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THE COHSTITOTIOH
CLARK HOWELL Editor
ROBY ROBINSON Business Manager
Entered at the Atlanta PoatolTlce aa Sacead
Claes Midi Matter, Mer. 11, 1873.
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Mr. Bryan and Mr. Cleveland.
The interview with William Jen
nings Bryan over the Cleveland third
term talk is intere-t ing. principally
as it throws more light upon Mr.
Bryan's own attitude in the party.
An undouSitable majority of the
regular democrats of the nation will
agree with Mr. Bryan that Mr. Cleve
land is in nowise an acceptable per
son to consider as the presidential
nominee of the democracy next year,
or any year hereafter. None ol the
true blue parly men are disposed to
ignore Mr. Cleveland’s auitvde in the ,
campaigns of IS'.MJ and 1900. They
believe their own integrity as mem
tiers of the party would become self
impeached by the adoption ot Mr.
Cleveland as the party's national !
leader. 'They' are perfectly’ willing to
see him reenter the rank’ ami be the |
leader of his followers in a fresh and ,
loyal service for the party; but. to |
change back to Clevelandism. with
out any evidence of a change in Mr.
Cleveland's attitude as to party obli
gations and allegiance would involve ■
a confession of error on their own
parts that no one of the party men of ,
189(1 and 19ott is prepared to make. !
Even in the matter of the civil war, .
for instance, the men of the south .
have for forty years steadily refused |
to confess that they were rebels and j
traitors to the union which they’
fought four years to disestablish.
Thousands of them are always free
to admit that a better way than war
might have been found to settle the
issues involved in shat war, and that
it is better, after all, that the war
ended as it did. am! that they love
the union of today as loyally as any’ ,
other section of the ”ation possibly
can but tuey will never admit that
they did not act In the emergency ot
j'Sfil as they honestly believed they
had the right and were in duty bound \
to act. Anil the nation at large is |
coming, in the truer perspective of :
history, to admit that the men of the
south fought for honest convictions
and not to perpetrate a crime.
In like mantle’- it is possible for the
democratic voters of 1896 ami 19(10 to
say that subsequent events have |
changed the seeming n i-ssities of
those years and that some of the is
sues n» those campaigns are not
paramount and compelling now. In
deed, the party nerally occupies
that position now, and it can be as
truly said of Mr Bryan what he has j
just said of Mr. Cleveland, that his
best friends would not dare to pre
sent him for the party nomination in
1904."
The first premise of the democratic
campaign for 19“4 must be the abso
lute unavailability of both Cleveland
and Bryan. They have served their
opportunities and the goo' or til of
their activities have in* n charged
upon the party ledger to the account
of profit ami loss. r noir accounts as
candidates for the pr<-idcncy are
closed and balanced.
Their great possibilities for useful
ness in ’he party, however, are not
exhausted. Mr Bryan still retains a
strong hold upon the confidence and
respect of the democratic masses.
Those who voted tor him have no dis
position to whine over <• results or :
say they ate sorry they followed him
as the party's leader. Willi those men
he can bo the commander of the Tenth
Legion of the democracy and lead
them within the part} with a frosh
enthusiasm for vital issues and a na
tional triumph. Mr. Cleveland has the
cordial, personal and political devotion
of enough democrats to make his
voice powerful, either to induce vic
tory or produce defeat
Therefore, if both these eminent
men will turn resolutely from the
divisions of the past and cooperate
to secure a unified and potential party
they will crown their loyalty with
later and better laurels than they have
ever won and contribute effectually
to the redemption of the nation from
the control of ’he disloyal, imperial
istic and degenerated republican
party.
For Cuban Annexation.
Senator Newlands, of Nevada, an
Bounces that he will renew his efforts
to have congress extend a formal in
vitation to Cuba to become a part of
the United States.
Senator Newlands will make a de
termined effort to secure the approval
bv his colleagues of his resolution
looking to annexation, and will, when
the Cuban question goes before con
gress at the extra session, seek to
have it added to such a bill or joint
resolution as may be adopted for the
purpose of making effective the pro
visions of the Cuban reciprocity
treaty.
n good many people throughout the
country seem inclined to the belief
that any talk of annexation on the
part of ’he people of the United States,
or of their representatives in congress,
will be resented by the Cubans. Sen
ator Newlands disagrees with them.
Instead of the offer being in the na
tore of an insult or affront. Senator
Newlands believes the Cubans should
look upon it as a compliment and.
further he believes that they will so
regard it. There is nothing in his
proposition to give offense. His the
ory is that, the annexation of Cuba
to tho United States is inevitable and
that the feelings of the Cuban people
would be hurt very much less by a
magnanimous offer from the stronger
government than by being forced at
some time in the future to come beg
i ging for admission.
It may be that tne Cuban people will
not care to avail themselves of this
offer at this time. That is their priv
ilege. So long as conditions in the
islands are peaceful and neither the
health of the United States nor the ,
interests of her citizens are menaced. ,
there will be no possible excuse tor .
tnis government infringing in any way
upon the independence of the republic. !
