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PAGE FOURTEEN 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