Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-08-15
Another ! elteT From Mr.. StrOther.

Union Hall. Va, A1r. S. 1912.
Tazewell Republican,
am 50 glad that l cen say that
though have been taking your paper
for years. have never read an article
that would be offensive to Christian
household
Your paper is published in live town
the county seat of a county where the
bluegrass finds a luxuriant home, even
to the top OF the highest hills, and |
might say, even to the top of the high
est mountain peaks. 1t il truly land
flowing with milk and honey.
My brother. Wade Dsbney Strother,
who died many years ago, made his first
dollar as lawyer in Tazewell. Some
ignorant people think no lawyer can be
honest. If my brother or any of my
distinguished relatives who we're. law
yers ever did dishonest act l have
never heard of it. Many Of the great
est men the world has ever known were
| lawyers. One of the greatest mistakes
g man can make is to think if he ad-
heres strictly to the truth he will not
be successful in business.
When my father was censured for
some things he said to a man who came
to buy his farm, he said: Il would not
deceive man FOR the value of my
farm. y He was honest. end his whole
influence upon his family and mis- Gis
tinguished nephews, the Predictions.
Buckners, Ashbys sad Barbours, was
to make them honest. If one Of nv
fathers children or one of his nephews
ever owed dollar that was not paid. l
have never heard Of it. have taught
over fifty years. The grandest lesson
was ever taught was "be honest,
speak the truth"
You have published a number Of let
tiers that l have written you. have
but one more to write. ] may not live
to write the ninth and tenth periods of
nv HE, for then will be over one hun
dred years old. In a former letter |
! told you of my wonderful success at
Strother, 80. The Lord was surely
with me, but at the pinnacle of my sue
cess, my largest building vas destroyed
by fire L was preparing to rebuild
when delegation headed by such men
as banker Clark, VIM. Ely and Mr..
Wolfberger came from Peery, and
through them and such men as Tom
Gill, Judge Hubbard, Mark lie Francs.
Tom Petit, James Gallaher and the
Wards, / was induced to spend the sew
enth period of my life as a teacher in
Peery, Mo. But few of these noble
philosophical men are now living. but
their nantes have fallen upon worthy
descendants-live school men. The
Lord gave me two large fine buildings
and about eight or ten acres of ground.
One building was for girls the other for
young men. This was an ideal place
for high school-one l never ought to
have sold.
am In my SSth year. A prominent
physician at our county seat says l will
live to be one hundred and twenty years
old. l left my home the first of De-
cember last and got back the first of
April. / spent while in MartinsviIle.
Va, Columbia and Mannery, S. c..
fitzgerald, Ga, Montgomery andI
Greensboro, Ala, Memphis and Chat
tanooga, Tenn, Seminole and Oklahoma
City, Okla. Last fall | attended two
Chatauquas, three fairs and the Virginia
Farmers Institute, of which am a |
member. Well, how is that for nearly !
ninety? get letters sometimes from
former pupils, which l prize and file !
away. did not have the honor of
teaching Woodrow Wilson, Marshall,
Clark and Taft, but l taught the two
distinguished Reaves preachers and
prominent educators like Roger, Elliott
and others.
FRENCH STROTHER.