The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-09-17
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i On Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1857,
there was born to Jesse and Sarah
Catherine Cox on Coon Greek, ST.
Clair county, Missouri, male child.
They christened him William Ewel
This event so important to him and
his parents occurred 81 years ago
next Wednesday. There were no
safety pins in those days but he was
as safe as the pampered child of the
present day. When he cried with the
collie there was no electric light to
turn on, not even a coal ell lamp,
the Goals were famed to flame and
q taliow candle was lighted, and in
stead OF Cas,oria or soothin5 swap
recourse was had to the asafaetida
as soundly and grew as rapidly rock
ed in one half Of hollow tree as
does the child Of today tucked away
in the most costly cradle. When
teething time came ne got as good
service out OF the shower cr' POKER
[ ga AVN 6tl .IbaE 'Nt
rubber ring. When he began to play
and to develop his constructive skill
he got probably as much pleasure
out III rHe bnii1T7hg or cJ6' Houses ,arru9
cob wagons as the boys OF today
| DERIVE ron plttuis' "SiUcks hid 10y
express wagons. The ravages of the
civil war coming on his homemade
! UiUt4cs grnt' ssset-s ere az y.,sas,sc,sAt
able as ready-made suits of today
He never even had a pair of copper
toed shoes, but never knew the dir
! sefoAee. When tlN family rSsagceA
to Texas driving an TX ,ean 1ntil
the Texas fever line was reached,
when ponies We're procured, they
reached the point of destination as
surely and safely as the trip might
now be made on the Katy flyer, The
first reaper he ever saw was scythe
and cradle and the first threshing
machine was run by an endless
chain power, and the char was sep
arated from the grain by fan run
/ by hand, but biscuits were better
cooked IN an oven !y the nro Llace
than the product of the costly kitch-
en- range OF today and the soppings
OF the red gravy after the ham was
| fried In the skillet was fit for the
gods, He grew large enough to
plough yoke OF oxen to wooden
mold board pillow, which rendered
the soil more mellow than the lister
OF today. With the single shovel or
the bull tongue plow to cultivate
the cotton and the corn, the refresh
| ing rain and the genial sunshine
made the crops to grow AS we'll as
where the latest model Of the cult
vator turns the soil.
1nen MS school days came walk
OF three or four miles to a log or lit
tle box house with slate, pencil, rea-
der, copy book. Webster's blue back
God bless the old blue back, and
McGuny's reader, arithmetic and
geography, made him feel like sit
ting on the puncheon seat trudging
up the hill OF knowledge He took
as lively interest In his studies aud
probably Progressed as rapidly as do
the pupils or today IN the inT0sing
brick structure with the advantage
raf ~ the madern apparatus Reared
In a new country where no women
were. bad and no girls forward, but
all modest and bIushing and obtain
I ing Doai .ss ,s.a ,idsNs ,ct the. aantler
| sex from the pure, noble life OF mo-
| thar hAs 1nnkaA
paii5s''" VI .nss' AID aPoh '"asS swee.s
heart as, indeed. and In truth, "a
queen In calico" He wQrshiped
| the sweetheart Of his boyhood youth
I aAs uafly manhood al y Nirsa.ty and
had he been a leader OF a conQuering
army would never have had his bo-
som 70 heave ~itl hal; the koaast
pride that he possessed on the oc-
casion when he thrashed an impu-
dent boy for Offering her = slight In
dignity When first she permitted
him In his suit of clothes cut and
made by mother to escort her to
church, he felt like the least of
Gods creatures blessed beyond all
|compArison and that he would wade
through are and blood before she
should come to any harm. Let me
parenthetically state that the man
or boy who would not fght 4 regi-
ment OF soldiers to protect the wom-
an entrusted to his care ought to be
forced to Craze with the cattle. The
above il not Intended 10 much az
personal history ~ Z description of
the country boy who grew up In a.
sparsely settled country 1T the time
here set forth and who toiled for his
daily bread. That was a timo before
the institution of the worship Of
fashion and fortune. Some of the
fathers OF those boys are still here
and feel like child again when
! see them, But before close must
not fail to state that ! met that
sweetheart ! have been telling about
last Saturday for the nrst time in
twenty-eight years. went to For
reston and told that widow about
her but she, from some cause, was
not near AZ much elated as l was,
We never appreciate the sentiment
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