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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
PATt'RDAT, graft i
SOUTHERN COMMON SENSE
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
W a ARE taking the race problem
either too seriously or not se
rf ourly enough.
Th 0?e who take It too aerlously are
lhof e Who say that nothing can be done
•ml are looking helplessly and hope-
1 ,U- toward tho future. Tom Watson's
marailnr' sounds that familiar note In
™ latest Issue In sentences like these:
' -The vengefulness that made the ne-
„„ problem the 'black plague' of our
civilization was' Inexpiable enmity."
■The blood poison of slavery and negro
suffrage will affect the Ration Tor cen
turies to come. t
Those who do not take It seriously
enough are those who confine their out
look to the little patches of sunshine In
individual relations here and there and
who do not consider the magnitude of
the racial element In it. They think
that such problem as there Is comes
from political and other unnecessary
agitations: that if we Will let the negro
alone he's all right, and If you will let
question alone everything will be
all right. In communities where the
negro population la relatively amall,
met enough to supply the demand for
labor, and In households where the re
lation* between servants and family
are wall established there ta a strong
disposition, toward a narrow view of
the situation. A gentleman of my ac
quaintance, and a man of public
weight, stoutly Insists that the news
papers are making the trouble. He
mvs to quote his words exactly, "The
fear concerning the negro before my
eyes Is that said negro will not turn up
In time to edit the gravy department
in the morning;'' that "the negro who
Is on the nerves of the men of this
hour and who Is causing their heads
in grav but not with years.' Is the one
whom’we seek eagerly, but do not fln<l.
af her post In the nursery, nnd conse
quently the pious men of this country,
cunt rare to their religious scruples, are
pined In the uncanny hours of the
night to do skirt dance stunts to the
lelllcme lamentations of their latest
horn." He reduces the problem to three
rv simple propositions; First. "How
m „et and keep a competent negro
woman in the kitchen;" second. "How
10 get and keep a kind and trustworthy
negro woman In the nursery;" third.
“Hew to get and keep plenty of ne
groes In the cotton patch."
Now-, based on this point of view,
there Is a more or less definite crystal-
llzatlon of opinion that the negro's place
in the South Is and can be only that
of a servant. The theology of the slave
holders Is recrudescent among multi-
tudes of the quiet, Intelligent people
of the South.
Governor Vardaman.
The existence of these two apparent
ly antipodal currents of sentiment—
those who take the problem too se
riously and those who do not take It
seriously enough—really comes to one
result—a state of Inertia In the South
that discourages attention to the ques
tion from any and every point of view.
To get those who take the matter too
seriously to realize that it Is nothing
short of Anglo-Saxon cowardice to lie
I down and surrender before any sltua-
I tlon without a brave effort to do the best*
that Is possible to resolve It, and to get
those who take It not seriously enough
to wake up to the significance of facts
and to the profounder Issues that are
Involved and that Involve all Interests
in the South, and to get a movement
of our best common sens* and the wis
dom of the whole people brought to
bear upon present conditions. Is the
task Providence has cut out for the pa
triotic sons ot the South, worthy of real
leadership, f have not often commend
ed Governor Vardaman, nf Mississippi,
but I commend the common sense of
the statement recently msde by him
with reference to the action of govern
ors who** Interest In this matter had
been quietly appealed to. “The or
ganization of press clubs for the pur
pose of discouraging the discussion of
the question or the failure of governors
to appoint this commission for the
same purpose, will have Just about as
much effect In keeping the people from
talking about it and discussing It ns
telling a hungry man that he 1s not
hungry would satisfy tho cravings of
his stomach. They may cry harmony,
but there Is no harmony; they may sav
there Is no problem, but still the prob
lem Is there; they may say thore Is no
race question, but the race question Is -program
Ith us.
The Christian Science treatment will
not suit this case at all. Difference of
opinion as to the remedy may be ex
pected, but There can be no difference
of opinion as to the existing, living,
distressing facts In the case. It Is
passing strange to me that wise and
conservative men In other matters
should entertain such peculiar views on
thlB particular question as are enter
tained by some.
A Pertinent "If."
