The Progress., 1898-12-03

circulation being $4,000 greater than
all the other Republican papers in
New York and Brooklyn combined
wipes out all harmony and renews it's
war against the south. Isn't it strange
that he does not see the fallacy of his
own argument, for if such grand men
as Calhoun and Toombs and Stephens
and Lamar were produced under the
regime of slavery and we have all de-
generated under the influence Of free
dom, why not go back to slavery again
and stop that degeneracy?
But there is no use in replying to
such men. It is waste of time. They
have fattened on the last war, and
would precipitate another if they
could. That New York Press fought
Roosevelt bitterly until he was nomi-
mated, and 1 reckon it was because he
was an illustrious scion of southern
stock, a great grandson of Georgia's
first revel governor and a son of a
noble lady who was born and reared
in Georgia Georgia had to furnish
the rebel stock for their governor and
South Carolina had to furnish New
York city a mayor, and it is the
prevalence Of southern men and south
ern blood in the city of Gotham that
makes it SO overwhelmingly Demo-
cratic, Tammany or no Tammany.
But no more of this. I cannot ru-
inmate upon it with serenity. Reckon
I had better go out to my garden and
plant some more strawberries; and,
like King Ahashuerus, let my choler
down.
Well, [ came back Modified, and
when my mail brought me The Balti-
more Sun and read DR.. Carlton Lee of
Johns Hopkins university on the negro
I was jubilant. It is great paper
a bold, strong, truthful paper on the
status of the negro and how to solve
the race problem. Nothing so forci-
Die, so convincing and so conservative
has ever been published. Let every
body read it.
But this cooking business is getting
rather monotonous to my folks. 1t
suits me very we'll financially, for
Ben Franklin said "that a penny
saved was two pence gained" and as
I paid Aunt Ann two dollars week I
now gain four dollars a week. The
trouble is that nobody pays me for
my work and nobody pays my folks
for theirs. When the cotton picking
is over we can get cook without beg
ging. Cold weather will run them
in, but they are the same uncertain
creatures they always were. They
come when they please and and quit
when they please, and don't care
darn for the future. There isn't
race upon earth that SO enjoys today
and has so little concern about to-
morrow. "Carpe diem" is their max
i'm. Enjoy today. Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof"
think we are getting along splen-
didly without them, for we have less
cooking done and things last longer.
Warm breakfast and supper and cold
lunch for dinner is enough unless you
have company, and my opinion is that
during these hard times and scarcity
OF cooks, company ought not to circu-
late to any alarming extent. It is an
awful misfortune to be poor and have
rich mans ways, and it still awfuler
for women raised in luxury to have to
come down and go from the parlor to
the kitchen. AS for me, it doesn't
matter. I was raised poor and had to
make the fires and crop the woed and
go to mill and ride the mail, and so I
am only being boy again-that's all.
I am the boy.
P. S.-Mr. J. W. Gardner writes
mel from Tiller's Ferry, s. c., and says:
Gas I returned from the army in
1865 and was looking over the ground
where Sherman's forces and Wheeler's
cavalry had fight I found a lone
grave with a neat little headboard
marked,
"'W. J. L. Mahaffey, supposed to
belong to company H, Cobb's Legion.
~ made note of it in my memo
randum book %
Maybe this concerns some friend or
relative.-BILL ARP in Atlanta Con-
stitution.
This Is the young actor who has Just
,,aarr;od Marie Ta.a.ae4