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6 THE GOHSTITUTIOH CLARK HOWELL Editor ROBY ROBINSON ...Business Manager Intercast the Atlanta PaatafHce ae Seeeai Claes Mali Matter, Kev. 11, 1873. THE WEEKLY C< INSTITUTION, only $; per annum. Clubs of five, $1 each; clubs of ten, SI each and a copy, to getter-up of club. WE WANT YOU—The Constitution wsxnts an agent at every postitfflce In America. Agent's outfit free and goou terms. If you are not In a club, we want you to act as agent at your office. Write us. CHANGE OF AD DRE'S S—WTien ordering ad dress of your paper changed always give the o’.d aa well ae the nenv acdress. Always give postoffice, county and sbxte. If your paper > not received regularly-,, notify us and we will straigltlen the xnatier. IF YOU SEND US AN ORDER for new sub scribers. please allow us «a week to get the names on the Hat and paper started before you write a complaint, as we are very much ctowded now’. DO NOT FORGET tn make your renewals In time. Vatch your direction tag and see when your subscription expires. The next six month wla! be lull of interest, and you should not miss a single copy of The Con stitution. »,end your orders at least a week in advance to make sure. St may not rake a week In evca-y instance, as we use the greatest diligt n<’.e to get theoii on our mail ing list. The Way To Get Together. The Constitution is honestly grati fied to find our valued contemporary. The Macon Telegraph, showing gen uine symptoms of democratic “get- ■ together" enthusiasm. It. is pointing | its political theodc lite in the right di- ; rection. but losing: some valuable time ‘ by insisting on back-sighting over 1 abandoned routes. In congratulating our friend on its evident desire to sue a reunited and triumphant democracy we are com pelled. for the truth’s sake, to contest, some of its premises. The question on which the democra cy suffered division in 189)6 —a division that could not be healed adequately in 1900 —was the currency question, to be sure. But to argue at this late day that Grover Cleveland, "more than any man living or dead.” stood for “life to legitimate business and protection to honest trade.” through the medium oil’ the single gold stand ard. is too far-fetched tn be considered seriously. Os course, since things are now as they are. it is a convenient thing for ail Clevelandites to make that claim, ignoring acts of Provi- : dence, new gold supplies and all the ■ trust and financial agencies that pull- I cd the Prosperity band wagon. It should not be forgotten that it . took some time after the Mr. Cleve land performance with the Joab's • blade on the democracy to produce ; conditions in which any Clevelandite could crack his heels together and say: “I told you so!” It should, especially, not be forgot- , ten that today even, with all our pros perity, neither McKinley, nor Cleve land. nor Hairna. nor anybody else would dare claim that had the gold supply of 1896 remained at a level from then until now any prosperity would have been visible or possible I in this country. The whole free silver issue arose ' out of a patent insufficiency of re- ' demption money. Professor Andrews, whom The Telegraph says has confess ed his errors of the years 1896 and 1900, has done no such thing. He has | simply done what ninety-nine hun dredths of the free silver men have done —declared that the monetary con ditions of 1896 are not those of 1903, I and the remedy proposed as whole some then is not necessary now. With that simple truth writ larg» on every progressive democratic ban ner of today, the end of the bug-bear called r 'Bryanism” is signalled from every quarter of the republic. Why discuss it any more? It should be plain to our esteemed friend. The Telegraph, that when it. cogently says “no harmony can come ; without removing the cause of the dis cord." it cannot avoid pointing all true democrats to Mr. Cleveland as certain ly one of the remaining causes of dis cord. The abandonment of Mr. Bryan as the party leader would find no log ical sequence in readopting Grover Cleveland for that office. The times require that both of them should abne gate ail claims to any position iu the party that would prolong discord. The democracy is a great, living mass es American citizens who have a changeless creed of equal rights to all special privileges to none, man hood rights superior to tnc rights of money, traffic and trusts, a govern ment of th" people, by the people and for the people. Such men will never be anyth’ 5 other than democrats. They cannot be bought with a price. Thev will not a second time admit anv Trojan horse within the walls of their camp. They are determined to fight, for the causes created by Jeffer son and if they do not win the battle, they will carry no shame out of the conflict. - A Northern Law of Attainder. Really we shall soon have to offer a seductive reward for a list of “the rights of the negro in the north.” We do not mean some particular negro who has founded an Institution or won a prize over a lot o*. Yale college "You’d scarce expects, etc.,” but