The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-08
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/ that easy reading is hard "rllihs
~ and Sheridan gives the anuthesls
! when he says,
.eYou write with ease to show your breed
But easy writing is curst hard reading
am too sick to write easy, but don't
wish to be curst about 1t. This gloomy
weather takes away an my hilarity.
! Lowell says, "Oh. what's so rare as
day In June" 1t has rained every day
and every night since the 1st ana we
! didn't like 1t at my house, for 1t was
my wifes birthday and we hoped II
would be bright and balmy, for the poor
woman don't get but two maternal feasts
in a year and two patcrnal kisses was
sick the night before and she was up
! with me half the night and slept late. L
/ had creeped III to breakfast and slipped
| tve-doHar gold piece under her plate
and intended to rise and kiss her un-
wrinkled brow when she appeared, but
she slipped up behind me and kissed me
first. She never did 1t that way before
ana the boys hint that she saw the gold
/ shining ana it excited her labial views and
osculatory glands and she couldn't re
/ frain.
cold, gold gold, gold,
4 Bright ana 5eIOW, nara SUu COlNr
/ Heavy to get and light to hold
/ Spent by the young but Rugged by the old
| To save 10 ruin, to curse or to bless,
/ Now stamped with the image of good
Queen Bess
And now Of bloody Mary"
But she got more than I gave her and
nobody got a kiss but me. Children.
said /. this is your mothers seventy
( second birthday. You know that the stars
/ fell scyenty-two years ago and that's the
reason they did fall. They knew that
brighter light was coming and so they
paled their Intellectual fires and fell to
/ the ground and expired.
II am only H." said my wife why do
YOU try TO make me 72?' Because" said
l. you have had seventy-two birth days.
You had one the day you was born. When
you were a year old you had had two
( Then she gave it up.
! These birthdays are the mile stones that
measure the journey of life. Next Mon
Qay [ sill be r. On the 23d one Of the
girls will be 90. On the Gath my mother
was born and so was my little grand
cLld, Caroline, who was named for her.
My wife can tell the birthday of every
hid and grandchild, but l know only
half a dozen.
Nell the Mexican boy did come ana
for a whole week we have Toasted on
his presence and listened to the same
old songs he used to sing. He Is fine
singer and has plenty OF help from the
I children and grandchildren.
And the night was filled with music
and the cares that infest the day
Folded their tents like the Arabs
And silently stole away
And the little boy. who IS only 20 months
old, and looks like me- joins in the
| nilarity and tries to sing, and holds up his
skirt and dances the caSewalk and kicks
up his feet and bows to the audience with
great soIemnity He plays monkey in the
| show and his young mother thinks he is
! the smartcst and prettiest child In all the
world and l think so, for they say he is
| just like me. What kind of world would
this be without these little children, and
! ye, the last census Gays they are not
wanted up IN New England any more.
| They say that Roosevelt loves children
ana wants TO encourage maternity. Well,
4 In give him credit for that when he re
tracts and Apologies. our Mexican boy
says the poems of Mexico have them by
/ the score Their adobe houses have but
one big room with dirt floor, and you
will see n man and his wife and a hock
Of dirty lousy. greasy children and half a
dozen dogs all gathered there by day and
roosting there by night. n peon is tine
biggest vagabond on earth He will work
one or two days in week for 81 cents
q day and he paid in Mexican silver that
is worth only half what ours Is, and he
and the family ana the dogs will live on
TINS for a. week They will steal every
thing That is in sight and not locked up;
says he has known them to br ok into
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carry off 1000 pounds of machinery. They
Will get it to the city some way and sell
st to A junk shop for a dollar or two. The
Americans 90 all the manufacturing;
the Germans all the hardware business;
the Irench all the silk aud line goods.
and the natives an the little shop bust
/ ness and run the saloons Besides the
archbishops and bishops. no less than
twenty-five priests olHcate around the
I charccl IN the great cathedral every day.
I Somebody must stay there to receive the
offerings aud grant absoluton and re
mission OF sins. This is the largest ca
/ thedral in the world except three. 1t is
/ as feet long 4io rect wide and 10 feet
from the floor to the ceiling. and the
walls are literally oYcrlaid with gold and
/ silver images and crucilXes. The church
is rich and controls President Diaz Diaz
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over the towns and cities. and the police
control the poems and the common people.
4 So at the last it is the priesthood that
! dominates the government Liberal con
. cessl0nS are given to Americans to build
railroads and dig canals and to mine for
precious metals. The charter under which
the Mexican National WAS built requires
seventeen members OF the board of direc-
tors, and tive of them must live in Mex
100, the others may live anywhere. Our
/ boy Carl is a Mexican director, having
hYed there long enough to become eligible.
/ and that is how he was called to New
4 York last week to a meeting of the board
and got q chance to come by home and see
I rs for a week. And now the time OF trib-
! uiauons Is near at hand, and he will leave
us and we may never see him again
such Is life and only death will end it.
BILL ARP.
THE Kings Private Band"
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