Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-06
COMO.
OUR CORRESPONDENT IN A RE-
ELECTIVE MIND.
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Come. neighbors, we must wag,
The monkey climbs. down drop our
chins.
Each Juggling out his bag.
File upon November for holiday; it
is only a holiday for the politician.
The politicians are the jolly fellows;
they CLEAN the stubbles and catch eli
the fat geese. We are the geese to be
plucked, and perhaps get rib-roast-
ing. Heaven send us all to be politi-
clans as soon as possible, and fill our
purses the whole year round by de-
vourinS stubble geese-alias farmers.
1t ij u dreary, sober, solemn, lmelan-
cholly time-is November, quadrenniat
and biennial, for everybody but the
geese TO be sacrificed. There is laugh
ter to be sure, but the laugh is the
prospective ifice-holder's. You may
tell 1T by the sound without seeing
whence 1t comes. 1t is thick, mellow,
rat one-sided laughter. 1t has no ring
of cheerfulness in it's brassy voice.
There are to be geese roasted in plenty
FOR the spell binder and his landlords
table. Fat pigs have grown too sem
sloie to be caught running round with
an apple In mouth, crying: Come eat
ne. but stubble geese seem to meet
you at every turn and gobble that in
teresting request. At public gatherings
they assemble in crowds, they nibble
at your heels and hiss to inform you
that they are fat and foolish, and beg
YOU to Introduce them-to the orator.
They let you know they have only one
earthly desire left--to be done brown.
But the millennium of mind is adj
vancing. Its march no stubble goose
eater can arrest. Burris words are
coming into things and come it will
for Il that"
The pith OF sense and pride o. worth
Are higher ranks than a that.
y good and just God has many ar
rows tipped with retribution in the
aimory of his vengeance. Bountiful
showers. propitious seasons, resulting
in plenty, in bursting barns, caused the
repeal of the Infamous corn paws of
England, and in the destruction of vast
fortunes made by cornering the grain
Tie rapid spread of intelligence among
the masses: the reading of able jour
mails. now published by thousands; the
ever growing interest. evinced by the
peoples, in self-education, Will ere long
produce such n bursting Of the shack
les of human thoughts. that, before the
radiance OF its blaze, trusts and mono
poles Will pass as dream of the night.
For four hundred years the Israelites
toiled and labored in the great grinding
furnace of Egyptian monopoly. Their
doom seemed hopeless as the ages went
SiONiS ny. 4NOtillllS neuIu 0lOnS the
Niles proud water but the wniling of
the hungry babes. the sobs from burst
ing mothers hearts, groans of strong
men, viewing the degradation of their
race, the hopeless condition of their lit
tie ones. And yet Sinai stood in awful
isolated majesty, though no divine
voice as yet rolled down it's rugged
slope-no fiery lighting flash lit up it's
ravines and gorges with Supernal light.
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on its frimging shores. Twas neccs-
sary to strike blow more terrible
than the Passover. And thus God one
bright and beautiful day, when the
cloudless Egyptian sky gave no sign of
danger, her pride and pomp and chiv
airy, amid blare of trumphets. clash of
cymbals. with laughter in eye and jest
on lip-was lured into its waters, rolled
back5 for the escape Of the fugitives.
Beware OF strikes ended under prom
ises TO be violated at n seemingly more
propitious season. When a bowling
mob of hungry men and women were
olnmoring for bread in the streets of
Paris. the little daughter in the arms
OF his royal mother asked his mamma
why did not those hideous wretches go
to The pretty shops and buy the beauti-
ful cakes of the shopkeepers. The
royal purple was torn from his delicate
form in 4 few short months, and those
delicatc hands We're made to toll for n
common brute's support. He lived to
hear the mad shrek of emancipated
humanity-to see the fair hair of his
beautiful mother dabbled in blood-to
see the guillotinc axe fall swiftly on his
fathers neck. Even Anglo Saxon men
nj tines become sulcn and desperate
nur'erers and inccndiai'ies. How and
WIZ is not plenty and kind words
make Len so. what then? What
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scend from the Alps and Pyrcnecs
What makes then desperate and vora-
cious. blind with fury and revealing in
vengeance? Hunger and hardship.
Those who run may read the moral
How strange what beings we are!
Experiencc enches- lis hut little Ne
frolic and bask in the sunshine; we
trsmblc and hasten to cover in face of
gathering gloom, and in the rush and
roar of a storm. How sensitively alive
we are to our surroundings, These
sad thoughts We're called forth by q
chill November rain. All day long the
low-hung clouds have dropped their
bitterness down. Nature seems robed
In Il funeral pail AS I look through
the misty window at the dreuched
landscape. the sodden fields. the droop-
ing, dripping. weeping trees, see the
very ducks SO fond of aqueous humor
are disguised at the drcary prospect.
and see the old drake cock his eye and
look in disgust at the 9ownpour, while
chanticler no longer crows defiance at
the head of his harem. but. like q dis
comitted hero, seeks shelter. The cat
tie huddle and gather in groups fol.
mutual sympathy. ever and anon. ut
tering q mournfnl 'moa," but not for
more rain This storm of pelting, beat
ing rain will greatly iniure the pea
nuts, now stacked afield; It will so
greatly sap the unhoused sweet pota-
toes as in all probability cause them 70
rot. Prior to this rain our water mills
hau ceased to revolVe, and to obtain
meal was an Inconvenience. Now the
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