of reading glass. and the alb.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-19

sorbing surface t. shout tie size Of
a pinhcad
This battery is inclosed in a glass
sCl with window q. f,oGrite. \
vacuum is maintained in the cell. ana
: f. placed in a telescope 50 That the
i-ht Cs the star 10 be observed Il, 10
.u-ed upon the llouriJe window.
Tho tiny battery or therm9 couple,
: connected with a tangent Ealyanc-
meter which is inClOs-d in an armor
e ol Swedish iron to protect it from
NttlnoOus MAGNETIC influence. Thus
-Ae amount of current generated in
lie thermo couple by the heat of tho
5. ~ Is measured by The saeauompter
within the saiyannmtter mrror
smaller than a pinhcad is suspended
lpoa a fine thread Of spun quartz
Some distance from the front of the
window in the galyanOmeter a scale
Is SET up with 4 strong Light upon it.
This scale is reflected in he ittl,
mirror. which is oh rived throuah a
microscope There IS = tiny dot dpoa
me side Of The face OF The mirror.
The aeneration OF current IN the
thtgmo couple causes The quar.1
thread to twist. turning the mirror
Iom side to side; and this deflectioa
IS measured upon the reflected image
Jf the scale
Df, Edmund Otis Hove, OF the Amer
team Museum OF Natural History has
recently returned to New York after
ompleting the first expedition under
taken with the aid Of the IIe''prm ey-
-loration fund established last year
b memory Of Anelo Heilp,i1 In view
1i the late Prof IIiclp"ir's vtn known
" ork in connection with the eruption
# Mount Pelec il was especially ap.
oropriate that tho first work under
he fund should have been an eSamj-
alton OF the active yolcanls OF the .
-esser Antilles Dr. Horer visited
,audeloupe, Martinique ana ST. Vim.
.ent.
In the American Museum journal
p reports the pi sent condition OF
le famous volcanoes in those islands.
! ON the cone Of Mount pclee con.
adorable steam is still issuing.
housh much less in volume and lowe,
n tpnpnr1tttva hon at fNa t,u.r pf far
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-19

il ratwents rare at spirits wear.
Translucent sheets ~ Sheen.
For deaf Tho cars ~ kings and peers
To serru~' ami desFSlr.
ATi men srill pray in pits ~ clay.
EUtEIpp'd, Ike beasts i'm lairs
while orcr earth tie Sayiour's birth
Is leraidgd once more.
from plaCil lea 10 stormy scl,
From scared 10 sheltered shore
Though rcace on earth reIguel AZ hia brit
In Day.d's city then.
Md vale and hin sang r. GOOD win
Frnm Him toward all men.
Tonight tHa breath OF hate aar death
Is breatHad from MANY n soul.
Each watchful group ami soldier troop
Has slaughter for ita goal
With appraised arm. SIN sarh alarm
Watch shlll ascend abe
BID thnn ne age ~ vnr's ion race
Give way to brothers love.
Md in thy might forbid the iSht
That WAKES dav ny day
Ard lead each race with radiant face
Ana firm cllSpei hands AVA.