The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-02-03
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
ARP DOING RIS TRINKiNG WITH HALF
HEAD.

A HEAD.
Sunny South.
Mr.. EDIToR-You will have 10
excuse me this week tor | am SICK.
A lady trend of mine told me
about a lady Trend OF hers who
was suffering one night from a
wretched headache. She was a
wr-lche1 woman and always knell
beside her bed and said consider.
able silent prayers before retiring,
but on this occasion She stood up
and said !: Good Lord, you know
how sick am-please excuse me
lo-night'-and to bed she went
Prease txcu,e me, MIR. Editor,
from wiling my weekly letter, for
| am sick and The doctor says l
mustn't write nor think for few
days, for | am threatened with
snilening Of the brain and | mus,
not do anything 10 strain my mind.
Sufteniug of the brain has been my
apprehension Tor year or two. II
is akin to dolage, and is almost as
bad for an old man as hardening
of lhe heart is for young one.
So | will have to suspend rnlil
the doctor gets through with me
and patches me up. There is only
one half of my head affected now
and one eye. At lir,t l suffered a
pain in front, but now it has creep
ell over to the cerebellnm as he
calls il, and | can't sloop down nor
get up suddenly withoul Il fash Of
pain shooting all over my cranlum
1t comes and IL goes like those
electric lights IN the streets of At
lanta. So | thought that | would
write you with The other side Of
my head and ask 10 be excused, for
don't want to strain nv mind. |
have been in bed all day taking
medicine every hour and receiving
calls and sympathy, and ruminat-
ing on easy things, but have TO be
careful about slrainlng my mind.
The doctor says that | must be
calm and serene. He asked me
what | had been reading lately
and | told him had been trying
10 keep up with the Briggs trial.
| saw him knit his eye brows, fur
he was a Baptist, and he said that
the abstruse metaphysics Of that
discussion was enough TO iun any
ordinary man distracted. l told
him us how before The Briggs case
was settled the Smith case came
on as a side show and how OHIO
turned Smith ont and New York
let Briggs stay in, and there was
nothing settled in a national way
about inerrancy and plenary IN.
spirallon, and had been siralnlne
my mind TO find out what | must
think Or believe about the busi-
ne-S.
".Stop it," said the doctor, 'quil
thinking-you will find out all
about il in a few years-yes in "A
few years, if you don't qull strain
Ing your mind. Let these abstruse,
scientilic,over educated gentlemen
alone. As the Lord said 10 Job,
who are they that darken counsel
by words without knowledge
Where vast thou when | laid the
foundation of the earth, and where
were the foundations fastened, and
where was the corner stone laid
when the morning stars sang TO-
gether and the sons of God shout.
ell for joy 2"
Then told The doctor how
had been reading upon the tariff
and Mckinley bill and was trying
10 make up my mind from a non.
partisan standpoint, and was
very much perplexed and had
strained my mind to determine
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