Have you ever been at pains to try
to think what sort of a situation we
would have had In this year of our
Lord 1907, -if the negroes had been
freed by manumission or by the com
promise of the Civil war nlong the line
of the alleged proposition of Mr. Lin
coln to Mr. Stephens at the Fortress
Monroe conference? It will do any
man good who wants to know tho
South's true policy for the future to
think out that question. For mark Tt
carefully, the complication of the
wholesale suffrage features of the fif
teenth amendment Is not at the pres
ent time nor likely to be In the future a
real complication In the South, The
turning of the wheel has brought the
Southern people around to face a state
of facts not. essentially different from
the facts they would have faced—the
negro in our midst not generally
voter In any state or community and
yet a freeman and with our universal
pleasure In the fact that he is not a
slave. The’relative conditions are not
seriously changed In point of numbers
or capacity. If the negroes are more
numerous nnd more Intelligent, the
white people are relatively more nu
merous, better educated, richer and
more powerful.
Is It possible to think that under
these circumstances I have suggested
the Southern white people would not
promptly have constructed a general
agreement, a pronounced and harmo
nious policy touching those questions of
relation which nre now the source of
so much Irritation? I challenge the
Intelligence of any Southern mnn to
deny that here la sensible, logical ap
peal to the leaders of tho South to
move In the direction of a Southern
' / *
A Disquieting Reflection.
The romance of American economies
is the tale of the South'* marvelous
REV. JOHN E. WHITE.
wealth of resource and riches easily
garnered. In terms fabulous the tre
mendous findings of 1909 nre put be-
foro the eyes of the world's wealth-
seskers. Great Britain, until now the
thriftiest nation of the globe, managed
last year to dig out her resources sev
en million dollars a week, while the
erstwhile domain of the Southern Con.
federacy gathered up seven million
three hundred thousand . every day,
Sundays Included; that la to say, that
while Orest Rrltaln got Hcher In 1906
at the rate of seven million a week,
the South got richer at the rale for the
whole year of fifty-one million 'one
hundred thnuvund dollars. And this is
the plucer mining, the surface ylcld-
Ings, Wealth above the hard pan. Let
us felicitate ourselves and then sit
down and think. Who Is going to reap
the deeper lying harvest? Is the na
tive Southerner prepared for what is
coming? Is the native white boy In a
mental and moral shape to meet the
competition that will pit the Shrewdest,
best-trained brains of the world, the
coolest and most resolute characters
of the world against him In the strug
gle for the wealth resources of the
South? Three years ago I crossed the
ocean from England with the agent
of the English cotton manufacturers.
Ho was r keen tnnn. He told me that
the South had the practical monopoly
of cotton; that the tracts In the Sou
dan anti In South Africa where by the
aid of the English government they
had made costly experiments to achieve
rotton producing, were abandoned ms
failures; that they had to face the
music, and that he was coming over to
see about sharing the Southern cotton
lands with the Southern people. I have
cut clippings from the papers since
then to vindicate the fear his conver
sation begat In my mind. These agents
have bought thousands of acres of our
beat cotton lands since then. Is the
Southern white boy going to hold tils
birthright? That is a question thnt
ought to loom up among us.
I believe that Its answer Is vitally
Involved in the creation of a strong
Southern "esprit" and that It hinges
greatly upon the wny In which we face
the negro problem, which, as we are
now at It, keeps the Southern white
people In a state of nervousness. The
mental and moral agitations of out-
people do not allow us to concentrate
attention and concern upon our own
deficiencies, our undeniable educational
unpreparedness.
Phillips Brooks said that he who
really appreciates and loves his coun
try Is the patriot who most Intrepidly
rebukes Its faults. The sensitiveness
that resents attention to the facts of
Southern weakness Is blindness. Faith
In the South Is the faith that we are
capable of seizing upon the truth
about ourselves and capable therefore
nf remedying our deficiencies In the
face of the conflict our very prosperity
will bring upon us.
The Question of Immigration.
At another prominent point the ne
cessity for a program Is belnfp made
plain. The recent Immigration cun-
fefence In New York discussed the
question of Southern Immigration. One
of the speakers from the South, who
has been engaged In the sffort to turn
Immigration In our direction, declared
that one of the great difficulties was
the Impression abroad that the South
was In an Insecure and unsettled con
dition with reference to tho treatment
of labor. One said that “Marie .Van
Vorst’a literature slandering the South
had been widely disseminated and the
Atlanta temporary raoe riot was sen
sationally magnified as much more se
rious than It was and as embracing
tho whole South." Another speaker
submitted affidavits to show that Im
migrants brought to (he South had
been subjected to slavish hardships nnd
cruelties and adds: "The cases cited
are absolutely true and are a fair sam
ple of the treatment which not only
illiterates receive In certain part* of
the South, but men of more than or.