Even the most ardent annexationist
does not contemplate the use of force, j
Al! men. however, consider it probable
that the time will come, perhaps not
in the far future, when the < übans
will regard it to their advantage to
come into the American union, where
they properly belong, and the way for
this step will be made easier by some
such standing offer as is contained in
the Newlands resolution.
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Harking Back to State's Rights.
The recent decision by the federal
supreme court, in the case from Ala
bama. that the courts cannot, even un
der the terms of the fifteenth amend- j
ment, afford redress to a c'tizen de- j
nied the right of suffrage, is a dear re- (
cession. Heretofore it has ■■• i
generally that should a state discrim
inate between its citizens and their
right to vote in any way violative ot
the terms of the amendment, courts of
equity would have pow t to afford
proper relief in any case brought be
fore them
The United States supreme tribunal
now steps to the front and says that
long supposed power does not exist in
the courts. Ihe wrong involved in
any scheme of disfranchisement is a
political wrong upon the individual
affected and dealing with it is a
duty belonging to the political, not the
judicial, branch of the government.
This decision is a recognition of the
fa t that suffrage is a privilege and
not a right It is the gift of the state
to those of its citizens who are deem
ed tit t exercise it within limitations
fixed by state laws. It Involves a de
nial of the federal control of the exer
cise of electoral privilege in general
and ie-establishes the state's rights
idea that suffrage is a local concern
of each individual commonwealth.
Ju elections that are federal, as for
presidential electors and congressmen,
tlie question is left open as to the
power of congress, under the fifteenth
amendment, to qualify citizens of the j
United States to vote in them. But f
we fee] certain that when a case of i
tnat complexion arrives before the su
preme court It will go further and de >
cide that congress cannot, establish
the qualifications of voters in such ,
elections.
For. If congress can prescribe who
shall be eligible to use the suffrage ;
in the election of presidential electors |
and congressmen, how is it to be per- I
milted to do that other logical thing, I
an essential part of the whole idea,
which is to prescribe the qualifications
of the voters who select the various I
legislatures of tho states and that
have the constitutional duty of elect
ing the senators in congress?
From the terms of the decision In
the Kentucky and Alabama cases it '
is easily inferrible that the supremo
court is about ready to give the latest
two amendments to the constitution
their coup de grace by robbing them :
of their original Intendments and com
[iclling congress to either 1m suffrage
questions alone or make further ap- I
peals, byway of new amendments,
to the states In order to re-enforce the
manifest itnpotency of those known
as the fourteenth and fifteenth.
Where the Resposibility Lies.
The man or men guilty of alleged
lawlessness toward that negro rural ■
mail carrier in Tennessee should be
brought to trial in the courts if a
crime has been committed, but it is
not right that tho people of that, par
ticular section should bo deprived of
mail facilities any more than it was
right to close the postofflce at Indian
ola because the negro postmistress
there came to the conclusion that ft
would be an act of wisdom on her part
to resign. There is no warrant in law
for the postofflce officials punishing
entire communities for the acts of one
or more individuals.
The real responsibility for these
troubles rests however, with those
who for selfish political purposes per
sist in ignoring tho sentiments and
wishes of the j pie, and the* condi-
tions in the rural sections of tho
southern stales.
Representative Gaines, of Tenues
see, has. in his discussion of the re
i out episode in his own state, given
to the readers of northern newspapers
a description of those southern condi
tions which ought to appeal to them,
and which, we are confident, will ap
peal to all save some republican poli
ticians and a few mi guided theorists.
In an interview which appears in
The Washington Post an several
New York newspapers. Mr. Gaines
The discussion. In congress, white
j house, in the press and tile outrages
I l onimitteed on white people by negroes
in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and m south
ern states have intensified the fears of
j the southern people that outrages would
; be visited upon their wives and daugh
ters that did not exist during the admin
> istration of President McKinley Many
negroes. In a degree not heretofore no
ticed. feel and act .is though they knew
■ or thought they know that, somewhere.
' somehow, some white person is wronging
them, and they show a resentment and
Impudence and ill-felling that I have
ne., - seen In for ■ in rn.v life, an.l 1 have
worked with them on the farm and else
I where.
, The first I knew of the negr i carrier
' operating near Gallatin was tv i. weeks
ago. when 1 returned home to Nashville,
* 30 miles from Gallatin, when I learned
I of the appointment, and that the white
| people objected to him, because lie was
j n negro.
j The farmer leaves his house early in the
morning, goes out on his farm, often out
< of sight and beyond (he reach and call
lof his wife 'l'he children go to school a
i mil** away, and the wife is left alone with
I tile babies and spends the day until 12
I o'clock without any male companion to
: protect her In the afternoon the farmer
| returns to Ills work. lea’. Ing his wife
■ again defenseless. Knowing the charac-
I teristlcs of the negro an.l his recently
! intensified animosity toward the whites,
i because of the late discussion of the ne
i gro question and the negro episodes in
i high places, the wife and the husband.
too. are |n a state of distress when thev
• realize tli.a: a negro. v. let her h. is a mail
i i- -.rrier or not. Is walking about through
| the neighborhood.
