The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-02-21

proud look upon her face. That look
seems to say that is my child; isn't she
smart? And then glance at my wife,
the grandmother, and hor contented
look seems to say My grandchild;
if it nadept been for me that child
wouldent have been here" Well,
that's a fact. There is never any
doubt about who Is the mother OF u
child.
Blessed children ; what do they care
about our world of rouble-whether
Goebel lives or dies, or tho war In
Africa or the Philippines, or how many
negro postmasters Mckinley sppoints.
They don't know how grieved | am
that Senator Morgan is likely to be
defeated-that great and good nan
whom the nation delights to honor
Yes, defeated by machine politics and
unclean methods. Verify, it reminds
has population eff 80 600, ,O0O--mostly
FOOLS F" think they might let him stay
there until he fulshed his life's great
work and built the Nicaragua canal.
On T! the shame OF it. ] wish that was
u little child and dident know it, | am
grieyed, too, because our Senator Bacon
has had fall and broken his ribs, for
we need his presence in the Senate,
and now while he Is down in bed some
more machine politicians are laying
plnn1 to oust him. | tell YOU, my
friends, have no patience with machine
politics. Look at Kentucky. & e how
the State is torn and disgracod and l
say now that no gentleman or ua-
triot would have done it. Goebel
and Taylor and the whole concern
should have said : Well, | dident
know that my candidacy was going to
get up all this bitter and dangerous
fuss and make enmitios that will
never be healed, and so will withdraw
from the contest" | assert boldly that
a gentleman aud a patriot would have
said that and done it. 1t is mean,
contemptible, selfish ambition that has
produced all this trouble in that grand
old State and revived it's ancient name
of the dark and bloody ground. wish
that l was another little child and
dident know it. Hamlet said: "a
politician would circumvent God" So
reckon this kind OF corruption Is no
new thing. 1t goes back to the time
when Brutus killed Caesar. Yes, it
goes back to the time when AbaalOm
tried to circumvent his own father AMI
depose him from the throne and Jacob
cheated Esau out Of his birthrlght.
Seltlshness is the cardinal sin OF man.
kind-the trump card of the devil in
seducing us to his allegiance.
There is another antidote to melau.
choly 1t is work, aud l long to go at
it. the winter has been long and hard
and / am impatient for tho time to
come when the flowers shall appear on
shall come and the voice of the turtle
be heard in the lands. | want to
straighten up things in the garden
and dress IT off and see how many
roses have been killed. ! want to
fork up the ground and plant some
more seeds. | planted peas q month
ago and they are coming up, sweet
violets are pseping out and | found
solitary straw berry bloom. The elm
tree buds are swelling, the crows are
cawing In the tree tops and sOon some
imprudent peach trees will be In bloom.
AS the poet saith spring Is getting
ready to unlock the flowers aud paint
the laughing earth" But there Is
some bad with every good thing. Ny
wife has just called my attention 10
the neighoors' chickens that have
taken up In our garden and the neigh
bors' dogs that are roaming over our
lot and fighting in our back yard.
They are colored mostly the owners,
| mean-and Pm going to declare war;
see II don't hereby give warning |
to all owners OF gallinaceous and |
canine animals 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 |
go into effect until May 1901, and never
II the grand jurtes don't indorse it.
The lawmakers were politicians and |
wanted the negro vote and so they
showed the law onto the grand juries.
| see that the grand jury OF Gordon
County have already killed the law.
They like dogs and sausage-don't like
Beware OF dogs" saith the scrip.
turs. The last Legislature was mis-.
erarle abortion. II Carlyle were here
to write it's history he would say
s. The last Georgia Legislature had
220 mem mbers-mostly fools. Again |
wish that / was a little child and
dident know anything about these
things. We all know too much any
how, such as it Is. Too much about
the rascolity and devilment that is
going on In the world. Ibelieve will
quit reading the daily papers and read
only tho weeklies and the magazines.
Fhe mind wants a rest. A hundred
years ago the poet said:
Oh for lodge in some vast wilderness
Where rumor of oppression and deceit
)f successful or unsuccessful war
Night never reach me more"
Wonder what he would say now.
But there Is another eide to all this
md 3teel better in the morning, for
- - BILL ARP.
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