just the plain, ebony, emancipated man and brother of the William Loyd Garrison sedltionists and the Roose velt “Door of Hope” missionar’es. We say this because we find in a recent issue of The Boston Herald that— Frank Irving, the son of Sheridan W. Ford by a slave marriage with the for * r -, mother in Virginia, was shut oat U’ taking any share of his father’s Icfnte bv a decision of th? full bench of Che sun’reme court rendered yesterday, inr sought to recover one-third of the J \ which would be his proportlon chare With the legal children of the SeCeased. The whole estate belongs to the legal children by a subsequent mar rifNow by what sort of Draconian prin ciples' are the laws of Massachusetts framed tbit they thus prevent the elder son of a negro man. born of a slave marriage recognize., by the lex loci and state polity when it occurred, from sharing in his fathe-’s estate with the two heirs of a subsequent marriage? Is it thus that Massachu- L.tt=i nuts an additional bar sinister ncross the life of the slave-born child? In fact is there any common sense, decency or equity in such a decision? THE FIRST VOLUME OF WATSON'S NEW AMERICAN HISTORY. The Constitution announces this morning on another page the initia tion of an enterprise unique in character and historic in values. The undertaking has been carefully studied and is entered upon at the lai„ est financial cost ever paid by a southern newspaper for any leature. The patriotic purpose of the project, however, outweighs all incidents of financial gain. Beginning the first week in July the columns of The Constitution will carry serially each week until comp eted the first, part of the new “His tory of the United States." written by Hon. Thomas E. Watson, of Geor gia—this part of our con Kty’s hisi’ory being written around “The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson." which will be the title of the first vol ume, which v, ill deal with A niericau history up to the administration of Andrew Jackson. Mr. Watson’s lame as a vivid and accurate historian has become fixed in public confitience. His great works on “The Story of France’ and “Napoleon" have no. only giv-m a new style to historic treatments, but graced history itself with the verve and charm of living literature. As a southern man, it. is but natural that Mr. Watson should come, in the course of his prospecting, to realize the mass and the import ance of the historic materials in the south that have been heretofore rejected by the builders of American histories. As he says, so aptly and bluntly, for instance, the south is being made to appear in the eyes of millions of new Americans as “the yellow dog of the union always wrong and oftentimes criminal! M«r. Watson’s proposition is to write the history of the nation in the order of events as they swept their tangential circles about dominant characters of the eras. The first of these spirals of historic progress dis covers Thomas Jefferson as the prophet and projector of the nation’s raison d’etre. His name was one of the earliest that was sounded by the herald incidents of a new march for the Promised Land ot mankind and from the day of his entrance upon the stagj# ot action until on the morning of July 4. 1826. when his spirit went forth from earth’s labors, his presence and works were always tremendously significant in Hie na tion’s creation, growth and character. Indeed. American history had during his lifetime no more fixed cen ter than the personality of Jefferson, and the things that became con stant with him as Americanisms have remained credal with the truly American elements of our population unto the present day. His lite has become so intermixed with the fundamentals of righteous republi canism as to give his name a place in American history greater than that of Caesar Augustus in the annals of old Rome and of Napoleon in the history of the France of a hundred years ago. It is but just to the generation living and those to follow in America that Thomas Jefferson should be made to live again in that materializa tion which it is the art of the biographer to produce in an atmosphere of historic truth. No man who has made American political history and enunciated principles of immortal character is more persistently quoted and more frequently misinterpreted than Thomas Jefferson. His name has been used to conjure with by the purblind partisans of every party. His words have been distorted as freely as the words of the Scriptures. His personality has been applauded as the ideal of diverse isms and con tending factions. An encyclopedia of his sayings has been compiled and is the pool of wisdom in which all American faddists in politics and so ciology go a-fishing for minnows or whales to put upon their menus and barbecue boards. It seems, then, a labor of prime necessity—of justice to Jefferson and of instruction to the multitudes——that such a history of the great tribune” should be written by a man so versatile, informed and impar tially inspired a,s Mr. Watson. That, he will frankly tell us what manner