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6 THE GOHSTITBTIOH CLARK HOWELL Editor ROBY ROBINSON Business Manager Aeteredet the A tian tn PaaralHce a« Secaad Claaa Mail Matter, !*•▼. 11, IR?3. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, onlv St per annum. Clubs of fiv®. SI each; club® of ten, SI esch and a copy to retter-up of club. E WANT YOU—Th® Constitution wants an agent at every postoffice in America. Agent’s outfit free and good terms. If you are not In a club, we want you to act as agent at your office. Write ua. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—When ordering ad dress o? your paper changed always give the old os well ae the new address. Always give post office, county and state. If your paper ?s not received regularly, notify us and we will straighten the matter. IF YOU SEND US AN ORDER for new sub scribers. please allow us a week to get th® names on th® list and paper started before you write a complaint, as we are very much ciowded now. DO NOT FORGET to make your renewals In time. Watch your direction uiz and see when youi subscription expires. The next •lx month wltl be full of Interest, and you should not miss a single copy of The Con stitution. K»end your orders at least a week in advance to make sure. It may not rake a week in every instance, as we use th® greatest diligence to get them on our mail ing list. Women Wage-Earners Wanted. Elsewhere in The Constitution wo print a story of the scarcity of women workers for the industries in this city that sorely need such help and pay fairly for It. Why such a state of affairs should exist in this city of ex cellent climate, of an industrial society and of opportunities for work and wages to be found in better abundance scarcely anywhere is a fact bristling with puzzling interrogations. It is undeniable that there are more women in Atlanta than men. The cen sus returns prove it. It is equally un deniable that thousands of these wo men. young and old, must either add to the family income or be content with but a squalid support. Which are they electing to endure? We have already commented upon the scarcity of men laborers lor the i large construction works that are be- i ing done in Atlanta and vicinage. Now comes tne more enigmatic demon stration that women workers in cloth ing and other employments, where wo men can be fully and providently en gaged. are lacking. If the true meaning of It all Is that I our men and women who need to > work are already comfortably employ ed that fact will be matter lor splen did congratulation. The suggestion made by Mr. Nun nally that it is necessary to seek in the country districts for women who need work and are willing to come to the reputable and '-.’ell-paid employ ments that await them is probably the solution of the present case. All through the south there are hun dreds of good women, single or widow ed. who could infinitely better their existing life by coming where they are-wanted, where their wages will — —BSako them easily able to support, their families and at the same time get schooling and better opportunities for the children dependent upon them. An infusion of such people, accustom ed to labor and willing to do so when paid fairly will be for the benefit of the community and its women-eraploy- Ing enterprises. It would open new doors of hope to those who find life hard and hazardous on the farms and in the mountain cabins and inaugural •- a new field of ambition for hundreds who would prepare to follow on to the city and its workshops as the demand lor their work expands. It is to be hoped that this call for working women will find its way to the homes of hundreds who are now but existing upon the scant returns of their rural life and labors and bring them hither to newer and more hope ful situations. Crumpacker Bobs Up Ayain. Taking advantage of a lull in the race riots and lynchings in his own state, Congressman Crtirnpackcr crawls out of his cellar and offers a few more remarks on his plan tor re ducing the representation of the south ern states in congress and furnishing more fuel to the fires of passion out of which race troubles grow. Mr. Crumpacker, it is well to notice. Is not pretesting against, the disfran chisement of negroes in the south. He is perfectly resigned to their elimina tion by any means that the southern states choose to employ, and concerns himself alone with the penalty. He wants to count out the disfranchised negroes, efface them from the basis of representation and give to each south ern state only the representation that Its white voters would be entitled to were our negroes all in Africa, or heaven, or Lades. The unique plan he has in mind is to base representation on the number of votes cast in the preceding election for congressmen. That would be a peach of a system to Pennsylvania bal lot box stuffers and to count-quick elec tion officers of any state. It would cut down more than one-half the re pre ant at ion of Maine. Connecticut and Massachusetts, as Instances, and would not affect Georgia for a minute, because we do not disfranchise any bpdy who does not deliberately dis franchise himself. From all which facts it duly appears that of all the enemies of the negro’s political rights the Hon. Mr. Crum