Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-11-05

Laugh on tnOu bright eyed Oeau-
teous maid,
While life's fair morn is bright:
Ere sweet breathed flowers ever fade
Or golden visions lose their light. p"
Now Mr.. Editor, | do not know
that this stanza has any relevancy
to what follows, but l have seen
chapters in books beginning this
way. 1t serves as a sort of ornament
like knob on a bed post Or a ling
around a coon's tail Indeed | have
seen some persons going about with
semispherical appendages on their
shoulders which seemed to be eXclu-
sively ornamental. They did not APP
pear to use them for anything else.
When was boy we used to blaze
way through the forest and go
from one blaze to another until we
got there. That is the way we used
to go to the Whiting house on the
Stumpy Road from our house. Our
old friend Bush Platt blazed the way.
1t was as straight as fiddle string
looking at it from the top.
Well, our lives seem to be marked
by certain epochs somewhat similar
in retrospcction to Bush's blazes,
but dissimilar in this that one can
see them only from one end. We can
look back and see the blaze when our
first baby was born, then when we
were married and when we could
raise a mustach, and when we began
to shave trying to raise one; when
we danced our first reel and swung
the darlings of our hearts to the tune
of "Piney Woods Gals, or "OId
Lady Hare" and so on back to the
beginning. But who can stand up
and truthfully say that he looked
down the vistas OF life from the 9th
er end, the beginning of this journey
and saw distinctly the marks to
which he should travel as Futurity
unfolded her wrappings to embrace
him?
1t seems to me that the first event
is very important one. and each of
us figured quite prominently at his
own birth. Yet no one consulted
him as to when, how or where he
was to make his advent, or even
what kind of an appellation he
should carry through life. | know a
man down on Big Greek in Mobile
County, named Hezekiah. | always
did think he had a good cause of &C
ton against his parents for this.
| maintain that the feat of being
born shows a heroism well worthy
the emulation of warrior Just
think of it, my dear readerl One
comes forth unarmed, unmailed sin
gle handed to combat with the collie,
the measles, the mumps, and a score
of other enemies lying in ambush a.
waiting him.
Then he runs the risk of being born
a Duchman, or an Irishman, an Ital-
ian or Russian. Now, he may want
to be Frenehman, bat he is usher
ed into this existance as a Russian.
He is never consulted as to this or
else. He is born a Russian
and he can not help himself. He is
doomed to go through life uttering,
after be learns how. words which are
somewhat like cough -- sort
of 'tom and jerry of sneezes and
coughs. He is actually bereft of all
possibility of ever getting a smooth
word into the ear of his most devoted
sweetheart.
lie is never consulted as to what
his mother or father shall look like.
He may in his first survey of sur
rounaipgs happen let his eyes fail
upon the face of his mother and see
that it is SO black a charcoal mark
would make a white streak on it.
But he has to be quiet and not even
hint that he is dissatisfied. | think
Mr.. Editor, that you and | should
ourselves that we es-1
capped such fate.
After our hero gets through with |
the preliminaries, he begins to look |
about him and sees so many strange
things that his eyes are perpetually |
round with astonishment His first |
alliance is with the house cat. 1t is
said that the course of true love new
sr did run smooth. This is also
true of our yalorous infant and his
eat; but he always finds solace for
the disappointmehts of birth in the
constant company and the mutual
of his feline friend.
Yours truly,
- BENZ. f. WULFF. /
stockton, Cal.
Oct. 18th, 'O9.