The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-04
Kitty Waggoner on the Wing.

Miss ALEEN NOLAN, CLISToN
"Mercyi | hear you exclaim, my dear
what long resting spell The CLARION
has hadpo
There, you need not say another
word. of course knew it needed the
| rest, and hence not only prescribed but
gave it, as health giving tonic.
am going to scold you now for your
last letter, for why need you have been
so cynical, so skeptical about the sub
lime heroisms born in the old town
written sbout-and seemed surprised
that they had not been blazoned upon
the ears of the world and reached yours
too?
My dear how have you lived all the
twenty years of your life, and not found
out that there are often battles fought
in the human breast between conscience
and the conscience e-killer-indifferen
between the spirit divine within us and
the evil spirit, as fierce and tempestous
to that individual as to the legions that
fight In battle array.
"Ten thousand battles in the breast
OF human nature swell;
And thou must conquer every one,
Or there no conqueror dwell
How many suffer that never muir
mur? How often does too much pride,
or to little bring temptations that it
requires adamantean, will and fortitude
to conquer!
How easy and plea SAINT some times to
lie down with folded hands and sleep
and dream while the thread of duty
slips off the reel, and often alas becomes
IL. Al. e
acquired dexterity can undo it, and
thus they say, makes sign posts standing
against us of neglected duty.
If you have not known this of others
tho abnegations, the woe unutterred,
the tears suppressed-if you have not
felt the ''forces strang" within your own
heart, then my dear, you have simply
existed like the crab at the sandy sea
bottom and like it been going back
wards,
Now 1 tell you what good came of my
saying that Bottoms future was half
made in possessing the most enter
prising of merchants, and an esculapian
(Dr Alexander) who enbodies in him.
self the qualifications and capabilities of
dozen.
That Edwards boasts even a little
greater fierce of mercantile life, noble
young author and temperance advocate,
and Woman's Missionary Society
alive and at work with industry riyaling
the bee.
That Clinton which ought to become
another Athens with her fine schools
her earnest working "Record" and
flashing Sword & Shield" to defend her
every right.
That old Raymond, almost classic and
and dear to the soul of Kinds, would
still be dearer did it but listen to the
good advice sounded by the broad and
liberal Gazette, and grid up its loins for
the coming Summer season of Cooper's
Well, and overhaul the system of the
pauper-house management, and see that
the poor creatures were better fed and
better cared for and brought no reproach
upon the town.
And that Utica has many a perfect
right to hold up her head under all the
praises showered upon her, because of
her noble Sunday Schools, and church
work, her market to which were brought
at once over one hundred and forty-four
balls of cotton by one mainland owner Maj
Tom Hart) and because also IL claims
an editor whose wit is keener than his
SCISSORS, and pen sharper than a sword,
who has originality and judgment
enough to form good opinion and
bravery enough to promulgate it, and
stick to it
And the good that came of writing
this Why it has made its appearance
in half dozen letters from,other States
asking for more information about the
lands and old towns of Mississippi.
have sent copy or two of THE CLARION
which so kindly publishes every week
such information free, in advertisements.
So my dear do not be so severe if this
part of my letters ISN'T interesting to
you.
Have you heard of the marriage of
Miss Lucie CASTOR Mimms to Mr.. Byron
Fisher of Utica? The wedding was a
brilliant and recherche affair, with beau
tiful gifts and the most sumptuous repast
Miss. Helen Yates and Mr.. Sam Stubbs
areto be married the 26th inst.
Indeed Cupid has been continually
| busy there since Xmas wounding and
healing in the marriage VOWS.
Shall he not be sent to Clinton.
| kitty WAGGoNEK.