Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-04-23

that the latch string hangs on the
outside of the door, and one thing the
reader may be assured of, and that is,
no iron gates or numerous flights Of
steps were there to shut out those,
who would enter. and the lodge or club
room, into which you would have been
ushered, would have been their own
modest well kept homes.
Around their gardens, lawns, walks,
woodlands strawberries, 1ower-beds.
borders, arbours, parks and court
Yards, were no high stonezwalls and
they ere not of the kind of folks to
paint and post signs, keep of the
grass" for all they possessed was to
friends, as accessible as the public
highway. While none of them were
owners of fenced-in deer parks, or
such like relics of dqkedoms, belong
Ing to the old world, yet the red ant
lers in the region of Pink Bed valley
and surrounding mountains, stood but
a slim chance, when passing through
the stand and coming within range of
Dan, Johnson's musket.
Grass is ever green, and serves to
keep us in memory of the human souls
o. those from whom we are parted and
the memory of such parted ones, ought
to remind the younger generation, not
to despise their youth; for with them
also, the moon will change, the vino
will shift, the day will end, the night
will come; and whether a life joyous,
or gloomy, be their lot, soon it all
must end, as it did with these friends
gone before.
Captain Norris was the soul of kind
ness. Daniel Johnson was the same
and plain speaking was orthodox with
him. Toney Rhodes was the friend OF
everybody who wanted to be friendly,
Or. Henry Jones was happy when he
was administering to the wants OF
some sick and suffering neighbor.
What more need to be said of men
then the foregoing, when a retrospect
i've views is taken of their lives? Bring
men of peace, the ones of them who
LED military lives, during the civil
war, did so only from a n of duty
and not because they were warriors
lusting for battle. When that lament
ed struggle was over, it became firmly
fixed in the hearts of every one OF
these good Christian men, consistent
members of the church and kingdom
of peace, that lot only this land of
ours, but that all other lands and
governments should awake to
the reality, that the time has
come in the history Of nations,
when government shall no more drift
up sword against government, neither
shall they learn war any more."s
1t is a law inevitable in nature, that
the strong crush the weak and the
weak go to the wall, and the ordinary
struggle, in this life is a merciless one,
but this writer is willing to risk the
declaration that no man living, or
dead was ever thrown into the slough
of despond or the gutter of despair,
by the misconduct of either one of the
four neighbors.
Within the same community or near
thereto, we wish out of respect, to
name some other excellent and most
sanity people, whose memory is well
known to many of the Democrats
readers: VIM. T. Johnson, Col. r. l.
Allen, ]. A. Corpening, Carson Allen,
DIR. Josiah Johnson, Mrs. Mary Jones.
Mrs. Mary Horne, Big John Posey,
Americas Barnett, Capt A. E. Posey,
Rev. VIM. Graves, Mrs. Graves, Alex
Henry, Wilson Allen, Dr.. Carson,
r. M. Britain, and very very many
others equally as worthy, and who &C
complished as much in their lives, but
who have passed to that undiscovered
country from whose bourne no traveller
returns.
When death touches US, he lays the
kings scepter beside the shepherds
staff and earthly ones above the dead
feel like making every man a hero, and
every woman a goddess.
son Fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round,
III. h;v0,,oo oF fho doad
THOs. ]. HICKMAN
Asheville, N. c