The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-04

f insanely after prosperity, raising mohu
 ment now and then over the graves o1 l the grandfathers or the chiloreh stdIFins | in our midst.
 That isthmian canal can be our route | to greatness if Senator Morgans VIII work its way; but, 1T we negleSo tpe l it will be an engulfing stream to us ana | a passage into the land of prosperity TOT those who attain the preparedness or readiness for the whitewinged commerce of the wolrd.
 Our lands lie fallow on the banks or the Alabama, and stretch out forlorn ana furrowless to the foothills, white cnildoren anaemic, lazy, dirty, ignorant ana uncaI- soine leaky shanties where few old books are conned, are apologies TOT schools County Superintendents in some places are collecting advances they've made to certain persons by plac- ing them where salaries as teachers can be drawn and used to hquidate the debts, and sometimes they take an ex-pig-slop- driver away from the pigs to pay him to
 beg for local taxation and for law to
 regulate eligibility for county superin-
 tendency, we are besought by the chivai.
 ry of the State to "go out or poiltlcs.
 Well, let us all go out Of ponucs togetheI!
 ism As to the gentlemen of Alabama
 who represent the counties in our Legis-
 lature. we recognize their prerogative to
 vote and legislate; but, we trust they
 will so vote and so legislate as to protect
 the children of the State from superin-
 tendents who don't care copper how
 much better taught the negro children are than the white children.
 To render unto Caesar the things that
 are Caesars" is no more imperative than
 to render unto childhood the things which
 are the child's. We hope no Herods Will
 come up to our Legislature to send out
 all over Alabama superintendents who
 uIo rxytth ha nf tUnnranHa
 children in the backlands of civilization.
 It has long been known that white
 Yankees support schools. especially prac-
 tical schools that equip pupils for lifes
 activities, better than almost any other
 people on earth; 1t Is at least dawning on the perception of all who have not intellectual cataract or opacity or the
 mental lens that the Southern Yankee
 discretion since the encampment of the Yankee army in Dixie in 1S64-5, are to- day treading the paths their forefatners trod and corrugating their grey matter by the same methods, upheld and sym pathized with by their innocent kins4 | folk across the lines. The man and brother is lucky because he seizes his | opportunity and lives up, to his heritage. the hookworm which breeds in dirt and brings inertia; the rich men of the South | must disinfect and ventilate their dollars. | or e worm that dieth not may destroy | us all.
 1
 My imagination shrinks from a future made possible by present neglect It | strays over the areas of fiction, and down l its dI cam lit vistas ;it sees the solitary horsemen appear and disappear since the | day of the Red Cross Knight; it pictures
 Scotts gay cavaliers, Stanley Weyman's
 noble souls who are minded to die gen 1 tlemen when they cannot live in that es- | tate" The champions of G. P. R. James | TT DAAr AINro hn-t
 beloved of Archilles, whose steeds wept the death of him 'who tanned their rage"-then memory rises, and sweeps | fancy aside, and gives the palm of honor | to a piney woods Alabamian who gal loped into my horizon at sunset of an
 autumn day, long ago, when l, a young
 mother. needed, and went In search or. | a friend. In an obscure North Alabama | town after a day of anxiety, because the
 doctor was nowhere to be found to come | to my child suddenly seized with violent
 and incomprehensible illnes-desperate.
 as day waned, l flung out to lind mes | senger and a horse to go into the coun- | try round about in search of the good physician whose presence there had de- | cided ne in favor of that place as re-
 sort. Just as I turned the first corner, l hope bounded triumphant in the shape of
 a raw-boned, ungroomed, brawny horse, | mounted by @ burly young farmer, who | pulled him to stop with forceful grip
 on the lines as threw up my hand, and, |
 I begged him to halt! I told him of my
 sick child. my failure to secure the doc | tor, my desire for a trusty messenger. l
 hear today the sympathetic resonance of
 the brevity, Pm going for the doctor
 and I'll get him for you, too" Well. | when he finishes his prescriptions and
 treatment at your house, will you then
 give him this note holding out the pa-
 per on which I had detailed the symp- | toms which alarmed me. Why, lady, | I'll give him your note first, and then I'll
 tell him about our sickness, and he will
 know which to go to first"
 | have never learned a language which
 expresses what I felt in the presence of l that Alabama farmer, nor shall I ever | know it unless go to heaven and learn
 1t from Him who gave Himself for us. l More men like him. men who feel that | the child whose need Is greatest is the
 enc for. frs; ministrations. would put any State forward in civilization. May the Alabama Legislature be full of such men.
 This hour demands them all,"
 Jan. ?, 1903. Sarah.