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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. ----- FOLK GO DOWN IN P15F0L DILL. ' -- 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. r ft Crasplit’s lmwM £ 7 z*. //■ mm .o- m AT ROBERTA, GA. /y. fe/f W&ym y£i Old Ideas Mixed ftfjllpL m Ifi. Pfjl] / New. l-N ’ wminmm With s, In printing it is necessary to imitate, so far as practical, the work of the early artistic printers. The work they did displayed their genius. The work we do displays our ability. We furnish printing with up= to-date ideas conspicuous all the time, and give you a price benefit which will meet your approval. QUALITY THAT COUNTS. All printing should be of good quality in order to insure it doing you the good it might. 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