The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-06-04
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wonder where they are now and what
they are doing, for Swedenburg says that
folks will pursue the same occupations
in the next world that they do in this.
but with greater diligence and to greater
perfection.
My venerable friend Major Aver lives
on Howard street, the Peachtree OF
Rome. II extends from Broad street TO
the bridge and was thickly settled thirty
five years ago. and is yet. but this is the
only family that lived there thirty-two
years ago. when he built his house. Think
of it. All gone within thirty-two years.
Rome is thirty miles distant from Car
tersville and the river lands are all oc-
cupied by farmers, but not one of them
lived along the line before the civil war,
and the river still sings as 1T flows
For men may come and men may go.
But 1 go on forever"
My wife will come home to spend her
birthday next week, / know. She knows
that many of her numerous offsprings
will gather at the paternal mansion and
have q gift of some sort and kiss her
classic brow and stroke her raven hair.
That IS where she triumphs over me.
Not a gray hair on her head. nor dark
one on mine. but she it catching up pref
ty fast. / remember when l was six
times as old as she was and six years
later was lust twice as Old and now I
am seventy-four. New let the school
boys and girls do that sum and tell how
old my wife is.
But the sensation of the day is about
the negro. Like Banquo's ghost, he will
not down. DR.. Lilly. the able secretary
of the Stillrnan institute for negroes, at
Tuscaloosa, reports to the Presbyterian
general assembly that no progress has
been made in colored evangelization. and
f1,a@ fpl, ri III 4nin fS = failure
out of .243 negroes educated to mechan-
zeal pursuits. only three are following
the trades they have learned. He de-
clares that agriculture in the only call
ing open to the negro and the only one
that will keep him out of the cities and
out of crime and the chaingagnE- These
are the results at Stillman's and Booker
Washington's schools. We are glad to
find one preacher who has got good hard
sense concerning the negro and dares TO
speak IT, OF course. we can't stop Book
CT WASHINGTON from teaching. nor the
north from giving him money, but we can
stop the Presbyterian church from vast
ing our money on the negro. There are
1000 In the prisons and chaingangs of
Georgia now. TO say nothing of those we
have lynched, and most of them nave
been educated. Let them get to farming.
That suits his better nature and will keep
him out of crime.
But the biggest sensation IS the sermon
OF Rev Henry Frank. of the New York
metropolitan church. preached last Sun
day. in which he declared that giving
freedom to the negro has proved disas
trous failure. That he IS rapidly lapsing
into barbarism and will soon become ex-
tinct. He speaks of him as a brutal
beast, more dangerous in community
than wild bull. He advises that terri
tory be set apart for them and there they
must go again into slavery and choose
their masters. and in the meantime the
franchise be taken from them That out
Herods Herod I don't know what to
make of il and I am afraid of anything
that comes from yankee preacher. I
haven't forgotten Henry Ward Beecher
vet Maybe those people would like 10
own them again and work them IN
more congenial cline than New England.
and they would go to making cotton and
take our laborers from our farms and
coal fields and iron mines We will have
to watch them fellows. for they are al
ways UP to some devilment.
BILL ARP.