The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-03-01
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tlli,ia Little City:
If there is any thing Ia the world a
newspap per man hates Ii ii the spring
poet. T @ . & i: p4St Bit Bit l, pow
|erfuls man to borrow from the poets
i want some respondent or som9
one else to tell me in nextweek's pap
Ter where got these appropriate lin, s
The beautiful snow came to us unex-
pected, like ships that pass in The
night. None. of US expected snow,
neither do we !sexpeot death, butt
surely, certainly and silently comes
[ found when / aWoke on Saturday
morning D.
Tho snow had begun III the gloaming, s
Aud busily all the night
Had boon heaping field and highway
q With a silence deep and white.
Every pine and tir ana homlook,
Wore ormine too dear for an Eail,
Aud the pooreat twg. on tho elm troe
Was rldsed inch deep With pearl."
What beautiful andAexpressiye
lines these are? Even tho writer's Of
sAored hymns, refer to the snow Ssap
emblem Of purity, "wash mo andY
shall be whiter than snow" 1t seems
that there is only one way to be winter
than suow. How sad that 80 few peo~
pie try to bo ridged inch deep with
pearl2 ( hope that none Of your read.
era will think that lam trying to
leave the impress Of correct life ia
my letters. lam sorry to say that lam
far from it. God knows lam not the
thing / should be nor am I the thing
| I could be; butt love purity in all
things hence, this article on the snow,
leYenif [ did borrow it. Who did Itgot
! it irom2 nhe first scholar ip any school
ofour county except Clio. who is III
der LIZ Years Of age, either sex, who
sill sond me the name Of the author
X VII send to them by mail a nice
book
The snow is gone, silent y j. came,
silently it has departed. How truly
does Burns compare it to our earthly
pleasures, when he says, "Pleasuref
arss&ke poppies spread. you grasp tire
plant its bloom is shed,' or like the
snow, fails OH the river a moment
white, then gone forever.
Sunday we had no preaching at the
Baptist church. Rev. Easterling came
but the people could not stand the
cold ReY. Dent in the evening had a
email handfull. weighed in the balance
and found wanting - too coldl It was
not too cold though two nights ]as
week when the wind with 10y breath
was bowing Dixie through you
whiskers to go to the lecture, if it die
cost 3b cents to 60 in while the gospel
costs nothing. | want to say right here
that am not competent to report Dr.
Halls Lecture. II was simply grand
Nobody this side Of Alrska can beat
him.
Miss Annie McRae of Maxton hal
been visiting at the charming home
Of W. NJ. Myers near town. She has
returned home, much to the sorrow Of
some Of our tall, slim young men
the medium sized young man has our
sympathy; but, there is a short, stout,
forid young man who has gotten q
solar plexis blow in the breast-.he
has my sympathy, you bet
1 X haVo no ncws if airy body eal,
| dioncr with any body tomorrow be-
fore ny lottot gots OF III let you
| knV~. s
M t,.eii (, *
.E$Ntfis ore SubscrjhGfs 10 your papol
! and some wi9arn not, topayZ ntfibnte
1 60 nNRhnd TigMS, which Lam going
i 10 doc J write undcr my own name
am personally responsible for any
thing may say Next week this shall
be my subject IA tiger is hard ani
NAL to tamc," but he is getting nigh
ty tame in Clio. Now for m5le poetry
and this is to any Tiger who makes
Clio his Den.
"Looheil, Looheil, beware Of tho day
When tho lowlands meet thee in battle !.
array.
You can't down scotchmap! ]
know one who left Sunday morning
ia the snow with head and heart turn
ed Tor North Carolina. I reckon he
got back laat night Any way, he wa.
atmy place soon this morning, call
| ing for Harris Lithia Water on
draught.
Look here, my wife gave me fit:
about what | said last week abou,
sowing gardens. She tod me that
wouldn't even fix up the garden gate
much less SOW any seed, She just pure.
" went for my luxuriant head Of hair
and now / am bald headed. Young
men fix up your garden gates or mind
what you write for the papers. I guess
she was right. l never did know her
to make but one bad mistake and
that was when she mar mar -
said that aboat the garden gate.
Well nobody hasn't eat dime,
with anybody. / would that I could
eat somewhefe every day. | think d
change would help my digestion and
and am willing to eat with anybody
that will ask me don't all speak al
once. Nobody sick, nobody dead, no
body married and not a drummer in
sight. Thauk the Lordl
Feb 26, 1901. J. il. Mc(4.
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