The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-03-27

hood. nor do / wish 20 die now. ] VISA
10 live for the sake of these same
grandchildren, for I know I can do
something 10 guide and CON. ort them
along the journey Of life, and they
would miss me. A chic without a
grandpa and grandma has not had Its
share OF happiness.
What a beautiful verse Is the last
one OF poor Tom Hoods poem:
Il remember, / remember, the fir trees
dark and high
used TO think their slender tops
were close against the sky,
It was a childish ignorance, and now
lis little Joy
To know I'm farther of from heaven
than when was a boy"
Last summer the little baby boy
was sick. We feared he would die.
AS he lay upon a pillow in his moth.
er's lap. the little 4-year-old girl went
up close and whispered to her mother,
Mamma, If baby dies mayn't keep
him for a doll?" / never tire of their
childish talk. II is always sincere
and that Is truth, Tor sincere means
without wax-unsealed, "sine cerum"
no secrets, open and read If you
wish. It is an old adage that Chill
dren and fools never die" and this
reminds me of George Washington,
who, traditions says, cut down a cher
~ tree, and when his father inquired
who did It, replied, "lather, cannot
tell lie. did it with my little hatch
et." I don't believe that. It must
have been a mighty little tree that a
little boy could cut down with little
Ratchet. And II he was tad enough to
do 1t and knew better, he wouldn't
have made such a sanity speech as
Father, cannot tell a lie" My his
tory says that many Of these little
stories came from the nursery. But
that he did, when yet in ais teens, I'M
dertake to mount and suDdue an I'M
trained blooded horse, and the horse
reared and ran and plunged so furious
ly that he bursted a Olood vessel and
fell dead with George on top. His
mother was greatly grieved and scor.
ed him severely. l never knew until
recently that he took the smallpox on
Barbados island, and was slightly
marked all his life. George says in
his letters that his negroes gave him
much trouble ana great concern, for
he had to be away on puOhc business
most of the time and could not look
after them. He inherited one hundred
and forty and six hundred acres of
land, and his wife one hundred and
fifty more and seven hundred acres
Of land, and reckon they did give
him trouble. He never bought or sold
any, and set them all free in his will.
Mrs. Robert e. Park regent for the
Georgia room of the confederate mu-
scum at Richmond, wishes me to give
notice that next Month (ApriD the
confederate bazaar will be held there
for the benefit of the museum and the
Jefferson Davis memorial arch. Mrs.
Park asks for special Georgia contrt-
buttons for the Georgia room, and all
the regents of the southern states ask
for help from every man, woman and
child, so that the entire south may
share in the honor. The circular is
much too long to be appended to my
letter, but l will inclose II to The Con!
stitution
And now please excuse my mention
Of a matter personal to an old soldier,
w. F. Lee, a private Of Company D
in Hampton Legion. He has lost his
horn, large, long, beautiful horn
that while in camp below Richmond
he dressed and polished and engraved
with his name and a wreath. He took
the horn from the head Of a Texas
steer at a butcher pen in the rear OF
of Grants army. He sent it home In
the fall Of 1864 by his brother, who
stopped over night at Columbia at the
Wayside home and there lost 1t. He
says. major. am growing old, await
ing the blast or the last trump, but
would like to blow my own horn once
more before die"
Do please somebody send him that
horn c. o. D. 70 Piedmont, s. c.
BILL ARP, in Atlanta constitution.