packer, of Indiana, is the worst ever! Fop-Gun Currency Legislation. The demand for something in the line of currency legislation by the en suing congress Is becoming so strong that the republican leaders feel they must face the issue and no longer dodge it entirely. With the fact almost definitely fixed that the Fowler house bill and the Ald rich-Hanna senate measure will gore each other to death there is arising a strong Influence in favor of going at the currency question with pop-gun The first of these would be a bill to allow customs receipts to be deposited in national banks on securities ap proved by the secretary of the treas ury That would keep, m cunent shape millions that are daily locked up and must go the grand rounds o. tr as ury routine before they get back into the channels of commerce. Tb« second Is to repeal the law that THE COTTON CROP AND ITS GOLDEN BETURN TO THE SOUTH. The article from The Boston Textile Record, which we print else where, contains facts which are of exceeding importance to the cot ion planters and the business men generally in the south. The south produces now three-quarters of the total amount of cotton raised ou the face of the earth every year. We use for American con sumption two out of every five pounds that we produce. Three-fifths of our crop is exported and amounts to nearly twice as much is uisc by the balance of the world. At the same time there is a constant short age of cotton for the mills of the world and not an unused bale is car ried over by them from one season to tne next. The settlement <>f i.< w countries and the bringing of new people from crude to civilized wants of life are enlarging the demand for cotton goods. Nothing else than cot ton can answer to that demand. The argument of The Textile Record from the range of prices, for cotton during the last fifty years. Including the war period, viewed with relation to other conditions of business, that the present ptice of cotton is a more nearly normal price than has ranged for the past twehe years is almost a mathematical demonstration. The current notion with so many that the present market Is due to speculative manipulation solely does not seem to be borne out by .he con ditions of the cotton producing countries and the state of the milling in dustry throughout the world. For a long time the south can scarcely in crease its crop because of the physical inability of our people to handle larger crops withthe labor forces at our command. The efforts of other nations, notably of Germany in the Tongo country in Africa, and of Eng land in India and Egypt, do not warrant the belief that the European manufacturing world can ever get any measurable independence of the American cotton producer. The bulls who have put. the market up by buying near-by options say that they have done so because they knew that cotton would be In suffi cient demand to warrant their movement and so far the facts seem to bear them out. At any rate, up to date they have been able to find the faith and the cash to keep up the game. If they have made a mistake the advent of the new crop will soon make the fact evident and prices will go backward. We are inclined to think, however, that the bulls are nearer right In their calculations than the manufacturers and pessimists contend. As far as reliable figures from the world at large Indicate there is to continue a shortage of cotton to meet the growing demand upon manufactures. If all these claims of the bulls, and the facts abroad of which we have spoken, hold fast after the new crop gets fairly into market It will mean the addition of $150,000,000 so the pockets of the southern cotton planters. This means that the coming cotton and cotton seed crop will yield the farmer —the raw crop—about $600,000,000, and that Is no mean recompense for the many lean years that they have had to suffer In the last decade. Since it is of so much Importance to the people of the south to see the normal price of their staple restored permanently around 11 cents per pound, they should do all in their power to take the control of their product out of the control of the people whose interests demand cheap cotton. They can do this in tw > slble ways: One is to make themselves able to hold their surplus crop within theirown control by securing an inde pendence with reference to breadstuffs, requiring as now the delivery of their mortgaged crops at the time when prices are always lowest; and the other Is to encourage the increase of cotton manufacturing in their own territory and the taking up of more of their crop at home, thus making great savings in tare, commissions and transportation charges There are less than a million cotton farmers in the south and tills $600,000,000 crop in a single year—exclusive of all other sources of in come —should put them a long way toward ihe ideal condition of being able to live on a cash, rather than a credit, basis. Those manufacturers and consumers who do not live in the south are Interested in having cotton at as low figures as possible, tiie one be cause he gets an actual profit out of th low niiced stapl- a:d the other because he thinks he can get his cot.on goods cheaper i. the price of cotton is low —wholly ignoring the fact that the