The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-23
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greatest delights was listening tn
/ the old soldiers tell their experiences
I In The ~ar NJ very blood would
/ Jingle when they would tell Of eaars~
/ Ing battery ar taking a fortified
/ position, and hos they would come
back cheering and all covered with
! glory, Hut when they would tell the
I other sid. og how some brother or
| dear comrade wav left dead ON the
| field Of carnag. In bs buried in an
unknown grave, | would shudder. 1
| parienc.s yet, and last week I spent
a night az the home of my good
| friend. W. A. Owen He spent four
years in III. unpleasantness from
| 81 10 's5. was in the army Of the
| Tennessee and of course has seen
smoke and has heard the whiz of
| bullets. Were YOU anxious To get
into the war;" asked him well.
| ! should say ] was he answered.
! "I was just crazy to get In. in fact.
! | was afraid the fighting would all
| be over before | could get there. |
| remember a white haired old law
yer made speeches to us and told us
tn flowery language of how the brave
only deserved the fair and told us
| the front was the place to win fame
and the fair ladies. | was a ladies
man and pushed TO the front as soon
! as possible. This old hero of the
| platform and professional wind jam
mer told us, too, that the Yankees
| couldn't shoot and that one Rebel
could whip ten Yankees. | never
shall forget my first battle My COM
rade and | were behind a rail fence
and the bullets were spatting all
around and the splinters were fly
ing in our faces. Ny comrade called
to me and says: Say, Bill, / think
that old lawyer lied, don't you?
those Yanks are getting pretty close
to me" Here Mr. Owens paused, and
asked him how they came out. Il
left that boy right there dead, with
his head literally shot Off; and |
came away with a bullet in my leg, -
and he added, war is awful and its
victims are the flower and the youth
Of the land" He told me many other
incidents of the great struggle. some
sad and pathetic, and some funny,
but his experience in his first battle
! impressed me most.
Out toward Sardis, j. B. Burns has
just completed a nice residence. 1t
is on a knoll and is surrounded by
magnificent grove of shade trees.
He has a new barn, we'll, and all Is
new He is a son Of Coley Burns. has
fine crop and | am sure is happy
w. H. Shaw came out to my hello
and we talked of the threatened
drouth. But he hadn't given up, ant
saws. 1T will rain, if it don't SOM
of us are ruined" AS | am Writini
this 1t is slowly raining, and | an
smiling in accord with the farmers
and business men all over our coun
ty.
At Sardis | find r. J. Kirk wearing
his smile as broad as ever he mas
moved to town to get advantage OF
the public school. j. e. Kelly lives
close and Mrs. Kelly paid me for
the paper and said few compliment
tarv words of the dear old Enter
prise. To be paid for your paper and
| Dragged on too is enough to give
anyone the big head. Our friend, I,
NJ Hassell. who lives close is now
sporting a new house, tWo-story
structure. painted white and a
handsome home. ! saw ]. a. Gray,
looked for Nat Grimes, and missed
III. p. McCaleb, all good men ana
always on the Enterprise list.
J. y. Alsup and his son, Mark.
live together and two bigger hearted
fellows never grew. | got there al
ter dinner, but | was soon IN 'front.'
OF as good q meal as fellow could
want. Mr.. Alsup has a lot of good
mules AS can be found, he has a
lack. Jim L.. and two colts that are
far above the average. His Dunlap
colt is a pacer that VIII be heato
from later. and his Lexington colt
is as fine one AS | have seen Tor
many day He has Poland-Chiha
hogs pure bred. and is "A stteker Tor
the best In an kinds of live stock.
" G. Lavender and his brother
were fixing a cultIyator but tnid me
10 keep The paper COMING. NV Nv
, rnders nearly all take the Enter
prise and there are quite number
OF them. !. J.. Morton. e uc" man
from Tennessee. and lik" him.
took my paper 90 gee acquainted and
become one of us. \ new man can
learn NOR, about cur county from
.ix months reading ~ the Enterprise
than h, could otherwise gee in sis
wears. went by 10 sev Charlie Fui-
nam ana q. "a. Davenport. but ih"'
were away. They have lots ~ h'"'
and had stands ~ "a modern make
. Res q VI white ls uoe quite iv'-
he but able to tala some. lie aAA p.
ia your wofk alwa}s stand t"i e'"l
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