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BILL ARP’S LETTER
Sa-e of Bartow,
cent, Writes Interestr»
TALKS OF Y0IP r UL JOYS
ntinues to Flirt and
Gentle Spring ^ |y| arll winter.
F°°l W’.^the Olden Time
Mat " present Day
,nd Compared.
many weeks since the
—. ’C Y\Q birds 1o
dentine told the
good St. girls and boys to go woo-
ie
mate a $*a?rick has been out and
ing- shelalah at the snakes, but
shoo\i e spring keeps on flirting
stilling with old man winter and
aniiirn believe she is in love with
KBut she isent. May and Decem¬
ber mate, nor March and Novem-
It is against the order of nature,
old people can look and linger and
.lire, but that is all. We have
.led down the river and encountered
s perils, its reefs and rocks and
hoais and quicksands, but strange to
say, we give 110 warning. Maybe it is
because we know that warning will
do no good; maybe, because misery
loves company; maybe, because it is
the order of nature, the fiat of the Al¬
mighty. Verily the young people
would mate and marry and launch
their boat and sail down tnat river if
they knew there was a Seylla and
Charybdiis at every bent and levia¬
thans and maelstroms and cataracts
all the way down. Poor, trusting, suf¬
fering woman. What perils, what tri¬
als, what afflictions does the maternal
instinct bring upon you. Close up by
us, while I write, is a beautiful young
mother lingering in the grasp of death
—dying that her first born child may
live. There is nothing more tduching,
more pitiful, more heroic in nature.
There is nothing that a man is called
upon to endure that compares with the
death of a mother in childbirth.
But there is a brighter side—a more
charming, comforting picture of life—
married life, domestic lite—when the
good mother is a matron, and looks
with pride upon her children and
grandchildren as they come and go
lovingly before her. What calm sere¬
nity hovers over her matronly face.
What sweet content, what grateful rest
_
—rest from her labors, her pains, her
\care and anxiety. Well may she ex-
Valm with Paul: “I have fought a good
ht; 1 have kept the faith; I have fin¬
ed my coure. Henceforth thei>*
v (J up for me a crown,-*** -^sriteous-
vo every lad and Jessie there is a pe-
cr «uT me not always thrilling or trag-
a, but Highly emotional and sensa-
iial. Of course, I mean the period
/oiove—young love—or love’s young
dun, which sometimes runs smooth
and^sometimes don’t. What i\ luxury
it would be to look behind the curtain
and see just what love xias felt and
suffered and enjoyed. Such a ltaleide
scope would have a world of eager
lookers, for the old are as fascinated
*. with stories of love and courtship as
the ituddle-aged , and young. , In lock-
mg over the . dally , , or weekly , , paper, we
may skip the displayed headings of
war ti Servia or riots in London ox
eycloies in Oregon, but any little par-
agraili that lias love in it arrests the
eye and demands attention. Children
go tolschool to study books, but the
time hey are in their teens they
begmho mix a little timid, cautious
love kith their other studies A
rwee ^art is a blessed tiling tor a boy.
It strdigthens him up and washes his
face eld greases bis hair and brushes
his to exl'l tejth and and stimulates be somebody. his ambition Jerusa-
!em! |low I did iuxnna.e and palpi-
rate aid concentr.ai.e the first
little asl ichool girl I ever loved. She
was pretty as a pink and as sweet
as a Jaisy, and one day at recess
when nobody was looking I caught her
on tho stairs and kisse her. ^-* €
was dreadfully frigniened, but noi
mad. Oh, no; not mad. She r?.n away
with net b.ushes on her cheek, an;;
more than once that evening I-saw
glance at me from behind her book
and wondering if I would ever be sc
rash again.
And now. Mr. Editor, if a thousand
of your patrons peruse these rardom
memories, nine hundred of them car
finish up the chapter from their own
unwritten book. Who has not Idvcd
who has not stolen a kiss, who has
not caught its palpitating thrill anc
fe!t iike Jacob when he lifted up his
voice and wept? Oh. Rachel, beautify
and well favored, no wonder that J.-.
