The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-14

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Sunday eve, and was treated with the
most cordial hospitality. Their luome
is a palace and their garden and
grounds a little paradise. / am get
ting strong again and walked to town
-.-st week for the first time in three
months-when I came home my wife
shook her fist at me and said: II be-
lieve you win outlive me yet.' From
the tone of her voice l thought maybe
she was mad about it. We have neal
ly completed the finest court house in
the state. 1t is in full view from the
window where / write and ! never get
tired of looking at the beautiful dome
that shines like silver in the sun. "A
thing of beauty is a JOY foreyer." Our
garden is adorned with beautiful roses
and l cut them every morning and my
wife allows me to send them to the
pretty girls-no, / mean to the an
cient mothers in our neighborhood.
My wife is peculiar about that. AT
night l have to help a pretty lassie
with her arithmetic and algebra and
Latin. / get stalled sometimes, but
we generally get through all right
We have a telephone, and my daugh-
ter, who lives a mile away, has one.
So when her daughter gets stalled she
telephones here and our lassie tells
her over the phone how to do it.
Sometimes it takes many figures, null
tiplying and dividing, ETC., and if there
is a mistake made of only one figure
near the beginning it runs through to
the enc and gets bigger and bigger as
it goes. And so my lassie is disap-
pointed because she did not get the
answer. Then l go over all the figures
carefully and find the error, and she
has to do it over again. Just so it is
with our habits and conduct. If a lit
tie boy tells fibs or stories, the habit
will grow on him and by the time he
is grown he will tell lies. If a boy
swaps knives with another boy and
cheats him, he will get into a habit of
cheating in a trade and nobody will
trust him. When Tom Benton was for
the first time a candidate for Office, it
was told on him that when he was a
SClloOlOoN HC SlOlG d hlIlS lIoiu dA>
other boy and had to give it up and
take a whipping. And SO he didn't get
elected. My father always said that
knife story was just a political lie, but
L have known politicians who would
steal knives and lie, too.
l had a most grateful compliment
the other day, and it was as pleasant
as it Vas unexpected. The Dalton law
ers and the Calhoun lawers were here
to attend the funeral of Col. Harris.
After that sad mission was over they
joined with our local bar and our Judge
and visited me in a body in my sick
o and did M special honor. For
awhile we exchanged wit and wisdom
and pleasant anecdotes. l shall not
forget their kind and grateful visit as
long as | live-such things are worth
being sick for.
day at my daughters home. She has
a fine little boy a year old who is be-
ginning to walk and talk. So she gave
a dining to two young mothers, who
each had a little girl a year old and
they too were learning to walk. 1t
beat the Atlanta horse show to see
the three little tots tottering across the
room as merry as larks as they tried
to show off, sometimes colliding and
falling down-then up again and on
another round. 1t was a pretty sight
and their mothers were proud and hap
nv. A yo11nU mOther is the proudeSt
creature on earth. She is always calm
and serene.-Bill Arp, in Atlanta Con-
stitution.