Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-20

- It's a tur-rble thing to be tn
~ prisidint iv a college," said Mr..
Dooley. Eye have to be so Until
ligent"
who's in throuble now?" asked Mr..
Hennessy.
Me friend, tn prisidint iv Harvard"
said Mr.. Dooley. He's very sad.
thought tn wurruld was goin' on splin-
didly. Firm day to day tn weather
has been pretty good. barrin' occasion
al rain. TIL coal strike is over an
Wen all have plinty Nv coal this winter
if tn Waterman don't look out. tn
people ar-round me ar-re- pretty good
folks whin they don't crowd. They're
as happy as they deserve TO be an as
good to each other as they ought to be.
/ amt discontinued with tn wurruld
an / amt sad an I think ivrything
will come out all right in tn end or
nearly right or wrong or some way.
But not so with me frind tn prisidint
iv Harvard. Where you an me. Hin
Missy, with our little six-an'-three-
Fights intelligence sees nawthin but
good enough, tn pricidint iv Harvard
beholds a blue an mournful situation
TIL wurruld is on tn blink. Things
amt comm out right. We're all goin'
to tn divvle an no wan to hinder. It's
a bad, wicked. card-playin', novel
readin', booze-consumin', wife-bating,
laughin', odyous wurruld. An what's
tn raison FIR It? Iddycation! Iddyca-
ton, be hivens. TIL common schools
has put ivrything to tn PAD.
II was lookin' at his speech tn other
day an it made me feel as diseased as
If I'd been readin' a book iv family
medicine. I am Obliged he says. to
inform ye,' he says, that tn good we
EXPECTED firm poplar iddycation hasn't
come on he says, I will proceed, he
saws, ito tn unwelcome but agreeable
task Nv tellin' We about it, he says
I'm tn first place, FIR more thin
two giR'rations we have been sthrug-
glin' with tn bar'brous if jolly vice
iv drunkenness. which nobody can
deny. which nobody can deny. 1 ex-
picted all along that a knowledge iv
joggerphy an compound numbers wud
f'river rid tn wurruld Nv this curse
that has come upon us lately an that
was unknown in tn Plymouth GIN
ration. 0aughter.) But not at all.
TIL fact that a man can bound Fam
best an dig up tn hghtin' mixtures.
Thousands iv men have declined
verb have niver declined a bowl. TIL
amount iv liquor that is ivry year
pushed into tn fev'rish head iv per-
sons who know about fractions an tn
use Nv shall" and will is enough to
dhrive an iddycator to dhrink.
" L leap to another cause Nv tn dumps.
Gamblin.' Gamblin' is a new vice.
I niver heerd Nv it befure l whit to
Harvard. But such holt has it took
on this poor land iv ours through tn
assistance iv popular iddycation, that
today in ivry hamlet tn click iv tn
poker chip is tn response to tn clang
Nv tn school bell. Little boys dart
firm tn blackboard to tn horrid
chalked circle in tn schoolyard where
they play mibs FIR keeps while their
mothers gamble at cribbage fr "a pen
ny a pint an their fathers set up all
night thryin' to fill tn busted flush.
But in vain.
:" I now pass to novels, which make
me mos depressed. had hoped in
tn halcyon days Nv me youth that
whin we had piped our people full Nv
quadhratic equations they wud read
on'y tn best books. e. g., Gloom"
be Charles w. Eliot. Despair" be
C. w. Eliot. and Elliot on Wasted
OPPORTUNITIES. On tn country,
they seem to be pleased with Billy
Baxter. 1t is too bad.