of man this Welsh-Virginian was, the trend of his education, the bents of his mind, the aspirations of his spirit, the fixed intendments of his endeavors, the whys and wherefores of his seeming inconsistencies of speech, is certain, and from all these, with side-lights revealed and cross currents defined. Americans of the present, and future will know Jefferson in his true wholeness. As Jefferson must continue as long as the republic to be the ever recurring master-prophet of American political science, Mr. Watson headlines him in all the chapters of his history. But as Jefferson was a southern man and embodied in ’’imself the genius and spirit of his sec tion. ho becomes thereby exponential of tho Americanism, heroism and omnipresenceism, so to christen it, of the south in the formative and fixing era of the great republic. No one would believe that last general statement were his only guides to knowledge on the subject the histories of the United States that have heretofore been written. Mr Watson makes that, fact very clear in the sample references he makes in his letter to some of those current and most circulated miscalled histories. And for this great wrong of partiality against the south's share in the determination of the life and liberties of the United States much blame is chargeable to ourselves. We have not cultivated our history-writing talent. For a hundred years in the south the public hustings has usurped precedence of the his toric scroll. The orator in the full swing and fervor of his appeals to the principles, pride and passions of the massed populace has engrafted truth indeed upon public opinion, but never in such calm, logical and proof-buttressed form as to make the facts crystallize Into coherent history. History must be recorded by the scribe of the midnight hour, who through the telescope of years marks the steady planets and maps the movements of all the stars in an epoch lost, to common human vision. Now It has come to pass that we of the south must "redeem the times past” by doing with double zeal and provable justice the work wo, ourselves, have so long ignored and that our partial friends in the north who sometimes write history have so consistently forgotten. The. south in the times preceding the revolution was six colonies in number, but c -nstituted in the subsequent union the larger populations and influence as states. The first movement for forcible secession from the rib, of England occurred in the south. If the history of the revolution were as well known to the people of the nation as it should be the Mecklen burg Declaration of Independence, antedating that which was indited by the pen of Jefferson in the little house of the carpenter in Philadelphia, in July, 1776. would be nationally honored today as the forerunner of American independence. In like manner tho heroic deeds of the men of the southern colonies, from the valorous day at. Alamance creek to the camps of Marion and the cabin of Nancy Hart, have been mentioned only in brief paragraphs, or not mentioned at all. Yet like the almost Inaudible clicks of the second hands of a watch each of These events was as important as the shots at Lexington, the ride of Paul Revere, the headlong ride of Putnam and the hanging of Andre in making the clock of American history strike hours of hope until at seven the chimes of liberty pealed over the continent. Had those last, named events occurred in the south and the former named ones in the north, near to the subsequent habitat of most of our historians, the process of magnifying and minifying them on the records would have been reversed. In that event the school children of New England at this hour would be reciting with enthusiasm the heroic sto ries that actually belong to King’s Mountain, the Cowpens, the deed of Jasper at Fort Moultrie and the defiance of the British monarch and ministry from the Tower of London by the staunch and knightly Henry Laurens, of South Carolina, to mention not a hundred like names and patriotic deeds —and if the Mecklenburg document had been a New England product its fame would have outshone even that of the greater declaration of 1776. Mr. Watson thinks there should be Loth honesty and equity in his tory and so should think all true Americans. He would have the peo ple and the statesmen of the future know and glory in the part of the south in American affairs equally with the parts taken contemporane ously by the patriots o f the east or the subsequent and not less heroic pioneers of the west. Mr. Watson assumes a magnificent opportunity to write a full, im partial and fact-proof history of the United States. It is not necessary in so doing to elide anything properly standing to the credit of the north. His task will be to set in proper place and proportions the long-ignored facts of southern origin and action whose absence mars the perfect beauty of the story of the republic. The Constitution is proud of the opportunity it. lias chosen. That is i to suggest this great work and to effect its publication in such shape ::s to compel its arrival and perusal in the homes of half a million of the people of the nation, especially of the south. Such an enterprise in publication has not before been attempted with a historic work and we feel confident that this cooperation between a great historian and a great newspaper will prove both a blessing to the national regard for true his tory and a phenomenal feat of modern journalism. