Woodville Republican., 1902-11-15

over the rest Of us. visited them en-
Sunday eve. and was treated with the
most cordial hospitality. Their home
is a palace and their garden and
grounds a little paradise. ! am get
ting strong again and walked to town
last week for the first time in three
months-wheu ! came home my wife
shook her fist at me and said: Il be-
lieve you viii outliVe me yet" From
the tone Of her voice 4 thought maybe
she was mad about II. We have near
IN completed the finest court house in
the state. 1t is in full view from the
window where l write and | never get
tired Of looking at the beautifd dome
that shines like silver in the SUI. "A
thing Of beauty is joy forever" Our
garden is adorned with beautiful roses
and cut them every morning and my
wife allows me to send them to the
pretty girls-no, l mean to the an
cient mothers in our neighborhood.
My wife is peculiar about that. Al
night / have so 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 IL takes many figures, null
tiplying and dividing, etc. and if there
is mistake made Of only one figure
near the beginning it runs through TO
the end and gets bigger and bigger as
il goes. And so my lassie is disap-
pointed because she did not get the
answer. Then 60 ever all the figures
carefully and find the error, and she
has to do IL over again. Just so it is
with our habits and conduct, II lit
tie boy tells fibs or stories, the habit
will grow on him and by the time he
Is grown he will tell lies. II boy
swaps knives with another boy and
cheats him, he will get into habit OF
cheating in trade and nobody viii
trust him. When Tom Benton was for
| the first time candidate for office, it
was told on him that when he was a
schoolboy he stole knife from an
other boy and had to give 1t up and
| take a whipping. And so he didn't get
elected, My father always said that
knife story was just a political lie, bat
have known politicians who would
steal knives and lie, too.
/ had a most grateful compliment
the other day, and it was as pleasant
as it was unexpected. The Dalton law
ers and the Calhoun lawers were hei {
to attend the funeral Of Col. Harris
After that sad mission was over they
| 1oined with our local bar and our judge
and visited me in a body in my sicA
room and did me special honor. Fol
awhile we exchanged wit and wisdom
and pleasant anecdotes. shall no
forget their kind and grateful visit al
long as live such things are wortl
being sick for.
And there was q baby show yester
day at my daughters home. She hal
"A fine little boy year old who is be
ginning to walk and talk. So she gay'
dining to two young mothers, WHIT
each had little girl year old ant
they too were learning to walk. /
beat the Atlanta horse show TO se'
the three little tots tottering across th'
room as merry as larks as they triet
to show off, sometimes colliding ant
falling down--then up again and ol
another round 1t was a pretty sigh
and their mothers were proud and hap
py. A young mother is the proudes
creature on earth, She is always cain
and serene.-BiIl Arp, in Atlanta Con
stitution.