The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-05-07
DOCTOR PAINE IN INDIANA
Preaching to the HOosiers and
Incidentally Talking Texas.

CRAwFoRDsvILLE, IND, May 2, '02.
EDITOR LIGHT Well, as you see
from the heading, / am away up
here in the old "Hoosier State" |
left Waxahachie Monday, April q
at a. IN. and arrived in st. Louis
about the same time Tuesday and
from there through the state of Illi-
nois TO this place. From st. Louis
to Terre Haute, Ind, is the grandest
part of the country j ever saw.
(Some as lovely as Ellis down In
Texas.l. 1t is needless to say / am
up here on a preaching tour, but
while at Kansas, ILL.,, in Coles
county, which is denominated the
banner county of the state, In fact,
of the union, In my heated zeal
advocating the merits Of Texas, /
liked to have forgotten my mission
and came near proposing to bet a
fellow five dollars that old Ellis
could roll up more dollars worth of
farm produce annually than any
county In his state.
/ nave heap of fun with these
fellows up here. / was thrown in
connection with General True, who
was prominent brigadier In the
Federal army during the Civil war.
He In also a preacher of the old
Baptist proclivities, fine looking
old man Of two hundred and fifty
pounds weight. Having known
something of me before meeting me,
he expressed surprise lin a jesting
way at my littleness Of stature. /
told him that could be easily ex-
planned, that was OF big stock and
promised we'll myself when youth,
but having entered the service of
my country ut the age Of sixteen
and then thrashing eight big Yanks
like himself, for four years was l
thought, enough to retard the growth
of any youth.
Charlottesville Is in Montgomery
county, having population of ten
Thousand souls and IL the prettiest
town j have ever seen, situated in a
land Of clover, blue grass, fine cows
and maple syrup. A yon know it
Il the home of several Of our noted
authors Of religious novels, and
theatrical literature, viz. BARLEY,
Oliphant, Thompson, Clodfelter and
Lew Wallace, yet with all this there
are some things in which ii
falls behind our own Waxa-
h &C lie, In Texas, and of
course these are the things / try to
keep prominently before the people.
tell them we have q better court
house than they, we have three ma
tionaI banks and they only two, we
have street cars and they have none
but shall say nothing about what
pulls 'em unless | am asked the d.
rect question. / tell them our
horses, cows and mules are as fine
as theirs. Our men are equally as
fine looking and when / get away /
may write back and tell them as for
pretty women they are not in 1t.
Disposing of all levity and super
fluffy of naughtiness, / desire to say
this is grand little city, composed
OF noble, cultured, men and women
of the highest type of American
citizenship, possessed of too mneh
dignity and kindness, to neglect
profound courtesy even to those who
were once their hitteregt opposeFs.
And when / meet these noble brave
boys, (now grayhaired slres, who
wore the blue, while We wore the
gray, and met and fought, and
struggled amid tile clash or sword,
the rattle Of musketry, roar of can
non and nloans Of dying comrades.
Ah, tell me not that such men can
nuf meet. and embrace each other,
and weep, amt thank God, that once