Unary intelligence are Inveigled Inlq
taking these chances and to them the
suffering must be keep indeed."
Now, the fact that we aro misrepre
sented so widely and that our Immi
gration movements are suffering on
account of It, suggests that It Is a mat
ter Involving the South's honor as well
as well as her progress, and therefore
the South ns a station need* to get Its
eye concentrated on the Improve
ment of conditions and also to pro-
nounce for a more settled nnd less un
certain state nf affairs with regard to
Inbor. Wc have to remember that In
our dealing with the eight million ne
groes, the labor population of the
South. We are not In a corner, but In
the eye of the world. Our ability to
command the very much needed Im
migration requires that the South
should put herself In u definite and less
dlaturoed relation'with regard to the
labor we have.
Tho Story of “Nancy.”
The Idea of bringing about the con
sensus of Southern patriotism nnd the
constitution of a representative com
mission to elicit, combine and direct
the best public sentiment of <hq South
In the Anglo-Snxon's dealing with the
negroes Is based on common sense. It
proposes on tho large scale the policy
thn Individual white man, who gets
on with the negroes, pursues with the
Individual negro with whom he Is as
sociated In a business or domestic re
lation. the policy of a square under
standing upon which peace and mu
tual advantage may result. Hon. Rufus
Rhodes, the editor of the Birmingham
News, and a citizen nf great power In
Alabama, had a cook named "Nancy."
She had been tong with his family ami
was greatly esteemed. She loved them
filso. It was one of those beautiful sit
uations so frequently found even yet
In the South. "I behove," said Mr.
Rhodes, "thpt Nancy would go out In
the storm and bare her bosom to death
for us and we are every whit as much
devoted to her. But a little while ago
a thing happened that turned Nancy's
head and for a little while her heart.
It was something that happened In
Washington city. She became unpleas
ant, difficult and offensive. Our re
lations wera strained and yet for no
cause except her own Idea that the
white people were against the negroes
and their rights. It seemed that we
would have to part company. But I
made up my mind that I had not done
my duty by Nancy until I had made
the effort to have an understanding
with her. So I caught her nnd showed
her Jurt what the facts were and what
the conditions were In the South and
whnt they had to be and made plain
to her with Arm kindness of speech
here her nnd our Interests lay. Now
I said If you will abide these conditions
we will go on as we always havs, hap
pily."
As Mr. Rhodes told the story his eyes
became moist with tears at this point.
“And what did Nancy do?" I asked.
"Oh. she was crying, and we have
been all right ever since."
A plain, square Southern white man's
policy Is common sente. It would clear ,
the air. It would promote confidence
nnd Improve the situation immensely.
It would give reassurance to the lead
ers of the negroes thnt In right leader
ship the Anglo-Saxon conscience would
support them. It would tend to lift Into
(he heavens the law of race Integrity
for both races. It would. I believe. In
In tho end transform dlumotrlc tend
encies into pnrallel nnd upward prog
ress and make a more favorable at
mosphere for the South to achieve tho
control of her destiny.
t
THE COERCION OF BADNESS
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
A CCOR DIN O to the figures given In
my article on this subject last
week, the grand total of the cost
of crime In the United States for 1906
munted to the stupendous figures of
II.))7t.327,605.99. The estimate I* doubt-
orreet, because made out by a
Railing prison official. Rev. John J.
Monroe, and published recently In Hnr-
IVeekly. This, In cold figures, is
ivlint the coercion of bndness amounts
Each person In the United States
i held up last year nnd forced by
criminal population to part with
21 of his good money, as any one
esn see who will divide 91,076,327,905.99
by S7.S92.170, which according to The
World Almanac Is the population of
the American Union on January I,
1JD7.
This method of getting at the ques-
Ion makes badness an exceedingly per.
anal and practical subject.
The population of Atlanta In 1900
a* 99,972. It Is now certainly 100,000.
