The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-01-10

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| did not have time to tackel the
mountains in queet of deer and bear
the bows said they had shot at. When
a fellow don't get to see his notner
but once a year like | do now and
onlv few days to spend with her
then, the best thing he can do is to
stay close around her, and this did
while | sol burned in Brown county.
| went with her from one neighbor's
to another and enjoyed good TURKEY
dinners and for one Time in my lie /
have enough turkey, and when | got
home my better half had a fine COB
bier in the pen and | begged her for
goodness sake not to slay him Till l
had some what recovered from my
high living while ia the west, and that
old gobbler still struts in his pen aid
am feeding him three times day
and | begin to feel as the days pass BY
my love and relish returning and soon
he too will go the way the others
went. NV good mother is 20 odo
years old and still hale and hearty and
not half as many gray hairs IN her
head as can be seen now in her son S
early piety will leave its traces upon
EVEN the most delicate frame after 8
fellow gets to forty. Sitting in meet
ing houses with cod feet | think
brought part OF my gray hairs.
1t seems that the further ives a
fellow lives in Texas the more is his
anxiety To get still further west, and
oct in Brown county great many
are emigratipg to tue plains and the
men l met out there who had last
summer visited the plains country.
said the older citizens OF the plains
were emigrating Into New Mexico and
Arizona. Almost any county IN Tex
as IL good enough If fellow Ia just
satisfied to stop and go to business
with mis- whole heart and soul. "More
IN the man Than in the country" Is an
old and true saying. | have two
brothers law in Brown an four or
five other citizens who came from the
same country did and we were all
made out OF the same kind o. dirt and
all OF them are making a living for
their families and paying their just
and honest debts and do love TO 20
aoout a mans house whether he Is in
any way related to me or not who is
making a living and paying his debts.
The man who accomplishes this much
is comfortable and happy himself and
within his gate feels the happy effects
of his cheerful labor and success. On
my way out to Brown / met in Fort
Worth and travelled with him to Gran
be rry, an old timer in Texas, He was
a wealthy cattle man and had ranched
away up in the Panhandle for many
years and in his time had some rough
experiences in the wild and woody
days of that region and never took q
back seat any at kind OF an entertain
ment; had killed several men and on
his person he carried an immense six
shooter and in course of conversation
| asked him If the officers were to ar
rest him for it how would he get out
of it. He readily ans wered that he
would pull off his shfrt and show the
bullet holes in his body and they al
ways turned him loose. This man is
now ranching In the Choctaw Nation,
said Texas was too tame for him now,
He got off at Granbury to buy bunch
of cattle. Many of these old timers,
like him, still live out in the extreme
western part of this state and in the
Territories that surround it. This
man seemed to take a fancy to me
and said if got into trouble to call on
him, but informed him that was In
the best kind of humor and was on
my way to see my nanny and he
patted me on my back and said "good
boy.n In Brown county there are two
men still living who settled there right
after the war and both of them be-
, longed to Quantreli's band during the
war. knew them when | lived out
there and 1t has always been known
that they were men that would not dc
to fool with. Two or three fellows
found that out to their sorrow. Lev
Baugh, who settled in that country In
an early day is rare character, has
in his day killed many Indians and o
, few pale faces and 1t is Interesting &c
hear him tell OF the close calls he has
had in the early settlement of thai
, country. Moonlight nights was the
time Iedians prowled and stole horses
and he killed several of the red skin;
before they mounted his mustangs
Baugh and his brother Morg. are boTt
wealthy and good citizens. Havins
once lived out there / greatly enjoy
my trips and as / said in my other let
ter I cannot keep the deyIlish mus
! tang feeling from rising up In me on
, there once In while.
have not had the grip SO far this
! winter, but it has been very near THU
delicate frame several times anG
pretty soon viii be abroad In goot
old Ellis again. We are going to msk'
the best paper this year we have evel
made.
The Dallas News this week had 1
report from the boil wevil from al
over Texas and they are travelling
] north at rapid rate and the farmers
of Ellis county will no doubt be both
cred with them this year. The expe
| rience of farmers where this pest hal
been, is to plant early. Get your corr
and cotton in the ground just Is sooi
. "a possible when the season OF thu
year comes to plant and don't forge
10 plant corn la abundance.