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Conducted by Mrs. Wm. King, 480 Courtland Ave., Atlanta, Ga.
SLUMBER SONG.
W en de shadders falls aroun' us,
W 'en de chicks no longer peep,
W'en de frogs sings in de medder,
Den hit's time ter go ter sleep.
lilt's dat time des now mah honey,
Xou mus’ come an' tak' you' res';
All de day you’s run an’ scampered—
Come now. Mammy knows de bes'.
Mammy’ll sing about de angels,
As she rocks her 11'1 boy.
How dey scatters dreams all roun' you—
Dreams dat's full ob lub an’ joy.
Shut yo’ eyes up tight, mah honey,
Dat’s right! dey calnt get a peep;
You's a trabblln' on ter Dreamlan';
Dah! you's sholy soun’ asleep.
CLARA D. GILBERT.
THE DOLLPHINJL S. YACHT.
Some of our boys and girls would prob
ably like to know something of Uncle
Sam's yacht. In foreign countries the
kings, emperor and czar reserve the ex
clusive right to their yachts, but In our
country the Dolphin Is used by the secre
tary of the navy, the admirals and others
high in office, as well as by the president.
The yacht Is a beautiful three-masted
schooner rig. It Is 240 feet in length on
the water line; 32 feet in breadth. The
engines are of 2,250 horse-power, and
sometimes has gone 17 knots an hour.
The coal bins hold 275 tons of coal. It is
painted a cream white, and the entire
yacht cost the government $350,000.
Os course. In carrying such important
individuals as presidents, etc., it must be
provided to protect them, if such should
be necessary, and so it is equipped with
two 4-lnch rapid-tire guns, one live
pounder rapid tire, six three-pounder
rapid fire and two colts.
The ship's company number 137 men,
with seven officers. These sailors are
tailed the president’s “Jackies.” They
have a mascot, which is a line, lively
Scotch collie, a favorite with the whole
The "jackles” have a good time, and
ho d themselves In readiness to be called
in service at any moment. The Interior
of the yacht is as handsome as the ex
terior, and every room is furnished for
comfort as well as ornament.
1 resident McKinley made many trips on
this vessel, as lias President Roosevelt.
It is quite customary for members of the
cabinet to use it for excursions either by
day or moonlight, going down the Po
tomac. Not long since .Miss Alice Roose
velt made an excursion down the river
for the pleasure of her small brothers ana
listers. Often Mrs. Roosevelt will take
i pleasure trip with her children down the
Potomac and into the Chesapeake bay,
often extending the trip for a short
< ruise along the sea coast, staying as long
as a week.
To those that love the water, such
trips are very pleasant, and toe Dolphin
affords much enjoyment, to those high in
Uncle Sam's employment
Probably the most notable trip taken
by the yacht recently was when the
secretary of the navy, postmaster gen
eral, speaker of the house and other dis
tinguished men made a cruise to yte West
Indies.
I nope I have intee.rsted y®u in tellHig
you something of "Uncle Sam’s” private
yacht, the Dolphin.
CHARITY LIST.
F. Monroe Smith, Fairmont. Okla., $1;
Carrie Mae Turner. Turner. S. C., 1c;
Owen T. Brewer, Arcadia, I la 10c; Mat
tie Chapman. Moody. Ark., lee.; Mrs. Lula
Hamelton, .Manoak, Ark . 10c; Maud M.
Chesnutt. Hope Hull, Ala.. sc.
JUNIOR CORRESPONDENCE.
Maud M. Chesnutt, Hope Hull. Ala.—
Dear Junior: I have been a silent ad
mirer of your page for a long time, but
have never attempted to write, before for
fear of the waste basket. I am a farmer's
daughter and live on a. beautiful farm
about 12 miles from the capital of our
state. I take for my subject “Con
tentmer.t." Balguy says: “Contentment is
a p.-arl of rare price.” Don't you cous
ins think that it is quite true?
How many of us are contented with our
lot? Very few I am sure. We are always
finding something that makes us discon
tented. Don't you all think this would boa
much nicer world if everybody would try
to be contented with whatever lot falls
to them? Would like to correspond with
some of the cousins about my ige, IG,
either sex. Inclosed will find 5 cents for
the Orphans' home.
Bernice Brooks. Quitman, Ga.—Dear
Junior: T will take “Humor" for my sub
let. What is humor? Is it not pleasantry
and It is not the greatest duty of our
lives to try to be pleasant? Some people
have a talent for kindly pleasantry or
jocularity, but we can be pleasant with
out beinsr jocular, for as Temple says.
•■ln conversation, humor is more than
vit, easiness more than knowledge.” We
should all try to be pleasant, for pF is
an’rv loads to kinffiroro. does it not, cous
ins’’ Unfortunately I am not pleasant at j
a! j times. My teacher said I was too
pleasant in school. I have read Dickens
and think his works very instructive and
humorous as well as pleasant and a
great portraver or delineator of character.
