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W. A. OWN H Y City Editor
Residence Phone. Hell No. L'HH.
Cheer up and build that sidewalk
You need exercise. Cut the weeds
and grass.
Protect your credit and watch
confidence grow.
Did ι liai street lighting proposi
tion burn out a fuse?
Unless Waxahachie mineral water
will save him th · condition of the:
chronic kicker is hopeless.
Why not organize a road district i
under the new law and vote bonds I
for the improvement of roads?
Tin· macadamizing of Ferris ave
nue will be the beginning of the end
of bad streets in Waxahachie.
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As the plot thickens prospects for1
fun. tuss and feathers in the next;
gubernatorial campaign increase.
Propositions to pave the court:
house square ought Uι appeal to the j
county and city alike. Both are!
equally interested.
Conscientious Fort Worth is the;
way it must he written Even the1
electric light com pi ny in that city is;
conscience-stricken and has made
voluntary reduction in charges.
If there is any truth in the theory j
of that Herman scientist who has de
clared that there is 110 such thing as
red hair the red headed widow spe
cialist of the Houston Post is in itn-i
mediate need of .111 eye doctor.
There is at least one thing to bet
said in favor of Senator Baile\ lie
declares that he will not be a can
didate for governor of Texas That
leaves two of us at any rate who will j
make up the rank and file.
in the course of an able editorial
the Southern Lumberman says: "In
telligent and prosperous fanning de- i
1 1
mauds good roads, good roads in-.
crease the comfort of farm life and
open the way for better public ser
vice of every description. This in turn
develops and adds to ilie opportun!-j
ties in the towns and cities."
The governor is going to keep the
tax rate down for the purpose of be- ;
ing able to show what he lias done I
for the good people. The fact that!
institutions are crippled and things |s
left undone τ liai should be done does '
not bother him in the least This is j I
not progress and it is not the kind of j
administration Texas stands in need I (
or. This manufacturing of political , »
buncombe ought to stop Texan hasjl
suffered enough from it. I>enison|t
Herald. it
Till: IXXTORS AMI Tin: IMU.SS.
Ai the recent meeting of the llli
| liois State Medical society in Quincy,
I file president. Dr. .1 W I'ettit of Ot
tawa. called attention to tile neces
|siiy of closer relations between the
! physicians and tin· newspapers. "No
agency is more potent for good or
evil ihan the secular press," said the
doctor "By secular press 1 mean
more particularly the newspaper'
I which every day reaches full 90 per
I cent of the reading public, liv far
I the larger part of the public, espe
!<iall> busy people, gef about «II their
j general information from the news
I papers. The newspaper is the only
sonne of information for fully one
half of the reading public. It is the
conveyor of information, and the
average editor is actuated by as
praiseworthy motives in his field of
activity as we are in ours. From be
ing simply a record of events, the
! newspaper now covers almost every
field of human endeavor, even to the
extent oi maintaining departments
[for the teaching of technical knowl
edge, which, though crude and im
perfect as yet. is an effort in the
right direction." Concerning adver
tisements, I » r. Pettit said, in part:
\ broad definition of advertising
would include everything in an ad
vertisement, whether paid or other
wise. which is intended to benefit the
individual If such an advertisement
contained the truth there could be
no longer objection to it. It is the ele
ment of fraud, intentional or other
wise. which makes advertising by
our profession so objectionable. Any
advertisement, devoid of exagger
ation, either expressed or Implied,
should be regarded ; ι s legitimate."
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HKMIY.
Henry, May I. \W have not
liai! enough fain and the farmers are
taking the "blues."
Mrs. Lena Timmons of Brown
count ν is visiting her mother. Mrs.
Mary Farrar.
Λ1 r. Robert Orr has returned from ]
Wichita Falls and reports his son as,
improving.
Messrs. Elmo Headrick and Clyde
Oir spent Sunday in Red Oak.
Several from here enjoyed the
party at Mr. Frank Prude's Friday
right, and one also at Dr. Wadley's
ί Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Ft 1). Roberts visited
in Waxahachie Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Johnson visit
ed their daughter, Mrs. Τ I..I Reid,
near Ferris Sunday.
