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A Bird in the Hand.
Panama has asserted her independ
ence of Colombia with a quickness and
success de facto that savors less of
American imitation than instigation.
Yet w e are sure that whatever ci ex
traneous instigation tin I’anamans
i.ad was from mIA .duals ami not
from our government authorities. Nev
» rtheless. th*. Panamans are masters
of the local sitmuiim on tm Aiiimus.
having imprisoned or expelled the Co
lombian authorities, ami wi are nec
essarily bound to deal with the tacts
ami tbo fellows who c.'nli'.tl.
ii-m-e the qualified rec ignition given
by one government to t.>. pew. rs that
are in Panama.
Bui. tliis loaves Colombia iu the tiis-
< ousoiate attitude pi. Hired iu out car
toon of the nay.
Colombia as of::,-u- y organiz.. d at
Bogota, untierto.,h on.: of Hu. largest
"stand and games oi the
’m
'rick turned by St. Charles Schwab.
Colombia wauled ■ taitii and tin
whole thing on :ae side. We offered
her sl(l,l»p'i. .' " Just make her feci
also offered ». a year foi the
privilege of ?r>inn our rights *
along Cue canal. But lh“ sound of
mu h hixurio..,. ..' ir. ■ th. a;■; ■ Ute
of the hungry ....hats at Bogota alite
uid they want . some » • • from
Uncle Sam on on. hand >'• . S<'’.■
pany on the •■' h‘ '■ •>■■■ ■ Thee w, rc
rue two birds d< -1., i that the in
expressible sand agget o Bogota
imagined they i :-. -■ ■' by ;•••-.:• iny
>..» do basin ss with vt: an hon-'st :
basis.
Now Panama be < cum s indei 1
and is liktiy ;o -’ey . o >0" will
gracefully take m vur $' .w) !
proposition amt wm-t; :’ < vua i.-ted
1 ' ■
Fiat Mi ney :■ i I iphm
Our delight! udy . .insist, nt go-u
standard gov* ■>.. nt e io a. gupti .
< qitaily deiigi ''■ ignorant Fiiipiiio.-
-I- • •• ~ . a ... Ir eV-l I'M
sage ot the i.l'-v . '■ ■< to
\\ e w < re
horriiyiug ; u-.d<: !■ >nt ci ve
. oniinued to a.igim i.y
would soon I in a- -d. ua.i;.-
am .alt was vei. .. ~mi .--ii.-rman
<-limine by the goimnm :.t v . iioul
The goc.-rnr; ■ ... As l.arn- just
< oine I ioi tie ; . '. , ,u
p< so.- from r .md m . r base
not rnni< nt pay '' v him.
ma ices ov. ■: cm* ■i * ! e. tm- etui re
sum of its Asm.' iu . proiits ami
••if money is in actual
m-nts in tpc :>
th.- Filipim < ..m • ■ . .-b .
vengeance w 1 do not know the mean
ing of words atm .- it silver falls
below present I’ 1 .- -s th. greate-r wi’l
be the fiat idcim n-. Ii :m> ; tis.-s still
higher the great.-r will >. ■ the robbery
oi the Filipinos .a their foreign ex
changes.
Lessons tor th’- Common People.
In a recent academic address Con
gressman Boutell, <:■: chb ago. uttered
'l;< following v< ry s-nsible and timely
warning:
mmimfis- itiii-*t. ems tim cur-.. This
-■ tl.e age of an mdividu Cism which P is
• t!-’.;r. d t:m > ' < timt piv-ititnei?.- were
. sol.-iy tm> mdivi.iaal. but
lb.- individual ow- < th.-ni no allegiance.
i .ns s> nt.merit, if per mi tied to grow, will
The disease of wbi h th*- t emgo ss
man speaks singularly enough, the
-me that the r. publi'-an party to which
he belongs has most assiduously a : . i
successfully propagated. The genesis
o’ the ailment i. the convincing of the
individual that his party can do no
wrong, that it has a divine light to
i nJ, through it - dominion at Washing
ton. and all the voter needs to do is to
•■■tanri pa' .or tin* party ticket at the
polls.
Th-- s. indeed, an age of inert indi-
.-■mli :n. :i;*d the rcqmldicu'.i party is
n sponsible for it. That party has fos
ter* <1 and protected the syndicating
and trustation of everything in Amer
a t .f t once was free to individual-
DEMOCRACY'S STAR IN THE ASCENDANT.
The whole nation has read witii instinctive accuracy the signs of
the times as revealed by Tuesday’s elections.
Their individual importance has been subordinated to their revela
tion that the country at large is turning trustful eyes toward the
democratic party.
