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Opportuneness of Watson’s History.
Already The Constitution is receiv
ing congratulations ever its enterprise
in securing Watson's new ‘History of
the United States” and the right to
publish serially the first volume, en
titled “The idle and Tinies of Thomas
Jefferson.”
In explanation of this enterprise we
may further state that The Constitu
tion has realized all along that this
is the psychological epoch for the
great work which Mr. Watson has un
dertaken. One hundred years ago
Thomas Jefferson, as president of the
United States, made the Louisiana
purchase from Napoleon Bonaparte,
emperor of France. That purchase ;
now covers almost twelve of the great- !
est and richest states of Hie American
union. The expansion of our conti- 1
nental territory by that master-stroke
of diplomatic foresight is to he sig- I
nalized by the holding in St. Louis of
one of the greatest of world’s fairs I
that this globe has ever known.
Tile intense and wide-spread nation i
al interest in that event, and its mag- ;
nificeut showing of what Americanism
has done in a hundred years for a .
region onco platted in our own life- ;
time on our national maps as “The
Great American Desert,” will tend to j i
create an enormous demand for lit
erature that will guide millions to an
understanding of that, purchase.
Since the publication of “The Life I
and Times of Thomas Jefferson" will ;
be made in these columns during the \
period of the national interest in the \
exposition, we confidently count upon \ ]
its being the most sought for publi- ' (
cation of the era. Mr. Watson needs ; (
now no introduction to the people of ;
America, either as statesman or his- 1 ]
■orian. These to whom his name is i
familiar will have an eager desire to i ;
read his portrayals of the great leader !
and follow the currents of events i
through which he led the best thought 1
and patriotism of the republic. i]
Those who are publicly concerned ,
in the living issues of American poll- -
ties pending a national presidential ’
campaign will find this new life of
Jefferson one of the most valuable
books to carry with them in their cam
paigns of education among the people, ; j
They may lie sure that nothing
posthumous as to Jefferson’s sayings
or views will lie allowed to cloud the
Integrity of his story. So that with
our publication in hand, they can safe
ly tell the people what Jefferson did ,
say on vital American topics and why .
he said them.
Two such great values, in conjunc- ,
tion in a serial history, have seldom
if ever occurred in our national ex- .
pcriences.
Some Settled Questions.
As usual the presidential campaign
is opening up most fiercely in the po- ; i
lirical pulpits of the north.
Last Sunday Rev. Dr. David Grogg,
an amiable old gentleman who
preaches through the neck of an ample
silk gown, became afflicted in his pul
pit with a bad case of righteous rage ,
—so to call it and keep polite. He
declared that the civil war “has rot
settled anything”—that the south is ,
returning to the trade of slavery and .
that it is nullifying and suppressing :
the negro vote, and finished off the '
performance with a lot of rancus rot ■
expectable in Decoration day sermons
On the same day Rev. Dean Rich- ■
mond Babbitt, of the Brooklyn Church j
of the Epipthany, saw Brother Greeg’s
vision and went the good old man a <
few spots better. He said, in the !
midst of his homiletic hash, of the :
the people of the south:
Tliey are rapidly robbing negroes by a
deliberate system not only of their In- , i
ilienable rights to life, liberty and hap-|
-nncss as citizens of the gnat republic, | '
but we see state after state in the south I
concocting In the devil's workshop their I
own brand of legislative nullification. We ; ;
cm some northern ministers applauding;
them and applying the opprMrfCtis epithet
■•nigger” to the hapless black man.
Now these statements “would be im
portant —if true!” Which, of course,
they are not- The case recalls to us
that of the oid negro complaining to
n neighbor about the loss of some
chickens. “Doe’s yo’ me'n ter exsin
uate dat I tuck dem chuckens?” asked
the neighbor. “No,” replied the loser;
”[ nebber haz Bed yo’ tuck dem chick
ens. an’ I ain’t gwlne ter say yo’ did,
but' I’m sho' gwine home ter dinner
wid yo’ terday!”
And so we wish to go home with
Dr. Gregg to breakfast this morning
and tell him, before he can have anoth
er attack of lapsus memoriae, that the
civil war did settle a whole lot of
things.
It settled the fact that the south
never was in treasonable rebellion and i
the history of the government’s deal- j
Ings with Jefferson Davis, whose birth j
we celebrate today, proves it.
It settled that this is a white man’s I
country and government, for the north |
never 'would have gone to war on a .
basis that it was to fight for negro I
emancipation alone and that freed ne- !
grocs were by the act of freedom to
become voters, governors and the bal
ance of power in determining the des
tiny of the nation.
ft settled the right of any state to
deal with the question of suffrage as
a ctate sovereignty right and if the
south chooses to accept the penalty of
| disfranchising negroes because they
are negroes (which none of them has
done) it cannot be prevented.
It settled the indestructibility of the
union by processes of secession and
I thus stamped out of existence the
northern ideas of Josiah Quincy in
1811 and the Hartford convention,
along with those of Calhoun and the
southern leaders of 1861.