I would like to exchange the words and
music of "Tell Me Not” for “In 1 lie |
Shadow of the Pines.” I live on the edge I
'-f'town Quitman is a pretty little town:
of about 3 000 inhabitants. I enjoy living
here’ splendidly. When I last wrote to
this na-e I was in Alabama. Since then ,
1 have crossed the Chattahoochee and am ,
now in the southern part of G. orgia. j
tiorothv. I enjoyed your letter ex.-e. d ng- j
tv I love scenery v. ry much, i
again. I will close, with best wishes foi.,
all
R.ibanna Newborn. Whistler. Ala.— '
->ear Junior: As Aunt Susie requests us i
o write about something we read, I win
write about the pygmies. A. great while I
ago when the world v. s full of womb re .
lived an earth born giant name.’ ;
Antae"® and a million or more of curious .
mt e earth born people who wore called
U-mies The pygmies were so small and i
FhXre were so many sandy desert-- and
inch high mountains between them and
tPe r £ft of mankind that nobody could
ICUREFITS
..■L , i I ctrd Ido not mein merely to
stop them • 1 ■ ‘ ci . r? . [ iavermc j e
lite disuse of HTS, ErY PPSY
SICKNESS a
remedy to c-i rPason for not now
OthCr treatise
andaFret Bottle of my infallible remedy.
Give Express and Post Office.
proL W.H.PEEKE, F.D., 4 Cedar St, N.¥.
get a peep at them more than once In a
hundred years. Among the pygmies I
suppose if one of them grett to the
height of 0 or 8 inches he was reckoned
a prodigiously tall man. It must have
been very pretty to behold their little
cities with streets 2 or 3 feet wjde paved
with the smallest pebbles and bordered
by a habitation about as big as a squir
rel's cage.
Maud McGee, Moseley, S. C- Dear Ju
nior: I do enjoy reading the dear old
Constitution, especially the Junior page.
I live In a very pretty place, 2 1-2 miles
below the little town of Iva- We have a
nice orchard in front of our house. I
wish Aunt Susie and the little cousins
would visit me and help me to eat
peaches. 1 live in a common size white
house and have a grove of trees In our
yard- My’ papa Is a farmer. I wish
some of the cousins would be kind
enough to send me the song "In the
Shadow’s of the Pines." Correspondence
solicited, either sex. My age is 13.
Bertha Taylor, Corinth, Miss. —Dear
Junior: I am a newcomer, but hope you
all will welcome me as an old friend,
I as I have been reading The Constitution,
i Jr., ever since I could read and dearly
I love Aunt Susie. I think she is such a
j kind and noble woman. I am a country
■ girl and like it. Country life is so
healthy and so pleasant in summer just
!to get In the shade of a tree. I live 5
I miles east of the thriving little city of
1 Corinth. There is eleven In family at
i our house. 1 have six sis.ters and two
brothers. I wish I could see dear Aunt
Susie. I know I would like her. She is
so good and kind. I hear her say that
will do. Give room for others.
Creola Cooke. Alberta, La.—Dear Jun
ior: After four long years of silence
from your most interesting page I will
try and write again. Many changes have
taken place In my life since I last, wrote.
Then I lived far out in central Texas
near the noted plains, but. now I live in
the piny woods of Louisiana.
We moved here from Texas the 3d of
August will be. a year ago. Texas is a
beautiful state, but 1 had much rather
live here than there.
Alberta is a sawmill town situated in
the northwestern part of Louisiana In
Beinvllle parish, on the S. and G. rail
road. What has become of all our “old
time" cousins? Have they entirely de
serted us? Forney H. Ray, write again
if you are still in the land of the liv
ing.
Well, now for my subject, but don’t
expe t anyth! ig extra, for I am a very
poor hand to discuss a subject. "Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy
r< iglibor.” the ninth commandment, shall
bv niy subject.
Now. dear cousins, let us consider
these few words seriously for just a mo
ment every time wv utter a false word
against any one we break one of the
g>. it commandments God has command*-*;
us to keep. Os course it Is • ery easy
to say a little thing against a >v one wo
are angry with or to accuse them false
ly just to make them feel bad. Certainly
it niak**s them ft ■ 1 bad, but instead of
injuring their character wo have added
another sin to our own soul and injured
ourselves, for some time in the near or
distant future we will be found out.
Now. when we speak of any one. let us
tell of ail their good qualities and let
• . rest al I we n't - >w any
thing kind or pleasant, why don't speak
of them at all.
lot vs resolve to never say or act a
thing that might blur our own or any
one elsc’s character
Correspondcnee solicited.
Imogene Barnes, Riddle, Ind.—Dear Ju
nior: I will take for my subject "The
Rigiit Flood.” "There is a tide In the
affairs of men. ’ says the greatest of
poets, “which, taken at its flood, leads
on to fortune.” Not only do 1 believe
that there is a tide, but I do believe
that there are many titles, every day
one. that might lead ns on to happiness
and perhaps fortune, if we took advan
tage of it. How arc we to find out.
though, what particular tide it is on
which our bark may sail down success
fully? Why. only by taking all, by los
ing no one. does the boat speed upon its
way. All < hances are not against the
player, or it could no longer be called a.
