The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-06-16
LETTER FROM PARIS.
DIR. Padgett Writes of His Pleasures
Abroad.
Scenes and Incidents In the Old World
Coming Home Again to Make Pills,
Paste ana Powders.

PARIS, May 20, lS99-My dear Mr..
EdttOr:-I hope that you do not think
that this perishable body has resolved
itself into indistinguishable dust, for
such is not the case. While my most
glorious holiday trip is now memory,
and have been back to work for some
time, I even like to think about it To
make an effort to tell you, do not know
just where to begin; whether to take
you to some sunny isle in the Atlantic,
where gentle Zephyrs laden with deli
cate perfumes, sang you to sleep after
you had traversed quaint and narrow
streets filled with as many queer OBJ
jects; or to make an effort to picture to
you Columbia boy standing upon the
deck of an ocean palace, looking at
waves rolling actually mountain high,
of many variations of blue, sparkling
sunshine upon pearls of water, ripplets
playing with each other, making a COM
binatiOn that | could not help but call
the flower garden of the sea; or it may
be that you would be more interested in
the dazzling gOrgeousness of true rep
resentation of ~ dreamt dwelt in mar
BILE halls" or in fsr, far away Egypt,
sunset across the desert-a sunset that
left its glow, painting the clouds of a
more delicate hue-the Nile as a silver
thread, all as pleasing as girls face
after kiss.
1t is as possible for you to read a vol
ume of the encyclopedia in one hour
as it is for me to tell all in single let
ter. Now, don't turn pale or get fright
ened; / shall not punish you in any such
way. 1t will take some quiet little cor
ner away from the noises of the world,
some day when you are not busy or
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flight, or marble halls, or childhood
dreams.
| have been so we'll ever since left
New York, and how sensible it was in
me to have taken such a vacation; and
never in my life have | experienced
such a relaxation from all cares, respon-
sibilities and anxieties as on that trip.
had no anxious eye to gaze upon, no
coated tongue to see, no fevered pulse
to feel, and Mr.. Editor, please allow me
to state here for the consolation of my
friends, Bob Irvine, Sam Ashton, Lynch
Perry and Joe Hutton, that they may
know IN my absence / am not taking
advantage of them in any way; that |
had no hands to hold. The time on
board Is spent in most enjoyable way,
except when you are sea sick, which L
was several times, once for three days,
crossing the Atlantic and on the Medi-
terranean, which | crossed four times.
Making new acquaintances, talking,
promenading, eating, and that as many
times day as you wish, listening to
good music and sleeping, makes up the
time. / had a number of friends on
board and among ourselves we were
known as "The Liars Club" but how
came me to be a member | know not. L
applied for aumittance, and at first they
rejected me and afterward they saw
their mistake and honored me by elect
ing me President. You see, Mr.. Editor,
these are little pleasures we INDUCED in
at times, and the evening before arriv-
ing at Naples, when we all knew that
separations must take place, and it was
| just after the procession of the illumin-
ated ice-cream at dinner when it fell to
my lot to respond to a toast. Well, let
me see. What was it? "Mr. President
of the Ananias Club: l realize the fact
that the Goddess of truth makes as
much Of an impression upon your wor'
thy soul as waterfowl does battling
with its wings against the madness Of q
Kansas cyclone; but nevertheless here
tits to you and yours. Our thoughts are
now turned to that spot where sun
beams are brightest, where nightingales
sing sweetest; that spot where friends
have hung from memory's vault, a cor
nucopia filled with lite's best. The sun
of our summers flight is now setting
but in its going down it has left such 8
mild, mellow light in the sky of our as
sociation that has painted the floating
sweet! Some day, some time agaiI
we may meet. In our wandering
we have seen Gibraltar, emblem
attic of strength; we have seen the
pyramids, emblematic of persever
ance and success; the desert, emblema'
tic of a life without love; Jerusalem
emblematic of childhood's memories, {
story OF life; of life born of love, Joy
pain and ecstacy. A life born of love
when the angels proclaimed to the
shepherds watching their tlOcks in the
valley, by night, saying, Peace or
earth, good will toward men, A life
born of Joy when it went from noun
tain to mountain, from valley to sea
from hills to river, saying, Take VI
thy bed and walk A life born of pain
when in the garden it said, Father il i
be possible let this cup pass from me.
And after He had gathered all tn,
jewels together, making them more
precious by his life born of ecstacy
we hear Him say, 1T is tinished.' w,
all have climbed Olivet, and well W,
know that we have viewed the scene
that the Son of Mary viewed many
many long years ago. on tomorrow
we will see Nesuvius and Pompeii, ant
then scenes will rapidly change, anC
soon we will go TO our RESPECTIVE
homes. One wilt 20 to New York {,
make more money and cleaner politics
another to Milwaukee to make tn
foam stand higher on glasses of beer
another will return to the far West {,
make the Rocky Mountains higher
another will return To that state wheT
man made mistake in drinking
water aud died; 10 that spot, the blue
glass region, whose fame has com
even 20 the Mediterranean. Aud viii
return 10 that spot where the tradition
says an angel stopped and made q cop
Of Eden. | 20 back to still make pills
paste and powders, and sincerely hop,
TO make the contents of the Tennessee
bottle sweeter. In bidding you Go,
speed allow me 20 say;
Friends, we've been long together
Both through fair and cloudy weather