The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-03-28

lumbia. Here IN Georgia this ldolatry
Is already taking shape IN our silly
hurrahs ftr our candidate for COVER
nor But, as usual, the loudest shout
ers have axes TO grind and are dlilgent.
~ engaged IN setting traps 10 catch
the people. But this Is the shadowy
side OF politics and / won't uminate
any further about Il.
II the ground was dry enough
would work some In the garden and
not brood over things that win soon
pass away. / thought that spring had
come two weeks ago, and I exclaimed.
Hail. gentle spring" But she dart
hoil-she only sleeted-and they soy
that old winter Is lingering In her lap
the old rascal He ought TO be
ashamed of himself My best reIiei
aud comfort Is to play with the grand
children. Our little girl OF FIVE has
had her little feelings hurt, and Is very
Indignant at what her Cousin VIII
said. She told me about Il: Grand
pa, / told Cousin Will that when he
got to be a man and / got to be a
young lady he must marry me, and
what do you think he said7" q don't
know. What did he say?" "Why, he
said he would see about II. Wasn't
that mean? He ought to be glad TO
marry me. If he don't mind / will
marry my Cousin Ralph; and then l
reckon he won't see about It. He's
mean, amt he, grandpa" Another
little chap was saying his prayers the
other night and prayed for God to
bless grandma and grandpa and Aunt
Mary and Cousin John and several
others, and then he said That all,
Lord. Amt that all, papa?" "No, you
didn't pray for your Cousin Jenny"
mo, papa, won't pray for her; she's
mean; l wish God would send a COW
TO butt her over" All of cur little
ones are going to school now, and feel
their consequence. I'm taking more
interest in our public school than
ever did. Our 12-year-old, who lives
with us, Is absorbed in her studies and
loves her books and her teacher and
is proud when she gets marked per
feet or away up in the ninetles. OF
course help her with her sums every
night, for some of them are very
hard, and sorter strain my old mind.
There are fifty-three pupils in her
grade (the sixth, and yesterday forty
six Of them had the sums done cor
rectly, and when the teacher asked
those who had no help to hold their
hands up, not hand was held up.
They all had help. That makes forty
seven teachers for one grade, and
am pleased to be one Of them. / wish
that the school teachers Of these chill
dren could realize how much influence
they have over their pupils. The
teacher can make the school life of a
pupil pleasant or miserable, and am
glad to believe that our teachers are
kind and conscientious. have sever
al grandchildren there, and take
note Of their progress. The days Of
old Isham are past. The old man was
stern and rigid disciplinarian. He
wore slippers in the school room, and
sometimes would slip up behind boy
who was making horses or dogs on his
slate and would suddenly mash the
boys face down on the slate and rub.
the pictures out with his nose He
used to have fights with the big boys,
and loved to maui obedience into their
rebellious souls. And there was Be
man and Judge Warner and my faith
er and William H. Seward, all yam
KEGS, who had to subdue the big boys
by hard fighting, and If a teacher
couldn't whip boy and subdue him
he was turned off as incompetent My
| opinion is that I got most too much
whipping when / was a school boy
/ l still remember how John Norton was
a good teacher, and he had a hard
time with Jim Wilson and Jim Craig
and Jim Wardlaw and my brother Jim
and Jim Alexander, the doctor who
died last fall in Atlanta. and several
other Jims. l never knew q boy
named Jim who wasn't devilish at
school. Verify there is something in
a name, and now Jim Smith is going
to run for governor. Better not tell
lie on him; he would jump over forty
desks to whip a man.-Bill Arp. in At
anta Constitution.
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