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WANT COLUMN. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ WEATHER—Tonight and Tuesday, fair, colder. Max. 88; Min. 62; Rain fall .33. ORDERS TAKEN at the Daily Light office for engraved calling cards, tf FOR SALE—One seven-eighths; Jer sey tow, fresh in milk. See W. H. Davis. 2 5pd FOUND—A pair of eye glasses. Own er can have same by paying for this notice. 2 5 WAXAHACH1E Hot Mineral water delivered daily. B. S. McCourt, old phone 461. tf STENOGRAPHER: Miss Zora Tay lor, office with G. Ci. Groce, Citizens Bank Building. oktf FOUND—Pair of gold rinomed eye glasses. Owner can have same by calling at this office. 2 6 FOR SALE—New Century Type writer cheap. See E. R. Barrow, Cen tral passenger depot. 25 LOST—Lady's parasol on College street. End of handle broken. Please return to T. E. Bowden. 25 FINE COVERS for fine umbrellas a specialty at Arthur Mackoy's Shop, No. 212 East Main street. tf WANTED—Good horse for its feed, very little driving. Best of care guar anteed. Phone Light office. 27 FOUND—-One gent's watch. Owner can have same by proving property and paying for this notice. 27 LOST—Or stolen, one brown panama coat. Finder, or any information,will be rewarded by Mrs. G. C. Groce. 25 FOR RENT—Four room house. City water. On Flat street near pub lic school building. C. M. Supple, tf REWARD OFFERED for anything that's better or more up-to-date than our printing. Both phones 14 8. tf PHONE H. A. McMlLLAN at the Daily Light office when you want printing done of any kind. The best work guaranteed. tf FOR SALE—Fifteen acres of John son grass within one mile of court house. Should be mowed in ten days. W. H. Getzendaner. 2βρ ESTRAYED—Three pige. two months old. Two white and one slightly red. Please notify .). 0. Cul bertson, old phone 345. 26pd LOST—Silverine watch with gold fob. Walthani movement. Liberal re ward if returned to J. .1. Perkins, Waxahachie R. 1. Box 43. 26p NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS—Copy for page and half-page ads for the Weekly Enterprise should reach this office not later than Monday. tf WHEN you have a relative or friend visiting you phone the Daily Light. Every item phoned or sent in is ap preciated by the management. tf WANTED—Room for "one. Room and board preferred neal T. & Β. V. Ry. depot on street car line. Refer ence if required. Address J. J. Mul lane, care Τ. & Β. V. Ry. 25pd LAWN MOWERS accurately sharp ened and adjusted by a new ma chine, 1908 Ideal Grinder, at Arthur Mackoy's shop, back of Spalding & McCartney's store, 212 East Main street. tf CALVIN BROS., are prepared to at tend to your wants when they are in the gents' furnishing line. Clean ing, pressing and repairing receive their careful attention and satisfac tion is always guaranteed. Phone them and see. tf JUDGE GRAY 18 68. T'oNwible Candidate for President Celebrates Hirthdaj. Wilmington, Del., May 4.—Judge George Gray, Delaware's most fa mous citizen, who has been forced by his friends to become a candi date for the democratic presidential nomination, is today the recipient of a flood of congratulations at having reached his 68th milestone. .Judge Gray was born in New Castle, Del. May 4, 1840. and during his entire career as lawyer, attorney general of Delaware. United States senator, jurist, member of the International Permanent Court of Arbitration and chairman of the tnthracite coal strike commission, has maintained his res idence in his natiTfc state. Labor Men ilrgaitlzf. Baton Rouge, La., May 4.—Near ly all the labor unions of Louisiana have sent representatives here to day for the purpose of organizing a State Federation of Labor. The Farmers' Union, as well as the dif ferent trade unions and railroad or ganizations, will be included in the federation. LAWS OF WAR. The Code That Gc^trna Hcetilittes Be tween Civiliz&d Netions. The "laws of war" as at present for mulated by the civilized nations forbid the use of poison against the enemy murder by treachery, as. for example, assuming the uniform or displaying s the flag of a foe: the murder of those ; who have surrendered, whether up >■ conditions or at discretion; decla:·.. tions that no quarter will lie given ; ι : an enemy; the use of such anus n. : projectiles as will cause unnecessary I pain or suffering iy an enemy Hi ■ I abuse of a tlag of truce to gain infor mation concerning an enemy's posi- : tions; all unnecessary destruction of property, whether public or private. They also declare that only fortified [ places shall lie besieged, open cities or , villages not to lie subject to siege or I bonibardmeut; that .public buildings of I whatever character, whether belonging! to church or state, shall be spared; j that plundering by private soldiers or I their officers shall be considered inad missible; that prisoners shall be treat- ; ed with common humanity; that tin· | personal effects and private property of