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FOR ALL SORTS ANO CONDITIONS OF MEN.
TOO GOOD TO KEEP.
Hon. 1. ni. Watson, luomson, Ga.
near bir: 1 must neg pardon for
trespassing upon your preserves.
vve have two papers in our county
—Ouin repuoiicun —lor one oi wtncii
a irequenuy wine over ihe pen names
} and sometimes my own.
when writing on suojeets verguig
on mooted questions m politics a lit
tle diplomacy must be used to get it
m the paper or to have it read.
Iraving written two short articles
on the tariff with tue necessary cau
tion —one oi wmch consisted entirely
of mterogaiives commencing with —,
these not only seemed to be well re
ceived but gave rise to discussion and
investigation; some few were ready
for more.
lacking up the July number of
Watson’s Jeffersonian Magatine and
re-reading your answer to J. F. Ar
ceneaux, 1 at once was attacked by a
desire to get it in that republican pa
per, out ieit assured that U 1 succeed
ed in getting it in those columns ac
credited to you, it would not be read
by those for whom it was intended,
as some who are afraid oi the truth
lest it condemn them, cannot be in
duced to look at anything emanating
from the pen of lorn Watson. Their
bigotry is only excelled by their stu
pidity.
Well, the question was how to get
the article inserted and read. I final
ly hit upon a plan. The enclosed clip
ping will show what that plan was.
1 know it was a piece of rank pla
giarism and my conscience smote all
the while I was writing; but under the
circumstances what was 1 to do? I
wanted the article in the republican
paper and wanted republicans to read
it, and in both success followed.
Will you pardon me for using your
thunder “in disguise,” when I tell
you I asked the editor if he had extra
copeis and was answered, Yes, lots
of them, but upon going to the office
the typo said there had been a run
on them and he thought all were
gone, but upon strict search one copy
was found?
Meeting a minister on the street
having the copy in my hand, he re
marked that he had just sent copies to
three to as many prominent men of
his native state. So you see you are
doing good second-hand.
I am 80 years old; have always
lived a rural life, without advantages
of school since fifteen, and but little
before; am a farmer; went in north
ern army a democrat, came out and
found no political home. My presi
dential votes since then have been
for Cooper, Weaver twice, Bryan
twice (God forgive it), Watson and
Tibbles and would love to repeat the
latter in 1908.
Once more pardon the use I have
made of your thoughts, and the
lengthy trespassing upon your valua
ble time. No part of this is for pub
lication.
With due respect, I am yours,
Note—Couldn’t put this candle un
der a bushel.
The wise ones continue to spread
out on what the country needs.
Everybody seems to know, but no
body seems willing to supply it.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
THE HELPFUL WORD.
Give rhe young and smuggling a
word of encouragement waen you
can. You would not leave those
plants m your window boxes without
water, nor refuse to open the shut
ters that the sunlignt might tail up
on them, but you would leave some
human flower to suiter from want of
appreciation or the sunlight of en
couragement. There are a few hardy
souls that can struggle along on stony
soil —shrubs that can wait, for tue
dews and sunbeams, vines that climb
without kindly training —but only a
few. Utter the kind word when you
can &ee that it is deserved. The
thought that ’‘no one caies and no
one knows” blights many a bud of
promise. Be it Ihe young artist at
hiseasel, the young preacner in his
pulpit, the workman at his bench, the
boy at his mathematical problems,
or your little girl at the piano, give
what praise you can. —Opdika Post.
RATS.
According to the Department of
Agriculture, the rat does more dam
age in this country than all other
noxious animals combined. Its ex
termination would be a blessing to
the race. The female breeds three
or four times a year and produces
from six to twelve young at once.
Rats destroy grain, ruin dry goods
in shops, eat or pollute food, carry
contagious diseases thousands of
miles in ships, cause fires and flood
ing by gnawing matches and water
pipe, kill young pigs and poultry
strip whole regions of the young of
song-birds and deface the wooden
trim of buildings.
The government does not recom
mend strychnine or phosphorus to
kill house rats. The former kills
them too quickly, so that odors re
sult, and the latter causes fires. Bar
ium carbonate is a better resource.
It kills the rats more slowly, so that
they usually leave the house to eeek
water. It has neither taste nor smell
to warn them, and in the small quan
tities used does not harm larger ani
mals. Oatmeal mixed with water and
one-eighth its bulk of this substance
and sprinkled in rat-runs, is a con
venient way of using it.
The best rat-traps are those of the
“guillotine” type, made entirely of
metal. Wienerwurst or bacon is a
good bait. Whatever bait is to be
used should be spread for a night
or two before the trap is set.
The cement construction which is
becoming so common for all purposes
is almost rat-proof. This is one of
its strongest recommendations. —N. Y.
MARRIAGE.
Marriage has in it less beauty, but
more safety than single life; it has
not more ease, but less danger, it is
fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys;
it lies under more burdens, it is sup
ported by all the strength of love and
charity, and those burdens aie de
lightful. Marriage is the mother of
the world, and preserves kingdoms,
and fills cities and churches and heav
en itself. Celibacy, like the fly in
the heart of an apple, dwells in per
petual sweetness, but sits alone, and
is cuHuiicd auu in oiixgi-iiaxA^y;
um xuuintigc, ime vuc u&ciui oee,
Dunas a nuuse anu gamers avv outness
num every Hower, aua iaours and
unites into societies ana republics and
sends out colonies; anu leeds cue
worm witn Ueucacies, ana obeys tneir
king and keeps order, and exercises
many virtues, ana promotes tue in
terest oi mankind, and is tiiat state
of good to which God designed the
present constitution of the woiid.
