The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-06-12

fooling people still prevails in many
countries among the young people.
Its origin is unknown. Some say it IS
a relic of an old heathe n festival SoSne
say that in the middle ages they acted
a play taken from the life OF Christ,
where he was sent from Annas to
Caiaphas and from Plate to Herod,
and so an April fool is one who Is sent
all about on an errand, asforinstance,
for some pigeon milk, or for book
giving the history of Adams grand
father, or to stop horseman and tell
him his saddle girth is on-buckled,
meaning unbuckled, SO he gets down
to buckle it and they run off and shout
April fol. The Hindoos practice the
same thing. but their AL Fools day ID
the 31st of March.
My folks killed snake in the tow-
cr pit to-day and before l knew 1t our
mischievous school girl had coiied IL
on the front steps and everybody who
! came cried out, Here's Il snake,
while the children watched from the
window. The snake was dead, but
the fools were alive. My wife was
| spending the day in the country anu
/ knowing her horror of snakes they
| telephoned her, SNAKE in the Hover
pit and grandpa is afraid to go out
and kill him. He says you told him
To stay in the house. What must we
do?" She answered promptly, Kill
him. Let your grandpa so out and
kill him and look for his mate" She
always insists that every snake has .
mate Maybe it has, but they don't
go about together. Even the mother
leaves her young as soon as the. are
Matched or born and they have 10
shift for themselves. Some snakes
are oviparous and lay eggs and some
are yiviparous and are born IN their
mother and come forth from her
mouth. But all snakes are horrid
creatures and the curse that is upon
them is strong proof of the scrip
lures. And L will put enmity be-
tween thee and the woman THAT IS,
my wife) and between thy seed and
her seed. 1t shall bruise thy head
and thou shall bruise his heel.
When my wife came home they
showed her the snake tit was
striped garter snake), and told her
we couldn't find it's mate, but l am
going to put this one back in a day
or two and kill him again for mate
but I'll bet she won't go in that PIT
any more this summer.
But there are worse things than
snakes. / want to know who started
lAlt n
the memory of Henry Ward Beecher
D In New York. 1t has been forty-four
5 wears since he sent old John Brown
to take the arsenal at Harpers Ferry
: and raise an insurrection among our
1 negroes What did they wait so long
r for? How come old Grover Cleveland
r into it? What did old Beecher do to
5 command his admiration? He got old
e Brown to take all the risk, and he
k and thirteen of his comrades were
t hung for it, and the negroes wouldn't
h rise at all. Beecher and his sister die
:. more to precipitate the terrible wal
o than all other causes combined IL
t old Grover lauding him for that
It The lecherous old scoundrel debauch
d ed the wife of an elder in his church
S and ruined his home and his happl
= ness. That was twenty years ago.
# wonder if Grover is ovating him To-
t that? We are done with old Grover
d row and forever. Let him hun
ducks if he wants to. We have no us'
n for presidents who hunt duck or beal
d, or who love Beecher or love thu
d negroes better than the southern
% white folks. Great heavens! Are the.
h fixing for another war. and have w
ID got to whip 'em again. Thank good
s. ness I'm not a duck nor bear. >
IS / reckon I'm safe.-Bill Arp, In Al
il lanta Constitution.