The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-05-08
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thea ons Ions use ~ ~ as3 pfestiEats
will tell Fou ] aafa bad fse ttskefs
scrn&s sae c0uflaeus aAA baex again
II chose The STORY II ghe rvnsit
ssl son b. 60 noe. he greatest ia the
bible and ! fhsnk sermons preached
thsrufrom do more good thAn those
preached from he sefmoB on the
Mount boy. brim tu1 ~ energy
pluck. and gri;. ambitions kaaitby
muscular. Wild and ali imagination
and not a grain ~ Judgment just
has 10 he handled with care. that iA
all. Most Of the time be IS a fool. not
for the want Of se8sc bat for the
want Of experience, for you knuv
he hard knocks of toe long years of
experience jerk the kinks out Of ~
all Now, In my rounds over This
county | have seen and talked with
quite a number Of these Young
bucks. aud boys, ! am going 20
give you nay experience as q prodl-
gal, not TO entertain you altogether.
but 10 do you good ii possible for
I have drunk the drcEs Of the prodi-
gals cup to the bottom. and 20 my
sorrow
Until | was fifteen years old
lived on my fathers farm in Ken
lucky whore | helped make the
crops and went to school In the win
ter time. The last wear was there
my good father gave me a tobacco
patch all my own. | worked II close
and when | sold 1t. IL brought me
s69So Ny father to make me feel
big Just counted me out $500 in
cash. He did this because he loved
me. Ny mother was as glad as she
could be for | was her Oldest child,
and | should have been grateful. 10
say the least of it. but wasn't The
next Sunday we hitched up the hack
10 go to church, but at the last mo-
ment | refused TO go, so was LETT
at home. / watched them as they
drove away. I never shall forget it;
I wish | could for it was the last
time | ever saw my mother. When
they had got some distance from the
gate she called back to me and says:
Don't forget 10 water the little
chickens for we will go to your I'm
Gle Henry's today for dinner ALI
right. Ma" | answered, and we new
err heard each others voices again.
Rut already the devil was in me as
big as a mule. When they were out
of sight put my $500 in my
pocket, put on two suits of clothes,
put the rest of my farmer boy haber-
dashery in a pillow slip and walked
away from the only home a boy ever
has in this world, his fathers roof
NV idea was to go west and get rich
or famous or something or the
kind I got myself into trouble. ana
gave nv mother and father and SIS
ter and brothers more trouble imam
I'll ever be worth tOfthem if | were
to live a thousand years. ! never
even left note saying that | had
left. ! just disappeared, ana thaI
hurt nv parents the more, for theF
had no idea where or which way !
had gone And right here word to
parents. Don't let your boy have 100
much money, for a boy and money
are a bad combination. II ! mad not
had that $500 | would not have
left home.
walked to Columbus, Ky, gave
a man fifteen cents 10 take me across
the Mississippi river in his skiff to
belmont. Mo / got on "a freight
train and went 10 Fort smith, Ark.
There / got job "clerkins IN
livery stable. | slept an the stable on
a cot. aud the first night some thiet
stole every cent of my mopey ana
not know how to handle horses TO
the delight of my boss. so after q
day or two ne fired mo. az the
same time delivering to me parting
yaladietory IN very cnoice cussing. !
Was now ZAP against a. hard; away
from home. out of money, aud out ot
"A lob / went cut into the country
and tried to get work from the far
mer~ but none of them could use me.
I walked no within "a tew miles ot
nusrogge. I g. That evening I bad
asksa at several houses Go sta, an
rlght bat mad failed. was uuusfy
-ai dirly nud bad platinE fever,
eanssa from doius without food and
exhaustion Nt the fast place h'T.
turlq neUfu eame ont Z told him mS
ttfis tale of Woe So sass. Yes SAB
N.s. sab. was rstssd la o.d Nos-
etusku. Mlss by Mares HAS le~n ula-
kam aad he noxsS turned 81 ans
s.sgt. white of h.atA. fish nt r'ot.
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