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THE. DAILY LIGHT
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PablUhed Every Day Except San
day by The Light Publishing Co.
C. W. Kent Business Manager
W. A. Own by City Editor
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office ae matter ef the second class
Offices of Publication, 115 and 117
Oollege 8t. : Both phones No. 148
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xmpect, etc., containing 50 words or
Imi will be published free of charge,
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to set a page au., hence the request.
All changes for email ads. should
toe handed in before noon.
▲ rate of 2c a line will be charged
for all notices of church entertain
ments charging an admission fee.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Month f>0
Six Months, in Advance .. 2 7."»
One Year, in Advance tXJ
CITY TICKET
♦
For Mayor:
\V. J. F. Hohb
For Alderman Ward No i:
J. M. Patterson.
For Alderman Ward 2:
8. P. Lanc;hkoud
For Alderman Ward 3:
\V. J. McDikkik.
Κ Κ TIM Ε TABLE
Μ Κ. 4 T., North Bound.
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Loaves 1<> 06 a α
Leaves -, 1U tfj ρ m
^oatta Bound.
Leaves f 28 a m
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Lmvî« ». s 06 ρ m
H Λ T. C„ West Bound.I
No. 48 leaves 6 24 am
No. 46 arrives lu Λ) am—Does not run west Wai»
Wo. 47 arrive? 4 46 pm- Does not run west W«sa.
Wo. 63 ι mixed I leaves f 3U air; Dally except >un.
Wo. 41 leaves 7 33 pm.
Sast Bound.
We. 46 leaves 7 :6<i am—Starts from Waxahachie
Wo. 42 leaves lu & am
Wo. 4M leaves »:05 pe—Starts from Waxahachie
Wo. 64 « mixed ι leaves 4 46 ; m—Liai) y except ?un
Wo. 44 leaves H .90 on
INSTRUCTIONS TO JUDGES
Advised by Comptroller as to
Certain Cases Under the
Pension Law.
Comptroller R. M. Love this week
•eat out from Austin to the county
judges of every county in the state
a letter regarding many applicaatir
tor pensions under the Confederate
pension act, as the comptroller has
been advised of the fact that many
applicants are unable to make proof
of service in the Confederate army
by witnesses residing in the county
where the applicant lives. In all
such cases the comptroller advises
the county as follows:
"Where an applicant for a pension
under the Confederate pension law,
can not make tiie necessary proof of
service in the Confederate army by
witnesses within the county where
such applicant resides —and in
which county the application is
pending this department holds that
the applicant may, by depositions,
taken by virti'e of interrogatories,
framed under the direction of the
county judges with whom the a; ·
plication is filed, and with cross in
terrogatories by such county jud^e
if tie desires it, secure such testi
mony from witnesses who reside
without tlie county, of the residence
of the applicant, or without this
state. It is believed further, that
the testimony of witnesses residing
within the county of the applicant's
residence may be secured by the
same mode of procedure, when for
any reason deemed good and suffi
cient by the county judge, such a
course is deemed necessary by such
officer.
"It is not believed, however, that
exparte affidavits would be a com
pliance with or fulfillment ol the
intention and meaning of the law.
"In all cases where the proof of
service is secured by depositions,
especial care should be exercised by
the county judges that interrogato
ries be so prepared that the answers
thereto will establish clearly the
«identity of the applicant.
"The blanks required for the
above purpose will be furnished by
thii department upon application."
Kscaped an Awful Fate.
Mr. H. Haggins, of Melbourne,
Kla., writes, My doctor told ine j
bad Consumption and nothing could
be do le for ine. J was given up to
die. The offer of a free trial bottle
of Dr. King's New Discovery for
Consumption, induced me to try it.
Kesultt were startling, i am now
vn the road to recovery aud owe all
to Dr. King's New Discovery. It
surely s.tved my life." This great
cure i· guarantee^ for all throat and
lung diseases by Herring-Hparks
Drug Co. Druggists. Prk-e .iUc Λ
$1.00. Tr.al HotMes free.
