The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-02-22
Arp LOVESCHILDREN
Their Presence Is a Great Comfort
Says lie.
BILL PLAYS WITH THE TOTS.
And Says They Sweeten Life by
Their Pranl<s-Taliss About Happen.
ings OF the Day.

Th1 best earthly antldote for melar-
choiIy Is to mix up with lot Of inno-
cent children and join in their little
SPORT. have the blues sometimes and
this always gives relief. They make
me forget myself. / dent know how a
man gets along without them.
When little troubles makes me sigh,
Or feeling sad and can't tell why,
These children bring serenity.
George Francis Train is now an old
man aud has seen lots of trouble. He
was an eloquent, gifted crank and made
quite = noise in the world thirty and
Forty years ago. but was never a. sue.
cess, and so he goured on thu world and
sworc off from it. lie declared that
man was a fraud, hypocrite and wU-
man was weak and helpless and that
little children we're the only happy and
uncontdmiDated creatures in this WICK
ed world and the only society ne should
minglo with as tong as he lived. Il has
now been about twenty-five years since
no SWOre or and from that time his
uuily habit has been TO visit some park
In New York every day and take a bas-
6cl CT corrections or fruits ard all his
pockets full and make headquarters on
the same park bench and gltJer arOGnd
nina q score or two OF little FOLKS and
tocd them rs they laugh and romp and
iroiic. They all know him and love
Inn ana run to him when lie comes
E%A little chicks run 10 the old hens
call | saw him once aud drew near
with friend to hear what he Was tell
inS the children, but he GplCd us ana
stopped talking and soon moved away
20 another seat and the children fol-
lowed him. Before the civil war |
heard him make an outdoor speech at
Rochester to very large audience and
he advocated the policy of the govern
ment Issuing ten thousand millions Of
money so that every man could have
his pockets full and every woman her
bosom full and then, said he we would
build railroads and canals and docks
and churches and ships and steamboats,
ana monuments and live like kings
and princes. The government has tha
right to Issue it and has the presses
to print 1t and why don't they do il and
give it away to the people and make
everybody happy" Just then a coun-
tryman cried out: But hold on Train,
wouldn't there be a collapse after
awhile?" Train looked at him with
contempt as he replied: "Why, Of
course there would. Any fool would
know that, but the railroads and docks
and canals and churches wouldn't col
lapse. They would be there, wouldn't
they?' And the crowd yelled: "Tur-
rah for 1rain!" 1t was hard to tell
whether he was fool or a philosopher.
Mis- rcdeeming trait is his fondncss for
Chiidlen.
Blessed children; what do they care
about Cur world OF trouble-whether
Gocbel lives or dies, or the war in
Africa or The Philippines, or how many
negro postmaster Mckinley appoints.
They don't know how grieved / am
that Senator Morgan i9 likely to be de-
feated-that great and good man whom
the nation delights to honor. Yes, de-
icdtsd by machine politics and uaclcan
methods. Verify, it reminds ne of
what Carlysle said: ENGLAND has
population Of $4,000, o00-mostly fools"
politician wGuM circumyeus Cod"
SO reckon this kind of c0rrupsioo il
10 new thing. 1t goes bacl; to the
time when Eru5i;3 KILLED Csegcr Yes.
III goes back to the time when All.
Sllcm tried to clrcunvent his own
Father and depose him from the th~1ne
anil Jacob CheTtc1 EAlu out Of mis-
blrJhright. Seld5hDcSs is dlc cardinal
frn OF mankind--the trump card Of the
devil In seduciDg US to his alIegiance.
i'here is 9rcJler antidUte to mol2n-
cE3lly; 1T is work. and / lcQg to go at
". The winter has been lore and
hard and | am impatient for the silae
to come when the flowers shall APPEAR
on the C'grtA ami the singing OF birds
shall come and tho voice Of Hae turtle
DO heard IN tie lands. want 10
stnctSdden up things in the garden ard
cross II OIL and see how many roses
nave been killed. | want to fork ND
the guourd ard plant some more seeds.
[ planted peas a month ago and they
are coming up, sweet vioiatS are peep
tng ont and l found a solitary straw
berry bloom. The elm tree buds are
swelling, the crowg ara Cawing in the
tTee tops and soon some fmprudent
pe0dh trees Will be In bloom. AS the
poet sUlth spring is getIing ready IT,
unlock the Mowers anu paint the
laughing earth But there is some
bod with every good thing. My wife
has Just called my attention to the
neighbours chickens thut have taken
Up in our garden and the neghbors'
dogs that are roaming over our lot and
hahtlng in our bNCk yard. They are
coiored moltly-'ths owners, | mean
and I'm going to declre war; see If /
DON'T. / hereby give warming to all
owners OF galin2ceous and canine ami
malls to keep them at home or the race
problem will break out in these parts.
They say They passed a dog law and
now they say 1t does not SO into effect
unall May 1901, and never if the grand
juries don't fudcrse it. The lawmak.
ers were politicians and wanted the ne
gro vote and SO they showed the law
ont the grand juries. / see that the
grand jury OF Gtmdcn county have al
ready killed the law. They like dogs
and SauI5age-don't like mutton.
A hundred years ago the poet said:
oh! for lodge in some vast wilder
ness.
Where r1mor of oppression and deceit
or successful or unsuccessful war
Might never reach ne more"
Wonder Whist he would say now. But
there ts another side to all this and I'll
feel better in the morning, for IL the
d1'hren don't come to me Ill go to
Vhem.-Eill Arp in AtlaaHa Conss,tu.
lion.
Need OF Woman's Hotel.
lhe need for n working woman's
hntel L. ilIrr 4,.a IL l. IL ~ .