game of chance. If, then, they art- eq t.ti,
we presume that half the time we might
be successful if we tried. Certainly
some chances must be in our favor; some
tide must be the fortunate one that leads
to our happiness. But it is easily missed
if we do not take advantage of all, and
with the same energy, too. of one as of
another. 11l success oftenest comes from
want of energy—it is so natural to be
come fatigued and dispirited from fruit
less exertion. Natural enough, but that
is also the natural reason of failure, the
very cause of it. If perseverance alone
Ins.ires success, as it generally does in
time, with a good object In view, then
l er. vcrance in seizing opportunity must,
in reason, be still more certain of a good
re-alt; and that every one has some
opp minify in their power, at some, time
<>r other, is as sure as that there is a
dally tide, or a daily sun. When once
convinced that the result Is certain, if
the effort bo only long enough continued,
the reasoning mind should not allow
itself to relax those efforts through fa
tigue and disappointment. The number
of failures still brings success the nearer;
after a. series of blanks must come a
prize. But life is short; it may close
before wo have gained our object. Then
wo have the less reason for delaying. We
c.tnne■: afford to lose a. single tide, for
each one has the same chance of being
one that will lead us on to happiness.
We wettld certainly have found it before
if we had lost none in our previous
waiting: and. hotting, seize tills one —
th nd -v< ry one and sure-
ly But, dear mo’ I am giving til this
excellent advice to my tired readers and
pos-'. ',y 'nave stood bv the stream and
10l th- .Tde pass bv. Would like to hear
from some of the cousins on the "bank.”
Marie Williams, Lugoff, S. C.- Dear
Junior: I live 2 1-2 miles from Davis
Station, hut am visiting my grandma.
Ibis is- a beautiful country with rocks
■a I hills everywhere. I know some of
th- cousins never saw a rock and such
a country as this. The rocks are as lit
is* as a finger nail on up ,-ts large as
a. on.*-room house. Y*iti can look out
and see for miles. There is a hill 3
miles from here and you can see the
houses on top of it. It's a gold mine
not far from here that you can see. too.
There are so many pastures it looks so
p:*tty to s*. e the cows and sheep graz
ing on the bills. Some people use water
from t’-e s; rings. All the water up here,
is cool and clear. This i.s a. line place
for p '.]*'<• to spend summers. Much love
to Aunt Susie and all the cousins.
May Parker, Starlington, Ala—Dear
Junior: Vacation days have come when
we d<> as w like. Yet many of us are
“busily idle. Idly busy.” Now let me
tell you of one of the many small con
trivances occupying my attention when
1 am "idle."
1 have a great many little friends, con
sequently there must come a great many
bit t j and Christ mas presents. All
c Hl.lren like bright pretty pictures, and
in this doy they come to us In profu
sion. so with a little care we may col
ie, t i great many during the year. I
am stormy away every one I can get
mv han.ls on ami at the Sime time mak
ing books :o paste them in. Two yards
of cambric in some pretty shade is quite
enough for a book. I am cutting mine
ten inches wide by tw’elve. inches long.
I first fold the cloth in the desired shape
and slteli through the center, ornament
lug the back with a bow of ribbon.
Scallop the edges of the leaves and paste
large attractive pictures on the outside
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1903.
leaves. Please your own fancy about
arranging thorn on the other leaves and
you will have something that will be a
source of joy to some little friend for a
long time.
Myrtle Bond, Cedar Bluff. Miss. Dear
Junior: Here comes a little Mississippi
girl 8 years old to join your happy baud.
My papa Ims been taking The Constitu
tion .and thinks it is a good paper. 1 have
three dollju 1 play with them and wash
and iron their clothes myself. How many
of the cousins like to go to school? I do
for one. I study arithmetic, spelling, ge
ography and language. 1 haven’t n'«g pet
except a sweet little brother 6 months old.
Carrie Mae Turner. Turner, Aiken
county, S_C. Dear Junior: A year seems
like a short time, but that length of time
has elapsed since. 1 visited this page last.
Our page has improved wonderfully In
six months or at least I think so. I wdll
take for my subject “Thorns.” First,
‘ what are thorns? Well, they are a kind
. of prickly shrub; they are long and some
of them are very sharp. Thorns are found
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EUNTCK ANDREWS, Vincent Store, Vi».
on various kinds of vines and trees such
as crab apple, orange and locust trees,
[ and among the vines are green bramble.
I As to sand spurs and cockleburrs, they
I are very painful whan stuck into the flesh
and are. 1 think, disliked by every one
who may come in .contact with them.
There are others I could mention, but
ere I take up too much space I will quit.
Grover C. .Griffis. Electic, Ala.. I think
vour letter a good one for your age.
Please come again soon
With best wishes to all I Inclose 1 cent
for charitv.
Ruby IT. Burt. Waldo. Talladega. Ala.
Dear Junior: I enjoy reading The Con
stitution very much and look forward to
seeing it week. My school closed
about four w--ks ago .'tnd I am enjoying
my vacation very much. My father is a
farmer. Every summer w- move to Eu
reka Heights, win re wo spend the sum
mer. This is a summer resort about 12
miles from Talladega. The Heights are
about 1,000 feet above sea level. Talladega
creek is close to th** springs and every
week we all go in bathing,
Snr,th E. Greene, "Waldo. Talladega,
, Ala. Dear Junior: it affords me pleasure
to r-.ul The Constitution. I have recent
ly come to Eureka Heights, which is a
nice stimnitv resort; it is about 9 miles
from Talladega; it is u thousand feet
above s-a level. Mv home is in Birming
ham. Al:.*., but We jiave been coming here
for the last three summers We have a
summer home here We have a nice
swimming pool and I have learned to
swim. We dance and play games at night
and have lots of fun. We are here with
a very sick babv which we hope is im
proving.