manufacturer has the benefit of republican protective, tariffs that enable him to charge the home consumer what he pleases without any reference to the price that he pays the cotton raiser for his product. But the producers, who are also consumers, and the manufacturers In the south can well afford to have cotton sell at the highest possible mark. What the farmer loses in paying a higher price for his cotton goods Is but a small slice out of his profits on his crop at top figures. What, the southern manufacturer may seem to Jose in paying a higher price for his raw cotton lie more than makes up in the many advantages of nearness to the field from which the crop is taken, end especially in the general benefit, in which he shares. Hence alt persons interested in the south are on the side of high priced cotton, as they ought to be. The outsiders and the foreigners pay the freight and the profit, and must take of the latter only wk at the south cannot, for lack of looms and labor, keep at. home. The fact appears to be that the south has the cotton situation at its command, if our planters will only stand together and become inde pendent of the western, packing houses and corncribs. Then they '.ill be able to make the price of their staple bear a dost r and more right eous relation to the demand that, is already made upon their fields and that is growing larger every day that, civilization makes another sun march. Every reason is in sight, why the southern cotton raiser should in a few years become the most independent producer of a raw staple that the world has ever known. prohibits the retirement of more than $3,000,0v0 per month of national bank notes. With that n-peal the banks would take out more notes as needed and retire them when not needed and interest rates are lowest. Then the asset currency question would come in another bill, purely on Its merits, and congress could pass upon i without being hampered by other complex questions with which it is now entangled. On the face of the situation and the evident, need of the country for a more expansive and abundant currency in circulation we are inclined to think these pop-gun acts would be far better for business than no currency legisla tion of any sort. « - The Crowning of Lanier. In the “American Men of Letters” series a volume is accorded to Sidney Lanier. After al! his own years of want and work of weariness from pur poseful wanderings iu the vast firma ment of imagination that mirages a spiritualized earth, this poet of trie south is, v,itho.it the aid of any per sonal advocate, accorded the apoth eosis of artistic fame. Stephenson Browne points out that twenty-five years ago. even alter had sung the American pean from the centen nial platform, Lis work was the jibe of the irreverent gad-flies es tile press and purblind critics t :ok savage de light in scarifying the sensitive self consciousness of the gentle. Anacreon of the south. But the slow equities of lime and study have gradually massed a host of converging judgments to nominate him as one of the immortals of so much of our literature as is worthy to be called classic. Now in a well ordered and finely discriminated gal lery of the American children of the sun his name is given a shining set ting and righteous placement. But one other southern author appears in the same company—the gifted and graceful William Gilmore Simms. This paucity of southern representa tion cannot be justly attributed to prejudice against our authors. The explanation and proof is found in the fact that, in the “American Statesmen” series of biographies fifteen southern ers overbalance the thirteen northern ers so signalized. Every Informed southerner knows that prior to tbe iHE WEEKLY CONSTATUI’AONi ATLAJ9T4U MONDAY. AUGUST 10, 1903. civil war our men of brains and ex pression gave themselves witli an a! must oriental devotion to the study and practice of statesmanship, ljn.il the event of that war they carried ihe eagles in almost, every political con flict and were acknowledged past mas ters in statecraft. Since the war oir possibilities have been limited by the harshness of our political situation and the enforced necessity to carry on a long, humiliating defense of confes sion and avoiriance. Whenever the courage of southern representatives grows up to their occasions the old efficiency wMI come back and tiie old victories bo repeated. The honor now tard.ly done to Sid ney Lanier will be applauded wher ever his name has gone into the study and the school. The art, of his work manship and the inherent opalescent glories of his masterpieces, each oval as the face of a divinity and pure of purpose as the heart of a saint, will grow in cultured approbations as long as literature maintains a shrine in the midst of our increasingly barbaric materialism. Herein, however, is an Inspiration to the ambitions of routhera authors. The works of cur fictional and historic writers are gaining a better fame every year and there is good reason to hope that as the series of “American Men of Letters” lengthens the south erners may overtake and pass all competitors. ■ ’ ——— The Retirement of Miles. Saturday Lieutenant General Miles sheathed his sword for the last time in the active service of the army. He