It Is ■ pity, and 1 may -ay an outrage,
that the southern people are thus treated
; when we are taxing mtrselvcg to the ut-
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA‘. MONDAY, MaT 7.8, 1903.
■ most notch to educate the negro. Yet the
. negro is told, by those who don’t know
I liitn or what we are doing for him, that
I the southern people are his enemies and
are mistreating him because we don't al
low him to vote unless he pays his poll
tax or a property tax and can read ami
write, and do not associate with him so
cially. It is a pity that, all the east
and west, who think they know the con
ditions hi the south, before they open
their mouths to discuss the negro ques
tion, do not come south to see for them
selves. if they dl<l. they would do like
thousands of others who do come and
see. and say: "Let the south alone. She
understands the negro ami the negro un
derstands the south. We don’t.”
Negro carriers are employed in all
the cities of the south and no objec
tion whatsoever is made to their pres
ence. in the sparsely populated and
poorly policed rural sections there ex
ists. however, a feeling of fear born
of horrible experiences oo many to
enumerate. This is a condition, not
a theory; and there can be no excuse
for failure on the part of the postal
authorities to recognize this condi
tion and follow the obvious wishes of
the people.
Third Term. Not Possible.
Editor Constitution: After reading
your editorial last week on Mi
Cleveland and a Tliird Term,” 1 wish to
ask you sincerely why you do not re
gard him as the greatest democrat of
the times and the most available person
through whom to achieve a national
democratic victory in Itutl'. 1
J tie auove iiiqun j was received
yesterday Irom a correspondent who
signs mmselt ' Painter A. Buckner.”
I'lie Constitution is pleased to know
further irom him that ns editorial to
which he relet.-, aroused gueral dis
cussion throughout '..lie city, as it
surely will in farther circles. And
The Constitution does not evade the
question which he seriously submits.
Whether Mr. (’iev-4: nd is "the
greatest democrat of the times” is not
the matter The Constitution under
took to discuss. ’l'he answei to it
must always lie variable and influ
enced by the personal notions of
every debater of the question of
what, ate the elements of a true dem
ocrat ami Mr Cleveland’s personal
possession of them.
It is but fair to all around for us to
say that our opinion of Mr. Cleve
land's position as a democrai ol today
has been improved considerably by
his recent utterances upon the negro,
the trusts ami the foreign and itisuia.
questions that tire yet unsettled issues
in the nation's politics. For most of
them Tile Constitution has voiced to.
approx til as ardent and sincere as
any of his admirers could wish. That,
he l.as many elements of strength as
a personal quantity and a party lac
tor we do not deny. Under conditions
other than those the party must face
in 1904 Mr. Cleveland might be prop
erly regarded as a great enough dem
ocrat ami strong enough in doubtful
sections to be our most, available can
didate.
nut Mr. Cleveland has had his sec
ond term amt to propose lor him a
Lhird-term nomination is to ily heed
iessty into the lace of a set lied po
litical law and invite defeat where
success might otherwise be possible,
it would in.sia.nily alienale Irom the
democracy the sympathies ot hun
dreds of thousands of genuinely dem
ocratic and independent voters whose
ballots are essen ial to the party's
success.
This country is not one like Euro
pean eruptive nations, or South Amer
ican riot ridden republics. In them
princes and presidents rise anil fall by
revolutions in arms. The exiled ruler
of yesterday inay become the recalled
sovereign of tomorrow. Americans
abhor two political ideas the hered
ity of power and the indispem ability
of any man's personality in public ai
fairs Th< substance of th> whole doc
trine, paramount for a century and a.
quarter, is in the words of Garfield:
"The president Is dead, but the gov
ernment at Washington si ill lives’.
To nominate Mr Cleveland in 1904
would be to pu* the club ol Hercules
!u tho hands of the republicans. On
this third-term stalking horse they
could load all their scandalous and un-
American policies and ride to victory
without any serious obstruction. Some
men say "it was the republicans who
first proposed a. third term," in Grant s
case, but the. rejm li ans can reply
truly "lint wo rofust <1 it even to him,
and the Chicago Old Guard of 30G is
forgotten among us!"
Neither Mr. CI tveland nor any other
man in any political party, in our
judgment, can break down, the popu
lar prejudice against, thirdtermisia
which is a large span towa.d impe
rialism and be elected a third, lime
to the presidency.
Let those who wish to become
registered on the roll of faith
ful democrats abjure instantly this
mushroom tliirn term talk ami com
bine in the great patriotic duty
of bringing all wise opponents of
republicanism into a solid phalanx.
Then it should bo easy lor the im
minence ot victory io produce the man
of the hour the democrat whose rec
ord as such is unquestionable, whose
loyalty to the party in any event is
i onimpoacliablc. and wliose wisdom,
prudence anti patriotism will guar
antee him to horn st reform voters as
tho Cincinnatus of the first national
emergency of the twentieth century.
The Hitch with Colombia.