It settled the fact that the negro
must be punished for his crimes under
the same laws and conditions as aro
white criminals. There Is do slavery
in disfranchisement. If so, a hundred
thousand negroes have made slaves of
themselves by not paying the taxes
to the state that would enfranchise
them. Ther» is no more slavery in
the conviction of negroes in our courts
than there is in like convictions in
the courts of the north.
It settled —and this Is for Rector
Babbitt’s ears, also—that the negro
ought to have the same rights to life,
liberty ami the pursuit of happiness
in the north that he has in the south!
But he hasn’t them. He is mobbed
there for asking work, shut out of the
labor unions and denied his liberty
to work, and he is shot, hung and burn
ed in Ironton. Urbana and Leaven
worth as he is anywhere in the south
for the same heinous and inhuman
crimes.
Ah. yes! The war settled some
tilings, and anion r them that northern
extremists cannot dictate to the south.
The Rod in School.
Perhaps Solomon's sage proverb
anent spoiling the child by sparing '
the rod was not meant to apply to a I
switch or black walnut, rules in the
hand of a stern-visaged pedagogue—
and perhaps it was. Be this as it
may. the testimony of New York
school principals is overwhelmingly
in favor of the restoration of their old
prerogative of applying the birch
when and where needed. They have
tried the hands-off policy a long time
as the result of popular agitation, and
three-quarters of them do not hesitate
to express the opinion that it is a
failure and demoralizing to morals
and discipline.
Probably a majority of the boys and
girls wiio go to school would bo more
tractable as students if they were cor
rected corporeal!}' occasionally by
their teacher. If they were given the
proper amount of chastisement by
their parents, perhaps the teacher
would not need to try his hand. The
most unmanageable boys at school
are generally those whose parents
have lost all control of them, or who
do not seek to control them —with a
switch.
There can be little doubt that, an
adequately guarded restoration of the
rod to the schools that have lost that
potent civilizing force would redound I
to the good of the “young idea” and
the peace of parent and teacher alike.
Who Sat on the Third Term?
The esteemed New York Mail and
Express contributes the following
comment anent an interesting topic of
the hour:
The Atlanta Constitution has snt down
hard on the Cleveland boom, because of
its opposition to the third-term proposi
tion. It cites the resolution offered by
Springer, of Illinois, and adopted by the
house in 1875, declaring a third term to
be ' unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with
peril to our free institutions." It recalls
that this resolution was adopted by 223
to 18. and it received the vote of every
democrat ,n the house. The Constitution
con' ludc.s: "Any attempt to argue that
such expression of the universal demo
cratic sentiment had reference only to
three terms In succession Is a resort to
the cheapest of quibbles. The demo
cratic principle and the American convic
tion are opposed to the third-term Idea
In any form.”
Our contemporarj does us entirely
too much honor. The Constitution has
not sat down hard on any boom that
may have been attached to Mr. Cleve
land’s fishing tackle. Wo have no
quarrel to pick with him on account of
any position he has himself taken to
ward the interests of the party for
the future. Mr. Cleveland, so far as
we aro concerned, is as welcome as
any other American to get into line
with the democratic, party and once
more devote his patriotism to its re
habilitation and recovery the right
to administer national affairs. Mr.
Cleveland is lint one dens >crat among
n ti who will do well to the
first roil call of the campuSgn.
What The Constitution . has done
was to call the attention of some of
Mr. Cleveland’s over-zealous hunchers
to the fact that the representatives of
the lemocratic party have unanimous
ly gone on record in 1875.-'in the house
of representatives, as opposed to a
third term in the presidency for any
body of any party. They have said
such a proposition is “unwise, unpa
triotic and fraught with peril to our
free institutions."
For that verdict every democrat re
corded his vote in the affirmative and
with them were sixty-one republicans,
one of whom afterwards became Pres
ident Garfield and another was James
Wilson, present secretary of agricul
ture in the Roosevelt cabinet.
The democrats of that day were a
unit against the proposition as it af
fected a third term for Grant and there
is no logical reason under heaven why
the democrats of today should not be
as unanimous against, the innovation
as it affects the proposal io nominate
Mr Cleveland for a third term.
The Last Capitol of the Confederacy.
Our state news columns this morn
ing recite the proceedings to restrain
the county commissioners of WilktXs
county from selling the old building,
owned by the county, and in which the
Confederate States of America may
be truthfully said to have come to its
end as a government. In it was held
the last meeting of Jefferson Davis
with his cabinet and from it he went
out on the venture to reach the trans-
Mississippi country and met with cap
ture near Irwinville, in this state.
This event in the history of the mas
sive, classic old building should dig
nify it into one of the landmarks of
the confederacy and lead to some set
tlement of county affairs in Wilkes
that will preserve the building and
I make it. the property of the whole peo
ple. In the town of Washington a
loyal contingent of the citizens are
| strenuously opposing the destruction
of the edifice and they appeal to the
people of the state to help them buy
iit from the county authorities and
make of it a confederate memorial.
How many of the landmarks of
the old revolution have suffered,
from motives of commercialism, that
the people of todaj- lament and would
restore if they could. As it is they
can oniv, as in Philadelphia, Boston,
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONt ATLANTA, GA-, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1903.
