The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-01-30
BYLL ARP NOW TAKES A REST
He Gives a Parting Shot at the
s& Fakirs and Describes a Liar.
,tlanta Constitution.

6SsAtlanta Constitution.
sse ssSe My special pets, the mothers ant
children Of this blessed land, hav,
Ebeeh neglected of late, for have hat
ssa time of it in taking care of myself
For month past l have been per.
Mplexcd and burdcncu with a corrcspon.
sSdenco that | could not avoid | have
s answered more than hundred letters
"a concerning the Monticello fraud, but
81 That trouble is now about over and
a once more am calm and serene. 1t
y was most marvellous enterprise.
Nothing equal to it has ever occurred.
in the South. One woman writes that
she has written over eleven hundred
%lettcrs. The area covered by it and
SSthe victims who suffered is astounding.
Y My correspondents are all women, de-
pendent, struggling women, and they
ISfleck the land from West Virginia to
western Texas. l learn that Month
Hcello has surrendered and assigned, =,
which means, of course, that the army
s$of these agents will have to surrender
Iand be resigned. Blessed are they who
expect nothing, for they shall not be
disappointed.
M Just now there seems to be lull in
Athe cXcitemcnts that have agitated The
3spress and the public for some time
past. The negro has almost retired
from discussion and is the same uncon-
scerncd creature he has always been.
( Professor Stone, who has been study
#ing them in Mississippi, says that in
8the delta where they constitute 81 Der
¢ of the population they are more
n nj ol ;,,I, ,,;o
alaw- abiding than in any region that he
mas visited. Maybe Bishop Turner is
right and they can take care of them
selves if left TO themselves. But my
PHILOSOPHY is, let the problem alone
ANY let it work out its own solution. 1t
Sn1ay take twenty years, it may take
8hfty, but it will solve itself.
4&s Politics, too, is somewhat tired and
sin a dormant condition. The country
has ceased to make much ado over the
antics and romantics of the new Prcsi-
Sdent and is just waiting to see what he
will do next. lie is a Sphinx. lie Is
going to do what he thinks, is right,
but tho trouble is he thinks wrong too
$often. lie is what you might call
$fniky. When man is linlky, he is
$finiky-that's all. The word is not in
the dictionary and has no definition.
Finiky is liniky.
$$. Well, our State politics has subsidized
for time. The pot boiled over at
first, but has simmered down and we
are not making as many Governors
and other officers as we did before
Christmas. ! don't feel very anxious
about the next Governor, for with
those who are in the field we can't
hardly make mistake. AS Cobc
Swoui,i say, tits all optionary with me-"
There is nothing left hardly to fuss
and fume about except The Atlanta
depot. This is enduring stock | have
not been to Atlanta since last March
and am not going until they build a
new depot. Nevertheless, we still
have the usual amount of horrors and
wrecks and homlcidcs. 1t takes all
the big type TO keep tho head lines So
ing. Forty years ago there never was
displayed head line nor the picture
OF woman in a newspaper. The
Richmond Wing and The National In.
@telligencCr did not even have a caption
Ito their editorials. You had to read it,
TO find out what the article was about.
= fA\o" w SlNilSS iG lliC anu
read nothing Csc and as for the pic
T-turcs we old men can't tell the DIFF
4 ference between Lydia Pinkham and
4 the belle of Frogtown.
u But the mothers and their children
arc still left us. | was ruminuting
about the books VIC boys had to.rcad
s5ln tho oldcn time and how they had
Z disappeared and gone out of print.
There was the arabian Nights'' and
n" Robinson Crusoc" and "Gullvcr's 8
Travels" and Baron Munchauscn -
G-all were made up lies, but the bigger
the lies the better we liked them, for
children arc imaginative, and tho little
3 stories of Jack, the Giant Killer"
and =" Jack and the Bean Vine" and
R." Cinderella have to be told over and
4 over again to the little ones before
they 60 to bed. There arc two little
ones that L have to put to sleep many
q night repeating these same old
a type of lies passed away, although it
went through many editions and have
seen nothing like 1t until recently,
q when I received a little book called y,
81" Pm Something Of q Liar Myself"
y Npublished in London and New York,
and manufactured by Baron Devore,
s8 of Edgelicld, S. G. l think he is a
zlineal descendant of Munchauscn and
has improved upon his great ancestor.
# 1t seems that he fell in with q dwarf
slAin Kansas City, whose name was Ran.
This Ran had lived nine years on the
banks of the Amazon river and told
Baron DeVore how the ammonia of
That region produced forests of great
trees that were two or three thousand
fleet high and big round in proportion
says it took him eleven days and
s.Nsix hours and thirty-ninc minutes To
walk around one of them. Ran SAYS
Ahe ammonia dwarfcd him. 1t cnlare
,ISd his head and heightened his feet
put shrunk up his shanks and neck
He wore a No. 10 hat and No. 7 collar
SIS lis feet we're Is inches long and fiat
)encd like a ducks bill and his !, @
M about the size of hoe handle. lii
eet grew long on purpose, for the sol
S5yas so soft an ordinary foot would have