The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-16

AN OLD FRIEND IN ROME MAKES
ulM RETROSPECTIVE
20 Writes Interestingly OF Aaron
nuFrs namiltona slayer.


see that my old friend Sam Gar.
uoehan, ol Rome. has recently uele. I
breiod h.a oighiy.mzth birthday be
b. alill hale and hearty aud loves 30
talk 20 bis friends about Tie good old /
times flo is a harness maker by
trade, aud porehoa on his stool and
talks while BIO works aud foel8 The feel
ing Of an honest, industrious man.
Apprentiood 20 tho trade when no was
fourteen years old, ho has continuous.
ly pursued bis calling for seventy
years, and ia all that time i do not
suppose that be ever doirauded any
man. i have never heard him com.
plain of his lot or of hard timea III
novor heard him abuse anybody moro
than 10 say. "He should not have done
that. 10 Is wrong. What PITY
what a pity" Aud yet he Is q man OF
opinions aud convictions and does not
hesitate 60 express them.
How came old Father Carnochan 10
bo so industrious aud work go hard
aud live so long aud enjoy life and
have good health? He says he rcckous
il just happened so, but nay opinion
is that his early habits bad much TO do
with 1t. For seven years he was
"bound out" as We used to call IL.
Bound 10 a saddler and harness maker
in New York city to learn the trade.
That used 20 be common at the north,
and / have known some cases OF tho
south in the long ago, but not many.
My father had an orphan boy hound 10
him for seven years, aud the covenant
was board and clothing and two
months schooling every year and 5000
in money at the end Of his time. He
was smart, handsome and willing, and
made a good merchant and married
well.
Mr.. Carnoohan says no had to work
diligently, and by tho time his term
was out the habit OF work was fixed
upon him and kept him out of mis-.
chief There is the secret. But few
of our boys have formed a habit Of
work. II they do any at all, they look
upon it as a hardship.
The old man says that Aaron Burr
traded at their shop, and he remembers
him well, a handsome, courtly old gen
tleman dressed in tip.top fashion and
with manners like Lord Chesterfield.
Years before he had been forced to
leave the country and lived in exile,
but he came back when the storm blew
over ald he was such a great lawyer
that he soon got lots of practice and
made lots OF money. He drove fine
horses and was q high-born aristocrat
and never lost minutes sleep about
killing Hamilton.
l was Illuminating about that, for
there is no story like it in American
biography. The young people ought
to read it. His fathers name was
Aaron Burr, and he was a very learned
and pious preacher and teacher. He
was founder and first president OF
Princeton college, and is buried there,
and six other presidents are buried
near him. He married Esther, the
only daughter of Jonathan Edwards,
the great preacher, and profound
thinker. A man whose sermons made
the people tremble and cry out and
beg for mercy. The young Aaron had
q sister named Esther, and these two
were left orphans at an early age,
They had a good estate and the best
guardians, and received a good edu.
cation. Aaron was sent to Prince.
ton, where he graduated with dis
tinction. It was expected that he
too, would be preacher, but he sud
denly astounded his friends by de-
nOuncing Christianity as a humbug
and declared his admiration for Lorc
Chesterfield, whom, he said, was tn,
finest gentleman in the world. Ther
he studied law and soon became tn,
top of the profession. When the rev
dictionary war was impending he wal
given a high position and became al
intimate of General Washington
family; but he did not like Washing
toms steady habits and religious prin
ciples and left him. At the close o
the war he married wealthy widow
Mrs. Provost, an accomplished ant
pious Christian woman. She BEGAN,
the mother of Theodosia, celebrated
in her day for her beauty and he
graces of mind and heart, and univers
ally lamented for her sad and mysteri
GUS fate. Her only child, son, die,
I when he was thirteen years old, an
she herself was lost at sea but fe,
= weeks after, and no one ever heard @
the vessel after it sailed from Charles
t ton. There are many stories about
q it having been seized by pirates an
: Theodosia, with other passengers, be
ing made to walk the fatal plank this
dropped them into the sea.
d Not long before this sad event Bur
q had forced Hamilton to fight du,
n with him, and killed him, not onl
h without re0ret lint with unfei0ne