The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-04
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Owe no man. 1t is easy for us
to heap condemnation upon the head
OF HIN who Is kuilty of those sins
Of omission or commission which are
foreign to our own practice, but
when we tackle one OF our short
comings 1t lie most difficult not to
spread mantle of charity as large
as asn1efry widow hat over 1t. Hav-
! ing been a member in good stand
ling of the debtor class for many
years, | have by an easy process OF
reasoning pursuaded myself that
lhad done my best, that / was honest
tand faithful but bad business man.
| l have in life spent hundreds and
tprobably thousands of dollars for
needless self indulgence which
should have been delivered to those
who had furnished me with the nee
essaries of life. / have never been
able to look creditor in the. face
with a bold, steady eye and have
changed my course many times to
avoid meeting one of them. ! have
always explained this lack of cour-
age to myself as being on account of
my high-minded pride which shrinks
from the task of telling fellowman
| was unable to perform that which
justice seemed to him to demand,
| During the past year ! have been
much alone on the highways and
have been constantly in contact with
nature. l have thought much upon
the different problems of life and
with it all have done no sman
amount of self examination. / think
| have arrived at correct solution
of my dfffidence in the presence of
a creditor. 1t is not the result of an
,overmastering pride, nor the out
groupings of a superlative Hfgh-
mindedness but a kind of latent
inactive consciousness that | was
thief 1t is a mystery to me that an
Intelligent, reasonably we'll educated
man can live a half century before
he realizes that he who spends mon
ey for anything except for the neces-
saries of life when he owes some one
is an embezzler of all such sums.
However. such thought never occur
red to me until lately and / had
grown gray headed before / realized
that l was dishonest. | am going to
make a strenuous effort to reform
land this is to serve notice on all
creditors that ] shall hereafter dodge
iyou no more and that should / en-
bezzle any more of your money you
shall be notified. ! do not write this
so much for the purpose of confess
ing my own rascality, as | do in the
hope that some of you other thieves
fmay read it and get honest. Let's all
!, begin anew, try to be men, real live.
honest, energetic good citizens.
1t may be that you will think |
have already for | took that Forces
ton widow to the Fair yesterday but
the fact is the poor woman has not
been any where for such long time
II thought she was entitled to day
off.
On the stairway of the courthouse
last Monday I met w. J. Roden,
principal of the Maypearl school. He
!, is native of Giles county, Tonnes
see, but came to Texas when quite
young and since arriving at manhood
has devoted his time to teaching. s.
Eddleman was in from his farm on
Waxahachie 5 and renewed his alleg-
lance to the Enterprise J. ]. Hob
son gets his paper at Breckenridge.
Texas w A. Shiplett will teach at
the Winniford school house and was
attending the teachers institute. P.
Is. Carroll was eating his dinner at
his home on Waxahachie Z. After
dinner he gave me $1.75 for two
papers and went for team to haul
a bale of cotton to the gin. B. F.
Forester, Sr., was in town Monday
and renewed. ]. M. Henderson of
Ray was in a good humor and busy
with the cotton yard, finding his
time about out he renewed. j. j..
Hartshorn was at the gin with bale
of cotton. So was w. G. Aday. ] met
J. l.. Sims on the road to Ray with
his wagon loaded with cotton. W..
P Layton was getting ready to go to
the gin. w R. Wright was in the
cotton patch He told me his mother
and brothers had recently come out
from Tennessee. His cotton, he said,
was good Night coming on turned
in and spent the night with Mr.. and
Mrs W. E. Reagor On the way next
morning | called on Mrs. II. C.
Hitchcock Shaking the dust of Ray
from my feet and vending my way
ito Boyce where | found all in good
order / found J. A. Wilburn on
Waxahachie l digging his potatoes.
He showed me some nice nnrkerE. l
4 TOOK rftnner With the family. They are
going to move to Fisher county this
winter. he having bought home