The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 13, 1907, Page 7, Image 7
A Yerse that Sticks
Once You Read. "She's
Only Girl I Loved,"
Can't Forget It.
Newberry Herald and Newe
,4Speuking of poetry," si
gentleman in Newberry v<
day, %'have you noticed
prominence which the ne<
pers throughout the country
giving the little verse :
"She'ti the only girl 1 love;
Has a face like a horse and buggy
I met her leaning on the lake?
Ob, fireman, save me child.
44lt is being discussed
one end of ihe country t<
other, as it deserves to be. 1
is something peculiar in
little verse. It was several
ago that I first noticed i
some newspaper. And
that time I haven't been ab
get it out of my bead. I
newspaper man bad got i1
a banquet somewhere?I
forgot how it came inlo <
ence?I think it was Editor
ker Kennedy, ot Tennessee,
* gave it birth?but the yen
self will not out. 1 knew
some day its literary merit \
be recognized, and I propli
it, and now it has come to p
am glad. And I hope tho
whose attention it is now
brought by the press ol
country will be as much de
ed with it as I was when I
saw it; and?it may be m<
but I hope it will stay with
as long as it did with me.
'*1 noticed in the Charlott
server several dayfc ago ti
|'i utosniii II \t iiirre III UIIH
wan walking around the s
in an absent rain led raa
occasionally leaning again
telephone pole, and with a
way expression in his eyes,
ly repeating :
Sho?H the oniy^giri I ioye;
Huh n face like a horse and baggy
And I was glad, with the
gladness that comes to a ra
a railway train who has
while the train passed his s
and carried him on, and
finds that somebody else, in
way, lias a'so passed the si
and must get back to ihai
tion immediately, and s"Oi
"The veise struck my far
^ soon as I saw it, and the
^ was all up with me. If th
of Newberry had been offer
to forget it, I couldn't bay
got it. On my way honit
night, I found myself r
lUfc .
"I mot her leaning on the lakeOb,
fireman, Have my child."
' But on my way home
night little did ] I dream
trouble it was to get me in
the dawn of another di
thought that when I manaj
get to sleep, it would vanii
does a popular tune whic
can't help humming for i
sometimes. I thought my
would make fun of the
verse, aud so, with great ef
managed not to let her he;
repeating it before bed
Had I known then whal
coming during the night, 1
have recited to her the
and its history, and everytt
know about it.
"Sometime during the
in my sleep, I commenci
peating that verse. I don't
> whether I got any further
Bpaw?iiHiiHi?rf ' "*YV < v '
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THE LANOAf
. the first line or not; but I have
good cause to believe that the
first line came from ray lips :
"tfhe's the only girl I lore"?
^OU And my wife heard it. And what
happened next I haven't been
able to forget, either, though I
' have tried as hard to forget it, as
aid a 1 have tried to forget the verse.
?ster- And I am not going to tell you
the about it, either,"^said the Newjvspa
berrian; ''because,'* he continued,
^ are "it's none of your business. And
don't you ever mention it to me,
either.
"That was some years ago. I
thought then that I had got clear
Irom ?r ^ frozen in me so
. hard that it wouldn't thaw dur>
the . ?
ni ing my lifetime. But next mornI
here ...
,l,at ,ug 11 was wiwi me again, anil,
during my busiest moments, it
vears * , '
t in wo rush through my mind
! and I would find my mind olf
sine?
. . my work, and I would be softly
le to
? repeating:
SsAmft 1 ^
< IF i "^ie K on,y 8'ri f tove,
Has u face like a horse and bnggy;
have I uiet her leaning on the lat e ?
RXIst- tlreumu, save me child '
Wal "And it has been that way
, who with me from I hat day even
?e it- until now. And that's all I had
that 'o sav. I wouldn't have meuvould
tioned it at all, except lor the
lesied rf1^e,il discussions in the Char
ass. I lutte Observer, the Columbia
se to State, the Norfolk papers, the
being Charleston papers and others
f the that 1 have noticed."
light
first Loses Second Barn this Year.
mn?
them WinnsboroNews audHerald: Mr.
S. D. Dunn had the misfortune
,e Ob 1?-e a second barn at his ''onehat
a mi'e" place Monday morning,
rlotte This is the second barn Mr. Dunn
treets has 'ost by fire in the past year.
,nner, The loss, not covered by insurHt
a ancei wa8 about $700.
far-a,
eott Marriage in Kershaw.
Kershaw Era: Mr. C. Ross
Blackmon and Miss Mamie Jorgreat
dan were married last Thursday
ian on night at the home of the latter's
slept parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Jor
tation dan, in the presence of the family
then and invited friends. The bans
i some were pronounced by Rev. O. A.
tation JefFcoat.
t sta- . ? .
ier- Murdered in His Field.
icy as
m?it Anniston, Ala., July 12.?V/ese
CitV loir Riipriii q Iq.imo. i ? -1
,VJ " '"UliCI liVJUW 1IX H ^ 1
e?l me Ohoccolocico valley, was killed
o f?>r to day by unknown assassins in
} ,ba' the presence of his children while
cpeat at work in his fiohlp. Two white
boys are suspected of the crime. Prof
th|l| Georgia Holds on to Her Dr.
what Bacon.
before Office ii
iy j Atlanta, Ga.,July 10.?United l>?9,te
ted to States S0,iator O. A. Bacon was 1 llon<
sh as to,1ay re-olected for the full term Ij
h one be8inning March 4, 1907. Sen- ==
iwhile fttor Bacon was nominated at the * j?
wife StHte primaries, last August and
little session of the Legislature ""
Fort 1 be*nfS the first since the primary, Head of
tr me k'8 ?Action was taken up in each Col/0g9
tim*. branch of the Legislature today ?n9'n
time. . .. Library ?
i ?and was carried by a unanimous ?or*?, alee
l WttS J New dormt
vote in each body. ,n* i'br?ri
WOUlU * 7 It aiud
poem, '
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know or being overheated. Attend to the kid- INK ll
neyn at onoe by using Foley's Kidney
than Core. Fanderbuxk Pharmacy. Can't W
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,11785 Charleston, S. O.
ewardj
incline! ^xisna r ear Begins Se|
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a more scholarship to each county of M
livery Hna. giving free tuition. Tt
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* Entrance Examinations will be
County C. H., on Friday, July fi
I For catalogue, address Harrison
President.
iggies:
Taytor Notice to School T
Jones. and Patrons.
antccd July the 1st is the time for
Trustees to serve for the next
You will please call meetings an
L a Hoard that you wish to serve
me the names as early as poasi
"NJjcoprr reappoint the present Hoards t<
all districts from which I do i
any recommendations W M M
_ 7-3-4t County Supt I
U UUi .
A Memorable Da;
g , One of the daya we remember
1 " sure, as well as with profit to ot
the one on whioh we beeame
mmediate with Dr Kings New Life Pills, t
he worat pnrifiers tl ure headaohe an
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Dormitory
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held in the
i, Hty a m.
Randolph,
rostees
appointing
two years
id agree on
and aend
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i> serve in
not receive
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r
r with pleair
health, is
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36o at
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