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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.
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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!
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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.