FROM THE F1ELIX
BY INNOCeWCB ABROAD
The only way to look at the coun
try now is from a car window, that
is if one has the wherewith to buy
the pasteboard to hand to the con
ductor when he comes round through
the car hunting for it. I have very
little of that wherewith to buy that
kind of pasteboard. We do adver
tising for the railroads and they in
return pay us in the kind of paste
board the conductor honors when
one goes traveling. I had some pri
vate business in Sherman and last
Saturday morning I boarded a Katy
train for Dallas. Charlie Kent, my
partner in the Daily Light and who
is business manager of that paper,
went with me. He has a sister
residing in Sherman. Water every
where—enough of that fluid has fal
len in the last four months to al
most float Noah's ark, and about
the only drv spot between Waxa-1
hachie and Dallas we noticed was
when we struck the piked roads!
soon after our train crossed the'
Ellis and Dallas county line. The j
fact is that piked roads looked good j
to an Ellis county citizen and it j
made me green with envy for a Dal- !
las county citizen, who hitches his j
team to vehicles and goes whistling
and trotting to his postoffice, mar
ket and county seat, and this is
what the citizens of Dallas anil Tar
rant counties art- doing now every
day, while at this same good hour
an Ellis county citizen is hitching
six good mules to au empty wagon
and then cannot navigate through
this mud more than a mile an hour.
Ellis county is known throughout
Texas and the world at lar^e to be
one of trie very best and her citizens
are entitled to the best of every
thing and while we have been slower
than some of our nearby neighbor
ing counties in getting some things,
yet the time is coming and I hope
not far off when all the citizens of
this rich, good county will get their
heads together and formulate some
practical plan to secure the much
ueeded (food roads. Dallas has a
population of and when a
country Arkansaw mau like me
irets in there and turning its cor- !
ners, and it a wet town at that, and
me from a county so dry you cau't
bite, 1 had to be careful to keep inv
eyes open and not tfet run over by
the electric cars or taken in by some
smart Aleck who lays around cities
• >f that 8Î7.»· and makes his living off
I greenies like me. One good man
from Red Oak, who was not sus
pecting anything wrong, this winter
handed about one hundred dollars of
his cold cash to onn of this slick
ire η try and that was riirht here in
Dallas. Scartf A O'Connor run a
wholesale paper house in Dallas.
We trad·- with them and it is natu
ral for a country fellow when lie
gets into a big city where no one
I seems to pay any more attention to
h'irn than if he was a cur doir, to go
right straight to where lie knows
some one, and that is what we did
hunted up that paper house quick
and f<-lt better when in there, ami
they called us by our rijrht names,
looked at us straight and asked us
to bave seats.
A great many things to see in Dal
las t<> interest people. The auto
mobile as it flies up and down the
asphalt pavement without the aid of
horse flesh or any other motive
power that can be seen, is a wonder
to a countryman like me. After
gazing at the-e wonderful sights,
buying me a banana and some red
candy and peeping in at a door or j
twit where they sell "liker" that in'
a si«jht to me now , we boarded a
Houston A· lex us Central train for
Sherman, tk"j miles north of Dallas
and after getting out of the little |
skirt of black jacK sand ruff in Kast j
and North Dallas, we again strike!
the black land and on through Rich-1
ardson and Piano, through Collin j
county, by Allen to McKinney, the
county seat, situated in the midst of
as fine black land as the world af
fords and it is a little city of four or ι
five thousand now andirrowing rap-1
iuly. Tremendous big wheat fields
loom up green and pretty as far as ι
the eye can reach from the car win- '
dow and on up through Melissa and
Anna, both clean, bright, new paint
ed towns to Howe in Grayson coun
ty and they say this piace ship·
more wheat and oats than any other
station in Texas andthe recent snow
which fell up here in North Texas
to a depth of six inches, the farm
ers say, almost insures them a boun
tiful wheat crop this season. We
arrived at Sherman between 1 and 3
o'clock. This is now a city of flf-1
teen thousand. The Kidd Key and 1
Austin colleges, the former for girls '
»nd tiie last named for boys, besides I
*everal other colleges and a great ι
number of public ichools make this
the best scnool town in Texas, but
like Waxahachie and all Ellis coun-1
ty the loblollies are all over town)
and country up here. It was Satur
day evening and the sun was shin
ing and Sherman was lull of farn4
ers from the surrounding country.