There is no denying that the pros
pect of closing the treaty with Colom
bia for the construction of the Panama,
canal is exceedingly dubious. From
all accounts, the mercurial South
! American republic Is all torn up. po
litically. ovei ’ mal question, and
it would not bo at al) surprising to see
a revolution started any day’ as the
result Th 1 presiuent whose admiuis
j tration was friendly to the negotia
tions with the United States is report
, ed to have tendered his resignation,
ami the new congress, which meets in
regular session July 20, is said to con
tain a majority hostile to the Ameri
: can treaty.
The Colombians are a very ignorant
people m the mass ami easily intlamed
to a high pitch of prejudice by un
i scrupulous political agitators. li
: seems that tho anti-American party
i has been for months playing upon the
i suspicions of the ignorant body poli
tic, using as their chief argument the
alleged danger to Colombian auton
i omyof allowing the Americans to con
l trol the isthmus. The Colombians be-
I lieve the treaty .s subversive of their
! federal constitution and, under such
i circumstances, we can readily appre
! ciate how easily the "antis” would
; sweep the count I y.
It is more probable, however, that
: the real animus of tho leaders in Co
i lombian politics is either to hold up
i the United States for a substantial
: "raise" on tho consideration stipulated
i jn tie present treaty or to force the
French Panama Canal Company to
disgorge a liberal portion of the ?40.-
000,000 which it is, under the terms of
the canal act, to receive for its phys
ical property and more or less nebu
lous concessions. The game of graft
is understood in other parts of the
world as well as in Missouri.
Will We Absorb Haiti?
For some weeks a rumor has been
current to the effect, that Afro-Ameri
can colonization schemers have fili
bustering designs upon the island of
Haiti, which lias practically relapsed
into hopeless barbarism and bank
ruptcy through negro incapacity for
sell-government n i H Intimated, by
ihe same vague source, that the state
department at Washington has its
annexation eye on me negro republic
and would not be disposed to look in
their direction should the American
colonizationists fit out an expedition
to repeat the Lopez act in Haiti and
Santo Domingo. The Constitution
takes no stock in the story, but it is
given for what It is worth.
That unusual interest is being man
ifested in the island is evident from
1 recent newspaper comment. From
.all reports, Sanio Domingo is about
’to go into the hands of a Belgian re
ceiver, so far as her customs are con
cerned. ami both republics on the
island are in a st ae of perennial revo
lution. One of onr “expasionist” con
temporaries says.
This country ,. :H1 take Santo Domingo,
1 its ibbtr aria give its inhabitants
J the seciiriti .ii.J and prosnerity,
'now cnjoyrU ih, lS e of Porto Rico.
I Tliat i'll'- people the Dominican repub
| lie Mould In . j to have it so. can
hardl;. be doubted. Away back thirty
.'■' .ir.- :i"-> the w -lied the annexation
of their coantri to ours, during the
Grant adniiaistr.itlon. President Grant
was .-in ia.rnes: j,l -ocate of the scheme,
■oni so was Frederick Douglass. but
Gparles Siinui' t opposition defeated It.
But w<* did not own Porto Ki '<> i'hen,
tu t eont. nipiat. , ■Hiding an Inter-ocean
ic canal; noitlu : had "expansion” be
and the earnest desire of in llt -
lory and no.al men to secure Samaria
as a West India naval station was
not much regard- ' by statesmen of the
Inland states, ,<■;.] was strongly con
demned by the . .ice at any price peo
ple. So Santo D nnlngo was rejected
when we might have had It for the tak
ing. and has b.-.-n going from bad to
worse ever .since.
—•
Some Lynching Statistics.
Mr. .1. Elbert Cutler, a Yale graduate
with a bent for sociology, has been
making a study of the peculiar Amer
ican lynching habit and is prepared to
present some authoritative conclu
sions from the unprejudiced view
point of the statistician. Mr. Cut
ler has long been laboriously com
piling statistics covering a pe
riod of twenty years, brought
down to January 1 last. He finds that
then* were H,recorded lynchings
in that, time, less than half of which
occurred in the southern states. Os
that large number of irregular execu
tions. 1.572 wen lynchings of negroes
and 1.’.0f whites. The fact, that
more victims were colored than white
cannot be tal.cn to argue that, race
prejudice is at the bottom of southern
lynchings, for the criminal class of
Hie south is largely colored, and col
ored criminally Is a considerable fac
tor in the judicial administration of
nearly every state of the union. Quite
a percent of negro lynchings occurred
outside the southern states, particu
larly in Indiana. Ohio and Illinois. In
further rciutatioi of the notion that
black men ire !yn< tied because of
their rac< . it is interesting, If shock
ing, to learn that 105 women were
among Die lynched 1 , and nearly all of
them in the west and north.
Mr. (hitler finds that lynchings In
the south have greatly decreased with
in the [>ast ten years; that 35 per cent
of the whites and 16 per cent of the
blacks were lynched for crimes
against women and that, contrary to
the general belief, the majority of
lynchings for ti.at aggravating cause
were not in the south, half being cred
ited to that section, and the remaining
half elsewhere.
The pamphlet Issued by Mr. Cutler
throws considerable light on some as
pects of the lynching problem which
hitherto have been problematical. If
it proves anything, h is that, there Is
no special culpability to be charged
peculiarly to the south because of this
lamentalile crime against, law and or
der. and that criminals or suspected
criminals are not lynched as a result
of negrophobia, but through a mad
spirit of swift vengeance and lack of
faith in legal processes.
