Uncle Cobey’s Lecture
On Sweethearts.
My dear friends, your Uncle
To bey is glad to meet you once
more in the little white school
house, and if some brother will
take that bench-leg tice by the
tail and pitch him out at the win
dow’, I'll proceed.
The subject of my lecture to- (
night is ‘‘Sweethearts. lhesub-1
ject is as old as the human race.
This old world has never been
able to get along without sweet
hearts. They are the cause of all;
our joys and most of our sorrows.
The first man had a sweetheart
and the last one will have. If
Adam had known that eating that
apple would have killed him, lie
would have eaten it all the same.
Why! Because it was his sweet
heart that asked him to do so. He
told (iod that it was tin* woman
that gave it to him, but down
deep in his heart he knew that
the woman was his sweetheart, and
that was the reason he ate it. And
ever since this world was made a
man's sweetheart could twist him I
around her finger like a string of i
yarn. The whole tribe of Phillis- ^
tines could not capture Sampson, ;
but his sweetheart subdued him
with a kis<, and while quietly]
sleeping in her lap, he allowed her
to rob him of his great strength.
This old world is full of sweet-,
hearts, and always will be. They
are nabbed just as fast as they get
ripe, but they still keep coming.
If the race of sweethearts would j
run out there would be an awful
•void. It would be a lonesome old
world. It would break up the
spelling and singing schools, take,
most of the interest out of flu*
Sunday schools and throw a dam
per over the prayermeetings.
And what good would a picnic be
without the rosy-cheeked and rib
bon-bedocked sweethearts? A
dance couldn't be thought of with
out the cold shivers running up a
fellows buck, and even a funeral
would be a sadder affair, were it
not for the presence of the sweet
hearts. Your Uncle To bey knows.
He has been all along the trail.
'VYhen a boy begins to lose interest
in top spinning and marble play
ing you may bet a yearling calf
that he ha** found a sweetheart.
He may say nothing about it. but
just watch him and you can soon
pick out the girl. About this
time, too, you may note that there
is also the faintest suspicion of
line hair cropping out on his up
per lip, which will he a mustache
when it gets ripe. Sometimes
when he thinks no one is watching
him he will put his hand up to see
how much it ha> grown since
morning. And when he goes to
Sunday school watch hi- eyes: he
may not turn his head, but just
across the aisle there is a curly-1
headed, blue.eyed girl that occu
pies a very large space in the
northeast corner of his heart. He
never misses a Sunday school, and
neither does the blue-eyed girl.
He has never said anything to her
about it. but she knows. And oh,
the happiness of those days! How
slow and drearily do the week days
drag along! And how short the
Sundays! It is their drst court
ship, and oh, who can tell the
story of the sweet, unalloyed hap
piness—the first awakening to
jnandood and womanhood! Quite
often the curly-headed girl will
marry another man, but sweet
hearts are too plenty and too prec
ious to do without, and the heart
seeks anil finds another mate.
But there are sweethearts and
sweethearts. There are girls and
boys, too. who wear their afeetions
on the outside, for show, whose
love is only skin deep. There are
hoys and girls who are all gush,
and the silliest kind of gush at
that. There are tho.se whose
hearts are like weather vanes,
turned readily in any direction by
the windy tongue of flattery.
The girl who talks nothing but
nonsense and gigles at everything
may make a passable sweetheart,
but, boys take Uncle Tobey’s
word for it, she won't wear She
will not make you a good wife. Ji
you want a wife that won't rip.
ravel or run down at the heel, get
one that knows something, and can
talk something besides nonsense.
And, girls, the same advice is
for you. A boy who thinks he
looks better behind a cigar than
he does behind a mule in the corn
field will do— to let alone. And
don't, whatever you do, tie to a
boy who calls his father ‘'the old
man’’ or his mother “theold wom
an.” The boy or girl who has no
more respect for their parents
than that will not make a good
husband or wife. If you want a
good husband “set your cap’’ for
a boy who is kind to his mother.
