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Bill IP SAYS ll'S SAB That Picture Painted of the New England People BY ONE OF THEIR PREACHERS Who Tells the Massachusetts Folks How Wicked and Utterly Depraved They Appear. "Ill fares the land, to hattcniug ilia a prey. Where wealth accumulates and men decay." How doth history repeat itself. If Goldsmith had have lived to our day he might have written those lines about New England. Was there ever inch a sad and pitiful picture drawn of any people as that New England pieacher has drawn of the country people of Massachusetts and has pub lished in the Arena. We wonder that the editor of that hiah-toned mierazme ' would dare to expose the descendants of the Puritans in all their hideous deformity and to broadcast it among the citizens of cultured Boston. The etory of their degredation physically is worse than what we read about of the goitre districts of Switzerland. Six fingers on each hand, six toes on each foot, crcss-eyes, hare-lips, club-feet, muflle chops, rauteo, dwarfs and idiots seem to be common in every rural community. But the degeneracy morally is still worse for this preacher says when there is a gathering from neighboring towns at a cattle ebow or other attrac tion you will tee as wicked alhrongof human creatures as ever gathered at White Chapel cr the Five Points, aud ttat the pens or prieons built for drunken rowdies are filled before 9 o'clock in the morning and these hood lums insult every woman they meet, and when night comes both men and women revel in the wild orgies of a promiscuous dance. And yet some of those Boston editors are still crying "Stop thief!" to distract public atten tion from their own shame. Once be fore I have alluded to Mr. Stetson's statement that the marriage relation in Massachusetts i3 almost a nullity, aud that separations are more common than legal divorcee. Not long Bince another New England writer astound ed the public by declaring that in many towns and villoges the sound of the Sabbath bell was never heard, ncr the church door ever opened and re Jigion was going rapidly into disuse and innocuous desnetude. What does all this mean? Has the Aimighty God turned His back, upon that historic ground and given the devil free reign over its people? Has it como to this that a man who preaches holiness or sanctilicatious is lynched with tar and feathers and made to leave the country. If a negro commits an outrage in that once holy land does it take guards and police and the militia to keep the mob off of him ? And yet the Boston Transcript says that Georgia is several generations behind New Eng land inrefinement and morals. "How are the mighty fallen!" When we find that ia The Arena a preacher is ailoved to take for his text, "The Degeneracy and Decay of Rural New England." Their condition is amazing, pathetic, helpless. The land of Webster, Choate, Pierce and Hawthorne is now "to hastening ills a prey," for as wealth ac cumulates in Boetou men decay around it. This prencher Fays "the mills are built.but the farms are all mortgaged." Then, what will become of the factory Kirls when the mills are all moved south to the cotton, whero they are obliged to come or chfe ? Not long ago I traveled with my good friend. Callo way, of The Macon Telegraph, and he talked in raptures about a ecw book--nn Englishman's history of the United States. Percy Greg has written two olumcs about tis. and it is a masterly production nothing so thorough, 60 philosophic, so jut to all the factors, old England, New England and the nonth, has ever been written. The author is an Englishman, a noted traveler, a scholar nigh-toned, un prejudiced and aa entertaining as Ma cauley. I sent to 'Richmond for it to the Everett Waddey Company, who published the American edition, and eagerly have I perused and enjoyed it This edition has an admirable preface by General Wade Hampton. This book is two comprehensive fox the schools, but every man of leisure should have a copy in his house to feed upon to feed mind and memory, and be estab lished In the faith of our fathers. Prom my inmost heart, I thank Mr. Greg for writing this history while I still live, for I feel that at last the eouth has been vindicated bj a master mind. Everv Dace cives comfort, and that portion about our civil war amd itt causes and consequences makes the southern spirit burn within yon and a feeling of thankful pride is revived in the southern breast. Yes, it makes me fcol calm and serene. Here is another book that the author has just sent me through the mail. Its tittle is "The Case of the South Against the North," by Hon. B. F. Grady, a cultured son of North Carolina and late a member of congress from that state and a confederate veteran of ,rour years soldier service. I have only had time to glance over its con tents, but have read enough to know that it will be another valuable educa tor in our schools, and will establish the truth in the minds of our young people. The long belated south is making her own literature now, thank the Lord for His mercies. Here is a beautiful little book of poems by Rev. E. A. Wingard, of Columbia, S. C. My friend, E. A. Aull, of The New berry News, published it and sent a copy to me. This Lutheran preacher is no mere rhymer; he is a true poet, and many of his poems are as perfect gems as ever Hayne or Timrod wrote; some of them remind one of Cowper and Goldsmith. They are as tender kissed me earl v -kissed me first and with a conjugal smile : "You must live on and on as long as you can, for I don't knoc how we would get along without you." I don't eitbei, and so, like a pensioned soldier, I keep living on. Time cuts down all, Both great and small. Except a pensioned soldier. We had a big dining today with eighteen of the family at the ieatt, and the menu was an old-fashioned dinner, with ice cream aud talk and hilarity for dessert. They drank a cold water toast to my longevity . Bill Arp, in AtlaLta Constitution. DISEASE OF 'HOUSE NERVES." Conquered by and true .as classic. The verses "No cross, no crown," are exquisite, and so are the lines in memoriam of Winnio Davis. And hero I have some numbers of The Midland Monthly, of St. Louis, that is an admirable magazine, and one entirely fair and jnst to the south, My -fried, Benjamin E. Green, of Dalton, was sent on a secret mission to Cuba and St. Domingo, in 1848, by President Taylor, and recently he wrote a truthful and very instructive article containing his observations of the people especially the conflict be tween the white