New York and Albany, distinguish the
spots by later-day tablets of bronze re
citing their historic stories.
In the long years to come, when the
■ full story of the confederacy will be
better understood and more widely
reverenced than even today this old
house in Washington would be the ob
ject. of many pilgrimages by interested
patriots.
The Constitution sincerely hopes
that the appeal for the preservation
of this building will be cheerfully and
adequately met.
Punishing Paul for Peter’s Theft.
When the plain people who live
along the lines of rural postal routes
on which free delivery has been prom
ised through their congressmen begin
to understand why they do not get
those mail deliveries the postal de
partment will have all sorts of dornlcks
and decayed vegetables flung at its
head from every point of tho com
pass.
The postmaster general, in effect,
bluntly informs Congressman Bartlett
of this state, and other congressmen
in like plight, that. I hey cannot have
certain promised free delivery routes
because his subordinates in the de
partment have been looting the appro
priations. Therefore, to save Ills bal
ance-sheet from showing a deficit, so
large as to make a democratic cam
paign argument, Mr. Payne shuts off
tlie creation of necessary rural deliv
ery routes. Beavers, Machen, tlie
Groffs and others will probably get
away with their loot all right, and the
farmers of the country will have to
hold the empty bag. In other words,
| tlie honest people of the farming dis
tricts must, lie deprived of I ho free de
livery daily of their mails in order
that the department, peculations in
Washington may not. produce too large
a defiicit. in the annual .lune 30 bal
ance sheet!
Now everybody with a knowledge of
governmental data knows that the
postoffice department is not a self
sustaining institution. In fact, the
people do not expect it. to lie such
and in a table before us of appropria
tions made by congress from 1894 to
1901 the figures for the postoffice de
partment are omitted and the word
“indefinite” substit u tod. «
But the people are very likely to sit.
up and take notice as to how these
deficits happen. If they occur in an
honest and enterprising improvement,
of the service nobody in tho coun
try will growl or kick at. the cost.
But when the deficits are caused by
official rascalities in the very heart
of the department, itself the. people
will kick when thex are punished in
stead of tho thieves'
And that, is just what Is now being
done. The suspension of projected
routes is ordered and the farmers and
I others who live upon them are pun-
I ished by withholding the service tho
. stolen money should paid for.
This is one good, strong reason for
a revival of the campaign slogan:
“Turn the rascals out.!”
Tlie Giles Suffrage Cases.
The eases of the negro Giles, who is
being used to to t the validity of the
suffrage laws of Alabama, are again
i to be heard in new forms before tlie
supreme court of the United States.
, It is to be hoped that the issues have
been so joined as to compel the court
i to pass squarely upon the right of the
I states to confer or withhold suffrage,
■ provided tlie terms of their statutes do
not In toiidem verbis discriminate be
tween voters “on account of race, eol-
i or or previous condition of servitude.”
It will be of exceeding value* in all
■ future suffrage legislation to know
i whether California. Oregon and Neva
; da have the right, to exclude from the
j use of the ballot, as they do the Chi
i nese, whether declared citizens of tlie
United States or not.
i Also will it. lie of interest to know if
! Vermont, is acting within constitutlon
, al bounds when it excludes from suf
j frage “those who have not attained the
i approbation of tlie board of civil an-
I thority of the town in which they re
side.” If that plan of qualifying
I voters is thoroughly constitutional, we
) might very easily satisfy northern
! criticism of our suffrage system in tlie
: south by adopting the idea, which
i would realiy work with charming es
; fectiveness in shutting out the venal
■ and ignorant, voters of our precincts,
i whether white or black. In fact, the
1 Alabama registration law seems to lie
■ trotting all-fours beside this same Ver
• inont law.
It. is a matter of common notoriety
I that, no people in any section of the
i country is more desirous of a defini-
I tive decision from the supreme court
j as to whether or not the fourteenth
' and fifteenth amendments have given
or not. given the absolute control of
■ suffrage from state to congressional
i authority. We want to know what are
! our remaining rights in that matter
: and how far congress has been invest
cd with, or usurped, power to coerce
j Vermont or Georgia in the matter of
I suffrage.
Hence we repeat, with all emphasis
i that the time has come when this
i thorn in tlie side of the body politic
I should be removed. The supreme
I court is competent to remove it and
I if it will handle the Giles cases with
i patriotism and justice, instead of. from
: the viewpoint of partisanship, we have
i no doubt both Georgia and Vermont
I will be satisfied with Hie quietusunak
i Ing decision.
Dr. Abbott on Arbitration.
A part, at least, of the creative plan
: was to rtiako this little globe of ours
, the theater of doctrinaires and philos
l.ophers of a more or less cranky or-
I der. We used to look to Boston as
j tliv center of these shooting stars,
I thexo Leonides of the ethical heavens,
but us in all other things Now York
is coining to bo the fiery fountain
. i of these self-luminous meteors.
