Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-07-02
A Letter from Mrs. Pat Lyle Collins,

some one Sdlu ~ iHc HOt Jung uAO,
IL don't see how You oan fluid anything
TO write about in Washington in the
summer" Why" | answered, a. you
do not suppose | stay here all the year
round 70 write Washington letters. dn
you5 By NO means. ! carry my Wash,
ington about with me. | have drunk
il, bathed IN il. been saturated with
its atmosphere, unit. II | had lived in
Kamskalcllka fifty years, aud should
be scratched, underneath you would
find a Washing!onian, just the same as
! beneath the Russian polish ALWAYS
flows the fierce Tartar blood There
fore, it is au easy enough matter To
/ send "a Washington letter" from the
end Of the globe, when YOU are brim.
ful ct iuciGents, impressions, ennis.
ccnscs and experience. but to-day |
| send a word IT, the land of my naiivi
~ with the Potomac, the Monument
and the Capitol dome all In sight. We
have been dividing our time between
political speculation and other idiotic
diversions equally Improbable for
many weeks past, Jut nov that the
nominations are settled. Congress will
90 to work and the rest OF the inhabi-
lants will begin TO mind their own bus.
mess.
The star role of politicians and gov.
crnmcnt officials is n delicious anal
GAM. composed of reformation that
does not reform, Prohibition which
docs not prohibit and investigation
that does not investigate. and rs Meth.
or plStform at the late conventions laid
too much stress upon civil service re-
form the whole " system" of which
is corrupt down to the ground 1T may
'clmnec Tint II we ace another Demo-
cratic administration the people vii!
receive the bcneft-the agricultural
casscs, the stone foundation upon
which orr government structure l.
reared, the true bulwark of our ma.
tional greatness and prosperity. |
have often observed among ambitious
politicians who come here ! total Tor
uctfulncss of their people at home, tx
cent whc,. some popular measure
Which would ensure votes at the next
election. required their attention, and
wondered how these same amlabic pco-
pie could allow their interests to be
thus misreprcnted by indifference and
incapacitv. Many of these would.bc
perpetual legislators invest in WASH
ington property and settle down, their
families become strangers in their own
states, aud tic distinguished heads on
" 20 down when a campaign ia I'M
bcnding and voters are Ia be- bcguilcd
with fine words. While this class is
p'unging into all the social gayetjcs
and charming designations of the cap
it'll. there are some who make this n
secondary consideration and are work.
ing hard TO really benefit the people
who sent them here. do not person.
ally know all tho members OF the Miss
issippi delegation, but | can point with
genuine pleasure and pride TO the re-
suits attained by your owl repfcscn.
tativc, the Hon. Clarke Lewis. lie sc.
cured an additional appropriation OF
$4,000 Tor seeds and $4,000 toward
the rain experiments. A good farmer
remarked TO me in this connection, 81
wish all Of If had such men as Lewis
Of Mississippi 10 help us: he has got
the seed for his people to put in the
ground and rain TO fail on them. and |
don't see what else he could do unless
he'd go down and pow for them or
pick cotton, and if he was wanted to
lend o neighhcr Il helping hand | have
no doubt he would" When | heard
this spontaneous, honest tribute ! felt
as if / must toll ii TO his own people.
Mr.. Lewis is not only Il l%aborious
worker with u very large reserve of
common sense he is a man of fine and
wide perceptions backed by Il brain
power and moral strength that make
him a distinguished figure. where n!
are more or less distinguished. say
we will. A congressman may
moi always be a scholar and Il gentle.
mau,--alas, ii may sOmetin cs happen
he is neither but this i: rare and
he nearly always possesses some strong
quality which sets him apart from his
In all his effort. for his
people, Mr. Lewis has been so ably
supplemented by his noble wife, who
has been bis a%manuonsis, secretary,
everything. in fact, which could X
the work, often sitting up late
into the night doing the work of two
But meantime sic does not
desert those social duties which are
upon the wives of sncn of
She ia well known in Con.
circles, not only Us q wife
thoroughly devoted to her husbands
interests but as y woman Of superior
mental equipment and an unsurpassed
of manner and conversation.
heard Il Washington girl, who was
at Annapolis during Commencement
week, say that the finest Young man
she met was cadet Dismukes of Ma
con. She is q young lady OF tender
years but. wide observation, and
confesses that, "a a rule, she
abhors men under thirty. This Ia the
first exception she has ever recorded,
! must infer that Mr.. Dis
is Of that superior mold only
encountered once in a lifetime.
love gossip about my ncighbors better
than anything in The world and could
20 on ondlcsslv. bnt do not know how
much my old friend, the BEAooN-tht
first newspaper ! ever read-.wil stand,
80 will leave of until | am advised.
PATTIEI.YLE COLLINS,
... Dead Letter ONCE,