Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-01-27
Van Buren,, Pa.

dent from Swift it seems to me
spoke lightly of "pumkin pie" re.
Gently. He certa My must be an
unrecons tructed recOncentrado,
else he would not dare speak of
it in comparing, his common every
day joys.
Then your Cerro Gordo CORE.
compels one to think
that surely that historic town has
become missionary grounds. Is
it true that this old town with
Mexican memories and naval
history is retrogradingl Are the
inhabitants of this old town, once
the honored headquarters Of O
great navy yard, actually "shoot.
ing craps" playing highlow jack
and the game, and driking wildcat
whisky on Sunday to the neglect
of their own better interests'
Shame on them. Old time CerrO
Gordians knew the value of a
church, and worshipped either
with Parson York or in old Har.
mony. If these old churches have
gone into decay, or if they are too
far away, why not build house in
the town. Let CerrO G0rdians
build bush arb0r and invite
some man TO come there and
preach a month, and thus set in
motion influences that will surely
build a church. Take a collection
every day to pay current expenses
if necessary. This can be done!
1t ought to be done! Cerro Gordo
people are too far removed from
savagery to think of living with
ont schools and churches. Another
thing that kind o. frutrates me is
this kissing job Hobson has ON
his hands. / had no idea that
women could,display greater de-
gree of idiocy than men, but they
are doing it by the wholesale just
now. Think of 400 gaping, bloom
ing female idiots lining up to be
kissed like so many COWS going
into their stalls for hay. Girls
wearing openbehind dresses,young
women with their first sweethearts,
frazzled headed females in scarlet
boomers, married women with their
babies, "old forty niners," weazen'
faced spinsters with thomas cat
accompaniment, grass widows,
rig woodie hags VII speau foal''
my! my! my! The crowd that
shook T3m o. Santer up that night
at the old kirk and down by the
roaring doom could not hold q
light for Hobson's gang of kisso'
maniacs. The sight was enough
to make a crow turn pale, but
then perhaps if all the fool women
should died there would be many
a poor fellow compelled to walk
the Hinnom Valley alone, and
maybe things are just as we'll the
way they are, though it really
seems to me that this sampline
the lot must have been rough or
Hobson. Standing 400 damsels--
take 'em as they come"-up in &
row and undertaking to gnaw the
paste from their jaws, requiring
more nerve than was needed Il
sink the Merrlmac-at least thu
dispatches say when Hobsol
tackled number 267 he flickeret
and the other 1873 waiting painting
virgins were turned away un
osculated-or at least if they wer
kissed the job was done by
hired man on contract. The nerv
that buoyed Hobson in front Q
the Spanish guns wilted befor
this array of motley idiots.
ASIDE from this kissing idioc
I am "most heartily tired" {
"Teddy Roosevelt" and ''Lieuter
ant Hobson." This maudlin her
worship is sickening. Rooseve
is simply a shrewd politician VIII
wants to be president and too
the "rough ride' route byway
Albany New York to get Their
; and Hobson is simply q DARN
young fellow accidently brougl
into notoriety. Both sensibl
deserving men, but neither of the
; should be apotheosized.
For thorough understandir
= of the Cuban situation and GOO
"hoss sense" I'd sooner risk III
Hugh Lee than ten acre tie
], full of Roosevelts and HobsOn
>, To me "Old" Joe Wheeler al
8 Fitz Hugh Lee are the heros
3 the Spanish war anyway so far
a Cuba is concerned. They reve
! the fact that the "old rebel" b
: bis hide chueked full of that o
. timespatriotism that rallied at Ne
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