The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
ABOARD THE FRISCO
A Representative Of This Paper On Route
10 The North.

En- Route TO Indianapolis, Feb. 5,
If my friends ever decide to send
me on pleasure trip, / should pre-
fer they would select time when
the fields are clothed in green rather
than the mantle of the frost king.
and when the clink of ice in the
glasses doesn't produce a feeling of
chilliness. But as my friends didn't
arrange this trip and as / was not
consulted about fixing the date of
the meeting ! was called to attend,
there was nothing to do but to put
on good front and plunge in. Six
O'Clock in the morning is not a sea-
sonable hour to take a train when
ice covers the face of the earth, but
time tables are not arranged to
suit the convenience of your slum-
bers and trains won't wait for you.
however much and long you may
be compelled to wait for them. So
six O'Clock Sunday morning found
me trudging over the CLASSY side
walks toward the Central depot.
After a three hours wait at Fort
Worth, armed with sleeping car
train reached st. Louis, ! boarded a
Frisco train bound for the latest
Worlds Fair City On this car are
just three passengers and hooked
onto our rear is a model dining car
ready to feed us at SO much per feed.
The Frisco is a pretty smooth propo-
sition in point of equipment and if
should not fare well before reach
ing my destination it will be the
fault of not feeling the porter and the
walters often enough and in suffi-
cient sums. You may talk about
autocrats, but the colored autoerat
of the dining car is master of the
situation and is not long in convinc-
ing you of the fact.
AT O'Clock we reached Sherman
and found the snow mantle little
heavier than anywhere south. At
Denison the railroad yards were
covered with snow. the lines of rail
looking like a string of black on a
sea of white. At o'clock we cross
ed Red river and entered the home
of the Red man. fast responding to
the energy, skill, brain and progress
siyeness of his white successor. The
route of the Frisco lies through the
best agricultural portion of Mr.. In
dams land, and the country is being
fast populated by the white man
and opened TO agriculture. In the
the past few years towns have sprung
up almost over night and are as
thick along this road as they are in
the best populated sections of Texas.
In quick succession we passed half
dozen and make the first stop at
Madill. Shortly after 5 o'clock we
reach Rolf, where Robert Dowdy and
number of other Waxahachians |
are in business. The next stop is at |
Ada, where Bob Wimbish is practic- |
ing law and Arson Yeager Is mould |
ing public opinion for statehood |
with a Campbell press. The boys
didn't know | was coming through
or I'm sure they would have met me |
at the depot with a cold lunch and |
advice how to evade the internal |
revenue laws, for while the colored |
autocrat has a little room in that |
dining car labeled saloon" ii ap- |
pears as impenetrable as the walls
of Troy. If any of my prohibition /
friends, who take a snip" when |
away from Waxahachie. should |
travel to st. Louis through the Ter
ritory, it would be a wise PROPOSE
ton to sneak the "wife's'' black bot
tie from the medicine closet before
leaving home Otherwise you'll
have TO be content with very plain
water.
AT Holdenville. where a number
Of other good Ellis county people
have located. ] again surrender my
self to the colored gentleman in the
dining car. allow him to take what
he wants ont of my pocketbook and
Eat what he gives me in exchange
herefor in silence and gratitude |
He unbends enough 10 promise TO
mail this az Sapuipa az 10 o'clock
~ which hour hope to be asleep. If
he memory of the five dollar will
lam which the conductor held me
lp for does not drive morpheus from
ny eyelids. w. j. B.
p. S.-The snow in the Territory
appears go i've he same color as that
n Texas. while the soil. where IL
'sn be seen. is about The hue af the
Kin of The man who In supposed TO /
'wn IT,