The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-06-12
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There is something to most Tex
ans about going West that they like
and my experience is the further
west you 90 the more people You
find who sigh and wish they were
further west and this a great mis-
take q great many, who have come
fror1the older states, have made.
TheNhave moved from m county
in TEXAS to another, hunting a better
couutIy, until they have almost
spent a lifetime. The old saying,
"A rolling stone gathers no moss,
is true.
My better half is with me this time
in the western country. After leav-
ing Fl. Worth last Thursday green
pastures and green fields indicated
the fact that more rain had fallen
out here this spring than had fallen
in Ellis county, and as "a conse-
uuence corn is fine and spring oats,
of which there is a large acreage
sown in this western country, are
yielding 50 to - bushels to the acre.
The wheat crop is yielding from
20 to 30 bushels per acre. Sorghum
Is one of the main stays OF all this
western country, and but for this
crop this western country could
never have settled so rapidly and
each and every farmer has "A large
acreage Of il planted and some of
them are already feeding 1t 10 their
stock. 1t is hog, horse and COW
feed and sorghum molasses ia no
bad truck to feed a man IN. Grass
was never better out here and cattle
and horses are sleek and fat. A
mustang out here now with his
pouch full of good, rich mesquite
grass will wall his eyes back, bow
his ears and buck and pitch you fiat
of your back on the ground quick
if you do not watch him closely.
The whole face of the eartt out
here is covered with flowers Of every
hue and calor. 1t is raining every
day since June ! and the flowers
and grass are fresh and green
/ have been here seeming them for
two or three days now, and drinking
copiously of milk until j can feel
the ssenc of this wild mesquite
stealing through my veins and ]
begin to feel like pitching up in the
air myself. When 1 roaUed in this
country twenty years ago l wit
messed many a mustang turned
loose on this mesquite grass, iaded
and broken down and as gentle a.
a lamb. Then catch him up in "a
week afterwards and he would make
your teeth pop pitching and bucking.
This climate and grass has TeJuN-
enating properties that no other
country on earth possesses and "A
man or roman with any life at all
ia them cannot help admiriug and
. -.E-...-.. rsa Will EAHnrF EffERTA
Nv good mother. who was stricken
with paralysis "a year ago, has
never walked since, though her
.lealth is splendid. They wheel her
around i'm "A large rolling chair. She
seems cheerful and is much better
off than | expected TO find her. My
tU1 sisters out here both have large
families and they make life pleasant
tor her and my better half and l.,
myself, too, when We are all here
and We are having a great visit,
President Roosevelt and other
scientists alarm over the Race
Suicide" problem of American lam
lilies does not apply TO Brown coun-
ty or TO any OF this western country
that l have yer visited. Large
families is the rule out here and the
households without children are lew
and far between. One of my sisters
is the mother of ten rosy-cheeked,
bawling, strong, healthy children,
and they are all at bone, but n
and she is married and lives close
by. She is rapidly following In the
footsteps OF her mother with TWO
children in about as many years.
Instances of this kind abound all
through this section. This country
IL nawyaFD1xv nan k4nn mn for any
shortcomings in the way of large
families that may exist In the coun-
ties and states east Of here. The
fact is / am satisfied my relatives
out here are more than evening up
for my shortcomings in this line
and are helping To fulfill the Bible
command for many other house-
holds in Waxahachie who have no
children in them for i do think there
are more homes in Waxahaehie
without children than any other
place on earth.
Gardens are splendid out here.
Yellow legged spring chickens are
ripening. My relatives out here
learned from my good mother no"
to cook and you can bet your socks,
if you wear them, my wife and j are
, living of of the fat OF the land. My
relatives live at May, twenty miles
north of Brownwood. 1t is a town
OF fifteen or twenty business houses
p and Is a prosperous tswn. IL has
lchurches and schools and also "A
Fl paper, the May Enterprise. 1t is q
9 first rate little paper and is well
lpatronized by the business men OF
Z the town. 1t enjoys a good cireula
. tion In the surrounding country.
Texas people take and read more
papers than ever before. They are
A., more up-to-date and better posted
: than the people of the older states.
Many happy days TO the readers
1 of the Enterprise aud may the Coco
! Master smile on as with "a gooc
crnn one time more is the prayer OF