Stella M Blue Bolton. N. C. Dear Jun
ior: .1 ha.ve been a constant reader and
silent admirer of the Junior page for
quite a while. 1 will take "Cheerfulness”
for my subject. One should never worry
e’tt little things, instead of worrying
th* y should be as m<*rry as possible.
Cbeerfulti-.-s wj| seajter the dark clouds
ta.tt giithef around the ones we associate
" ‘th.. Th* re is no real life Ijl’t cheerful
life. 'ljme adtutu-s like the slowest tide,
but rem uts Ilk ■ the swiftest current. So
let us b* meri.v while we can, for th**re
are trials in this life for all of us. Smiles
are always better than groans. We never
know wltt.it a smile may do for others.
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They lighten our burdens and cheer up
I the young and the old. How can any
one be sad always when they look at
this beautiful world with all Its charms?
There are some people who never look at
anything but tho unpleasant. Most of us
magnify all disagreeable things. There
are lots more pleasant things in this
world than unpleasant If we would only
seek pleasure. Some had rather look at
sad pictures than cheerful ones.
Keep a cheerful countenance.
All the bright day long,
Morn and naon ajjxl eventide.
Mary Holloway, Dunn, La.—Dear
Junior: Having been n silent admirer of
The Constitution so long I often think
of writing a letter, os I enjoy reading
the letters from this part of Louisiana.
I have been sick six weeks with typhoid
fever. Have, to live on milk and soup.
It ts a very long time, but 1 am on the
Improve now. Hope to be aXe to sit
up soon. When I am well I will wiTTe and
describe our little town and country.
Now I want to ask the cousins how
many of you have mv birthday. July 28
J will be 15 years old and would enjoy
a. letter party so much, ns I am shut In
It would be such a pleasure to get letters
from all that will write me. IJo;>e some
of the readers will write me a letter.
I will have a good time reading that day.
Love to Aunt Susie and the cousins. Best
wishes to the dear old Constitution. Good
by. Farmer’s Daughter.
Owen T. Brewer, Arcadia, Fla.—Dear
Junior: Will you admit a stranger from
away down In the "Land of Flowers.”
I was born In the good old state of
Georgia., but my present home is In
south Florida, on tho banks of Peace
Fiver.
Several dredges are constknlly working
night and_day, dredlglng for a kind of
rocjc known as phosphate, which is dried
and used as fertilizer purposes.
It consists of prehistoric teeth, bones,
eX 1 "., which perhaps has been buried here
ever since the deluge.
I am a curio collector. I collect fos
sils, arrow-heads, shells, minerals, curio
I and several other interesting things,
i which makes a good study. 1 am em
; ployed at present with the phosphate
i company, ond working with my father in
j the sbj;p yard. I would like to correspond
: with some of tho Geotgia girls between
I the ages of 14 and 16. and would like
jto correspond with till the foreign
• cousins. Enclosed ten cents for Grady
! hospital Good luck to all.
■ *
Better Thau Spanking.
Spanking does not cure children of bed
wetting If It did there would be few chil
dren that would do It. There is. a consti
tutional cause for this. Mrs. M. Sum
mers, box 105, Notre Dame. Ind., will
send her home treatment to any mother.
She asks no money. Write her today If
your children trouble you In this way.
Don’t blame the child. The chances are
it can't help it.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
How He Knew the Difference.
Editor Constitution: Discussing the
! "race question” a few days ago. a good
I story was told by a. San Francisco drum
mer of Uncle Abe Williams, an old darky
; whose acquaintance he made at Meridian,
Miss., while he was traveling that dis
trict a few years ago.
Uncle Abe, it seems, had heard tho
“white folks” read and discuss the race
question; besides he had on several oc
casions traveled quite a distance to in
terview colored people who had gone
north ami returned. As a result Uncle
Abe was loaded with information on the
race question.
Among other things he declared that
the negroes would never get anything
but synii«vthy from tue north and that if
the negroes liked northern people halt
ar, welt as they pretended to like the
negro they would have imigrated north
long ago.
<m one occasion, says the drummer.
Uncle Abe was carrj tg my grip and
after s-timo talk on the race question, he
said he could tell ,t yankee from a
southerner every tjn*e I ” him bow
he did it.
"Wall,” said be. “one \lnte. I tuk a
grip uptown to a hardware store for a
•genaman' and he talked a heap and
axed my name and so on. and when
we got dare he pulls ot t a han'kei :h’ f
and wipes His face den he put a nickel
in my han' and said: 'I 'art you. Mis
tah Williams, yousc* a nl* e old genaman.'
Right, don I knowed be wa.- a yankee.”
"How did you know. Uncle Abe?”
■'Cause if he had a beet* a .southern man
I wud a-got more money ami not so
much perllteness.” W. 1:1. SELLERS.
