The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-23

FROM THE FIELD.
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In reading field notes you fire.
Q~uently notice your names do not
appear as they should be. In fact It
is nothing uncommon to find some
OF you mentioned by a name unfa-
milan to you. Frequently your name
and the one published are not as
the lawyers say, idem sonans. 1t is
"a embarrassing TO me as it is to
you but the only way | could avoid
such mistakes would be to write 50
plainly that a w~ayfaring man, though
fool need not err therein. | do not
and have not the time to take pains
with twelve or fifteen pages of
manuscript. J ask you to nave pa
thence with me and the printer, How
ever, in my last weeks letter where
had thought / had SCARED sky high
on eagles wings of oratory | got a
very great shock when | found the
printer had omitted about two lines
in II place and at another caused
me to say approaching smiles of
the angels instead of approving
smiles" The firemen's carnival has
come and gone and l presume every
body had a good time if they enjoy
spending money. | saw the smallest
mother in the world, the latest girl
alive. two or three piles of ugly, lazy
snakes, the negro MINISTRIES, shot at
the wheel, ~patronized the candy raf-
file, smiled at the girl at the cane
rack, rolled balls on the Japanese
Bowling Alley, tried to ring the bell
of The strength testing machine,
pitched balls at the kegs, smoked
their stogy cigars, lost sleep, caught
cold, brought home a lot OF worthless
trash and had a good time generally.
The carnival taken individually and
collectively did not amount to much
but it seemed to put people in a good
| humor for a ~grOuchy old Cuss who
will scarcely recognize my most
courteous salutations on the street
got almost chummy with me.
Speaking of becoming chummy, /
notice several gentlemen are getting
quite chummy with me. Some of
| them had Away treated me about as
| liked, usually saying He O. Biz
or something like it. Now they are
deeply interested in my welfare and
are inclined 20 slobber on me. Now,
| gentlenent, Hello b." a cheerful
i~ri'- anG a shake Of ~. hand or /
Joke will do me. You may save your
slobberS for some one else. | like
iceptions wish | could vote for every
one of you and | am sure most right
thinking people feel the same way
iabout II. | find a fellow occasionally
who never knows OF even sees me
until the office seeking microbes be-
Gin to do business in his anatomy,
would like to see such exalted for
it would beat a circus to see them
strut and air their importance and
! really | think we should unite on
at least one of them as an expert
ment. 1t would be worth the price
iof admission to see their h~iph-pop-t-
tatis n~igitatis assinus. This is
French for the antics of a darued
fool.
| hear a great many criticisms adj
verse and otherwise upon the gravel
roads being constructed. | always
like to express an opinion upon all
public matters, for ! know when !
speak all discussion stops, at least
nobody says any thing in reply, but
have not seen any OF the finished
product yet and do not know exactly
how il will look. | shall keep an eye
) on the work and if it goes wrong viii
see thai it Is changed. If any of you
see any thing not right go to your
commissioner and tell him about 1t
for he seldom hears of n mistake
he is making and will hasten to
change it to suit your notice.
1t was my purpose to give you
hash this time and while | have lief
out the chief ingredient, the meat
have the q antity and must o
tell you where I went and whom
saw last week.
On Monday morning the first mar
to greet me at W~axahachie was &
w Chapman, = hustling, handsome
farmer on Midlothian /. George,
do not mean any harm. w. Il. Raine;
from Midlothian 4, looked a littli
drawn from the effects of the dry
I~seaon but will make it through til
grass rises. NJ. l.. Hudnall of How
ard was a volunteer on my list fol
a year. Ralph Farrar, one OF the Far
rar brothers out on Waxahachie NO
3. has gone to Roosevelt, Oklahoma