The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-25

, school teacher and "tiek1ed" me had a like effect on Sim, but he called 1t ''di- verted." I reckon that's what was when Hobson squelched Bryan.
 praised) but think there Is one Dem ocrat in the State who can be honest ly. fairly. cheerfully elected Governor.
 asS He s nSt sy eope noSest work of God" Perhaps he has been referred
 to as dictating legisfation in favor of the Rail Roads. But he has endeared
 passing passing away. He was one Of them
 and they have lots of sons. And the
 Primary should be held on Memorial
 Day. when Sentiment and sense can
 Your recent kind words of Lincoln on the anniversary of his death re- are nes esidence hof of and a
 enough to give the living man the mass cseat Wonderful aS Tnfn asss
 eoin im iss1 as tRsy iearnea to regard Would ns knSS Saye oa our
 Southern distrust of our now great President should be turned into con- fidence would 1t be good for "all con-
 But. I don't want to go into all that, now. want to talk of natal days and mst'ay that you aafsi Had a birth birth day@indeed. don't see howlyou could have managed without one. But, do you ever take ac- sss ySa od its se Gnus e.ra and Fe Se
 And, (must confess it for youD are
 Seer se each man 0T wifi Tight. and # they do not 1t is evidence fheEf s Sr and he is %orahy of pg men sne of that that kind. i was glad of your beh e1s F9fSe fSe tney 6%
 But, these birth days-don't they sSms sSFned r9Sad fSa hiiIg ir a hurry after we've christmas but now they almost tele- oGUpe ons came sa'9 ealPoping % up f the other day almost before my last year one was out of sight. However. I was watching good many returning birth days to look after. that call for cake. Kisses and cash but I watch for 'em. l had out a kiss on the anniversary of his day. Some of these days our, birthday to greet it. Do you ever think of
 I recollect. too, the days when my ~ recoilect all these things for. perhaps.
 But. on my last birthday tand I'm roform) I devoted the day to reminis- cence and anticipation.
 Some people when they get to the, the 1mRPfe %an9 fe jampp 1 piafe khew m haSe nave t
 do but don't want to jump. I want to go back. I want to be child again school boy again on the old school smell the .jessamines and honeysuckies SIes SSiIess and ada' eat Psta' and % Town psf pbail
 want to wrestle with Arithmetic and Algebra and Latin again. ] .sS want u,,' tG render and begin life on Thy own hook" and go through reconstruction,; x on; less are the fruits of victory. (some- times smeS ana h FT want rbey se taeH e it as all Il a s pleasant over the river and I believe 1t. and there Is nothing uncomforta6ie SH fn 1ole HTer m not saetf tired sne of tRs e side Maybe so want want to go. So many that 1 knew here %iff SafS not not Se Sei iiike going among strang. neSi now iiving.' Hf A Of the the fun infantry com cavalry company that later I Joined perhaps there are no more. I am among the old men. "The time of my depar- ture is at hand" I will soon be amongst the forgotten. After all. what does life amount to? When we've done Lincoln1. When we've. done our very worst there are plenty. to approve: So what's the use to make efforts to be anyway. Without effort. A long. time ago I could near of men who said they liked me but ''woufd like me better fl thought it was right, and these same men liked me better living. And, SO | we acknowledge we were once wrone | safe men warn against the eloQuenct that was mischievous and speak words good man whose duty it became to awhip h-ll" out of us to save the Union. J. Culpepper.