The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-09-03


cyelorama, the history of fifty years,
the most interesting period of the
most interesting century of past
times, as it sweeps in cycles before
vision, and ii the young
were disposed To learn from the ex-
perience of those gone on before, it
would be objectionable if we failed
to teach the lessons learned. But
experience is the coveted
birth right of each and every indi-
vidual that is born into this world,
and can not be bought with a mes S
of advice. Therefore, it is time
wasted, and dangerous, to get in the
course of tine pushing, seething
mass of reckless seekers after pleas
ure, as they surge in eyclonic mad
ness from place to place and from
premature schemes to thoughtless
execution, forgetting that certain
causes produce certain effects. But
we are constrained to write, that in
the years to come, when the average
young man of today in this country
especially be be reared in and about
the towns and cities and becomes
newer of wood and a drawer OF
water, and sits down to bewail his
fate, and you tell him that he sowed
base ball seed and that that is
fruit after it's kind, he can and will
in sadness understand, but it is too
late; the opportunity ispast. OppOr-
tunity would say in poetic warning
Master Of human destlnies ami
Fame, Oye and fortune on my footsteps wait
CITIES and fields ] walk; penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and pass by
r
knock unbidden once al every gate.
u sleeping, wake; II feasting, rise before
turn away. IL is the hour Of fate
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire; and conquer every foe
save death; but those who daily or hesitate
Condemned TO failure penury and woe
seek me IN vain and u~eleSsiy impiOre
answer no. and return no more
The lines quoted speak the truth
concerning the prov erbial goods-bOx
whittlers, the ObJeetless idlers
whose minds and muscles awake
not to the qutckenlng music of the
march of progress.
Our town Is cleaning up: the work
has begun inside and out; our bank
people are identifying the interior
of their place Of business and the
army Of weed cutters have invaded
the streets and back alleys. Some
of the farmers say the worm, that
dieth not in the minds OF the cotton
raisers, is again in the land, laying
waste the staple. We hope il is not
as bad as thought.
Ie scribe had the pleasure of at
tending the Old Soldiers picnic at
Italy last Friday, Aug. >. 1t was
a gala day for the old boys. We
shared the hospitality Of our friends
Mr.. and Mrs. &. r. Wood, which
was tirst-class and reflected a living
sentiment for the heroes of 6l-J that
the boys never fail TO appreciate
We bad speeches from Capt. McRea
Col. Marchbanks and our own in
vincible Jack was there. His speech
was a characteristic one. He dug
deep into the causes leading up 10
the war, and showed conclusively
that the spirit of secession was
stronger north of the Mason Dixon
line prior TO the outbreak of the war
between the states than it was south
and while he Jack thus stood
proudly there, in defense of the
cause and character of our fathers
we could but recall what we thought
of the possibilities of his future,
some ten years ago, and expressed in
the clipping hereuuto attached, and
made part of this communication,
and might be of interest to some, al
least, Of your readers il you would
reprint.
18TH CHAPTER BOOK or zACHEUs.
l.-Ani it came to pass after m any
days that Andrew, whose surname
was Reynolds and who was a Law
maker among the people, lay sick
with a fever, and when he had died
and was buried the people were
grieyed, and began to council one
with another saying, who is il
among us, even the Ellisites, that
can stand in the place of Andrew
among the wise men, in the hou Sc
Of the lawmakers, and not fall?
Therefore in the second month
of the fourth year OF the reign of
Benjamin, the grandson Of his
grandfather, and tie second year OF
the reign of Jim ME the HOgg. Ger.
tain three from among them by the
name of Joseph and Jack the son OF
Richard, and "a wayfariug man
known 10 the people as Dennis,
came, saying IN a loud voice, We
are they who can do those things
moreover We hunger and thirst after
honor and fame.
And the multitude said unto
them, who art thou? And one said
] am Jack the son Of Richard, and
when ] had imbibed much of the
fountain of running water. and
drank deep from the willy stream of
legal lore, came down from among
the mountains unto the city OF
WaXahas.
4 And when he had tarried in
that city, even the capital city OF
the Ellisites for time, behold the
spirit OF Roger was upon him, and
traightway he challenged Joseph
who was tiller Of the soil and a
Just and upright man among the
yeOmanTy after the order OF An.
drew, the departed, whose shoes he
was worthy TO fiji, and was called.
And another was heard which
was the voice Of Joseph. saying,
am descended from the house OF
John and from infancy mp have
quenched my thirst at the famous
fountain Of running water, and hard
by doth | yet liuger upon the noun,
tain, keeping sacred the command
to multiply and repleuisb, and by
the sweat Of my face have 1 eaf
bread all the 1RVa pf my iffa A eft h al