The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1901-10-31
Barlow Philosopher RevertS to
Weather Conditions,
POLITICS ARE ALSO TOUCHED UPON
Course President Roosevelt Is Pursu'
ina Seems to Go Against the Grain
So Far as the G. A. r.
Is Concerned.


Roosevelt keeps on saying kind words
about us and the republicans are IN
state of apprehension. The G. A. RS
made the first assault on him because
be dared to exalt the bravery and pa
triotlsm of our people; but he answer
ed them back nobly. And now they
are In CONSERVATION because he In
yited Clark Howell to dine with him.
The City of Shushan is perplexed. 1t
looks like there is power of good po'
lltical fun ahead of US, and we cant be
worsted. Mckinley wanted to be kind,
and they wouldn't let him, but my
opinion is that Roosevelt is going to
run the machine according to his emo
tons. He is a man Of emotions, good,
generous emotions-and our emotional
nature is the best part Of our nature
That is the reason that women are bet
ter than men; they are more emotion
al. A selfish man, q greedy man or
a politician per Sc" have no emotions
They plot and scheme for personal ad-
vantage. Hamlet said that a politL
clan is a man who would circumvent
God. They bride and deceive to gain
their end. But Roosevelt Is outspoken,
candid and fearless. The politicians
utterances are cautious and come from
his head Roosevelt talks from his
heart, and IL he feels like inviting
Clark Howell to dine he is going to do
1t without consulting Mark Hanna or
the G. A. RS or for moment consid-
ering what the party will say about 1t.
| like Roosevelt because he has a
wife and children; in fact, he has been
married twice and has two sets Of chill
dren. That's all right IL the children
harmonic and the last wife is as gooo
to the children of the first wife as she
is to her own. Our nearest neighbor
for long years had three sets of chill.
dren, Colonel Bayard, a widower,
with two children, married Mrs. Hand,
a widow with three children. Two more
children were born to the last mar
riage, and all was peace and harmony
In that household. This reminds me Of
another family, where there were
three sets, and they didn't harmonize,
and one day when they were quarrel
Ing In the back yard, the wife came
running in and said to her husband:
John, you'd better go out yonder
with a switch; your children and my
children are fighting our children"
| am pleased to learn that our presi-
dent is coming to Georgia next fall
and will visit bis mothers old home at
Roswell. Think will meet him there
and show him around for almost ey.
erybody else is dead but ME that was
there when his mother was a girl, I
Will show him where we boys played
bullpen and town ball, and where his
uncle half Dan, or half Of
his Uncle Dan and I played
sweepstakes and Dan always
won my white alleys. Yes, I will show
him around. But that colony of fine
Savannah people, all blooded stock.
are not there now. There were the
Kings, the Dunwoodys, who were in
college with me, Not all the King boys
OF course, for there were nine Of them
and only one sister for the whole
crowd a beautiful girl. have a very
GEAR cousin in Birmingham who has
nine girls and one son. What a pity
that those two families were NOT neigh.
oors and contemporaries. so that the
children could have mated and inter.
married. like families with numer.
GUS offspring. If had the making Of
the consultation, whether federal or
SKATE, wouldn't let bachelor hold a
public Office; he shouldn't be eliv,hle
70 go to congress or to the Legislature
IL is not possible for him to feel deen,v
concerned about the perpetuity OF gov.
eminent 1t Is the children and The
grandchildren we fathers are living
Tor. An unmarried man lives for him.
SELF. He may be smart and moral and
wen educated, but, as Kipling saws he
SAINT understand the paternal anxiety
All those Roswell boys were manly
and well favored They made good
preachers. good soldiers, good arcbi.
tects and manufacturers and were
good citizens. Poor Tom King had his
leg shattered at Manassas, and as soon
as he could walk was in the field again
and was killed at Chickamauga. He
was bright, cheerful, handsome man
and everybody loved him. Old Barring,
ton King sent north for teacher and
got one by the name OF Eels, but the
boys didn't like him. They said no was
a hypocrite and an abolItionist, and
was Just fooling papa. They called
him slickfish and guyed him until he
was sent back to where he came from
Colonel Bayard married Barrington
n 10. IL