Mabinl.
Senor Mabini, whose death from
cholera is b el!;, noted in tho Manila
dispatches, was the real brains of the
Aguinaldo goveinment.
Ah old man and a cripple, ho could
not join his fellow Filipinos in the
field, but. he was adviser, counselor,
friend to the younger man whose ac
tive leadership, both in (he insurrec
tion against Spain and the war with
Guo United Slates was recognized by
his countrymen Mabini was the au
thor ami compiler of the really ad
mirable constitution of the Philip
pines Republic, and so long as that
was able to maintain semblance of
< organization he was chief among Agui
naldo’s cabinet advisers. After th®
collapse of thi quasi government. Ma
bini was tak< i and banished to Guam.
There ho remained long after other
political prisoners iiad beer returned
to the Philippines, because he refused
to swear allegiance to the United
Slates. After Aguinaldo had been re
leased b\ the American authorities
and bail advised his people to accept
graceful!} American domination and
: sovereignty. Mabini announced his
willingness to take 'he oath and re
tiirned to Manila, where he was given
an enthtisiasfic reception by his fel
low-countrymen He hail been back
but a few months when he fell a vic
tim of cholera.
Those Americans who were’ best
qualified, through personal contact,
with th.' man to judge him have al
way-; paid high tribute to Mabini's
character. There seems to be no
doubt that his actions throughout
Mi re inspir d bv real patriotism, mis
guided p.itrioiisin it may be regarded
in this country, bur patriotism of the
highest order according to his light.
\Vh( the time comes for the history
i of Philippine events to be impartially
written, Mabini's name will probably
rank second only to that of Jose Rizal
among Filipino patriots.
A Shameless Confession.
i Wasl ■■■ - i "Did you never learn
j to carve a turkev?"
| ■’Xiv-r.” ii; iv.r. l the intens'lx selfish
n'lin ”1 ' OulH him cr see the M isdom of
i putting ' ourself j n a position where you
i niiist offer everybody his choice and
, ..ntent yourse’f Mitli whatever happens
I to be left.”
Meekly Constitutions Jhree
J’rank Stanton,
The Thankful Brother.
No matter what sorrow beset him
He paused not to whimper or grieve, |
Hut cheerfully said: "Make us thankful |
For what we’re about to receive!”
He saw, ns the hurricane neared him,
His dwelling preparing to leave;
Rut cried, as It fell: "Make us thankful
For what we're about to receive!”
And they say, when re reached the bright
portals
Where angels the laurel-crowns weave,
Ife shouted once more: "Make ns thank
ful
For the rest we’re about to receive!”
The Self-Growing Barn Industry.
An esteemed correspondent, writing
from Danville, Ky.. tells of a novel in
dustry, which will probably soon spread
as far as Billvllle. Tan Crawley, a
farmer In the Coral Hill neighborhood,
has a barn which Is growing rapidly,
file structure, which is a capacious af
fair, was built several years ago. Willow
posts were use! on the ends and along
the sides. Being In moist and virgin
soil, the posts took root, and the entire
structure has flourished like a green bay
tree. It ascended 9 feet In the first three
years and Mr Crawley was compelled
to lay a second floor, using the first as a
loft. The second floor Is now too ele
vated for use. and next year a third
fluor will be added 'l'he Innovation has
proven very advantageous, and a large
crop of barns Mill bo planted this spring
by farmers of tiiat vicinity.
A Political Song.
(With Side Remarks)
"Don't want any offl.-e
Underneath the sun.”
(He's got the rheumatism.
And therefore, cannot run.)
"I hear the state a-calling me,—
I’ll save It, anyhow!"
(The staite has never said a word:-
It was a call to plow!)
"It Is the honor of the place:—
That's why 1 seek to win It."
(Good friends, he only wants It for
The money that is tn it!)
The Sign of Trouble,
Hang out this sign to Trouble
That cometli to destroy:
"Pass on your way!—
No room today.—
This Is the House of Joy!
j "We've gathered store ot sunshine—
. The gold without alloy:
: Pass on your way,
. O, traveller gray,
I'lils is the House of Joy!
I Brother Dickey and the Ravce Problem.
"I see by de papers,” said Brother
Dickey, "dat de Race Problem done trav
eled all de May ter New York state, en
got <lar on schedule time. Hit's amazin'
Hom- dat Race Problem do travel! Only
las' Tuesday hit wuz In de fur west,
proJi 'kin' eroun', seekln' who ter de
vour, w en 10, en beliol’, Friday niawnln’,
after de brakfas’ thlngn wuz cl'ar'd
away, lilt tuck a. hop, skip en a jump,
en landed In de city er Brooklyn, on Rs
all-fours! En de wusst er hit is- time
!' landed Hilt put on hit's Sunday-meetin'
; cloze en tuck a front seat in church!
