The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-09-24
PRc~1=2lTY IN GEo.?I!A.


The South Fast Becoming Like KAN
kcrdnIM. II Land or I:u -t.cx'.
John paul in New YORK ri mel
And find the people somewhat for
eign, too. They are full of politeness,
but it is rather the politeness that one
shows to strangers. There is on all
sides modified kindly feeling, dis
position to forgive one for being Yam
kee, a desire to show that this
is considered more your misfortune than
your fault-but, all the same, one
feels plainly that there is difference
between him who is born here and him
wAois only borne with. "Sirs" are show
cred on you till you can't rest. I suppose
the war-though nigh score OF years
have elapsed since twas ended-is all
too recent, and mingling of the men
engaged in it too infrequent, to permit
the participants as yet to mix in and
exchange conundrums and chat famil-
iarly together, as l am told woman do
at tea-parties. l am reminded OF a
story told by Henry James not the
brilliant novelist, but a wealthy and
famed woolen manufacturer of Will
iamsburg, Mass, of heated dispute in
which one man got another by the
throat. There was a GOODNESS on one
side when next they met. "Why, have
you not forgiven me?" asked the sur
prised party of the first part. Eyes,
I've forgiven you," replied the other,
'"but-you you pinched my throat"
The south is essentially serious.
They do not chat each other
in conversation so much as do we
at the north, nor dothey under
stand it in others. When the men
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 door. There is less jerkiness
in their conversation. too, less
of discursiveness. They do not often
interrupt you, nor do they like to be
themselves interrupted. Nor does
man talking with you wheel round on
his heel and leave you abruptly; nor,
if one happen to jostle 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 say that more kindliness OF feeling
underlies this formality than is to be
found beneath--the- -brasqueness of
northern manners. But there is q
golden mean in all things, and Titus
vile, Ohio, might, borrow a 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 1or the gay, dashing
cavalier of the olden tine-of the olden
time tradition at least-mounted on a
pranciny 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. hesidents have very
other fish to fry. Here is harness
ma er, for instance. atthe bench, who
before was brigadier general In
cites you find men WHO in their time
have borel with diHerent and much
larger augers now behind ooun ers,
attending assiduously to business and
catering for the negro custom. Seat
tered the country over. many who once
Fan large plan tatiens are now with
their own hands cultivating small pie, es
OF ground and enae,voring to snatch
subsistence from the soil by growing
cotton at s! cents pound This is
serious business. Eur it is in this
buckling o that the hope, the sal
vation, Of the solth lies. Talk of Yam
kee thrift, of Yankee shrewdness! Beat
any one Of the co.onels or ma ,ors
ut ba gain if you can! No sir! Ship
your wooden nutmegs elsewhere, seek
some other marAet for those prime
white-oak hams erst the glory of Con-
nectlcut; if you would sell cargo of
$ oe-pegs for oats, merchant of Massa-
look away from this coast for
, customer. how it may once have
been | know not, but certainly it is not
now considered unchival. GUS to bar
gain. unchristian to get the best of it.
I'll under axe horse trade in Nam
;ucAet, if need b, but don't want to
20 much as try to swap mules in Thom-
ssville.
Relieves i'm q DOze.
.Pni..te. - accord.
Never WAS there q worse Swind1n nor.