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THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
“GOOD OLD DAYS”
Recalled by a Former Citizen
of Gwinnett.
SWEET DREAMS OF YOUTH
“When Humankind Were Pare of Mind
and Words and Deeds
Were Truthful.”
When an old gray-haired man
visits the Beenes of his childhood,
and the events of his young life
pass in pauoramic view before
him, it creates indescribable sen
sations, something like a cold chill
creeping down his backbone.
Recently I had occasion to go to
Elberton, Ga., and in going there
from Atlanta via the S. A. L.,
the railroad runs right through
the old plantation that I was
broug it up on, and near the old
homestead as the railroad runs
along close to Redland creek in
Gwinnett county the first familiar
sight to me was a little piece of
bottom land on the creek (not
in cultivation now) where I plowed
bare-footed when a small boy,
and there were a great many of
what we called “tread-salves” and
“bamboo-briars,” and where cane
had been cut, and it was very
rough on my bare feet and I would
cry and whip the old mule, aud
then I formed a resolution aud
vowed a vow that if I lived to be
my own man, or when I got large
enough to manage my own affairs,
that I would never go bare-footed
another day, aud I have kept that
vow now for about fifty years.
I was raised very poor and fortu
nately have remained so. I say
fortunately, because I consider it
a great misfortune for a poor boy
to grow rich, for the Bible Bays
“they that will be rich fall into a
snare,” etc.
About the first money I ever
earned I worked a week for my
uncle at 10 cents a day, aud when
1 was paid off on Saturday I think
I felt richer then than ever before
or since. I remember it was very
hard for mo to make up my mind
as to what I would invest it in. I
was in need of so many things it
was a hard matter for me to de
cide what I would buy, but living
near Lawrenceville and having a
great desire to trade, I put out to
town and went into the store of
Thompson Alleu, (a good many of
the old persons will remember
where he kept on the corner), aud
he said:
“What will you have, sonny ?”
I replied that I wanted to trade
some.
“Well, what will you have ?” he
asked.
I told him that I did not know,
and he then asked me how much
money I had, and I answered “lots
of it.” He laughed but I did uot
know what he laughed at aud did
not like it much. It was rather
warm weather and I did not have
on any coat aud I suppose he saw
that my shirt was pretty ragged,
so he said, “Well, do you want to
buy some domestics .
“What is that ?” I inquired.
“Something to make shirts out
of,” he said.
I told him I would take some
then, so I invested my week’s
wages in shirting and got about
five yards.
When I carried that five yards
of shirting home to my mother I
was proud of my purchase and so
was she.
About the hardest I ever worked
to earn anything at all was for
Andrew C. Jackson a part of one
summer when I was about fifteen
years old, at 20 cents a day We
were hoeing and I was trying to
keep my row up with his and I tell
you he was a worker in those days.
As Bill Arp would say “that was
before the uncivilized war.” I
bought me a pair of shoes with a
part of the mouey he paid me,
and I have never gone bare-footed
a day since, except when I was
sick in bed.
I remember an incident that
occurred when I was a boy that
you will hardly bolieve, but it is
true. There were two boys about
my age that lived near the old
cemetery in Lawrenceville with
whom I associated that never had
a pair of shoes until they were
fifteeu years old, and we frequent
ly went chestnut hunting in the
fall of the year and they never
thought of looking for a rock with
which to crack a chestnut burr
but would crack it with their
naked heel wherever they found
it. The boys that read this now,
who can’t remember their first
pair of shoes, will laugh. How
ever, I think we may go to ex
tremes in trying to economize. I
think old people did iu those days.
Why, I remember when my moth
er used to try to keep just a little
Hour to use when somebody came,
and I tell you I was glad when
some stranger came or some one
whom she liked very much for I
knew we were going to have bis
cuit tlieu. Still we talk about the
“good old days.” Well, it is per
fectly natural for us all to think
of our young life as good days,
aud especially so when we become
a child again, as we all do if we
live loug enough.
Well, Mr. Editor, if you publish
this I will write something more
interesting next time. I just hap
pened to think of writing like this
the other day as I was going up
Redlaud #reek, dashiug aloug on
the train through the Jackson
farm, and the Winn farm, and the
old Stewart farm, aud the G. W.
F. Craig farm, and the John E.
Craig farm, and the old Billy
Maltbie farm, and old Lawrence
ville.
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THE NEWS-HERALD.
OCR REC'LAK,
[The following verses were sent to us for
publication by Robert L. Autry, l#th company
coast artillery corps. Fort Kreemont, near
Beaufort, S. C. He doesn’t slate whether it is
original or not:] .
When walking on the boulevard and
thinking of our nation
And of the men who tight for us from
every rank or station,
Should you meet a sturdy fellow in a
suit of khaki brown,
A pair of natty leggins, and wide
brimmed hat turned down,
With a sort of careless attitude and
nothing much to say,
And a buckle on his waist-belt with
the letters “U. 9. A.”
—That’s our Reg’lar.
Did you see him at El Caney, or charg
ing up San Juan
And swapping solid arguments with
eacli opposing Don ?
On the firing line you saw him at his
very level best,
A man among his fellows, but no bet
ter than the rest;
E’en there he did not falter ’midst that
swirl of shot and shell,
From a hidden foeman coming, like the
fiery darts of hell.
—That’s our Reg’lar.
Then in the far-off Philippines, with
Lawton true and brave,
We find our Company Q. man on the
foremost battle’s wave.
Now he’s fighting in the trenches, now
on the skirmish line,
Next charging savage Tagals—was
there soldier e’er so fine ?
And again he’s wading waist-deep,
with bis Kraig above his head,
Keen set to sight the foeman as a tar
get for his lead.
—That’s our Reg’lar.
Then we find him off in China, chasing
up the brutal “Chink,”
Whom he wallops in short order, never
taking time to think
Of tiie many curious phases of the
business he is in,
For his mind is on his duty, and he’s
simply there to win.
Be it China, Santiago, Philippines, or
all in one.
When he gets command to fall in line
his work will be well done.
—That’s our Reg’lar.
They may prate of “Tommy Atkins,”
they may boast of German grit,
But compare them with our Reg’lar,
they’re not “in it”—not a bit;
Likewise those noble Romans, and the
knights who hunted trouble,
If they could but meet our Reg’lar he’d
surely “do them double.”
He’s a credit to our nation, to his col
ors he is true,
And by instinct he’s a soldier from the
day he dons the blue.
—That’s our Reg’lar.
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