The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-17

yVu 10 AOu WOuioh I hasO Ill
thing to eat on your tables. What II
the chickens would refuse to lay eggs?
You would not have anything to eat.
What II the seeds would refuse to
grown Then we would all starve to
death. We would all starve to death.
II nature could be governed as we
hear a lot Of harping nowadays
around the land.
I have no faith in a woman who
/. talks of heaven and makes a hell out
Of hes as1.~lj = -
going to investigate you piety, !
would ask your cook. I would not
ask your preacher. He sees you on
dress parade IN day in sever. rms
talk about a clean heart is discounted
when your kids look as thougn ~
wa raining dirt. And youacan READ OF
a mothers care, my friends, in the
hieroglyphics we all the garments,
the uncombed hair, the ripped dress
stockings hanging down like n skin
on the back of a Merino sheep. dirty
nose, that doesn't mean the wisdom
of a prophet. mothers down in the
club, perhaps.
n Won 20 down to Atlanta, Ga,
they will take you out to Piedmont
Square and show O a monument.
and then you will ask, Is
that?"
They will say. That is Henry"
You will say. Henry who?" and
they will say. Don't you know? That
- Henry Grady"
Nary Grady's life was too short
for the good Of both the North and
the South. Henry Grady was a re-
porter on one of the New York
papers. i think It was the Tribune or
Herald. IL l remember right, and he
walked down the steps morning
to go to work and he saw Grape on
L.. tx~-aH honk and Sa{d RI
his landlady-
who Is a down there"
She said, IT don't know"
Haven't you heard anybody was
sick ?"
She said. ct should say not, I have
troubles OF my W
He said. You are going to the
funera1?"
She said. 81 am not, I am going to
put a piece of oilcloth down in the
kftchen and wash my curtains"
What? Haven't time to run In and
see a sick neighbor, haven't time to
help put them beneath the ground?'
No Place for n Preachers SON.
This " 10 place for Henry Grady;
we may be a little behind the times
down in the Southland, but we are
not so crazy making money that We
cant run in and say IA word, and that
we amt knock Off work n help fol-
low our friends to the graveyard and
drop a few tears and a few flowers
and ! am going back home"
On his way he stopped In Washing
ton and as he looked at the Capitol on
the hill ne said:
THAT lis the Capitol OF my nation.
where we send the representatives
and the senators and all to make our
laws which govern and control the
millions OF this great country"
Then ON his way home he stopped
in the home of a southern planter.
where he brought the servant In and
twice a day read the Bible and pray
ed. And when he got home he wrote
an editorial In the. Atlanta Consutu-
ton and said:
II was wrong when / said that
magnificent building on the hin Of
Washington at the head OF Penusyi-
vania avenue was the capitol and
h home OF the nation The home
OF my nation Is the home where men
and women are taught to pra and
the children to love God and hate a
lie"
He found himself dr.fting into n
great whirlpool OF business and
politics n day they missed him
and for several days no editorials ap-
peared In the Atlanta Constitution
from Henry Grady's brain or pen.
He packed his grip. he went out into
h hilly country in Georgia to where
his old mother lived IN the old house.
where Henry and the rest of her
babies were born. He walked around
10 the kitchen door, under the spread
ing elm and he said AS he dropped
: his grip.
come back"
She knew what It meant ana she
took him on her lap, like she did when
he vas q boy. And che baked him
corn pone and boiled ham, ca and
hiackeyed beans and the things he
liked when a little boy; fried him
chicken that nobody knows how to
try like mother. especially down South.
then made him these little biscuits that
are about that high, that they make,
he stayed for upper n when
he got ready to go to bed she took him
mp and put him to bed. She would not
70 to live with Henry In the big nine
teen-room house on Peachtree street. In
Atlanta-he wanted to live out Ia the
country.
He came back. but he never lost
sight Of Jesus Christ until he dr,fted
out with the tide. o! what makes a
country Ereatf Not hish raised bat
Elements, thick wallis or moated xAtes;
not cities. proud with spires and tur-
rets crowned. No, men. high-mfnded
men. These make . nation great
believe in blood. Blood tells. In
euadrupeda. In horses. hogs. dogs and
In human beings ~ well. Blood tells,
my friends. o. ! believe In blood, good
blood. bad blood. proud blood. humble
blood. honest blood. thieving blood. he
role blood, cowardly blood. inndel blood,
Christian blood. drinking blood. sober
blood, ltesntious blood. virtuous blood
The large thick lip Of tho house OF
Hapsburg Of Austria. tells OF iicen-
~tiousness. II you don't believe II. read
the history OF the house Of HApsburg
And the house OF Stuart tells of cru
city and bigotry and Of s~ensualties
from the days Of Mary. Queen Of Scots
to King Charles L. Charles n. King
James l.. who showed the world what
a. big fool q Scotchman can be when 4
Scotchman II \ fool.
King James II. Scotch blood, stands
for perststency. bulldog tenacity. stick.
t~o-it-iveness. never give Up. fight tc
tho last ditch and then refuse to &C.
knowledge defeat. I know a good deal
about the Scotch. Mrs. Sunday Is full.
- hlooded Scotch.
Rich Old rellown.
And English blood stands for the
reverence Of the ancient as shown by