The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-10-02
Barlow Man Triumphs Over His
Recent Affections.
is TOUCHED BY POPULAR SYMPATHY
Though Still Weak and Not Yet Fully
Recuperated from Dangerous
illness, He Takes Up His
Trenchant Pen Once
More
More.

| Good health is the best Of earthly
Dressings, but If we were not sick
sometimes We would not appreciate 1t.
And there is good side to almost ev-
| cry misfortune. Old age has it's privi-
ieges and sickness it's compensations.
knew that my family loved me, but
ala not realize how much until this
lingering attack required nursing
| and night watching, and they had to
SIT up with me and comfort me as |
sat in chair and struggled for breath.
Breath, more breath, was what want,
ed and | could 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 l have
had three trained nurses-my wife and
two daughters, and two married daugh-
tiers and granddaughter besides on
the relief corps, and they have been
SO watchful, SO willing and so good
| The oldest of the nurses has been in
training for fifty years and has spent
/
training others and knows just what
to do and how and when to do it.
| What would a large family do without
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
epiglottis 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 Of 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 should
drink, and then confded me to the
i 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. | 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 to have such nursing
and find so many friends who sympa-
thize and wish me to get we'll. 1t
| pleases 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
der what l have done to my people all
these years that brings me such bene-
| dictions. Yes, l call them my people,
! for now | am patriarch, and even
| children write to me and call me
! grandpa. l have been too sick to an
| swer all these letters and could only
! reply by proxy, but l will answer them
| when l get well. l am writing this to
| thank them all and to say that I be-
| lieve my heavenly Father has given
! me another lease and l shall continue
| for a while longer to make weekly
visit to the homes and hearts of our
| people.
There is another good thing about
| 4 protracted illness. 1t gives a man
| such good opportunity to look back,
| to ponder and ruminate. His helpless
ness makes him humble AMI humility
makes him kind. Right now love ev-
| erybody, except some. l believe l
could love Teddy if he would, retract
| and apologize. He ought to do that if
| he expects any peace Of mind. A let
| ter from Blue Mountain college, Mis-
sissippi, begs me to write him and
ask him not to visit that state until he
| does retract, and says the bears have
| had convention and relsolved to keep
| In their dens when he comes. thought
| he was a pretty fair speaker, but a
| friend of mine heard him at Asheville
the other day and says he acts like a
bull in breeches and cavorts all round
| and threshes his arms and shakes his
| legs and twists up his nose and mouth
| and slobbers out his words, but he
don't retract.
| But this is enough about Teddy.
let us turn him over to the tender
! mercy Of Dr. Wharton, who told us
| why he was shy of his mothers state
md people.-BILL ARP, IN Atlanta
| Constitution