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA* GA., MONDAY JUNE 1, 1903 How Northern Prejudice X orks. Elsewhere in today’s Constitution we reproduce The Philadelphia Pub lic Ledger’s local report of a meeting recently held in the Quaker City in the interest of the Fort V alley (Ga.) High and Industrial school, a r.egro institu tion. Charles Emory Smith, the well known Philadelphia editor and ex postmaster general, acted as chairman, and such prominent friends of the ne gro's advancement as Colonel A. K. McClure, the veteran journalist, and George Foster Peabody and Dr. Wal lace Buttrich, of the general education board, were the leading speakers, as was Hon. C. 11. Gray and State Sena tor H. A. Matthews, of Fort Valley, Ga. Untitnal interest attaches to this meeting, which was especially enthus iastic, and some of the statements made by the distinguished speakers were noteworthy. Mr. Gray is doing a good work in the upbuilding of the Fort Valley indus trial school, and the impression made by him upon this occasion in Philadel phia was a decidedly favorable one. Some of the statements made by Mr. Gray, than whom no one knows the negro or understands the educational needs of the negro in Georgia better, were calculated to disabuse the north ern mind of some unfortunate misap prehension concer mg the part, the south herself is playing in the moral and intellectual uplifting of the Afri can race on soul horn soil. The south ern states, almost without exception, are contributing to the limit of their financial ability to the instruction of the negro child in the public school, for the reason, as the Fort Valley gentleman said, that we “cannot afford to have them raised up in ignorance” He did well to make it. known that the general assembly of Georgia appropri ated *’s?, for tuition to every $1 income from the taxes paid by the colored peo ple” of the state. But the keynote of the whole propa ganda of negro upliftment was sounded by Colonel A. K. McClure when, as re ported by Tho Philadelphia Inquirer, he declared that: The only' solution of the great problem lies in the united efforts of the north and south to give th colored man a fair chance in the industrial world. No mat ter how much w-' hoar about the progress of the negro, thiT'' are no opportunities for the colored man in this city, save in the most menial o p upations. The northern mechanic will not permit the negro to work by his side. We must not only edu cate the blacks, but we also must, educate the whites. There Is just as much re sponsibility in the north for the colored man’s position as there is in the south. It is, seriously, an open question whether the northern prejudice which refuses the negro the opportunity to make a livelihood with his willing hands north of Mason and Dixon’s obliterated line, “save,” as Colonel McClure has said, in the most menial occupations," has not had more to do with giving the south a “race problem” than any possible culpability the south may have in the premises. The nor mal distribution of ten or twelve mil lion colored people throughout so vast a country as ours, with its eighty millions of population, would not pre sent a formal ethnological or social problem, and there is small reason to doubt that, were it not for the very obstacle Colonel McClure mentions, such a distribution would orc this have been made, or now be far in the pro gress of being made. Since the north ern artisan and common laborer will not work beside the negro, nor permit, him to work in his section at. till, it follows that tho negro must remain in the south, where his righ: to (oil is not challenged by’ mob violence or adverse sentiment. In some localities south, therefore, the negro population is con jested, and large masses of them ex ist. in comparative idleness, with the inevitable attending vieiotisness and criminality. It is this abnormal condi tion which has foisted the menace of negro ignorance upon the southern states. It is idle for our northern friends to argue that the negro hud dles in abject poverty in the south from lack of ambition to better his condition elsewhere and because the south is his natural habitat. The climatic pretext, has little force in fact, for tens of thous.iuls of negroes have endeavored to settle in the north from choice, and hundreds of thou sands of others would be there today if protected in their right to labor. When, a suggested by Colonel Mc- Clure, tho whites of the north are edu cated up to the point of industrial toleration for the negro, we will wit ness a more rational distribution of the colored race among our northern friends, and no undue crowding of sections of the south by the same