Hundreds of thousands of thoughful patriots are at last convinced
that their hope of relief from many governmental malfeasances is no
longer to be placed in the republican party. If those reliefs ami re
forms are to come at all they must come through the recall of the dem
ocratic party to the control of the national government.
One reading of the returns says that the people take no perma
nent faith in the claim that the democratic party is a destructive
party. Being composed of nearly, if not really more than one-half of
the entire national electorate the folly of believing that they would
seek to ruin themselves and the government under their control as a
measure of revenge upon a minority republican party is an absurdity
t*>o gross for th*' dullest intellect to harbor.
Good mi'ii, unskilled in polities, who were swayed from their dem
ocratic instincts in the 18!hi and Hhiu campaigns by the cry that the
democratic programme meant national dishonor, dishonest dollars lor
the poor man and the sinking of the country to a Mexican or Chinese
level are now being undeceived.
Another reading of the returns reveals that from Massachusetts to
Utah the democrats have made gains under circumstances that show
they were not given on local issues, but upon the ardent desire to
give notice that republican policies are partial, plutocratic and un
just as between classes and .sections. The understanding is growing
tha the republican party is not and cannot ever be a national party,
it is per sea sectional party, it < mbodies the dogmas and practices
i-i division and a punly patriot'- electorate can never have in it re
spectable n pr*'sentation from every state and section.
Patriots everywhere are becoming convinced that the dominance
.*f such a party is not desirable and that we should have in this
country a political reunion in fa* t and not one of line words and effer
vescent gush. Such a union they can now promote only through the
broad principles and equities of the democratic party.
Y*-t another reading of the ret urns shows that the democrats them
-..-lv<- in particular localities have allowed the elimination of certain
undesirable persons ami propositions that, were apples of discord with
in th* party ranks. Th. personages disposed of were not of the se
riousness and equipoise desired in democratic leadership and some of
the ideas of which they were the propagandists have no proper place
n a righteously construct , ->d democratic platform. By- these elimina
tions th* 1 democracy gains in reputation for sanity even more than it
has gained in actual votes.
These readings of the returns cannot be easily mistaken by demo
< ...ti, Faders. They indicate a growing popular demand and he is
not wise .-lime.) to be a leader of the democracy who proves purblind
to their significance.
'll,' people are demanding honesty in the conduct of public af
fair.-- They are tired of actual grafts and loots, and equally tired of
egi-lated loots, created ami protected by the republican party. I hey
‘ elieve in the old commandment "Thou shall not steal. ' and are ready
:*> : tai ; by that party whkh will stand on that issue and tlx that prin
ciple in governmental conduct.
On the tariff question the masses —and they are those who con
sum. more largely than they produce for their own account —want an
American tariff and not a monopoly, trust-breeding tariff. They- want
■ ■ . ssni y protection for American manufacturers, American producers
and American labor. They want a tariff under which a protected trust
<an no more rob the American consumer than the cheap labor, free raw
material old world would do if we bad no tariff.
With an honest government we would have reduced needs of reve
nue at*.: th'- tariff could h- -o revist ~i as to hold the scales of jus-
■ c* ,-ven between the holder of tie home markets and the millions
who buy n these same home markets.
The people want a currency that, is stable in value and elastic iu
.: laptability t > the vary ing needs of the country. Such a currency was
•emanded by the democracy of the Tilden year, 187 G, a curr< m-y of
v.ild and silver, and paper convertible into coin at the demand of
the holder. V t ’e have not such a currency now, although the repub
licans have often promised it. They have, not established the gold
.standard by last and they steadily refuse to weed out the dangerous
notes embodied in our i tirrency The people will support, the party
tii.it has the wisdom ami courage 'o stand agai.t for the Tilden de
mand abov. quoted.
The order of the day to every ibmoctat is to "let the dead past
urv its dead ’ and lor every Jive, sage and loyal member of the party
to f.oiit iaee toward th.- rising sui . The star of the democracy is the
,: U ... jiie day-spring. Th'.i' is a. thousand per cent, increase of hope
in dem*.cratic beans today otei that they held on Tuesday morning.
]■ o . A .-et together in earnest, unload every Jonah from their
. m;i'il" .id th*- ensign of "equal rights io all mt-n
.... | '..(■. jai privileges to ’ tbi-j can -ail confidently into the
a ~ U','4 and give ;. Santiago to the oppressors, looters and
..ja'-r-.lruiiK ciev. of it*’ republican Ibet.
i in. Ina is now '’oinmi't' ■! to eorptnate t
monopoly. A great deal ol vdm.atioti
- desirable to cotivinc'- ibe common
•itizen H'tii individualism is only to be
regained and made yiMiitai,)'.*.- ;>y tin
i:. '.ruction us criminal trusts.