• THE HUMAN WOLF.
The wolf is a dreaded animal be
cause he maxes his attacks on help
less ana aerenseless domestic animals
unaer cover of darkness when their
natural guardians aie oif duty or
asleep.
The human wolf is very much like
other varieties of the wild dog fam
ily. He does his work at night, or
on the sly, he is cowardly and gen
erally picks an easy victim; he is
utterly vicious and has not a single
feeling of pity or remorse over the
ultimate ruin and degradation of
his victim, or the sorrow and heart
aches of the victim’s mother and
friends. In this he is worse than the
enemy of the shepherd’s timid flocks,
because he is conscious of the evil he
is doing, and his evil work is directed
against the race to which he claims
to belong. The wolf of the woods de
stroys his prey to satisfy his hun
ger; the human wolf destroys his prey
to satisfy the demon that has pos
session of his heart, and to put a lit
tle of the filthy lucre in his pocket to
pay for his daily allowance of drink,
i ou often see him about the streets
with a little memorandum book en
ticing some young man to give him
an order fur the worst grade of rot
ten whisky that the Ballinger market
affords. If the young man has pa
rents that will pay his debts or board
him and allow him to squander all
his earnings on his depraved appetite,
it matters not if he is broke and
can’t send the cash with the order,
they will take his due-bill, and the
goods will be shipped promptly and
the next noticeable thing is that some
mother’s boy is drunk. It matters
not to the wolfish destroyer that a
good woman’s heart is being broken,
and a young life being ruined, a God
created being training for a drunk
ard’s grave or a criminal’s cell. His
fiendish soul is gratified with the ruin
he is causing and his greasy purse is
fattened with the profits of his ne
farious trade. What do we think < f
this human wolf? What should we
think of him? That in all the peni
tentiaries of the commonwealth there
is not a criminal more depraved at
heart than he. Some men have tiie
physical courage to openly destroy
their victim for the wealth on his
person at the risk of their lives. Ihe
human wolf is not so. He does his
work in secret and with stealth and
gets the wealth of his victim with
out any risk whatever while he slow
ly destroys his body and leads him
down to shame and endless death.
“No drunkard shall enter the king
dom of heaven.” What about the oid
fiends that make drunkards of the
young men and boys of our town?
Hell would probably .be their last
abiding place, but the devils them-
selves will snun them as being 100 de
praved to associate with. Vvould to
God we had a law that would put the
men who entice the young to their
destruction and ruin in the same class
and under the same penalty as the
coXvaidiy murderer who stabs his vic
tim m me back.
Do you know any of these human
wolves? They are here and contin
ually ply their trade. They have lit
tle, if any, other occupation, and they
are leaving a trail of devastation and
ruin behind them that will be mote
clearly seen in days to come if they
continue in our midst.
Fathers and mothers are even now
grieving over their wayward boys
that have come under the influence of
these fiends of heli, and God only
knows where the end will be until we
can get a prohibition law 7 that will
not only prohibit whisky selling over
the bar, but private peddling and or
der taking and put these destroyers
where they can do no harm, or force
them to pursue honest calling.—Santa
Anna News.
WHAT THE SPINNERS THINK.
Amid the general talk of 15-cent
cotton it is interesting to note that
the spinners look with favor on the
claims for higher cotton prices. In
the course of an editorial on this sub
ject Fiber & Fabrics, of Boston, points
out that farmers are better able than
ever before to hold their cotton, and
that country banks are co-operating
to help them. It says:
“Although it is improbable that all
of the expectations of the cotton en
thusiasts will be realized, their points
are, in most cases, well taken and be
hind their arguments are many facts
that tend toward the belief that cot
ton prices are soon to go consider
ably higher than present quotations.
A comparison shows that prices of
cotton have advanced 3 cents a pound
during the past year. An advance of
less than 2 cents before all the pres
ent crop is housed is not an unreason
able proposition unless the balance of
the growing and picking season is at
tend si by most favorable conditions.”
With everyone concerned holding
the same opinion on this interesting
subject, there should be no cause for
doubts. on the part of the grower.—
Foil Worth Telegram.
DEATH PENALTY IN FRANCE.
The violent agitation in Paris over
the action of the French President in
commuting the death sentence of a
criminal who had been guilty of a
great atrocity, calls attention again
to the anomalous situation in France
in regard to capital punishment. There
has been a strong sentiment existing
in France in favor of the abolition
of capital punishment, and, while the
French Parliament has not formally
abolished executions by law, the
country is without a public execu
tioner, and the guillotine is practic
ally relegated. The law still calls
for the execution of criminals of cer
tain grades, but it specifically pre*
scribes the method of execution by
guillotine, and by the public execu*
tioner, commonly known as “Mon
sieur de Paris.” But by some com
plication no provision has been made
to fill the office of public executioner