The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-03
ROM THE FIELD.


was commanded TO write unto the
angel of the church in Sardis Il
know thy works. that thou hast a
name that liveth. and art dead
Thou hasE a few names even in
Sardis which have not defiled their
garments. and they shall walk with
ne in white, for thy are worthy"
On visiting Sardis, Ellis county,
Texas. last Tuesday the above quo
( tation from Holy Writ came
to mind and | thought probably
this is applicable to every commun-
ity in Christendom. In my boyhood
, days the old Sardis campmeetings
we're attended from far and near.
IL 5 the home of the Oldest living
white settler in Ellis county. A few
years ago little village sprang up
and now there are three stores.
shop, church. school house, railroad
station and the people in the com
munity Z good law abiding citizen
ship.
Every thing is Enthusiastically
village like. Children with hoops
ball and doll play on the green
sward. Sparrows busily twitter on the
| tree bedecked hillock., the flowers
of springtime are rich carpet in
the glen. The growing cock gallant
! ly escorts the cackling hen. Occas-
! ionally political antiquary offers
to fight over the battle month
gone by. The farmers wife comes in
dressed in new calico frock and sun
| bonnet TO barter the products of
! the hennery for the necessities of
| life. A sick or otherwise unfortun-
ate member of the community is spo-
| ken OF in subdued tones and the ex-
| pressions of sympathy have about
them an air of sincerity which con-
vinces one that they are
/ not the mere conventional
| politeness of the society trained.
| The sorrows of one become the care
! OF all. There is no dogmatic priest
| to drive his crying parishioners. no
| lord nor squire to abridse the free
dom of speech or action.
| Only an American village where
every man is a king and every wo-
man a queen. Dan Gray, said, Bill,
write some more about woman" and
| am sorry ! am not now in the pro-
per mood for complying with this
| request for woman is the finest
theme for poetry and song. She is
| our mother, our sister, our wife,
our aunt, our grandmother our cou-
| sin, our daughter and our friend
and would rather write some more
! things to please Dan Gray of
Ellis county than to receive the ap-
plause of Theodore Roosevelt for
! the Dams are my neighbors and
| friends who sympathize with me in
sorrow and rejoice with me when I
am happy | came in one night, late
| ly on the Katy and came up town
! from the station. There was a
stranger with me whose provincial
| expressions showed he was from the
backwoods, but had visited cities.
| He looked up the street and saw 800
or 400 yards total darkness and
asked me, "Is there a hotel or board
ing house here?7' I said Yes, a
hotel and probably twenty boarding
houses He said, Gee, what are
they doing with 50 many boarding
houses is there brick yard here?''
said, No this is a large town, the
i county seat and with two fine schools
a cotton factory, a $165,000 court
house, several frosty joints, in fact
lone OF the best towns in the state y
They have no electric lights have
they?''I said, yes, the town is well
! IlShINo- lie SdlQ, IL 10 dS udl n dr.
d politicians thought along here He
then asked me if the place was in
Icorporated and / said yes. About
that time he stepped, into a hole Oh
the sidewalk and fell flat He got up
and said "Old man, you are getting
pretty whiteheaded to handle the
truth as reckless as you do. | have
| never been to many towns but /
never saw one as large and wealthy
as you say this one is where a strang-
er had to carry lantern or break
his neck on the main streets" 1t
! looked a little like the evidence was
against me but those who know the
place will stand by what l said AS
! l passed by place the other night,
l saw two people in the yard one
swing in hammock, one of
them said, Il am troubled tonight
with curious pain. IT'S not of the
| heart, tbs not of the brain" l did
not understand it until ! noticed
some green apples hanging on a
tree. L. c. Phillips is a farmer and
lives on Waxahachie No. S. l met
| him in town. j. w. Green has lived
for many years near Italy but now
gets his Enterprise at Waxahachie.
| Walter w. Jones, a son of John
Jones, tried merchandising at Venus
but has returned to his first love
and now tills the soil near Sardis
Mrs. S, A. Crowder, I found at home
and ready to renew her paper Dan
j. Gray said Mrs. G. wanted the pa
per SO he made her and me both hap
Ply by producing the price of a sub
1 John Grimes, his wife and two
daughters live contentedly on the
farm on Midlothian No. A. John has
repainted his house and was putting
up the banister to the stairway He
had made some newell posts that
looked fine. l spent the night with
them and was well entertained
w. E. Perrington's crop was too
wet to work so l found him hoeing
for j. V. Harden on Midlothian 4
where | ate dinner and got another
Ty"~H Il. ]. Bryant who lives at Wal
rs nVrove came here a poor boy
fNeeS It any education. By industry
iaS economy he managed to attend
| Sc 4 a while and has accumulated
ei 8 h to place him beyond the
RS ~of want. Mrs. NJ. j. Harris on
No shian No. is great reader