Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1901-07-03
Correspondence.
Drywell
Dear Bro. Barclay:

Dear Bro. Barclay:
Replying to your inquiry as to VIII.
l had retired from the literary world
/ beg to state that I have beed engaged
in q more pro itable business; m,
silence can be attributed to my hav.
| ing ceased to enjoy the rights and
privileges Of an unenviable widower-
ship. I now enjoy that plessonsblt
feeling so characteristic OF the bee
that has after a long search at last
| found it's rsw. drop. Some time since
one of my many lady lovers recognizing
that my lilly white hands were not
intended to toll expressed a desire to
pour my coffee and spread my pillow
shsms, acting on this serious express
sion Of thought, proceeded at once
10 arm myself with the proper certi-
ticate aud to reduce my angelina into
possession. We now enjoy our honey
moon; the twittering birds and twill
light stars fill US with pleasure. and
we talk occasionally as if we would
spend our declining days Were the
woodbjne twines, when the honeymoon
waynes I desire to be in a ositio" to
hsndle few OF the single halves of the
dcuble-standard. In ca.e there is an
unexpired term I may decide to be in
the field for State Senator, but politics
are so uneert in. That single gold
standard expansion isn't proper, the
Neps seems to discover that there has
been little expansion IN toe school
line, and is now engaged in spas.
modic howl, which his produced a
contagi' n, as the public school gradu-
ates say, something "ketchin." The
Doctor is having trouble in properly
diagnosing the case but is OF the
opinion that 1t is either q case OF vox
populi. cerebose elepsntiasis or cholera
infantum, and would prescribe Peny
Davis Pain Killer, taken III half-pint
doses every "a hours, when pain ceases
discontinue the "Pain. Killer" and use
small doses OF veratrum viride and
some simple home remedy to prevent
gosevrsness.
The .'single standard" in charging
Mr.sueptague with false delivery OF
e ,ods under false p-etense, claims 10
voice the sentiment of all OF the
respected c,izens o.: Jour county. The
Editor has evidently eaken the wrong
phisic for his bowling cootagiou and
suffers under an hallucination, we
would not be surprised to hear OF his
being chased by ''yelping stretchers"
and boa constructors. In his effort 10
secure the reapl ointment OF the in
cumbent superintendent of school and
thus erpetuate the exclusive privilege
o. tue News TO publish local school
literature and the voxpopuli cong'atu-
lations Immediately fol- owing appoint
ments, tho Editor committed the
indissressiou. after securing the
endorsement OF the School Boards, the
Professors Of W. & L. o., and OF the
high toued public spirited won political
literati OF reclining in luxuriant ease.
and slumbering iu the happy excessive
confidence. He should not have con-
fined his causes to t o Literatl and the
Aristocracy but should lave considered
me- and tho common people-(the, or
Borbarai)-who contem ,late exercising
q little influence in behalf OF the youths
who will constitute the future Demo.
cratic siren b Of cur county. l cannot
ioin in this nowl which the Ne,cs is
trying to disseminate as my naturally
nervous and high strung disposition
will not admit Of undue excitement.
but / beg to offer my propoundent
sympathy to the "single standard" az
ss it doffs its hat to the Doctor with
wish you well.
JAMES N. Brown.