race. Once the prejudice complained of is dispelled, we shall hear infinitely less about the negro ns a “problem.” The tonic of hope is in the brave words spoken at. the meeting tn ques tion by Mr. Peabody' and Dr. Buttrich. These words of the utter gentleman are well worth reproducing here: There are hundreds and thousands of white people in the south who are eager, for practical as well as sentimental rea sons, to see the educational advancement of the colored race. Th-re need be no fear of the attitude of the southern white.' toward the negroes. All talk to tlie contrary’ is for political ends and the conscience of the south rings true in this matter. A sound, honest talk, too, was made by J. H. Torbert, the principal of the Fort Valley school. He understands the value of an industrial training to his race. As he declared, “we have got to lift up these people or, they will drag the white man down:” And the southern white man is doing his full part along this line.” Halford on the Filipinos. Many persons in Atlanta have pleas ant recollections of Major E. W. Hal ford, who was private secretary -to President Harrison and is now a pay master in the army. He has just re turned from a long billet of duty in the Philippine islands and is not loth to express views of the Filipinos that will encourage the anti-imperialists in part and give a black eye to some of tho pet propositions of the militarists. Major Halford says the Filipinos are a tractable, teachable and improv able race. They are already learning what it is “to hustle” and the more they fir.fi out that their enterprise and industry’ is to inure to their own profit, as individuals and as a people, they will enter eagerly into the ranks of civilized competition. And as they’ ob tain confidence in the justice of our courts they make less necessary the presence of our troops for regulative and repressive purposes. Indeed, Major Halford is very hope ful of the future of the Filipinos as citizens Ideeklg Constitution's “gig «7/iree” Stanton. The Song of the Unsatisfied. We growlecj about the weather when the sleet was comin’ down, And the snow was like a nightcap on the houses o' the town; And wailing went from Wearyvllle, from Billville and from Brown:— Good Lord, forgive us! Though we had the roaring fires, an’ the dancin’, high an’ low: Though we carved the juicy ’possum tracked the rabbits through the snow. We were certain we were living in a wilderness of woe:— Good Lord, forgive us! Then the Spring came—smiling sweetly in each winter-blasted place, And spread the sky’s blue carpet—tossed the roses in Love’s face; And still we said this world of ours was not a friend to grace:— Good Lord, forgive us! And now, a flash of Summer on the val ley and the hill, — Green meadows, and the wild bird with the berry in its bill; And tho world’s a foolish failure, and we’re growlin’ at it still:— Good Lord, forgive usi! O, tho lessons wo are slighting in a dew drop's friendly fall! In the waving of a gri-s bind* -in a rosy robin's call! In a world that sings “God b!< ss you!” we’ro the most, unblest of all: Good Lord, forgive us! >»***♦ The Song of a Dreamer. I drowsin’ by de river in de shadders en de beams; lie singin’ me tor sloop, op <!■ n he tollin’ all my dreams: ’Pears lak 1 hear him say: It's do sleepy limo er day. But de seed won’t come ter harvest • f you sleeps de time away!" I see de sunshine failin' on do fr rn ly De dutsv --’nblades wavin' ter do rattle En sun on rain, dey say: •‘lt’s de sleep time er day. But you’ll moan, w'en come de winter, e, you dream away de May!’’ En de buds up dar a-slngin’ in de blos soms wil’ en free, ’Pears Ink dey sen' dis message thoo' do green loaves down ter me: "Sun, en rain, en win’, en stream Does dey task In shake en beam: It's de sow. r makes de reaper wh st de dreamer dream do dream! But I drowsin’ on 1 dreamin’ whar de river sings en shines, En de bees Is git tin’ tangled In de honey suckle vines; Ylt. ferevermo’ de say: "It’s de sleep time er day. But you'll weep w'en come do Winter, et you dream away’ de May.” Brother Williams on Automobiles "Well, sub." said Brother Williams, "dis yer outomobyou business Is glttin’ to: be de ruination er de country! I neve,- de like senco d° day I on bo’n. Folks data few y ■■ars be k ctiz. ■'. d tor go ter town in a ox cart. en w >uld:; t so much oz lock at ar: Wo.id trnn, b now runnin’ races tci - wlm’H strik.; d. Hereafter fust in a autf-mol-you! Hit’s come, tor de pass dat w'en a man trills out wid his mother in law ho makes her a present er one or dem. en do nex tiling she know, she dunno nuthin’! En wen his po’ relations come tor spend de sum mer wid him. all he got ter -lo is -give ’em one ride, on dey don’t come back no mo for Chrisrn'.is! Hit's my opinion dot i! automobyou Is doin’ mo’ ter thin out de human race dan all <le rim.un.i 1i: m or doctors in de country." We’ll All Pull Through. Tho do’ll Is In the weather— The violet's lookin' blue. But tho birds sing all together, And we'll All Pull Through! And what Is Care?