The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-17

mercy, 1t is not strained; Just per-
fcctly natural, simple and charming.
once heard lady say that 1t would
make savage Zulu chief Christian
and gentleman to come to Virginia
and live In her neighborhood. where
people have been doing the friendliest
things possible for each other for
generations, as matter of courses
and exchanging everything from to-
nato slips to daughters.
Federal Colonel.
There Is a. Grand Army officer who
has been coming to one OF our sum-
mer resorts for ten years regularly
AT FIRST no one ever asked him Why;
our people so dislike all ,neddling in
other peoples private affairs. But at
last Confederate veteran did ask
him II he had any friends or ties
down here, that attracted him to the
spot. And his reply was: mo, don't
know soul down here. But ] come
every year. because 1t warns my heart
and pleases me so to see the way
you all treat each other down here
and the Jolly good times you get out
Of life on a little money. I used to go
10 our resorts up North. But they
were so stiff and dismal. and 1 felt
SO forlorn In those big. formal dressy
deserts socially-that is what our ho-
tells are, all fuss and feathers, and
the man like me, who has few friends
anywhere. and no bank account, might
Just as we'll try to enjoy a passenger
depot-that / thought I'd try 1t down
here: so I've been coming ever since
People often speak to me and ask me
to join their parties. and offer to In
troduce me to others. but I am a
sort Of New England clam--I can't
feel comfortable out Of my shell. But
do like to see 1t all going on around
me. l enjoy It,"
II YOU wish to display toilcttes, the
New York Horse Show, the Atlantic
City march past, the dress parade at
Newport. should claim you; but II you
want TO enjoy yourself TO FISH. 10 hunt.
TO shoot, TO wear your old clothes, to
dance. to be quiet and read a. lot, to
get we'll II you have been III. to do
az you please. within we'll bred limits.
to meet more agreeable people than
you have ever met In your life else
where at any one place or time. and
hear more racy. Enthusiastically
southern anecdotes. jests and repartees.
springs. You get the full flavor of
southern society, as 1t used to be when
IL was companionship. indeed. Of the
highest order and the greatest charms,
before the South was first ruined. then
commercialized. then Northernized on
the surface only, submerged by de-
feat. broken by poverty. sorrowfully
changed in a. thousand ways: she Is
sttil her own genial. courteous. high
bred and charming self. full of indie
pendence. initiative, individuaiitv
gaiety of temperament and hospitable
TO the backbone
The Rich south.
fnel
We have ali been hearing for so long
OF the poor South" the poor South
the poor South Fifty-two banks
recently established; heaven knows
how many mills spinning away Ike
anything; mines and furnaces and
works" and factories springing up
everywhere rice booming; sugar boom
niger; cotton boomingest' Isn't it
wonderful and delightful2 Well let
us who love her hope that she viii
shine in prosperity as she has in the
greatest Universities that ever over
took a people And she Will, tool The
first time she has been rich. and she
will wear her new Jewels as she did
her Confederate ermine. right royalty
Now l must tell YOU about another
Southern product that perfect old dear.
Judge Speer.
Judge spcer was on the Supreme
bench of Maryland, and the great au-
! thority on the Constitution in his day
ana state lie was noNeO TOT MS
learning. his simplicity his devotion
to Mrs. Speer whose verbs and nouns
! did not agree, and who never opened
book. Likewise for his absence OF
mind. He had once asked the clerk
at the post-of7ice his own name. that
| he might get his own letters. He had
spat on the table and thrown his cap
| in the fire. He had invited the bench
to dine and gone fishing. Mrs. speer
| Xyith 1ig hind mart before
| smiling peacefully over bundle of
| papers containing his brief in the
| great Bundlecombe versus Swearipsen
case. Everybody knew the judge;
| loved him. when they came to know
] the boundless goodness of his heart
| and the extraordinary legal acumen
| OF his mind. making a strong solution
| and friend. All Collinsville laughed
| at their great man constanty-ye
| reverently-he was such a dear Not
even a red wig. an appalling deafness
| and a nervous manner could more than
accentuate his projections. for when
/ ever anybody was suspected of doing
| good secretly in Collinsville. no matter
| what form it took-checks to churches
''Friend' to the fresh air fund and the
/ like-people ALWAYS said with convic'
ton, "That is Judge Speer." And they
We're generally right.
One bitterly cold January night, sucf
as Maryland sometimes knows, Mrs
Speer got up from her own 'iresidf
with decision. saying: Peter. you Dc
nothing but yawn at home. Come. let!
go next door to Minnies I want u
see what she got in her box from
Baltimore
The furnace next door was behavins
as all furnaces and friends do wher
we most need them tsee Job. and tn
Speers were promptly asked UP to th'
bed room of Mrs. speer's old school
mate. Minnie Madden. The Baltimor'
box proved a fruitful topic of CONVEX
!, sation for the ladies, hut the judg'
yawned worse than ever, The tacttu
wife saw this. Here, Peter. is "Littell
Magazine: amuse yourself till we com
back. We are going downstairs to SCI
that box for half an hour, dear
The judge put on his glasses ant
,, opened his book and read and read am
read The Baltimore box enthralle'
, the ladies for two hours. The ludR
finally rose to his feet and ooke'
about him. The two villas We're a
like, even as to the arrangement
the furniture. as pins in a. paper Tn
Judge was getting on for an old mar
!, He had had hard day. Tte was tree
: He was sleepy. He chewed coke o
! Entail" as mental cud, while he calm
y ~xt