The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-31
THE BOOK AGENT.
Learned Persistency From Mother
 Eve.

l Aearueu 6SEB1StSuCy GIVIA 1AVIASA
 Eve.
 1 Editor The Advertiser:
 I'm always glad when we strike month | of five Sundays, for 1t looks like fifth | Sunday is an extra allowance from Fath- | CT Time. Sunday, or Day of Rest, IS an early institution-came in almost with | Adam. In his younger days the 9ld fe+ l low didn't need it much for recreation, , unless maybe, he got tired of doing noth- | ing and rested on Sunday just for spite: | lie must have had bully time in his early manhood. It looks like If eyer a man could be satisfied with -a plenty he | was the man. His great mistake was III cd too late where ignorance is bliss 'tis l folly to be wise" He had the whole | world for his own He could go where he | pleased. He could eat what he wanted | sions. He had Eve. He ought to have been satisfied. and reckon he would have | been if the devil hadn't put 1t in Eves | head to want to see some new 1ashion plates. The persistency of the book agent must have been inherited from the devil. Eve got the fashion plates. .. 1 have so often heard of the eXcellency | of knoWieQge that l am sometimes at q | loss to account for the fact that Adam | got it in the neck for trying to improve | his mind. Maybe SO, there's something Tn all his immunity from work and clothes, I wouldn't put in jeopardy good fortune | by so much as a look at the Pierian | Spring. No stree. What Adam really was sense to ''let we'll enough alone" | Perhaps this lack of sense is an inherit | ance from the old fellow. And this want | ing to know good from evil may have come from the same estate, which was | abundantly sol of undesirable things. The old man made fearfully disastrous mis- take trying to make his head bulge with l knowledge. But good" and "evil'' are relative terms and frequently interchangeable. | The environments of birth. association | and education enter a good deal into the standards of good or bad conduct. A | fellow. in this country, should not be | summarily condemned because he was born a Methodist or a Baptist or some- thing like. He couldn't help 1t. Occasion 1 ally a strong minded woman marrtes him and carries him into her church. and vice versa. When he's born a Democrat | it's different. Ninety-nine times in a hum dred his lunacy clings to him like the fabled shirt. Now, there's Colonel Bryan. l Who, but iunatic. would seek to teach clergymen morality? And yet that favor ite son of Democracy is attempting that very thing!
 And he under fresh disrepute in his par | ty for behaving like a gentleman away | from home. and. in consequence, receiv- ing courtesies from Republican represent l at1veS of his Government! Right here, we have a practical illustration of the mag | nitude of the view point of actions. I thought 1t was ''good' in Colonel Bryan to so behave in his travels that diStin- guished gentlemen would do him honor, i but. in the estimation of his Party his 1 excellent department was great evil. | There's Brother Shoot of the United l States Senate. Tn his private life he may l not be any more exemplary than other members of the Senate but Sister Shoot seems satisfied with him. It's the view i point.
 Occasionally I hear devout men pray
 for spiritual guidance into knowledge of | right and wrong. I'm almost persuaded l to discredit such professed desire of su- l pernatural illumination. If q fellow won't l accept the plain directions of the writ ten or printed page. he will likely apply in vain to the Spirit. IT would do right as I already know 1t, perhaps I would be conscious of spiritual approval. Maybe | so. maybe so.
 But fifth Sunday gives us the oppor- tunity of an extra meeting. called in Baptist parlance. Fifth Sunday Meet | ings." We air our opinions there. AL most any opinion is born strong enough t0 stand alone. Some of 'em ought to be strangled in parturition. In these meet
 ings we are very tender of any mon strosity if it has the least Baptist flavor. Just now, We are worrying our minds | about the waste places" in the tC n and cities. There seems to be diepo- sition in the upper orthodox circle to let the country people go down stairs"
 I'm not of that orthodoxy. In the general
 windup hope the towns and cities will l be we'll represented, but when I come to
 sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob' (who were welI-to-do rustics), | want good sprinkling of ''hill-billies" in the congregation. We are being neg
 lected for the waste places about the | centers. Dinner on the grounds is an attractive feature of the meetings. At every little breathing spell we take up | "collection, mostly in subsidiary cur. | rency. l have heard 1t hinted that the
 Collection is the real attraction for our | big" divines
 I always like to be "neighborly" and
 I've been stralning my mind for a Dem | ocratic device for Brother Mallory. Of l course he wants something suggestive to put on the ticket. I have thought perhaps, a little picture of an American l maiden embracing a titled foreigner with l the legend. "The Counts the Thing" will l be very pretty and appropriate. To catch | the prohibittonists, a banner with the
 Latin motto. "Votas uprae" can be added | With great effect. Brother Mallory is a good deacon but he's too sensible to fall | into the Bryan foolishncss of preaching morality to Democrats. He's been in it | long enough to know that Democracy and | morality arc like oil and water. I hope he feels under no obligation to vote for candidate simply because he's a Bap-
 tst. l think 1t against good morals and l public policy for a certain kind of Bap- tist to be President of the Railroad Com mission. I think all those first fellows were Baptist preachers, but Judas had the good taste to retire early. That was | In his favor Right here I want to re- mark that if the railroads are satisfied with the Commission as at present. con- l Stituted. everybody else should be. I have no fight against the railroads and no dis position to put extra burden of new ex- | pense upon them at every recurring elec- tion. Still I'll be glsd to near from ev- cry candidate the why's and wherefores 1 of his asDirations
 The Bookerees have. sci. in to keen me | posted about their desires for the next | Democratic Governorship They work through tine weekly press in supplements
 l don't mind giving YOU the fragments Hr recent 'convers" ton between q Beat | Le'deH' "pd 2 Candidates:
 tHnb'dat"-Hnw 0nanv votes at S-oith's? |?
 R"Ht I4eader-Three. Six bits apiece.
 C;-AH right. How many at Craw-
 B, L.-Four hold them at s25.
 C;-Good God, They must be pretty
 high-mlnded fellows!
 J. Cu1pepper.