The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-06-25
CALEDONIA NOTES
|. d. ThIXTON

/ through the war and were gallant
soldiers and fearless fighters for the
cause of the South. Ben Tillman,
United States senator from South
Carolina, was educated at the Beth
any Academy, which is less than two
miles from their fathers old home
Their father died in 1869 at the age
of 73 years. DIR. Thompson Pressly
has lived in Teras since 1853, first
settling in Lavacca county. He now
makes his home with his son, J. A
Pressly, in Houston
We are lover of athletic sports.
We especially like baseball; but we
are unalterably opposed TO Sunday
baseball. 1t is better for a young
man to get a bone fractured occa-
sinnally than for him to sit aound
and dry up; so we encourage even
football - not in such a way as to
cause young people to have less re-
spect for Gods law, however. With
the development of physical muscle
must go development of moral mus
Gle, or the man will be a defective
arettes, a bottle of whiskey, a deck
of cards and a Sunday baseball suit.
and he has a through ticket to hell
Paste that in your hat. And remem-
ber that have not spent my life rais-
ing corn and cotton, but raising boys
Only character counts. 1t IS only the
man of character that leaves his i'm
print on the world, or succeeds, really
succeeds, in anything he undertakes,
with one exception: A man can save
money without character.
Miss Ola Jernigan is visiting with
friends in Columbus.
"a dead fishswill float down stream,
but it takes a live one to swim
against the current"
Rev. John Ellis filled his regular
appointment here last Sunday and
gave us an excellent discourse.
Old DR.. Holmes says what [ think,
and says it so well, that / will just
quote him: Il wonder if anybody
ever finds fault with anything I say? /
/ hope they do, I am sure. I should |
be very certain that I had said moth !
ing of much significance, If they did
not. Did you never, in walking the
fields, come across a large fat stone, |
which has lain, nobody knows how |
long, just where you found it, with |
the grass forming a little hedge, as
it were, close to its edges, and have
you not, in obedience to a kind of
feeling that told you it had been
lying thee long enough, insinuated
you stick or you foot or your fingers
under its edge and turned it over as
a housewife turns cake? What an
odd revelation, and what an unfore
seen and unpleasant surprise to a
small community, the very existence
of which you had not suspected, until
the sudden dismay and scattering
among its members produced by your
turning the old stone Overt Blades
of grass flattened down, colorless,
matted together, as if they had been
bleached and ironed; hideous crawl
ing creatures, some horny shelled,
some of them softer, but cunningly
spread out and compressed; black,
glossy crickets; motionless, slug-like
creatures, horrible in their pulpy
stiffness! No, sooner is the stone
turned and the wholesome light of
day let upon this compressed and
blinded community of creeping
things, than all of them that enjoy
the luxury of legs-and some have
a good many-rush round wildly,
butting each other and everything in
their way, and end in a general STAN
pede for underground retreats from
the region poisoned by sunshine
Next year you will find the grass
growing tall and green where the
stone lay; the ground bird builds
her nest where the beetle had its
cup are growing there, and the broad
fans of insect-angels open and shut
over their golden disks, as the ryth-
mic waves of bIissfu1 consciousness
pulsate through their glorified be-
ing" See the point?
June %.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Puckett and
their two little sons visited relatives /
and friends here from Friday until
Sunday. Mrs. Pickett, nee Cald-
we'll, was raised here, and resided /,
here with her mother until she mar
ried about three years ago. /;
The first homegrown watermel- /
ons of the season came to market
last Saturday. William Phelps (col- {
ored) takes the cake for the first
melon. He lanted on March 10th, I
and had some ready to eat on June
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