The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-01-17

sheriff Will get you and put you all IN
JAN before night" never was scared
40 bad In my life. couldn't study
my lessons nor eat my dinner at school
and watched for the sheriff all dag
long. But that cured me OF card play.
Ing, and / never handled a deck again
until got to college. College was a
good place TO play cards them II Is a
good place 10 kick a bah now. Tim
Wilson and Jim Alexander were good.
hearted boys and never told on us.
lom died years ago and jim died last
month In Atlanta. He got to be a great
doctor and everybody loved him. When
/ received the telegram that told me
he was dead / felt like another prop
was gone and that now only one was
.ett-his brother Tom In Rome. Malt.
bic is dead and Young and Jim Wilson.
All my schoolmates are dead except
one and all my school teachers and
college professors are dead.
For several years there was no epoch
no episode. Every day was alike un-
I'll began to notice the girls with a
peculiar longing emotion and brushed
my hair most carefully and carried a
cleaner handkerchief and wore tighter
boots well polished. In fact got to
be dandy In my dress. Shakespeare
makes fun Of the lover and dismisses
him with a line. Says he sighed and
wrote poetry about his sweetheart's
eyebrows. We beat that In our day.
| didn't sigh a bit, for my sweetheart
was as bad off about me as was about
her and we were too happy to sigh,
We soon became engaged, and she
fixed the day away on In June, but I
Judged It backwards to May, and then
to April, and at last to March. to all Of
which she blushingly assented.
wrote poetry, too-not to her eyebrows
but TO her from head to foot Here
is the last verse, which is only a sam
pie of what could 20 in thos ehalcyon
days:
When incense on the sacred affairs
burned,
Its odOrs seemed in fragrant clouds
to rise;
So may my wishes ali toheaven turned.
Procure rich blessings for thee from
the skies"
This is pretty good, think. In 1864
some yankee soldier came along and
stole the album and carried 1t off as a
trophy and gave it to his sweetheart
She kept 1t twenty years, and married
another fellow and sent the album
back to him, and he mailed it to my
wife with a nice apology. He is a
! gentleman, though it took him a long
time to repent and reform. OF course
our marriage was an epoch-a big
milestone. My wife was only 16 and
as doclle as a pet lamb. took ner
young, believing could train her il
she needed training. For year or
two l could make her do just as l
pleased, but later on l could make her
do just as she pleased, and now she
makes me do just as sh pleases, too.
But it is all right, and have got used
to it.
Yesterday l received a letter from a
friend asking me to help him about
choosing a wife. He is a widower,
with one child, and wanted a woman
over 80 and under 4O-a settled woman
and he said he would make her a
good, loving husband etc. Well, l talk
ed It over in the family and named
several good old settled girls, and my
wife stopped sewing and said: 81
don't think you are very good judge
of manageable girls. You had better
let this matter alone" l didn't like
that remark, and replied; well, when
was young man maybe ! was a
poor judge, but l think | can do bet
ter now" am sorry said it, for a
woman can't take such jokes and keeT
calm and serene. I'll be more care
full in the future. ~
But l must reserve some epochs fol
another letter. The birth of our frs
child was an epoch, but afterwards
that business ceased to be a monopoly
and became monotonous.-Bill Arp, 1
Atlanta Constitution
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