The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1889-05-18

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eommissary apartments, in the lam
guage of the head officials at Washing
ton to applicants for Office, ~there is no
vacancy
Assembled here in this Minerva-like
temple, where the beauties of nature
are so harmoniously blended with the
graees of art, we can almost fancy that
we have been suddenly transported
from the chickering's of newspaper life
to some preternatural domain in the
ethereal regions of the blessed, where
hospitality rules as Queen, and unself-
lsh1ess and courtesy as Parliament.
We have, by your kind invitation,
made your beautiful city the Mecca of
our annual pilgrimage, that we might
kneel like solid phalanx at the shrine
of BUSINESS duty and social pleasure,
not as polemicists, but as loyal broth
ers, fighting in common cause against
the mach nations of evil; and having
the good o.f all thoroughly entwined in
the fibres of our hearts.
Some people have mistaken idea
that newspapers are run for money.
We plead mot guilty. to the soft inn
peachment, and a,tduce rs conclusive
evidence of our limo the empti-
ness of our purses, or more properly
speaking, our pockets, which are de-
void even of purses. Run papers for
sordid lucre? Ughl Danish the
thought Ours is higher and more
ethereal existence. We live, except at
Association gatherings, on air-'ooms,
boosted up by atmospheric win d-pipes !;
and the prolongation of our lives is
likely to forever remain an undevel-
oped scientific enigma. II is true that
somestimes we are offered $1.50 or so
by subscriber for sending him our
paper tifty-two times year; and as
we try to school ourselves in the little
amenities Of social and business life,
we accept il courteously--as a favor TO
the subscriber. But | must confess
that we are not often annoyed in that
way. Our compensation usually comes
in the shape of advice-great, huge,
liberal chunks of advice, as to how to
run the paper to please everybody, es-
pecially the advisor, and thus hasten
the comsng of the Millennium.
There are another class of people
who manifest their interest in our wei
fare by sending two to five column
communications as to the condition of
society and the crops ut the Cross
Roads, or setting forth the claims of
some military hero, who poured out
his rich, red blood in a libation at
Sharpsburg, and could save the coun-
try If he would only consent to serve 1t
in the proud position of Justice of the
Peace or Beat Constable. These COM
munications are offered as substitutes
for our glittering, ten-horse power
editorials on the tariff and our Foreign
relations. We modestly excuse their
non-inscrtion at the time, but promise
them space in a future issuc--which
future spans all Eternity.
Fair Daughters and Noble Sons of
Greenville, We of the Press are proud
beyond adequate expression, Of your
bright, lovely metropolis of the Delta,
which in few short years under the
magic touch Of energy and enterprise,
has been transformed from humble
village into bustling, beauteous city (;
with more brilliant promise for future
achievements and greatness than were
ever wrought by the fanciful lamp Of
the hero of the Arabian Nights.
Citizens of glorious, happy Green
vile, which, like virgin Queen, sits
enthroned upon the banks Of Americas
majestic river, having for her dominion
broad, green valley, that like favor
ite daughter, seems to have been
lowered by Mother Nature with oil
the rarest choicest gifts that Love
could suggest or rich store-house of
treasures supply. Citizens of such
a city, for your generous, open-handcd,
open-hearted, hospitality, we thank
you.
Citizens of the world-famed Missis-
sippi Delta, whose winding streams
and rivers, whose fertile plains, whose
waving fields of plenty, whose azure
sunny skies, and whose gentle airs,
fragrant with the perfume of sweet
flowers, combine to make her the
brightest, fairest gem that CLEANS and
glistens in Natures coronet Of beauty;
we thank you individually and collcc-
tively, for this unrivaled welcome.
Citizens of the home of the loyal,
gallant Percy, whose nature was sweet
as Summer to his fellowmen; whose
devotion TO his section and his State
was touching and beautiful as
mothers love; whose motives were as
pure as the SHOWS that fall upon the
summit of Mount Washington; whose
people were made better for all time to
come by the virtues Of his life; whose
ambitions for the Delta were as as
lofty as the flight of our own symbolic
eagle, though he blow his breath upon
the sun Editions of the home of the
noble, lamented Percy, from the depths
of grateful hearts we thank you.
Standing here amid this arena of
garlands, II is not difficult to recognize
in them the artistic handiwork OF
Woman. The decorations which sweet
ly environ us, as In loves net work,
bespeak her tender interest. Then
how meet and fitting that this royal
welcome should be extended through
the medium of her gentle agency. All
the good deeds that have been accom-
plished in this world have found their
inspiration in her influence. She
figures in all the battles that have been
waged in behalf Of humanity. Her
deeds truly shine down the vista of
history like diamonds strung upon the
rosary Of years.
Thousands of voices have hymned
the name of women as the flavor and
crown of Earth's beauties and delights.
Her praise is found in every heart, is
voiced in every life, and springs spon-
tanemously to every lip.
When her country lay postrate be-
meath a Tyrants heel, it was Charlotte
Corday, beautiful, young, and daring,
who plunged into his tyrant heart, the
dagger which she had consecrated to
Liberty. When the war clouds hung
dark over the South we saw In the
person of women the embodiment of
the subtitle yet potent influences
which inspired every Southern heart
with dauntless courage that knew no