Woodville Republican., 1903-04-25

foOliEg people atm prevails in msnJ
countries among the young people.
Its origin Is unknown. Some say it Is
Q relic of an old heather festival. Sope
say that in the middle ages they acted
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, as for instance,
for some pigeon milk, or for a book
giving the history of Adams grand
father, or 10 stop horseman and cell
him his saddle girth is oh-buckled,
meaning unbuekled, so he gets down
TO buckle it and they run of and shout
April fol. The Hindoos practice the
same thing, but their All Fools day is
the 3ist of March.
My folks killed a snake in the how-
er pit to-day and before knew IL our
mischievoua school girl had coiled IL
on the front steps and everybody who
came cried out, Here's snake"
while the children watched from the
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the fools were alive. My wife was
spending the day in the country and
knowing her horror of snakes they
telephoned her, "Snake in the lower
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, xiii
himl Let your grandpa go 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 they are
/ hatched or born and they have to
/ shift for themselves. Some snakes
are oviparous and lay eggs and some
are viviparous 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 a strong proof of the scrip
lures. And / will put enmity be-
tween thee and the woman Chat 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 Git was a
striped garter snake), and told her
we couldn't find it's mate, but / am
going to put this one back in day
or two and kill him again for n 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
this late move to idolize and ovate
the memory Of Henry Ward Beecher
in New York. 1t has been forty-four
years since he sent old John Brown
to take the arsenal at Harper's Ferry
and raise an insurrection among our
negroes. What did they wait SO long
for? How come old Grover Cleveland
: into It? What did old Beecher do tC
; command his admiration? He got OLD
! Brown to take all the risk, and h,
and thirteen of his comrades were
hung for 1t, and the negroes wouldn't
rise at all. Beecher and his sister die
more to precipltate the terrible wal
} than all other causes combined. II
old Grover lauding him for that
The lecherous old scoundrel debauch
ed the wife of an elder in his churcl
! and ruined his home and his happi
: ness. That was twenty years ago.
wonder if Grover Is ovating him fo
| that? We are done with old Grovel
now and forever. Let him hun
ducks IL he wants to. We have no us,
/ for presidents who hunt duck or bea
, or who love Beecher Ur love th
] negroes better than the southern
, white folks. Great heavens! Are the
l fixing for another war, and have W
! got to whip 'em again. Thank good
: ness I'm not duck nor a bear. S
S / reckon I'm safe.-Bill Arp, in Al
! lanta Constitution.