The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-14

other and a news manager told me
the other day that one of his news.
boys skipped some of his patrons
every week so as to have a paper OF
two to sell and get money to buy eli.
garettes. OF course he discharged
him.
1t is pleasant entertainment to lis.
ten to a doctor tell of his varied expe-
riences and this one uttered a truth
the other day that ought to provoke
serious thought in every parents bo-
som. He says that his greatest foe
in the treatment of diseases of chill
dren is their disobedience to their
parents and it is most generally the
mothers fault They will do things
that are forbidden, but she overlooks
their disobedience and so when they
get sick they will not take the physi-
clans medicines without force or a
struggle, and if the doctor is not there
to force it the mother lets the time
pass rather than hear the screams or
cries of the child. Not half the pa
rents enforce obedience from their
children. Prompt and willing obedi-
ence should be the first lesson taught
a child. Their happiness depends up
On it and so does the mothers peace.
We old-fashioned people have but
little patience with generation that
is trying to reform the world with new
methods-abolishin the ways Of their
athers-raising children on love
instead of discipline and filing a. the
schools in the land with athletic sports
and intercollegiate contests. What
honor what manliness is there in
kicking ball or batting one or wrest-
ling or rowing a boat? These sports
have gotten to be the most important
part of the curriculum and fill the
daily papers with pictures and thrill
ing reports of the games. 1t is all
an "ignis fatuuE" that fools the boys
and make them think they have &C
quired an education. When they went
to college their parents had fond hopes
of them-when they came out that
hope is gone, for they are unfit for
business or the duties of life.
While l was half recovering from
the morphine state | got to Eliminating
about the value of things and l com
pared good health and domestic hap
piness and the love and devotion of
wife and children with fame and pow
err and wealth and ambition and the
very thought of them sickened me-
l wouldn't give a good shower of
rain just now for Roosevelt and all he
has got or ever expects to be. But l
love Roosevelt because he hates Miles
and l love Miles because he hates
and l despise them both
Turn Angelina ping pong. And
last of all came Satan. They are for
war They xiii a thousand negroes to
our one. They make a land desolate
and call it peace. They have trampled
the love Of liberty in the dust and
all for lust Of power and place. A
woman from Kansas City sends me
a paper with a speech of a Grand Ar
my of the Republic orator On Deco,
ration Day, in which he states that he
wishes every Confederate monument
was buried in the bottomless ocean,
and other vindictive things, and she
wants me to answer it. No, it is no
use. That Grand Army of the Repub-
lie is full of just such contemplate
creatures, and l can't answer them all.
1t is a standing curse to the peace
Of the land. Let the ball roll on. Turn
Angelina-ping pong, ding dong, ding
dong bell. We will survive the wreck
If matter and the crush of worlds.
And so l went off to sleep murmur-
ng, there is no Grand Army. 1t is a
.wo for a nickel or four to one con-
,ern. If | couldn't fight better than
hat, I'd apologize and hide out. Some
If them down here in Atlanta would
ike to make friends, but they have
never apologized and the way they do
'eminds me of the old couplet:
4 know that you say that you love me,
But why did you kick me down stairs"
Ping-pong-di -dong-Turn, An
l was well enough to
work in my garden.-Bill Arp, in At
anita Constitution