The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-06-25
June 18th.

1clSm is more OFTEN compliment
than otherwise. Take my advice and
look at it that way. I can give you a
recipe for escaping adverse criticism
entirely. 1t is very simple: Be moth
ing, do nothing, say nothing. Our
enemies are in reality only our mis-
taken friends. We shooId not quar-
rel with them, but just laugh at
them. / am as proud of my few
enemies as 1 am of my friends; for
while we are known by the company
we keep, we are just as surely known
by the company We don't keep.
When you are assailed by 1ong-eared
critics, take it as a compliment.
You cannot possibly go hand in hand
with everybody until you learn to go
in eactly opposite directions at one
and the same time. "'Be sure you
are right, then go ahead" Make no
answer if a puppy barks at your
heels. Lord Byron says, "Censure is
the tax man pays for being emf
nent." And Jesus said to his disci-
,>les: blessed are ye when men
shall hate you," etc. Uuke 6:22).
'Woe unto you when all men shall
speak well of you" Luke $500.
Read it and you will understand why
/ know that what have said is true.
DR.. Woods mother is visiting him.
Mr.. Roy B. CASTOR is home again,
He started to Oklahoma, but was
-vn cry he dc
and high water.
Miss Mittie Egger is visiting home
folks.
The stork made a flying trip to
this neighborhood last week, and on
the 8th left big boy with Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Flynn. He came again
and left Mr.. and Mrs Tom Living
ston a boy on the 18th, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Irwin Mir girl, their first, on
the 18th. Our congratulations, good
people.
Mr. Guy Jameson, who is working
with a surveying party on the new
railroad, gets to spend Sunday at
home
AIE . a. AA. Id W SuCS 1AdS DSGA SiCh
for more than week.
Circuit Clerk Gunter was with us
last Monday, making up the registra-
tion list for this place. Did you reg
ister?
Mrs. E. E. Willis is home from a
visit with relatives at Sulligent.
The Caledonia Rifles now number
sixty-six. This is an excellent COM
pany. The boys should take Capt.
Egger with them to Chickamauga as
and would make an excellent guide
for those who have never been there.
1t would be an honor to the company
to have an old Confederate veteran
with them.
Or. Pickett reports six cases of
typhoid fever. If you don't want 1t,
shut out the flies and be careful of
your drinking waller.
Bro. Galceran went to the Colum-
bus hospital last week, where his
health is improving.
Whenever the plain, simple truth,
told of thing, becomes an attack
on that thing, it is time for that
thing to be reformed.
1t takes an honest man to admit
that there are some people who
cannot stand the truth" We ad- !
mire a man of such sterling honesty. /
The Morning Herald of Greenville,
Texas, in its issue of Many 9th, con-
-ains an interesting account of the
meeting in that city of two brothers
after a separation of fifty-six years.
One of them is our esteemed fellow +
citizen. The article follows:
After being separated nearly fifty
six years, DR.. Thompson Pressly,
aged 90 years, of Houston, and his
brother, A. P. Pressly, aged rs years,
IF Columbus, Miss, met in this city
/ few days ago and are guests of the
families of D. E. Hicks and Lee Hill,
Mrs. Hicks being DR.. Pressly's daugh-
er and Mrs. Hill being his grand
laughter. These two brothers had
lot met before in over half CEN
.ury, having separated the last time
n September, 1852, In the Lawrence
district of South Carolina. At that
fme they were comparatively young
nen, and their meeting after so many
-ears brought real joy and happiness
o them, and they could be seen on
he streets yesterday arm in arm,
md during the day they visited a
photograph gallery and had their
pictures taken together. They were
,orn in the Abbeville district of
south Carolina upon an old battle
leld which history gives no account
#, which is twenty miles southwest
# the place known in history as