En w en de preacher tuck a guod, squar’
; Hok at it. tie 'lowed dat do weather
m iz gfttin’ too hot for him, en ennyhow.
hit wuz *!r:.'> ter pernounce de benedlc
: tion; en de white folks tol' him dates
ho didn't hurry up en sing de doxology
dey'd all whirl In en sing it f<T him!
iEn what come er It all? Dat Race
I Problem riz up. bit did. en tol' de cullud
; brothcrin' dat house rent wuz due. en
j hit wins time ter move, en move quick!
!En dar dey got It—en dar dey
: gwine ter have It. wld no holiday
on do Fo’th er July! Hit looks mighty
hard on em up dar, whar dey ain't use
I ter It, but hit dlmonstrates what I been
1 claimin’ all de time, en dat la dat dis
; Is one country en we all in de Union!’
The Drowsy Fisherman.
Mighty fond o' flshin’
(Gallon-jug an' cup)
But when the fish are bltln
They wake a feller up!
Jest wb»n you're a-dreemln'
Life Is honeycomb.
Fish a-tuggin’ at the line,
Askin' es you’re home!
Never seen the world s like!
Bitter mixed with swcht;
Let the fish take holiday!—
Dreamin's hard to beat!
The Bright World.
; Bright world around us. good people—
bettor to sing it that ,
An’ reap all the toses uplifted to meet
the red lips o' the May!
Sighin' don't ever
Smooth pathways along—
A world full sighs
For a heart full s nn K !
Bright world around us, good people; -
i sorrow will come with the xoais
Rut ask all the souls that have suffered
if life Isn't brigter for tears!
Sighin’ don't ever
Smooth pathways along
A ~ world full o’ sighs
Needs a heart full o' gong’.
Convalescent.
! ‘‘Txiok at Br er Williams, e>n crutches,
wld bls head tied up, en his arm in a
sling!"
"Yes; he's des up from settlin' de race
, problem!"
Fitting His Feelin’s.
Don’t want the weather sunny,
With bees a huntin' honey.
When sweet winds through the wild
.peach-blossoms blow;
But give me skies a frownin .
I With rain enough to drown In
i The rainy day. it fits my fee'.in's so!
Don't want no wealth to hurry
The wrinkles born of worry
To make me feared and envied here be
low ;
But give me just a cabin
of firewood throw a slab in
i It's poverty that tits my feelin's so!
Don't want of Fame one bubble -
The hill-top’s stormy trouble.
Where thick the thorns, and scant tne
roses grow:
A humble spot to sigh in
A quiet one to die in-
Il's quietness that fits my feelin s so.
Some Georgia Nuggets.
Good idea ter take de wort' ez you find
It, en also, ter leave somethin' fer some
one else ter take.
Many a man spends mo' time In griev
in’ over spilt milk dan It would take ter
drive up de cows en fill de palls ag in.
Es dey wuz a railroad runnin 'all de
wav ter heaven dey’d be a train jumpin'
de track ever' day in de year.
De rich man can't buy his way inter
heaven. 'Bout all bo kin do is ter make
his epitaph read lak he gone dar
It don't take much sunshine ter make
dis green ole wort' smile in de face er
trouble.
S 3 ill rfrp.
THE bantam hen has batched and
three little grand children are hap
py. They can't talk fast enough to
tell me about them. There are little
things In our domestic life and there are
big things, but I believe the little things
are the biggest.
For a month or more these children
have been watching and waiting tor the
bantam lien to lay her litter and hatch
her little brood and this morning the
telephone bell rang furiously and It said
" Our bantam hen has hatched,” and soon
they came running to tell us about them,
but they didn't stay five minutes. They
had to go back and look after the bantams.
Well, there is nothing prettier in al! na
ture than a little brood of bantam chick
ens and my faith is they wore created
specially to make little children happy. It
seems tliat they originated In a little
town of that name on the Island of Java
and have been transplanted to other
countries. They are a game bird and a
bantam rooster will attack and whip an
ordinary game cock of five times Its
weight. These little children come to see
me, every day and to comfort me while
1 am sick and their presence is the best
medicine 1 have found. The happiness ot
. ur children is the biggest thing In life
and my desire to live is mainly for their
sake. The papers are full of big things
but they won't compare with the little
ones.
Clark Howell wont a thousand miles
to make a big speech about Grant, that
was all right. 1 have more respect for
General Grant’s memory than for any big
man who Mas on that side, but I still fall
to underhand how Lincoln came to ap
point. a slave holder as general of tho
army. But time keeps rolling on and
Grant's attitude on the race problem
seems to be the popular one now among
our northern brethren. Tho census and
the result of negro education lias at last
convinced the negro lovers of their
mistake.
1 couldn't Imagine what Booker Wash
ington was to do with that »W>U.tKK) of Car
negie’s last gift, but I see by Booker s
late card he is going to expend it in
manufacturing tooth brushes and lie sa.xs
he can reform the whole race by suppl}
Ing them with tooth brushes. That is i 1
right - anything to get rid of the money
that keeps on piling up. He might add a
side factory for toothpicks.
But, speaking about General Grant,
reminds me of his magnificent tomb at
Grant park, and that reminds me of a
good tiling on one of my boys who,
when in New York, not lon- ago, was
invited 'by some congenial friends to
take a ride with them and see the tomb.