They have a prohibition election on
hand in Grayson county which,
comes off 7th of March and it never !
fail· to put ginger in tbe people
wherever a prohibition election ic
called off. Denlson, only 9 miles
north of Sherman is a city with a
population equal to Sherman and a
Sard close fight is on hand. It la
ocly four miles^rom Denison to the
In&an Territory. Grayson coeixty
is ·>»ο of the eStfcffeme North Texas
count!*»? and it Wo is a very fine
county Ai.i densely populated. In
circulating through Sherman 1 ran
on to Dr. \Vo*?ey and Mr. Ryburn,
our former county surveyor and a
Mr. Redmond who is up here train
ing horses. These gentlemen all
formerly lived in Waxahaehie and I
was glad to meet tnem They all
take the Enterprise and said they
had Just been looking at my picture
and reading the news from grand old
Ellis connty. Almost every man
who every lived in Ellis county un
less hé did some deviltry and had to
run away from here would like to
get back if he could. Hon J. W.
HI at? f, whom 1 have known for years
and is a prominent banker up there
now, was the first man I struck and
I crossed my number tens and
smoked a good cigar with him and
talked of the good old days when he
and I lived in the same town in the
sandy lands. It makes a fellow feel
good when he is close by big gobs of
greenbacks whether he gets to han
dle them or not. We, in our rush
missed our dinners, but at Mr. Gor
man's, Kent's brother-in-law's hos
pitable home, we devoured a splen
did supper. Mrs. Gorman has been
reading our paper for several years
and she was prepared to appease
that ravenous appetite I am known
to carry with me. Mr. Gorman is a
prosperous hardware man at Sher
man. VVith the former county sur
veyor. Ryburn, we spent a pleasant
niifht. i4e and his splendid, clever
family made us feel at home and we
enjoyed our stav till Sunday noon
and put in the Sabbath morning
looking over the schools and build
ings and handsome churches that
town is noted for. 1 had In my ov
ercoat pocket my Sunday School
book. I looked this over and this
act 1 hope overcame the evil of a
Sunday from home.
CANCER CI' RED! !
Mr. \V. VV. Prickett, Smithfield,
Ills., writes, Sept. 10th, 1901: "1
had been suffering sevt-ral years
with a cancer on my face, which
Kave me great annoyance and un
bearable itching. 1 was using Bal
lard's Snow Liniment for a sore
leg, and through an accident, I
rubbed some ot the liniment on the
cancer, and it gave nie almost in
stant relief, I decided to continue to
use the liniment on the cancer. In
a short time the cancer came
out, niy face healed up and there is
not the slightest scar left. I have
implicit faith in the merits of this
^reparation, and it cannot be too
lighly recommended." 25c, ôOc and
$1.00. For sale bv Hood A Martin.
POULTRY.
A gentleman with a large expe
rience in poultry raising wisely
says: "The dunghill served its day
and generation very well; but profit
in poultry now is possible only with
well-bred fowls." First determine:
which branch of the business suits s
j ou best, poultry for the market or j
eggs. If you want eggs and eggs ;
only then select Leghorns or some
one of the Spanish breeds. Ham- !
burgs are good layers, but are small, j
There are six varieties of Leghorns j
and Hamburgs, differing very little;
from each other, it any, only in plu- j
mage and comb. There ar»* also Hou
dans, Mack Spanish, La Flech·· and
Polish, all good layers and non
setters. Jiint here a word of cau
tion: Remember that poultry like
everything else to do well must
have attention. Don't buy a few
fine chickens or eggs and turn
tliem loose on the farm and expect
K'reat things of them without giving
them some good common house
attention. Proper shelter and I
proper feed are essential even in
this mild climate. Don't try to
raise too many breeds unless you
are well prepared for it and expect
to give them good close attention.
Don't cross the breeds. (iet the
breed that suits you a"'* stick to it.
If you want chicks for spring
market-*'hoose Plymouth Rocks or
Wyandotte». Thechicksare hardy,
feather up nicely and make nice
broilers when eight to twelve weeks
old. Plymouth Rocks are deserved
ly popular, especially with farmers;
are good layers all the year, good
sitters, good mothers, are good for
fall or winter market; in fact, are
the best all-purpose fowls to have.
The Wvandottes are rapidly coming
into public favor and are of superior
merit. «The ditfereut varieties of
game breeds are hardy, active,
good foragers, good layers, good
sitters, excellent mothers and are
splendid table lowls, but their war
like qualities make them unsuitable
for extensive production.
