The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-11
From The FIELD.
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WRIST MONDAY AND 4 rRIP 70 ENNIS


more and horse and mule trading
was lively. One man from Texar-
kama bought carload OF horses to
ship to that place and another thing,
/ think besides horse trading, which
helped to swell the crowd, was the
fact that this was the last first Mon
day that whiskey will be sold.
During this week is the last day of
grace for the saloons. They will
close for two years and If at the end
of that time prohibition is the best
for Ellis county it will go on. If at
the end of two years the citizens Of
the county think prohibition is not
the best then they will be allowed to
take another vote on it. In repub-
lie like the government of the United
States, aud it is given up by the
whole world that ours is the pest
government on earth, ma1orltles
must rule. Every man has bis own
peculiar ideas about each and every
man and each and every question
that from time to time comes up
to be voted on, but when the cleo
tions are over for men and measures
coming before us at the different
elections and the citizens cast their
vote and say who they want for
office or what measures or laws shall
be adopted then we acquiesce, say
no more and let the majority rule.
Prohibition carried in Ellis county
at the last election by over SIX
hundred majority and of course
after this week there will be no
more whiskey sold for two years and
now it is the duty of every good
citizen to see to it that the law Is en-
forced, run down and inform on
every blind tiger fellow we see and
if at the end of two years the people
are satisfied with dry county let 1t
remain dry, but if not, take another
vote on 1t.
Monday evening of the last first
Monday kinder looked like Christ
mas eve. Many a jug and bottle
fall of liquor was packed home on
that evening. 1t was the last call,
and they made use of it. Maybe
one can get used TO doing without it,
if not and we are compelled to have
some of the article for snake bites
and bad colds and grip we can send
of and get forty drops and l guess
when we have to do that we will use
il more sparingly and make 1t go
further.
Last week was wet, too wet 10
pick cotton or even peddle news
papers ana | was kept at home.
These number tens of mine fit and
feel better tramping down cotton
row or along the road than they do
walking around on brick and cement
sidewalks like they have In Waxa-
hachie and other towns. / was born
IN a log cabin in the midst of big
cotton plantation, my father emf
grated from South Carolina 10 Ala
bama with bis negroes when he was
a young man, married there in Mar
engo county, one of the finest
counties in that grand old state, and
on the farm | first saw the light and
| still love the farm. / love to go
among farmers and see what they
are doing and then tell it.
Last Saturday at Ii O'Clock /
boarded the Central train for Ennis.
Several others were aboard and
among them was d, j. Mitchell of
Alma He has a son now in Il civil
engineers office in Houston county.
Mr.. Mitchell is painter and he re-
marked to me there's no use in saying
"a poor boy could not get an eduea-
ton. He educated this boy and he
has been promoted and now has
splendid paying job. 1t takes boy
with good head on him and fairly
good education to fill civil engi-
neer's place and with Trinity Uni
versity in Waxahachie, right here
at the door of every boy and girl in
Ellis county, / conf1dentially expect
to see many of them enter its walls
and under the roof of that magnifi-
cent institution of learning / expect
to see them educated and prepared
to I'LL any position In life they wish.
l always have a grand day in En-
mis-. The citizens from six or eight
different postoffices in Ellis county
gather there Saturday or at least
quite a number OF them do and here
/ meet them, get new subscribers
and get pay from those who owe me
for our paper. A man who makes
good newspaper, gathers all the
news and keepslup with his collec-
tions, has not got to let the grass
grow under his number tens. In
the six years / have been in the
newspaper business in Ellis county
/ have never yet laid down on our
subscribers and this fail we have re-
ceived more compliments than ever
before. Hundreds of our subscribers
have said to me as they paid me for
our paper that the Enterprise is bet
ter than ever and when fellow
goes to paying for a thing he and his
family have been using, right there
and then you get his honest senti-
ments, and when these hundreds OF
our subscribers as they hand me the
money to pay for the paper they and
their good wives and children have
been reading for years and say to
me it liz better than ever / know
they do not begrudge me the money
and this nerves all connected with
our paper to work the harder and
make the paper better each year.
In Ennis when / am hungry Red
Headed Jones usually feeds me and
he did Saturday, but the time before
this that / was there, two weeks
ago, Wood Overall, who runs a
grocery store and is doing a splendid
business, led me round to building
where the Baptist ladies had an ele-
giant dinner and there we both, who
are six feet and four inches tall
each, Toasted to our hearts content
and when we had finished not cent
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