The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-17

Fond memory goes Odch To my owl
Youthful days when | was a school boy
and loved q lretty lass OF twelve sum
mers aud she knew 1t, and when at our
books on opposite sides OF the room
ever and anon >he glanced at me and
always blushed when l returned ner
gaze. It was an incentive to me to
study and keen up with her for she
was q good scholar. At tire weekly
srelllug bee, when all Of us stood IN a
semi-clrcle half round the room she
generally got head and stayed there,
and | generally got next to her and sly
Y held her hand IN mlne and, stayed
there. too. That was but q school boys
love aud with time aud separation 1t fad
ed AWAY. Then ! went to the institute
and was pre-. AIRED for college and III
due time became a sophomore at what
Is now ca led the University Of Geor-
cla. | found many sweet and pretty
girls in Athens, aud during NY second
wear fell desperately IN tove with one Of
item. All, tow gently she tollel me
along and how swee,ly she toyed with
me aud sang the same old story "Wlli
you walk INTO my parlor, SAID the 81 l.
der to the hy"-und | wa ked in. She
was KIND, very kind, and sad sh G
would always love me as o sister. Alas,
these sisters who are of no kin. My
addresses were rejected and all [ could
do was to smlte upon my breast and
eXclalm:
''Maid Of Athens, ere We part,
Give, oh give me- back my heart, !"
But time is q good doctor, and in q few
months | was we'll aud ready for q
other sulder.
When nearing the close Of my col
leee life my fathers extreme illness
called me home aud I took charge OF
his mercantile business. Three years
before, when [ went to college, l left
behind me a sweet little hazei-eyed,
black haired brunette who was o
school girl In short dresser and panta-
lettes. Soon after my departure she
heightened out her dresses and was
sent by her father to Augusta. there to
finish her educat.o ON We both re-
turned home about the anne time and
l was both surprised and delighted to
iud her q full blown rose, a brunette
maldon "a dark as Pocahontas and as
shy "a q fawn. She wore number =
shoes and stepped like a deer. She
Vas then just sweet sixteen aud I had
reason to believe had never had q futi
grown lover. Her father was q wealthy
aud Observation-Disclosures. Her motLer
was q Holt with q strain of Indian
blood in her VEINS that came straight
down from Pocuhontas through the
Randolphs of Virginia. That Iudlan
maiden had loved Captain John Smith.
and as l had a strain Of Smith hlotd in
my veins | saw no reason WHY this
maiden should not love me and I deter
mined to play the spider myself.
The village graveyard was near the
big gate that stood at the end of the
avenue that led to her fathers house.
A smart young lawyer OF the town had
begun his vlsltatlons at the Maternal
mansion with serious intent, but one
dark night he became frightened near
the graveyard and declared that some
body shot at him. ] had begun nv
visits, too. aud it was whispered around
that it was [ who haunted the young
LAWYER aud scared him off the track. OF
course there vas no truth IN this. for
did not hauker after any close com
muilon with ghosts or gravevards nv
sa'f and 1t TOOK lue a long time to ovcr
come my SUI erstlt!on and to feel ca! III
anu serene on the way. But | did, and
sometimes would get within the en-.
closure aud slt unOu a tomb stone and
fin'nate and wait for the spirits t
come
hut this little narrative is becoming
fe'ious. Il me 1t Il ieagthened sweet
ness ioos drawn GU, for it did no
IKE me long to fall deeply, desperate
-. devoted!y IL love an my opinion
was then and still "a, that CUPID sho'
Us 9th at once with the same arrow
! Girl OF slX'een who has never had
!o7er IS easily captured by a smart
handsome, promising young man, ant
NY vile viii tell you that was all o
tlat aud more, too.
remember, Oh yes. | remember, how