Mr. French, a representative of
the Fort Worth Packeiy, informs
me that they will soon be prepared
to handle all the poultry and egg·
that Texas ma}* have to sell, and
that good prices will ba paid tor
same. He says that we will never
any more see eggs selling at the
discouragingly low price of the past.
There are hundreds, yes, thous
ands of large poultry plants in the
Northern and Western States, some
of which are employing quite a
number of rneu to run them, and
they, of course, are making good
money out of the business. Why
not have a few In Texas?
1 have agveed with Prof. J. H.
Connelf to be with him ut m many
Farmers' Institutes as possible and
talk poultry. We moat stir up a
little more enthusiasm on poultry
raising In Texas. Brother, sister,
help us.
TEXAS AT THE WORLD'S FAIR)
Not to be Represented Would be
• Step Backward.
The progressive element in Texas
is nearly unanimous in favor of the
bill now before the legislature call
ing for an appropriation of $300,000
for the purpose of having Texas
properly represented at the World's
Fair to be held in St. Louis.
Every important busin*?· organ
ization in the state has endorsed
the project, and the people generally
are in favor of it. Not to have
Texas represented at the (treat ex
position would be a step backward.
Such representation cannot be made
as it should unless the state makes
the appropriatioi desired.
Other Southern States with one
tenth the wealth of Texas, and witti
resources insignificant in compari
son with what this state has to ex
ploit atid exhibit, have already made
appropriations.
Id Memoriatn.
Tribute of respect to the memorj of Mrs. Will
i'olnilexter.
Whereas, it has pleased God in
His allwise wisdom to take from uh
Mrs. Claude Collier Poindexter, we,
in humble resignation to His divine,
will, offer the following tribute to
her memory:
Resolved 1st, That in losing her,
the Ladies Aid Society of the Main
Street Christian church has lost one
of its brightest and most helpful
members, one whose name was
synonymous of charity and all good
qualities.
Resolved 2nd, That in her death
The Aid loses one of its must
ci <erful members, faithful and kind,
ever ready to respond, with willing
heart and ready hands, where duty
called, but God has said to her
"Come up higher" and the flower of
her womanhood lias been trans
planted to bloom In the gardens
eternal, leaving behind the sweet
Influence of her life.
Resolved 3rd, That we tender the
bereaved husband and little son our
sincerest sympathy, realizing that
no words of ours can alleviate his
sorrow and distregg, and point him
as she did to Him who "doeth ail
things well."
Μ «κ. W. D. Rï hi KN,
Mkh. C. W. Gibson,
Mrs. Tkhha Edmonson.
Η. ζ T. C. Excursion Rales.
Dallas Grand Lodge I. Ο. Ο. Κ.
of T>xas. Tickets on tale March
let and 2nd. Fare Return
limit March 6th, liAKJ.
San Antonio Convention Wood
men of the World. Tickets on sale
March Hth and 9th. Return limit
March 1 fit h. Fare |> 40.
Galveston— Scottish Kite Reunion,
etc. Ticket· on Hal·* March 7th and
rjth. Return limit leaving Galves
ton March l">th. Fare f0.tiO.
Dallas Account the Banda Rosa
Concerts. Tickets «·η sale March
9th, 10th and 11th. Routid trip fare
$1.30.
K1 Peso—Account Cattle Raisers
Convention. Tickets on sale March
7th, Sth and 9th. Return limit leav
ing El Paso not later than March
15tb. l'are via Houston #19.00, via
Fort Worth $1."».Extension priv
ilege to parties wishing to take ad
vantage side trip excursions Into
Mexico.
T. H. Bakkiiw, Ag't.
Jl'Sf RECEIVED The verr latest
thinfcs iti wrist hags, from 20c up.
Alsê/he latest in belts. Give uh a
looted if you do you'll buy. Wear's
New Century Store. tf
BEST
PASSENGER SERVICE
IN TEXAS.
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Β. Ψ. TURNER,
^ Ocm-l P«nn turn Τ «my
YARD
t I have recentlp^rarcbased the J. D. Stone Wood Twd on 8onib
Roger· Street, and will keep on bànd ait all time· plenty of Rood, ♦
dry Stove Wood, Cord Wood, etc,, which will he sold and de
S llvered at reasonable price·. I earnestly desire a «hare of the
♦ patronage of the citizens of Waxahacfele. . I will treat yon rfgbt ^
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