The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-04-01
SARGE PLUNKETT.
TALKA OF THE EFFECTS OF VAR
UPON THE COUNTRY.
Brown Us Feeble from the Effects of So
Muo War Talk-He Is Afraid of
the Consumption.

The ai1 is full of rumors of war, and
nearly everybody seems to be willing to
have it cbme.
While others are enthused over the pros
poets OF even "a war to relieve the pres
sure, Brown grows feeble and the shade
OF melancholy settles deeper upon his face.
He is coming up the spring path now and
to see hml YOU would think that he was
too feeble 10 pull chicken off the roost.
He has thrown aside his false teeth, quit
washing hij face, stoops as he walks and
moves slowly and weakly about the place.
Before these rumors of war came about
he had grown to be fiXy and jumped about
like a Ydower. These rumors of war
have conf plctely paralyzed him and moth
ing but ~ horde of conscript officers hover
before hii vision. l wish you could have
seen him Monday a week ago as he prdnc-
ed up to church, and then view him as he
is since tJis affair with Cuba started up.
He wltedV right in church ana the con-
gregation Were frightened, 50 great and
sudden waE the change. He was sitting
as straight as a single and looked as
pleasing as had ever seen him when the
preacher touched upon the prospects Gt
war in the, course of his discourse. SUD
denly a pain struck Brown in the back
and he came near falling over in his seat.
He was hardly able to get home, and
me and HIS good old wife was right UNI
easy aboutt his condition as well as we
know him and know with what horror he
looks upon Ghe prospects OF any more war
i'm his The ysrip has been mighty common
all over our settlement and we thought
that il was grip that had struck Brown.
but there was no grip about it; ii was war
talk that struck him and IL used him UP.
When we arrived at home he talked To
us slowly, lowly and sadly.
"Do you thnR we are going to have
war;" said he.
Certainly we arm" said l. and Certain
ly we are" spoke up his wfe-"going to
clean up old England and Spain and Italy
and take possession of Cuba, and build the
Nicaragua canal, enforce the Monroe doc
trne and 50 on and so on.
you reckon there will be any ccnscrip-
ton like there was in The last war; asked
Brown, fcebly.
"Oh, no." said /, and oh no. spoke up
his wife.
you reckon there VIII be any old Sher-
mans among the English or the Spanards
or the Italians?" he asked, with mouln-
full tone and a sad expression
"Oh. no." said 1, and "Oh, no. spoke up
the wife.
old smokehouses to make salt. or VIII
there Toe any of this making white man
tote a pass when he goes out to drive up
the calves o. feed the hoSs?
.Oh. no" said l. and "Oh, no." spoke up
his wife.
ed as if ne would revive and look smiling
arain. but his good old wife became en-
Unused with a patriotic spirit ana let out
in a regular 1860 stump-spcakinS style:
at will be- a small matter Tor che United
States to clean out these powers-We can
do it before breakfast" said she with en-
thusiasm.
1T will not take us longer than sixty
days, nohow?' said Brown.
1T won't take twenty days answered
his good wife.
Are YOU sure" moancd Brown.
Certainly" answered his wife.
"a great many people who would like
TO 20 wont get the chance Nentufcd
Brown.
~ !yer't tak" many Americans 10 clean
W. them foreigners said Mrs brown.
aud then continuing, she Went on to say
that they couldn't fight nor ride horses,
nor do anything like our folks ana mat the
Americans could whip three TO one ana
not half try, and 50 on and 50 ON
Il heard something that sounded some
thing like that along in the sixties, said
Brown, and then, continuing. i IuIiy De
Ii.yed that the Yankees could never learn
to ride horses nor TO fight nor to march-
| was sure that / could whip three of them
any day, at first, bat after the war had
went on Il while, ] fell down to two was
certain that 1 could whip two OF them.
After while l fell To one, beinS that I
was so Old and feeble, and after great
while / decided that amy man that SAID
the yankees could not fight, nor ride horses.
nor march, was a liar. / found out That
/ they were apt at learning, III they had
never known, and as for me- / was ready
and willing 10 make it a draw, but they
wouldn't and pestered me for about Iour
years the worst chat / had ever been pest
cred and as i hope 10 never be pestCred
again
anyhow" said Brown. after short
pause Il am not goins To lake aly
chances. 1 desire 20 have il circulated ana
narrated that 1 am very feeble and mu-h-
diseased man-hardly dn,e TO creep a"ouJ
The hoASe-and that | viii be hundred ana
three years old The hrst OF next Iodder-
pulling TIME
do not think there is going to be any
war with Spain, nor England, nor any OF
the rest OF them countries. DuL il there was
10 be ii would not be brought To our doors
as it was before. The yankees don't know
what war is--it never sol 70 their doors
and now that we are an united, they, per-
bv The people Of the south. IT took mighty
nigh the whole world to force it to our
doors and doubt it if the world combined
couG. force such conditions now as we
stand united. 1t was in this strain that
] talked to Brown all day last Wednesday
when he hobblcd over and spent the day
with me; but he shook his head and told
Il was mighty badly fooled in 1860"
That is a fact" I agreed, and many
besides you We're very very badly mis-
You remember how / threw up my hat
and carried torch lights and cussed every.
body that was not for secession, said
Brown, as he run the fingers of his right
hand through his SCanty hair. Il was a
terrible fool and Thought going TO war was
a light matter. J am afraid that there
are too many in this day that look upon
it lightly. Some would have a war TO re-
move the pressure of hard times. The
hope Of business opportunities persuade
some into the desire for war, but / can
tell them all that war is bad thing and
relieves nothing. IL is not all of war TO