goes into retirement and Major Gen eral Young succeeds him, only to give up the office of commander in chief of the army next Saturday and become chief of the general staff. Concerning General Miles and his past services to the nation it is diffi cult to speak acceptably from the southern point of view. The case is peculiar. The southern people’s knowledge of Milos was during his command of Fortress Monroe, while ex-President Jefferson Davis was a prisoner in one of its casemates. That knowledge of him is associated with acts of inhumanity and brutality which have never been successfully justified and which the people of the south, ordinarily generous to a fault, have never forgotten. Besides, it. seems the veriest irony of fate that one who has since ap proved himself so capable a soldier on frontier fields and so courageous in opposition to army maladministra tions, should lay off his epaulettes to an administration of his own parly that is rejoiced to see him go as a good riddance of bothersome baggage. Under the circumstances we do not feel warranted in commenting serious ly upon the incident. General Miles is not the first and will not be the last, to learn that, lie who serves as the tool of evil men’s passions can never retain their favor or earn a hero's place in the memories of a just people. Such a man is doubly desolate. Pius X— The Ardent Man. So unexpected was the announce ment of the election of Sarto to the papal crown that only the cable ac counts of his personality, career and possibilities are at command. But they give abundant reason for the first faith that the conclave has been led to a wise, safe and. spiritually pro phetic choice. If this conclusion shall be confirmed by following advices the whole Christian and political world will have reason to congratulate the sacred collego for a great exhibition of courage and conservatism. Unless the ancient prophecy is here and now to be broken, the ardent man has been found and if a divine influ ence has really guided the choice this ardent man will be “a burning fire” of the wholesome sort. Unless, in fact, he shall change his nature and record as he changes from cardinal priest to pope the Roman ( atholic world has gained a pontiff who v.ill inflame altar fires rather than camp fires and ensue peace as the field of ;orces that will bring brilliant and lasting victories, more to be esteemed han those gain able by reaction and conflict. It was a happy event for the church when Leo XIII form'd and followed his great policy of humanity and Chris tian humility to irrevocable circum stances; when he entered into a gen uine vicarship of The Man of Sorrows and The Prince of Peace. But. a hap pier day to the church will be the yes terday when a great, devout preacher, a charitable administrator and icono clast of false images succeeded to the tiara of Leo and the world-wide opportunities liis reign of a quarter of a century opened to his successor. Pins X evidently assumes his pon tifical name impressed by its own sig nificance rather than from grateful and sympathetic feeling with Pius IX. His promotions and his strong churoh ly ami personal attach nonts were all with Leo. It Is fair to assume that two-thirds of the eon' lave were anx ious to make no selection that, would Initiate a departure from the linos fol lowed by Leo and so he choice gravi tated to one thorough!.' imbued with, the polity and person. ] aims of the pontiff who has just passed on ahead. The character of Pins X appears to be on” of meekness combined with energy. of deep piety ullb'd to policies for the uplift and betterment of hu manity. Under the r- of such a man the church showi-l ■’ st-«a>tn» forward in favor and ft "dom. and find herself received and respected every where as a communion as active for good ns she Is ancient of priestly and spiritual heritage. An Untenable Suffrage Plan. The question of “Suffrage and Rep resentation" is fairly and ably discuss ed l.y the editor of Gunton’s Magazine in ihe August issue. The editor is a republican, but ho does not Imsitate to say that, "the fifteenth amendment was a mistake" and that the political end of the negro problem lias finally come to this condition, that "it Is no longer a question of enforcing negro suffrage, but one of adjusting the repressutatlori in congress to the suffrage in the slates," and that, this must apply to all states alike, whether in the north or in the south. It is admitted that, the only perhaps unconstitutional part of southern suf frage laws is “ihe grandfather clause,” and that could be abolished, cither by the states having it or by the supreme court, without endangering ti; ■ gaiety of those states from negro domination. The editor admits that educational or property qualifications are clearly within the rights of the states and these rights tire employed in suffrage legislation by northern republican states, as they are by southern demo cratic states in the south. Hence, in his argument,, he sees no necessity for abolishing the fifteenth amendment simply to exclude from suffrage rights ihe innocuous minority of those negroes who can qualify under existing laws prescribing qualifications lor voters that are equal, non-discrim inating and perfectly constitutional. Nor