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BILL ARP,
Lat night I read to my family por
tion of a long article' by a preacher
describing the sad condition of a peo
ple fte has recently visited. Out of one
hundred and sixty-eight-towns in the
Stat he visited seventy of them that
arc off from the railroads, and all of
tjj-.eC have decreased in population
sicr 1890. None of these towns have
settled pastors or preachers and the
lb urch es are abandoned , or have
nrflachins at irregular Intervals 'and. the
attendance hardly ever exceeds twenty
is vc persons. The Sabbath schools are
equally deserted. Tne once busy plants
of small industries are dead and the
per-pTe farm only for the bare necessi
ty of life. Houses, .barns and fences
arc going to decay and the little mills
tbai were on the creeks have tumbled
down and the damsJhave washed away.
Here, and there you' will see a stately
mansion sheltering some degenerate
family in the back; rooms while the
vacant front greets you with the silence
of the. tomb. Sometimes you will find
as old man and woman alone in-an
old ancestral home. I found a mother
and her two sons and two old maids
in one house not one of whom could
read. The intermarriage, of near rela
tives or not marrying at all is common
and bachelor and divorced men and
vodowers have housekeepers and they
unHusMngly cohabit with them and
Voung girls become grass widows by
the tim they are sixteen. . '
"Whqre is all this?" . said my wife.
lil don't believe a word of it. It is some
newspaper lie -a fake made up by
'some reporter.'' I read on. In one town
I found the usual Saturday night dance
jroing on in an old vacated tavern and
tbey danced and (levelled and drank
until. Sunday morning. Sunday is uo
more observed than it is in Chicago,
for they hoe and dig and gather hay
.'all the same as on week days. Illiter
acy, insanity and imbecility are very
marked! I found one family in which
brsth parents were idiots and had raised
rp a family of idiots. In another home
or house I found a poor father taking
care" of three motherless children, all
idiots.
I .don't believe a word of it," said
m? wife. "There is bo such people in
ibis country. What paper are you read-
in?: from?"
One can hardly conceive of the filth
and vice reigning in these country
places called homesa barbarism dif
fering from the city slums only in its
stagnant inertia and touched as little
I by 'church influences as if in the heart
lot Africa. The country people all over
I the State are generally without ambi
linn, improvident: ignorant, not able
to read or write, loose in their family
relations, socially corrupt, given to
f drink, and some to the opium habit.
I And these are the towns where, half a
f'cenivTY ago. lived the best families or
f ine Stat. Among them the Fields
(Cyrus and his brother), the Abbotts,
Itbe Barnes and Donald G. Mitchell and
others. '
I And now let me tell you. my dear
I wife, I am reading from The Hartford
Times and this is only a short portion
I of the report read in New Haven re-
eentlv bv Rev. Mr. Hutchins. a Bible
colporteur, of Connecticut..
This report is fully accredited to be
true and the editor of The Times tries
to tone-it down' by saying, "The sam6
coDditioas described by Mr. Hutchln
for Connecticut are common -to all the
older States." Rev. Oeorge-Horr, of
Massachusetts, is also a Bible colpor
teur foi" that Stte and he.jBaid in Boa
ton the other day, I have driven all
tjver New England with my own hprser
and my conviction is there is no 4m
morality in any westejpjrminlng tbwn
that will compare with what you find
few miles from any. New England
town. Mr. Hutchins observation cor
responds exactly with my own."
Good friends, kind friends, wnat is
to be done about this. But the editor
of The Times is maataken when he
ayK the same conditions are common
to all the older States. We have no
sbuch people in Georgia. In some of
our mountain counties the; people are
illiterate, but they : are honest and
moral and attend church and observe
the marriage relation and obey ... the
laws of the land and make the best
soldiers the world ever saw. They have
courts twice a year, and it takes only
a half a week to clear the criminal
.-dockets.
Now, I was thinking that as Boston
tand Hartford and New Haven had sent
a big lot of money down here to edu
cate and reform our negroes it would
"be nothing but fair for us to send a lot
of the graduates up there to do mis
sionary work in Connecticut, and Mas
sachusetts. These . negro graduates
couldn't teach them the lost art -of
making wooden nutmegs, but they
ould teach school and preach and the
"New England people could pay them
lor it and keep their money at home.
