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 Home 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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