The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-14

fellows (there were no Populists among them) had been given good places. Now. I don't care 10 break down the Governor and I'm not going to advise any consultation with jurists, presby- ters and parsons. I imagine the and blood" when he put Carmichael in and as long as Carmi- ehaei resorts to search warrants tp protect the State against retiring Dem ocrats, I'll not complain, I'm friend of this Administration and hope it will live and do we'll" l take no stock in this hue and cry about inn perialistic tendencies because of the revival. of the old royal institution The Kings Jester. We have no Car dinal yet. No, sir, I'm not sel with preacher or politician about affairs of State. They know no more about such things than Phaeton knew about the sun. Politicians have no sense of propriety and force themselves into the Governors office on dny cc- casion, but every well regulated preacher will honor himself by attending to his own bus iness." (During Kolbs two terms I never saw preacher in the office. I hope Governor Sanford has been C4uoAIJ biCSSSu' dAdCA StsNhQ AAV 10 O very polite man and can be imposed on, but, perhaps, he has escaped cler- ical affliction. At any rate, I hope so. I know Governor Kolb escaped.
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 I'm just "carried away with the
 learned discussion of 'Churam" and
 "Sekher." Nobody else seems to en- courage them and I hasten to express
 my appreciation of their learning
 They get a wonderful sight out of ''pa" and "sech." They can stretch little and get "sich." If they could get an old manuscript from before Babel they might trace all our words back to one.
 reckon the language before Babe (that got losO was the mother tongue. Some folks believe Adam courted Eve in elegant, drawing-room English. l don't believe a word of it. But, to an- glicize some of those way back lan- guages is easier than deciphering and tFanslating. It doesn't require srrSb tiresome research. Now, l suppose ie would take scholars like Churam and Sekher d long time with great re- search to get at all the originals of the wall inscription that pestered Belshaz- gar. With all my learning l wouldn't undertake it till the crops laid by. There's no doubt. been great change in spelling and that causes confusion. Jack Hall. after reading reports of the war in South Africa, said if le'd known that them Africans was noth- ing but male hogs he wouldn't have given a dern cent to send 'em the gos- pei.
 But that ''Mene, meme, tekel uphar- sin" not onlR puzzled the kings wise men but it'll give most any wise fel- low as much as he ''can say grace over" It is easy to anglicize and then it becomes intelligible to the 'Trtutor- ed mind" It would have done you good to have been with me, at meet ing once and heard it from the pulpit, rendered in English this way: Min nie. Minnie, tickle yo' S2rson.' An, then the whole thing became intelli- gible 10 me. The preacher was an analytical fellow. He first explained who Minnie was; that she was the leading sister in the church, one or these good, sweet-tempered busy bod ies (of which every religious commit nity has some to spare) that take up collections, solicit subscriptions, get up church fairs and festivals, pound par ties and oyster suppers to raise money for this. that and the other purpose. He made it so plain that l had Minnie in my eye at once, in fact my eyes were full of Minnies-there are so many. Then he explained what was meant by tickle" He said it was something that made laughter or D Ieasure: that "teching the ribs or under de arm, or drawin' feather over the upper lip or de eye brow would mak' q body laff-that was