This multiplied by $12.24 shows our
part of the annual tax for crime to be
ll.22t.ooo. As a city we may be above
the average and perhaps do not have
to pay that much for our own crimi
nals. i have not the figures and do not
know. But without any doubt crime Is
the costliest Item of our expense nc-
■>um.
It is well known that old, experi
enced criminals are made out of young
rrimlnnls. And It la well known that
while character Is still In the making,
we can do well nigh everything to bring
out It* latent powers—for the environ
ment around each child becomes the
content of its life In the course of Its
Mowing to manhood. The child by
himself and within himself Is nothing
but a palpitating unit of potentiality.
HI* growing up may be described as a
of Internalizing his world or his
environment. His character when
n Is nothing more than his outside
environment become personal and act
ive and throbbing on the inside. In the
beginning of a child’s life his self Is
°ne possibility and the world around it
'* another. The process of Interaction
b"gln*, the process of commerce be
tween the Inside self and the outside
environment. When the prdeeas' ends
and the character Is formed, we be-
bold the child’s world concentrated, ep
itomized and looking at us through the
eve* of a human being. If the world
’ h " ' blld faced nnd traded with nnd
breathed was bad, the world that pul-
'ate* In the formed character will he
bad. An ox | s a palpitating pile of
c " rn . nnd a pile of com Is a diffused,
“n-1 gnnlzed, potential ox. The ocean:
""table Is that part of the vyhale not
Converted Into fish.
*' I* the solemn duty of society,
therefore, never to let a bad, vicious
environment get Itself entrenched and
bei'-me self-conscious, self-determtiv
n * and self-active Inside the person-
Thomas J. Barnardo gathered up from
the streets of English cities 60,000 waif
children In the course of forty years
and trained them In the Barnardo
homes, and sent them forth to make
their way .In the world. It took one
million dollars a year to support hts
homes, but It was the best nnd most
economical Investment mad# by the
people of Oreat Britain, for, according
to the report of tho trustees year be
fore last, only two per cent of the 80,-
000 turned out badly. In the light of
the reported facts about the Barnardo
homes Luther Burbank's declaration
does not seem so extreme. The truth
is. society Is just now waking up to the
recognition of the fact that the ac
quired characters of parents are not
transmitted to their offspring. Every
child Is absoluely n fresh beginning,
because every child Is a spirit mail# it;
the Image of God. Every crow hatched
out of the egg Inherits the entire fund
of nil the crow traits, original and ac
quired. from the beginning of the ca
reer of that blark bird on earth. Each
netv crow Is but the repetition of the
old crow species. But a human being
Is a self-conscious, self-determlnlng.
self-active spirit, and because of this
the content of his mature life Is not
made over to hlm by nature, but Is ac
quired by him from the elements In
his environment, by the use of his pow
ers as a person. The power of society
over unformed childhood therefore la
great. As young criminals come out of
those homes where family training Is
neglected. It Is the duty of society to
take these as they reveal their bent
toward lives of crime and put them In
different environing conditions, and
they can nearly all be reformed.
There were, by the United States
census of 1900, 92.392 prisoners In the
United States. We will say that at
the present time there are *6,000. Di
vide the cost of crime. Il,0<6,927,605.99,
by this nnd tie have 112,082.67. which Is
■I citadel of Its living members,
" * can keep a why from the dread
nsterlal dynamite as long as If is Iso-
«tctl and labeled with the danger elgn,
""When dynamite puts on pants nnd
'siitj about, we can never tell when
vc are standing In the presence of It.
iii'te was enough .breathing fury In
'It n-sanin of President McKinley to
ww up an t |, e capital* of the world.
;> 2 '”*o** was once an Innocent, harm-
baby. A bad environment took
l-ersonal form In hint. It would have
well for all mankind had he been
[„ " n something besides nltro-glyeer-
, " hen he wag growing up.
‘•uiher Burbank said to me that
'-"-nq plant* and the. lower animals
i rythlng is due to heredity and noth-
, '" environment, but that among hu-
, * n 'wing* everything Is due to en
rollment and nothing to heredity.
the cost of each criminal In the Union
to society. That Is each criminal cost*
the whole country upon an average of
$12,862.67 a year, and each citl*en of
the Union Is required to pay 912.24 tax
for crime.
