The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-08-06
BY AUNT SUSIE.

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for how much Joy they add TO some poor soul
through each day cannot tell. How many
wornout with life's labor, given new strength
through their sweet songs. They are happy mes.
sengers from God to sing the song of peace and
love to earth, 'for earth would be valuless place
IL IL were not for these"
What is the matter with the cousins? Are they
getting too big to write to our dear old Constitu
ton" Cousins, let us not forget our old Corner
and old friends The bows have almost quit writ
ing. They used to write such good letters. Boys,
come back know you are having fine times now
it is vacation; tell us about il.
Who does Mammoth cave belong to now? read
a good description of 1t the other day but have
forgotten.
William T. Durham, Central, s. CT thought
would write. as ! do not see any letter from
"opOssum Corner" our vicinity.
am not going to school now, as our school va
Gated June the 18TH and viii open again the list OF
September when I will resume my studies again.
had nice time while attending Central high
trying To spell i'm spelling matches.
Boys. we certainly must Improve in letter writ
ing, for the girls are getting ahead of us rapidly
We should do our best IN whatever we undertake..
We should strive to become useful men and wo-
men. for the young and rising generation must
soon take the places of the old.
Who was styled .The Sage of Monticello?"
Edwin II. Lett, Good Hope, Ala am little
boy nearly twelve years old. My papa has been a
subscriber TO The Constitution Tor a long time. |
am a little country cracker" have never lived
in town. but have great many luXurleS that
only a country boy enjoys.
My papa is a doctor and also a farmer. ] am aw-
ful glad he knows how to manag alarm, for there
mo- sick people for HIM TO see, as our country
is distressinGly healthy.
do not like to work on the farm had much
rather help mamma i'm the house. she has
one to help her l have one brother who is two
years older than myself, but he thinks he is too
large To- do homework.
We are having our vacation. We attended the
high school at Eclectic, just five miles from home.
will close by asking question:
Who was California Joe?
Ella Fay, Columbia, Ala live in the town of
Columbia. and work in the cotton mills eleven
hours a day, and YOU all well know when boy
works hard all day he does not feel like writing
letter At night. But as merchants sons and far
mers' boys have occupied the young folks space
SO long without line from factory boy, MiH
knock for admittance.
Columbia is a beautiful little town of some
thing like two thousand Inhabitants, situated on
the banks OF the Chattahoochee river. This is
principally a farming country, bat 1t is also
lumber country as II Is known as the tlnber beit,
bur the industrious people nave sent most OF the
pines along the river to Apalachlcola, and turned
the land from alforest into growing fields OF corn
and cotton.
IL any OF the girls would like to have factory
boy for a correspondent, write To me.
Frank NJ. Iowrey, Hiawassee College Tenn
Though nonresident of tins place. cannot help
remarkfng what a splendid site this.is for "a sight
seer. LYING at the foot of the Allcl htny noun
tains whlcn tower their venerable Old heads tar
up into the misty clouds, and MI the description
RIP Van Wrinkle and his environments TO letter
Down i'm the valleys, ditissimus ct fertllisslnus,
are waving wheat and corn fields, beautiful stock
farms and yerdant meadows.
Down the mountains sides run streams OF clear
water. winding their way like silver thread
through The forest
IN i amusing to notice here how equally the
democrats and republicans are divided, and how
they are continually fighting and opposing each
other, while further south 1t is solid democracy.
Wishing your paper and "Our CorneT' success,
/ shall close.
Correspondents solicited.
Lizzie Hobson Robinson, Texas.-I have long
intended to write to the cousins and tell them OF
my beautiful state in which live. Ny home is in
the central part of Texas, three miles from the
little village of Robinson. IL is surrounded by
gentle rolling prairies, and only on the south size
can the distant outlines of a forest be seen. The
clouds are ieecy and white, and the sunlight so
bright that IL almost daZZes my eyes. | know
some of the northern cousins would like tO he
down here in this Gland of the skies and flowers"
yys have not been taking The Constitution long.
and have never found out what was the matter
with little Edna Brewer.
| am glad our corner Is interesting and inStruc-
tive and think it-fhe brightest page in this paper
II any one knows boy Afraid OF the Girls"
tell him 20 come to Texas and us girls, and he
will change his opinion.
Would like correspondents from all the states.
If | am allowed TO enter tins time, maybe will
call again some time.
Best wishes for Aunt Susie and cousins
Julia Longmire. Henfour, Texas.-I a little
country girl, and have never known what II was
To he sick afflicted, and when l read IN The
Constitution of the trouble and sad condition of
moor little Edna Brewer my heart melts and feel
like want to do something to help her. have
collected good many stamps for her, but after
reading of the great number that was sent her
some time ago, mine seem so lew that / feel
ashamed to offer them, but mamma says my two
or three hundred stamps added To those of some
other little glr will perhaps make a thousand, so
1 am encouraged TO send my small sum along.
Please tell me through The Constitution how 10
address her letter. i would like to send them
Through the kindness of grandmother read
The Constitution every week, and think there Is
much information TO be gained from the little
folks column.
Send stamps to Hot Springs, Ark,
Ida Hodge, Cairo Ala wonder how many of
the cousins enjoy gathering and eating Dlackber-
ries? enjoy IL much as anything | can do,
and as there is no other fruit here this year, We
have to work hard To see who can get the most
berries. NJ
Do You all enjoy going to picnics. There has
been several In this part of the country nut nave
not had the pleasure of going to any yet but VIII
try to go TO the next one.
/ was reading the cousins letters this morning
and found that one question was answered wrong.
: 4. Harden said the '-stamp act" was passed IN
I77s and il was in 1861 was II not?
N seems that the boys do not take much inter
est in the childrens' Corner; still, girls had
better watch them for fear they take notion To
get ahead of Us. -, - a.,
song: zone Year Ago Tonight" lit Is Hard 10
give the Hand where the Heart can Never fe'
/ Will send in return, after The Ball, "Barney
McCov." Too Late" "Do They Miss Me at
Home -
will close by asking question; In what Dattle
was Mollle stark the watchword?
Correspondents solicited either SEX
Katie sutton, Falling Creek. y. CT live six
miles from kInston, y. C., in the country, right
near the mill pond where we children 20 "A fish
ing and have such nice time. Then there Is the
church right by the side of the creek, and we have
such "A lovely Sunday school, and IL Is only about
twelve miles from Seven Springs.
wish Won and the children could be with me.
have such good time there. You see why
they called seven Springs. There are seven
springs all boiling all the time and they are min
era water every and all different mineral too,
and shey AL enclosed m little house about
fourteen feet square. Sometimes | do not THINK
nature did much anywhere else IN the
this BY
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