The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-02-13
b ARP'S LETTER.
|er Hot Pursuit of Fraud, Will
liam Is Taking a Rest,
HING DOING IN POLITICAL ARENA.
! Change Of Program Barto~ Man
Writes Interestingly Of a New
Liar Who overtops Baron
Munchausen.

M special pets, the mothers and
|{|bren of this blessed land, have
neglected Of late, for | have had
|ne Of 1t in taking care of myself.
a month past ] have been perplex-
Ind burdened with a correspond
that | could not avoid. | have
|Wered more than a hundred let
IN concerning the Monticello fraud,
III that trouble is now about over,
III once more am calm and serene.
Y as a most marvellous enterprise.
hing equal to it has ever occurred
},he south. One woman writes that
has written over eleven hundred
y, krs. The area covered by it and
" victims who suffered is astound-
My correspondents are all wo.
dependent, struggling women.
they fleck the land from West Vir.
Ia to western Texas. learn that
tcello has surrendered and as
led, which means, Of course, that
army of these agents will have to
k bender and be resigned. Blessed
they who expect nothing, for they
1, not be disappointed.
list now there seems to be a lull
be excitements that have agitated
MA press and the public for some
W past, The negro has almost re-
"a from discussion and is the same
bncerned creature he has always
rs Professor Stone, who has been
t lying them in Mississippi, says that
y be delta where they constitute 81
" cent of the population they are
WI contented, more industrious and
# law-abiding than in any region
U be has visited. Maybe Bishop
W Der is right and they can take care
M hemselves IL left to themselves.
M my philosophy is, let the problem
y K and let it work out its own solu.
It may take twenty years, it may
fifty, but 1t will solve itself,
w litics, too, is somewhat tired and
3 dormant condition. The country
Ny ceased to make much ado over
antics and romantics of the new
VI dent and is Just waiting to see
' be will do next. He is a Sphinx.
Y going to do what he thinks is
but the trouble is, he thinks
1Ng too often. He is what yoi
IA { call finiky. When a man is fin-
x be is finiky-that's all. The word
I In the dictionary and has no de.
'N on, Finiky is finiky.
ell our state politics has subsidized
1 ? time. The pot boiled over at
M but has simmered down, and we
not making as many governors
~ other officers as we did before
tmas. | don't feel very anxious
! the next governor, for with
VA who are in the field we can't
y make a mistake, AS Cobe
q say Its all optionary with me-"
is nothing left hardly to fuss
" tune about except the Atlanta de-
W This is enduring stock. / have
peen in Atlanta since last March
FL am not going until they build
W depot. Nevertheless, we still
N the usual amount Of horrors and
|f KS and homicides. It takes all
ig type to keep the head lines
Forty years ago there never
|4 displayed head line nor the pic.
Of woman in a newspaper, The
# nond Wing and The National In.
eneer did not even have a CAPTION
I eir editorials. You had to read IT
out what the article was about,
we glance at the heading and
" nothing else, and as for the pic
|' we old men can't tell the differ.
between Lydia Pinkham and the
VI Of Frogtown. NV
# the mothers and their children
ull LEFT us, | was Illuminating
the books we boys had to read
olden time and how they had
W peared and gone out OF print.
was the Arabian Nights" and
4 lnson Crusoe" and ~GulliVer's
i and Baron Munchausen''--
gre made up lies, but the bigger
the better we liked them, for
n are all imaginative, and the
stories Of Jack. the Giant Kill
~ Jack and the Bean Vine" and
lerella' have to be told over and
again to the little ones before
20 to bed. There are two little
mat | have put to sleep many a
repeating these same old stories.
ne Baron Mpnchausenp type of
assed Away, although 1t went
ga many editions, and | have
qthing like It until recently,