The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-03-01
FARMER BEACH
Tells of the Safety of the
Country.
GOING TO KEEP ONE MAN STRAIGHT,
Washington Beautiful City...The
COlors on the Supreme
Bench.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. q, "a.
DEAR JOURNAL IF any OF your
readers have suffered from any ap.
prehenSions rs to the safety of the
country, they need no longer fear,
for Mr.. Cleveland and I are now
both here end in good working
order; each with our duties we'll de-
fined and ready to perform them.
We have divided the work in this
way: Mr.. Cleveland will take a
kind OF general supervision of the
whole nation, while |. in my some
what humber sphere, have agreed
to look after one man andEsorter
keep him straight, and that man
is Farmer Beach" He, poor fell
low, is little hard to manage just
now, for, though Washington's
streets and avenues are as straight
and clean and pretty as the hand of
man can make them, this old fellow
has been heard to Sigh several times
in the last few days, tor the ''old red
hills of Georgia" and especially for
that one just beyond the two-mile
branch, sticky and muddy as it is,
Pennsylvania Avenue5canpot COM
pare with it for beauty and attract
iveness.
And then this is such fast city.
Nobody walks here; everybody goes
on wheels. Old and young, great
and small, ladies and gentlemen cul-
tivate the bicycling art. Even
Father Time is fast, here. l found
4 Washington time full hour ahead
of my slow Marietta watch on my
arrival here. Even the Methodist
Church I have attended for the last
two Sundays has pastor named
Canter. Yhink of Methodists keep.
ing up a Canter But, after all,
they must be fast too. Tie slowest
body in the city is Congress. Il is
simply taking a walk over" and
stopping to rest occasionally, even
at that gait.
Washington is a beautiful city.
Its wide, we'll paved streets; its
!, abundance of shade trees and beau
tiful little parks, scattered all
through its limits, show that "UDcle
Sam" has sought to make an Eden
of it, although it has not proved to
be Paradise regained," to all who
have entered its inviting portals. l
do not believe that even the grand
man at the White House is always
happy, but he is level-headed and
firm and is honestly doing his part,
in spite of the conflicting elements
surrounding him.
With White and Gray and Brown
on the Supreme Bench, it certainly
looks now as if justice might reach
all colors and conditions of our cos.
mopolitan people, and we may live
in hope of seeing Black and Green
added to the combination yet. But
justice is blind, and some accuse her
of being little hard of hearing"
although she has heard Louisiana
which is little farther removed
than New York from the seat of
government.
With the aid of guide, a com
pase, and policeman, and with a
correct knowledge of the English
alphabet, one can succeed in finding
his way about this city quite readily.
| went out Sunday afternoon to
end4avor to find friend who lived
on street, the point OF compass, of
which | had forgotten. After try
ing the street north west, then west
by north, then north east, then
north by northeast, then, finally,
south east, concluded life too short
to waste in that way and gave up
the search for that day. l have
since found that |. was within a
square of his house when LETT off.
Moody and Sankey, the great
evangelists, are holding meetings