The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1901-07-27

ihises now reatsy 1unny and queer
most of us would appear during
our evening airings on the boule-
wards of Bay st. Louis, clad in
the fig-leaf costumes of mother
Eve and Father Adam, whose des-
cendants however need not now
worry about the scarcity of the
apparel of those days, because
Prof, Hilbrecht of PENNSYLVANIA
University during his recent ex.
cavations at the spot where the
Garden of Eden is supposed to
have been located found tablets
in one of the houses of the ruins
of the city of Nippur, bearing
evidence of the great civilization
of those times, ante-dating the
Adam and Eve period by 5000
years, giving us the consolation
that that venerable couple lived
IN the center of comfort and luxu-
ry in recompense for not having
enjoyed the happiness of child
hood by entering this world at
the full grown stage of human
life.
Yes. what q panorama would
unfold itself to the visions of the
curious, causing criticisms in abb
solute disregard Of the sacred
rights of others, consigning to
oblivion the fact that however
much the tastes and inclination of
other people may conflict with
our fixed ideas of how things
should be, we must not forget
that "our rights begin only at the
boundary line where the rights of
Others cease.
Yellow fever and The mumps
and other ailments of our ailing
times would still be treated with
the dried and powdered carcasses
of the toads, centipedes, rattle
snakes and striped Lizards, the
whole professionally applied by
the "big medicine men" with their
weird intonations, conveying to
the credulity of conservatism tho
idea OF supernatural intercession.
Conservatism is not rich enough
in thought to be conservative, for
in the days of 'the good old book
conservatism thought that one
man was strong enough to anihi-
late whole army with the jaw
bone of jackass, and when the
suns perpetual motion could be
stopped by Gen'l Joshua, contra
ry to the fact that the old gen.
tleman, Mr.. Sol, has proven to
the satisfaction of all, that his
habits are of the sedentary kind,
remaining always in the cosiest
corner of his home. Conserva-
tism's sages speak of the wisdom
of the muchly married Solomon
with his 600 wives of the old fash.
ioned kind and his 800 "other
kind" kept in reserve to answer
the emergencies of his populous
household in running his Kitchen
and taking care of his dirty linen,
but today conservatism has brand
ed the would-be-C Congressman
Bringham Roberts as the destroy
er of the sanctity of the home and
as Infamous and malodorous for
indulging in e.luxury of a threes
wifed household, however much
that is no secret that the jurors
by whom he was tried set daily at
defiance the laws of morality,
which has won for the city of
Washington the name of "Na-
tional Harem." Really this Is too
funny condition of things to in
dulge in greater details. Consis-
tency, my dear old Dame, thou
art a jewel.
Were it not for the untiring ef-
forts and persistency of radical.
ism the bellies of the Pickwick
and Boston clubs would yet be
Tipping the light fantastic to the
sounds of the sweet symphonies of
Ethiopians' wild tom toms and
not to the discordant sounds of
Bethooven, Mozart and Verdi,
and those same bellies, sweetest
of the sweet of creation, would
still be wearing out their tiny and
rose-hucd toes on the grating floor
of mother earth-beforc leaving
for the wedding feast, first strap
ping their babes to the topmost
end of of a neighboring saplin, al
lowing that wild and voiceless
nurse to spring back to its utmost
height and there rock to sleep
its charges, helped along by the
of the wind and roaring
of forest lions until the ball was
over at the break of morn await
ing the dancers coming.
1t is radical thought that pilot
ed the world from chaos, through
the dark ages, across the raging
seas of blood and barbarism to
the present time when it behooves
all ''to forgive the faults and
frailties of Others, as we wish ours
to be forgiven.
lis that same progressive
thinking that is wiping away the
scars Of the fathers lash upon the
backs of the children by the use
of that philosophy now taught in
our schools, universities and in
tellectual pulpits, shading there
by conservatism's conception Of