Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-10-24
PROSPERITY IN GEORGIA,
The South Fast Becoming Like Van.
keedOm. "A Land of Rusines-.

John Paul i'll New York Tlihun..I
And l find the people somewhat for
elgn, too. They are full of politeness,
but it is rather the politenc,s IS that one
shows to strangers. There is on all
sides modified kindly feeling, dis
position to forgive one for being d Yam.
kee, desire to show that this
is considered more vour misfortune than
your fault but, all the same, ono
feels plainly that there is a difference
between him who is born here and him
WHO is only borne Will. "Sirs' are show
cred on you till you can't rest. suppose
the war-though nigh q score of years
have elapsed since twas ended is all
too recent, and mingling of the men
engaged in it toe infreluent, to permit
the participants as yet to mix in and
exchange conTIlrums and chat famil-
iarly together, as | am told women 10
at tea-parties. | am reminded of q
story told by Henry James not the
brilliant novelist, but wealthy and
famed WOODEN manufacturer of Will
lamsburg, Mass, OF heated dispute in
which one man got another by the
throat. There was a coolness on one
side when next they met. "Why, have
you not forgiven mc?" asked the sur
prised party of the first pat "Yes,
I've forgiven you," replied the other,
but ut-you, you pinched my throat"
The south is essentially serious.
They do not chaf each other
in conversation SO much us do we
at the north, nor dothey under
stand it in others. When the IN, n
meet of morning they shake
hands fervently and inquire with press
ing interest into the details of each
others health. The "sir' is seldom
omitted; it Furnishes up and adorns
the most trivial discourse, even among
intimates, like the silver plated handle
ON a door. There is less ierkiness
in their conversation, too, less
of discursiyeness. They do not often
interrupt you, nor do they like to be
themselves interrupted. Nor does q
man talking with you wheel round on
his heel and leave you abruptly; nor,
if one happen to iostle against you in
the street does he scurry off without an
apology. 1t may be that time here is
less valuable than with us, and | will
not SLY that more kindliness of feeling
underlies this formality than is to be
found beneath the brusqueness of
northern manners. But there is o
golden mean in all things, and Titus
vile, Ohio, might, borrow valuable
hint in this respect from Thomas
vile, Ga.
Another thing must be borne in mind.
Life with the south has become seri-
GUS business. Generally speaking the
south is poor. The war has obliterated
fortunes. Men who before gave bread
to others must now work for their own,
You look in vain for the gay, dashing
cavalier of the olden time-of the olden
time tradition at least mounted on o
prancing horse and galloping over the
country, singing roundelays and
drinking mint-juleps. The shoot
ing, the fishing. the pleasuring,
now is principally done by
northern visitors. Residents have very
other fish to fry. Here is harness
maker, for instance, at the bench, who
before was a brigadier general. In
cities you find men who in their time
have borel with different and much
larger augers now behind counters,
attending assiduously to business and
catering for the negro custom. Scat
tered the country over, many who once
ran large plan tations are now with
their own hands cultivating small pieces
of ground and endeavoring to snatch q
subsistence from the soil by growing
cotton at 8! cents pound. This is
serious business. But it is in this
bucklingtO that the hope, the sal
walton, of the south lies. Talk of Yam
kee thrift, OF Yankee shrewdness Beat
any one of the coionels or majors
at bargain if you can! No sir! Ship
your wooden nutmegs elsewhere, seek
some other market for those primo
white-oak hams erst the glory of Con-
necticut; if you would sell a cargo of
shoe-pegs for oats, merchant of Massa-
chusetts, look away from this coast for
customer. How it nay once have
been know not, but certainly it is not
now considered unchivalrous to bar
gain, unchristian to get the best of it.
Ill undertake q horse trade in Nam
tucket, if need be, but don't want to
so much as try to swap mules in Thom-
asville.