The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-17
BILL AND HIS BRAIN.
ARP DOING HIS THINKING WITH
HALFA HEAD.
He Ties to Borrow Money from tho Banks
and Rails, Nh reu ON He Scores
Them-Talks VI iih His Doctor.

lulS week lor am SIGN. "A lduJ LAWN" VI
mine told me about lady friend of hers
who was suffering one night from wretch
ed headache She was Il very devoted
woman and always knelt beside her bed and
said considerable silent prayers before
retiring, but OH this occasion she stood up
and said Good Lord you know how SICK
| am-Dlease excuse me ton. ght and to
bed she went.
Please excuse me Mr.. Editor from writing
my weekly letter for L am sick and the
doctor SAYS | muSent write nor think tor
IL lew days, for l am threatened with soft
ching of the brain and | muSent do anything
to strain my mind Softening of the brain
has been my apprehension lor year or
two. 1t is AKIN to dotage, and Is almost
as bad for an old man as hardening Of the
heart is for d young one. SO Will have to
suspend until the doctor gets through with
me and patches me up. There is only one
half of my head affected now and one eye.
At first | suffered pam III front, but no"
it has creepeu over to the ctrtDelium as he
calls it. and | can't StOop down nor get up
suddenly without a lash OF pain shooting
ail over my cranluln. 1t comes ana IL goes
Ike those electric lights Ill the streets o1
Atlanta. So | thCught that L would write
YOU with the other SIDE OF my mead ;nd ask
to be excused for | don't want to STRAIN
my mlnd. | have been i'll bed all day tax
ing medicine every hour and receiving calls
and sympathy, ana Illuminating on easy
things, but have to be careful about strain
ing my mind. The doctor says that | must
be CAIN and serene. lie asked me what
had been reading |; tely and told hlm that
l had been uyll5 TO keep up with the Briggs
trial saw him knit his eyebrows, tor he
is a Baptist, and he said that the abstruse
metaphysics of that discussion was enough
TO run any ordinary man distracted. told
how bnt
settled the Smith case came on as side
show and noW Ohio turned Smith out and
New York let Briggs stay III and there was
nothing settled III Il national way ABOUT
inerrancy and plelhry Inspiration, ana l
had been Strainiug nv mind to ind out what
l must think OF believe about the business
stop it," said the doctor, quit think
ing-you will find out all about II III a few
vears-yes i'll a few years II you don I quit
strainng your mInd. Let these aDstruse'
scientific, over-educated gentlemen alone
AS the Lord said to Job Who are they
that darken counsel by words without
knowledge? WhaIe vast thou when L lad
the foundation Of the earth and
where were the foundations fastened
ana where was tne corner stone laid When
the morning stars sang together ana tue sons
of God shouted for Joy:
Then | told the doctor about how had
been reading up on the tariff and the NC
i\mlcy blL and WAS trying to make up III!
Il
WAS very much perplexed and had strained
my mind to determine which was the rlSht
thing to do for if we reduced the tariff
didn't see how we could get enough revenue
10 run the government, u1icSs we passed.
an income tax and cut down the pensions
and / didn't believe the democrats would
dare do either. This thing l had sorter
added my mind and right ON top OF 1t l
had to tackle the silver bill and free com,
age and had read what Mr.. Fairchild sad
ABOUT it. He is a very smart man. ne
said that IS, 100000 of treasury notes paid
tnr 4.DtaJOO ounces of silver under the
Sherman act at 43 cents and the great dan
ger of business was colossal purchases and
nave At, Immediate revival just So
think | almost understand that, but II mas
strained my mind Then | read what MI
~. John. She great New York banker said
which was the best thing to do was 60
find out what the republican leaders want
ed you to do and then not to do 1t ana now nov
IA. ,ur 2ulu nl.uca were producing y! 3D.
100000 a year anti eighteen months ago
there were II 600 600 ounces OF bullion ana
now there were but 3OOOOO, aHu the
great country was growing faster ana laSter
and bigger and bigger, and we were opls-
ed to have more money ana IL we coului1
ct gold we must have SILVER ana paper aio
90 ahead stream and dump everything INTO
the boundless sea. | expect 1T was G0od
democratic talk, but it strained my mind.
The doctor looked solemn at me ana
sorter pitiful, and then told MN now l
was all tangled up over Jay Toulu 5 dealh
and what the editors and the preachers
and some of the women said about MN anu
was straining my mind To locate MN lor
some of these DAYS | expect to go To that
undiscovered country myself, ana now
got some relief when | read the eultorlal
in the Rcviw of Reviews which appreci-
oto and enioy more than any modern liter
ature. for it is always fair and square ana
q man of my caliber can read 1t anu unuef-
stand it without strainins his mind.
Did you locate him.? said the DOCTOR
mo, said, L." But | located the properly a
lt is all busy in moving trains and goods
and people and operating shops where there
arc thousands of men at work, and his money
IS still running the telegraph. amt so Tar as
we are concerned, it makes no diiferehce
whether the seventy-two millions were COLI
rolled bv one man or by seventy-two men
w;th n million apiece The Lords hand is in
II all. and believe thar Miss Helen will do
some big thing with her share before she
dies. and maybe George will too. Ihere are
1roubles nearer home that worry me more
,hon lay Could There is trouble at Macon
in the college and one of my best friends
is in it. and there is trouble right here at
home. and two preachers are in 1t, and 1t mas
stirred I'D the town and you can hear much
and find out but little, and Sam Jones is
xoing to move away, and my water pipes
have bursted and there is a curtain down
and no hoy but me, and the tax man came to
see me yesterday and took the last dollar
had in the world to help pay the courts
expenses and to educate the everlasting ne
gro: and we've been at it for twenty-five
years. and the more we do it the more lhey
go TO the chungang, for there are over 2ooU
there HOW und only 195 white persons and
/ am tired of the experiment., t'r 1t ls q
failure and burden upon us and IS no good
for them that | can see. This is the biggest
tax | ever paid and | have less property to
paw on than | have had for five years ana
here Is the town tax that is on the same
line. and we are tired of educating other
children. especially the black ones, ana
there is too much patriotism in our govern
ment, both state and national, and l know
rich men who are drawing pensions from
the state, and poor men who fought just as
long and just as hard and get nothing, and
the principle is all wrong, for no soldiers
ought to be pcnsiuned but the needy, and
that's my doctrine.
| went down to Atlanta the other day to
borrow 5000 to bride over the mpecunl-
GUS chasm and pay these taxes and q few
of these darn little just debts that | owe,
and one bank said they We're moving the cot
ton and it took all their money, and another
bank said they only discounted local paper
for their depostors, and then | went to
Captain Lowry at the Tallyho bank and
he greeted m" with smiles as he always does.
but said that money was mighty close that
day. but if l would come back the last of
next week he would what he could do.
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