The great lesson for the common
people to learn, and tnat will aroit.-*
.: in f rom imlif-■ : e.'ice io iiubhc tii
I IV, :... :..
:iie parly oi Congressman Boat ell i»
'ii" party *,f the oliguichy, the twin
devils of monopoly amt the corporation
against the man. Tha* is the evil
tiling to exorcised anti the ib-tno
iTaiic party aloue offers a protected
Individ*.ali-m and a release of the na
tion from the republican dragon.
Hie Education That Saves.
In another column we print, a k-i.t'T
iroiu an t-xperieucetl Georgia teacher
in which he commends strongly the
'■nd.-at .-r of't he Constitution to securi
th. r.iu.mal ami <-ff.,- tive r< ftrnuilion
of our common school methods.
The Constitution lias no other pur
pose than to serve tbe best interests
of tiie youtniul ill-rations of Geor
gians whose only educative prepata
ti -*i lor after life ami progress must
b- ~ it" n itt ti-' common schools or
th rural districts ami the smaller vil
lages and towns. We have no fixed
fad to exploit. We want only that
i-very patent iu Georgia who has. a
i-nitd to send to the schools lor the
two to live years possible shall get for
that child *he surest, most practical
ami mind-useful knowledge that our
money can afford it.
The lasi eotd'erence of county com
missioners reveal' d tha’ there ate cry
ing needs in the . < huol system of the
state. One is for better school houses.
Some Georgians who claim to be
proud, well-to-do and of Christian
virtues, seem 'viliing to let their chil
dren spend their school hours in
houses that but few humane men
would employ to house their favorite
horses and milch cows.
Tiie growiing of ignorant and nn
pi..press:v, mtn over the cost of ed
it* ding the * hildrtn of the state is not
only inhumane bur intlocent. Super
intendent Brittain, of this county, in a
r,., m article reprinted by us from
the great periodical, The Worlds
Work, says:
I: is *i signifircut ami deplerabl*' t.iet
i. : ., th e court house ami jail of the
Hv r.i-z. .- "mty represent. :is a rule the
tnvi-stm., nts ot' more mom y than all .ts
'-ebool Imuses combim-il- tlmt is, we com
monly spend more to convict and homt<
■i .'rimirn:! than to train him so that ’>«
will become n useful citizen; nlthoimh
in.'tnncef could be multiplied slmwir.s;
that it cost more to convict a family
lUE WKEKLY CONSTAWTAOWt JJJWW.AV . NOVEMBER 9, 1903
I i.' tri.- 1 ii' ~. til it. of Hi.- irtturimis
. ■ in tin York -than
That cogent .statement will apply to
at least p.'i- ot id <ii the counties
',‘l ilie stale of Georgia. Look al it —
:imb r.'tand what it means —then go
and look at your court, house, your
jails, your bonded debt for both, your
court's criminal expense account, leav
ing oui its cost for civil litigation, and
liien. if your are a Georgian to the
manner born, think what all this ex
pense fer crime means as compared
with Hie cost of educating the people
of the future out. of criminal tempta
tions ami into honest, useful anibi-
Is a court, and jail protected barn
Hill of field products worth more to
any citizen ol Georgia, than children
educated to efficiency in seii-supporr
arid ." f pro ei-tion against the v Tes
of temptation and trickery? if not,
then every good man and woman in
; Georgia should get enthusiastically
: busy in demanding, and having at any
cost, a system of common schools in
. the state that will equip every Georgia
I boy and girl with a sound primary
I education.
Common Rights for the Indians.
The time has come when the federal
: government ought to quit nursing the
Indians and quit, allowing them to be
| looted by rascally agents and officials.
* Tiie time has also come when the
Indian should tn' allotted homesteads,
■ divorced Lom tribal government and
j made to undertake the position ami dtt
, tii." of normal citizenship.
In th* Indian Territory there are
(;<• . -"■) whites and 80.000 Indians, anil
yet tie Five Nations and their ctis-
* ton *, with added special statutes of
th*.- United States congress, control the
* affairs of that, oasis of America and
those unevenly divided peoples. The
anomaly of minority domination ap-
! pears under out' republican form ot
I government.
The whole scheme of Indian reserva
; tions is out of date. The solution of
the situation that, commends itself to
■ all sane men. including those specially
* organized to safeguard the rights of
the Indians, is the throwing of the
i tribes into the body of the people,
* giving them the advantages of the free
ownership of a homestead ami their
■ per capita of Indian funds Then they
will have to work, pay taxes, live like
other citizens and take their common
chance in the full tide of the national
order of civilization.
! The Indian is far better fitted today
i lor this test of his capacity to survive
I than the negro was in 1867, when the
OUR PLAIN DUTY IN THE PANAMA BUSINESS.
