Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-08-14
THEIR LAST WORDS.
Bill Arp q Remarks Of Great Mea
Dying.
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I stiu i've I was ruzlzatinx
about the last words Of great rea-
and those q Daziel Webster always
impress me with peculiar force On
the very eoc1ne. Of eternity. O the
brink Of the everlasting change that
he knew was 1t hand. his great niEd
SEEMED 10 b~ studyiEg and waiting AID
watching for the separation Of the
sOul from the body. and wondering
how he WogId pass the crisis There
vas ID fear. 10 dread. a. he calmly
whispered I still live and iuuedi-
ately died His body died and what
vas the next vksiOa Of his great soul
the world would Ike TO know. but il
L forbidden / thOGght of all this not
long ago as I seemed to be drawing
near the end and approached the co.,
azes Of that undiscovered country
from whose bourne No Traveller re-
turns l Was serious and solemn with
expectation but WAS not alarmed
for nv faith Is that ny Maker will
take care Of ne and Of all others who
love Him and try to do right Al that
trOGbled me was the separation from
those love aad their grief a. ny de-
ParrurS- Two months - a long time
10 Be a child again without vital force
enough TO walk alone But / have
passed the crisis. and thozEh weak 4zs1
EervOGs an OF the upgrade. and ear
walk about the garden and carry the
little g-zndehiId II ny arms and give
4 =.
czre~Se<-
Well that l. eao1gt o. that Inc
You readers can fad serE0zs and
Prey eOmneltaries o. Sickness and
death On another page -CarV< 6ieE-
Lei Is enjoy TIE cay and b> thankful
that we still 1--we But to drop r~ver-
-nEly froz the sublime to the rS3iez-
lOus- / recall that vh-z ! vas young
4 number Of Is were quoting the Ia<s
words 81 great men srch - S~neca and
Plato and Calvin and Lutker and one
-aid- Well you know What Daniel
Webster sz5dz- No. NE did rot rernem-
Der and he replied: Why. he opened
ais great big eyes and looked at his
friends who we're weeping around him
and whispered: Boys don't cry. an
not dead yet
FOrry-oze years ago last Sunday the
battle Of Manassas was fought Ii
was the first battle Of the civil var
and made 4 deeper impression upon
those engaged in il than any other.
Compared with the great battles that
came after it, Il was almost insight
can't for there we're only 40 feterzls
killed aud III cO1fedsrzres- The fed
erzl account gives I-sa0 Of their army
a. Missing That ! n mistake for bv
fOar o'clock they we're all missing
Our cavalry couldn't EEd them though
they followed their tran Of discarded
guns and hav-rsaeks for niles and
miles There never was sueh a rour
AID such a panic during the wzr We
didn't have enough wagons Eerr Gav
20 gather Up TIRE scattered munfrfors
e war and Il took NeDsoweu a u.0-tk
10 cal in his army Of 5000 uez and
reorSa1Lxe- But n the long run they
got even With - and a little ak~ac
and the grand army = stIIl Dragging
how four of them WHIPPED 0ze Of n.
are satisfied With eur record and II
grows brighter as the years rou o.
Az1o 6OEizi VIII tell The ether 6ay
nv doctor said u.zS- take some *
ervi~z and h- took kEs mother and
ne p the river road for few miles
20 The rZzzs q TIE Cooper iroz Eorks-
II was a ND weird xhostly place On
The aaEk< Of the Etoxzh- where oree
we're roLl5zg mills and fO1usry and
f1EuzeeS and 1oar nails aass tan yards
azl h1adr-,iS ot cottages where hap
p taoorrrs 1zt mechanics lived Rur
>h>rEz7z's army burned and destroyed
everything and sir~~ thea most Of
the eEEEbEiE< walls have fallen and
tns tres have grown up in their midst
and wl-d viz<. have climbed the trees
and Eothzug : visible but rziEs and the
sad spectacle OF cruel and brutal
var Bat this y Oze Burning that az
coruEzx 10 the rules and zsax~s Of
var was Justified for these iroz works
were making eann0E for the eonf<<.-
er7ey- IL Was the IozeSoz- ehizaeys
Of the poor ali along his line q zzarrh
that marked his brutality and proved
his assertion that War ! he'll
But 10 more II this While vSe-inx
these ruins NY memory seat back 20
the time when Joe Bru~a wzs gov
error and ordered that seas pIkes
be made With spear point anS side
blade curved GOwnxar1 Ike a -~av-
hook and = long kaztsE- n a sa<A-s.
20 that cur boys migkt take EN- eoz-
ing and going. II they 6s.z-s ruz ne
were 20 spear en- szss Il tk-v SiG run
~e we're 70 OEertake EN- azS ha-sk en-
back That's shat ed @aa L~~ssrelG
re and he "a. the master mechanic
Who made thea 4zE Ae sszI ives r-ar
here AID = n As sssk wear Isawkzz
to-caE az1 ke ss>p~ E<ks azz sprizxy-
he \ an EZngI@kEaz M Lews-
szsz L -wsy S&zr tn G-crxix h.sxs
1~> these plies WEI YEA s<~--
sal1 4e- The ed arEy oesee-x - s werr
erIllzzZ car oexs az Big SAanty loax--s
at tee<< pixies and SAID 20 The rover
E0r= Wat I'll tk> ez-ny - Gcfrr
WITH th~irgzz While eur bavsar-ruxk-
ing IN them wirh these PIk-xs Tk<y
VII shoot our boys down before tk.v
ear get 10 them az3 rkey made 50
n1eA fun over The pixies that tkey
we're refused West Point w01Iln'r
have anything that was rot -s-c AZ
West Point AID 50 the fur-kerrar-
uf1erur- Of pixies vas stopped and
those that we're made are row sezr-
tered al over the eountry zs carries for
Museums A sister Of nine saws she
saw one Of them rot long ago IN uu-
SUE Il Boston But st- cor'r see
WHY spears are zrv more CUT er order