The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-22

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the shade of an oak in the heat Of
the day and rested from his toll and
his field lay over against the kings
highway. And it came to pass that
a priest was coming that way, and
when ne spied the husbandman he
alighted from his beast and greeted
him saying God bless thee my bro
ther, thou hast been greatly blessed
of the Lord, thy kline in great num-
bers feed in green pastures by the
side of still waters, thy harvest in
deed is ripe and gives promise of
great abundance, soon thy granaries
will be full Remember my brother,
nothing is thine but is lent thee by
the Lord. OF thine abundance give,
| pray thee, into my hand a 1.-THE
that | may use it to the glory of God
and to the salvation of thy soul
And when the priest had gone his
way a lawyer came and said unto
the husbandman, "My good fellow,
thy lot has indeed been cast in pleas
ant places. thou sowest the grain and
sittest in the shade and watches the
wheat grow. Thou art not bothered
with pleas, counter pleas, rebutters,
sur rebutters. seizus and disseizius.
Thou goest forth with rising of the
sun and contest in with the fowls of
the air. Thou art not beset on every
hand by the misfortunes of men. Thy
life is one of peace, plenty and pleas
ure." And the lawyer had no corns
on him save On the south part of his
anatomy. And it came to pass when
the lawyer had ceased speaking and
passed on behold the servant of one
who sold merchandise came and
said, MY master sayeth except thou
payest him even unto the uttermost
farthing of what thou owest he will
indeed deliver thee to the Judge"
And when the servant of him. that
sold merchandise had left off speak
ing a man of pleasant countenance
and master of the art of hand shak-
ing appeared and said unto the hus-
bandman. Il am indeed glad to greet
thee. thou art good man and thy
neighbors give good report of thy
greatness in the land where thou
dwellest | see thou hast been from
thy youth up a man of toll and but
for the depressing effect of the laws
of thy country thou wouldst have
been the possessor of great sub
stance. | indeed am determined If
elected to the office to which | feel
am surely called | will see that
thou and all husbandmen get the
protection they so richly deserve.
know that thy neighbors act accord
ing to thy word and ! implore thee
it was So" And when the politician
had passed on to make the self same
speech to the next man he CHANGED
to met the husbandman would have
gone to his labor but 10, lightning
rod agent stopped before his gate
and when he had rodded the dwell
ing, the barn, the husbanGman ia
vorite shade tree, and the chicken
coop and taken his note for much
money he passed on saying in his
heart indeed it is true the saying
that a sucker is born every minute,
and | have landed fine one" And
then it came to pass that seller of
books came unto the husband and
said, THY fame has come to me as
a man of much wisdom and as rea-
der of many books and | know If
can indeed get thy approval of what
l am even now about to show thee
thy neighbors will follow where thou
leadest." And when the seller of
books had mistaken GRUMPY
horned Eastern Texas COW for a reg
istered Jersey, razor back for a
Poland China and seen striking re-
semblance betN cen the husbandman
and George Washington, he took his
order for Cock and Peary at the
North Pole and the history of the
savage exploits Of Teddy, the Terri
BILE in the Dark Continent" in the
interest of science and he passed on
And when the husbandman fain
would 90 to his tolls there appeared
unto him a stranger with churn
warranted to change fresh milk into
butter in one minute and nine Sec
onds and his wife raised her voice
and said Indeed it seemeth great
contrivance but not as | will but as
thou wilt be it," And straightway he
bought the churn and it is among
the scrap iron back of the wood shed
even unto this day. And when the
seller of churns had gone his way
it came to pass that a seller OF fruit
trees and grape vines drove his beast
up to the front gate. And when he
had convinced the husbandman that
his field by nature was peculiarly
adanted to tho culture of Orchar d