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Arabia Items
As Smh has been absent
week, will write a few more lines
it Mr Editor will find room for
i as in his paper.
; Mr. Ray Harris, made a short
drive to Dupont Sunday afternoon.
Messrs. Math Kirkland and J.
A. Colley, attended preaching at
Camp Creek Sunday, and of
visited the fair sex that aftcrnooD.
Say Mr. Smith, you better watch
these boys. They'are both bad,
bad boys, and wish for a young
bride real soon.
Miss Mary Kirkland visited
Miss Emma Tomlinson Sunday.
Mr. Will Smith, of Dupont,
ba$ accepted a position as Stiller
for Mr. Keels.
Say you Midway News, you
Can talk of good crops, but come
up this way and lot us show you
what good crops are. Ours are as
good as wo couid wish for. While
making a short drive to Simians
last week, we didn't find any sorry
crops at all. The farms of J. R.
Smith and Herschet Smith and
others too numerous to mention
are as good as the great farmers
through the West.
A. Joyce Jr. was out with the
girls Saturday afternoon. Say
Alonzo, dont get so much start on
us and wo will keep time with
you.
J. I*. Tomlinson, made a busi
ness trip to Dupont Saturday.
J. K. Johnson, of Siftnans,‘wn«
in cur midst Saturday.
I. B. Kirkland and wife visited
Billie Hughes family Sunday.
The farmers around Arabia
are enjoying their watermelons
t ad all kinds of vegetables
Our people are talking about
picnics. We hope to enjoy a great
mauy through this summer.
Say you good people of Camp
Creek, lets have the news from
your community.
as small-pox measles and the
seven year itch are worrying us
through this section we will dose
for this time. All these diseases are
bad cus tomers.
Yours very truly,
Sam.
Picnic Notice
There will be a picnic atargy-
le school house on the fourth Sat
in June. Everybody is inv
ited to come and bring a well fill
ed basket,
MILITARY ACCURACY.
Exactness In Keeping Tab on the
Movements of Soldiers.
We hear much of the perfection of
military organisation abroad, but it is
doubtful whether any foreign war of¬
fice follows with mi accuracy greater
than that displayed by our own war
! department the movements of its of
fleers. The following is an interesting
ease in point:
A young army officer who has seen
service hr this country nnd in the east
was once with a scouting party hi Ari-
zona. After two weeks in the desert
his squftd came to the railway near a
small station. Within ten minutes a
telegram from Washington was'
brought to ’aim by the station agent.
It asked if the officer wished to be
transferred to one of the new artillery
regiments then forming.
lie answered by telegraph that hr
would bo glad to enter either of them,
Then with his squad he set off again
across the desert.
It was six days Lifer when they
again struck the railway, this time-
eighty miles from the point at .which
they had previously crossed It, but the
officer’s reply from the war depart-
meat was awaiting him. It had been
telegraphed to every station within
200 miles.
A more.striking Instance of accuracy
occurred after the same officer's trails-
for to the east. lie was traveling
home on leave, and. ns the regulations
require, he had notified the department
of the day. hour and probable route
of his journey. After he had been on
tlie train for eight hours at u small
station the porter entered with a t
gram, asking if any one of Ids untn-
was present. On opening the tote
gram the officer found that it orderoi
him to detached duty.
Exactness of detail could not ho car
ried much further. The war depart
mem knew the whereabouts of an ip
significant second lieutenant cv.
when he was traveling on leave of ai
senee.—New York Herald.
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j»T the turnpike foot of swerved the hill sharply where th*
to
the left to avoid climbing the
abrupt elevation and close by
the brook, which, finding its source
somewhere among the hilltops, mean
.
dered leisurely through swamp and
swale aud cut the farm squarely iu
two, stood the old homestead, The
moss grown shingled roof peeped mod¬
estly from behind a screen of age-old*
trees, and the low down sagging foun-
dations were scarcely anywhere visi-
ble behind the ramp.-uu growth of rose-
bushes that clambered halfway up the
south side of the bouse. There were
lilacs grown into trees, syringas that
crowded half across the gravel walk,
a giant honeysuckle vine that had been
choked and pruned back until its gnarl¬
ed old trunk resembled a grotesque
freak of nature.
The old homestead had housed and
reared seven generations of men and
women of the same name, but it had
come to pass that those of the seventh
generation were widely scattered and
the old homestead no longer knew
them. There were seven of this gen¬
eration-seven boys—and the last to
leave the old hoiqestend had gone
forth, like the
others, to battle
in the larger
r : ^ , ahd world happiness. for life
Unlike many
old couples left
behind on the
farm to watch
and tend it in its
declining years,
these two were
not shorn of the
necessaries or
even the luxu¬
ries of life. They
had laid aside
their little sum,
h with and they no dread lived
of the morrow.
No shadow of
debt or threat of
mortgage fore-
"motuek, i’m. going closure
TO THE CITY TO- over their heads.
MMIKOW.” and they lived In
■quiet peace on the homestead that had
sheltered so many of their ancestors,
But there was loneliness In the moth¬
er heart. When tie first son had bro-
ken away from th.- farm the pang had
**««» sharp and cruel, but there were
six left behind. Then the second bad
grown restless and followed hi the foot-
steps of the elder. The third waited
a few years, silently tilling the fertile
farm and watching for his chance. K
came one day with unexpected abrupt-
ness.
“Mother, I'm going to the city tomor¬
row,” be said at the close of u hard
day’s work in the fields. “My oppor¬
tunity has come.’’
There was no open opposition, but
the heartstrings were quivering. So
the third sou went, and after him the
fourth. In ft few years the remaining
sturdy babies had grown to the stature
of manhood, aud they, too, cast longing
eyes cityward. Would not one of them
remain on the farm?
The last to go hud been her favorite,
for was he not the baby? And with
his going the light seemed to go out of
the world lor the aged couple. But
these two were of pioneer stock, and
they had met and overcome adversity
in many forms, and in time they fell
back upon each other's company and
fQUud a measure of contentment.
There were seven sous, and each
week seven letters left the homestead
mailed to different addresses. One went
to Chicago, another to New York, a
third to Boston, two to St. Louis, one
far off to the Pacific coast aud the last
to a nearby city. Monday was devoted
to thoughts of the eldest, and tint moth¬
er brain and heart put into his letter
ail the little news of the home life
which he had loved. He had been de¬
voted to the live
stock, corded and faithfully she re- T
—
the details of
their progress. &
Billy, his pet
horse, bad long |pt jgESebr \
since died, but
another coit had
been named after
him, and he was
always held in re¬
serve for his ab
sent owner.
Tuesday’s let¬
ter was mor e
difficult of com¬
position. it call¬ S3
ed her forth into
the woods to get
news, for the sec-
oud S „ Q baJ boell
a reamer and a
friend of every
squirrel and rah- heap over and over
Ue could ini- again the brief
itate the call of epistles.
the’ bluejay aud whistle the piping song
of tlu > fl nc hes. She had learned the
nesting season of the different birds
he had loved, and her letters were full
0 f woodland scenes and wild life,
Wednesday was a day of easy letter
writing. It was all about crops, the
coudition of the north nnd south fields,
the probable yield per acre and in
harvest time an account of the results.
On Thursday her fetter was addressed
to the young architect in New York,
and she spoke of the things which he
had loved, and Friday she roamed the
woods again for material, for he of
San Francisco was the hunter and
trapper of the family, and Saturday*
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