Typed and spelled as
written: Kay Cunningham
The Marlin Democrat
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, February 4, 1904
Letter From Rev. C. Smith
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My Dear Democrat:
Since I have had to lie here 30 days because the surgeon thought
best to cut on me some, I have learned to liid into your face as
never before. I am sure that no reader of your fair pages has been
more discerning than myself during this confinement. I feel better
posted as to Marlin and her people, visitors and enterprises that
when I was a citizen there. I read all the adds and everything else
and then go over the adds in the Ladies Journal. Delineator and
daily paper.
For a well man to take his bed for a month requires patience,
for when everything else gives out. I then find fault with wide and
test of the world. I am better now but not near well enough to be
told that I have at all varied from the right in all this. A wife
under such conditions is a woman to be pittied.
I am glad to see some of Marlin's boys starting up business for
themselves. This is as it should be. I am interested in every
movement in Falls county. I trust the Baptists will love Taylor as
they did Holloway. I want every good candidate elected, but know
some must fail.
As soon as I am able to work I leave for San Angelo to do
evangelistic work under the state mission board. That is where my
friend Whitaker died and where Bro. Bud Kyser turned back. I am
going to plant churches and build up society so when you all come,
as you must, there will be a good place for you.
I had a curious experience in connection with my last visit to
Marlin. A good brother gave me a setting of Plymouth Rock eggs and
a second brother said: "I will hatch them out for him". Now, there
was no understanding as to what the third move would be, so I am
lost. That teacher's meeting may have gotten the chicks. May be
the DEMOCRAT can throw some light on the situation. But would not a
dozen of these fine birds make wife proud and get her over this bad
month of mine?
Keep straight and vote
right.
Affectionately,
C. Smith, Waco, Texas
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