The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29

BERRY BAKER SEES DECATUR
And Writes His Son What He and Sally
Think About it.
My Dear Boy:-Yours received
ia which you wanted to know what
l heard, felt aud saw while in De-
catur. / purposed answering you
when l got back the first time, but
1 didn't, being wholly incompetent
to do the subject justice; besides /
was haunted by some kind of pre-
monition to go back and get it
over, which / did and ! came back
the second time with full determl-
nation to answer your letter but all
to no purpose as the sequel will
show, though / am giving the best
description of the infant city l
could without any exaggeration
whatever. When your mother says
BERRY, what in the name O com
mon sense are you writing such a
fib to that child for2 He wont be-
lieve a word of it, besides twill
cause him to lose patience in your
veracity, whatever that means, )and
moreover twill be his ruin. You
know when he was at hume he was
always trying to mimic you-the
very spit Of you'll was so in hopes
rrC,,ll 10 thu n him
when the poor thing wrote you SO
kindly to let him know what you
heard, felt and saw while in Deca-
tur. The Lord knows if l couldn't
write the truth / wouldn't write
any thing" / told Sally l had writ
ten nothing but facts but she said
she wouldn't believe it if she were
to see it with here own eyes. That
kinder kerfumixed me, and rather
than make bad impression on you
in regard to my truthfulness l just
says: "Sally, it you will fix me
bite to eat l will tackle the first
thing that can carry me back to
Decatur and see if it is all delirium
tremens. / am glad you stopped
me, for after a careful examination
Of what / have written / don't be-
lieve it myself. AT any rate, get
the bite ready as quick as you can
and I'll go back again. They say
the third time is a charm" And
now, son, / went and am back again,
and the thing is just like l started
to tell it at first. l have concluded
to write you through THE CITIZEN,
however, as my experience in Deca-
tur 80 richly corroborates what my
friend McCord so persistently said,
and SO says to your mother; "Come
to think about it, Sally, Laps. has
been there too, and don't you re-
member what great long pieces be
has written, and that it is in every
body's mouth that he is hired to
lie for DECATUR And she an
swered, little riled: ''I've beeL
reading The CITIZEN a quarter of q
century and nine times out of ter
McCord's right. Don't you know
how he's struggled through TIL
CITIZEN to build up Pulaski, tried
to get railroads, water works, fire
engines, machine shops, wooden
Touring and planning mills, goot
schools, more and better churches
good society and prohibition? IL
has formulated and advocated every
conceivable enterprise that b.
thought would build up Pulaski
and benefit the people of Gle
} county and that is why he is labor
, ing so manfully to build up Deca
tur-it is for the benefit of every
body who will avail themselves Q
the opportunity, and not for an,
selfish motives of his, but for tn
good of all. l have been readin
The CITIZEN too long to beIiev
any such stuff. If was ma
, I'd be there before to-morro,
: night and come up with the towr
3 I'd sgrow as it growed." Sally
> right-she's always right. Wei
my son, the big gest thing sa'
when / went to Decatur was Deca
g tur itself;the topic of every CONVEX
sation was Decatur. The onl
3 small thing felt or saw in Decatu
' ives my pocket book. Since IN
return my thoughts still linger O
Decatur. That reminds me of
: little incident that occurred ava
back yonder before / was boy
The family consisted of father, moth
er and three daughter, and the win
: min folks bad to do the milling an
t the youngest girl was sent first an
s when she ca ne back she woul
r keep saying to herself, 81 can
8 help but think of the miller" The
q the next went and so on until
came the old woman's time and sh
came back repeating the same
cant help but think of the miller.
!. By this time the old mans dande
D got up and so he concluded he
e go to mill and Sse what was so Al
: tractive about the miller and whe
he got there, he says to the mile,
> "Sir, I've come over to see wins
!. is so fascinating about you tbs
4 my wimmin folks can't never forge
. you when they go back home" &c
of of that horse, sir, and I'll might
quick show you what it is" N
sooner down than the miller lit o
d him and gave him a good thrasl
e ing and the old man crawled bac
: on his beast, goes home repeatin
If the same-"can't help but think ,
D the miller" The first girl saw,
Law bless my life, nam, if Il
miller hasn't gone and Rugged dad
= toor'
e One other thing / heard on OF
| of my visits TO Decatur nit
i young lady lboarded the train an
took a seat in rear of me by an O,
acquaintance ] suppose by the
Ia conversation. la speaking of d
catur she says to her friend, IL q