The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-04-25


for the money there is in it, but new
ertheless he should bo commended
ard honored for the pleasure that he
has given to thousands and thousands
Of children all over the land. The
poet said that Abou Ben Adhem was
admitted to heaven by St. Peter be-
cause he loved his fellow men and
maybe the professor will get in be-
cause he worked SO hard to please the
children. Children are big thing in
heaven. "Suffer the little children
to come unto Me, for of such is the
kingdom Of heaven is the sweetest
verse in the Bible to mothers and it
utterly paralyzes the dogma Of infant
damnation. Iknow there is plenty Of
scripture to establish the doctrine of
election, but I have never believed
that it applied to little children. The
maternal instinct abhors it.
But this pony and dog show was
most beautiful street pageant and was
free to the hundreds who were too
poor to pay for the tent performance.
They ought to thank the professor for
that. / am poor myself, but / strain
ed my pocketbook and took all our
little folks in. They are still talking
about it. The monkey who played
doctor and the pony who laid down
and groaned and played sick and how
the monkey cured him and they tell il
all over again and again and how they
rode on the ponies and the tricks of
the beautiful dogs and so on. How
wonderfully fond the children are Of
little things, little dolls and puppies
and kittens, little horses and colts
and calves, little tiny babies and little
chickens. Old folks like little chill
dren and it is sure sign that man
is nearing his second childhood and
that his hold upon the world is weak
ening when he loves the company of
innocent children. Now 1 am not so
dreadfully stuck on the average boys.
When they are sgood they are very
good indeed, but when they are bad
they are horrid. One day o grand
child behaved so bad at the table that
l told him he shouldn't come any
more, but. should wait or eat in the
kitchen. When I got up and left he
said: Gamma, genre gstti..' mighty
oid, amt he?" eyes" she said.
Gamma, he'll die some time, won't
he?" But I do love che little girls.
I am now in Florida again, for the
good people kept calling as and ihe
Spring has come and everything down
here is so calm and serene that / am
glad / accepted their invitations. The
loyal Daughters Of the Ccnfederacy
are very strong in Florida and asked
for Q little help and so I am here in
their behalf. I had two hours in,
Savannah, but had to leave at 8 o clock
in the morning and SO did not see my
friends, for nobody gets up in Savan-
nah until dinner time and some few
lie in bed till next day. That's what
Evan HoWell told me. I travelled
with him ell the way and enjoyed his
company, for he is always the same
good taiker and ne gave ne graphic
account Of his recent Havana trip.
He likes the Cubans, especially the
Castilian classes, who, he says, are a.
heightened, generous and honorable
people. He feared that our occupa.
tion Of Cuba was going to be prejudi.
cial to Florida; but he stopped long
enough down here to do away with
such apprehensions.. Florida cannot
have substitute and will always bs
the loveliest State in the Union the
natural sanitariumS 70 our invalids
and the garden Of the South. An old
Georgia friend who has, been here for
some months told me to-day that this
State never was in go prosperous con.
dition as it is to-day and that there is
more money here per capita than there
is in. Georgia. Every branch Of busi-.
ness and every industry is prosperiDg
and the people generally are contentsd
and happy Howell says the worst.
drawback upon the rural population.
iss The !anks ne UIf,t,fii onoJ ,.afroob;rr