prisoners, excepting their arms and ammunition, shall be respected: that ] the population of an enemy's country j shall be considered exempt from par ticipation in the war unless by hostile I acts they provoke the 111 will of the enemy. Personal and family honor and the religious convictions of an invaded people must be respected by the in vaders and all pillage by regular troops or ihelr followers strictly forbidden. GOT HIS OMELET. I Why One Man Ceased Trying to Be | Funny With Waiter*. "I've never tried to be funny with a ; waiter," the traveler was saying. ' "since the time when I had a little ex-1 perienee with one in California. It was: several years ago, and I was rather 'fresh.' I stepped into a restaurant ' one morning and ordered an omelet. ι "'What kind?' asked the waiter. " 'Why, are there more kinds than j one?' I said. " 'Oh. yes, sir,' he answered me; ; 'there are several.' " 'Well, bring me an ostrich egg ome-1 let.' " 'All right, sir,' he said, 'but you'll have to wait quite awhile. It takes a long time to make an ostrich, egg ome let.' "I told him I had plenty of time, lie went away and was gone fully an hour. Then he came back with a big covered dish. " 'There you arw, sir,' he said, plac ing it tiefore me and uncovering It. "Well, It was an omelet, all right, and -big enough for half a dozen men. Whether there was an ostrich farm in I the neighborhood and he got a real I ostrich egg or whether he made it j from a couple of dozen hens' eggs I don't know, but 1 distinctly remember that it cost me $2—and I learned a valuable lesson."—Youth's Companion. An Old Joke. My Lord Craven, in King .Tames First's Heign. was very desirous to ι see Ben Jouson. which being told to ] Ben, he went to my Lord's House; but, ι being in a very tatter'd Condition, as j Poets sometimes are, the Torter re I fus'd him Admittance, with some ] saucy Language, which the other did I not tall to return. My I/oril, happen ! lng to come out while they were wran gling. asked the occasion of it. Ben. who stood in need of no-body to speak (or him. said, he understood his Lord ship desired to see him; you. Friend, said my Lord, who are you? Ben Jon eon, repiy'd the other. No. no, quoth my Lord, you cannot be Ben Jonson who wrote the Silent Womau, you look a§ if you could not say Bo to a Goose. Bo. cry'd Ben. Very well, said my Lord, who was better pleas'd at the Joke than ο (Tended at the Affront. lam now convinced by your Wit, you are Ben Jonson.—"Joe Miller's Jest Book." 1730. A Wide Distinction. Barney Malloy and Mike Calrey were shingling » roof. "Barney," Mike ask ed, removing a bunch of shingle nails from his mouth ami fettling back com fortably. "what is the difference be tween satisfied and content?" "The difference? Sure, there's none." answered Barney. "If you're satisfied, your're content, and if you're content you're satisfied." "That was my opinion, too, Barney, me l>oy, up to uoV. but It struck me sudden-like as 1 put that last nail In that I am satisfied, all right, that Molly Calrey Is my wife, but I am durned sure I am not content!" Seatless. An English hostess was entertaining about 300 people at a reception and had provided only about seventy-five seat*.'' In despair she said to a com patriot "Oh. I am so distressed! Not three-fourths of these people can sit do wn !" "Bless my soul, madam!" he ex claimed. 'What's the matter with them?" The Martia! Spirit. "When you go into battle," saia the human analyst, "do you feel your heart surge with hostility toward tile foe or anything like that?" "Yes," answered the military ex pert. "In time of war we feel even more resentful toward the foe than we feel toward our rival associates in time of peace."—Washington S»ar. A Study In Dimensions. "Jimmy, how large a piece of cake do you want?" "I want n big piece, but don't gimme so much that I'll tvive to divide It with sister." WAKE BELIEVE GIFTS. A Curious Custom at the Courts * Ε λ st Indian Princes. There is a curious custom at th' courts of the Indian princes. When ; British officer or a physician calls upon a rajah lit' is shown Into tin· re ception <>r throne rooui, where sits the rajah, surrounded by the great state officers. After the exchange of the usual salutations one of the officer brings in a trav on which μ re display ed jewels aud golden ornaments stu 1 ded with valuable stones, perhaps worth £50,000 or more. The trayful >t valuables is supposed to be η present from the rajah to his visitor, and it h offered first to tlie gentleman, who, In- ' dining his head, touches the edge of the tra.v with the tips of his finger··· and it is then passed over to the lady, who Invariably accompanies the Brl. ish officer, if he is married, on such oc I casions. She follows the example < ι ! her husband, and the tray and its con tents are then returned to the Jewel ^ room. In lieu of the unaccepted jewels a long necklace of tinsel, of little valin . Is placed