Now, let us consider some figures
and facts dealing with a different phase
of the subject. . On Tuesday of this
week I made a visit to the Fulton
County Industrial harm. The entire
cost of construction and maintenance
of the farm for five years, including
land nnd buildings. Is 970,409.95. The
property I* worth perhaps three times
* V „.. it n.n * ti-lion tho
a* much today as It was when the
county bought It. The land then was
poor and unproductive. After five years
of careful culture and enrichment It
looks like a garden. I doubt whether
there Is another place In the neighbor
hood (ft Atlanta that presents such an
appearance of thrift and beauty. It Is
simply amailng to consider the trans
formation of an old dilapidated patch of
ground Into nn attractive estate. The
Institution was opened In 1902. Dur
ing the first year 966 worth of farm
products were sold; the second year,
9300 worth; the third year. 9S0fl worth;
the fourth year. 91,600 worth, and last
year. 1906, $2,000 worth were sold. This
present year the Institution will make
enough to feed all the hogs, cows,
mules, chickens, and pay the entire
grocery bill for the sixty-four penpls
on the plantation. It cost In 1906, out-
side of what was grown on the estate,
91.60 a day to feed all the mouths,
animal and human, out there. Sixty-
four people at 91.50 a day Is not quite
2 1-2 cents for each person. The coun
ty allows the officer who keep* the
Fulton county Jail 971-2 cents a day
for food to each prisoner. The little
negroes I referred to last week, rang
ing In ages from 9 to 15 years, penned
up In the Jail cost the county 3. 1-2
cents each Just for what they eat. The
fifty-one boys out on the Fulton County
Industrial Farm cost the county. In
1909, not quite 2 t-2c each per day for
what they ate. and this year they will
feed themselves, without any cost to
the county. Then there is this differ
ence further to consider between the
boys on the farm and the boys In the
Jail. From the latter are to come oar
future burglar* and cut-throats unil
rapist*; from perhap* 9S per cent of
the former will come good blacksmiths,
farmers, carpenter*, coolut, brlckma*on*
and useful citizens.
The Investment In the Fulton County
Industrial Farm I* the most far
sighted. rational and Christian the peo
ple of this community have ever mHde.
The emrloymints of the boys on the
Industrie! farm are:
Gardening, tc. sing feed for stock,
raising cant u..d making syrup, can
ning vccetr.tl , putting cane bottoms
In chairs. n.enJIng shoe*, milking cows
and caring for the milk and butter,
making and mending clothes, doing
carpenter work, painting, blacksmith
work, cement work, laundering, cook
ing and studying three hours a day the
most essential elements of an English
education. Including some military
training, baseball and house game*.
On Sundays they have religious ex
ercises, reading, refreshments and some
physical recreation.
In his report the superintendent says
that ninety-three boys have been ad
mitted to the Institution and forty havo
been sent away to make their way In
the world.
< Professor T. A. E. Means I have
known a long time. I knew him to be
one of the best teacher* In Georgia,
but 1 never dreamed until my visit to
the farm that he was not only a teach
er, but a preacher, an expert agricul
turist and a missionary, all In one
practical inan nf head and heart anti
hand. He Is the prophet, priest nnd
king of the Industrial farm, lie takes
deep Interest In the moral and spiritual
and Intellectual welfare of every one .if
the boys under his care. His word Is
law, but It Is humane and kindly and
hope-Inspiring. Tho youngster who
put* the environment of that fnrm,
school, workshop, dairy and church,
united In one harmonious whole, to
pulsating In the interior confines nf
his life will make' a useful member if
society. And every boy who goes there
will be forced to Incorporate thts outfit
for Industry nnd study, lying between
green plain nnd blue sky. Into hln soul
In the nature nf things, he must hold
commerce with his surroundings, and
of law. It would cost something to
build them ahd equip them at the out
set. but the returns in money even
would soon more than cover the coet,
while nt the earn# time raising con
stantly the moral level nf our social life.