can congress override the consti tutional basis of representation by re sorting to tiie method set out in the fourteenth amendment, 'i iiat those who ratified that amendment did not mean to change the basis of representation, pro rata to population in the states, is evidenced by the fact that there was no thought implied in any of the. after war amendments to cui down th . equal representation of the stales in the sen ate, under any circumstances affect ing suffrage, ami that representation in the house could not be reduced ex cept as a penalty upon a state for its own specific act of disqualifying ne groes by reason of race, color or pre vious condition of servitude. Mr. Gunton concludes that the only way to get at a righteous settlement of the negro suffrage matter is to let the states regulate the qualifications for suffrage within their constitutional right and to adjust the basis of repre sentation to the total number of intel ligent qualified voters of each state who had the right to vote in the last proceeding presidential election. The trouble in such a plan would be that the apportionment of representation would have to bo made every four years and not upon a census basis; but upon state returns of qualified voters. The plan is untenable on its face. The better thing to do is to leave the suffrage question where it is —in the hands of the states. Gold Streams in Porto Rico. San Juan. I'urtc 111. •. August s.—Dr. John Claton Gifor-S. formerly of Cornell univer sity, is ex; loring the new I.H-juJla forest re serve in Porto Hi.’o on behalf of the bureau • e fore: fry .it Washington. lie reports the ili!-<T»v<-ry <-i new g- Id streams, the soil in which is crudely panned by a few natives and hugh aromatic gum trees of an unnamed snec.lpn. MIDNIGHT-dark midnight. The heavens had been Illumined with bursting shells and sky rockets ever since nightfall, and it kept our side of the river in alarrn. but General French was over there with 7,000 troops, fresh from Texas, and these, witli old Joe John ston's forces at Resaca, could whip Sher man .ill to plci-.'s. Every now and then we sent a messenger over to General French to know if all was sax;. Would old Joe certainly fight at Resaca, or would he lire and fall back. -More anil more terrific the bombs kept bursting and nearer and nearer and near er they came, closer to the roofs of our houses. Another messenger was sent to General French, but he assured us ii was ail right. But about midnight the general sent a message that Sherman bad cross ed tiie river and would burn Home and the bridges in half an hour and the troops had orders to move up ihe railroad. Then came the tug of wgr. Tiie aii.dery had already reached the cros.nir. ami were loading the cars, with everything iu a jam. Tiie highway of 8.-uau siree., from one bridge to thg other, was crowd ed, and not a soldier could ih.d iltaw room. But fit lll they moved. We bad loaded our rockaway with baggage ai.U my lovely wife and numerous tmibirin I walked along outside in silence to keen off intrudej-s until we found ourselves right in the thick of the soldiers. Some were, yelling, some were whooping, some were cursing, and pretty soon there wan a crash and a bang and the doors of the stores flow open and the soldiers rushed In. J.ust then my old friend Meyerhart yelk’d out: "Oh, mine tobacco!” But Colonel Cameron was desperate and rode Into the store behind them and whaled them over the heads with his sword and ordered them all out, but It made th<u. all mad to think they couldn't take the tobacco the enemy would plunder In a few minutes. They cursed and raved fu-’.j is ly, but It made no difference with *he colonel. Tobacco wasn't all. They load ed down with tobacco and then began on caps and bonnets and sugar and coffee. After we had all crossed the bridge l» was a funny cavalcade. Long lines »t troops matching up 'the long cemetery hill, jj,rrayed with jj.omen’s garments on —bonnets and shawls and— But the pro cession didn't turn out of the big road. It turned up Into the cemetery and be gan their vandalism there. They got hammers and broke up the Iron railing and 'tumbled down thj; tombstones and monuments and then knocked the sol diets' head stones to pieces, all except one. and that was tile handsome one. of Lieutenant Bayard Hand, of the United States navy. They let that go untouched, because he was a United States officer. All the rest were broken to pieces and tumbled down the hill. My Ijyther and son ami brothers suffered the same fate, it was shameful! From the top of that hill they burnt the bridge and tired their shells across the town and destroyed everything that would burn. Then they followed us for ti miles to Sliver creek, where we were go ing to stop for coffee, for we were expect ed to take breakfast and rest. But camp followers pursued us and told us the Yan kees were close behind and for us to get up and hitch up and get away from there. So we hurried the harness on and struck a trot for Euharlee creek, and as we crossed the bridge it wabbled like a snake. Then we journeyed up a long rocky hill and that night camped near an old house and sent up there to borrow a skillet to fry some meat and the old man said he was washing his feet in it, but .