The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-24
The Freezing South.

O. once there sunny south
With sunlight sivered Ger,
With flowers that reached her rosy mouth
The sunny south's no more!
For as these icy moments roll,
We hear her shrek: "Pie on the coal!'
"lfle on the coal"' The coal Is piled
Until the CRATE runs DER;
But still she shouts in accents wild:
I'm freezng-give me more!'
And still she cries-poor, shiverng soul!
And spends her last red cent for coal.
Think not, 0, North, that you can break
The Solid South so nice;
Because just now she is one cake
OF hard, unyielding ice!
And while the freezing moments roll,
Cries for more cover, and more coal!
There is O man in Butts county VINO says
that he carried gallon of whisky to the fed
with him every day for three years and drank
the whole amount himself during the day, and
then called at the bar. near by. at night Tor
another drink before taking supper This man
still lives, is fifty-one years Old and is ap-
parently in good health. He also says that he
would not thank man for less than quart
of raw liquor for ordinary drink Is there
another such man living!
The Sleigh Ride.
We took the carriage off It's wheels-jes' cut
her half away
An put her on pair o. slides an changed
her to a sleigh;
Then hitched Georgia mule to her an start
ed on the run
But the mule he wasn't use to selghs an
didn't like the fun.
An Gore we'd got a hundred yards he give
Georgia kick,
An Brother Jones picked up his bones, an
Deacon Scott fell sick;
An Sister Spriggns took flight an landed
in a tree
An scattered round from left to right the
mule-O, where WAS he?
There amt no tellin', brethren! but here's
the moral, sure:
There amt no use In sleighin' less the mules
been there before;
An folks that try to put on style moot al
ways play the fool
An find that heaven amt mile above
Georgia mule!
Editor Murphy is putting In some good
work on the editorial page Of The Augusta
Evening Herald. The Herald Is blazing like
a Georgia diamond.
Amt 1t Fun!
Skatin' times in Georgia-ain't they good and
great,
Sittin' on the river bank an watchin fellers
skate.
There's lots o. fun on the lakes, by daytime an
by night,
An when the ice in flinders BREAKS an TEL
ler's ''out o sight!'
Gold weather Philosophy.
The shivering. editor has one consolation
this cold weather: He won't freeze hereafter
''corner in COAL is n very comfortable
thing when the mercury Is below zero.
One Washington handpress, one case OF
secondhand type, one grocery plll anu d
desire for wood make fuli-hed&ed editor
Even with the thermometer out Of sight and
coal at So ton and still rising this world
is the best world that were ever IN.
Remember the poor in your prayers; all
they need in this cold weather is frozen rall-
gion and sympathy with icicles on 1t.
Charity In Hllville.
We took up q subscription in Billv1iie TOT enc
poor
First Deacon Jones' to keep em warm throw
ed in cellar door.
An since that wouldn't make enough OF IRE
to get around IT,
The parson warmed 'em with a talk on Hell
as he had found it."
The mayor he'd lately been took up with quite
religious ways,
An SO, he give 'em-every one-just ten, or
thirty days:
We saw that none was sighted, too-we did
the thing up brown.
An wound it up by giyin' 'em six hours to
FRANK L. STANTON.
81 have been occasionally troubled with
Coughs, and in each case have used Browns
bronchial Troches which have never failed
and must say they arc second to none In the
world."-Eeltr II. Mdy, Cashier, st. Paul, MtS,n.