Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-20


got--sin
at don't break out on 80 muchl When
Senator Hill, of Georgia, had a fractured
tooth and it laceralej the side of his tongue
they mode light OF it AMI said 1T diin't
amount 10 much, but the next thing | heard
q Senator Hill he was in Philadelphia UNI
der tho surgeons knife, and they tooI out
about ons third OF his tongue and the next
heard he was recovering rapidly; but the
news that follower was tba6 h9 was again
lin Ter the surgeons knife at Phila ielphia,
and they cut ou5 all the CLAN Is on one 81 he
Of his neck, ana then young Ben Hill said
Doctor, is there any chance for my fatherF
and ths surgeon replied, Yes, sir; II we
have extracted all this virus of cancer from
his system now your father will get well,
but IL the least particle OF this virus OF can
Ger has stravad out into some other glant in
his system hs will dis' The noxt | heard
OF Senator Hill h9 was at ols of toe cole
brate1 min aral springs 10 the west
II went 10 the depoJ in my town one daY,
and while | stool there tho passenger train
rolled down, trembling un Ter its air-braGes,
and looking down toward tne car | thought
I saw through the window what sAemel 70
be the outlines Of Senator Hills race. /
walked up to the car and he pushed his shin,
wasteI hand cut the window to ma and l
shook it AMI spoke 10 him, AMI as l spoks |
thought to myself, is this all that's left or
tbs gran1sst man that Georgia ever pro-
ducedq A few days after that / picked up
the Atlanta Constitution aud it stated thaG
the grqndest procession that ever left the
city was the one that followed the remains
OF the late Senator Hill to the cemetery.
"A fellow says, Pm going to quit drink
ing,' and he thinks he's going straight to
heaven because he's quit drinKing. Listen
to mel What do you commence withS You
ought to have a thousand lashes Tor the
81. ,A,I 20 n,,A
children, and because. forsooth, you're going
to be decent, nothing more, you think you
are entitled TO the good world. You ought
to be decent all your lie. Here's one neigh
Dor comes over to ma and he SAYS: Mr..
Jones, / have been living by you here for
ten years, and have never killed any OF
your children, and have never burned your
house, or crippled any of your stock, give
me 81 ,0J0.' 'Well,' I'd say, i've been iv-
ing here by you for ten years, and have
never burnt your house or crippled any OF
| your children, give me s., 0OJ.' That's fool
ish.
Sand hcre's fellow thinks he's going to
heaven end claims place in eternity simply
because he's quit being vagahond and got
| SO he'd treaG his wifs ami children right !
| What sort of p humbus are you, anyway, to
start with4 What 1 you think of n fellow
! thaLd go up TO Governor Foraker and say,
! Governor, Just dropped in TOR few minutes
| this morning. / killed a fellow in Clncln-
maui last Il gnt in cold blood, but | tell you.
governor, that I'll never kill another. |
nave qlit killing Chem nowl I'm going to
behave myself hereaf err The governor
would say, Hold, sir | am going to have
you arrested an tried and hung for the
murder. Don't come talking to me that
way. Done quit nowl He's going to hang
you for what you've done already, sir.
What are you gong to 80 about all the
devilment you've alrea1y done? You ought to
| be decent all the time, and now because
you've concluded TO BE- deIent you say, Let
oygones be bygones.' Yes, you will That
fellow told tho governor Let bygones De by
cones, and ths governor said, Il will, sir,
as soon as can get you arrested AMI tried
and hung and the fact recorded Oh what
foolish stuff thu devil puts into our heads,
and be persuajes us if we will promise to
quit this, that and the OTHER that we are al
right.
II don't want you to resolve on better
life, but want you to resolve on the best
life possible to live, and if you will do that
you will live go you'll gain better life here
after on Gods ranch What'i you think 81
this: have resolved to be Union man
There's a big war on, and they are fighting
out on the front, and at last I've resolved Il
be a Union man. l say to the enrolling
officer, Pm Union man, SIR AMI the en-
rolling officer says, An right sir, FL put
your name down here
"'Oh, no. say; Il don't mean that. I've
Just resolved. in sentiment to be Unior
man. Yes, how much sentiment does il
take to whip a rebel, friend9 How muct
sentiment would it have taken to havt
whipped the Southern army9 If thers wa
anything IN sentiment we had enough Of i
down south to whip you; but santimen
won't load gun and fire it, and sentmen
won't go to the front and fight: ] have re
solved in sentiment to be a Union man
Joseph Cook gave fine picture here abou
a man that means business, and a man tina
don't He pictured two CASES during thu
revolutionary war; the American forces hat
Just been gloriously victorious in battle ani
there were two men in town; one Ot then
was just perfectly overjoyed with the new
from the front, but tho other fellow wa
very sorry and had dropped bis head. Tn
first was an American i'll sentiment and tn
other was Tory One was overjoyel ant
the others bead was bent in sorrow. | g,
up to him and say, Arc you overjoyed will
the yictoryF and he says, Yes, sir, AN.
say pm glad to hear that, TO
next door to you there's u poor woma,
whose husband was killed. in the en-
gsgemeut you're so glad about, and he
children need shoes, and she is out OF mea
and meat and is hungry Are you gla(
enough to give those children pair of shoe
and carry meal and meat and fuel up t.
, that poor widows houseP oh, no. he says
Pm not that glad. amt glad enough t
give that woman any meat or bread ain
, hat glad say, Are you glad enough t
, get you gun and go to the front anil fac
the euemyP oh, no. s,yS he 1t ain
that sort of gladues' | amt glad that way,
What does such gla1neSs amount TO- any
J wayl 60 to the other Tory fellow aud say
Are you sorry that the English forces wer
' defeated by Washington oh, I'm s.
2 sorry I'll die;' he says as he droopS his head
Are you sorry enough to send over hun
r red dollars to pay thu bounty OF man {
} volunteer in the English armyF oh, no
he says, 1 amt that sorry Are you Soft
enough l ask, ito go through the lines
the English, and get gun and stand agains
the forces that defeated the EngEsbF 'Ol
no. he says, 4 amt sorry that way at all
D Brethren, what does that sort Of sorro'
= amount to, anyway
), "What does that sort OF joy amount t
7 When | saw Union man at home and
{ didn't go the front AMI didn't have a dolls
i that was too good for the caus', had 2 cor
b, tempt for his sentiments. saw Unto
' man at home, and when the call came for 81
v hundred thousand men more he walked u
n to the recruiting Office AMI he set down b
n name, and knew he meant business.
sentiment about that. It's little fellow
:, that just resolve, you know, and are ju
g gong TO try themselves a little
IL Those ara the very fellows I'm talkir
b about You're one of them. You fellow
that resolve. What's your resolutiC
9 amount to when you don't do anything els
b You Just resolve and resolve and that's 9