Dr. Lyman'Abbott is one who has
\ projected himself frequently along pe
. | culiar curves of doctrine and indica-
■ | tion, and lias now taken a fresh shot
from the lovely heights where Lake
Mohonk lies like a pearl of providence
until Its waters take on their annual
muddle from the presence and pad
. . dling of the reform conventions.
i In a recent address there Dr. Ab
bott declared emphatically that arbi
; tration has its limitations and is not
the solvent of all difficulties. While
perfectly willing to see it worked to
its limit in available fases he yet. hold
that there are at least two causes
near to American mankind that are
above and beyond tlie jurisdiction of
courts of arbitration. He would not
■ concede that the right of a free man
to labor at his will or the Monroe
doctrine could ever be fit subjects for
arbitration boards.
Now it would be a right happy
thing if Dr. Abbott could impress
these views upon the majority of his
fellow-citizens o f tho north. The
right of the negro, for Instance, to
labor in the north is seriously and
wrongfully abridged. Labor there is
controlled by the trades unions and
the people of that section sit idly by
and permit, the negro to be refused,
even by shotgun methods, tho right
to labor when he has the chance and
the ability to do the work that is de
manding his willingness and skill. Os
course, we know Dr. Abbott was not
thinking of that phase of the question
when he spoke, but we suggest to
him consideration of it. For it is of
more concern to the negro when he
goes north that he should be able to
work and earn his living than it is
; to have unimpeded right of way to a
ballot box. T] le latter has not yet
been able to afford him the right to
tlie free use of his labor in the north.
But in the south he has that right
freely without any ballot box inter
• vention.
As to the Monroe doctrine, Dr. Ab
j bott is right, it should never be sub
mitted l<> arbitration. It is an Ameri
can doctrine that no man, or set of
men. native or foreign, sflould be al
lowed to mon\'>y w ith. We have said
it and it stands until every one of us
who is a true American shall be dead
in its defense.
An Application to the Bumping Post.
Dr. Lyman Abbott has given Dr.
Newell Dwight Hillis a Roland for the
I latter’s Oliver and done so with some
: cold facts that should hang in the
hair of Hillis as cockleburrs do in a
! sheep’s wool.
N d only Dr Abbott, but the stal
! wart, republican New York Tribune
makes sport o. tho Hillis declaration
i tli at —
If universal su irage is wrong, then tlie
I fifteenth amendment to the constitution
must be given i: then Abraham Lincoln
! was wrong in speech at Gettysburg
and in his inaugural, and the million eol-
I diets who gave up thgir Ilves for liberty
■ spilled their bloi ijj the interest of folly
I ami superstition.
Tlie former shows from documenta
ry evidence that Mr. Lincoln was
never in favor of “universal suffrage,”
and when Governor Mike Halm, of
Louisiana, suggiued to him that ne
groes bo given :' o ballot, -Mr. Lincoln
would go no further than to say he
' might approve ’■i limited negro suf-
I frage”- say, to those negroes who
I fought in the union army and could
read and write. That happens, singu
larly enough, to be tho exact basis on
'which the United States authorities
I fixed the negro suffrage In the forma
! five elections in Cuba.
Dr. Abbott al - > points out that “all
the. new constitutions of the southern
states give tho suffrage to such ne
groes and no more,” and consequently
are in perfect, alignment with Lln
i coin’s ideas. And hence since the ne
' groes of the south have now legally
and actually all that Mr. Lincoln
[ thought they should have. Dr. Abbott
' frankly says it. is his belief that. “Mr.
' Lincoln would not wish to see uni
versal suffrage forced on the south by
i congressional action or by public opin
ion.” J?
Then comes The New York 3 ribune.
sits Dr. Hillis on 1 dun :e stool
and puts in his hand “A Child’s Prim
; er of Constitutional History,” as It
were. It shows him that the consti
tutional convention of 1787 never al
lowed for a moment a suggestion of
universal suffrage and that, such a
doctrine had no standing until nearly
fifty years after the institution was
adopted, it then emphatically stuffs
into tho oar of Hillis those news Items,
i that must work muci: to his dlscom
i fort, as well as enlightenment:
To ouote Washington as n.n advocate
lof univen-al si.-iTrng* i- t substitute rhet
oric.'l imaginings foi matter-of-fact
i truths. The declaration that if universal
j suffrage is wrong Lincoln was wrong Is
: a grotesque non scquilur.
The million men who went to the
war did so primarily to save the un
ion, and not at all to give a vote to
anybody, white or black.
That, last sentence graduates Dr.
Hilliis into the class cf 'he indoctl and
' makes toothpicks of all his rhetorical
claptrap. It. is the truth, and a truth
that, is becoming widespread and in
structive to publi; opinion in the north
with greater insis' nee every day.
When it becomes dominant the race
issue will be settled in a day.
The J. Wilkes Booth Case.
That man out ii. Oklahoma who con
fessed on his deathbed that, lie was
John Wilkes Booth tlie assassin of
Lincoln, and who wa reported io have
been identified as i ■ .'th by many wit
. nc.-ses alter iiis death, presents a case
of queer insistence i:: a claim secretly
i made for a little pu' pose of glory un
til It lias grown into an actual belief.
Such cases are not wholly rare in fau
' man history.
Nevertheless, the fact is incontest
able that the body of John Wilkes
Booth was recovered, fully identified,
his private diart taken from his per
son and that it was buried in the
Washington arsenal cells and kept se
curely until delivered to his family
for re-interment in the family burial
plot of a Baltimore cemetery.
