The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-08-07
FROM ADAM TO THIRD TERN FEVER
BY REV X H. WHur,kFR

FHa
80 weakened MIN IS ~ maxi Eim los.
his grip on the big stick. and ~
pafaiyzed his knees that il has bvcom.
Impossible for him 10 stand D.
and 80 blinded mis- eyes that ~ ear
not for the life or him tell th4 sha..
Of Il square deal"
/ am very sorry ne took thai fever
Grant, the great Ulysses. had III. ami n.
was never the same man afterward,
that hA was before. 1t leaves Il raL.
a wreck. and what makes it nor.
people don't have that sympathy foi
Il 'third term fever patient they hay.
Tor the ordinary ambitious politician
whose fever runs high. / was afraid
something bad would happen t.
Roosty when I heard that DR.. Iilm4n
mad been dismissed ami Or. AIdricl.
the cOnjurer, had been employed IL
nurse the Presidents pet. thu rate
bill. Sure enough it liz IN tn. frs;
place the new doctor brought in =
strange baby that he named Allison
which 50 delighted the President th-
Immediately ~foTsaking his own little
brat, which Or. Iillman had been nur-
sing for him, ne adopted the fpundIing
greatly preferring IL to his own
spring.
Such conduct naturally led 10 pos
sip and some people We're 50 outspok-
en- as TO intimate, right then, Ii
RooSey would take the fever. They
went 50 far, in their suspicious, rs 10
believe that DR.. Aldrich carried
whether purposely or not they
would not say some third term"
fever germs, which he turned loose
in or about the White House. when
he went to deposit the Allison baby
on the doorsteps; and 50. when tht
President rushed out III the early
morning to see the new baby. he in
hailed them, from which ms tie
taNaI- ACn n = - tlAH1y aal - -
though Dr.. Tillman used very heroic
medicine, and, III addition, tried to
bring him back to consciousness by
very frequent and very tender appeals
in the behalf of his once loved but de-
serted bantling, it was plain to be
seen that the fever was doing its work.
for he became very Eighty and, in his
delirium. he said j great many things
which impressed the country that he
was laboring under the delusion that
he was the whole thing, and without
him there would be no hope for the
country.
was sorry when heard he had the
fever, for | warmed up toward him
very much when he was down here.
and would have thought more of him
and liked him better if he had not
shown his lack of confidence in our
people by bringing with him a force
of ill-mannered fellows who tried to
il7b us III the lidN olliClouSIltSS
| notice. however. that his fever is
supposed to be abating; at least that is
the inference since it is now given out
that the patient don't talk SO much
about nineteen hundred and eight,
but has fixed his heart on nineteen
hundred and twelve. with the hope of
holding on in nineteen hundred and
sixteen. | suppose. inasmuch as he has
been trying to initiate Bryan. he thinks
it would be the proper thing for him
to do to let Bryan serve the next four
years and eXemplify the great princi-
pies with which he, Roosey, has fallen
SO deeply in love, but has not been
able, owing to many difficulties in his
own political household, to carry out
in his own administration.
"Fools' names like their faces,
Are often seen in public places"
is an adage that may or may not be
the truth; but there is one thing / have
noticed, and that is, one rarely sees the
the names of men who have been wei
raised, written on walls and fences ana
in conspicuous places. They are not
the fellows who hus advertise them
selves.
Go into a waiting room at a depot
and yOu will be amused to see how
anxious some people are to let the
world know they can write. If you
continue to look you will be apt t.
discover that a vile hand has been
upon the WALL, for it has left its i'm
press there in some coarse and vulga"
language. He did not sign his name,
for, like one who shoots or StabS IN
the dark, he is afraid to be known; but
he publishes to the world that. all I'M
known to gentlemen and ladies of re-
f1nement, there is a fiend lurking in
their midst.
There is but one viler character in
the world han he: that is the COW
ardlv sneak who writes anonymous let
ters with the intent to WOund feelings.
such an one would not rob q rave for
he reason that he or she would be
afraid to look the dead in the face: but
if the deed could be done in the dark,
he william would not hesitate to shoot,
stab or ply the torch. There is-there
can be, no Viler character than the
fend of society who takes delight II
giving pain to another in Anonymous
letters.
knew a man in my young days
who ook a delight in annoying a
widow lady in the community with his
anonymous epistles. He did if. q: h"l
said. for fun, but it was a mean thing
for him to do. The woman he tor
mented was the mans superior in
every way, a perfect lady. who attend
ed to her own affairs, and tried to be
a neighbor to all who lived in the
neighborhood. The man, as one may
we'll imagine. was a coarse, rough fel-
low. who took delight in making peo-I
pie miserable. The way he managed
was to write letters. and addressing
the lady. he would drop them in the
road near her home. OF course they
were carried to her by those who haE-l
pened to pick them up. This Went on
for some time. until a gentleman hap
pened to see the writer drop one of the
letters. He picked it up and hailing
the writer, compelled him to stoo.
Then. showing the letter. he said: Il
saw YOU drop this letter. and now [
have discovered the man who has
been worrying my aunt She has Sus-
pected YOU for some time. and | came
out from Raleigh to see if | could
find GU" The writer tried to deny any
knowledge of the matter. but the g.n-
tleman held him to the fact that he
dropped the letter, and finally made
him acknowledge it.
| knew the writer Well. and | was
glad when | heard that ne had been
caught and made to ask the widoW'Sl
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