Panama is in possession of herself.
Incensed by the action of Colombia in delaying, for sordid reasons, the
legislation necessary to secure the building of the Panama canal by the
United States, her people, almost to a man, revolted, expelled the Co
lombian ruthorities and their forces, proclaimed their independence and
have established a republican form of government for themselves.
They are sure to maintain their independence.
Living treaties existing between this country and both England and
Colombia give the United States full authority to preserve peace and
free transit over the railway front Colon to Panama. No nation of the
world, other than Colombia, lias contested that right at any one of the
four times that this country has landed troops on the isthmus for that
purpose.
The United States, in pursuance of the Monroe doctrine, has notified
everybody in Europe- that there can b-j no intervention on their pait. So
that all he questions uppermost on the isthmus concern only Colombia,
her revolted province and the Unite l States.
What, then, shall we do? Plainly, it is to deal with facts as we
find them. We did that in the case of Hawaii in 1893, when a provisional
republic was formed on the ruins of an overturned monarchy, and Ha
waii is now a territory of the United States. It the Panamans, suc
ceeding as they have done in securing governmental control of their
province and in proclaiming a. government, call upon us for recognition
of their de facto st. tus, we have the right to give it without responsi
bility to any other power.
The commercial interests of this country and the world demand the
speediest building of .in isthmian canal, failure to secure the Panama
route would have for.-ed us to take that of Nicaragua. But the revolt!
tion in Panama, if i*. shall succeed in the establishment of a stable gov
ernment comp, tent ..o enter into aid fulfill international obligations, will
greatly simplify the canal negotiations. We can then treat with the Re
public of Panama independently and with our purchase oi 'he btench
Panama canal company’s properties and rights, proceed at once to build _
the canal—and for that rhe president has full authority under the
Spooner act of 1.902.
The whole situation, so far as we are related to it. is a matter of
business and not of politics.
Secretary Hay, men before the treaty came up in the congress at Bo
gota, warned Colombia that it was her last chance and if it were not
ratified "the Unite*! States would be forced to take measures that, would
be a source of regt. * to all friends of Colombia.
That was not a threat, but a kindly warning. It was the putting
forth of the terms * the Spooner act—Panama route, then Nicaragua.
But the Bagota bri. tid> refused to ratify the treaty and said, "Pay us
our price, and we ill wait until you do I’
The United St**’-s has done some waiting also. Panamans, however,
picked up 'he treat propositions as soon as the (.olombi.ut congi' .iS ad
journed. They felt they could not afford to lose the canal. They did what
scores of now ind. mlent nations have done bd'orc them—what Cuba
did- and .et up so- themselves. Without, our instigation, the.', han. ui.
dertaken to save themselves in a matter vital to their rights and in
terests In due tn. - their sovereignty will be fully recognized by all in
terested outre mer powers.
Meanwhile the American people do not want any petty, partisan pol
itics mixed up in t.. negotiations. I' is the most gigantic business prop
osition that has oc. tpied human thought since Balboa ciosscd the isth
mus and discovert , the Pacific ocean in 1513
The day of duty and destiny has arrived and no man should be heard
who seeks to turn tek the hands on the dial with the pointer of tech
nicalities and tiie ] aof politics.
The solution the situation ami the beginning of the canal con
struction with a gu.i -antee of swift completion will be the triumph of the
nation and not ot any person or party.
work of eitizenizing in began He
will always be a loai*•: .*s long as there
are re. -rvations and " ifi as the
negro was as long ... there was a
freedman's bureau, an . is millions oi
white men would be if national social
ism were established. The plain jus
tice of the case is with those who
plead the cause c: * quai and not spe
cial, rights tor the Indians.
Light from Tuesday's Elections.
Tiie ejections of Tin sday, alrhim-th
of the off-year sort, wen- hotly contest
ed in most of the statt -. The results
may not throw a thoroughly revealing
light, upon the temper ot the people at
large or piove signifiem* pointers to
jirobable tin ionai r.-nits at next
year's November polling.-. Neverthe
less they are interesting in individual
feat tires and the result in New York
city, in Maryland amt Kentucky do
have a meaning that vie not lie mi- -
'aki.n by the shrewder p .litieiaiis and
people of the nation.
