The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-08-30
FOUNTAIN OF TOUTH.
nrroR GREENvIILE TIMEs :

EDITOR GREENvIILE TINES
Allow this little chip off of the old
block place in the corner of the cor
rect old time keeper.
1t is about the season Of the year
when the widows, widOwers, old
maids and bachelors go forth to seek
the fountain ofyouth in order to bathe
and drink deep of their life giving
waters, that they may become reguve-
mated again and claim to have found
an elixir of long life, which will efface
the irreparable inroads of many years.
Nevertheless the crows feet about the
eyes will tell the little story which
these fountains ofyouth fail to remove.
We read away back five hundred or a
thousand miles years we mean) that
the astrologers of the middle ages fiat.
tered themselves to have found the
fountain of youth, in which people
well stricken in years merely had to
bathe to become young again, and try
to act like young people. But the
bloom of youth and activity of young
life failed 10 show up. In observing
the crowds who gather at these so-call-
ed fountains of youth, II is not hard
to distinguish between zeal, beauty
AM aa youth and those who would as.
sumo to act as though they had taken
tho place of December. Doubtless
old Grandpa Ponce De Leon iniiuen-
ced by what be had read Of the astrol-
ogers of old meandcred through Flor
ida and some believe that the old chap
even entered the borders of Ark,
Miss, and Tenn, in search Of the
spring of perpetual youth. Let that
be as 1t may, Grandpa Ponce had no
doubt heard of tho Hot Springs In
ARK, through the gabbie ofsome cop
per colored savage (who was ever on
the old mans trail trying to secure his
hoary scalp to add another honor to
his war belt) where he could boil out
the bad affects Of good brandy corn
aud tobacco JUICE. But we learn in the
final roundup that 1t is doubtful as to
the old man ever reaching the great OBJ
ject Of his life, the sp ing OF perpetual
youth, but was compelled TO abandon
the youthful spring hunt aud retire to
the quiet cool shades of honorable old
age, like many others who are look
ing for the fountain of youth, and find
resting place where the woodbine
twineth aud The dream Of perpetual
youth Is forgotten. II need not be
proven that these socalled fountains Of
youth are wanting in sonlp OF the in-
gradients which 60 to make up the
object which tho old boys and girls are
looking for, that Is youth without the
deduction ofmany years. In fact these
fountains will not restore the bloom OF
youth and beauty to the man or woman
who has grown prematuroly old and
baldheaded or gray, but still they sigh
and wish they were boys and girls
again. These old boys and girls claim
that old age is not caused by the nun.
ber of years which they have lived
but they grow old and decreped be
cause the toeth and digestive organs
ware out, and hence they capuot chew
and digest or a-s'r 'lai tho food neccs.
sary to maintain a vigorous vitality
But AS the waters of the fountains ol
youth in Ark, Miss, and Tenn, Is like
an.oyster, self digesting, II need not bt
proven that it will fill o long felt wan
In those who have no toeth or livcr ol
IN those VINO cannot eat and be merry
1t will be hot day, such as we read Of
when Ark, and Tenn, fail to furnisl
fountains of youth both bot aud cold
II will be day In which the elements
will melt with fervent heat, and thi
good old world in which we live will
pass in its checks with a great nois'
and new earth will take Its place II
which fountains Of youth will forever
flow with the water of eternal life
This Is the fountain men and womel
must seek If they expect to find th,
fountain Of perpetual youth aud lif
eternal where people immortal dwell
of course this little report is merely th
oretical and will not be received by tn
old boys and girls let II be ever 81
true.
The cotton crop In the White Rive
valley Is ley good, corn is fine, tn
health Of the country good. The frui
crop splendid. Politics red-hot and a
parties seem to bc.demorallzed. Demo
Gratis, Wheoler's Republicans of tw'
kinds, straight and independent, ther
is no telling which party will win
Public speaking every day in the weel
and preaching on Sundays. Their
are about as many preachers out 70
Office as church members, so you So
all hands are kept busy.
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