Almost any kind of boy or girl
wid do for a young sweetheart,
but what you want to do is to get
one that will make a good old
sweetheart one that will “love
you when you are old.” The
path of lift* is often one of thorns.
No difference what your position
may be, rich or poor, there will
come times of sorrow, when
“thoughts of tomorrow are as
black as night,” and you will need
all the strength of your soul to
stem the tide. It is then that we
need the strength and encourage
ment of the old sweetheart, the
companion of your early pilgri
mage. It is then that the heart,
grown tender in love and softened
by affliction, becomes the staff up
on which we lean as we fight the
battles of this old world. Wives
and husbands grow old, but sweet
hearts are ever young. How
fondly we cherish the memory of
love's first awakening to manhood
and womanhood. .Measured by
events, by the struggles of our
lives, it is an age, but by our
hearts it seems but yesterday, and
although we have passed the me
ridian of life and the shadows are
lengthening- before is, we can
smell the sweet perfume of tin* ap
ple blossoms, and hear the musi
cal laughter of the sweethearts of
our youth.
Assessor’s Notice.
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Notice is hereby given that 1 will i
attend in person, or by deputy, at the 1
usual voting places in the various
townships in Independence county,
Arkansas, for the purpose of taking a 1
list of the real and personal property 1
of each resident of said township and ]
tne per capita tax of such as are liable ,
to pay the same for the year 1905, on ,
the days and dates specified below:
Pairview township, Pleasant Plains,
Monday, June 5th.
Liberty township. Floral. Tuesday, 1
June (5th. 1
Relief township. Enterprise. (Cover- ]
stone school house) Wednesday. June i,
7th.
Creenbriar township, Jamestown, 1
Thursday and Friday. June sth and 1
9th. |,
(ireenbriar township. Desha, Satur- ,
day. Jue 10th.
Oil Trough township, Elmo, Mon
day, June 12th.
Christian township. Oil Trough, l
Tuesday, June 13th. i
Christian township. Smith's school ,
house, Wednesday. June Uth.
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Salado township, Rosie, Thursday,
June 15th.
Salado township. Salado, Friday, C
,1 line Kith. ! |
Washington township, Calaway's ,
store, Monday and Tuesday. June 19t h
and 20th.
Cnion township, Saltpeter school
lions , Wednesday, June 21st.
Stubbs township, Cushman, Tliurs- i
day, June 22nd. ;
.Jefferson township, j. 1. Montgom
ery's store, Friday. June 23rd.
Ashley township, Brewer's school
house. Saturday, June 24th.
Barren township. Bray's store, Mon
day and Tuesday. June 2t!th and 27th.
Black Bivcr towns'oip, Charlotte,
Wednesday, June 2sth. i
Black River township. Walnut
S Grove. Thursday. June 2'Jth.
Black Bivcr tow nsliip. < 'ord. Friday.
J one 3oth.
Logan township, Logan sclioolhouse,
Sal urday. July 1st.
i Gainesboro township, Mooretield i
| Monday, July 3rd.
Gainesboro township, Sharp, Tues
day, July 4th.
Gainesboro township, Ham's school
j house, Wednesday, July th.
Big Bottom township. Newark,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July
6th, 71ii and sth.
I Magness township, Magness. Mon- 1
j day, July lht h.
White Biver towship. Titesd i\ and
Wednesday, J uly 11th and 12th.
Huddvll township, Batesviiie. Thuis
dav. Friday and Saturday. July 13th,
14th and loth.
And at mv office in Batesviiie, July
17l.ii to 27th. after whicii/t ime all per
sons tailing to list will be subject to a
! penalty.
You must assess in person K-icb
1 person will have to swear to his or h*r
; assessment, and each person will be
| required to give number of school dis
, tri.-t. School directors will please tur
nisli list of tax payers at precinct on
[ first day of assessment.
.1. J Caldwkli,. Assessor.
Independence County, Aik.
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