The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-21


the formal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
it's no surprise. He might have made
it k.mSelf-oT, as they are all made
after he same model. and look alike,
the boys might have had them made
to order at reduced rates. But, that's
all right | guess; each fellow gets his
flowers, the audience applaud their
presentation, the happy recipients
smile and feel good; and l feel good,
too; seeing them looking so complete
ly happy.
l was thinking the other day of the
educational advantages of the present
over the past and | came to the con-
clusion that if improvements continue,
as e they have been, and are being,
made, the time cannot be long defer
red when all our people will be edu-
Gated. And then the question arose,
will the education they receive
strengthen their faith in God?
OF course our educators have been
watching that question, and l pre-
sumo they are vigilantly guarding
against any departure from the teEets
Of the old-time faith, which main
tanned that God created the earth and
the whole universe of worlds; that the
Son of God is our Saviour and that
salvation. to lost men, is by faith in
the atonement He made.
saw a gentleman in Kenly, the
other day, getting some wire fencing
to make a division between his cotton
and tobacco. OF course it's known
that geese will pick grass out of the
cotton, and great many cotton plan
ters depend very much on the help of
the goose when grass is growing.
In fact, l heard of a man who in
tended to make flock of geese take
the place of cotton choppers. He rent
ed land from gentleman near
Youngsville, obligating to plant and
cultivate a two-horse crop of cotton.
To do that the renter said his SON
in-laW would assist him. After he
had moved upon the farm, the land
lord, seeing the son-in-law had not
come, asked the tenant how he ex-
pected to cultivate a tWo-hOrse farm
of cotton with nobody to do the chop
ping. sob easy enough" said the
tenant. Il expect to let my geese do
the chopping."
You can move back to where you
came FROM said the landlord II
don't propose to have any goose farm
on my land" And so he moved.
But, as / was saying, a gentleman
was buying some wire to fence his
cotton off from his tobacco. He said
the geese, as grass pickers, were ali
right, but, they played the mischief
with his tobacco. That a few nights
ago his geese bit off or pulled up an
acre or two of tobacco plants, recent
ly set out
''Win geese eat toacco?" I enquir-
whether they, eat it or not" he
said. they will take it by rows and
pick out all the buds and pull up
the young plants. And, even, after
the plant is half grown they will bite
off the tops" And then it flashed
upon my mind that away back in my
childhood. l used to hear ditty to
this effect:
"Dey used to cut a swagger.
But dey couldn't walk de line;
Case de goose he chawed de hacker,
An de duck drunk de wine"
l did not know that reese ate to-
bacco before that gentleman told me.
the other day, how his geese did; but,
find out every day there are many
things | did not know; and. should
live to be as old as Methuselah, l ex-
pect I'll keep on learning.
l saw man in a towering rage
some time ago, and it alarmed me to
hear him talk about the man whom
he denominated his enemy. He was
church member, and so was the man
he was abusing member of the
same church; but from the way that
angry man was speaking of him, he
must have been a very, very bad
man.
I thought, while he was giving vent
to his feelings and liberty to his
tongue, that, if he talked that way
every day, to everybody he met, he'd
certainly go crazy.
/ enquired into the matter little
and l was astonished to learn that
the difficulty did not amount to any
thing, and the party he was abusing
had done everything he could do, con-
sistently to settle the matter--in fact,
had literally done all that the Savious
meant that one should do when He
said GO and be reconciled with thy
brother" He had made the effort.
There are some people you can't re-
concile, no more than you can re-
concile a nest of mad hornets; and, 1
have thought ii was a pure waste OF
lime to mess with them. They re-
mind me Of a kicking mule; and
when that's said, I could not say any
hing worse of them.
Ny father owned 4 kicking mule
once, and his wagon driver didn't
Jack on the off-Side of the tongue,
where, sitting on the saddle mule, the
1river could, as he said play a
hume" on him with his whip "Gwine
TO have some fun di mawnin'. Use
play de fiddle and Jacks gwine to
10 de dancin'," I heard Burt say,
You hear my racket, it amt every
body dat nos how to fiddle for a mule,
but Jack nos my lick, and Use got his
step, and dar's no gwine back on de
Torrance"
Jack did not belong to the regular
team: he had been traded for condi-
tionally. My father knew he was a
kicker, but he had an idea that, by
working him on the off-side of the
tongue where the driver could man
age him, he might be cured of his
kicking habit. That morning Burt
hitched him up, put a new cracker
On his whip, got everything in readf-
ness and, seated on the saddle mule,
gave the word to go. The three mules
moved right off. but Jack let fly his
heels and Burt let fly his whip. Jack S
heels flew, the traces ratified, the whip
popped In the meantime, Burt was
saying: Oats hit! OATS de reglar
high-ol step! Go it, Jack, I'll do de
fddlin'. You'd better come down to
WALKING