They stopped in front and my bo}
heaved a sigh and said. "Yes. that's Old
Bob Lee - the greatest soldier iViio ever
lived and there's what he said at. Ap
pomatox when he -ave Grant back his
sword, 'Let ns have peace.' ’ W lien In
formed of ills mistake lie said: "A•• 11.
1 wasn't there, of course, but m> father
was. and that's what happened so he
told me General Grant surrendered his
sword to General Lee and old Bob gave
i! back to him and said: ‘l/et us have
peai'e.’
But we want no mistake made about
tho negroes down here in Dixie. We
want no more slaves. We wouidn t have
one as a free gift. AVe are ready to
give them away to anybody Who wants
them. The last census report says the
negro is much the most criminal of our
population and Is Increasing in crime
wilh fearful rapidity The negroes who
can read ami write are far more crimi
nal than those who cannot. Tho negro
is four and one-half times, ns criminal
In Now England, where he is educated,
as he is in the south, where lie lias not
■been educated. What Is to be done
'about this. "Tooth brushes,” says
Booker Washington Surely tho man
Mas joking, but that’s tho way it read
over his own signature. Reform the
race with tooth brushes. If there is
anything tn the world that a negro does
not want it is a. tooth brush. There
is Sam Henderson working in my gar
den now and I envy iilrn hfs mouth full
of big, sound teeth. Never had one
pulled or plugged or to ache. I love to
see him mouthing a watermelon.
No. It seems to lie now admitted by
northern philanthropists that the south
ern negro has been pretty well ruined by
tbelr blunder of forty years ago, when
there was not a criminal negro in Geor
c*a. and now there are near 5,'W In our
cbaingangs. Bring on the tooth brushes!
Dr. Seale Harris, of Ala.'u|ama. putx
lished not long ago In The Constitution
the unanimous opinion of the medical
profession that th" negro was rapidly
degenerating as a race, both morally and
physically, and was destined to extinc
tion as sure as the North American In
dians. Old Dr Calhoun, of our town,
a. man of large and long experience,
told me that before the war he had an
extensive practice on the negro planta
tions and never bad a ease of tubercu
losis or consumption, but now they were
common and as for other diseases, not to
lie mentioned, they were found in most
families and In both sexes.
I am constrained to mention this as a
warning to those who have to hire
nurses and chambermaids. The time Is
near at hand when every one will have
to go before in examining b->:ird and
get a certificate.
But r see my little children coming
ti.p the winding way and the race
problem must take a back seat.
BILL ARP.
Will Lettuce Ward Off Smallpox
Medical Talk 1.-ttuce is an absolute
preventive of smallpox No one Is in the
least particle e.f danger of catching smal!
pox who •■.■ its lettuce every day Small
pox belongs to the scorbutic (Hass of dis
rases. Sailors at sea deprived of fresh
vegetables get scurvy. Scurvy Is a typi
cal scorbutic disease. Smallpox is anoGier
Smallpox always rages during the Min
ter season, when tho poor people are de
prived of fresh vegetable foods Celery and
onions arc good for this purpose, but
there s such :■ long interval between
their being gntlu red and being eaten tliat
•j lose nt" 't of theii anti -• orbutfc
properties. I.ettuce is served shortly after
■ : t Is picked and. lienee, contains th<
valuibl" pro;>crti“s Milfoil Mill prevent
smallpox W- say without tlie lea.-t hesi
tation or reserve tliat lettuce will pro
to nt smallpox It Is a thousand times
better than vaccination. It lias no liabil
ities. like vaccina lion, to produce other
dlsois-'s. We ire willing to stake our pro
fession:’! reputation on tlie broad state
ment that any “no M'ho Pits lettuce daily
will not cat'di smallpox. Mhethor bi' is
vm-cinnted or not
Origin of the Word “Canard."
Here is a newspaper derivation of the
word "canard.” A canard means, in
French, a duck, in English it has come
to mean a hoax or fabricated newspaper
story. Its origin is amusing Many years
ago a French journalist contributed to
tho French press an experiment, of which
lie declared himself to have been tlie au
thor. TM-enty ducks were placed to
gether. and one of them, having been nit
up into very small pieces, was glutton
oi ily gobbled up by the other nineteen
Another lilt'd was then sacrificed for the
rentainder ami so on until one duck mhs
left. M’liich thus contained in its inside
the other nineteen! This tho journalist
ate The stor> caught on and was copied
i into al! tlie newspapers of Europe Ami
I thus tlie "canaid” became immortalized.
Sarge
When I took my seat I fully intended to
write about the backward condition in
the season, but Brown turned loose in one
of his poetic strains and I am compelled
to humor his whim—hear him:
There is no use to be a-grieving.
For the world Is so deceiving
That it’s mighty hard to judge of what
Is best;
Do the best you can each day.
Kick trouble from the way.
And the I.ord Is mighty sure to do the
rest.
I fully agree with my old friend In the
contention that men are prone to mistakes
in their judgment of what Is the best.