Banning. Cal., May 19, 1903.
Veterans Seek Comrades.
Editor Constitution: I would like to
know the whereabouts of th« following
gentlemen who served with "to in the
confeedrate ser,fl < anti enlisted from
the following states. Jerry Clemons. '
Charley Cooley, of Nashville. Tenn.; ;
James Saxton, George Willburn, of Gor
don county, Georgia; A. W. Bray, of
Augusta Ga.; N. E. Dabney, of Texas,
and Joe Hanus Starks, commonly called
“John Starks;” ad of whom served with
me under Major Haws, of Hawsvllle,
Ky.. quartermaster of the wagon repair
shops, going from Calhoun t * Savannah,
stationing at the following ; t -es: Nt ir
Decatur and at Augusta and Savannah,
thence back to Decatur. Ref rued home
from there. Separated near Kingston,
Ga. Will appreciate any information of
any of mv old comrades.
M. S SWANN.
Roy, Ga.
Editor Constitution: I served ns private
in company F, C. 8. A., Seventh Florida
regiment, under Robert Butloek, captain,
afterwards colonel. I volunteered at
Ocala, Fla. Would like to hear from
some members who were In that com
pany. ERVIN FLOYD, M.D.
Fayetteville. N. C.
Editor Constitution: I served as a
private In company K, Thirty-seventh
regiment, Georgia volunteers, C S. A.
Would like to have the address of several
members of that company.
J. T. M. BAILEY.
Marion, Ala.
Good Hoads.
Editor Constitution: The greatest need of
Georgia—l emphasize that It le the greatest
need In the conditions now existing—is the
radical Improvement ot Its public highways,
the country means ot transportation. This
transportation Is entirely too costly at pres
ent. not only In Georgia, but throughout the
southern states, which are so tar behind tn
this matter ot country Improvement. The
modern development and Improvement of the
roads Is as Important as that ot
the improvement of the schools. The present
roads cause stagnation, ruin the churches,
schools, farms and all industries and insti
tutions. There Is small attendance a.t church
in the country' on account of the terrible—
the almost barbarous—roads. Farming com
munities are all more or less Isolated. There
Is little social intermingling between neigh
borhoods, and too little of It in neighborhoods,
travel Is so difficult. This Is not tpodern; it
is not Intelligent.
President Spencer, of the Southern railway,
recently called attention In an address to Ute
fact that railroads could ham a ton of freight
a mile at a cost of one-half a cent
per ton per mile—and that It cost
the transporter on the unimproved coun
try roads usually 50 cents per ton per mile,
or one hundred times as much as It cost the
railroads. How ran the country districts be
expected to prosper in comparison with the
districts along the railroads? Easy transpor
tation furnishes the key to development.
On tlia Improved public roads of Now Jersey
It costs only from 7 to 10 cents to haul a
ton a mile; that Is, It takes from five, to seven
times more mules to do the same hauling
In Georgia and South Carolina than It does
In New Jersey—Jive to seven times a greater
Investment In mules and horse-power in this
isectlon than there to do the same work. Could
varied manufactories prosper under such a
disparity of conditions? Could a city or town
prosper that had to pay five to seven times
more on freight than another town? The
difference would annihilate such a town. So
the remote country districts are being anni
hilated on account of the cost of transpor
tation. It takes two horses to pull two bales
of cotton—half a ton—to market nearly ail
over our southern section, when in New Jer
sey. Massachusetts and all uvea* good road
Europe, two horses pujl from 2 to 4 tons,
and frequently more.
Farmers frequently find It cheaper to buy
their meal in the west, getting It by railroad,
than to raise the corn and haul it to mill a
few miles. So with wheat and flour. We
do not diversify, to a large extent, because It
is too costly to diversify. Timber stands
unsawed and houses go unimproved because
1c Is too costly to farmers to haul lumber for
oven 7 or 3 miles In tile country to Improve
with. Districts along railroads get the lum
ber from distant points by railroads rattier
than haul it a few miles over country roads.
It I.h the duty of the etale to attend to
highways—to flx them, to improve them,
to make them what they ought to be. 1 n*-*y
are public, property, the land for them liaa
been largely condemned or donated, the st
has taken In its hands the matter of property
attending to the highways, and it is bound to
carry out Its obligation. A stale has no r *K ,lt
to neglect Its highways, which so largely al
fect the progress, the prosperity and the de
velopment of the people. , , .
Some such bill as the Felder bill should
heroine a law hi every state in the south.
