The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-03
from tie field
By BILL cox.


come the husbandman went forth
to SOW, and the fowls of the air came
also and devoured much of his seed,
SO much that the stand indeed was
bad. And while his wheat was well
grown, behold, long drouth was
in the land and hot winds swept
over his ileld and the green bugs
devoured his wheat so that it seem
ed that there would be no harvest.
And when his wheat was in the
sheaf the windows of heaven were
opened and the rain descended in
flood and his grain was moulded
when he took it to the threshing
floor. And when the floods came
during harvest time his corn grew
and waXed very green. And the
man from the city. came to catch
fish and dine with the husbandman,
and said: THY corn will surely
yield one hundred bushels per acre,
for | haev never before seen such
corn in the land" And he did not
consider that the chinch bug was
abroad whetting his bill for the corn
as soon as the hot winds and dry
days of summer should come.
And the weeds and the hurrah
grass sprang up and =. choked the
husbandman' cotton nd lice and
careless worms devour-d it, and 10,
it was affected with sore shin, until
it seemed unto the husbandman that
his crop would be ruined. And it
came to pass when ne had destroyed
the weeds, and the lice and the care
less worms had ceased to trouble the
cotton, that in the seventh month
and about the fifteenth day of the
great numbers, and they were so
numerous that it seemed that the
bolls would all be destroyed. And
it came to pass after the span of
about two weeks the worms dlsap-
peared, and 10, the boil weevils took
the residue of the farms And it
came to pass when the weevls had
ceased to devour the cotton, and the
weather was dry and the cry went up
all over the land that there would
not be much cotton, 10, it Numbered
in Van Zandt county and the news
was told to them at Washington and
at New York who guess at the crop,
and the estimate went up four mil
lion bales, and price dropped one
hundred and- -tw3 ty-five, points, and
the husbandman became exceeding
ly blue.
And is not the time allotted to
man to live upon the earth three
score years and ten, and do not the
). troubles have told you happen to
him every year of his life, and is
this not a fulfilment of the saying,
"That man that is born of woman
is Of few days and ftsl of trouble ~
Verify ! say unto you, every man
that Cometh into the world and
trieth TO accomplish anything in the
land where he dwelleth will surely
encounter as great a number of
things to cause veXation OF spirit as
the husbandman. have chosen to
tell you of his trials and veXations
because they are of a more material
kind and can be more easily compre-
hended by all, even unto the least
of these my readers. If all the
troubles of all the people were writ
ten in books the world would not
: contain them, for there have been
many billions of people on the face
of the earth, and the life of every
one would make a book. But, my
brethren, be not downcast because
tell you these things Curse mot
the day wherein thoU vast born, for
happiness comes not from without,
but from within; besides, are there
not many things in the land to make
us happy? Have we not health,
strength, friends, and families? Can
hear the songs of the birds, and
leaving the cares that so beset us,
feel that we are in the presence of
a loving Omnipotence? Can we not
in the night time gaze into the blue
ether dome of the heavens, see the
thousands of other worlds and lose
sight of self in contemplation of the
immensely of space? Do we not
shed tears of JOY when we see or
hear of noble deed of fellow
man? Are not thousands of ways
prepared for us to reap rich harvests
of JOY and gladness as we go about
among men? May We not hope
that when we shall have passed away
from this life there is awaiting us
an eternity of unalloyed pleasure in
fields elysian? Then, oh, mani why
be downcast when little veXations