The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-05-28
THE GEORGIA HUM0RIST.
SAYS SOME INTERESTING THINGS RE-
GARDING WAR OUTLOOK

SAYS SOME INTERESTING THINGS RE-
GARDING WAR OUTLOOK
Things Have Radically Changed---wii-
liam Compares Cuban's Cause With
That of the south During the Late Un-
plcasantness.
DR.. Hunter Mcclure resides In
Richmond, Va. Six copies Of his adj
dress on Stonewall jackson were sent
me and have been disposed Of. So
many more calls have reached me and
continue to reach me for copies that I
must request correspondents to write
to r. E. Lee camp confederate veto
rams, Richmond, Vs., or to DR.. Nc
Guire, who, no doubt, will gladly send
copies. Inclose stamp, of course. A
confederate veterans camp cannot cir
culate better literature, and no doubt
will be pleased to do it. tits an honor
to want it and an honor to send it.
Like mercy. cit blesses him who gives
and him who dost receive"
And now there seems to be another
war impending, and somehow I can't
keep from Eliminating about it. 1t is q
blessed thing to help the starving
Cubans. I recall the time when
hundreds of our people were starving
and no help came from the north.
When the foul invaders took every
cow and calf and horse and mule and
hog and pig and chicken aud all the
corn and wheat and burned down the
towns and left desolation behind them,
and like Weyler, said that the quickest
way to end war was to make it hor-
rible.
The deadly parallel is always I'M
welcome, but we can't help drawing it
sometimes. The Cubans are trying to
do what we tried to do--to dissolve q
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
government is curious paradox.
But everybody who can help ought
to help and do it quickly. We old
men remember we'll when the first
train load of corn came to Georgia
from Missouri-a gift from the good
people of that state, and how the hum
cry gathered at the depots along the
lines to get share. / remember when
check for So, 900 was sent to me un-
solicited by the good people of Liber-
ty, in Clay county, and l endorsed it
to Governor Jenkins and that, too. was
invested in corn for the starving.
remember when bread, cornbread, was
all we asked for OF. hoped for and we
sent boat 200 miles down the river
and got 200 bushels for a hundred
dollars bushel and my share was five
bushels and I didn't dare to keep il
in town, but kept it hid out at Row
land Bryant's, six miles in the coun'
try and he brought us in little meal
once q week and we were thankful.
Anything is better than war and my
fear is that the jingoes will precipitate
one without just canse. see that the
talk now is about enforcing the Mon.
roe doctrine and ordering Spain tt
take hands off of Cuba. If the Monroe
doctrine applies to Cuba now it die
seventy-five years ago when Mr.. Mon
| roe enunciated it. Spain has owned
1t ever since Columbus discovered i
400 years ago and it is absurd to appl,
the doctrine to it now. Let us go OF
and relieve the distress of those miser
able people. Spain says we may and
humanity says we must.
What a blessed thing fs-peace :
peace at home and abroad. While
working in my garden today I fell
conscious of its blessings and thank
| full, for I knew that Aunt Ann would
have turnip greens and boiled ham fol
dinner and eggbread and rice and pc
tatoes and brttermilk and some kind
of dessert, and knew that my wife
and daughters and two or three grand
children would be there. / realized
that we were at peace with our neigh
bors, white and black, and that the
| town was at peace, no quarrels OF
| fights, and there was peace all Ovel
the county and the people general,
were contented and reasonably happy
I remember for years that we hai
not locked our doors by day
or by night, nor our chicken
house nor barn. We have even TORI
away our front fence and side fence
and anybody can walk through oul
grove and lawn who wishes to. We
have good schools and nice churches
near at hand and our wives and daugh
tiers can go to meeting on Sunday ant
to the missionary on Monday and tn.
aid society on Tuesday and the liter
airy club on Wednesday and the Daugh
tiers of the Revolution on Thursday
and the Daughters of the Confederacy
on Friday and the park committee o,
Saturday, besides the Epworth Leagu,
and the Old Maids Club and the must
Gale and some other entertainment.
thrown in. Then there are variou!
reception days and calling days ant
home talent shows and bazaars and e
the women folks of this town dom
have to stay at home any hardly i
they don't want to. noticed yester
day that the buttons on an old friend
coat were grinning and new ones wer,
needed mighty bad. Some little chill
| dren are lonesome, but the side
| shows must go on, or. society vii