The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

The rumor has reached Macon" says
the Telegraph, that an effort is being
made from somewhere and by somebody
these two facts not being stated
than an effort is on foot to buy up all of
the weekly newspaper in Georgia and to
control them through one financial COM
binc.
Whether this is a. political move or not
cannot be stated, but some people have
tileie suspicious
The Harmsworth idea seems to be grow
ing. But il the Georgia editors so into
a. combine. how can they attack the octo-
pus? That's what we want to know.
Success" quotes the following from
James Whitcomb Riley, the poet:
"A friend came to me once completely
heart-broken. saying that his manuscripts
We're constantly returned and that he was
the most miserable wretch alive. 1 asked
him how long he had been trying. Three
years he said. My dear man. ] an
sWered laughing, so on; keep on trying
till You have spent as many years at it
as I did AS many as you did,! he eX-
claimed. Yes. as long as [ did What?
.otl-James Whitcomb Rilcy-strugsled
for years. Yes. sir, through Years.
through sleepless nights, through almost
hopeless days. For twenty years 1 tried
to get into one magazine; back came my
manuscripts eternally, l kept on In the
twentieth year that magazine accepted
&c
Il was not "a believer in the theory that
one man does Il thing much easier than
any other man. Continuous. unhasgins
effort, persistence and determination will
win. LIST not the man be discouraged
who tas these.
The man who has that sort Of grit and
endurance is quite sure in the long run
to accomplish his purposes.
The New Iorl, World of yesterday
quotes the following famous sayings of
Abraham Lincoln:
Il say that no man is good enough to
govern another man without that other
mans consent l say this is the leading
principle, the sheet-anchor of American
Republicanism.
LAS I understand the spirit of our in
stitutions, it is designed to promote the
elevation of men. l am, therefore, hostile
to anything that tends to their debase-
nent.
II hold if the Almighty had ever made
a set of men that should do all the eat
ing and none of the work He would have
made them with mouths only and no
hands. and if He had ever made another
+j,a- va. J,aI i1pt.e SbOT1i do all
the work and none of the eating, He
would have made them without mouths
and with hands.
Il have no prejudice against the South
c-n people. They are just what we
should be in their situation. II slavery
did not now exist among them they would
not introduce it If it did now exist
among us we should not instantly give it
up.
ut is but a specious and fantastic ar
ranse,nent of words by which man can
prove q horse chestnut to be "a chestnut
horse.
Stand with anybody that stands right
Stand with him while lie is right and part
with him when he goes wrong.
What would you DO in my position?
Would you drop the war where 1t IS?
Or would YOU prosecute it in future with
elder-stal1 squirts charged with rose
water2
..There are already among US those
who. if the Union he preserved, will live
To see it contain two hundred and httl
millions of population. The struggle OF
to-day is not altogether Tor to-day; 1t Is
for a vast future also.
NO men living are more worthy to be
trusted than those who toll up from
poverty: none less inclined to take or
touch augtt which they have not hon
estly earned"