Th, fight, over the msv.-raliy in New
York city began wit!, ihe plausible
plea (hat the good > rnmeiit-n ,m
--partisan i dminisi: ati. ;. Seth Low
should be reneated. But ii was
promptly uncovered tha l since a real
fusion ot good governm til eieinent.'
from ail parties won ; election of
19(tJ, Mayor Low had ;•;* -utanied a re
publican'partisan admit' stratioii un
der the cover of whit ii v. as concealed
the grim visage ami sUong hand of
Richard Croker's only :i;i- —one Thom
as Collier Flatt. Since t d revelation
was mad'* complete isi undeniable
honest democrats hav> 1 cn returning
loyallv to the old part banner and
the victory of Mcl’leh i . is a victory
tor the regenerated <l. n. uaey oi the
great city and the alm indisputable
assurance that New ¥*• k state will
stand up as the tall' .- i .cmber ot the
democrati* column in i 1
To win the battle against the repub
licans tlu fusionists spite's sake,
the defection of » - McLaughlin
bossed Brooklyn d'*nto. -.icy, the intlu
< nee of the president ami 'he power of
Flatt and his unlimited bar !' ot cor
ruption money, is one i the nto.'t sig
nificant and grateful inr.mphs won by
the democracy anywh-1 ■ in a decade
past.
The winning of Ma*viand by a sate
majority will put a t 11 plume in ’.he
can of Senator Gornui*. No less a
pc'rsonage than President Roosevelt
insisted upon arous- g the country
over the race cqualin .- sue and the
Maryland nomocracy * up his chat
leng'e amt forced th ight upon it.
The president inform d his partisans
in Maryland that he regarded their
campaign of national importance, as
he wanted Maryland to go republican
and so give a quotable border-state in
dorsement to his policy.
The tight in Maryland has pivoted
on that issue and ha been fought
like that a’ Waterloo by the allies.
Ml men in Maryland who believe in
an Anglo-Saxon control of a white
ration have fought undt-r Gorman and
if U),. result shall b the victory of
the democratic ticket, that victory will
bo like the seer that met Lochiel —say-
ing to the president:
•■'l'tii oilore! Theodore! 1-. >.-. .re ot the day
Wien tic- whitelanders no t thee in bat
tle array!
The victory in Kentucky is not less
important on the same line. It was
hoped by the republicans to wheel the
state back into the republican ranks,
rebuke tii convictions of the Goebel
murderers, fortity Durbin in giving
republican refuge to a fugitive gov
ernor accused of assassination, and
ad*J the indorsement of another border
- southern state to the president’s bi-
■ colored scheme of government without
■ the consent, of the governed.
■ These were the three great fights
. of yesterday and these are the three
great, victories which should give
strong heartening and hopefulness to
the democrats of the nation.
* The reelection of Bates in Massa
chusetts was one of the things ex-
: pectcd--expected because the Bay
I .State Ephrainis of republicanism are
wedded to their idol.- anti even truth is
, powerless to pry them loose.
i In Rhode Island it. seems that Gov
eiuoi Garvin has a good chance for re
election ami in lowa the democrats
havi made gains in the legislature.
Altogether it was not a bad day for
the democrats —even if Tom Johnson
is somewhere under a glacier in Ohio.
Tammany's Opportunity.
'flu, leader of Tammany's hosts
that could, in tiie face of tremendous
odds, (.he oppositii n ol all but. one of
the great, newspapers and praetiei»'<v
all the clergy of New York city, so tn
-jiii" confidence in the people as to
aaiti Ju ,iU.K) t otes ov> r the electoral
figures of two years ago and bring his
party again into power in the metrop
olis, can lie no mean and unimportant
figure Charles F. Murphy has dom
that and by doing it. has once more
put. 'Tammany democracy on trial in
■he city and the nation and assumed
to himself a huge responsibility.
It is moi - ' than probable that. Tam
many in the past has been charged
With more of evil management in the
muni* ipal government of New York
than it was fairly entitled to admit.
But it must 'co admitted that Tamma
ny, under sumo of its leaders, has not.
been a wholesome exemplar of good
government, and that, it is but reason
able. that, many persons of patriotic in
stincts shouat harbor a fear of Tam
I many rule.
Bur now Tammany has boon given
a ami iioehamied importunity to
■ show that it is capable of reforming
* ■ vil conditions in the administration
* of a great coy and to vindicate its fu
; tore reputation iu a fashion to make
i it invincible in the popular confidence.
' Mr. .Murphy has shown a high de
i gree of eon,, rvatisni and patriotism
: throughout the campaign just ended
i ami no howl is heard that he used un-
I fair or evil methods to obtain the great
i victory of Tuesday.
i By insisting that the government of
i New York shall, under the mayoralty
*of the superb young McClellan, be
! clean economical, progressive and
I contributory to every good form of
I municipalism Tammany can cover its
l sins with full forgiveness and make it
- self the hope and desire of the me-
■ tropolis. by all its elements, lor de-
I cades to come.
