The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-02

| something about lie train. That railroad
runian answered just like all his kino,
sury and short. But before the craoped
answer was clearly understood by the Id
man. that splendid stranger-friend OF
mine called out: All right, father; you
are all right; you are not too late; you
will make your tram all rightt How
proud a sire to have 50 good a son? 1
| would plow a blind bull on q windy hill
SIDE ali my DAYS and go in poverty to
hear the voice oil such a boy call out TO
me in such a crowd those royal words:
All right, father and at the colse of my
| journey I'd lay my burden down with u
thankful sigh that life had held so much
! for me- l tell You, boys, I've felt good
all day at hearing those filial words, and
| l thank God that Alabama has yet goS
| a whole lot of boys that love their dad
dies for keeps" And the old preacher
wiped his spectscles and looked around,
astonished to observe that about half the
courthouse gang had misty eyes, as well
as himself
Il have sorter enjoyed what you DUCKS
lad to say about education insinuating-
| " remarked the Jusctice of the Peace.
! 4 have had powerful fine education
myself, as l went to an Old Field School
for pretty near a year without stopping
FOR anything except during the cotton
cnopping season for about three months,
a no at nlRnIS u 20 u Lawyer FoOH ,
house at night and learn all the Law.
Though somehow | was never much
punkins at Arithmetic, never was able to
tell what was the Great Common Diylsor,
or the exact height of q plug hat, with
ny eye, and didn't know until a fellow
showed me. that % dollar bills would
weight as much as one silver dollar;
nor could | cipher out whether the leath-
cry looking pies at the Railfo DAD Lunch
Stand was sewed or pegged. nor If Bill
! gave Susan two and three-fourths apples,
and Silas one and one-half apples, how
many would Reuben have out of an origi-
I.al clutch of thirteen and three-fourths
apples. OF course l would generally bite
ut them connun1rums in the Arithmetic
no as to learn the answer, even i'll did
get sold out first. but the figures didn't
stay with me long.
t b.. 4 waiil to say that men and wom-
en- amt the only things that get educa-
I, on There are just lots and lots or
animals, like dogs, horses, coons, cats and
mules. which display signs of a liberal
education, and we go along every day
| and don't notice it. Look at a Shepperd
dog. or one of them trained fire horses.
on an Elephant IN a Circus. IL you don't
believe it. We call 1t training in an ami
NAL and education in a man. What do
You reckon an animal thinks of us men
| when he sees us do the same fool caper
| twice? Why, you couldn't make a mon
key drunk the second time. An animal
sticks to what he learns. but man
| dtn'tA
| "Bill Podgers, over on Peckerwood,
| vas an Encyclopedia of profanity. He
could stand fiatfooted and outcuss any
citizen in the Tropic of Capricorn. He
was a Gatling Gun of swear words.
| Whenever he traled up on a new cuss
wcrd about three feet long he lit on to IT
like duck on June bug, and sawed
II off on the first victim he met up with.
lie scorned one of these here sawed off,
snort, breechloading, rimfre oaths, but
hat he yearned for and assimilated, was
the old style, octagon barrel. double ac-
ton. muzzle loading. long range profanity
liable to cripple at 200 yards.
When he was plowing In new ground,
with his bay mule, Hornet, it was then
tnat Bill unlocked blasphemy that sound
ed like bricks rolling often scaffold.
| He sure went the limit when he'd strike
a stump, and the plow handles would hit
linn in the stomach.
Along in the fall Bob Jones, the Evan
eelist, came along, and started a Tent
| Gospel meeting. Bill had never accumu-
| lated any great bogs of Piety fact IL ne
was shy on Religion, but some of the
neighbors enticed Bill to the meeting,
ana in jiffy they had him up to the
Mourners Bench, and finally with much
singing and praying and shouting they
pulled Bill through, and he got Religion
"A few weeks after that, which made
| it during the corn planting season, Bill
| came to town and announced that he
wanted to sell his mule, Hornet We all