Mr. W. T. Cole went to Dallas to
Sr. Paul's Sanitarium to be operated
on for appendicitis.
Mr. Cobb has a very sick child.
Miss Elmer Douglass visited home
folks Sunday.
Mr and Mrs. \Y. R. 1'annell spent
Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. ,
Ί oui Ballard.
Miss Annie Pratt visited her sis
ter. Mrs. C. It. Wilson, of Red Oak,'
Sunday.
Several fire going to Mr. Sullivan's!
and getting blackberries which are '
in great demand
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Long Branch. June 1. Every
body knows by now that they are I
ii'· the dus; but looking for tain |
ι \er> minute.
Mrs. ! .'tinie Cavender is on the |
sic!; "si this week.
Ε .! :>elk is also suffering front
la y,. ;>!><·.
J. 11 I'atton has just put in a new
phone.
V iχ * Maggie and Nettie Belew
of Si.nt t Λ una were visiting Mrs.
Silli" Sai f""(1 last week.
Pill Cox ι assed through these
parts last week.
Rev .1. .1 Delk and Mrs. E. .1
lielk «ill be off to Memphis to tile
reunion Sunday.
Rev. I J. Delk bought, a new
inggy horse Monday.
Some of our folks are going to the
ierr\ patches these days.
We regret to have to say that Mr.
iersliel Nelson and wife have left
is and gone to the Sterrett cont
nunity. but wish them success in
heir change.
Mr. lohn Bennett has been biasi
ng for water.
There was an entertainment at
Vlr. Robert May's Saturday night.
in i;\ \ visT
Binna Vista. Ma> 1 Health is
•cry good at prirent.
Children's Daj services wi re well
ittended at this place Sunday.
Mr It 1,. Ferguson and Mr. Bob
lurleson helped a great deal in the
inging services.
We had a \erv good rain last week
nit are needing still more.
Mr. L. L Owen, Mr. Gray Alexan
!er and Mr. Charley Owen were call
d to the bedside of their brother-ln
iw, Mr. Β. B. Moon, in Smih coun- ι
r, near Alt. Sylvan last week. He
led the 25th aud war burled at MV
Sylvan. Mrs. Moon and daughter
Octa. returned to their former home
with Mrs. Moon's mother, Mrs.
Owen.
Mr. and Mrs. Patterson of Rockett
visited at Mr, Teaeue's Saturday
night.
Mrs. W. I'. Lyon attended the
burying of her brother-iu-law. Mr.
Κ it f ('launch, at Ozro last Saturday.
Why the Criminal Weep·.
The central office detective had Inst
went one of the worst criminals In the
city away for a long, long rent.
"Did lie give yon any trouble?" asked
a friend
"No; he did a good deal of crying,
though."
"For some woman. 1 suppose ?"
"Woman? Hather not' They never
cry for human tilings This follow had
a wlfr «ho had stuck by hlni through
the trial and who before he was
caught worked her lingers off for him.
Then there were two children. But he
never mentioned them. He was crying
about Ills flight his pigeons, you know.
He had about sixty fancy ones, nnd
whenever he thought of what would
become of theui while he was away
tears would spring to his eyes. A lot
of the worst .-rooks and gangsters in
the city are fanciers, and a kid couldn't
be more sentimental than thcv jire.
Sometimes, too. they are sorry for
dogs. 1 knew one who was more anx
ious about his ferret than anything
else At the same time I never knew
a criminal, man or woman, who had a
cat among the things they were sorry
to"*)esTe behind."—New York Press.
Chess Word Wanderer».
An interesting set of word wander
ers clusters about the game of chess.
"Shah." the Persian word for king,
was corrupted in French to "eschec,"
which has been transferred into Eng
lish as "check." Our verb and noun
check, in most of the common uses,
has ariseD trom the cry of "Check!"—
literally "King!" or "Look out for your
king!'' which Is given when a player
puts his opponent's king In danger.