Now is the appointed time for Mc
i Clellan and Murphy to show to lite
world that the greatest American city
can be made the best governed city of
the earth. They can rejoice the dem
ocracy of tiie entire nation by carrying
into actual administration the plain,
practical, democratic principles voiced
in the campaign ami for the enforce
ment of which the Tammany leaders
are pledged.
We believe the history of the next
two years will p'-ove that McClellan
and Murphy are competent to produce
those desirable results.
Personal Election.
(From The New York Evening Telegram )
The shall of Persia has ordered his
grand vizier to take poison. This is a
dadgum sight worse than being "permit
ted to resign."—Atlanta Constitution.
Yes, no one likes to be ordered to turn
on the gas. how ver dismal the outlook.
“Songs of the Soil”
By FRANK L. STANTON
A Homely Sermon.
- Fine old world, my brethren—
Try to be content:
' If you see the morning skies
Thank God for light that's sent!
■ Fine old world, dear brethren
Try to be content!
Talk about its sorrows—
Al; its hopes an’ fears,
Lots o' things about it yet
All too sweet for tears!
Sweet for all its sorrows—
All its cares an’ fears!
Lookin’ for the sunshine
To stream across the hills;
Listenin’ for the music
In the ripple o’ the rills,
An' hopin' that thi love o' God
Each day with blessing fills!
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By the Wayside.
A little way, my dearie,
In all the gloom and gleam;
A few fleet years of smiles and teats,
And then—the last, sweet dream.
A little way, my dearie,
God knows!—from shore to shore,
And the ships sight each other
On the dim seas no inure!
“Do rich man.” says Brother Dickey,
“grot ter go ter heaven through dt eye
of a needle, but de po* man got ter git
in wh.-irever he kin find a crack in do
fence. ’’
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‘Possum Time itt Dixie.
Ob. cotton gone ter ruination—
'Possum pie fer dr- whole plantation,
Look away,
I.ook away—
It’s 'possum time In Dixie!
jv,- c-noi wnv#* come, cn *!■ ’possum . iiiv-i.
But I shine his '-ye '•>' it - cr'wl ter
kiver—
L"ok away,
I say—
it’s ’possum time in Dixie:
IT" ain’t sarve up bj hotel v.-aitei
Pon him round in a dish ol’ iat> rs,
Look away.
I say—
It’s ’possum time in T.ixio!
The Way with Love.
Take thou Love’s hand—
Even though he lead ti.-e through a
thorny laud.
The journey past.
Thou shalt reap lilies of sw--i r.-st .it
■ast!
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Happy All Round’
Happy m de summer time
Or winter roarin’ free;
Any tree de 'possum elim
Ain’t 100 high for nte!
Happy in de night en clay
WoiT so bright to see;
Any turn- de tiddler play
Ain't too fas’ fer me!
Happy wid de cross or crown
Takin’ ol my chance;
Ah I wants, <le worl’ eroun’.
Room enough ter danc -!
Brother Dickey’s Sayings.
Don’t be always lookin’ back on sor
row; de wori’ only turns roun’ once in a
It’s only a fool dat goes roun’ lookin'
fer trouble; d*- w’se man knows dat it'll
overtake him soon enough.
Hope is .-i groat comforter, kase it
k.'.jis shoutin’ h.illeluia clean down
ter ilo Valli y er Despair.
Take away sum In.iv-ri dim er
gold <-n *li ole worl’ would scent g >od
enough fi r most of us.
In the Promised Land.
Mist, : Rabbit lookin' happy—Mister
'Possum wink his eve,
En ax me turn de tr* c top whit I thinks
't dat fer high?
En de Promised Lan' is wid us, what wuz
coniin' by on by.—
We right, in de L.uT er Hallelttyer!
J. lissen in de mcddei > ter <.i.- whistle . r
■’Bol.f Whit. A
En pears des 1.-. khe tel* me do t d* p. . s
is viit *-r 'ight'
En de big. roun’ Moon i * .-■• ,:tt . ■ .’ d
silver t.hii.i' de night—
W-- > di! in J. Lan’ ~r Hodelny, ;
Den It’s “Light <]e cabin fire! En who
keers fer de snow?
De inusi.- is a-gwine. en wr dancin' high
c-u low;
En we n 'v<-r wuz so bappy si-nce d. days
er long ago-
We right in di Lan’ .-* Hail,-luyer!
Haid-Pan Philosophy.
Sonr- d'. mens dat bo'n riih never
knou.- de ph asure >r fe./lin' hungry.
De ib-vil d.e;.. unit de roarin’ lion busi
ness. In dese days you never knows des
wear lie is iwel lie get his claws on you.
Faith makes de worl' mov* Wen de
train run off de trai'k en break yo’ leg.
liul don l stop de people funi ridln' on it.
The Way to Sing- It.
