The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-06-08

and dismiss the congregation. /
believe this will be the second or
third time since l became your pas
tor that l have failed to introduce
these letters with an attempt to
give some thoughts. I have felt
that my labors will not be in vain
il I can induce some one to be-
come independent in thoughts and
untrameled by the conventionali-
ties which reduced to their logical
analysis, signify ruts. One of the
greatest pleasures 1 have derived
from travel on our gravel roads Is
the fact that there are no ruts.
Ruts on the highways are no more
disagreeable to the traveller on the
highway than are the grooves, into
or conyentionalities of society, to
that human mind which freed from
the shackless tradition leaves the
the plain of thought. He that trav-
els along the beaten pathway never
sees any of the beauties of that
broad expanse lying on either side.
When he begins his journey and
follows the footsteps of those gone
before, he finds sign posts with In
dices to point out the way; beside
these are always fellow travellers
Ito keep him well informed con-
scerning the wisdom of the fore
Fathers who blazed out the way.
MI The aforesaid forcfathers literal
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10 be no violation, but the next
4 travellers who came along saw the
way, knowing no other, and not
having the courage to explore for
themselves, unquestioningly follow.
"a. Generation after generation
trsmpled along looking neither to
the right nor to the left.
promised not to say anything
md will desist before l break over.
Last Monday morning as the H.
q r. C. train rolled in, J. B.
Crawford, who lived on Grove Creek
for many years, alighted. He had
me send the Enterprise to Duggers-
Vile, Texas. l think the place
II copied, being in Arkansas or
Louisiana. Monday I went down to
HoyNe and found Henderson Bor-
dax leading his COW home from
M4ter or pasture, l do not know
Which. He says he leads her the
t4me trip two or three times per
Hay, which would make from 700
an 1000 times a year, and as /
have seen him do the same thing
for nearly five years, l conclude
he has possibly made 1000 trips
In that time. Those daily acts
count up in the course of time, for
instance, II a man lives to be sew
enty years of age and eats three
times per day, his sum total will
DO $3.50, not counting leap years,
and ct 20 cents per day he will
eat up $5,110 worth of grub.
found w. c. Burfcrd at the store
and ready to respond to any dis
tress cry. Tuesday morning T. Fl.
MoseIey from Midlothian came
to town looking fresh and content
ed. At Bardwell I found G. e.
Almon busy at his blacksmith SHOP
and held him up for little OF the
coin of the realm. AT the BardWeli
shoteI Mrs. Curd cooked a good
dinner and her son M. P. brought
III to US in good style. Out in the
f1eld found S. T. Robertson and
III. Shaw about ready to finish |
aAoeing and blowing their cotton.
n E. Shaw was blowing cotton and
S1d his crop under pretty good con-
txol. I rode in the buggy with e.
n. Green out a mile toward his
home. At the home of Mr.. and
Ms. R. l.. Hodge, l stabbed Selim
end Beck for the night. have
s8 different times said SO much
iSbout this family it seems | have
4oid all I know, but | found them
~ cheerful and hospitable as ever
Md with plenty of good things to
nat. Their son Ed, who went to
aSouthwest Texas to try his for
$tune some time ago, has very wise
#1y returned to the parental root.
|SIt has to be done sometimes, but
Sit almost saddens me to see
klarge family broken. T. 0. Jones
fwho farms on Onion Creek Is also
merchandising at RANKIN
found John Caudle, one of those
old timers, there ready to give
them a concert. I accepted Alex
ander Rankin's invitation to speno
the night and attend the show, but
Selim and Beck got restless so |
drove them out to the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Cowen on Italy
2. I found W. c. up to his elbows
at work and fighting for dear life.
Their children are all grown, mar
ried and moved to themselves, but
they seem like young people and
although for 80 years or more they
have travelled life's road together,
W. c. still cuts the stove wood as
cheerfully as a groom of a week.
1 was about to forget to mention
that s. G. Fowler gave me seat
with him in his buggy out nearly
to Rankin's Thursday morning