The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-03-29
DOCUMENT
5o03 YEARS OLD

ancient writings of the date of
! Ahab, the King of Israel, who
built his capital at Samaria. and
that these writings were $500
/ years old.
A few days after lhere ap
I peared in the Courier-Journal
an article stating that some
French gentleman had present
ed to some library i'm Paris a
document found in an Egyptian
tomb, told of the Eleventh
Dynasty, making il more
ancient than the writings of
Moses, and something over 1000
| years old.
But the other day, on the
Dummy car, there slipped
from the pocket of a boy of eight
years, a document ore ancient
than them all. IL was written
when the sun was following a
fresh blazed trail through the
trackless forest, and newly
Travelled path across trailess
plain. 1t was first indicted by
Cain with n piece of chalk while
he sat under fig tree watching
the minows nibble at lis pin
hook tied to n paw paw bark
line ON a willow pole, as IL
whirled in the eddying waters
of the Euphrates, aud was
addressed TO Carrie" the
daughter Of "a Bygantian woman
lt was first written in the
Hebrew. Syriac and Chaldeac
languages IL has been trans.
lated into every tongue OF every
tribe the Chickisaw. Choctaw
Cherokee, Creek and Serniuole:
INTO the japanese, Chinese and
Simese; from the Hugenott,
H0ttentot and Abysinian into
the Virginia, where we found
DO. 10 is perennial, eternal, nm
changeabie and all-absorbing
and this is an exact copy
Ms Dear Carrie
win write 60 tell you-to ION You That
/ love you that love you better than
sugar
Ii is unsigned, but any littla
girl who puts her name in place
OF Carries can tell YOU who
wrote it
What story it tells of doubt
and courage aud sweet emotion.
A manly declaration OF "a noble
sentiment i'm the sweetest cfI
words
In what year this document
appeared, we are left To conjec-
ture, but from our own exper-
fence and observati0l, Cain
could NOT have been older than
eight, M~. however, can fix
pretty nearly the season I'M
which il took place, for has not
Iennys0n said
'ln ,hc sprne time the iris turns a
darker hue upon the dove,
ln The spring time Is young mans fancy
lightly TURNS 20 thoughts OF love.
and the month exactly, for has
not our own Shakespeare said
"Alaok-a-day, s-Rck-a.day
ihc month of love is the month of Man.
Butt it seems that the co educa-
ton of the sexes, modern meth
DDS and short school hours has
enabled the High School Swain
TO
Take the sha ont Of shakcspearcs
starch
And make the month of love the month
But do these funny illusions of
the precocious lad of the present
day presage the persistency of
the passion of the lads of the
former times2 Have we any
assurance that the consistency so
beautifully expressed by the
poet,
THAT the heart that once truly loves.
never iorgets.
But as truly loves on to the close;
As the snn-ilower turns on the sun when
1t sets,
The face it turned when it rose,
has not been changed in the
Kaleidoscope of school books
and rules of the Board of Edu
cation as taught by a coterie
/ OF young, beautiful and attrac
tive ladies' trained in the school
of Normal methods and Loves
High Court? May we not ex-
pect the poets beautiful lines
to be paraphrased by the pas.