Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-08

We have had a. notwithstanding .
time I'm south Georgia Capta1ff-
Triplett, who has been 1ere-weh,
mans mind rinneth back TO the tin
when he came, says he has never seen
such a December as we are having. /.
don't want to think that the captain Is
an old man, for he is not Folks sell
dom grow old in south Georgia. II just
happens that he has been here long
time. There has been enough sunshine
in December in brownsville to keep one
i'm a good humor all the rest OF the
year. Today / saw men all over the
streets without coats, walking arounc
Just like it was summer time.
The sunshine has given US the hnest
fan gardens you ever saw, We have
Irish potatoes, cabbages. beets, spinach,
carrots, turnips, mustard, lettuce ana
rutabagas until we are surfeited on
them and still they grow, and 1t looks
like they viii defy the cold of. the
winter. Our fall and winter gardens
are really finer than those we have in
t.4e spring and the vegetables are more
appreciated at this time of the year than
they are in the spring and summer
The sunshine has done another thing
for us 1t has cut off sickness, We
have had so little of it that time is
hanging heavily on the hands of the
doctors and they have had time TO tax
politics with the men of the town We
nave an issue here by the side OF which
the issue you boys had in Atlanta pales
into rayless insignihcance. The burning
question of the hour is whether or not
the COW shall have the run of the pub
lie streets Thomasville is quite city
like in appearance and last year the COW
was put off the streets in very. hot
campaign. This year, under the plea
that it is precedent breaking year,
the friends of old muley and old long
horn, are making an effort to pasture
them again on the streets and on the
ivate property of others. 1t is posi-
lively eomical to see grave seniors ana
little sprigs who are taking their first
lessons in politics talking glibly and
writing learnedly in the papers. about
the rights of the cow to have her liberty
I wish Uncle Remus was living TO come
down here for a little while. He would
be able to write up some stories that
would make the children for the next
generation laugh until their sides were
sore You may think you had hot
fight in Atlanta recently, but you ought
to strike a south Georgia town when the
liberty of hog or COW is the ques-
ton at issue Things fairly sizzle. II
has been comparatively quiet in Thorn
asviIle this year, but it is still warming
up and it may be that the pot Will boil
over before next week when the burn
ing issue will be decided. E
Another bright sunshiny spot on the
horizon is that we have had little wood
to buy The weather has been so warm
that we have had fires only a few days
all during the day. 1t is cold enough
to have fire in the early morning and
at night but later on it is warm enough
% sit by an open window.
Then we still are having fresh fish
from the river. 1 know you will be
surprised to know that we are still
catching the red-bellies for which south
Georgia is famous. They abound in the
rivers and the best time to catch them
is in the fall of the year. We have
few fishermen who go out every now
and then and return with a fine strins
of the succulent perch.
There are some shadows connected with
the drought. The streets are very dusty
and the roads where there is sand are
very heavy, making travel by vehicle
rather unpleasant. The rivers are lower
than they have been for some time, and
in many sections the wells arc going dry.
Just above Moultrie there is saw mill
town. where the water has failed con-
pietely. and they send log train to
thar little city every day or two for
Supply OF artesian water.
1t is an unusual thing TO find negro
house in the country near which Jhere is
water IN Hundreds Of places the well IS
house. The average negro down here does