The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-05
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was the valedictorian. She had made
| preparations for the great event weeks
before. she had sent to Charleston for
her graduating dress and looked ike an
angel arrayed In the shimmering folds
of the pink silk. The long-expected oc-
casion came and passed, and on the fol-
lowing night Walker called He told her
that he was going to leave Salem and go
to Charleston, where he thought he
would have a better chance to rise in his
profession.
"Oh!" exclaimed Susan, in dismay.
"Going away? Will you remember\ me
Please write something in my ALBUM
Her heart was throbbing In her bosom
and her cheeks pale as she brought out
the album
walker took the pen and wrote with
out hesitating:
| Remember theei
Yes while. the pulse of life beats warm
and free,
| BY all love on earth or heaven,
| 1 will remember thee!
Think not that distant though thou art
Thou shalt forgotten be;
For while memory lives within this
breast
| will remember thee.
| But when In a distant land
Where all shall smile for thee,
Wilt thou remember me?'
AS he was shaking the sand over the
mage Susan read the lines over his shout
| der and, giving a little cry of Joy,
snatched the book from under his I'M
| gers. Turning in establishment he en-
countered her eyes fixed on him and
| looked deep into them. A great 1ght
| burst upon him and he silently held out
| his arms She crept into them while
there sounded something suspiciously
| like a kiss.
| Such is one romance about the album,
and there are many others. Walker and
| Susan were married three months after-
ward in the quaint old church which
| then stood near the center OF Salem
She received PRESENTS from all Of her
| classmates and one of them. Mary Ann
Scott, came from Charleston to be her
maid of honor. The wedding was long
remembered In Salem, and old inhabit-
| ants tell Of 1t to this day.
| Susan and Walker lived quietly to-
gether and as the years passed Walker
became prominent in politics.
With Susan's increasing duties the al
| bum was laid aside and her school days
| forgotten.
| Years passed and the book went to the
attic and was stored away with the rub
| bjsh. 1t found Its way to an old barrel
| full of ancient newspapers and reposeo
| there snugly for 10 years. The Mexican
was passed and the period of anti
slavery agitation ensued. The old book
| silent on. The state seeded from the
union. The civil war began. But still
there was on disturbance.
rhen one day the house was in an
unroar. Slaves scuttled to and fro. Ev-
ery one hustled about in response to the
| hurried orders of the mistress, who was
Susan matured. There was good cause
for the federal army would pass through
salem before night, and the silver mus
| he buried. the horses and cattle driven
~ 70 the swamp. and the barn stripped
The army came, and the staff OF the
General was quartered in the Wake.
mansion. There was the greatest polite
| ness but no intercourse. In rambling
about the house one of the boy lieuten
/ ants found tho attic and In exploring
| the curiosities there came upon the al
hun, Relieving the book to be worth
4 less he kept it, and when he was trans
| ferred to Shermans army took 1t with
him The officers name was l. c
Thompson and, caught by the lure of the
volume. he wrote in 1t himself. His
lines are as follows:
"Dur;ng lifes blooming. blissful morn,
When youth clothes all In colors bright
love Friendship, both the heart adorn
Viewed in one same alluring light
These are the closing lines In the book
and were written in the trenches outside
| of Atlanta. On the following day At
] lanta was stormed and Thompson was
killed at the head of his company. His
personal effects were sent north to his