Something must be done and done
quick, or the old Puritan race will be
come extinct. . I reckon these colored
graduates would make? good mission
aries. They have never tried anything
elese. ,V'-' ;';: ::v".vr : -r'Vh
When my good friend Mr. T.- K.
Oglesby sent me his - book, . "Some
Truths of History The South, Vindi
cated I was too sick to peruse it
carefully. Since I, have gotten better I
have reread it every page and - am
free to say it is the most comforting
little book Ot, 260. pages I have yet
found.; It is masterly and as true and
solid as a stone' wall., He has certainly
vindicated the: South and nailed i the
lies and slanders to the masthead, i
feel like I have a defender in mine own
household, and yet there is not a ma
lignant expression in iU It is gracefully
done and wohld bring conviction to any
mind, North or South; that was open
to conviction." Every youth in the land
should buy a copy and absorb its con-
tents, for it is as readable as a ro
mance. I regard it as the best contribu
tion to Southern historical literature
that has yet appeared; Send $1.25 to
Mr. Oglesby, No. 8 South Broad street,
Atlanta, Ga. It seems to me that this
book would convert a Northern fanatic
and lit It - converted only- one it would
save a soul from deatfr and hide a mul
titude of : sins. And there has recently
come to, me the, March number of The
Alkanest, a first-class Southern maga
zine, and I find in it a very remark
able article, "The Stages of Civiliza
tion," by Mr. Frank Orme, of Atlanta.
did not think that the Frank Orme
I used to know was old enougn to have
written an , article so . scientific, so
philosophical, so Huxleylike on the ra
ces of mankind. ; Most of the article Is
an analytical history of the principal
races and the causes that contributed
to their advancament or their decay.
The latter' part deals gently and fair
ly with the, negro and our J efforts to
elevate and refine him by education.
From- Mr. Orme's viewpoint and the
laws of ethnology and biology . this
cannot be done and the effort will be
in vain. But I have not time or space
to review his admirable treatise. Let
our thoughtful men, our wise men, our
learned professors in the college read
It. and they will find abundant food
for thought and serious reflection. Mr.
Orme seems as familiar with enthno
logy, biology, anthropology," sociology
and all the other ologies as Huxley or
Humboldt or Darwin. We 'old - veterans
are pleased to see our young men tak
ing hold of these things. Ever since, the
war our people have seemed almost
paralyzed for fear of making their con
dition more intolerable by talking but
of late there is a renewal of independ
ence and younger men are coming to
the front. The sale of Henry R. Jack-.
son's great speech on "The Wanderer"
has exceeded my expectations and it
was .a young man who projected that--not
for money but for the diffusion of
knowledge.
And here is a long article in a Des
Moines paper from a woman who has
been recently traveling through Texas
hunting 'for something she wanted to
find and she found it. It was some very
high weeds in the front yard of one
home and at another house was a wo
man sitting on a log dipping snuff and
she had lost all her front teeth. An
other discovery was that Texas women
don't do anything. They won't work
the gardenbr raise chickens or churn
the butter and if one was caught at it
she would be taken up and put in a
glass case fend sent to the St. Louis
fair as a curiosity. What a malignant
slanderer fehe is. She winds up by say
ing that the people there' hate the
negro so bad that if the whole race
had but one neck they would chop it
Off. I know Texas from east to west
and north to south and the people will
average well with the better class in
the older States. When will these slan
ders cease? The March number of The
Review of Reviews has a most excel
lent editorial on the South- and her
people. It is kind - and considerate
until it gets to Roosevelt and it gives
him the most f alsome praise and de
clares that he is our friend. But I want
Mr. Shaw to tell me if he can about
when will Roosevelt retract his pub
lished slanders of Jefferson Davis and
make an apology to his wodlw. That's
what I want to know and until he does
that no words of praise , will prove him
fa be either a gentleman or a friend.
Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. ?
Senator Hoar; told a joke in the
Supreme Court. ' !
The Senator was arguing a case.
He said ; a point raised ' i eminded him
of the man who was arrested for steal
ing forty cowbells. The man said he
didn't steal the cowbells. That the,
were in the - barn and somehow the
cows got them on (heir necks.
"That might do' for one cowbell,"
said the judge, "but no forty cows
in creation acquire a taste for music
at the same tim."
The Supreme Court smiled : grimly.
Senator Hoar chuckled audibly. The
marshal of" the court wouldn't let the
spectators do anything. New Yorfi
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feet apart, other rods were run to
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