—A feather! The daisy’s In the dew-. We walk the green together. And we'll All Pull Through! Thon here's a health, my hearty And let not healths be tew, For joy Is of the party, And we’ll All Pull Through! • * ♦ * ♦ No Fear of Competition. "To he ix.net," said the strang- i. who was tolling the snake story, "tho snake w . i s—’ ’ "Don’t Interrupt him," said a tai’, mat in tho audience, as some one groaned "They's bigger liars than him in titi;- comnaunity. The town s here on it. reputation!" A Summer Invocation. The lily wears a dusty vest— The violet’s drooping under: Blow, O, wind, from out the west— But do not blow like thunder! Last time we asked you To the town You blew a dozen Steeples down! And come —O, cooling drops of rain. With sweet rejuvenation To this thirsty field and famished j.iain- P.ut do not flood creation! Last time we asked you To the place, To the high hills You made us race! Blow, breezes, from Arcadian vales Where Love's a rosy winner! Waft echoes of sweet nightingales. And horns that blow for dinner! But gently blow’ O'er violet-ways: (The house rent’s paid For thirty days!) The Penitents. Tz>r<l. we've been n-pr.ayin’ for dry, When You wanted rain to fall. An’ we’ve ’bcut decided, low an’ high We don’t ’know nuthin’ at all! On this terrestrial ball. From airly spring to fall. We’ve jest about decided We don"t know nuthin’ at all! An’ we’ve been to the river, fishin'. An' a-tellin’ of stories tall. But the fisfih we caught wuz tho fish w* bought. An’ we’re Ananiases all! On this terrestrial ball We're a-feelin' mighty small! We’ve jest about decided We’re Ananiases all! So we wish that You’d please look ove: O'ir faults—an' bresh ’em away, Fer we ain’t one-half as wicked As the heads of our households say! But on this terrestrial ball We're a-feelin’ mighty small! An’ we’ve jest about decided Were human critters all! ————— /{■TAM Jesus Christ, the carpenter’s I son. My mission is to save sln- 1 nc n. 1 fought in the civil war from Dalton to Jonesboro. Twice I have b(er . pr-rident of these United Staws since the surrender and have attended all the reunions up to date, but now have got mo peniic*i up here as < nessee lunatic and won’t let me g New Orleans. I can’t get a passport because I am Jesus Christ. Can t you do something for me? 1 want to go v.ice with these who rejoice and weep with those who weep." T at poor fellow has my Maybe if they had let him go w.th v* terans It would have restored his rea son. I know it brightened up oui boys and now they can’t talk about anj thing eFe Was there ever such glow.ng, gr iugpatntoism? looks like the number increases at every reunion and that .itl out pensions. 'I he Grand Ainij o Republic has reunions, but it is ma *> to keep up the pension grab, the th g that Tom Benton called the bottom gulf of charities and gratuities. | | ,aw it stated the other day that -J Ip. r --ent of the federal army wme f >r- Iciß-ieis or foreign-barn and v.cre ngn - | > n |y for bounty or booty or buncomo, I a,ol they got it all and the pensions I inrown in. Oh, tint was a grand gailiei- I ■■■■• !t .X w Orleans. It to me | that if f was a northern man I w’OUid 1.,-.; ■■LOOK here, boys, we can t do | anything with those lebels down sm.n, land I move we quit trying. Wove been working on 'em tor nearly forty y ,irs and ha ve never converted one ’' ' tbev marched through New Orleans 1 ,- ( i.j‘strong v >u could hear that same old ,fr >m St. Charles to Vi< k burg Cid I’ath’er Mountctistle told me it but>l every telegraph wire south ot Mason an.l Dixon's line and away up in I’etm- Ivniia the Western Union had to cut down their poles for a hundred m.b s. I But I'm ilt.Mr ■>-.-•< 1 about Mississippi. | Who is Governor Longino, anyhow' H>a ■ name is not in any biography (hat 1 * ■-- i gdi. 1 r t’kon it wasent worth i*». I 1 r. ekon he is a foreigner or h- wouldei’t I.invited Roosevelt, th- slanderer, I down to Jackson to help lay the corner stone of the capital. Roosevelt sa.J that : .1 ft Davis was the arch repudiator and villi.-, governor w'toe.l the bill that mt*l<! : rrovision to pay the repudiat* *! J- nt. ano i he his never retracted nor apologized for that lie. I wonder if Longino knows I that Gpy rnor McNut was the author !of repudiation and gave as h ls reason I t:'..t lh" money was borre wed from L.ir . ~;i Rothschild, in whose veins flowed th: ' 1.'.00d of Judas and Shylock, and who.-e I mortgages would confiscate our cotton 11 Li;; and make serfs of our children. 'Dial's what he sat*! in bls message, but th., legislature wouldent vote for it, and it took live years to get the bill through. ■i Mr. Davis wa fight! J for hi . country in Mexico and got desper ately wounded at Buena Vista and bad : to tise crutches for six years. He never ' was in the legislature nor was he ever or, end yet Roosevelt, the slan- I p.