The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21

a little nigger to show him back into
 the house from rambie in the garden
 He used to come to our house. On
 such occasions one of us would meet
 him two or three miles from home and
 pilot him in. When he went away one
 Of us would steer him out of the neigh borhood, but even then his horses
 knowledge of good feeding place
 would land him back for dinner There
 were times he was so lost in thought
 he didn't know his name. He said that
 in his trance he appeared to forget ev-
 erything. My father. who was a min-
 ister and sometimes inclined to be face
 tious asked him if he ever forgot
 chicken. He said he did not and gave
 it as his opinion that fancy for
 chicken somehow comes with the lay
 ing on of hands" and the recollection
 thereof "fadeth not away" He was good man but not attractive to the
 young and beautiful. He was only
 embalmed in the affections of the se-
 rious old ladies who seem to think the dull old Divines will have right of
 way with Saint Peter, by virtue of
 knowing nothing and expressing 1t in
 an unfeeling way. They'll kill their very last chicken to strengthen the | outer man" of their misplaced admi- | ration. But this type of female excel lence. like the object of its admira- ! tion. is passing away. to bo succeeded by the antipodal Divine and the 'fussy" female worker in the vineyard of the Lord" and it's nip and tuck between them to devise ways and means to as- tonish the world with their superhu- man efforts to hurry up" the Lords work They have a zeal for the heath en which overthrows the charity that begins at home" poor body will stand and deliver" to the bottom of his pocket, to the neglect of home and family, at the demand of a beautiful saint. It ought to be against the law for the churches to take such mean advantage of sinners They know we cant resist youth and beauty and fem mine persistence, and yield up our hard earnings more to get clear of em than for any abnormal interest in the heath en. But this love for the heather so rampant in the churches is very en- nohling and refining. It has a tend ency to call our thoughts away from the poor, hungry, suffering wretches at our doors. Apt as any way, the good man who let the dogs do a kindness for the beggar at his gate, studied out good deeds for the poor of other lands. It would bring him more renown. | think the most of our preachers mean well but they can't escape the exuberant female piety which luxu- riates in church suppers endless chain letters and the glorious renown of overlooking the "beggar at the gate" There is one endless chain kind of a letter that doesn't cost so much, ex- cept in postage. but must be very try ing on the patience. I don't think any devout Mrs. Jellyby could have studied 1t out-there isn't enough mon ey in 1t. It's this way: I write to ten fellows asking them to pray for some thing. Anything will dol. Each one of them to write to ten other fei. lows and so on, till in a short while every man under the sun would be do
 ing his very best in prayer Now, if they would all send me ten cents apiece would like 1t, If 1t didn't turn out something like that girl who wanted the trinkets on the soldiers arms and was fatally inexplicit. There'd be many a dime, But, isn't 1t stretching to zeal and rather worrying to pa tience to do so much in the endless chain matter. If prayer would answer for campaign purposes, Cortelyou and Taggart could adopt the endless chain of supplication to the great saving of money. But, reckon the Trusts pre- fer the old substantial argument with the patriots. I reckon the Prohibition ists will try prayer as they are gem erally anxious for folks to vote s they pray" rather think Tom Wat. sons chairman will rely upon the righteousness of the cause, in other parts of the country and in the South, upon that peculiar political sentiment that honors its own great men. can't believe. though, that Watson will be elected There's a fatal deficiency of the Jonathan Wild trait of greatness in him. He hid his great talent in a napkin and never contributed of his ability to debauch the citizenship of his State. Oh, if he had done to his utmost in that line. he could never have been Populist, or had any self-respect. He might have had office to his hearts content. Why. if he had trained up
 his people to eschew all morals he could have gone into a primary and
 bought a nomination. If the means of the nomination were about to bring punishment for law-breaking the pep. pie, we'll trained in the refinement of party obligation. would go on and give him office instead of stripes. This
 party obligation to support the un.
 worthy is the very refinement of mor- als It's beautiful.
 Some how think that when Church and Party unite in a Deacon there | ought not to be such a condition of stringent honesty and honor, It looks
 too much like we may be returning to the Blue laws period It ought to alarm the conservative clergy Why
 If this thing of going into the market 1 and buying a nomination Is not check | ed even a preacher cannot go to Con- gress unless his carelessness of char
 acter overbalances the highest market | price of nominations.
 | I'm almost persuaded that the | churches. themselves, are purchasa- ble. They so often need little money nd | meeting house and litle to send off to the everlasting heather that they feel bound in justice to themselves and
 the sake of the cause" to get money from the candidate. The candidate,
 making a purchase by wholesale drives the best bargain he can and sometimes. in this way. gets four or