The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-02-28

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her boys built a fence around the gar
den by boring holes in the plank and
the posts with an old brace and blt
that her husband LEFT when ne went
on. And they made pegs and drove
them IN, for there wasn't q nail II the
country. But good old Mother Akin.
whom everybody loves and likes 10 u.s.
ten TO, told HON three Of her neigh
bors got out OF meal and had some
how got hold OF three bushels Of corn,
and they rugged up a little rikety wag.
on and a blind army mule and all three
Started 10 the nearest mill. which was
z miles away. They started early and
got 10 the creek. and the creek was
up. but they drove I'm. and sure
enough the wagon came unooupled
right in the middle Of It and let them
all down where It was lknee-deep and
let the corn down. too, and the mule
went on with the foree-wheels and
stopped when he got over. But they
never gave up the ship, nor the corn.
Il took them about an hour TO get
the corn and the wagon together
again, and with dripping garments
they hurried on to the mill A photo.
graph Of the scene would sell as the
champion picture Of the women Of the
war. The good miller gave them dry
meal for the wet corn, and by shutdown
they were all at home again and
laughed over 1t, and everybody laugh.
ed who heard of It, Almost every
family within Sherman's belt have
hreslde stories to tell that would All
a book They are a curious medley
of the sad, the pathetic and the anus
Ing, and excite more fun than scr.
row. How blessed are they who stll
live, and how sweet are the memories
of those who are dead, for It is the
mothers Of the confederacy who have
perpetuated the love of truth and the
love Of southern patriotism in the
hearts Of the children and inspired
those principles that have in recent
years developed that grand organiza
ton known as the Daughters of the
Confederacy. Our northern brethren
may boast Of the Grand Army of the
Republic, but our mothers smile and
say, Il don't see where The grand
comes in, for all who came this way
were low Dutch and hungry Irish
who feared not God nor regarded
women" Well, it Is all over now
and we are at peace, that blessed
peace that hath her victories more re-
nowned than war. And thrice blessed
is the woman whom the dark ages
kept subdued for centuries, but has
come to the front and now stands side
By side with man and is always first
in every good word and work For
two thousand years she was called by
name but twice in the Bible. Mother
Eve and next came Sarah, the wife
of Abraham, and for another two thou
sand years was mentioned by name
only few times, but at last she was
honored as the mother of our Savior
and was last at the cross and earliest
at the grave"
Within the last half century she has
made more progress in establishing
her natural and God-given rights than
in all preceding time. She is the &C.
knowledged head of all religious, mis-
sionary and charitable institutions.
She is the school teacher Of the world
and in these United States constitutes
ninetenths of all the public school
school teachers in the land. In sever
al states she has the right of suffrage
and is eligible to Office on the school
boards. Time was when she was al
most dead letter in literature and
hardly ever noticed in the press Of
the country, but now great metro
politan paper or magazine could not
exist without large space being de
voted to her service and her fairy pic
lures made to adorn the columns Of
every issue. Woman in this south
land is a power and woe be to the
men who scorn it, for they are always
en- the side of religion and good NOR
ais and purity in private life. With
cut them, the church, the prayer
meetings, the Sabbath-schools and
even the home would speedily decline
into that state that Grover Cleveland
called an "inocuous desuetIde." In
truth, she is the hope of the world and
her progress the best sign Of the com
ing millennium. As to her influence
for all that is good in educating and
refining mankind, no man ever wrote
a more beautiful science than that Of
Sir Richard Steele, when he penned
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