The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

appointment 10 preach at one OF the
small places, a rough and ready sort
o. Joint, where the men didn't care much
how things went. 1t was Saturday even
ing when the minister rode up to the only
hotel or boarding house in the place and
he was soon surrounded by several of
the men who had been imbibing in speak.
easy. One of them asked:
Be you the parson who has come
here to preach?'
Eyes, sir, calmly and politely re-
piled the minister.
well, parson, can you tell me and
my friends how old the devil is?''
Keep your own family record, my
friend, was the quick answer as the
minister dismounted and walked into the
house.
when good old General Quit,nan was
a candidate for Governor of my State
against Foote," relates Senator Money,
OF Mississippi, "he was addressing vast
crowd of people in one of the interior
towns. The General aroused tremendous
enthusiasm and the rural peorle were
simply Wild. He said that he had come
INFO that section a poor friendless youth;
that he had met the hand of good fel
lowship and had been lifted safely
through all opposition to positions OF
lublic trust he was sensible that he
owed the people all that he was or ever
expected to be, and that a life devoted
20 their services could never repay them
Under my guidance he said, the flag
OF old Mississippi was ever among the
foremost in bravery and in danger. The
rush of war is over @nd l return TO you
in the garb of peace. | have toiled for
you unremittingly and I am willing to
continue this toll If you want me.
have worked for you and am still in
harness, my friends, am worn out, but
am still willing
"a big fellow wearing a coor-gkin cap
and who had repeatedly yelled out that
the old General was some pumpkins,
rushed UP to him and grasping his hand,
said:
'Gin'ril; you're my man, all the time
from hell ter breakfast-an' it's er
shame ter keep yer workin' for us all
yer material life; so I'll Just vote fer the
other Teller an let you rest er spell.
Shame ter work SIGH a man ter death
THE good old General consumed sew
erGl minutes explaining to the fellow in
the coon-skin cap that he wasn't ready
TO be laid on the shelf and wasn't so
near worn out as he appeared"
"a fellow down in my State said Rep
resentatiye Adamson, left provision in
his will that his widow and children
should furnish the guests of the hotel
which they had been conducting with
chicken pie every day during the year,
and it is my understanding that the last
request has been religiously carried out.
Il might manage to pull through with
chicken pie every day in the year. but |
balk on this 'moonshine' bakers bread
which is ladled out at every home and
hotel in Washington. was raised on
corn bread and biscuits, the old-fashion-
cd kind, by links, l want one or the
OTHER. 1t is said that man can't live on
bread alone, and think I would peter
out in six weeks time if ] was forced to
paItake of the moonshine stuff as a
steady diet.
"How's that? Yes, it's a fact about
the old fellow and the will, and Smith
vile, where the hotel is, has long been
a f&vorite place, and the hotel is popu-
lar with transients, but regulars don't
stay long, for the thought of having to
feast on chicken pie every day kinder
goes against their stomachs, it reaches
the point where ghosts of ROSTERS, old
hens, and frying chickens perform noe
turnal dances on their abdomens,'
Many years ago." relates Representa-
tive Denny, of Baltimore, "a man was
tiled in my city for cruelty whipping
his daughter, a girl about grown. The
counsel for the defense argued that the
fathers finer feelings made him solici-
tous to reform the girl-against whom
there was not the slightest evidence to
chow that she was anything save a
coed creature-and that in whipping her
with wagon whip he was carrying out
Solomons maxim, Spare the rod and
spoil the child and that he did simply
fathers duty. The girl had been un-
mercifully whipped, and it seemed that
no offense she could have committed
from her parent.
while the argument was being made,
Mr. r. S. Matthews, member of the
bar, wrote the following lines which he
handed to the States attorney, Mr.. Whit
ncy, and he used them in closing his
address to the jury, a jury of the right
material which made verdict OF guilty
and Judge Bond gave the inhuman faith
er the limit of the law:
'nis finer feeling made him seek his
child,
To train her steps in ways uncommon
mild;
And lest her feet from dutys path should
slip,
He kept her upright by a drayman's
whip.
The ancient teacher-holy man of God
Advises parents not to spare the rod;
But in this case the query rises
Whether
Solomon meant the rod should be of
leather?
Ii Pugsleys rule the jury should in
dorse,
HIS child will fare much better than his
horse"
ae Joy of the household, for withous
0 happiness can be complete. How