The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-06-25
What is Home Without Mother7
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Just ten years ago this month |
was a student at the University OF
Texas. There bad friend, Harry
Hill, whose daddy had plenty of
money, and the good thing about it
all was this daddy "shel!ed out"
most literally to his son and this
son was stuck on me.
At the close of the term this big
hearted fellow invited me 10 20
north with him and as he said
"have a little rest" | needed it
and he did too. | had been one Of the
final debaters and had done my level
best and had won; he had been elect
ed president of the final bali, iu
which position he had been the head
promoter Of that great fets given
every year by the students Of the
/ old L. Of r., and Of course he was
worn out.
Line hanson and | had done the
debating, and two preachers aud "a
lawyer had been the judges The
preachers had both decided for me,
but that lawyer held uut till the
last for Line, Line was great
society man and had got a barrel
of flowers. / got one bouquet. bias il
wa& from my GIrl, and in il was a
note which i treasure yet. That
girl is now my partner, but she still
hates Line Ransom just because he
came SO near beating me.
But that final ball / still cherish
the memory of its magnificence. 1t
was given in the dining room Of the
Driskill hotel. The tables were re-
moved from the great hail and the
waxed and highly polished floor re-
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smiling youths and maidens like
plate glass mirrors. The walls and
stately columns, with their fragrant,
graceful decorations of palms and
smilaX, hangs around my memory
like some well-remembered dream
OF Fairyland. To me the faces Of
those boys and girls were fairer,
smiles were brighter, costumes more
splendid and diamonds more brill
liant under the lights of that ball
room than ever before OF since.
How well ! remember the graceful
form Of handsome Harry Hill. his
face wreathed in one continuous
smile, as he whirled through, lead
ing the maddening dance, intox-
icated by the thrilling touch Of
Iqueenly maidens' hands.
The next morning we boys met at
the depot, and when the train pulled
in we gave the univ ersity veil.
stepped aboard and were gone. Har-
~ and went to Memphis; there
We took a boat for Rock Island.
The boat was a pleasure boat, with
a crowd Of rollickiuk young folks
from New Orleans, Wick sburg and
Memphis. They had plenty Of mou-
ey and spent 1t like water, ! did
Ell D. d..
but Harry AT once became favor
ite and they treated royalty.
They had "A band ON board and We
danced and promeuaded every eve
ming until exhaustion sent US 70 uuI
berths.
After eight days spent iu one con.
uuuous round Of fun and Nerrs
making We arrived at Rock Isjanu
where Harry oud ! took train
for Chicago. We staii there five
days taking in the sights, then got
on "A Schooner and weuc up Lake
Michigan 10 Beaver Island where
we landed and Harry said We would
rest.
We campod at small town and
spent most OF our time boating and
fishing and shooting hrauts W,
nA5 a great time and Harry being
lot q social turn, We were soon on
ttr hes, ut terms witt our neigh
boI-
About three hundred yards from
our tent there lived "a family Of "a
peculiar makeup. To" father was
"a little fat, squatty Dutchmau about
four and "a half feet ai-h, Hi.
face scanned aud SCARED aud covered
with traces Of carbuuCles TIN 1t
lev. d. a -
Itnau anything else ! can think Of
Harry at once dubbed him Warts. "
The mother was an Irishwoman six
feet high, strong and stout, and
when / tell you she looked feroci0us
/ express il mildly. They had
bunch of little half-breeds running
around but they were mute as NUT
fms. We had not been there long
till we discovered that the felicity
Of that family was not perfect. We
could hear them Iabberiug and fus-
sing, but Harry would laugh and
say, Justiet 'em brinule, old Warts
will take care of himself We
were both for Warts because he
would hang round our tent and eat
and drink everything we would give
him, and in return he would do any
thing for US we would ask him To do.
one evening about an hour 10y sun
we were in our tent. Harry was
smoking aud ! was reading paper
when We heard hostilities open up
in the Warts home. We could hear
the chairs tumble and the children
squall. Presently Mrs. Warts came
out the door holding poor Warts by
the nape Of the n Eek and the seat
OF the breaches. / thought Harry
would Kill himself laughing. But
his laughing soon ceased. This
"she devil" actually threw poor
Warts head foremost against a giant
pine tree that stood In their yard
and broke his neck. We hurried to
the scene as quickly as We could and
Harry being the tieeter Of us got
there first. He was met at the gate
by this woman who jumped on him
like an Infatuated tigress. Harry
was a six-footer too, and an athlete,
but he had to fight for his life
Finally he chOked her down, but by
this time the officers were there and
with the help Of half "a dozen men
Mrs. Warts was led off 70 Jail.
! That evening the inquest was held
! aNar mar IA and ygkiIa wa ware