The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-04-27
! ARP As A PESSIM|SI.
He IS Troubled About the Situation
in the Philippines.
GLOOMY IN THE SPRINGTlME
When He should Be Happy and Sm.ing-
Var News Is Bsd-Some.hiax Is tn:
Natter.

Bonus melior optimus-good, better,
best. Mains pejor pessimus bad,
worse, worst. I remember that much
Latiu. Some days We are optimists
and look on the bright side and think
the war is about over aud the millen-
Dium will begin with the new century.
Then again the news is bad We are
obliged to be pessimists until it
changes. / Am q pessiraist right
now, for everything looks dsrk and
gloomy abroad, though tie genial
| spring sun is shining and every thing is
lovely OF home. What 10 oil this about
one hundred thousand more men want
ed to subdue the Filipinos and our
soldiers saying they didu'nt enlist to
fight negroes; and what about the Sa-
means ambushing our boys and cut
ting their heads off and parsding them
through the streets; and what about q
rupture with Germany while our navy
is all engaged over there in those far
distant islands? II Germany is eight
Ing mad. What better opportunity does
| she want than to turn her navy loose
| upon US right now? and how do We
know that Johnny Bull would help US?
And then again there seems to be no
real peace in Porto Rico, for one of
their lass papers says: 1--WE observe
With sorrow that tn. United States
troops are q mass OF base. aud shame
less people, drunken multitude who
daily buffet and maitreat our suffering
people. They rob our servants as
| they go to market; they enter our res
taurants and take what they wan. by
force aud then break up the crockery;
they rob the peddlers and refuse to
pay the cabmen and steal everything
III sight; they insult our women like
savages. and to complain to hea !quar-
tiers is like barking at tho moon. If
this is our destiny, would that we
could sink this fair island in the DEPTHS
of tie sea-"
Another paper says: "Our people
are daily insalted by these rufIians,
and We have not the patience of job
nor the meekness of the Man Of Cal
vary to bear these things without re-
| 1ohnauS.
Another paper says: "We suffered
much under the Spsniards, but our
new haerators are committing greater
offenses and expressions than did our
former masters, and We cannot sub
nit quietly to this new tyrany. Nev-
or before has there occurred in Ponce
such outrages as are happening to-day.
There is safety nowhere, and our Ia
dies are at all times expos e / to the in
suits Of drunken soldiers
How is that for the American SOL
dier-the brave patriots whom we lsud
in song and story? Nor do We have
to go to Porto Rico to find them.
Only few days ago a New Jersey
regiment was mustered out at Green
vile, S. c., and Immediately began
their devilment, and their journey
homo was reign Of teraand wall str.
writes to me on I.
~ vonlnd. for. A negro
he Pa.u wants to know wherein
10 .Le colored troops were worse than the
whites.
What is the matter with this genera
ton, white and black? What is the
matter st Pans, and why can't the two
races work together in peace! What is
the matter at Weathersford, Conn
and Why won't the white people there
let the negroes build home for Ole
and invalid negroes? Carrie Steele, .
colored good Samaritan. projected
similar home for negro orphans in At
lanta and the whites babe her godspeet
and subscribed literally and helpet
her, and it is doing good work that Il
commended by all our people. Hav,
, the yankees forgotten what they Tough
, for, or pretended to fight us for
And besides all these things there ar
, more 6res and awful casualties an
r drownings and suicides and murder
. .nan ever before known in so brief
0 time, and it is enough to make hope
: full man almost despair of peace an
/ good will ever returning to this a
' aicted land. This is why I am
/ pessimist today, but live in hope an
!. maybe will be an optimist next weeb
b Hope is q blessed thing. The fir.
Z composition ever heard read in schot
|. was written by tall. freckled- fac,
l.. red headed girl and it was on "Hope,
), and the first sentence: "Hope is
good invention, and if it were not fe
a hope man would die and woman woul
d give up the ship" "Not only so, b,
:. Also" said Jim Alexander, and Geore
r Lester whispered part of his speecl
e "Hope for a season babe the wor
i farewell,
: And Freedom shrieked when Kosciusl
$ FELL"
And Remedy Butler quoted liz
9 from his speech: "Hope sprin!
y eternal in the human breast" And
r had t. lift up my voice, of course, as
: repeated:
"'Twas ever thus in childhood's hon
= I've seen my fondest hopes decay"
We smart boys had power of Fl
over that red-headed composition, a
it is still q proverb among Us tt
"Hope is q good invention" And
! we will not utterly despair but live
hope. worked in the garden yestt
day, for it was blessed day. hs
\ been sick. My back ached and I
left kidney was on boom and my1s
Il were on q strike and wouldent ca,
one with alacrity, but work in the G
den got me all in sweat of perspil
ton and I feel better. Ny wife sol
wolrd, and she Knows. She has
but two laws for me. One is, I m
work in the garden if I am we'll, 6
the other is I must be we'll. The =,
doesent bother me while l am at wo
but I hoe and dig and ponder Viii
dig. am perplexed right now alb
very mysterious force of nature t
do not understand. It is the lift
power Of little tender plants. ne
have understood how it il that the