In 1875 The Constitution published
the letter sent by Edwin Booth to
I President Johnson requesting the de
i lively of the body of his brother to
: Undertaker Weaver, of Baltimore. On
tne original letter of Edwin Booth,
now in the. possession of a citizen of
this city, Is the autograph memoran
dum by President Johnson of the or
der directed by himself in the mat
ter, and in which he grants the re
quest and directs the delivery of the
body.
That order was carried out under
Instructions that satisfied the under
taker and persons who knew J. Wilkes
Booth Intimately that the remains
were the right ones and so they were
buried. All those later-day Booths
are but men who have assumed the
role from foolish bravado or become
monomaniacs on the subject until
they have convinced themselves that,
they were what, they were not—the
original assassin of President Lin
coln.
A Sudden Drop.
Kansas City Journal: "Yep." said Da
kota Dan, resting his glass on the bar.
"He. pretended to be a friend of mine,
but. he wasn't. Last summer he done me
a dirty, sneakin trick—sold me a saddle
that wusn't his a, and 1 had to give it
up.”
"I suppose i' ii were not very friendly
with him after that?”
“Nope—l drop ed him then and than
His widder married the sheriff last week.”
Weekly Constitution s Jhree”
Stanton.
On the Home Stretch.
Guess he’s glad he’s glttin' home, fer
things air "on the shelf,"
An* this here Freedom govermont's been
runnln’ of Itself!
"He’s long away—
That’s what they say,
An’ now the mischief Is to pay I
Guess he’s glad he’s glttin’ home—an’
goodness knows, It’s time!
The ‘possum’s up the big tree, an' he’s
most too tired to climb'.
“He’s long away—
That's what they say,
An’ now the mischief is to pay!
Farewell "the boys”—the bear-meat of
western camp an’ riel’.
The loved, illustrious Prodigal Is ready
fer the veal!
"He’s long away”—
That’s what they say,
An' now the devil Is to pay!
Brother Dickey’s Lightning Lecture.
“I.ightnln’ fs glttin’ after do churches
ag'in,” said Brother Dickey—"htttln’ 'em
right on lef', up en down de country. But
do wicked needn't take any comfort sum
dat, kaze hit only demonstrates 'lit tire
is glttin’ too close tor ’em ter be com
fortable! Hit's nuttin' mo ne’r loss d. n
•Satan sarchin' out do wicked, en d"
wicked Is famous for crawlin ter de
kiver or a mootin’ house w'en lie see a
storm cornin’. Den de llghtnln' blazes do
way tor him, rn de thunder growls on his
track lak a hound on a fox-trail, on pint',
soon do wicked is onktvered, on do church
gits too hot tor hold him! IJghtnin Is
purty much lak some folks In dis worl
good enough, In hits way, long ez hit
keeps hits distance, but too high up t r
be happy, on too fond er huntin' trouble
on <le fast mall!”
The Great Old World.
The cynics mock her,
The red storms rock her.
The earthquakes shock her.
But on she rolls!
Downcast, elated—
For ruin slated,
She still goes freighted
With human souls!
The great seas thunder
And rend asunder—
The white stars wonder,
As Time grows gray;
But—reaping, sowing.
Her way she's going
To meet— unknowing—
A Judgment Day.
But—joy go with her!
Nor slip his tether
When stormy weather
Makes grief and moan!
T raged y—jest-nvorld—
Lost auto-rest world.
Still—still tlie best world
We ever have knownl
The Graduation Ride.
Hitch up the ox team, Johnny—call all the
folks in reach:
We're goln' to where we all kin hear
Dick's graduatin' speech.
Ari curry all the young 'tins, as fer Sun
day meetin’ week,
Fer he's goin’ to laugh In Latin, an'
throw somersets In Greek!
Hitch up the ox team. Johnny—the prize
he's goln' to win:
Fetch all the little towheads, an’ help
yer mother In;
An' greeco yer hair, an’ greece yer
boots,—it’s graduatin’ week,
An' you'll see ’em laugh in Latin, an’
throw somersets In Greek!
Now, whip ’em to a canter!—ain't this a
jolly load!
The old cart's Jest a-rearin’ an’ a-rockln'
dowi the road!
Touch hats to the professor—be keerful
how you speak,
Fer they’re goin’ to laugh In Latin, an’
throw somersets in Greek!
"De poor, righteous man’ll have treas
ure in heaven; but what a blesHn’ It
would bo es he could des us" it fer col
lateral in dis worl'I”
Toil Along!
Single file, or double.
You think you've got your trouble?
you're foolish! —It's a bubble!--
Toll along!
(That’s what the world's a-saying—
The world that goes a-Maying
Wlille. you're striving pleading-pray
ing!
Toil along!
You think the road Is dreary?—
It’s ail imaginary!
A toiler-ne'er grows wealry:—
Toil along!
Though joy's a phantom flying:
Though Hope's a dream that’s dying,
Starved lips for bread aro crying; -
Toil along!
Toll on. with stern endeavor
By rugged road and river;
Though shadows make you shiver —
Toil along!
