The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03

a pr0dlSlOuSly tail man. III must nave
been very pretty to behold their little
| cities with streets or feet wide paved
| with the smallest pebbles and bordered
| by a habitation about as big as squir-
| rePS cage.
Maud MCGEE, Moseley, S. C.-Dear Ju-
Nor: l do enjoy reading the dear old
| Constitution, especially the Junior page.
l live in very pretty place. IL miles
below the little town Of Iva. We have a
nice orchard In front of our house.
wish Aunt Susie and the little cousins
would visit me and help me to eat
peaches l live in a common size white
house and have a grove of trees In our
yard. My papa Is a farmer. I wish
some Of the cousins would be kind
| enough to send me the song In the
Shadows of the Pines" Correspondence
solicited either sex. My age is 49,
Bertha Taylor. Corinth, Miss.-Dear
Junior: l am a newcomer, but hope you
all will welcome me as an old friend,
as 1 have been reading The Constitution,
.Ir., ever since ! could read and dearly
love Aunt Susie. | think she is such a
kind and noble woman. | am a country
girl and like it. Country life is SO
healthy and so pleasant in summer Just
to get In the shade OF a tree. l live D
miles east Of the thriving little city of
Corinth. There Is eleven In family It
our house. ] have six sisters and two
brothers. wish I could see dear Aunt
Susie l know l would like her. She Is
so good and kind. l hear her say that
will 90 Give room for others.
Creola Cooke, Alberta, La.-Dear Jun
Tor: After four long years of silence
from your most interesting page l Will
try and write again. Many changes have
taken place in my life since l last wrote.
Then | lived far out in central Texas
near the noted plains. but now / live in
the piny woods of louisiana
We moved here from Texas the 90 OF
August will be year ago. Texas is
beautiful state but | had much rather
live here than there.
Alberta is sawmill town situated in
the northwestern part of Louisiana IN
Beinviile parish, on the s. and 6. rail
road What has become of all our old
time" cousins? Have they entirely de-
serted us? Forney b. Ray, write again
ii you are stu In the land of the liv-
ing.
We'll. now for my subject, but don't
expect anything extra, for | am very
POOR hand to discuss q subject. Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy
reighbor." the ninth commandment, snail
be my subject.
Now. dear cousins. let US consider
these few words seriously for just mo-
meut every time we utter false word
against any one We break one oil the
great comma ndmentS God has commanded
us TO keep. OF course 1t is .fery easy
to say a little thing against any one we
are angry with or to accuse them false
" Just to make them feel bad. Certainly
it makes them feel bad, but instead of
injurine their character we have added
another sin to our own soul and injured
ourselves, for some time in the near or
distant future we will be found out.
Now when We speak OF any one, let us
tell Of ali their good qualities ana let
the rest alone. II we don't know any
thing kind or pleasant. why don't speak
OF them at all.
Let US resolve to never say or act
thing that might blur our own or any
one elsc's character
Correspondence solicited
Imogene Barnes, Riddle, lnd.-Dear Ju-
Nor: / viii take for my subject The
Right Flood" There is a tide in the
affairs of men" says the grea test of
poets, which taken at lis flood, leads
on TO fortune" Not only do l believe
that there is tide, but l do believe
that there are many tides. every day
one that might lead MS on TO happiness
and perhaps fortune if we took adVan-
tase Of it How are we to find out,
though, what particular tide ii is on
which our bark may sail down success
fully? Why only by taking all, ny los
ing no one does the boat speed upon It's
way All chances are not against the
player, or 1t could no longer be called
game Of chance. If, then. they are equal,
we presume that half the time we might
be successful ii we tried. Certainly
some chances must he IN our favor; some
tide must be the fortunate one that leads
to our happiness. But it is easily missed
il we do not take advantage OF all. and
with the same energy. too. of one as OF
another. Ill success oftenest comes from
want Of energy-it is so natural TO be-
come fatigued and dispirlted from fruit
less cXerlion. Natural enough, but that
IS also the natural reason Of failure, the
very cause of 1t. If perseverance alone
insures success. as It generally does in
time. with q good object In view. then
perseverance in selling opportunity must.
in reason be still more certain Of q good
result. and that every one has some
opportunity in their pow er at some time
or other, IS as sure as that there is
daily tide or q daily sun. When once
convinced that the result Is certain. If
the effort be only long enough continued,
the reasoning mind should not allow
itself to relax those efforts through ia
tigue and disappOin tment. The number
Of failures still brings success the nearer;
after a series Of blanks must come a
prize. But life Is short: it may close
before We have gained our object. Then
we have the less reason for delaying. We
cannot afford 10 lose a single tide. for
each one has the same chance Of being
one that will lead us on to happiness
We would certainly have found it before
II We had lost none in our previous
waiting: and, hoping. seize this one
this very one-and every one and sure
II But, dear me! I am giving all this
excellent advice to my tired readers and
possibly have stood by the stream and
let the Tide pass bv Would like to hear
from some Of the cousins on the bank
Marie Williams Trpoff & q Doa~