The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-03-24
CONVINCED THAT The
WORLD IS GOING TO
DEFINITION BOW WOW
FORMER MAURY coUNTlAN WHO
FAILS TO SEE ONE SINGLE
RAY OF HOPE.
TOO MANI Arc NOT At WORK
Gives His Idea Of What He'll Ought
To be, Although he Doubts the Exist
enee Of one-Evidently Has Bad
Case of Indigestion.

Case Of Indigestion.
Writing from Evant, Texas, w. N.
Curry, formerly of Maury county, ex-
presses some unique and original
views on matters and things in gen.
eral and hell and work in particular
Evidently, Mr. Curry has had bad
case of Indigestion and the fame of
"Tanlac" or Snake Oil" has not yet
spread to his section, otherwise he
would take a more cheerful view Of
things. Probably the contrast between
the beautiful, prosperous land where
he moved from and the less inviting
plains of Texas have caused him to
see things through bilious lenses.
Anyway, here is his letter:
Evant, Tex, March Is, 1915.
Editor Herald:
Find $500 in payment subscription.
Yes, everything is up too high and If
things don't change, there will come
times to get higher on account Of war
In part and nation of idlers trying
every way to get out of work. Its
almost got to be disgrace to farm.
II they could ride In autos or play
baseball or bootleg or some other sor-
~ habit, they sure would make rise.
know of scores of them here riding
up and down the road with really a
light payment on the auto and scarce
" able to buy gasoline, who ought to
be trying to help make living. A
nation of people, with 0he-third doc
tors, lawyers and preachers, one-third
school teachers and goodly number
of educated hoboes and bootleggers and
then another class OF high rollers that
don't know or never did where there
living comes from. Now sum 1t all
up and see how or why could we eSs
pect anything but hard times and high
prices and instead Of getting better,
worse all the time, more preachers.
more so-called religion than the world
ever knew before and / will say, less
confidence In people than there ever
was at any age of the world, thieving,
rallying murder. an every day occur
renee, yet SOME say, more education
Just when you educate a grand rascal
you have licensed him to be more
slick and sly in his rascality and they
are born every day. | do not believe
there is any HE'LL, but there ought to
be one and it ought to be handy.
do not see any reason for believing in
HE'LL for the dust or buried bones
of dead man, we need the HE'LL.
right here where we could pitch them
In head foremost. Solomon said;
What is more than beast, one dieth
and so dieth the other and all return
to one or the same place." also said;
who knoweth the spirit OF the beast
that goeth downward" say by the way
If one has a spirit so has the other
Now | ask, what Is the spirit have
you seen one? No, well, what have
you got for sure that there is one
Well the Bible says SO, wen the Bible
says, there was one Adam and Eve
created about 6,000 years ago. during
that seven days. When absolutely, i
says was the beginning of this globe
that he, Adam, was the first man made
and positively, according to scripture
that the world is only about 6.OO'
years old. Now l have in my reacl
at this time a fossil In perfect shape
as when living that fiourished in thu
waters of the ocean taken out of tbt
rock at an elevation of 1.5OO fee
above sea level. Not only one fos
sill, but thousands of them here in per
feet shape that lived millions of year.
ago. Beyond a doubt, ! am tired O
flop and foolishness and seeing grea
castles built In the air without foun
dalton. There are thousands toda.
that neither believe or practice wha
they preach, neither do they preach
what they practice. ] am no law
breaker, never was brought into cour
In my life. never was arrested. have
had but few troubles with my neigh
bors, but | don't believe everything
l see in print
Well yes, I think war would De
very good investment right now. Un
Gle Sam is having a big gun made t
ram the hoboes and the worthless
idlers in and shoot them at the Ger
mans. 1t would be certain death Il
all wounded. Just as well be vacci
mated from a hydrophobia dog. Now
Mr.. Editor, please quit boosting VI
those sorry gangs for any man thai
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