The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-01-09
SARGE PLUNKETT.
THE OLD MAN MOURNS FOR THE
WICKEDNESS OF CHICAGO.
Lot Us All Pray for the Great City-Brown's
Pretty Little Story of the Saving of
Son by Widowed Mother.

Written for The Constitution.
Christmas is over, the weather Is fine and
the farmers. are beginning to stir the ground
for the next CROP
That the farmer feeds the world Is TOO
well known to waste time stating the fact
SO important he is and yet he has less to
90 with forming or debating the policy OF
the government than any other class Oh
folks in all the world. The niger is get ting
clear ahead of the farmer in political III
pCrtance, and the heather Chinee is gam
ing ground mighty fast. The farmer knows
his Importance and he feels the Sights, put
IT is next to impossible to get them to pront
by the knowledge of their Importance OF 10
resent their Sights by united effort AS III
politics, so it is in the matter OF pitching
their crops. They pay but little Afternoon 10
each other in this and so lose peheI'S
rightly their own if they were to plant III
telliSently and act in concert. hight now
one neighbor is nosing round to see II he
can't slip in big cotton crop unbeKno"lhe
to the other neighbor, While all or theIh
know and preach the doctrine OF less
acreage" Let EN- rip; l don't care ior
next fall [ will have a good time laughing
when they are cursing the low prices.
Anyhow, we of the south should be thank
full. L feel that we should when L read OF
the great distress in Chicago. But am NOT
surprised at anything that happens to chi
cago. L have Eeen there ana a more ull-
gody place was never upon this eafth II
in this great city that l felt more than
ever before in my life like eXciaimlnS 600
bless old Georgia. God bless the soulh!
The immortality one sees there Is +housh
to inspire the sentiment above. 1t rs CITY
Of foreigners. No America there. livery
where and everything smacks Of the Tor
eigner 1 would not give one DAY OF hearty
greeting that is present always in Georgia
for all the Socability that a lifetime Woulu
bring from these immoral colo, business
bent foregn-aired people OF Chicago. Inc
wonder to me is that the Lord does not
smite the whole state Of Illinois, much less
Chicago, for the sins OF this great city.
have talked to men from London ana 1hey
tell me that Chicago has more sin IN one
day than London in year. And II IS
licensed immortality. A wicked city 1t IS,
but | am sorry for the women and niue
children who are suffering there. ana
am sorry for any who may scorn Tie ldra
of the Lord Furnishing for SUCH 1minorallty
as IS to be met with in Chicago. nave
heard that mans extremity was Gods CD
portunity. L nope that Chicago will be De-
tered morally by her trouble. / told Brown
this morning that l felt like calling upon all
the world to pray for Chicago, bu- Know
that J. would be laughed at Il L d'd. AIRY
how my remarks 20 B:oWn caused pm 10
remember a little story which had forgot
ten, and Brown wants me to give II mere
as an evidence Of there being yet soma
efficacy in prayer.
Browns little story dates from Wedowee,
Randolph county, Ala. Wedowee, from
an Indian village, came 20 be the county
seat OF randolph when the county was or
gained. The little own does not STAND
now where / was hrst intended that 1T
should stand, and where it was first To-
Gated. AT first the town was ON the banks
of Wedowee creek, and there the Smiths,
the Helms and others started on the road
to eminence. Beneath the shelter of a bush
arbor, which was then the courthouse, these
men FLASHED their legal swords and made
the wild woods resound. AS an adjunct to
this buSharbor courthouse was the countys
first jail-a poplar log. The jail VAS SlGply
a big poplar log lying upon the banks OF
WeuuWee creek. The prlauner was thrust
into the hollow OF THIS great log and a slld-
ing door at the end shut MN IN.