When we sing of joy. my dear,
Sorrow's in eclipse;
Liitle children laughing
And leaning to our lips.
Then ho! for love and laugiiu-t
Toe wrinkles leave tiie brow .
What* v-T eonu-s hereafter
Were mighty happy now!
A Soothing- Sermon.
"fii-er Williams, what wuz <b. text de
parson preach '<l sum?"
•Riess God. I clean fergot! De sermon
■lone me so much good J felied asleep i n
dreamed 1 wuz in glory!"
*0« A «
Tiie Dream.
This is the dream: Let skies be black
Slid through th- world to you!
though starve.} in df’seris where no
ilower drinks dew.
Still through tin world to you’
Tnough barriers black rise in the
wrecked one's view.
o'er starless seas to you!
Welcome the storm! God rules it, strong
and true,
And God hath dreamed of you!
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A Blllviiti' eidtor takes this view of
the situation:
"Sink, or swim, we’re with the coun
try. and we’ll never drown while we can
kick and hull, r for rope!"
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Let Him Pass.
Don’t you bother Mister Trouble
t,'. cnin’ down d-- road;
Trouble mighty cunnfit’.
En he'll make you t-i.-it his’ load.
Le in go his way--
Don’t you tell hint time er day:
Look out fer Mister Trouble.
VV’en he cornin' down d- road!
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Keep Going!
No use sighm on tn -way:
Jest keep goin’!
Life has winter well as May:
Darkness i-r.ds the brightest <lai ;
This to sing, an this to say:
Jost keep goin’!
i Plunkett's Letter
President roosevelt ha. is
sued a proclamation that the 26tli
instant be observed as
; biff-
Mr and Brown arc glad that our presi
dent lias seen proper to do such a thing,
i I desire to *:ornplirnent our presid*-n
i on the spirit of his proclamation, but i
■ makes Brown mad and he has just left
me muttering:
"With lavish hand,
Tin- great and grand,
i Have honors thrust upon them;
You never seek
Tiie low and meek
I Unless it is to dun them.
I Whenever my old friend gets in on«
I of these sour mood.' 1 let him pout it out.
I and '-hall proce. d to t* 11 a little story to
. urounige the president on lines of God’s
i gr.-at providences and the strength of
i God's great power in the affairs of men.
: To' begin th< story, as stories should
; begin, J must state that it was during
'ol the "war between the states”—on the
' 281 b of Novemb'-r. 1864, just thirtj nine
years ago, lacking a few days.
Tiie occurrence was at Missionary
Ridg. and all old folks can rc-mems
it and the young should know It trom
tiie learning that is now in the land
I Thi lumber of cannon and the rattl*
i ol musketry from the heights of Mi
1 stonary Ridge proclaimed that a battle
' was on. 1 don’t know just how or wh
but anvwav. it became known that ’ n
next ..'.iv was the day set for th.'
kees’ thanksgiving. ■ I think that my
memory sir’.''* me right when I state
that Grant was then m command ot '.he
western army, and this being so. it w
ju-t lik.- him to decide in his mind th.
he would bring on a fight, capture Mi
slonary Ridge and telegraph it to W
Ington that the north might the inoie re
I Joice.
But my story is not of the army
i that fight that wa > disat ous to the
i smith, save to say that th- lino
I "rebels’' broken by the 'harge ya
kt.t which gavt such f ime as Sherld m
: c i ng was so thin that one "rvbe:
r.-aching out with his gun couid tip w
bayonet of the eonrrad'' who r< ich-d o ■
by his side- it is a fact that the * n.:.-.
crate Im-. so h retched th'H one *
di'i eould only tip lit b yom.t of tm
other.
But for the story.
Al the- toot of ML-ior..irv Edge.
i the south side ther- remained what w
left , ?t - ,i on. , prosperous h 'in< . T-
i f.wncr "f this honn v i a canfcd'.-: .c e
J soldier ami wa in tin- tight.
■ As tiie cannon roared and tiie muske's
* rattled *i lonely woman with her f . ■
i littl* children h-- .i'l m*l shudder--a
i t).i biittli .'* rage and wept in tear for «.••
| late of tile latlier and husband.
Nothing was- ieit for this poor woman
- but to listen to th.- battle and wring h
■ hands and stay with tiie children w, ■
clung to her skirts, which none can m
derstund but those who have heard tie ■
batt.e raging:-'.
Time and tint* again this little famiiv
laid knelt I.y Hi' life-side while the molt)
it was a woman’s prayer that her h- .
bund would be saved to her and to h* i
; ehildr.-n and spared in the battle ti u
was raging.
As .-mall as thes? children were, the.
joined with th.;- mother tn her spirit ■
priiyei', and they have told me since in y
have grown to be. turn and women that
I they felt that these prayers would .-a »
lh< ir lather.