The employment of the state convicts in
building good roads .voul 1 mean more o
the people, to thdir prosperity materiaiij,
educationally, .serially and would bring
d» vrlopment to the slate than muld prouably
be wrought In any other way with the state
felons. if I had the choice of tun months or
schooling in a bad roads section or
reads throughout the section and » -ight months
of .-cho-»ling, 1 would take the laiter, and 1
think it would mean more educational im
provement as well as meaning more material
prosperity. I’ut the convicts of the southern
states to showing the counties how to build
scientific roads and they will do more for
education than their lease money turned into
tho schools, as well as bring direct develop
ment and increase of state property
The census shows, Mr. Editor, that in I BdU.
the year of the beginning of railroad develop
ment—this marvellous form of the 'road
only about 7 per cent of the population or
tMs country lived in cities and towns.,
was the era of the “country gentleman.” With
railroad development began the depopulation
of the country districts and the buil ling <»,
towns along the railroad lines, moved by
the marvellous facilities of transportation,
N< w over 53 per cent <>f the population nf
the country iiv * in cities and towns. I’cople
! have left the isolation of tho country; its
i How and .'”Btly transportation, its infrequent
i mails, its la- k of Ueilities 1 >r social Inter,
1 mingling- ;!1 because <>f the bad < onditL n * >f
j the rural rnt.l.s and trie vastly superior facili
ties offered where tT-re arc railroads. Ih?
1 attraction of tin? railroads has been too groa.
for the country. W* hav seen eon*-entrated
i prosperity and development in the cities and
i dilTits,*.! <b it** r.tliza thm ;in*l despair la tha
c* -.intrv. Mattv .'.mtitry districts where the
public’ roads have gone steadily unimprov-d
fir** almost *i«*p* *p'.tlatc<l t**l:’y in (o’orgia an 1
other states. 1 see noble ntan.dons in Georgia
remote from the railroads, inhabited by ne
groes, their masters gone to the railroads and
clvlllzatl.'n Datil wbl-h a few years ago
scl.l readllv nt SIO and sl2 an acre, now
gros begging at $3 and $4 All because ot
this controlling matter of transportation.
•I , states which built good highways early
held mos’ of this population In the country.
Massachusetts, t' .nn.-.-tlcut. N< tv York. etc.,
have some time ago discovered the secret ot
their "abandoned farms" and are building
fine hlchw.t . * and r.*,..*; ttl.trlng these farms ■
a thing Georgia and other southern states
will have to do.
The northern -t.ites are establishing "st.ro*
highway commissions” with g-roral supervis
ion of' the highways, .and providing large
state means annually to assist counties In
road Improvement under expert direction, ox
|,ftrt supervl-Jon at bast Icing a most neces
nrv thing M.roro bn -ns has been appro
priating over SSOO.QCO a year for a long
while for this purpose.
The proper l ire for ‘he improvement
of Georgl’i Hghwavs would be to make the
■■ rommtrslon "state highway romrnts
sl n." with th*' eont- d ot the stat.- convict
forces, for road Improvement and doing work
In nil the counties In cooperation with the
-minty forces on s.lentlflc principal* A f-w
years of this work, besides the direct roads
bu t, would cause an arouctng of the entire
state to the Importance ot correct road Im
provement, resulting In untold development
and benefit. R- F- MIDDLETON.
Augusta, Ga.
Have You This Information.
Editor Constitution: I write for Information
to know it anj* one was In the war with John
Cousey or J. W. Cousey. He belonged to
company C, Fifty-seventh Alabama regiment.
I want this Information for his widow. She
will have to have two witnesses that were In
the war with him before she can draw a con-
pension. She is needy. Any reader
who ro.-s this that was in the war with him
o*- know of any one that was In the war with
him and will write to me I will [T''uVi LIS
Alexander City, Ala.. Route No. I.
• Tribute to Watson.
Editor Constitution: I am delighted to no
tice that your great paper Is publishing In
. . ■ ■ ; Lite tnd Times ot Thomas
rcfr.-re.-n " bv the gifted pen ot that most
w th*, son *f the south. Hon. Themis )•.
Watson He Is preeminently a man ot parts,
h.-n.-e quite capable, of correcting the many
gross misrepresentations concerning the hist, ry
ot our great southland, and the wonderful feats
achieved by her men of valor.
I have real carefully his "Napoleon” and
his "History ot France.” and tho admirable
Presentation ot th.- ■I I histmt- at
splr-'l by the magic strokt* of his tiench.tiit
and f-iclie pen gives movement and fascination
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of notion. Hl,- short, direct sent*-n- .*> g.vo
lucidity t*.* every p.tr.tgt *: h. I consider Mr
Watson rhe gn-aust historian «>f America and ;
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• ~.,i ; -ot cai.-tully thes- ' .laable rontrit.it- 1
tlr , nH . ERNEST C. MOBLEY,
Rome, Ga. ’
What Georgia Negroes Have Tone. !
Editor Constitution: I wish to nay that T
had thu pleasure of hearing B-‘ 'or Wash
ington, the industrial educationali- and lec
turer, last night at the People’s TaL'Tiia-- <*.
I note with satisfaction that you published
In full tn this day's Constitution the ad
mirable speech delivered by the distinguished
professor. I cannot better express n.v de
light at hearing that splendid, practical and
wise address than by wishing, as I most sin
cerely do, that It could be heard by every
community—white and colored In this st;: e
Professor Washington gave. the negr s I
much excellent advice. 11* properly em *
phaslzed the necessity of savings with a view |
to the purchase of lands and horn ■**. In doing .
this, he thoughtfully suggested that tho col
ored man who owns his home stands for ,
law, order and progress. This Is true ot all
men, regardless of racial Hues
I suspect that Professor Washington Is
not aware ot the fact that Georgia negroes
are paying taxes on thousands of homes,
acres of farming lands. h**ma comforts, farm
ing Implements, etn
Listening to him. It occurred to me tn
jot down a few items that will astonish
and at the same time encourage many of
your readers.