around the neck of each, where it remains during their stay ' within the palace. There is a ver. j strict law against any British officer ; accepting a gift from a native prince, i Even when a doctor may have per- j formed some serious operation upon a i rajah, who, lieing grateful, wishes to I give—exclusive of a money fee, van j lng from £'200 to £1,000, according to the operation performed—a present o! . a shawl, golden cup or some similar valuable, the doctor must obtain spe cial i>ermission from the viceroy before he dare accept the present. if any officer accepts a gift of any value with out such i>ermission he may have to I resign. This rule was made because in j the old days, when the East India com pany governed India, an officer's pick lngs and the presents often extorted from the rajahs were worth much more to him than his salary.—London Tit-Bits. THE LAST MAN SHAVED. An Explanatien by the Barber That Did Not Quiet His Nerves. There were five of us hunting and fishing in the Queensland bush when one rainy day a stranger appeared. He said he was a tramp barlier. and as none of us had been shaved for u fort night we gave him half a day's work. About four hours after he had left us a band of *ix men rode up. and the leader Inquired If we had seen a tall, roughly dressed man pass that way. We told him of the barber, and he looked from man to man and ex claimed : "Good gracious, but you are all fresh ly shaved!" "Yes. we gave the barber a job." "And he shaved each one of you?" "He did and did it well." "Boys, do you hear that?" shouted the man as lie turned to his compan ions. "What of it?" asked one of our party. "Why, he went insane yesterday and cut a man's throat in his barber's chair over at Unadilla, and we're after him to put him in an asylum." They rode away at a gallop and n<?xt morning returned to our camp with the man. who had been captured after a hard fight and was tied on his horse. He seemed to remember us when he was given a drink of water, and as he handed the cnp back he quietly ob served: "I pay. gentlemen, please excuse me. I meant to. finish off the last man who got shaved, but 1 got to thinking of something else, and it slipped my mind."—Cape Times. Beacon Fire* In China. In China euch beacon fires ns spread the alarm of the Spanish armada through England used to be the cnll to war. Many years ago. the story goes, the emperor sat with a beautiful woman looking toward the beacon hills. She would like to see those wait-' lng piles lighted, and upon her Insist ence the thlug was done. The greatest excitement prevailed throughout the provinces, and trooys came hurrying In from all sides. When the leaders learned that no danger menaced, that the fires were lighted to satisfy the whim of a woman, their wrath fed on their lost confidence, and with the ac tual call to arms the response was slow and unenthusiastlc. It was a repetition of the old story In Webster's spelling book. "Wolf" had been cried too often. Antiquity of th· Mortgage. The legal document known as a mort gage can be traced as far back as th? dawn of authentic history. The mort gage comes directly down to us from the Romans, but Its antiquity is much more remote than the Roman nation. The Greeks. Carthagtnians, Persians. Egyptians. Babylonians, all knew of the mortgage and dally used It In their business transactions. It Is safe to say that the custom of giving mort gages Is practically as old as settled ι human society.—New York American. More Than Luck. I "Do you believe In special provi 1 dence?" "Sure! When I was a boy the school I attended was struck by lightning one ' night and burned." ι "Nothing special about that." j "Oh, but It was just the night before I the circus came to town!"—Phlladel ; phia Ledger. Filial Obedience. "Harold." she murmured in his ear. : "mamma says I mustn't encourage you to come here bo often, and I have to do as she tells me, of course, but ι you don't need any encouragement—do j you, dear?" I i — How poor are they that have ao pa ! hence.—Shakespeare. Bachelor Seal Skin. "This skin/'^sid the furrier, "came from a young seal bachelor, a youth Ignorant of love and of life." "How do you know?" the lady asked. "By its fineness, its perfection," he replied. "The pile, you will note, is like close cut velvet. Only bachelor seal skins have such a pile. "The bachelor seal." he went on, "has a rather sad life. The big bull seals in the seal islands have each a household of fifteen or twenty wives, but the young bachelors must herd by themselves. Let one of them at tempt to marry and straightway a bull slays him. Not till he Is big enough to flght and conquer a bull—not till he Is fourteen or fifteen years old—can he know the delight of settling down In a home of his own. "He leads a hard, ascetic, celibate life, only in the end as like as not to make a lady a very fine coat All the very : fine coats, I repeat, are made from the ! unhappy bachelor seals."