«•' noon us. ii» got UirougM lie would send it down. Next camp was in the suburbs of At lanta and next, morning we found that two of our servants had departed to Rome and we lost them for good. One of them came back. The other went t> Chattanooga. The other came back to us last week rim! said 1 was just as good looking as when 1 got married, and she flattered up my wife so that she loaded her down with fancy scraps and calico and told her to come bn :k. find she said she "shorely would." She went on down to Jonesboro, where the children camped, and from there we went down to Ala bama to dodge the thick of the fight ami save our cotton and cow peas. But it j dident save the cotton and my wife and i children got away from there and she escaped by a round about way to Coving- I ton and run over a lot of soldiers and I from there to tiie plantation and took I refuge at m Y wile's old river home and took a rest where her father lived. Our next move was homeward, where we found darkness and desolation—not a bed or bedstead or mattress or bureau or chair or cooking vessel—nothing but th" miked floor. No lard or meat or sugat or coffee; no nothing; not a hog or chicken or cow. Well, I did find a cow, for which I paid $3,500 In confederate money. I had long before that sold the cotton for a piano in Madison and the yanke s burnt it up. But we lived and still live—thank the good Lord for IBs mercies. BILL ARI*. MR. WATSOFSJHISTORY. (From The New York Journal.) The great revival of Interest In the personality and all that appertains to Thomas Jefferson is due in a great de gree to Clark Howell, editor in chief of The Atlanta Constitution. Like otKl’r patriotic students of na- ■ tional affairs, Mr. Howeil made a. study ■ of the great author of the Declaration ; of Independence. He realize.! that the tonic tiie thought of this country needed was a course of Jefferson, and to Iris encouragement and persistency was due the remarkable work on "The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson" from the pen of Thomas E. Watson. Mr. Howell announced his belief that a sympathetic history of the founder of democracy could only be written by a southern man. Mr. Watson’s work has Justified his hope. It has made the real Jefferson familiar to the mass of the people, who only knew the inadequately sketched fig ure of the text-books, drawn by men who could not resist obtruding their own pygmy Judgments of the giant's words and motives. Where It. Hurts Them. (From The Chattanooga Times.) Vermont newspapers have recently manifested quite a restive spirit under the widespread crltieirm of their suffrage laws, and are dis posed io exhibit a deg e of sensitiveness hith eito cliim-'d to be a fault sclely of, the south ern pi':.-. The Rutland Herald grows quite vigorous in Its protect against The Atlanta Constitution and other newspapers that have recently cited the Vermont e institution on the subject of the franchise, but ail the same it has not been able to explain away the fact that the voter in that state is almost entirely at the m. rcy of the election autheritles. It is noticeable that The Herald and other New England newspapers do not find anything wrong with the Vermont law. their only la ment seeming to come from a realization of the fact that they will hereafter be comewhat embarrassed in hurling anathemas at the southern election laws. In other words, thej find themselves in the attitude of the prover bial Individual who endangers his own safe ty by throwing stones during the period of his own occupancy of a glass house. jC. Stanton, “We’ll Pull Through.” Spite of all the trouble, We'll pull through— Single-file, or double, We’ll pull through. What though the tempest blows O'er worlds of human woes, Somewhere we'll reap the rose— We'll pull through; No toll but hath reward, We'll pull through! Still Love of I.ife is lord— We'll pull through! O, tollers in the Night, Wrong never rules the right; With faith serene and bright We'll pull through! Warm Your Soul Awhile. Sjlite of all the weather All the world can smile; Find a little sunshine— Warm your soul awhile! Spite of all the shadows Os the lonesome night. Hear the mornin's music— Dream the dreams of light! Hear the bells clear-ringin' 'Neath tile sun and moon; Life will soon be singln' If your soul’s in tune! The Good Time. Don’t the city’s toil and trouble, when the summer days are long, Mak.? you wish for quiet valleys, where the silence is a song? I Al- t just a little longing for the bills—the waterfall, ; Hedged and hampered in a city where a memory is all? 4*900 Tlte Harvest Song. We’ll sing song of harvest yet, In sun light uni In dew, When the vi >rld is Use a picture ’neath a livin' sky of blue! A song to echo sweet Where you hear the w'.rid's heart beat In the thrilling air around you, and the grasses at your feet! A Rain Song. Slch a rainy season A-cornin’ by-an’-by; But Sun will play de hidc-an’-se?k Tander, in de sky. Llly’l look so lonesome- Violet hide his eye; But de skies will do yo’ weepin’, So, honey, don’t you cry! Wen de rain is over, Violet dress In blue; Red Rose say; "I sweet terday— An' here's a kiss for you!" • • • « • As Usual. I This country’s goln’ to have her way Tn spite of nil the big folks say; There