When a player has put his opponent's
king In such a condition that he can
not l>e rescued he cries "Checkmate!"
a corruption of the Persian "Shah
mat!" or "The king is dead!" The
chessboard was called In old French
an "esehequler." From this word are
derived our "checker," both verb and
noun; •"checkers," the name of an
other game played on the same kind
of board, and "exchequer," so called
on account of the checkered cloth on
which a< counts were formerly calcu
lated.- Minneapolis .Tournai.
Three New Hats.
Milliners liavi' other troubles bcsWex
the frerui i t dttti> n 11y of collecting
bills. Out milliner tells of a letter she
received from the wife of a man who
in a brief time had advanced from
poverty to great wealth. His family
was still in obscurity, but was prepar
ing to emerge.
"1 want you should make a bonnet
and two huts right off." wrote the
wife, "for me and ι lie girls, and ex
pense is no account.
"My measure Is nearly twelve inches
from ear to ear over the head and
eight under chili and six from top of
fcrard to ha· k hair and that's near
enuff for both the «Iris.
"I'm sa tidy, Jane is dark, and Lucy's
got red hair. We want lively colors,
and I want blue flowers and strings
011 mine, besides some plooms.
".lane wants hers green, and Lucy
wants pink Wo don't care what shapes,
but they must be becoming and so as J
they won't Mow to peaces in the wind.
Nor we don't want them loud, for my
husband won't hear to such.
"Please send within live days, and
if satisfatc ry bill « ill be paid at once." I
—Youth's Companion.
Curly Hair Means Obstinacy.
The curly headed man uttered an ex- |
clamatlon of maze.
"Strange." lie said. "1 have been !
drawn fur juries time and again. but !
I have never served. They always
challenge me. 1 wonder why?"
"It is your curly hair," said a law
yer "Λ curly headed man kills a jury.
He always causée it to disagree."
"That is nut true. You must be j
crazy." said the other.
"It is the gospel truth," the lawyer |
persiste.I "Cur1 1 Mils are as obsti |
nate as milles I ' hint they know j
It all ■ - uiee ith everybody, j
"It 1 1 · I. hastened to add. I
"the: : il I; them so good i
lock' Il ι I Id .ι d ih'-v are spoiled !
by il ' 1 p. rents, and in maturity wo '
men spoil thctn. falling In love with]
tliem '.11 every side. So they liecome j
cone· led I'lley disagree with e\ery
body Lawyers the world over recog-I
nlze 111 ; 11 as jurymen the* would never
do." New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Had an Answer.
This story Is being told on a Swede j
In een'r;il Kansas who was given t > [
ΒΛ es-jve use of the bottle lie was
working :it a certain house, doins: odd
jobs, and the daughter of the house
knew of his reprehensible habits. She
thought It time for some one to re-j
monstrate with him on the error of Ids
Λ ays
"Why," she asked, "are you not
iShmncd to spend all your wages :ind j
niuue your wife take In washing?
IVb3 don't you give her some money?"
"Well," he answered, "I have en ln
•oine besides my wages."
"Ob, is that so ?" said the daughter,
lomewhat mollified
"Yes." he said. "1 have an income \
'rom the queen of Sweden."
"What for?" asked the girl. '
"For luiudlng my own business," an- 1
iwered the Swede, going on with hi·
rork. -Kansae City Joernai.
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I shall discourse upon matters and
tilings In general and some In par
ticular today. Some of you will not
agree with me in part and some pos
sibly on the whole. For such I am
ι very sorry, for the fellow who agrees
with ine on all things generally has a
pretty good time and is not very un
easy about results.
I attended a concert not long ago
and witnessed a drill by some half
dozen blooming, blushing, vivacious
maidens. They were attired in the
three colors of our national flag,
marching to the soft, soothing strains
of music. As I beheld their radiant
faces on which was stamped the im
print of innocence and the light elas
ticity of their steps 1 could find
I nothing to which to compare them
j but the blood-washed throng which
IRevelations tell us promenades the
streets of the New Jerusalem. 1 could
set> that not one unholy thought
found lodgment in their pure, fresh.