and negro races in those islands. This sketch was declined by every northern magazine of repub lican instincts declined because its conclusion did not tally with republi can policy; but it was promptly ac cepted by the Midland Monthly, and Mr. Green advises our people to con tribute to it and patronize it. Mr. Green, a wellknown scion of that verv uotable and able gentleman Duff Green, is himself one of the most learned and reliable writers of the south. Then there is our own Thomas Nelson Page, whose "Red Rock" has awakened the conservative people of the north, and they declare with some signs of repentance that they did not know; they did not dream that the 6outh was so shamefully and cruelly harrassed in reconstruction days. May be they will apologize before long. Yes, wo are .rising up again to the front, and will yet fulfill Albion Tour gee's prediction, for be says in his "Fool's Errand," "the eouth controll ed and dominated the national govern ment for fifty years, and if our people continue to worship money as their God, the south will before another half century control and dominato it again. " The north, like Haman, sees Mordecai sitting at the gate, and is unhappy, and now her only hope is that there is a nJgger in the woodpile who will somo day break out and drench our land with blood. Let the I north beware and let us alone, for Haraan was hanged on the gallows he uilt for Mordecai. We do not fear the negro, for though he is a political fool, he is yet our friend. But I must be amiable today, for it a the seventy-third anniversary of my k . A. W " " J mm " 4. .till kisses and a hundred good wishes, and tlan there are more to come. My vcife I Lev, Prevalent In the Past, bu Athletics. The new woman is so much of an outdoor woman that she is rarely the victim of the complaint to which wom en of a less energetic age were sub ject. Yet "house nerves" used to be a specific complaint recognized. by doc tors. Its victims were always women. Never was a man known to suffer from the ailment. Only the women who stayed at home felt the effects of it, which came wholly from lack of sufficient enjoyment of out-of-door life. The amount of time which women sometimes spend indoors astonishes them when the hours are estimated by a physician. The results of the dis order were usually a depression and nervousness, which manifested them selves quite as other nervous ailments do. It was surprising how frequently young women complained of these dis comforts, although the majority of the sufferers was made up of old women. "House nerves are a thing of the past now," said a physician the other day; "'the exact opposite is the trouble now, even if it has not yet received a name. Street nerves would, I suppose, be the right thing to call it. The only wom en who have 'house nerves' nowadays are the kind that cannot, get out of the house much because they are either ill or old. I have never seen anything to equal the desire of women to be constantly on the go. I see young girls on Fifth avenue when I am paying my calls who are to be found there with such regularity that half their time must be spent in the streets. I qon't know when they are ever at home. It is not enough that they go out immediately after breakfast, and again after lunch start on a round of visits or shopping or something that keeps them until nearly 7. They mu3t go out again immediately after din ner, if not to the theater, to some substitute for it. That is the daily course of most young women I know, as well as of a number who are not so young who are at least old enough to find some comfort in their homes. But the whole tendency of their lives is to get out of the house as soon as they can in the morning and stay out until the last moment. Maybe this ia only a passing tendency among wom en, likely to continue no longer than the conditions which created 'house nerves.' Perhaps the new state of ai- iairs is oeiier, aunougn l am not so sure of It. The fact is that one is aa unnatural as the other was. Both are too excessive to be advantageous. The 'house nerve epidemic did not continue so long as this one. Women are said to be stronger to-day and generally healthier than they ever were. So I suppose the now disorder has a bet ter effect on their constitutions in ths long run than the old one did. WOMEN AND MORPHINE USAGE I nc res sins PrevlAOce of the Norton Habit. The use of narcotics is sro: alarmingly frequent among the rest less, nervous members of the gentkr sex. "The amount of morphine us-a by women i increasing at an aiarit lng rate," said a physician. "1 do not give the drug at all, save in extrfUM cases, for I believe we doctors ar largely responsible for the spread Ct the evil. It seems such an easy, mer ciful thing to relieve acute suffering by a dose of morphine, and It would I all right if the patients couldn't get the drug themselves. They can gt-t it. There's the trouble. 1 was called to see one of my patients last wxk She is a wealthy woman. She devel oped the morphine habit two years ago, when she had a serious nines. Since then she has had periodical sprees with morphine, in spite of all w could do to prevent her. She always says that the. deplorable state she f,-ts into "m due to other causes; but I can tell as soon as I see her whether sh has been taking morphine. Last week, when I went to see her. she waa & nervous wreck and said she had bc u agonizing with rheumatism. Rheuma tism is a handy thing. A doctor can't swear that a patient hasn't got It. 1 accused the woman of having hen on a morphine spree. She denied it. I appealed to her husband, lit searched her bureau and chiffonier and found 200 morphine pills. She haa bought them all at one time, but wouldn't tell who sold them to her. Or course there's a law against selling morphine except on a prescription, but a morphine fiend can always get it il he is persistent, and generally he is Any physician can tell a habitual mor phine taker at a glance. So can a druggist. The latter reads the unmis takable signs in a man's face, and if I hasn't a conscience will sell the mor phine victim what he wants. Th druggist knows that the purchaser will guard the secret quite as closely as he could. But if a person with no symp toms of the morphine habit wants u buy the drug he will probably fra great difficulty in getting it. No phar macist, even if not particularly reputa ble, wants to tiike the chances of be:t hauled ui for :i breach of thtv 1? -. Tin- rnf.nn-r in v. I. 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