The next step we need to take In
Fulton county Is to buy about as much
land ns we have for white Dbye, and
upen It establish Just such nn Institu
tion for colored boys. The two Insti
tutions could be controlled by the same
there Is nothing out there for heart and I administration. Professor Means could
spirit nnd Intelligence to trade with hut
what la sane and fair and truthful nnd
good. Just a few years during the
formative period of young life on that
stretch of field and discipline will he
enough to adjust It parallel with the
lines of law nnd order. It would be a
good thing during the coming session
of the legislature to have all the mem
bers meet out there for a barbecue or
watermelon cutting or eome other ru
ral function. Just to give them the
opportunity of seeing what can ho dona
with 11* acres of run-down-nt-the-he«l
land and a few Georgia boy* In five
years. It would open their eye# and
thrill their hearts anil send each nn*
away dejermlned to establish Just such
a paradise: or rather garden of oppor
tunity and hope, in hi* own county.
Such nn Institution In ever}- county ot
the etate would change the character i
our civilization In twenty year*. Crlm
Inals would cease to be and breathe
and fatten among ua. Such Instlt.t-
tlona would serve as dykes to keep the
current of human life within the banks
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Why Men Do Not Marry Beauties
BY DOROTHY DIX.
A
nal-fexamlner.) his senses 'because he happens to be
NEWSPAPER dispatch from
London states that during the
present season beauties are out,
and- that the homely woman Is having
her innings In society.
This Is too good to be true. There
will never be a time when she of the
peaches and cream complexion, the vio
let eyes, the golden hair and willowy
figure will have to take a back seat In
mixed company. Nor will there ever
dawn a day w hen ladles who have had
the misfortune to be built, on the archi
tectural lines nf a tub or a beanpole,
and topped off with a sallow skin and
hay-colored hair, will need a bodyguard
to keep off their admirers.
Men will always worship beauty.
They will like to be seen about with
women who look like living pictures;
they will sit up by the hour and descant
upon their Ideal of feminine charm,
and lead you to believe that no woman
who did not have Venus best a block
could.lnterest them.
But—
When they come to marry, ninety-
nine times out of a hundred, they pick
nut for a wife some woman who hasn't
the slightest pretense to prettlnees, and
never claimed to have. In proof where
of, take a bird’s-eye view of the mar
ried ladle* of your acquaintance, many
of whom risk shattering the looking
glass every time they take a peek Into
It.
This Inconsistency of man—that he
should publicly put beauty above all
other qualities In a woman, and then
turn It down—has been variously ex
plained. One Ingenious theory Is that
beauty Is In the eye nt the beholder.
Another Is that when a man Is in love
he I* so hypnotized that he believes a
pug nose to lie Grecian, a catfish mouth
be a Cupid's bow, a featherbed fig
ure to be svelte and graceful. Fiddle-
ticks! A "••n't taka !**■*• of
enamored of a girl. If she's ugly, he
sees her physical defects as well as
ever, but he also perceives that she
hae other charms that more than atone
for them, and he takes what sporting
men call "the best bet."
Certainly It is nn undeniable tact
that beauties do not make the best
matches. They have more beaux whose
attentions mean nothing than the plain
girl has, but, they havo fewer beaux
who mean business.
The real elucidation of this mystery
la very simple. Old Dame Nature is
not such a partial Jade as wc give her
credit for being. When she puta a lot
of good material on the outside of a
girl's head, she's mighty apt to skimp
on the gray matter Inside nf It. Thus
only once In a blue moon do you find a
beautiful woman who la anything more
than a pretty doll. And grown-up men,
while they may like to admire the pret
ty plaything for a little while, don't
car* to play dolls long at a time. They
get tired.
Again. It Is Inevitable that a beauty
should be spoiled. From her cradle up
she hae been petted and flattered and
given up to. She has had the best of
everything because she looked so cun
ning when she was dressed up. All of
this has borne fruit in making her a
monster of selfishness.
Now, selfishness is a quality on which
man has taken out n patent right. If
there Is anybody going to be fluttered,
hfc wants to be the one to receive the
bouquets. If anybody In the family baa
got to give up. he Is firmly convinced
that woman enjoy# the beautiful privi
lege of self-sacrifice, and thnt he has
no right to Interfere with her pleas
ures. Hence, while the beauty Kltrnrt*
him by her face, she repulse* him by
her disposition.