I young minds. The sole aim of each
one was to act well her part. As the
march progressed 1 suppose the mu
sic commanded double quick for I
heard a fain sound of heel and toe
action upon the uncarpeted floor of
the stage. The audience clapped,
whistled and Stamped an encore. It
seemed that all were well pleased.
Later on the fact developed that
there was one present, a would be
leader in morals, who had his feel
ings hurt because they danced. May
the Lord of Glory have mercy on
that man or woman whose religion
is of that brand which would prohib
it real live, young buoyant man
hood and womanhood f-roni giving
vent to the joy of youth and gopd
health when they can do so without
injury to themselves or any one
else. The man or woman so dead to
all sense of sympathy with their
kind as to look with disapproval upon
an exhibiton of the rhythmic, move
ments of graceful youth to the sweet
«trains of music if given the ruling
of the universe would hush the sil
very laugh of childhood, tie the colt
where it could not play in the pasture
— consign the lamb to a sty with the
lethargic fattening hog, stop the
warble of the songsters of forest,
still the murmer of the purling
brook, quiet the song bird of the
gentle zephyrs in the waving
I boughs of the trees, possibly erradi
leate the flowers from the bosom of
; mother earth, over rule all concert
I mot ion, cause (he plow boy instead
I of whistling and singing in concert
ί with the lark to ko moodily and sil
ently to his work. Such religion
would drive all joy and happiness
out of an earthly existence and make
it such a dreary, desolate abode 'hat
we would in concert and .truth fully
sing. "I would not live always. I ask
not to staj· where storm after storm
rises o'er the way." 1 do mit * be
lieve the loss we would sustain to
make the sentiment of the song true
would he made to its merely by mak
ing true that which has been false·
ever since it found its way into the
hymn book. I know we are composed
of the mental and the physical mair
and am told there is a third part
tailed the spiritual and am inclined
to believe it for there is a kind of an
undefinable non understandable,
something about us all which if not
spiritual it. has not been classified, j
These three attributes of man should '
all receive attention but 110 one to :
the exclusion of the other two. The
development of the physical man to ;
the exclusion of all else makes an a-n 1
inial 110 better than a hog and not as
useful because unfit for bacon. Too |
high mental development makes a !
machine with no more human sytn-{
pathy than a sausage mill and will j
even cause one to try as impractical
as telephoning to the martins.
Too much spirituality causes one
to forget that man is an animal and
has a god given capacity for the en
joyment of the things of this world.
For real genuine enjoyment give me
real live, joyous, laughter-loving
men and women, boys and girls for
companions, and if the music sug
gests a shake of the foot let it shake
for 1 have never heard of the Lord
ever lecturing Sister Miriam for that
little jig she and the other women
lanced when they got safely out of
the reach of the Egyptian hosts. We
will go 011 through.this world doing
ill the good we can and as little
harm as possible, take the moral
teachings of Christ as our guide
111 d possibly enter the portals of the
Holy C'itv as soon as our brethren
ivho have had no fun here.
Ar some future time I shall preach
t sermon on the life and character
>f C'hirst.
.1. D. Kirk is one of these quiet,
dcasant fellows on whom you may
iafely depend. If he is your friend
îe is your friend. 1 spent Monday
light with him and his daughter,
rhe two live peaciably together. J.A.
iray was plowing some land ready
ο plant if he ever gets any rain. He
vas as cheerful as if nothing was
*rong and renewed his paper. Mr.
ind Mrs. S. A. Shull lire alone on
I the farm 011 Waxahachie 2, their
'children both being married. I spent
ian hour with these worthy people
and got a good dinner.
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Shull's pine·· and will now read the
I lin; ■ i'pri-··. I have said so much
about Tm Cornier on Red Oak 1,
that I fe I 1U;· letting him a 1 ore for
he is not < ne of those fellov/s who
I wisln s Ί\ν «ys ιο see his name in
Ipri. · nor is rn\ other sensible per
I son Ho'.over, I must -1 η te that I
j six·--1 Tu· y niplii with him and
I we lalke-i u .til 1 a>e. 1 was about, to
t'orret to men loi. that 1 called on
\V. \V. Fowi rs on Midlothian 'J Tues
day an i ''fund him working with his
bees. He invited me to spend the
night with him but it was too early
to oVoj). At Red Oak I found S T.