For Rest—no time to plead it!
'Twill come when least you heed It.
(God knows, old boy, you'll need lt!>—
Toll along!
His Word to the Judge.
“Guilty, or innocent?'" asked the Judge.
“Oh. go 'long, Jedge!” replied the prt
oner. "Des gimme five years, en go
home!”
Get Out in the Sun.
Talkin’ 'bout the weather
Makin’ of you run?
Pull yerself together,—
Git out—ln tho sun!
An’ see the blossoms laughin’ in the
bright light—ever’ one!
Talkin’ 'bout the wet sky
Drenchin’ hill an’ plain?
Pull yerself together,—
Git out—ln the rain!
An' see tho thankful lilies, where the
bees the honey drain!
Talkin’ ’bout the weather?
Out o’ your control!
Pull yerself together.
An’ let the weather roll!
An’ git out —where the sunshine can light
up all yer soul!
«*• • •
Lines on Commencement,.
O. "Soldier of the Legion,”
Beneath the moonlit sky.
The weather’s getting mighty warm:—
Please hurry up and die!
O. curfew In tlie belfry—
This weather is a right'
Please hurry up and spread the news
You shall not ring tonight!
O. grim pallbearers of Sir John-
Quick wrap him In his coat.
For this warm weather boats a drum,
And sounds a funeral note!
A Billville Love Scene.
"No.” said thq Billville maiden, "my
mind is mule up: The lips that touch
wino shall never touch mine!"
“Then I'm .ill right!" exclaimed the
lover, rapturously. "Corn Jquor s my
beverage!”
Jtrp.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS 'says*
that "easy reading Is hard writing
and Sheridan gives the antithesis
when he says,
"You write with ease to show your breed
ln S.
But easy writing is curst hard reading.
I am too sick to write easy, but I don t
wish to be curst about it. This gloomy
weather takes away all my hilarity.
Lowell says, "Oh, what's bo rare as a
day in June.” It has rained every day
and every night since the Ist and we
didn’t like It at my house, for It was
!my wife's birthday and we hoped it
; would be bright and balmy, for the pool
i woman don’t get but two maternal feasts
in a yeai- and two paternal kisses. I was
sick the night before and she was up
With me half the night and slept late. 1
had creeped in to breakfast and slipped
a live-dollar gold piece under her plate
, and Intended to rise and kiss her un
-1 wrinkled brow when she appeared, but
sin- slipped up behind me and kissed me
first. She never did it that way before
i and the boys hint that she saw the gold
1 shining and it excited her labial views and
1 osculatory g ends and she couldn t re
I fraln.
' “Gold, gold, gold, gold.
Bright .n.d yellow, hard and cold,
■ if aw to get and light to hold.
I .'-'pent b. in young but hugged b.v the old
: 'I,, save to ruin, to curse or to bless.
Now Stamped with tlie image of good
; A.nd now of bloody Mnry.”
B t she got more than I gave her and
nobody got a kiss but me. "Children.”
said 1, "this is your mother’s seventy-
■• sd birthday. You know that the stars
I fell seventy-two years ago and that's the
reason they did fall. They knew that a
brigh - r light was coming and no they
paled their ineffectual fires and fell to
the ground and expired.
"I am only 71,” said my wife. "Why do
you try to make me 72?” "Because,” said
1. "you have had seventy-two birth days.
You had one the. day you wa£i born. When
you were a year old you had had two."
Then she gave it up.
These birthdays aro tho mile stones that
measure the journey of life. Next Mon
i iiar I will be 72. On the 2?.d one of tlie
j girls will be 40. On the 24th my mother
was born and so was my iittle grand
t < i.ild, Caroline, who was named for her.
! My wife can tell the birthday o.f every
i < hild and grandchild, but 1 know only
j half a dozen.
Well the Mexican boy did come and
for a whole week we have feasted on
his presence and listened to the same
old songs he used to sing. He Is a fine
singer and has plenty of help from tlie
' children and grandchildren.
And the night was filled with music
And tlie cares that infest the day
Fol 1< d t u ir tents like the Arabs
And silently stole away.
And the little boy. who is only 20 months
old, and looks like me, joins in the
hilarity and tries to sing, and holds up ills
’ skirt and dances the cakewalk and kicks
up his I'i-et and bows to the audience with
great solemnity. He plays monkey in the
show, and hi.? young mother thinks he is
the smartest and prettiest child in all the
world, and I think so, for they say he is
Just like me. What kind of a world would
this be without these iittle children, and
( j yet tlie last census says they are not
I wanted up in N w England any more.