Tlie facts which I .«hall give tell most pleas
antly ami strongly of tho friendly disposition
..f Georgia white people toward Georgia ne
groes.
Running n mental eye over the state, I have
taken a few counties at random to Illustrate
the declaration Ju»t made. Tho comparisons j
Instituted are between the years 1895 and
1902.
llurko county, for example Tn 1895. the ne
groes of Burke returned for taxation 19.643
acres of laud. By 1902 they had In* leased
their holdings 70 4 per cent. In 1895 they
owned city property t the amount of $17,665.
by 1902 they had Increased that Item 43.6
per cent. In 1895. they owned household
and kitchen furniture In tho sum or $23,022;
at the end of seven years they had meieased
this character of possessions 98.2 per cent.
In 1895 they returned for taxation horsro.
mules, etc., to the amount ot $42,199. by
19C2 they had Increased that amount 23 1
per " ent In 1895 they had invested In farm
implements and machinery $7,653. By 1902
they Increased this Item 447 per cent. in
1895 their aggregate property amounted to
$147,232: by 1902 they had Ineres.sed this
153 per cent.
Washington county negroes ownrT in 1395
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ATLANTA, BA.
10,024 acres of land. During the sev-n years
UlLwljig they increased that acreage 20 i ' ;
cent. In 1895 they owned <lty jnoj-eriy hi
ihe sum of 67.600 lb 1902 they ineiea.-U’.
’hits item 132 i ceu f . In 1895 th- y i;a i
520.314 worth * f hou.<eh.-ld .tn I kitcli-'U • ;r •
nlture. By 1902 th«*y ail' d 15 p’-r <<-nt
rhe amount ■ f to ir holding’s. in 1895 the;. ;
owned $32,254 w .rth f • • is-'.s, mub etc. ;
Uy 1902 thev ir s. *1 that am ant 3! per ■
ent In 1895 tiny owned $5,959 w-h:
■ f farm implein nts and inachim • >'. J>y i
i 902 ‘.hey inciv • I i’.- ; it' ; . 93 per nt.
In 1895 their aq prop- tiy aiu ;; P' ’
to $106,263. £b 1902 they inert ay. *1 that
amount 45 per • ent
In 1895 T’uiaski county mvr.”l
14.145 n. its of lan l; ir. seven yars t! ■ v
added 755 acres t ■ their j- >■■«?<•ln ■
1895 tl.. \ ov.r,- .’ city prop- iuy in the sum
■■■f $26,345. lb 1902 '’* • in ” ''• • ,
item 22 per cent. In 1595 ’hey h-. l $21,460 j
worth f hous’-hopj rind V./uhen furniture, j
By 1902 th» y increase.! the air. unt 38 p-r i
cent. Ir. 1895 tin y owned h n.uh <.
etc., to the amount of $34,318 By 1902
they added 27 e’-r cunt. In i 895 they iia 1 !
$7,963 in farm impluuu-.i*s. Ey lOC3 t;-• y |
incM.u-ed thttb amount 51 per cer: l;i IbVo •
th-, .r whole jir- purty aimamt-d to $144,
By 1902 Gu y increased that item 39 P’". e.-m.. !
Br?oks nt groes m 1895, uw.p *1 12,911 ;
’
ent to their holding.- In 1395 th* ■. o•■m- I ,
town pr< p riy to the amount -f $13,679. i
i 9U2 th-y ireretirtd th.n -un 32 r- ; • ?. . j
In '895 they b.i l sl7-395 worth . f .;•*< h I ! '
and kitchen furniture. By 1902 ; .
creased that amount 19 per cent. In 1895 !
the.v returned for taxation horses, muh - io , i
to tho amount of $29,513. B\ 1902 they '
increased that amount 56 per cent In 1895 '•
thev owned only $1,301 worth of farm im
plements. By' 1902 they increase.} th- :r
holdings 607 per ■ >nt. In 1895 their np
gr- zato prmmtv anvunted t> $118,812. By
1902 they inerea.-’ 1 that am-amt 48 *-r
cent.
During the seven years ment! red the nc
pt< e<4 *.f the entire state Irmrensod their hold
iugs in land t<» I. 175.291 acres i gain of
acr> o At the en I < * the r« *. •:i
years they wned citv and town prop-Tl’
'mt Os $4 339.422 a gain .*f
347.356. They owre.j household ar 1 kit 'o
f!!!?'' I ‘he Gum of $1,688,541 -a e m
of $365,847 They ewned horses, mu •
etc. to • 1 amount -i” $2,985,831 n
of $696.98! At the end of the seven yen re.-
their aggregate p'-onnytv an? anted to sls.
■88.069 a gain < f $2,247,239
i« not the foregoing a m • X’-eHr-nt
h<- f.G the negroes of Georgia, and for (?eor
gin. herself"
M.AUTTN V f’AT.VTX
H use of July 14, 1903
A Northern Suggestion.
