The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-11-30

| the ignorance or the dcStltuuOn, OF tne HI
tie children Juggling at the faded and with
cred breasts Of weeping and despairins
! Mothers OF wives asking for bread, CO
! the men of genius It has wrecked and Of tho
men struggling with imaginary serpents-
| all produced by this devilish thing.
| Jntenperance breaks the fathers heart
! bereaves the doting mother eXtinguishes
| natural affection, blights parental hopes
brings down mourning age In sorrow to tho
! grave. 1t produces weakness not strength;
! sickness, not health; death, not life. IL
! covers the land with idleness misery and
crime. II IS tho lifeblood OF the gambler.
the element of the burglar, the prop OF the
! hlghwuynan. the support of the midnight
| incendiary! 1t incites the father to butcher
/ his helpless offspring and helps the nus
! band to massacre his wife.
1t murders the soul. II Is the sum or All
| viilianies, tho father OF oil crimes. the
devils friend and Gods worst enemy
Ethel Brannon. Creek stand. Ala.--Please
stop and let poor Scroggs catch his breath
/ IL he wasn't such CCnceited monkey, he
/ could never survive such pounding as he
I has mad for the last six months. or six
/ weeks. I sure the most OF that conceit
! has been knocked out of him ere now, so
/ let the poor fellow alone and then. too
Aunt Susie has passed her judgment on
/ what I've had to say and that is all sut-
+ ficient.
Cousins. I often picture to myself a pure
! siwce5-faced. gentle woman whose sofc
/ brown hair 10 somewhat whitened by the
/ frost OF perhaps fifty winters sitting In a
/ coy room with a large table drawn closely
! TO her side. patiently reading. the many
/ letters written by bright girls and boys
| all over our fair sunny southland. AS she
( pauses to put o capital here. comma
! there ana tries TO correct and make legi-
/ bic tho little grimy marks we call letters
/ / see her turn a longing, wistful look at
4 that great waste basket as IL sho had q
good VIII to dump the whole pile in 1t. and
/ run away TO some quiet nook and rest her
I tired brains. Then she sees the look of
/ disappointment on tho eager little faces as
! thcy sean the columns OF the Junior de-
pertinent IN next weeks Constitution. and
/ lovingly and cheorfuuy she resumes hor
work
DO you wonder we all love her? With
/ best wishes to Aunt Susie and all the
cousins. BID you goodby. Age nine
Julia, Jinle and Fioy Osletree. Wetunka
/ T. E.-llCre we come, three little girls with
out a mother. WIZ You bid US welcome?
'Wnat is homo without a mother?" 1t IS
q sad, dosolate spot. uow many have been
the times when our little lives have been
20 9addencd at the one thought, no mamma
10 share our joys and sorrows. We would
often sit Cut under tho shade of some
1 lovely tree and cry yes, cry in our an
/ guish. God, give Us back our dear
mamma. for mamma had told us what
80 ever We ask ia Ills name We would
surely receive" One day as we thus cried
q man came alonE. "What arc you htte
girls crying for?" For mamma. We want
our mamma Aud Fioy says, Il guess
your mamma never was dead. or you
would know what we were crying for.
We have just asked God TO give her back
% Us!' "Weu. diC lie do it, No. my