Fry, a handsome, industrious son of
Vulcan and a widower hammering
iron for dear life. If I was a widow
or just tolerably old maid 1 would
try to see him. Brown Bros., drug
gists at Red Oak have just completed
a new store house and have a nice
stock. M. Brown, one of the brothers
was recovering from an attack of fe
ver. At Red Oak I boarded .'he train
for Waxahachie. Out on the way to
Boyce I got dinner with Mr. and Mrs.
.1, W. Brooks. Near Nash, at the res
idence of Mr. and Mrs. Ν. B. Nash.
I saw one of the prettiest sights 1
have seen for a long time, one hun
dred young turkeys within a radius
of ten feet. Those turkeys do not
seem like much but at the price they
represent more than one hundred
dollars. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson
Borders were at home ai Boyce and
renewed their allegiance to the Bn
terprisc· At Boyce I lost a game or
two at forty-two, got the promise of
lots of political discussion next year
:·till went on to Mr. and .Mrs. W. B.
R a;:or's wliere I spent the night.
Their oldest daughter had recently
returned home from Milford where
sin· taught ill the public school. W.
A. Kyb ·Λ4-. plowing the largest and
healthiist corn I had seen up to that
linn·, but I found more good corn
in the community. At. Howard I
made a dinner off cove oysters and I
went on to Flave Davenport's riding;
part of tlie way with \V. R. Woods, j
Flave found I was sick and gave me !
a dose of medicine which was not j
bad to take and it revived me much-ί
ι ly. W. C. Osborn on Ennis 4 wag
' busy in his crop and had had plenty
lof rain. R. L. Clanton, superintend
ent of the Getzendauer farm w.·out
looking over the premises. 1 met Mr.
and Mrs. B. W. Walker of Ennis 4
on the road and held him up. Dr.
j\Y. B. Armstrong of Howard is doing
I a good practice. He recently married
ι a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Ci
[Godfrey and I can see already he is
more cheerful. It is a great thing for t
a man to get married hut Lord pity
'the woman. At Forreston I visited
that widow and attended the concert
of the closing exercises of the school.
R. C. Justice, a good live proposi
tion at Forreston, enjoys life and
; prospers. He recently bought the Van
leer farm and has lots of wood. In
the Avalon country they were repair
Mug the damage done by ihe storm.
I It was much worse than reported by
(the papers. A crowd bad gathered at
the Baptist church to put it on the
blocks again. J. H. Giles and his sou,
M. are both prosperous farmers
and good citizens and will now read
the Enterprise. 1 got into trouble a
time or two by calling readers good
citizens but 1 think I am safe this
time. A L. Chapman is farming on
Waxahachie 1. Peter Clark, colored,
an industrious, peaciably citizen of
Forreston, came to my boarding
house Sunday and handed me a quar
ter and 1 knew what to do with it.
A. .1. Curlee, one of the leading
horsemen of Ellis county and pro
prietor of a breeding stable at Wax
ahachie showed me a hors e he
bought from a farmer last winter foi
that has paced a mile In II 3-5.
I guess that is fast or he would not
have told be about it. I know nothing
about fast and care nothing for
horses but do not condemn people
who do. 13ILL COX.
Men fast l-'ll'tv In limiter.
Men past middle life have found
comfort and relief in Foley's Kidney
Rented·'. L. E. Morris, Dexter, Κν.,
writes: "Up to a year ago my father
suffered from kidney and bladder
trouble and several physicians pro
nounced it eniargemyit ot the pros
tate gland and advised an operation.
On account of his age we were afraid
Ik could not stand it and i recom
mended Foley's Kidney Remedy, and
the first bottle relieved him, and af
ter taking the second bottle he w-as
no longer troubled with this com
plaint." II. W. Fearis. d
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