Editor Con.srltutlon: Your attention Is call
ed to ’he *• ' editorial of T.ie Baltimore
Evening News of y. sterday. called f<Tth by
one in The Philadelphia Press of the day
before. I: is as follows:
“The crime which brought upon the negro
White the «rr!:>le o’ the Delaware
mob Is a .ipital offense in Maryland an 1
many other stao-s. Ii ought to be a capi
tal offense In e\ury state An attempt to
commit that crime can hardly, however, b- *
made, however, a capital offense, and in most
of the northern states the crime itself ,s
not punished b\ death The case of White
was made peculiarly abhorrent and « x it. I
even m.-re than the usual in iignath u !f sm Ii
a thing be possible that is stirred up bv
such fiendish brutality, owing t . the alleged
fact that White had previously served a term
in the penitentiary for rape u - att-mut.-d
rape 'I he Phil-.d-’lphia Press pr s a
nnasure which It may fairly be h< . 1 w.-übl I
do something to prevent these outrages. N> I
man.” says The Pre.-e. “ought to leave a
st.tc prison after a c>nvicti..n for this of
fense or its attempt until the prison surgeon
had made it Impossible to r.-jn-at offense nr !
attempt.” The pruposltc n Is eminently sound. I
Not only would it operate as an absolute pro- I
ventix- of a repetition of the crime by the :
individual punish. I but it is the bell, f of I
those who have given attention to the subject I
that the intljeti -n of this punishment xv,,uld .
have a peculiarly wholesome effect on the ■
class of brutes with whom xve have to deal
In th!a matt* r. The measure proposed by I
The press ought to be promptly adopted In ail ’
our states.”
The puni-hment for rape therein suggested. ;
I believe, w’ll be all that Is necessary' to 1
check the brutal nature of those for whom !
Intended. As you ar? aware, “a no-good nig- ;
ger” .amongst hlf. kind, both male and female, i
Is a pariah-the wiley Turk introduced this to |
protect his home. Why should xve not d<> '
the same? Why’ not take this up seriously. I 1
agitate the question, with the viexv of leg- I 1
islative enactment on these lines in the V a- j 1
rlous states of the union, where the’e is : ’
a preponderance of ignorant brutes. Sug- 1
gested by a northern contemporary, they I 1
could say nothing against it. ' '
WILLIAM 11. SINCLAIR. P
Baltimore. Md. i J
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The borough of Fulham. London, by
the use of its garbage in the furnaces 1
of the municipal lighting plant makes a
profit of $3,443 a year,
A Story of Phil Cook,
(From The San Antonio Express.)
General '’Phil” Cook, late secretary of
state of Georgia, was noted for his quick
i ar.d stinging wit, as well as for a certain
i eloquence of harmless profanity. When
he was a npr seniativi? in. congress
■ thijm wer< ;■ t.'iy contest* over seats.
I ■ ■::*. *l:iy a i.arti*:iil:i.rly shameless case
i .vas t > be decided, and Ger:> ral Cook f It
so ouiraged by ih,_. open rascality of both
contestants that h? lid not want to take
part in s-ating either. But he finally
consented ■.■> vote for thro democrat, on
the ground that, as one of the contest
i ants m ist g*-t the scat, it would be better
i for th-- democrats to put in their man.
i When the time came for the roll call,
however, tho old general had turned from
. the nans* atlng details ami was busj - read-
I Ing Suddenly the clerk called: "Cook
| The old general dropped his book and
I rose in a dazed and bewildered manin’r.
! Th n hr- remembered the sacrifice that
was expected of hint, but he had forgot
ten the name of the democratic contest-
( The clerk again called: "Cook of Goor-
Turnlng to one of his democratic col
: leagu s. the general inquired in a whisj
| that could be heard in every corner of the
ball;
| "John, which is our d- *1 rascal?”
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Been Beadin’ Riley.
One of the Benedict poets of The Ton
n< ssoe Farmer, who has boon reading
I: mes Whitcomb Riley's famous poem "a
l.lz Town Humorist,” breaks forth m
this imitative S o„ S ;
An set in the grocery store one night,
| A smokin' an' talkin'.
liile th** blaze In the fireplace shined up
bright—
I T's smokin' ,nn' talkin'.
Joems Hass ho allowed that the most |->v
fer one
M us a jug-fulj o' licker to stir up our
Lige Scott sorter halted 'twist licker an’
Es h*’ d plenty o' either he wan’t gwine to
Bill Siaggs liked a farm with its acres
untold.
An’ Zeke Barnes swore that he longed
most for gold.
As we all set smokin’ an' talkin'.
"Well, attic a mlnlt It come to my lot.
A smokin' an’ talkin';
■An * had boon thinkin' right smart tv'nar’
1 sot
A sm.ikin’ an’ talkin'
lh<*,- ,i:ti tno wealth.in the prize I like,
Au liek'j'. I sez- 'oven that dont strike.
I i a t Her gits sick or ho mopes around
blue.
Ihe things yon have named mav o’
course please you:
Put a tech of a hand an’ a lovin' kiss—
The "I*l woman's love that," 1 sez. “suits
me.”
An' 1 kept on smokin' an talkin'!”
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greatest In iglit. the peik of Mount’Ev
er»>st. 5 3-4 miles.
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