The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-05-08


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youth cf any country are always
/ ready fer any daring or dangerous
/ expedition ! went along With
| crowd u other fellows. net caring
where they went then. but | did care
{ before the trip ended We stopped at
+ Acapulco. Mexico. long enough to
/ get some fruit and some fresh water
1 but ! did not get to 40 ashore Then
| we got down into the Bay of pana-
ma and into the dolldrums. or rafh-
/ or what We call ocean Gains one Of
/ the engines got out of fix and we
/ stayed there for week, during
I which time "a man died. There | saw
my first burial at sea We sewed
/ him up In canvas. scooted him down
/ a plank into the briny deep. and the
! last | saw of him he had not sunk
! but was still floating Finally, after
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/ the captain. and fighting among the
men, We got TO Valparaiso. ! got
! ashore and stayed ashore. for had
enough of life on the ocean wave
| to do for awhile at least.
| Now the trouble in that country
with me was their language. l. could
not speak their Portuguese and Span
! ish LIMOGES But | soon found an En-
glishman who hired me to go with
! him across the country TO Buenos
/ Ayres to drive herd of horses. Capt.
! Morse was his name. He gave me a
repeating rifle and two revolvers
and told me to watch him all the
| time for the other men were natives
and treacherous We had hard
time crossing rivers, etc, but not
| otherwise. When we got TO Buenos
! Ayres Capt. Morse paid me up ana
! dismissed me- Then ! was afloat
again. but the same day | saw the
stars and stripes flying from a big
buildin. I walked in and the guard
or rather an American soldier ASK
ed me in good English il | wished 10
see the consul. | did, and II ten
/ YOU if ever you are lost IN loreiSh
/ land the prettiest sight that can
/ come TO YOUR vision will be the Ann
I erican flag. You will know how to
appreciate Old Glory if ever you need
her. Dr. Butler of Connecticut repre-
scented Uncle Sam down there and he
/ was z grand and noble old man, /
wish could tell more of him and
! how well he treated me but ! must
get on. He put me on ship and sent
me TO New York and from there !
{ was given q pass to my home. ! had
been gone three years and ought 10
I have gone home, but | didn t. ! went
TO Southern Illinois and hired to
( farmer. He was a good man ana /
/ went 10 school more than half the
time for more than four years. one
I dav | went to the county seat ana
who should be standing at the bar
l of the court house speaking but Cap
tain n \. Tyler of Hickman, Ky. !
/ had known the captain all my ilie
! and there he was as natural as ever
spoaking In his usual brusque. grutt
way capt Tyler is now commander
i'm chief of the Gen. y. u. Forrest
{ Ncteransl ! aid not speak to him
/ for ne did not know me, of course
+ but / at once resolved to go home to
Z see my mother.
wA homesick again for the first
time ia wears. So ! Told my ne"
found friends good bye. and win
God bless YOU from my heuotaetof
F I took the train nest day for home.
{ seven years had gone hy when !
left { was fifteen years old. aud no~
Was past twenty-five. when / lett
Z I was boy. uow ! was "a man. rs !
rode down the Illinois Central rail@
road 90 my home. ( think went
over eyerythins that bad taken pl'r"
iu my ovu ufc tnrlug those seven
ycara Then tEoaaht of how Elaa