The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-03

| 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 / must request
! correspondents to write to X. T.. Lee
camp Confederate Veterans, Richmond,
| Va, or to DR.. Mcclure, 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, lit blesses him
who gives and him who dost receive"
And now there seems to be another
war impending and somehow j can't
keep from Eliminating about it. 1T is a
blessed thing 10 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 and
horse and mule and hog and pig and
chicken and all the corn and wheat and
burned down the towns and left desOla-
ton behind them, and. like Weyler, said
that the quickest way to end war was
to make it horrible.
The deadly parallel is always unwel-
come. hut we can't help drawing it
| someone's. 1ue NuDdIbS are wing w
do what we tried to do-to dissolve q
lIniOn-and the people of these United
States seem to think they are night.
And they are, If they can succeed. IL
they fail, why, of course, they are guilty
of treason and ought to be hung-gOy-
eminent is a curious paradox.
But everybody who can help ought to
help and do it quickly. We old men re-
Ii RI
of corn came to Georgia from Missouri
a gift from the good people of that State
and how the hungry gathered at the
depOts along the lines to get share. /
remember when check for $4,000 was
sent to me unsolicited by the good pe0-
pie of Liberty, in Clay county, and I
! endorsed it to Governor jenkins and
that. too, was invested in corn for the
starving. i 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 hum
| dred dollars a bushel and my share was
| five bushels and / didn't dare to keep it
in town, but kept it hid out at Rowland
1 Bryant'S, six miles in the country and
he brought us in 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. 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-
ciatcd 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 go on and relieve the
| distress of those miserable people. Spain
says we may and humanity says we
! must.
What a blessed thing is peace-peace
at home and abroad. While working in
| my garden to-day l felt conscious of its
blessings and thankful, for l knew that
Aunt Ann would have turnip green's and
| boiled ham for dinner and eggbread and
| rice and potatoes and buttermilk and
some kind of a dessert and knew that
my wife and daughters and two or three
/ grandchildren would be there. l realized
| that we were at peace with our neigh
! bors, white and black, and that the town
I was at peace, no quarrelS or fights, and
there was peace all over the county and
the people generally were contented and
reasonably happy. | remembered that for
! years we had not locked our doors by day
or by night, nor our chicken house nor
! barn. We have even torn away our
| front fence and 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 go to meeting
on Sunday and to the missionary ON
Monday and the aid society on Tuesday
and the literary club on Wednesday and
the 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 so 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 were
! grinning and new ones We're needed
lonesome, but the sideshows must go
ON. on society will suffer.
| | was planting beans while Illuminating
! ANA Il dear little Sranucnllu was keep
ing me company and talking all the time
and before j noticed what she was doing
she had dropped them by handfuls all
along the row, and / had to get down on
my marrow bones and pick them all up
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 go-
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 expatiate. if they want
to. | am glad that Colonel Gambler has
the good sense to decline and keep out of
! the unseemly muddle. 1t is undignified.
Heard a man cry three cheers for At
kinson," and another teller said: Hes
done had 'em and is settin' in one of
'em now. What does he want with an