Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-04-18
MEMORIES.

The nearest anyone has ever come
to understanding human nature is tc
reach the conclusion that is is queer
strange" "incomprehensiblc," OF
"allc the world over" We all know
that the slightest thing-a word, q
picture IL face, Il song, or perfume
may open long sealed chambers OF
The mind, and FOND recollection
brings to view" the faces and scene.
of "other days" Such was the effect
Of the communication in your last
weeks issue from Frank Groseclosc
one Of the ''tads" when his big broth.
er, Kelly, and some others held tho
high position Of "big boys"
wonder how he happened to write
that lcttcr? Of course something oc.
Cured to set him "a-thinkin," and i'm.
mcdiatcly that motley throng that
used to make life miserable (and hap.
py) for Bailey" began to gathe,
around him, coming from the old Gar.
den ard from "furrin parts" as well
not as they now are, but as they ther
were, tow-hcadc,l, diriy-faced, one.
gallusscd, with patched "hritchcs,"
and the never returning fire of youth
You could no more see "D. d., {;
Specialist" on even any kind OF
"scEacb0dy in one of them than the
Grc.ian peasant saw the Venus dc
Milo in the block Of marble he helped
take from the quarry. And yet,
from such stuff are men made"
That L,n,h kn-,t. Io,. 80.
either. They must he mighty nigh
up to the average. They have wan
dercd afar, and some of them are big
ger men in the big world than their
old neighbors even now suspect
VIII. Observation-Disclosures j vbgkk
Mighty few Of them would be hon
orcd with Il "handlc" to their names
were they to return home, even now
and their present ncighbors would be
shocked by the familiarity with which
their old ncighbors would greet them
but I'd bet dollar to doughnut
that every last mothers son of them
would be "tickled to death" by the
exchange, and to be "a boy again just
for tonight"
The fellow of these days, the four
teen-year old Solomon, who knows
more than his Daddy ever knew and
who is slated to be conditioned" in
the School of life" little later on,
much to his discontinue, knows moth
lng OF the progress, in due and ancient
form. from "Ant'n'y Over" through
Town Ball" to "Bull Pom, that last
test of grit and manhood. He knows
nothing of how Il proper sil ID ball of
yarn. @ound hard over a lea, en- bull
let the size Of a guinea egg, thrown
with all the muscle of Walter John
son, can burn him up" Baseball is
all right, of course. hut is r1tline Ike
ms personal" rs Bull Pen," d:
catching 4 baseball behind the bat
cannot be compared with catching one
Of the old sort where patch ought
to- h..
This contributor helped to carry out
the shavings and to sweep the Old
Grange He'll the first morning school
opened in that seat of learning. and
can tell one thing about it that Frank
probably never knew. OF course it
had been built by the local Grange.
and when the building was completed
the contractor had not been fully
paid. He refused to deliver the KEYS
so We went in through the window and
oDencd school just the same. Three
of our Daddies "came across" next
day and after that there was no more
trouble.
The Old Grange Hall stood in the
corner of the best pasture in Burke's
Garden. which is putting that pasture
IN class by itself. There was a
standing order TO "keep off the grass"
but as the building covered the whole
lot owned by the Changers, that orr
der was dead letter from the bepir-
nlng. The fact that this corner is to-
day the best part of the pasture, is
largely due to the good trampink it
then received from feet that have
never since walked in paths so plaas-
ant.
I'd like to say something of That