will be flowers and fish In May, As usual! Tn spite of every hunter’s alm We'll have our ’possum Just the same, And ducks In Georgia’ll be as game As usual! Then shout your loudest ha.llelu! When It don't rain, the sky Is blue! The Lord—He will take care of you As usual! The Philosophy of It. Write it down ez gospel— No matter what dey say. De airthquake never hurt vou ’Less you In de airthquake way! De I>awd—he make de country; Man ’low de country his; But de fire never burn you Es you stay sum whar it is! You ’bleege ter rickernize It, En know what makes a load. Es you ain’t a-wantin' trouble, Give trouble all de road! The Riddle. Riddle for the Sages: A Spirit, lost in Night, Sweet sang a song of Morning Who never knew its light. And men looked from the shadow And saw the morning's beams. Or In Life's midnight reaped the stars, Bright-scattered through their dreams. And earth knew more of Maytime, And less of wintry blight While the music of that Spirit’s voice Was rippled into light. Riddle for the Sages! A soul no dark could bind, Yet lost in night, and singing Os light to all mankind! * • * 4t € On the Glad Way Hunger not for us, O. graves 'neath the snow! A little tnore sunlight. And Horn we will go! What (1 .’.’in • are h reafier Wo seek not to know; A little more laughter. Then tears and we'll go! *• (I * * * To Love. O, T.ovp, strtv i iny! Even though the Night be trampled still of Wrong; Purely the mornlmr is not far away— The storm is brightening with the rain bow’s ray. The Light! The Light! where darkest shadows throng— O, Love, stay long! Bro.her Dickey's Philosophy. De good book soy dat de meek shill : inherit de alrth. en dey may inherit it. but de Ltw.i knows, dey don't git it. Self-denial Is a good thing fer de yuther feller to practice. Adam wuz too fond er apples to be a success in de fru.lt busi ness. Some er de big preachers is now sayin’ | dat dey'll be no rishi' for de body. Es dat should be do case, it’ll be a big disap pointment for some folks what done made up dey mind dey'd ylt raise sand. A ThilosopLer. Never heed the weather; Days are warm enough to be Like thorn that made the blossoms give | their red an' white to me; The sap will soon b" tinglin’ through the chill veins of tbe tree. An' you'll rise with the roses in the ■. mornln'! Never heed the weather: There are little spots o’ green. Tn the valleys an' the meadows, where the frost is never seen; The lilies in the sunshine over rippled rivers lean, It'll pretty soon be springtime In the mornin'! • ♦ ft * * The Old Man's View of It. Tills is the way the old man wrote to | the youth who had gone north tn em bark in the literary business: Dear Bill: Mo an’ yer mother has come to the conclusion that you’re a dead failure in the literary business. You seem to draw well, but the drawir.’ is all down this way,—and for money. Come , back home. I've got two mules now, j an' I think you'd be a success at. man- j agin' one of ’em!” JPlunkott. MOULD we blow our own horn?’ This is the question. I say yes’ we praise our section? I Stir up enthusiasm and. like bees, the 1 people will settle down to the tinkle that I pleases the most. T C"uid b---“ I ”’d th" ’- : sands of visitors from a distance to at -1 tend the associations, tlje veterans’ re unions and the Sabbath school celebra tions as we have within the last month. To say that we have had a good time is putting it mild and to say that stiangeis wuu.u nave nwn impressed lavoruuiy can be stated as a certainty. Me and Brown both have gained twenty pounds apiece in the last month and we will weigh two hundred apiece If the gain keeps up through campmeeting time. W: have already attended one campmeeting, but we failed to realize « gain in flesh by a little mishap that was as naturt as It was provoking In its results. Brown as usual, made a bad break on the fust morning after our arrival and nothing would do him but what we must return home at once. In the early morning he was the first one up on the grounds, and in nosing around, as he does always "nose, ’ he discovered a pretty foot that had worked itself all unconsciously under tbe sheet that hung to divide the male sleepers from the side of the females In the tent. It was nothing to miake a great ado over, but Brown thought that every fellow on tiie male side would like to gaze on the pretty foot and ankle and so he waked us all up and pointed In great glee at tbe object. Os course, we had t<> look, and while we were looking my old friend decided that he was just Obliged to see what ladv's foot it was. He sneaked out and to the entrance of the tent and peeped In at the sleeping lady. when. Io and behold! he discovered that th.: pretty foot that he had taken such pleas ure to exhibit belonged to his own dear wife. He rushed frantically back to where we had remained to stop the gaze of the men he had himself invited to look. He gently but firmly pushed the foot back to its own side, pulled down the curtain close to the ground and with cold perspiration dropping from his brow he went out for a stroll. The men had the Joke on him and they teased him to such an extent that nothing would do but his crowd and my crowd should re turn to homes at once—as we all went In tile same wagon I had to comply, and