He Is a comfort to me. When he has
this sort of spell on him and I give way
to his whims more than at other times.
This happy philosophy Is generally gpon
him fn the spring, when fish had rather
bite, and I take it that it is better for
the reader and myself that we let him
have his bent —
Green truck Is in the garden and young
chickens on the way;
Eggs arc just a-wasting and there’s ham
for every day;
The cattle have good grazing and the milk
Is pouring down,
And there’s been enough of honey to take
a lot to town.
There are beans In the bunch and beans
on the pole,
And we’ll have them hot for dinner, and
at supper take them cold;
The potato beds are humming and at dig
ging time it's clear.
We'll have 'possum and potato along
with 'sirnmon beer
We'll have squashes and tomatoes and
cabbage when they head.
And onions b> the bushels and beets both
white and red,
And melons ringed and striped, end mel
ons round and lung.
To make us all rejoice that In Georgia
we were born.
There'll lie apples for some dumplings
that were left us by the frost.
And peaches will be plenty, though the
must of them were lost,
Tlie cherries won't be plenty, but I guess
we'll have a few,
And the blackberry crop Is the best I
ever knew.
So let us smile 1n Georgia and push the
crops along.
If we miss a crop of cotton we will make
a lot of corn;
If we haven’t any credit we can wait to
get the cash,
And Instead of peach and honey we can
take •SMe.-t mash.”
This Is what I call a cheerful mood and
I am always thankful to see any of my
chi friends cheerful. After all, and say
what you please, country people gener
ally are the most cheerful class on earth,
and they are tho most trusting In the
good of Providence. There are no other
people that can put aside the cares and
anxieties as they. If th- spring is cold
or the rain too much or the drought se
vere they find comfort and console each
other in the thought that God controls
all these things. This is a blessed condD
It used to be right common to see pil
lows stuffed in windows and gates down,
i but you never see this now.
! Altogether, country life Is on the Im
I prove and has been for years. There Is
I : industrious family but what can have
| something at every meal to make the
occasion pleasant, and the beauty Is that
they are always ready to ea 4 . There are
thousands of people in high city life that
would give all their wealth to have the
’health and the appetite of the average
| < i untryman.
At dinner when the old horn blows
> To C3ll the workman from thn nein,
Each face with pleasure overflows ,
As happy thoughts upon them stea..
To smell a good old fashion dinner pot
Is a joy to never lie forgot. I wou.d
rather have these pots hang from the
"crane" In the old style fireplaces, but
stoves are better for the ladles and so I
make no complaint. People that work In
the fields arc always ready for these din
ners, they need nothing to stimulate and
give relish -work does all tills, and so it
is n<‘t very hard to make a dinner at a
cotintrv home as delightful as the grand
est banquet and I am proud that every
farmer can enjoy the blessing.
Os course these country people do not
a ways set a table for a feast of good
things, but the poorest girls of the coun
try can always have main, nice things
when their sweethearts come, and they
have it with mu di less labor or anxiety
than the girls of towns. What country
family lint what may have good dinners
on meeting days? 1 have seen mighty few
country families but what had these
meals for company and precious few of
them but what likes company. When
company corner the ladles of the hcnioe
have their chance for showing off and
they all like to show off. You are most
certain to get chicken. At dinner you
inay get chicken pie or chicken stew, wltn
a variety of vegetables fresh from the
garden with plenty of milk and some
If you are at supper with these good
people you are. more than apt to have
some more chicken In some shape, and
beans left over from dinner, and whoever
hail not had cold beang tor supper has
lost, a big part of life Os course, you will
get beets, potatoes, squash and tomatoes,
and all ijosts but very little- just a lit
tle work, that is all. and the young
people of the country do not cate for
work. The old folks will get coffee and
there will be some for the. preacher fmre.
The old folks of the country get their
full share of country blessings. The old
man may grumble a little sometimes,
but h» is in his glory at the. big meet
ings and the wtinkles clear from his
brow when he hears the thunder over
toward his fields and tho rain begins
to patter on the boards of the church.
Old folks raised in town have no-, er
felt such pleasure as the falling rain gi.eg
the farmer when his crops are parch
ing. Besides, tile old man of the town
has come to be a back number. TJjere
arc mighty few places, for men of sixty
to fill In town. Railroads do not want
them, nor does street cars nor stores—
all such positions are better filled by
the young. Perhaps, the great question
today is what is jo become of the old.
All tho world are ready to give out sym
pathy to those who are strong, but there
is nothing for the weak old man or wom
an This is not true of country old
folks. An ol<l person of the country can
find many things to do that is not found
In towns and they receive a sympathy
that is not present in the hurly-burly of
towns. All of this is in favor of country
life and that is why I mention it. The
effort of me and Brown is sincerely bent
on doing good for the country and so
benefiting U)e greatest number of the hu
man family.
SARGE PLUNKETT.
Tlie Limit.
I’d like to have a nice, soft Job
Where 1 could simply be
A sort of weekly visitor.
To draw my saiaree;
And then, as that got burdensome
And seemed inclined to bore me.
I'd like to have some fellow paid
To go and draw It for me!
—Baltimore New*.
