Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-03-21
ssUNCLE Nv" WRITES.
Our Beloved Correspondent I'M
proved in Health. Writes OF
His Comrades. Message
to Senator Tillman.

Here / am again. No, not dead
vet, but am still alive-for what l
don't know. There is a Being that
does, and / am not fretting at all,
I am still cheerful and like hearty
laugh.
To give you an idea as to how |
feel most of the time, will tell OF
question that was asked me in
Harlem a few weeks ago. l
was asked by a man if l ever had
the blues, and just a few days ago l
was asked If l was always happy.
To the first question | answered,
"Yes." But tried hard to keep
them off. And bis reply was: We'll,
you are always, it seems to me,
wearing a SMILE" To the last ques-
ton l answered: mo, I wasn't al.
ways happy, but didn't go around
and tell folks that I wasn't" l
said thought it was wrong to tell
others of our troubles, as guessed
every one had their hours of burden
bearing, and that I had no right to
add anything to theirs by telling
them of mine.
I had rather bring a smile to the
face any time than tear to the eye.
That is the way / see life, and God
helping me I want to live it that
way. Am I right or wrong?
Well, ] see that "Old Plndar"
(W. J. RochelD is still alive.
Didn't know but what some Villa
ite had psrched him, but if they
had he would have been 80 tough
that they would have got tired
chewing on him. Eh! Pindar.
1 see from Horns Greek and
Trentron that S. L. Roper is seri-
ously sick. I hope he is improved
in health. But none of we old
Rebs are going to last much longer.
Old age is creeping on us all. in.
Fair, if I mistake not, is now in bis
SEVENTEEN year, and Buck (Abne:i
Minis about the same age. / can
imagine as write how both looked
when they came to Company I, but
haven't seen either one of them foI
the last four years.
Look here, what does Horns
Creek" mean when she calls me
comrade? / don't object to it at
all, for we can be comrades in more
senses than one. Thank you, Horns
Creek" for calling me comrade,
and am going to live as long as
can and die when I can't help it.
And Russell Wright I see amt
dead either. But am sorry he is
mad, and inclined to fight. Well.
if it comes to run or fight, / guess ]
would have to fight, as my running
days are past; but my eyesight is
still pretty good, and I still have
my old Sharp's rifle, and I can see
the front sight on it, too, and an
writing this scrawl without glasses
haven't used any now for nearly
three years, and can read almost
any kind of type.
Was sorry to hear of Hal Meal
ing's death. Yes, the old must die
and the young die also; and there
is lesson in it-none of US know
when that time is. 'Tis appointed
unto men once to die, but after this
the Judgment. What matter as to
when one shall die if they are pre-
pared for the judgment.
The Parksville scribe's sayings re.
mind one forcibly of the Proverbs
in the Bible, and take them scrap
by scrap they are worth reading and
re.reading, and studying again and
again, and so many of them-too
many to comment on. didn't like
to cut The Advertiser, but am go.
ing to cut out Scraps" sayings,
and put them in an envelope and
keep them for future reference. AT.
ter reading it l thought of what a
young man in Harlem told about a
preacher who said he thought it
wrong to repeat the Lords prayer,
and the young man asked me what
I thought of it, and 1 told him the
next time he heard that preacher
say such a thing to ask him if re
thought he could improve on it, and
if he thought 30 to please write it
for me, as / have never yet seen or
known man that could improve on
anything the Lord said or did.