The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-18

VII.
POLITICAL HUMBUGs AND JoNA-
TIIAN'S CoURTSHIP.
(continued.)

(Continucd)
When he spoke of the feeling between
the North and the South. felt II my
duty to remind him that he hadn't noticed
the signs Of the times or he would never
have said what he did about that. Says l.
You can't appreciate Marion Putnauls
Dual Goddess that she's just painted,
very much If you talk that way, and she's
a Southern girl and you Northern Yam
kee. II should rest with you TO first &C.
knowledge there isn't any feelin' existin
between the people of this section and the
Southern states. You ought TO be ashamed
OF such talk! Why, syou couldn't ind
where the Mason aud Dixon line is today
any more than you can the war comet
that appeared IN the sky before the war
broke out. Don't for goodness sake ever
say anything more about such feeling,
for their amt any such thing left since
tho Southern boys and the Northern boys
fought shoulder 60 shoulder In the war
with Spain for the liberation of Cuba and
the advancement OF civilization. l tell yc
there amt any such thing Left
'Well.' says he. that picture of
Maron's is certainly the most sentlmen-
tai combination In that line that l have
does really represent the existing feeling
IN the hearts OF all Americans today.
But YOU know the feeling in the hearts
OF the members of the old generation who
witnessed those times following sixty-one
die hard. You know that"
well" says /. 'ff that is so, and II
dies so hard that they can't lot It give
up the ghost, the quicker the Nembers
OF the old generation are dead themselves
the better"
Upon that he seemed TO think he's had
about all he wanted 10 say. for he turned
over the log In the fireplace. which sent
q great shower NJ sparks up the chimney,
and then put on his specs and picked uT
the Windham County Transcript. TO read
the news.
/ must tell you about the wonderful pic.
ture that Marion Putnam made and pre-
scented to Jonathan after his last trip Il
Charlotte In North Carolina, which she
named the Dual Goddess" Dixie and
Yankee Doodle"
After our summer vacation in Newport
and Block Island when We met the Put
mans and got acquainted with them. a.
they had accepted our invitation for then
10 visit us I'm Canterbury before their re
turn. We made full preps ra tons 10 en-
tertain them, and OF course. Jonathan h'
was as happy "a the girls were TO have
them come and did all I'm his power 4
have the horses unusually we'll groomet
and the carriage all cleaned up ready 70
service. for we intended they should Sc
the country round about and have
good time.
Wen. they came the sixth of October
and, remained two weeks. and they sai
they were charmed with the hill scener
dJ Connecticut. more especially | supros
because IL was the land where their an
cestors lived and died. although thei
branch of the Putnam family as des
cended from General Putnam had lived 4
North Carolina for more than three gen
erationS, and, consequently. they wer
thoroughly imbued with the sentiments c
the south.
Jonathan would hitch up the gra
horses every pleasant day, and take ther
~ drive along with Harriet and the othe
girls and one long drive was made {
the wolf den where Marions paternal ar
cestor crawled i'm when he was youn
man and shot the woh that had destroye
SO many sheep in different parts ~ Pom
fret This was the most interesting driy
Of all the trips that were taken becaus
OF It's historical significance
Marion was a practicin' paintin' mos