Then, too, marrying a beauty Is such
an expensive luxury that nobody but
elderly millionaire ) can afford to In
dulge In It—a condition amply Illus
trated In ever) community. A nun woman.
with his way to make In the world
naturally expects his wife to help him,
but he wouldn't have nerve to Invite a
plexlon out over the kitchen range or
bend her regal form over patching hie
trousers. Therefore, his attitude to
ward her Is that of the poor In a bric-
a-brac shop—he admires, but with lit
tle or no desire to possess a thing that
would be Incongruous with hla other
belongings, and the Jiumble cottage or
flat to which he would have to take It.
On the other hand, the woman Who
knows that her fare Is plain and that
she must attract by other qualities than
bodily pulchritude, devotes herself .to
cultivating the amenities of life. Bhe
doesn’t dare to be ugly and stupid, too,
and she studies to make herself enter
taining.
She doesn't expect to be admired anil
she Is so humbly grateful to every man
who shows her any attention that she
Is perfectly witling to burn Incense be
fore him. Hard knocks—for the home
ly woman gsts hatted about a good deal
by life—teaches her sympathy and un
derstanding. so that Instead of being a
queen on a throne to be worshipped,
she I* a man's best friend and com
rade. ready to pity him when things
go wrong and rejoice with him when
they go right, and at all times to enter
Into hi* hopes and plans and fears.
Above all, the woman who must
charm with her wit Instead of her
beauty learns the use of tact In dealing
with men. and when a woman hae that
she can afford to snap her fingers nt
all the thirty-nine point* ot the Ideul
female face ami figure. Let a woman
know how to rub the fur the right way,
so to speak, and have a nimble tongue,
and It doesn't matter whether she has
green eyes and purple hair or not. Give
such a woman ten minute*' start with
a man and ahe can outrun all the beau
ties in creation.
For there, is no woman on earth so
fascinating as the ugly woman who Is
fascinating. Bhe may not attract a
man at first, but when »lie get* him
■he holds him—at least long enough to
get to the altar. Which explains the
phenomenon of the homely married
manage, with a sufficient number of
guides and teachers and nasistnnta, one
thousand hoys as easily as he now dl«
reels the education nnd reformation nt
fifty. It would perhaps be possible to
ect a farm of 100 or more acres ad
joining the one we now own. If the
county authorities hnd no other motive
than that of making money It would
pay them to go Into the Industrial
farm business, aultkiently at least to
furnish a place to work and reform for
all boya that are born In the communl.
ty with more vigor and activity than
will power. There Will be a hundred
white boy# In school nnd serving an
apprenticeship under Professor Means
by the end of this year. The new
dormitory, with room for fifty, will be
completed by the close of 1907. The
same provision could be made for negro
boya on an adjoining farm. It will pay
ua from a financial point of view.
work, talking to himself and saying
substantially:
'Oone are the days when my heart was
young nnd gay.
v jounK mm *>«*.»»
Gone are my friend* from the cotton
field* away,
Cone from thl* earth to a hotter land I
know.
I hear their gentle voice* calling, 'Old
Black Joe.’
"I'm coming, I'm coming.
For my head Is bending low.
I hear those gentle voices calling, ‘Old
Black Joe.'"
nn 91<MI9 as 11Ills nuitii (JIJIIU 'll view- nee
that happens to be the one from which
we are accustomed to measure things.
Such nn Institution would, in twenty
years, actually bring back to the coun
ty more money than It would cost,
while It. would at the same time be
turning out useful wage earners and
citizens Instead of criminals.
The entire cost to far of the Fulton
County Industrial Farm, Including
land, construction of building* nnd
maintenance of superintendent, teach
ers, helpers and ninety-odd boy* for
five year*, ha* been 970,408.95 We
have already seen that the average coet
of each criminal In the United States
Is 912,666.67 a year. It la clear, there
fore, that *lx ffrst-clsss criminal* have
cost th* people of Fulton county more
money In one wear than ninety boya
and men enough to guard them, guide
them and teach them have cost them
In five years. Then why not secure’a
farm at once for young negro boys?
To pen little fellow* up In the Fulton
county Jell month by month Is a pro
cedure sufficiently distant from every
feeling of humanity and refinement, not
to say Christianity, to keep every per
son who thinks of It awake each night
while It lasts. It la Inhuman; It Is
not creditable to pngnns; it la a deep,
black, scandalous disgrace to all of
us. If we keep quiet am] passive and
placid and let It continue, when we see
a feasible and rational nay to slop It,
then the infamy of It becomes our per
manent possession. But we will not
stand It. Our people are always ready
to right a wrong when they come up
agalnet It.
