The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-04-05

have been disposed OF. 50 many more
calls have reached me and continue to
reach me for copies that | must request
correspondents TO write TO IL Il. Lee
camp Confederate Veterans, Richmond
VI or 10 DR.. McGuire. who, no doubt.
will gladly send copies. Inclose stamp.
Of course. A Confederate veterans
camp cannot circulate better literature
and no doubt will be pleased to do it
1t is an honor TO want it. and an honor
to send it. Like mercy, 1T blesses him
who gives and him who dost receive"
And now there seems to be another
war impending and somehow / cam
keep from Illuminating about II. 1t is 4
blessed thing to help the starving Gu
bans. | recall the time when hundreds
of our people were starving and no help
came from the North. When the fowl
invaders took every COW and calf AMI
horse and mule and hog and pig and
chicken and all the corn and wheat and
burned dow the towns and left desOla-
ton behind them, and, like Weyler, said
that the quickest way to end Il war was
to make it horrible.
The deadly parallel is always unwcl-
come. but we can't help drawing it
sometimes. The Cubans are trying to
do what we tried to do-to dissolve a
union-and the people of these United
States seem to think they are right.
And they are, if they can succeed. If
they fail. why. of course, they are guilty
of treason and ought to be hung-gOv-
ernment is a curious paradox.
But everybody who can help ought to
help and do it quickly. We old men re-
member well when the first train load
OF corn came to Georgia from Missouri
10 Co., ~, 3Io rnn1 ,,nnn1n Of 4hnt Sfntn
and how the hungry gathered at the
depots along the lines to get q share. l
remember when a check for $4,000 was
sent to me unsolicited by the good peo-
pie of Liberty, in Clay county, and I
endorsed it to Governor jenkins and
that. too. was invested in corn for the
starving. remember when bread,
cornbread. was all We asked for or hoped
for and we sent a boat 200 miles down
the river and got 200 bushels for a hun
dred dollars Il bushel and my share was
five bushels and l didn't dare to keep it
in town. but kept it hid out at Rowland
Bryant'S. six miles in the country and
he brought us in a little meal once a
week and we were thankful.
Anything is better than war and my
fear is that the jingoes will precipitate
one without just cause. l see that the
talk now is about enforcing the Monroe
doctrine and ordering Spain to take
hands off of Cuba. If the Monroe doc
trine applies to Cuba now it did seventy
five years ago when Mr.. Monroe %enuncia-
ciated it. Spain has owned it ever since
Columbus discovered it 400 years ago
and it is absurd to apply the doctrine
to it now. Let us so or and relieve the
distress of those miserable people. Spain
Saws Vn NAV and humanity n wa
must.
What Il blessed thing lis p~eace-peac4
at home and abroad. While working in
my garden to-day l felt conscious of its
blessings and thankful, for / knew that
Aunt Ann would ave turnip green's and
boiled ham for dinner and eggbread and
rice and potatoes and buttermilk and
some kind of Il dessert, and | knew that
my wife. and daughters and two or three
grandchildren would be there. | realized
that we were at peace with our neigh
boris, white and black, and that the town
was at peace, no QuarrelS or fights, AMI
there was peace all over the county and
the people generally We're contented and
reasonably happy. | remembered that for
years we had nOt locked our doors by day
or by hight, nor our chicken house nor
barn. We ave even torn away our
front fence aud side fence and anybody
can walk through our grove and lawn
who wishes to. We have good schools
and nice churches near at hand and our
wives and daughters can so to meeting
on Sunday and to the missionary Oh
Monday and the aid society on Tuesday
and the literary club on Wednesday and
tie Daughters of the Revolution on
Thursday and the Daughters of the Con-
federacy on Friday and the park COM
mittee on Saturday, besides the Epworth
League and the Old Maids Club and the
musicale and some other entertainments
thrown in. Then, there are various
reception days and calling days and
home talent shows and bazaars
and 50 the women folks of
his town don't have to stay
at home any hardly if they don't
want to. | noticed yesterday that the
buttons on an old friends coat We're
grinning and new one We're needed
mighty bad. Some little children are
lonesome, but the side>hows must 80
en-. or society will suffer.
| was planting beans while Illuminating
ard i dear little ~srandchild was keep
ing me company and talking all the time
and before l noticed what she was doing
she had dropped them by handouts all
along the row and / had to get down on
my marrow bones and pick them all III
bless her little heart. She thought
she was helping me. She fell down the
steps yesterday and the red blood
streamed from her nose and hurt me
more than it did her. for she seldom
cries about anything. Her mother is 60
ing visiting this afternoon and says [
may have both of the children. They
are mighty good to me, these mothers
and | had rather listen to the talk of the
little innOcents than the finest political
speech that a candidate for Governor can
make. | am tired of politics. Let the
boys crate and eNpatiate, if they want
to. | am glad that Colonel Gambler has
Z good sense TO decline and keep out of
the unseemly middle. 1t is unidentified.
Heard a man cry three cheers for At
kinson," and another Teller said: Hes
, done had 'em and is a settin' in one of
ON now. What does he want with an
other cheer? Wait till he gets ont of