-rcr lets the He stand and Longino I ii.vltt’s him down to lay the corner stone, o't my country! When will alt this m and hypocrisy cease? Oh, Mis- . ipj-.i! How are the mighty fallen! Now these utterances are my own 'neiiler the editor nor any paper is re i "■.OUS,OI, for them. My feelings and cmo ! t all my own. I honor the mem- ! of Mr.'Davis and have profound re i 1 for his widow, and there is no limit i to m- contempt for the brute who put ' manacles on him or the conceited hts i torial who slandered him. It Is a com- ■ >rt to them both.. \ n(1l .three ( hcers for Indiana, the , , , mu ion stat* for lynching negroes when ln . ... commit outrages on their women. Not a week passes but there is a fresh < ise and th*' people turn out and scour fie <■■ vntrv for the. brute. And now thev are driving all the negroes out of a county where an outrage was committed. Yoii see tney have no chain gangs up til re and but few negroes. Lynching has almost stopped in Georgia became pun- I hment Is more speedy and there Is a chain gang in sight in almost every coun 'tv b’-it D'-t. suro-enoug'h case come up ,i . ■ . h ng will swiftly follow. There are more than 7,000 men In our st." to who have not bowed the knee to Baal and the Rev. Newell Dwight Hil lis ■-■nouldn’t sleep in a bed in my house i unless be was sick unto death. i But enough of all this. It sounds like I am ni' tl with somebody, but I am not. Wo are all happy at my house tonight, I for ottr far- iway boy is on his way home. ■ Wo have just had a telegram from him I and he will be here t.might. He lives i in Mexico City and it has been three long I years since wo have scon him. This is i Carl, the youngest boy—the pet of his , mother—the one she loves the best and I prays the longest for every night. He ' wil! stay with us a few days and then go away again and perhaps never see us al;.- more. My wife has been saving the spring chickens for him and the flowers are not to be cut till lie comes, and the strawberries are still bearing and the cake is in the ove i. Nothing is too pr ions for Carl and he ami’Jessee will sing til- ir old songs and rehearse their happy ilays when we lived in the country on the farm. Oh. the happy, happy days on the farm, before our boys all left us and our girls got married! But we are happy still and love every body, except some— _ BILL ARP. COUGER TO MOVE QUARTERS. Rural Delivery Superintendent To Be Ordered to Atlanta. Superintendent Conger, of the rural free delivery service of the postofllce de partment for the southern division, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., will I be ordered shortly to move his head | quarters to Atlanta. He will bring with him quite an exten i slve office force, Including clerks and In j specters of rural delivery routes. I Superintendent Conger hag charge ot i the rural free delivery service throughout ; the southern states. He directs the In stitution and the inspection of routes, and has several thousand carriers under his supervision. There are 455 of these car riers in Georgia alone. Tho dispatch from Washington which brings this information to The Consti tution states also there is to be a gen eral -hike up in tile rural free delivery | division in account of the recent scan dals. The dispatch is as follows: Washington, May ?9.—(Special.)—Orders will bo issued shortly to Superintendent - onger, of the rural free delivery service for tho southern division, with headquar ters now at Nashville, Tenn., to transfer li is >tlicc to Atlanta. The southern di vision embraces a great number of I states." Classing It. Judge: "Sir." began the writer, pre senting himself at the desk of tho illus trious editor. "I have here a joke about an automobile breaking down and having to be pulled to the repair stable by horses.” "That." commented the illustrations edi tor. shaking his head, decisively, "j s a horseless chestnut.” THE season has been so late till we had concluded that we. would have no visits from our young friends of the city this year, but with the coming of warm weather cam? the.se youngsters, and for a week we have had tlmes-good times and joyful. Brown keeps a wagon for no other pur pose than to ride these young folks out to where they may desire to go tyhen they come, and he keeps wheat straw nice and clean to put in the body for them to sit upon. They like to sit down flat In the old wagon body and holler and scramble as we go along. The bo 5 « will *ump out and break honeysuckles and gather wild flower till before we have traveled 3 miles there are a. plenty of these and then they are known a* a picnicking crowd and are gazed at by peo ple from the fields, and all teamsters give them the right of way upon the ' I -st week so many came that we had to'get an extra wagon, and 1 drove. My t*am was not w. I matched-one horse was as big as a young elephant and the other was a tiny Texas pony. Th., pony was litt'e but h" was mean, so m an ti. it : . been as large as the t I invo’J ‘th ■ ■' ” 1 11 " ' week old* r. At th ■ ' ■ ■ be began to fall back uea: ..I th- m o straps ■ ■ th* n surge forward, ing his bit and shaking 1.- -i 1 big horse pulled him along wh n h- st . ped aud held him do«u wh m he vvu . ■. have rushed wildlj forward, but al ho firs* branch we struck a sand bed a d by tins time the young folks had Imw .rs and were lu-.