—Cincinnati ; Enquirer. — Jack Tar and the Actor. I A famous Irish actor of the eigbt ! eenth century named John Moody I early In life, before he went on the ; stage, had been to Jamaica and work | ed hla passage home as a sailor before i the mast One night some time after ι he had been engaged at Drury Lane ; when he was acting Stepbano In "The ! Tempest" a sailor In the front row of ι the pit got up and, standing upon the j seat, hallooed out, "What cheer, Jack ι Moody—what cheer, messmate?" ! This unexpected address rather as ! tonlshed the audience. Moody, how ever, stepped forward and, recognizing the man, called out: "Tom Hullett. keep your Jawking tacks aboard. Don't disturb the crew and passengers. When the show is over make sail for the stage door, and we'll finish the evening over a Jug of punch. But till then, Tom, keep your locker shut." Moody, it Is related, was as good as his word. ! —Cornhill Magazine. Exchanging Amenities. A blatant sample of the loud voiced, self conscious, look-at-me variety of man took his seat In a bus and called to the conductor: "Does this bus go all the way?" "Yes, sir." responded the conductor politely. "Does It go as far as Oxford street? j I want to get out there." , "Yes, sir," was the reply. j "Well, I want you to tail me when ! we get there. You'd better stick a j stamp on your nose or put a straw in I your mouth or tie a knot in one of i your lips, so that you won't forget it." "It would not be convenient for one In my position to do so." said the con ductor courteously, "but If you will kindly pin your ears round your neck I think I shall rememlier to tell you."— London Scrape. Southern Printing Company (Successors to Bayless & Schuster 111-113 N. Rogers St. Phone 20. * ♦ ♦ THE TEMPLE OF JUSTICE ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ —oo— <►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ The Birth Record. F. M. Wells and wife, Maypearl, April 30, boy and girl. James Fincher and wife, Byron. April 14, a boy. George Venable and wife, Byron, April 17. a girl. W. E. Bell and wife, Ray, May 2, a boy. Alfred Pointer and wife, Ray. [ April 8. a girl. Jim Brander and wife, Maypearl. : April 23. a boy. J. A. Mayfleld and wife, Maypearl. j April 4, a girl. Walter Wood and wife, Maypearl, April 21, a boy. J. H. Mitchell and wife, Maypearl, April 17, a boy. J. T. Bailey and wife, Maypearl, April 10, a girl. The Death Roll. Tommy Harmon, aged 1 year, near Maypearl, April 11. Baby Mayfleld, aged 17 days, Au burn, April 21. Courthouse Komis Burned. Another reduction was made in the bonded indebtedness of Ellis county's temple of justice Monday afternoon when eight thous and dollars worth of bonds were burned in the presence of the com missioners' court. The bonds were redeemed several days ago by Coun ty Treasurer Marchbanks. The can celled bonds were from No. 7 to No. 14 inclusive. The remaining indebt edness on the courthouse is about $60,000. Commissioner Lowe was authoriz ed to purchase three steel bridges for his precinct. A special election to vote on the proposition of levying a tax of δ cents on the $100 valuation of prop erty was ordered for school district No. 111. The election will be held May 30. J. T. Solomon was appointed presiding officer. The question of abrogating the special tax of 20 cents on the $100 worth of property in school district No. 107 will be voted on May 30. W. A. Andrews was named as presiding officer. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury. as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely de range the whole system when enter ing it through the mucuous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reput able physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in To ledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price 7Sc per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. χ A Jumbo Newspaper. On Sunday, May 10th, The World will iflsue a Twenty-fifth anniversary number, which will be without ex ception the greatest, most attarctlve and best selling number of that great neswpaper ever issued. It will contain in the neighborhood of two hundred full size newspaper pages. It will cost nearly $100,000 to print and distribute the issue. Each copy will cost about ten cents to produce. There will be separate color sections devoted to automobile, music, real estate, national affairs and to New York, the Wonder City. Besides all of this, there will be the usual first class newspaper comic weekly and magazine. The price remains the same. No extra charge is made for the enlarged number. Edition limit ed. Order at once. Eighteen rolls of toilet paper and holder for $1 at F. S. Cronk Co. tf We Are Located on a side street hut we are "doing business on the square." .... With every order >011 give us you get a fair and square deal. Try us and see. . . if 8 ion. 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