The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-10-03
Barlow Man Triumphs Over His
Recent Affections.
IS TOUCHED BY POPULAR SYMPATHY
Though Still Weak and Not Yst Fully
Reeuperated from Dangerous
Illness, He Takes Up His j.
Trenchant Pan Once
More


N'ou HSdItH rs the asst OF earthly
blessings, but II we Ware not slals
sometimes We would not appreciate H..
And there Is a good side to almost ev-
cry misfortune. Old age has It's privlp
leges and. sickness It's compensations.
knew that my family loved me. but.
l did not. realize how much until thigs
lingering. attack required nursing
and night watching, and they had to-
SIT up with me and comfort me as I
sat in a chair and struggled for breath.
Breath, more breath, was what want
ed and I.cnuld not get it lying down.
| thought Of the last verse that David
ever wrote, LET everything that hath
breath praise the Lord"
All during my long illness have
had three trained nurses-my wife and
two daughters, and two married daugh-
ters and a granddaughter besides on
the relief corps, and they have been
SO watchfuly so willing and so good.
The Oldest Of the nurses has been in
training for fifty years and has spent
all her married life in nursing and
training others and knows just what
to do and how and when to do it.
What would 4 large family do without
a good old mother? But at last the
girls had to force her to go up stairs
where she could sleep without hearing
my cough that was wearing out the
bronchial tubes and the larnyx and the
epiglottls and. the Scylla and Charyb-
dis and other mysterious organs. And
had good doctors, too, who had dag
nosed me twice day and sounded my
heart with their telephone tubes and
thumped my chest and beat my stom-
ach and looked at my tongue and ran
the handle ola spoon down my throat
and gagged me and priced open my
eyelids and timed my pulse and then
wrote long list of prescriptions that
broke drug store and made a menu
Of what should eat and what l should
drink, and then confded me to the
trained nurses to carry out the pro-
gram.
was as humble as wet dog for
the truth is was alarmed and so was
my wife and children. l didn't see
how they could get along without me,
but l am better now, and for three
nights have slept in my bed and re-
covered my breath and only lack
strength and am gaining that 1t is
worth being sick 20 have such nursing !,
and find so many friends who sympa-
thize and wish me to get well. 1t .
plesses me- to have them call and
cheer me with their presence, but my
DOCTORS say, Don't you talk much.
Let, them do the talking You have no /
breath to- spare" And every mail
brings such good, kind, loving letters
from all over the sunny south and
some from Ohio and Illinois and Iowa.
They humble me and cause me to wOn-
ds- what have done to my people all
these. years that brings me such bene-
dictions. Yes, call them my people,
fo- now I am a patriarch, and even
children write to me and call me
grandpa. l have been too sick tolan-
swer all these letters and could only
reply by proxy, but l will answer them
when + get we'll I am writing this to
thank them all and to say that I be-
lieYe my heavenly Father has given.
me another lease and l shall continue.
for a, while longer to make a. weekly
visit to the homes and heartssof our
people
There is anothaR good thing about
protracted illness. 1t gives man
such a good opportunity toslook back.
to ponder and ruminate Ills helpless
ness makes him humble AMI humility
makes him kind Right TOW love e.
erybody, except some believe I
could love Teddy if he would retraet
and apologize. He ought to do that il
he expects any peace q. mind, 4 let.
ter from Blue Mountain college Mis-
sissippi, begs me to write him and
ask him not to visit taat state until he
does retract, and says the bears have
had a convention ana relsolVed to keep
in their dens when he comes I thought
he was a pretty Hair speaker, but a
friend Of mine heard him at Asheyille
the other day and says he acts like a
bull in breeches and cavorts all round
and threshes his arms and shakes MS
legs and twists up his nose and mouth
and slobbers out hts words, but he
don't retract.
But this Is enough about Teddy.
Let us turn him over to the tender