-y aim the pony scene d to resolve that m wo Id Ml ■.v them a thin« or two. irntiad vs .;* k and lushing luima.d, m . " ■ and IO one smm ; -l ; among'th? > tn ' hi « " z was nothing to uo but to unl.it* h and get 1 !i i 812.t-1 cl •o 1 It • i ino.in was m Hom, but lie stopped an. came i>a'-K * my rem :. '1 his o.i fa in tile old man, but luture events demonst:at.-d tmtt .. Brown ■ ■ than the youngst'-r.- in hi- wagon o g.-n to wmup amt the boy with wnom Im had left his lines .racked Im- wn : nd away they went, whooping ami -if .in. ing and waving hai.-, apron:-, n-.-.v .. and bushes. old friend darted m£ overtake his team, but never an over take did !*■’• young folks were in their glory. They would allow Brown to get up to within 15 or 30 yards ul tl.-m and then they would crack then v. h:p and sail away out of his reach, with whooping and laughing as was nv i heard b. fore. It was funny to the yom li sters, but it was not funny to Brown. Ji ■ would run a While ami walk, a w r.. . and tli. ii in.' would beg a. while and a while. Sweat was pouring from h. ■ ,-ia- -ic brow ami hi.: tougue was liaJigmg outside, but never a relent came Born the youngsters, who had tun in seeing him trot and walk ami cuss and beg an the way to Snapimger creek, a distan o of 10 miles. In the nu .’.ntime I was wrestling with the Texas. After he learned to get O’, er the tongue he kept on getting there. 1 verily believe that we would have beer, in that same bed till yet if we had waited for Texas to pull us out. But w-: didn't wait. A happy thought struck the young people and they decided to pull tin- wagon themvi s. This they did, and had lots of fun while doing It. I took out both horses and the young foil;.-! pulled and pushed till we were clear of the sand and up the little hill on the other side. It was fun for the young sters at first, but they bid to pull up every hill clear to Snapfinger and It ceased to be funny. The Texas was in his glory and s* med to* enjoy maki: ; my crowd pull the wagon as well as Brown s crowd enjoyed making him trot a’ 1 fume behind them all the way. Me were already in sight of our cam; ing place ami the creek when wo went to cross a small branch and the pony stop- Kbout the tim. did Stop, though, there came along Davy Thompson and Billy Willson. Thompson is entirely too good to fool with Texas ponies, 1 soon learned that, but Billy Wilson was equal to the o i sion, I soon learned that, and Mr. Texas Pony soon saw that he had his match. Without getting into the wagon Billy got alongside of Tc-ilTs ami when Texas r fused to go Billy came down on him with a pole that it took both hands to hand;-’. It surprised Texas, but he knew his bus iness and reared and fell flat in the branch. Billy knew his businet -, and no sooner than the pony was down than Billy was on his head and held it under tile water ’J’- yas squirmed and snorted and strangled till I thought lie was about drowned, but he wasn't, an 1 when Billy let him up he wag cut' . From that time to the present Texa-e has been as docile and as faithful as one could wish. We had no more trou ble from that source. Os course, there were five or s!x people along to temper the youngsters and keep them straight, but they came later and in carriages of their own. The old folks brought along the bathing suits and it was a sight to me and Brown ar 1 a good many country folks to see th» young people In these suits—especially after they had went in and got them wet. While Brown fished they put it on me to hustle up milk and other delicacies - good water ground meal, for Instance. I am a pretty good forager and had no trouble in getting milk, butter and chick ens. I here is nothing In this, but upon one of my expeditions for these tilings I ran up on a house away back and there was something in what I learned from the old people there. They sold me whatever they had gladly, and It was all that they might get money to keep a son at a business college In Atlanta and a daughter at school in Decatur. How anxious these old people are to give th* t children chances that they never hid themselves, j learned from others In the settlement how this old couple stinted and labored to meet tfle demands of their children. 1 hero are thousands of moth cis, if not so many fathers, who are struggling just as this old couple are struggling to give their children oppor tunity. ] know a good widow lady who has approached distress without murmur ing tp keep her boy at school. These sacrifices arc almost pathetic, some of them, and yet. 1 fear me. that their own children fail to appreciate the dev •- flop as they should ami J know that the world at large does not give such s-'icrl flees the homage that they deserve. How sublime, does it seem to mo. the manner that some of our good mothers sacrifice and slave to keep their sons and daugh ters off at school, but of such it is not proper to write j>a connection with such a happy "outing" as we have just en joyed. I am in ,q good humor with every thing. save a. Te>;ag pony, and I think that Billy Wilsoat got the best of him. SARGE PLUNKETT.