Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-15
REV. W. R. PEBBLES
Writes Interestingly of Clarks-
vile and It's People.
His Memory of Judge Smith, Dr. West
and Others Who Are Dead The
Academy.


teresting letter in this weeks issue
of the Tennessee Methodist, in which
he has much to say about Clarksville
and her people. The letter was
written after Bro. PEBBLES had at
tended the District Conference at
Ream's Chapel, and had paid Clarks-
vile a visit. The way he describes
meeting his old friends is very inter.
esting and the LEAF-CHRoNICLE re-
grets that it has not the space at COM
mand to publish the letter in full.
There are some illusions in the letter,
however, to people who have crossed
the last river that are here repro
duced as they appear in the church
paper:
"My visit brought to my heart
anew the sorrow in the death of
my friends, some of them the most
helpful and brotherly God has given
me. l have wiped the tears away
that l may see to write the name of
@. G. Smith, who, when he died, car
ried much of my heart to heaven.
To have known him is to feel en-
nobled; to have loved him is to have
lived in luxury, and TO live to love
him and those like him forever in
heaven. or all the blessings with
which God has filed my life, there
has been none in the whole realm of
friendship and brotherliness more
precious than this mans friendship.
Not seeing eye to eye, often vari-
ance in our views or things, always
in time of tumultuous seas, or sunny
calms, / implicitly trusted his heart;
and l JOY to believe that not for a
,econd Of time did it ever falter.
All! there was "a man amongst
man." yet a child in the simplicity
aud tenderness OF his heart. ! drop
this simple little flower on your
grave, dear friend, and hurry on, as
[ humbly trust, to where you are.
81 would love to write at length of
others OF the precious dead; of Broth
er Beaumont, Sister Couts, Sister
Herring, Grandma McWhirter,
Brother Poindexter and the rest,
though / cannot now.
"They liz ger In my memory yet,
And In my heart they'll live forever"
"Dr. West, their beloved pastor,
died after | saw him. Without say
ing word in reference to his de-
cease / could see that he knew it was
shortly to be accomplished. How
mellow and tender was his voice, as
at my departure, he held my had be-
tween his feyered ones, and with up
lifted face, his blue eyes bathed In
tears, simply said, "Peebles, good
bye" In his vigor, what preacher
he was How the current of human
sympathy from beneath, with Gods
spirit completing the circuit from
above, brought light and power from
heaven to brighten and move the
hearts of men ?"
Commenting on educational mat
ters, he says:
"The Clarksville Female Academy
has recognized its faculty, and is
without doubt or any disparagement
of its former self in better equipment
than ever Tor work. Mrs. Buford is
still Principal, and Mrs. Blaizdell is
with her. The other members of the
faculty are new. Three of the teach.
ers, believe, have been trained un-
der Mrs. Buford's supervision, and
are full If enthusiasm and thorough
training a the result. | have known
Mrs. B iit ri well these twenty years
1--WE were both younger then than
now and have no degree OF hesita-
tion in saying that ! believe her su-
periOr as school woman does not
exist in this country. She is thor
oughly and conscientiously prepared
for her life work as profession. She
is instinctively, by choice, by educa-
tion, and by experience a teacher.
Clarksville and the public generally
are to be congratulated on having
her at the head of the Academy. Her
sister, Miss Burgess, Is in charge Of
the music In the school, which Is
enough to guarantee the very best
order of teaching. No one who has
ever been patron of Miss Burgess
will need any stronger assurances Of
faithful teaching abreast Of what is
most progressive in the art, than to
know that she directs. know OF no
faculty that represents better native
ability, together with painstaking
and thorough prep ration at much
expense OF time and money, than
this one. And / know Of no place
where girl can obtain more solid
education with a finer finish than
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