( j They say that Roosevelt loves children
' and wants to encourage maternity. Well,
. ’ I II give him credit for that when he rc-
• tracts and apologizes. Our Mexican boy
. ! says the peons of .Mexico have them by
j the score. Their adobe houses have but
■ "n; 1 big room with a dirt floor, and you
will se-- a man and his wife and a flock
of dirty, lousy, greasy children and half a
’ dozen dogs all gathered there by day and
' roosting there by night. A peon is the
i biggest vagabond on earth. He will work
one or two days in a week for 37 cents
’ i a day and lie paid in Mexican silver that
i is worth only half what ours is. and he
ami the family and the dogs will live on
this for a week. They will steal every
thing Hi at is in sight and not locked up;
aj -, li. ; ii- known them to b; into a
-.ar that; was sidetracked and steal and
carry off 2.000 pounds of machinery. Tliey
will gel it to the city some way and sell
it to a junk shop for a dollar or two. The
Americans do all the manufacturing;
the Germans all the hardware business;
the l-'rem-h ail the silk ami fine goods,
and tlie natives all tlie iittle shop busf
i ness and run the saloons. Besides the
I ari hbishops and bishops, no less than
I tv, i :iiy-fivc priests olfieiate around the
I chan 1 in the great cathedral ev< rj- day.
' Soni'-body must stay there to receive the
; offerings ami grant absolution and re-
I mission of sima Tibs is the largest, ca
i thedral in the world except three. It is
I I'- feet long, 41" feet wide and 110 feet
. from tlie floor to tlie coiling, and the
i walls are literally overlaid with gold and
i .-ilver images and i.-rueilixes. The church
is rail and controls President I flaz. Diaz
controls the Castlllians and the police all
\ over tin: towns ami cities, and the police
! control the peons ami the common people.
! So at tlie last it is the priesthood that
! <iomin;ites tlie government. Liberal con
cessions aro given to Americans to build
i railroads and dig canals and to mine for
i precious metals. The charter under which
. the Mexican National was built requires
si- . '-utcei. members of tlie board of direc
! tors, and tive of them must live in Mex-
I i. o. tlie others may live anywhere. Our
; liey Carl is a Mexican director, having
| lived tnere, long enough to become eligible,
; and that is how he was called to New
I > ork last week to a meeting of the board
: and got a. chance to come by home and see
us for a week. And now tiie time of trib
i uiatu.ms is near at hand, and he will leave
I us and we may never see him again.
riuch is life, and only death will end it.
BILL ARP.
"Tlie King's Private Band.”
King Edward has given orders for the
discandment of his private band, one of
I the ancient features of his court. In its
I present form it was established by
! diaries 11. ami some authorities assert
I that a "state” band existed in the days
lof Queen Elizabeth. It is composed of
j thirty-four musicians, under the direction
lof Sir Walter Parratt. "master of the
i musick." its members are the best that
i can be secured in England, and this is
' the real cause of its dissolution. Unlike
! his mother, King Edward does not care
' much for state concerts by his own mu
! sieians, and sin ■ ins accession the du
' tics of the band have been confined
: chiefly to tlie playing' of light music, in
j eluding ragtime, during royal dinners.
This tliey regaril as undignified, and the
, king regards as extravagant. The same
music can be played as well by fewer and
li-s notabl'' musicians. Therefore another
ancient institution lias been done away
I with.
Knew His Man.
Exuiiange: During Ambassador Choate’s re
' ci.nt vifi.i in X' w York he had occasion to
j call at the Pine street office of a lawyer
I wliom' softly modulated voice and very quiet
n.anm rs made f« r him a reputation as the
’ “.silent man." When the ambassador called,
.j In ■- ?s not in.
i “Pardon me." said Mr. Choate, “but he Is
1 in; iiv is there" n unting to the Inner room.
"lb* v i|,i ■. i know that?" asked the clerk,
alarmed by the guess.
“How do I know it?" chuckled Mr. Choate.
"Because he S so confoundedly still in there.’*
Sarye
WE used to plant corn the middle
of February, had red, luscious ap
ples In June, and pears, plums,
dewberries and blackberries —all these and
more we used to have early In June.
The seasons have changed this much
all In the memory of many now living,
but then we had trees hanging with Ici
cles by the first of November, and so ths
late winter regulates the lateness
spring and the dago’s fruit stand, with
the railroad facilities, now furnish us
with what we lost by Jh& changes in na
ture.
But the changes In the seasons of frrit
and vegetables are not all the chang i
nor the most Important—the change In
human nature and in human method s
greater than these, and the dago fr n.
I across the ocean nor railroads nor noth': g
I that may come will supply the place of
I what we had nor retain to us an imlta
’ tion of character or a feeling of heart
I that art and fiction has so sell supplied
I in the fruit and vegetable kingdom.
Boys fifty years ago rejoiced over flnd
i ing a hornet’s nest and they had a royal
i battle for every one they did find, but a
"yaller jacket's” nest gave the greatest
pleasure to these boys, (aid whatever boy
has not been stung Uy one of the little
"yaller” flyers knows nothing of pain. A
■ baseball may break a finger or a rib, b t
| there is np such glory in this as
brought by the. sting o£ "ySller jacket?. '
and there were precious few boys raised
in Georgia before the war but what have
felt tile pleasure of this sting and recelv«i
tho plaudits of the other boys for s-.n.*
gallant ru.*jh with a brush Qn the 1•• •
bole in the ground (hat went to their
nest.
