The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24
BARLOW MAN TAKES A FEW RET'
RESPECTIVE CHANCES.
TALKS OF FRIENDS OF HIS YOUTH.
william Gets Letters From Some of Then
In Which They Recall Events
OF the Long Ago.

good KIND letter from sOmc iaoio
man who is lonesome or has cofhmu-
nity of interest with me, and wishes
to write, for he knows that 1 will
listen. There are many more OF them
living than thought, for old men
grow silent as they near the end. They
ponder and ruminate, but make no
noise. Providence is kind in giving
to most of them children and children's
children to comfort them and to
brighten up the passing hours. An
old man must be forlorn, indeed, who
has none of these. Charles Lamb, IN
his old and mellow days, wrote sadly
when he said:
"Where are my playmates, the COM
panions Of my childhood in the joyful
school daysP All, all are gone-the
old familiar faces gone before me to
that unknown and silent shore" But
Lamb was wifeless and childless and
had a right to be sad. He should have
adopted some bright little orphan child
who would love him and call him father
and cling to him in his declining years.
Every old bachelor should.
have just received good long let
ter from an old and forgotten friend
whom knew in the long ago and sup
posed was dead. He is nearing his
four score years, but writes the same
old school master hand that his gener-
alton we're taught to write. He is IN
rood health and strong of mind and
loves to commune with memories OF
the past-the halcyon days, as he calls
them. I wonder how many college
bows know that the pretty word bal
cyon comes fromtwo Greek words that
mean the sea aud an egg.
When the elder duck lays her eggs
on the cliffs by the sea, it is always
warm and pleasant weather, and hence
came the word halcyon--als, the sea, and
DON, an egg. My friends name is >:
7 Richards and he is the survivor OF
the three brothers William q. and l..
Addison Richards, who were our fore
most literary men away back in the
forties. They published Georgia IL
Illustrated" and the Orion Magazine,
and many beautiful legends OF the
Cheorokes Indians. This brother
published war paper called The
soldiers Friend, of which have some
copiss issued in 1864, in Augusta, ga.
and are little gems, both In editorla
and selected matter. He now live
mot far from Mcpherson barracks
near Atlanta, and is the postmaster a
Golden Gate, and still finds time ant
pleasure in writing poetry when tn
spirit moves him. He, too, has adde
some verses to "John Anderson, M
Joe" These old men do not like tn
v.v that Burns left John, and ri
spouse sleeping at the foot OF the hil
but want them to rise again and EMO
heaven.
Wallace Reed ought to go out to tn,
Golden Gate and interview Mr.. hicl
ards and chronicle some OF his mem
ries. for he is about the only Literal
link between the present and the pas
THESE pioneers should not be forge
tan. Most ell pioneers are. We 9
the fruit of the orchards and vineyard
and take no concern about who plan
ed them. Not dozen people IN Rom
a CITY of $4,000 people, know WI
planted the trees that give sucn ma
nifcent shade around the churches,
who first laid out and ornamented t
beautiful Myrtle hill cemetery. W
knows of the long and patient toll
Mark A. Cooper in developing a
building MP the iron industry OF On
okee Georgia? What engineer soue
and found the winding way for RI
road from Atlanta to Chattanoe
nearly go years ago and planned
it's curves and spanned the rivers
creeks with bridges?
Not long ago I asked conductor
the Nashville & Chattanooga railrt
totell me who planned that magazine
work across the Cumberland mo
ta;ns. and he eould not tell me.
founded old Franklin college, now
University of Georgia and who 9
ceiyed and projected the est
i;shmart of the Wesleyan
male college, the first female coll
n tha world2 The antiquaries
relic hunters will pay big pr
for old things, such as anc
coins and furniture ana
r;os. but care nothing for the
naara ~ our civilization, the men
cIoarad the wilderness and biazed
Way for the generations to come.
reminds me that one-armea con
crate soldier who is now pincnea
poverty wishes to sell two very ola
nmns that were published IN 10.
the "Ilad" and Odyssey. OF no
TIE binding is in whitisb leather
raised images and flow ers stampe
Il and the'autographs on the TUE
are Albert, Prince Glenbevrie'
philip Melanchthon. And there Is .
in inscription as follows: sumo
Conradi Rheumati, 1915:
Now if this be Melanchthon
inc autograph these volumes a.
great historic value, for no or
man has lived or died in all these
tnriss-the man at whose feet L,
knelt in reverence, and OF whom
mus exclaimed, "My God, how
fonnd is his learning, how exait
his virtue" These two, Luther
Melanchthon, sleep side by 81
Wittenberg, and in 1860 the ri
/. prussia erected over his grave
.;erl monumont. q duplicate OF