Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
County Correspondence.
CONTINUED
VALE WA SHINGTON, G. c!
Unblushing Liberties Taken With
History and Astronomy to Eulogize.
SOME FUNNY AND PRETTY TALK

- W NuiiS uUCil q lOlIS oul-
fering public as to the doings and UNI
dofngs of the famous and otherwise
people of Washington, G.. c.
We are soon to have post-office i'm
our midst which will bear the cogno-
men of Nicely. SO all our personal let
tiers from our old time friends, whom
we were inconsiderate enough to be-
lieve had entirely forgotten us, until
the memory awakening panic shat
tered our fond though uncharitable
delusion:--Will still reach us safely
each morning il properly addressed
with postage prepaid.
In the future School Histories. |
suppose we will be put down as
Neeiyites, or Mr.. Roosevelt might be
tempted to write another articles on
nature fakirs But, speaking in all
due respect of our Industrious towns
man, in whose honor our post Office
was named, we will say that Wash
tanians we always were, are. and
will be.
Why Washington was thriving
burg when Roosevelt was being span
ked for smoking cigarettes, and put
ting lizards in his grand fathers hat,
along with other youthful accomplish
ments.
Ridpath doesn't say 50, but It's my
own private opinion that our nation
al Capitol instead of being named for
our country's Pater as is generally
supposed, was named for, and model
ed after, as near as circumstances
would permit, our fair and famous
city on the headquarters OF Oktibee
And future research will probably
bring to light that Old Hickory
didn t break international law by
slapping the face OF the naughty Don
down in Pensacola, on account of
having fried onions for breakfast. as
most historians seem to believe.
Neither did the noble Hriton wal
low in the mud of Chalmetto to burst
Jackson corner in New Orleans
cotton.
hut 1t was all an international
struggle to see which of the great
World Powers should be the proud
possessor of Washington, G. C.
| might go farther back still and
tell you that the hungry Grandees OF
Spain instead of searching for gold,
as per the ideas of such careless men
as Barnes and Chambers, were really
seeking the far famed aforesaid city,
which from q study of Indian classics,
they believed to be land flowing
with and honey, intersected with
spring bran hes full OF youth giving
victor. Now as proof that this place
was once such, l will cite you to some
of the elder inhabitants, who clearly
remember the time when this partic.
ular brand of water could be obtain.
cd here at place designated by 6
legend which read, DRY Goods, Gro
ceries, etc.
This ''etc' was the real stuff. anG
was sold in jugs and bottles with &
guaranteed to produce more over
bubbling happiness to the cubic inch
than all the gold of Peru.
| On-further back still, Columbus
dared the dangers of the vast un-
known. Flowing wi t h dauntes>
prov, q don t know why it shouldn I
have been proving if he had to
have prov in it, or if its got to bt
blowing he shouldn t have used .
pillow, but any way that's the way il
is, in the book,) the waters of the
golden west. Not to find new world
but to seek land of bliss. where
purple seas kissed the golden sands
OF realm of endless beauty, where
| the spice-laden air was filed with
perpetual song, where the senses
swooned with color and the sky was
lever blue, where dollars grew on
bushes and diamonds flashing back
the kisses of the sur, lay
thick as stars on frosty night.
OF such land stories had been
handed down from father to son ever
since the first man lost bis job be-
cause he couldn boss the last ami
NAL created.
And OF this sunny land whose cap
lta was the above named, the afore-
said, and the same Washington, G..
lC.. Columbus had read even when a
youth. In dime editions, out behind
the barn, where he had learned to
Chew tobacco and play poker at his
leisure, while his fond parents sup
posed he was at Sunday-School.-
No wonder his ambition was fired
to find this Eldorado. where he could
pluck the tail-fcathers of the bird Of
Paradise in Peace; and shoot ten
caret diamonds in his Niger shooter
according to his own conscience.
No wonder he said he'd be willing
to sail on and on and ON if the other
fellow would just be wiling to put
up the dough. What bright American
boy wouldn t?
And speaking Of Paradise brings
to my Dind "a dim idea Of my own
thai the very center of the garden of
Eden itself was the city of Washing
ton, G. c., and it hasn't changed SO
powerful much since.