Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-02-19

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II 10 rot know. answered. she
conId have married any man ia the
coun;rs. ii she had wished TO- Per
hars the right one has never come
along. However. do not believe
she would have married yet il he had J
for CO ROT laiak She will ever leave
her gransfather as long as he lives.
Yes; formed some such idea To-
day Eiyself. He answered Qeietly, and
dropped the subject.
imagine my friend never i'll all his
life spent four days more fruitful in
the requirement OF knowledge OF hu-
man nature than those four days in
and about Below. And yet with all
his natural acumen. and brilliant
mind trained b. his profession 10 close
ana accurate analysis of human char
actcr and motive, he failed TO- grasp
the trga condition OF things Southern,
as vas clearly evidenced by con-
versatscn We had as we were travel
ing from Beieow to North Alabama a
couple Of days after our visit to The
Rivers
We had heen temporarily stranded
rat Chattanooga. there was still a
good deal Of the happy -go-lucky in
difference to timetables Of my youth
existing, at which Jack marveled ana
II laughed, and while waiting for our
train, were wandering about the city
inspecting the signs of progress ana
industrial activity so visible here, ana
SO lacking in our native town when
he turned 70 me saying
This IS something i can under
stand and appreciate bat the con-
duions in a place like Your nome are
beyond me altogether How the men
81 birth and breeding, mon VINO once
lived and thought. like many Of those
| mel there, can suffer themselves 10
rust out in apparent idleness and
nselessncss, as they seem TO lie doing,
clnnot understand
ih, well that is a big question, "
] answered ii would take d book
to explain il 10 you. II is d matter
of environment, temperament tradi-
ton and pride he last both true and
false The wave of progress yoa see
here and in many Other places in the
Son.ll has rot reached there yet. and
they are still asleep between pas
and future. Some OF hose you met
MIL never awake. but many Will some
time and II YOU come down again IN
some ten wears time. You may find
quiet sleepy. restful. dilapidated old
Below a Scene Of busting activity
with mills and furnaces. You can
not expect in IN isolated place like
that the modes OF thought and the
traditions inherited from the genera
tons Of the past and as yet un;iis-
turbed by any outside element to be
easily over ONE. They are going
through the sleeping stage Of egolu-
tiaa now give them time. ana they
viii come ont alright By and b..
There are already pioneers from the
old place now. There is Charlie Doug
las whom yoG know. and there are TWO
or three of my old school-m1tes whom
you have never seen, who are as wide
awake as any in your Own beloved
boston. THE rest will follow in the
course or time. Why, you may even
live TO sec some Of my old friends
dressed in the fashions of the day.
i ended. smiling ut him whimsieally.
There dress is queer" he admitted,
and caused me endless establishment,
which I sometimes had difficulty il
concealing. How do they manage to
maintain their positions in the COM
munity in such poverty, andI had ale
most said, rags?''
Know, my dear 10y, you have LEFT
the land OF dollars and convention,
and are now in the happy land Of
Birth, tradition and caste Here, when
one is to the manner born, whatever
his poverty and rags he IS Of his
caste always. To lose or extinguish
caste in a land of mixed races, is to
vel to sink 10 the condition of some
OIL the dellEdtiWt SQAitA lSs - -
south of US that I have Leon krocEiag
abont in for the past few years.
There you touch ON subject J
have been yainly striving TO under
stand he said. and 20 which ! have
given my closest attention ever since
We crossed the Potomac hat it, the
relations between the races. You
know have very strong ideas on the
univesaI and equal rights Of man; and
from all my own traditions, teachings
and readings. have looked on the
whites Of the South, more or less
as the natural oppressors and enemies
Of the blacks. And yet. from all
have been able to see on this trip
there seems to be generally great
suirit OF friendIiness between tbs
races; and know. from what ! have
seen during this week. il son and I
for instance. should require anything
from any negro We might pick UP 81
tie streets here at random, as the OLE
woman said III Charlottesville. hs
would know his own foxes, and Noulf
DO things for you with more aiacrltl