The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-02-27

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ductor when he comes round through
the car hunting for it. l have very
| little of that wherewith to buy that
kind of pasteboard. We do adver-
Using for the railroads and they in
return pay us in the kind of paste
| board the conductor honors when
| one goes travelling. / had some pri-
vate business in Sherman and last
Saturday morning | boarded a Katy
train for Dallas. Charlie Kent, my
partner in the Daily Light and who
| is business manager of that paper,
went with me. He has sister
residing in Sherman. Water every
where-enough of that fluid has fall
len in the last four months to al
most float NOah's ark, and about
the only dry spot between WaXa
hachie and Dallas we noticed was
when we struck the piked roads
soon after our train crossed the
Ellis and Dallas county line. The
fact is that piked roads looked good
to an Ellis county citizen and it
made me green with envy for a Dali
las county citizen, who bitches his
team to vehicles and goes whistling
and trotting TO his postothce, mar
ket and county seat, and this is
what the citizens of Dallas and Tar
rant counties are doing now every
day, while at this same good hour
an Ellis county citizen is hitching
six good mules 10 an empty wagon
this mud more than mile an hour.
Ellis county is known throughout
Texas and the world at large to be
one of the very best and her citizens
are entitled to the best of every
thing and while we have been slower
than some of our nearby neighbor-
ing counties in getting some things,
yet the time is coming and l hope
not far off when all the citizens of
this rich, good county will get their
heads together and formulate some
needed good roads. Dallas has
population of 1000, and when a
| country Arkansaw man like me
gets in there and turning its cor
ners, and it wet town at that, and
me from county so dry you can't
even get forty drops for a snake
| bite, | had to be careful to keep my
eyes open and not get run over by
| the electric cars or taken in by some
smart AleCk who lays around cities
/ of that size and makes his living off
! greenies like me. One good man
! from Red Oak, who was not sus-
pectiGg anything wrong, this winter
! handed about one hundred dollars of
/ his cold cash 10 one of this slick
/ gentry and that was right here in
/ Dallas. Scarf d O'Connor run
wholes ale paper house in Dallas.
! We trade with them and it is natu-
raj for a country fellow when he
| gets into a big city where no one
! seems To pay any more attention To
! him than if he was cur dog, to 90
right straight to where he knows
some one, and that is what we did
/ hunted mp that paper house quick
| and felt better when in there, and
they called us by our right names,
| looked at us straight and asked US
TO have seats.
\ great many things to see i'm Dial
las to interest people. The auto
mobile as ii flies up and down the
asphalt pavement without the aid of
horse flesh or any other motive
power that can be seen, II wonder
to cOuntryman like me. After
gazing at these wonderful sights,
| buying me a banana and some red
candy and peeping in at door or
two where they sell ''liker' that is
! a sight to me now, we boarded a
| Houston d rexas Central train for
| Sherman, % miles north of Dallas
and after getting out of the little
skirt of black Jack sand ruff in East
and North Dallas, we again strike
the black land and on through Rich
ardson and Plano, through Collin
county, by Allen To Mckinney, the
county seat, situated in the midst of
as fine black land as the world af-
fords and il is a little city of four or
five thousand now and growing rap
IDLY. Tremendous big wheat fields
loom up green and pretty as far as
the eye can reach from the car win
dow and on up through Melissa and
Anna. both clean, bright, new paint
ed towns TO Howe in Grayson coun-
ty and they say this place ships
more wheat and oats than any other
station in Texas andthe recent snow
which fell up here In North Texas
10 a depth of six inches, the farm
ers say, almost insures them a boun-
tiful wheat crop this season. We
arrived at Sherman between , and 3
O'Clock. This is now a city of fir
teen thousand. The Kidd Key and
Austin colleges, the former for girls
and the last named for boys, besides
several other colleges and "A great
number of public schools make this
the best scnOOl town in Texas, but
like Waxahachis and all Ellis coun-
ty the loblollies are all over town
and country up here. 1t was Satur-
day evening and the sun was shin
ing and Sherman was full of faruk
ers from the surrounding country
They have a prohibition election on
hand in Grayson county which
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