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A DESERTED TOWN—MOTHER
LESS TWINS.
Dear Household Friends: I am
here in my girlhood home in the old
town of Campbellton—now a town
only in name, for over it is written
‘Tchabod” —its glory has departed. It
is one of Georgia’s curious dead
towns.
I came here on a sad mission. My
sister lives here, and her son has re
cently lost his young wife —only twen
ty-seven years old. She left four lit
tle children —two little boys, one six,
the other four years old, and little
twin babies, only three weeks old —
a girl and a boy. It is sad indeed to
see these little ones, who will never
know a mother. They are fed from
the bottle on Horlick’s prepared food,
and seem to be doing nice. They are
sweet babies, and I do hope they will
live. I came to help my sister in car
ing for them and giving them a good
start off in life. The old homestead
which shelters us now, as in other
days, is just half a mile from Chat
tahoochee river. Many sad, yet pleas
ant memories have been recalled to
mind during my sojourn here. I go
back to the old days when Campbell
ton was a gay, thriving town, full of
social and commercial life. Now there
are few vestiges of the former exist
ence. The old court-house stands on
a hill alone, looking down on ruined
stores and vacant lots. The school
house which also stood on a shaded
hill is gone. All that remains are a
few dwelling houses scattered here
and there, and these show signs of
neglect and decay.
The day of the old town’s destiny is
over. It was once the county site, and
when this was removed to Fairburn,
nearly all the citizens followed. The
new court-house was built in the new
town, and the old one was left
on the lonely hill to gather moss and
become a ruin. I remember how
grand it looked to me as a girl, and
now 1 look on it as a tomb. Such
is life —just a see-saw; here we go
up, here we go down.
I have been reading a few books
since I same, snatching time while
the babies slept or lay quiet. I have
read “Retribution,” by Mrs| South
worth; “Rock in the Baltic,” by Rob
ert Barr, and “The Doctor,” by Ralph
Connor. I like “The Doctor” best.
The doctor-hero is a noble character;
the heroine is amiable but weak.
“Retribution” is an interesting story.
Also, I read “Pam,” but I don’t like
it, it is Frenchy and the morals are
not good. 1 would not put it into the
hands of a daughter of mine. I have
read several other books, but of these
another time. With love to all.
OLD WOMAN.
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SAINTS AND VILLAINS.
Every novel writer who depicts a
purely angelic or a wholly villainous
man or woman knows that he is not
painting according to nature. There
is no human being without faults, and
no heart so dungeoned in crime that
some beam of spiritual light does not
penetrate into the cell of his soul.
There is no Christian who does not
need to fight temptation and cry
aloud for divine help. Every soul has
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to fight for the right against himself.
Who can picture the contending co
horts and the mighty struggles on the
heart’s silent battlefields? What pen
can picture the grief of the man who
lives —the survivor of his own honor?
What eye can distinguish the virtues,
powerless but alive, that linger amid
the desolation of their once fair
home?
After all, the real intrinsic differ
ence between the good and bad is very
much like the difference between
tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee. None
are" altogether good and none alto
gether bad.
Each of us feels that if the secret
of his own individual depravity were
revealed the world would regard him
as the most hideous monster ever ex
hibited —one, compared to whom the
four Mokannah would appear as an
angel of light. The truth is, if all hu
man characters were made bare at
the same time, none need fear the ex
posure; all would be hiding, none
peeping.
Why, a man can’t be polite in so
ciety, or successful in business with
out he’s a hypocrite. Take an average
example among the first classes. Smith
& Jones are the leading rival merch
ants in the same city. Jones has been
off, buying his spring stock. On the
way to the store he meets Smith,
going to his store. They haven’t seen
each other for three long, unhappy
weeks. Behold the meeting—the re
union. While their hearts are crowd
ed with enmity and rivalry, their
hands bounce together like a pair of
Indian rubber balls, and their eyes
beam with “mutual admiration,” and
their lips grow prodigal of salutations
and compliments, and Smith seems to
be Jones’ first love, and Jones seems
to be Smith’s first love, and the meet
ing is as touching as the finger of
Time, and as tender as a boil under
the arm. Each invokes, for the other,
a large, varied and well selected stock
of prosperity, and then the separation.
Five minutes afterwards Smith is
informing his customers that Jones
will soon have on hand a fresh supply
of rotten auction goods, and Jones is
informing his that the youngest bolt
in all of Smith’s stock is fully old
enough to vote.
This taking on at the meeting and
taking off after the separation, is es
sential to these men, just as the shell
is essential to the gopher—it hides
ugliness.
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