If anyone wants to face the wrong,
let him go down to the Fulton county
Jail and 109k through Iron bars at those
poor little negro boys, and then If
he wants to know how to right auch a
wrong, let him go to the Fulton county
Industrial farm and there see how fifty
boy* are being taught to make men of
themeelvee.
Those of us who were brought up on
plantation* with negroes can never
learn to hate them. The relation* of
negroes and their white masters be
fore the war were those, of mutual
sympathy and good will.
Some of the most attractive anJ
saintly and beautiful characters who
have ever lived In the world grew up
among the negroes In tbe South under
the Institution of slavery. From among
those old Inegro saints, loving their
cabins, their kinsfolk and the scenes In
the midst of which they grew up, ar
tists have found about the only types
ot character among us who have any
promise of living In the popular songs
of the people. There Is a charm and a
winsomenesa about the character of
“Old Black Joe” that take* hold of
the Imagination completely.
Stephen Collins Foster has given ds
* portrait without exaggeration.
There he sits, back yonder In tile day*
before 1660, In front of hi* cabin, under
(be shade of a peach tree, too old to
"Thl* old Suwanee negro hae gone
Into all the world. He has been Ideal
ized and made Immortal In the most
popular sung, perhaps, ever written In
this country. The great singer* always
Itrlke chords In the common heart, not
only In New York, but al»o In St. Pe
tersburg nnd Vienna nnd Paris and
London, when they respond to encores
from the great audience* with 'OH
Folks at Home.’ It la w-ell worth con
sidering. Just why others havo been
passed by—revolutionary heroes, early
settlers, lonely Indians, hunters on the
plains, exiles of Erin, nnd this good,
humble, simple, pure-henrtod. old H11-
wapee negro selected to live forever In
America's most universal nnd popular
song."
It show* the kind of human being the
negro can become In nn environment of
kindness and affection.
'"Old Black Joe* grew up nnd grew
old at home, loving 111* mnster and his
missus, holding In the evening of his
life their children or their grandchil
dren upon his knee, giving them quaint
and Interesting Information about
Br’er Rabbit and Br'er Fox. One who
never knew him can never know what
a lovely and tender-1 i--'i 11, ,1 ,,M man he
wa*. Such a specimen of generous,
fragrant, responsive, confiding and sim
ple manhood never could have been
produced In the midst of a cruel and
hard and harsh environment. Among
many other types which have been
given Immortality In music, there Is the
negro brought up on a plantation In the
far South. He wa* sold to a master
In another etate. Still, with change of
master and change of location, he re
tains his simplicity of character, his
love for the old place and the old peo
ple. He has wandered far, hut ha*
never left the native and genuine ami
beautiful Instincts of the human soul.
.Now in hi* old age he gives himself
up to memories of the past. He Is
thinking of the old plantation of his
younger days, and to himself he medi
tates and says:
'All 'round the little farm I wandered,
when I was young.
Den many happy days I squandered,
many de songa I sung.
When I was playing with my brudder,
happy was I,
Oh take me to my kln<} old mudder,
dere let me live and die.
All de world am sad and dreary, ebry-
where I roam,
Oh, darkles, how my heart grows wea
ry. far from the old folks at
home.'
Professor Huxley was at dinner on#
evening with a company of Engli-h
gentlemen In London, when the sub-
, ect of conversation was tho French
people. The general drift of opinion
was In the direction of Bismarck's re
mark that the French were a cross
between the tiger and the monkey.
When they were not grinning they were
ready to devour, "ltut." said Huxley,
"we must remember that France has
Pasteur.” So It Is our duty to remember
that any race who numbers among Its
people such admirable characters as
Hooker T. Washington. Rev. E. It Car
ter, of the Baptist church, and Rev.
Proctor, of the Congregational church,
nnd thousands of others scattered over
the Southern states, Is entitled to re
spect.
It will not do to let the bad negroes
estrange ua from the good ones. Most
of u* have known white folks who
were not altogether angelic and saintly.
There are occasionally to be found
streaks of meanness even among mem
bers of the proud Anglo-Saxon race.
Let It I.■ ■ left for th"-.. among us who
nre without tin to coal stones at tho
negroes.
mam