Besides this mother and children I hav.-
tn> utiuned. th*-r<- yet remaired at this
home in th ; moiint.dr.s two old t
:m '.>id man and woman—" Uncle Tom"
and "Aunt Dilsy. '
"Aunt Dilsy” had joined tin- mother arm
clnldr* n in the "big liou. ■ . but "Uncle
Tom" w is couting." as the thing wa
' call-d in those troublous days, ft was
most natural to b*-ilevc that ’’Uncle Tom
I* i.l went aw iy t.. the yankees, but this
was not true, and titer-, comes try
When tii. first guns began to rum! '■
from Missionary Ridge "Uncle Tom
kn ->v that a tight was on. H ■ knew I*.
his young master was in that fiy t ami
he feared that this master might be
killed or wouniied and fall into the hands
ot the yankees. With such thought i
bis mind, "Uncle Tom” dci'idcd to
u;>on the battl. field and do whatever "
I eould in *-.*<.■ of bis mast-r getting b
make tiie tore short, the y -.
mast': was wounded, and while tin i •.sk
at ti...' h-.irn'.-. ially "Aunt DiU-.
w.-t'r blaming "Uncle Tom" for runm g
itwny to t.be y u ki-.-.--. at such i Urn. , ti. it
: individual had arrived nt the battl- fi. :
I found ills won’.iled master, talti r !:;
■ upon his back and was making speed
(fast .-is lie could to escape Mptur- ..•
Foi-tunately a sorry old hors.- w - . * j
I.'ieios.- .-.-'d tills :<■ ■■>'.<' I the oiil 1 .
of his load and si- . d-d them on t.m
way, Tii- arrival of “Uncle Tom' nd
th- master at honn was entirely rim.v
p.-eted. Th-y peeped in upon tin .* a
and praying group around tin firi.sidr
.''ore making their preserie. known. ■ ■■
what i. -em-i e*l after it was- known . •
l.'-tter be imagined than described a
we leave them for a few hour- to . •
with "Aut Dilsy ’ and 'Uncle Tom" i; ■*
■he seclusion Os their own iog , a'-;
from where it was soon :i“ --rtained th '•
the eontedi rates had lost the tight, w
in full retreat and that tin-, yankees had
Missionary Ridge.
The sun v. as g-t ting low in th- w
when "Uncle Tom" sallied forth fr.cu’
his cabin and w-.tided his way over ;
mountain road that some of t'.- .rm
would have to travel—eitJi. r the yanke -
in their advance tne confederal'■ i
ret real
"I'm .. Tom" was disappoint-d in .-*+
it’.g tin- inarching :< vlni. nts, but . w
not long uni;' lie had discovered
of yanke.. wagons fixing to strike * ■;
for the night on the side of the niotm
tain. He smiled to himself as h* .- ■
templated how nice it would b< it
of those wagons were to break ’ti.
scotch and go lumbering over i-e
precipice.
AVe leave, the old negro wat.-hing t* ■ .
wagons and smiling from car to *r
while wo. return to the home of '-
wounded mast, r ami view tin- r-. o. :
mother ami children upon the saving o
the father and husband.
Tile wound had been “dressed,'' a go •
b'-.l had been prepared close to : -.o fi
t’-sit burned in the fireplace the niori,-.---
wa- ready to tuck the children away ’’m
the night win it the very least one '
’ln-tn said in all earnestness and in t>. i
tiful faith:
Mamma, w- better pray some more."
Pray thev did. the mother leading, on*
is th--- pravers w.-r- v*-t ascending , gre *
’n l i-T' wis heard f-'om t momv
-lit.- and the ihoiittht was that a
bowlder had bro'-on loose and went tum -
bling to the valley.
It was no bnwbicr “Uncle Tom" h . '
crept tin and stinp.-d the scotch from on
th- yan!<-'o wagons and it went bounc
ing and rumbling to the bottom s, ut
tering the good thing’s then only known
a- tin- r :'.nkf'os prepared for a div o'
f'-asttng at ttm coming Thanksgiving a
;o ,ie giitier..! by a people who had
nothing n-ft after tlm armies had gmn
I hl- loosing of one wagon was notlm ..
t<. tiie yankees. They were gone on their
.Vi iV -‘ n<l "Uncle Tom.
Aunt Dilsy and the children gatin'-
hams, eanne.i goods and all such to theii
hearts content.
. 1 ml" ’tom smiled and “Aunt Dlls',
fairly danced as they talked of the grea'
bowlder of the night before, while the
sanie little child turned to its mother
saying:
Mamma, des pray some more and de-,
we ii eat Ihanksgiving.”
SARGE PLUNKETT.