Riding the colts fifty years ago was r.o:
so subject to wholesale killing, and
gling as the automobile runaways. '
they were quite as foolish, for the coifii
could have been broke and managed in
such an int'.-lligent way as would ha. -
brought no danger, but there was bet.t •
excuse, at least, more romance in w .••>>
tiing with a thing of life, and taking ; •
chances that they did take than can e.--
be felt or undeysstood by those wh'; !e I
to danger through tlie t ruing of
screw or the pressing <>f a buttin scier.’:;'.
cally perfected by -om- genius expert.
And now they say that a son of the
great Edison has perfected a machine
or something that, will develop hr fin l: ?
greatness. It won't be long tili gr.-.T
ness will be all owing to tho mm-h:
just as speed on the race track that i
ceives as much homage as the b ;
thoroughbred used to receive by ' '
ing the crank invented by some f
an expert in mechanics. Sentiment.
cnee, affection has about gone thro igi
the worship of tlie commercial idea ■ l
now greatness will be simple
ism—there will be no greatness.
I have said this little as a hint on ' o
lines that have been and ar« still drift ■ c
us away from things that once
can never be reclaimed, and from tl ■ ■ t
! that brought the best results and g.
est blessings to these United State .
ours. ' received a letter from a "cr.;,,->k ’
yesterday. wherein he says that
| twenty more years one-half the people ’
' j the world will live In towns and In t. s
; connection he shows the speed oft!
i trend. My own observations makes 'n
' think this has been true, but I am hop
I ful and believe that this trend has a!-
! ready called a halt, and of this satisfied
' spirit in country life is what I like tn -
j most to write, about.
Just as boys took up the notion that
I was better to develop muscle
! athletics than by labor, so the girls to
I up the notion that the excellencies
i their sex lay In wearing fine clothes ■■
I having smooth skin. A boy would ref;
to cut stove wood or to work the garc
I because it was too hard work, to go
I the basebail field and struggle and sw ’
■ almost to exhaustion. The girls wort j
; dieting and bleaching for a complex! ’
I that they could have had easier by gob .
I out in the morning and milking ar ■
I romping. Such health comes with O’ “
that their cheeks would bloom with s
sort of diet, with the other there como>
a day of fade, for surely those who hr '
tbrir beauty from following those fa
■ will find a day of fading and, besid
j tliey go through life without doing a
| thing to-makc tho world better. As ’
I the dressing, there should be no objc
i tion to any one dressing as fine as th' ?
! aro able to drc.-is. but when one goes be ■
; yond their means in the matter then ft '.?
. foolish and ridiculous. A girl able to
; wear silk and satin does not seem -; Lo
| lour by wearing the same, but one. o- >
' able tn wear homespun Is sure rill;
: lons and a thing of pity to wear such
I The country people an* coming tn thi«
idea on dress and the boy? and the g' ?
' have .lo.'i.lod that they cun secure mus-
I cle, health ami goal looks just about as
i easy by doing some good In the wor'd
as they can b.v following tlie fads th.?’-.
I puts money into sonic fellow's pneko:
I who has "scheme” and nothing but a
"scheme” to recommend him. The
farmers strong enough to survive throng i
"the s'helm s of tho past thirty years,
, have at last got the young folks to guess
ing if tho old farmer's ways are not
: the best. So the trend seems to mo and
I rjoice that it. is so, and 1 would be
more than glad if I could help along on
j this line. Thousands of poor girls have
been raised in recent years who could
; no more perform the duties necessary to
| a housekeeper than they could fly. It Is
: not the rich girls who suffer from this,
i If a rich girl be sensible enough to be
come imbued nilh eonc-mic and indus
trious ideas suitable to the poor, then
that rich girl only gets tile richer, but
where a poor girl becomes Imbued with
rich notions she only gets the poorer
and will curse the home that stie enters
or the man tha t she m.irrltis. This applies
I to boys and girls and here In our coun
! try It is plain that they have awakenc i
I to it. I have never been one to believe
] that girls should work in the fields, but
they should work in the home and they
should be sensible enough to avoid, sued
ideas of file as will discourage the men
who should and will work for them if
they only will be sensible.
We have already had some dewbe;ry
pies and the blackkberries will soon be
ripe. I never saw such a crop of these
berries as there is this year. Nature Is
kind to us people in Georgia; if we d
i sert the nelds they grow uj ;
first and then the pines take possession
and in a few years they are as well
timbered as In the original f rc
country but the south, I think, can claim
■ tills, at least in so short a period. A
! field that I saw in corn ten years ago 13
i now covered with a growth of pines th;."
.1 am sure would turn out as much wo id
as the original forest, while th 're aro
spots here and there covered with briars
and literally loaded with berries.
And the "redbugs" have returned to
us, not. in such abundance as they use!
to be, but enough to make us ratcl
feel good at scratching. Brown has al
ways said that tlie itch gave him tlie
greatest pleasure that he 1.-lt during ti -
war, and to understand that, ymi only
have to come out and get covered wiin
these "redbugs"—it is splendid, as far
as the boys are concerned, and, I expect,
the girls would say so too, for 1: is t ; o
fashion here now and whatever is '
ion is hard to disagree with I can't see
why country people should not have some
fashions of their own without going U>
town for tlie tip. and I think we ha re in
these "redbugs.”
i SARGE PLUNKETT.