'cob watered thy sheep and then kisse
thee, for there was no one to molest
or make thee afraid. That memorable
kiss is now four thousand years old
and has passed into history as classic
and pure, but I have had them, anc
so have you. dear reader, just as sweVl
and soul-inspiring, &rj ( j xtever said any
v
thing abcut it to anybody. Ours was
mixed school, and every Friday tin
s nad stand
larger bovs and girls to ;•i
In line and spell and define. My
s^vsiedheart stood* head most gene, ally
and so I was stimulated to get next tc
her, and I did, and my right hand slyly
found her left,and we both were hap
py. But time and circumstances sep
ar-ated up, and we both lound new
loves—she married another feller and
was content, and so did I, hut. neithei
of us have forgotten the svolen kiss
or that tender childish love that
our school days happy. But love he
come3 more earnest after awhile—
more intense, more frantic—the younc
man means business and so does the
maiden. Like the turtle-doves in the
spring of the year, they are looking
around for a mate. This is nature
and it is right. God said, “It is no
good for man to be alone; I will make
a helpmeet for him. ’ And so he made
Bve to help meet the expenses, ani
that is what a wife ought to do now;
but a good many of them don’t. Thej
help make them, but they don’t hei]
meet them, and that is why the younj
men have almost quit marrying. Th<
rich girls won’t have them, and the
poor girls are trying to keep up with
the rich, and so uie turtle-doves mate
more slowly nowadays, rolks need to
love and court and rnadwy with more
alacrity than they do now. It is not
vanity to say that I could have mar-
ried half a dozen nice girls, and my
wife could have had choice of a dozen
clever, prosperous youths as likely as
myself. Cupid just roosted around
those woods and shot his arrows rignt
and left. Sometimes he shoots a young
man and men waits days and weeks
before he shoots the girl he is after.
This keeps the poor fellow on the war¬
path, and frantic and rampant, and
Cupid laughs. But he was clever to
me, for as near as I can judge, he let
fly both arrows at once and plugged
my girl and me simultaneously, and
with a center shot. My wife denies
this, but I have told it so otten I be¬
lieve it. There was no. skirmishing on
my part. I never did snoot with a
scattering gun. Marrying was cheat)
in those days. My recollection is that
it cost me only about $45—twenty-five
for clothes, ten for a ring ana ten more
to the preacher. It iHdn’t cost anj r -
body else anything to speak of. for
there were no wedding presents. That
tomfoolery wasn’t invented. We didn’t
go to Niagara or anywhere right away,
but we went to wont. A month or
after we did take a little trip to Tal¬
lulah Falls and look at the water tum¬
ble over the rocks, but that didn't cost
but a few dollars and made no sensa¬
tion outside the family. My thought
ful wife had enough nice clothes 10
last two years when I married her, and
they, after V,aras cut up and
«oWn for the children, and
some precious fragments hid away in
the old trunk now. The old trunk, and
of common size, was sufficient then for
a traveling wardrobe lor a lady of the
land. My father and mother and two
children made a journey by sea to
Boston with one trunk and a valise
and came back to Georgia by land, in
a carriage; but not long since I saw
a delicate female traveling with two
trunks four times as large and libbed
with iron and fastened with three mas-
sive Iocks, and still she was not happy,
Oh, my country! That girl was coo
much in love with her clothes to love
a man, and , nobody , , but . . a lerarae . hunt- , .
or would , - dare i to . marry her. v Young -wjs
man, beware of trunks!—BILL ARP,
in Atlanta Constitution.
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FOLK GO DOWN IN P15F0L DILL.
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Tragedy Follows Attempt of Sheriff ti
Make Arrest at Steeivilie, Mo.
one dead and three perhaps fatally
i<ijured is the result of a duel wuh re-
volvers which took place at Steelville
Mo „ Saturday afternoon between Sher-
iff w . R Taff> his deputy, Porn- Ives.
Deputy Marsha , Joha Woods aad Rob
ert starks, a farmer, and his son.
Hirschel, aged 23. Robert Starks was
shot through the heart, death resulting
instantly. W. R. Taff. the sheriff Will
shot through the stomach and dig
Hirschel Starks was fatally shot and
Perry Ives, deputy sheriff, was shot in
the mouth ar.d leg. His condition is
critical.
■The trouble originated in the -e
fusal of young Starks to submit to ,ir
rest. He was charged with having
offended the daughter of Benjamin
Ogles, a wealthy farmer, who filed
complaint against him. When Sheriff
T-’ff approached Starks warned him
away, saying there would be trouble
if be attemp er! to take cim into cus-
tody,
Vi OMAN W IRE-PIRFORVLK KILLED.
Making “Slide For Life” She Was Dcs-
lined to “Slide to Death.”
Clara Fex, of Omaha, was instantly
killed at Fort Dodge, la.. Saturday
w{lile making a “slide for life" on a
wire fetched from the court house
tc * ver to a telephone pole half a block
a ' va - v - Tll e harness in which she hang
became unbuckled just after starting.
She fell int oa crowd 100 teet below-
striking a man nam&d Wheeler and
probably fatally injuring him.
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