thus, I am sure, was lost two or three pounds of flesh to myself, for eating was j abundant arid my appetite was : what like that of my old friend's on for- I rner occasions. He has promised me a. j full half gallon of good corn to not tell ! the joke -around home on him, and I shall not if he stands to his promise. Ev.si'yinin« InvlTis cheerfulness In this I section or country. Cotton Is backward in fruiting, but I never saw such pros | pects for corn and hay In all my days. There has been some little speculation or. tin- prospects of a war with Russia, some predi.tl’ig a world-wide war. but when I had watched and studied Brown for v-;n hour my verdict was that there would be no war. 1 know Brown so well that I am sure he would feel it in bls bones if there was as great prospect for war as many would have us believe. If war ' was probable I think Brown would know j it by Instinct and he would be setting upon a place to hide when the conscript officers come. Instead, he has taken unto himself a boastful military air. and a stranger would think he never dodged ti- m a bomb shell in his life nor hid out to escape the conscript. If war was Imminent lie would be drooping around with rheumatism, spinal affliction, dim ness of sight, dropsy of the chest, heart failure, dizziness In the head, softening of the brain, hereditary Insanity and sev enty-live or thirty other ailments, too numero is to mention. He even had tiie impudence yesterday to let me hear him say tiiat he wished Russia would give us a chance to whip her—he was sure that he could whip four, five to seven of the rascals by himself and would be glad of the chance to tty it. 1 ask no better evide ce than Brown’s condition to con vlnce me that we will have no war in tti near future and so we settle down to an enjoyment of the sweet j.eatce tint is But a more important thing than wars or rumors of war confront the people of the south today. Our own native born people, both white and black and both male and female, seem to have a craze to avoid rural pursuits. The demand for labor on public works and the high wages paid is having the effect of causing our farm labor to loose its head. If our na tive-born people will leave the farms, then we must invite people from a dis tance. Too much land is being turned out to sedge and briars. To stop this we must have people at a distance who have felt tile sting of congested centers and learned the wisdom of sticking to agricu’.ture. know and bo impressed with the opportunity that is here in Georgia. We have the best country in the world if people only k>;"w it. Those wt. : shiver in the cold blizzards of the north ought to know that they could tniss all tnis freezing by coming south, and those who sink from the inisnse heat of the north ern summers ought to know that we have no such heat in Georgia—l never knew a sunstroke in the confines of Georgia territory. It is distressingly cold at the north in winter and uistressingh and dangerously hot in summer. We have no such menace here, and I want strangers to understand it. Not such as would come to our towns and in where it is already m overcrowd, but farmers, field hands.' people with sense, to know that farming '■ fers the greatest oppor tunity that is b. fore us today, and th» sweetest peace and respectability. When you come south on prospective tours—we address this to strangers at a distance—don't stop In and around the towns. Go out into the country among the count'.. <_ H.I'W ■; here sometimes when our associations are meeting at. the country churches, and Sunday school- are joyful in the gr’■. eg around th.? springs, or camp meetings are in blast, and then you may see tbe peo ple just :is they are. Some strangers have an idea that this is a lanrr for chills and fever and other malarial drawbacks, come and look upon the blooming health that you will find pictured in the faces of the as-embied crowds and all such thought will pass forever. Some, only a few think, are foolish enough to have a sort of notion that Georgia Is a sort of ktiklux land when it comes to dealing with strangers from a distance. If vou will come you will soon dismiss any such notion ns that and decide that, taking everything together, the south is ihe m st favored land on earth and offers the greatest opportunity for those v. ho will come to work the fields—don’t come if vou mean to crowd the towns, unless you will crowd out our own native born and crowd sense enough into their heads to know that they ought to stick to the farm, boys, stick to the farm. This Is my advice. SARGE PLUNKETT. They Surely Did It. (From The Portland Oregonian.) Here ft is again—a misrepresentation of Massachusetts history which is bound to go on evidently to the end nf time: "The south did not originate the burning of people for crimes. The practice originated in Massachusetts.” The Atlanta Constitution should know better than this. Witch,.-- were hang- 1 under Eng lish. law in Massachiteetts, never burned Sp rlngfie! d Re-pub lie an. A negro slave was burned for murder In Massachusetts about the middle of the eight eenth century, and a number of n.-gro slaves were burned in New York city. These burn ings, however, were executed by the authort tieti and were not the work of a mob.
