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14 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1907. IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD What the Church Folk Are Thinking About arid Doing—Religious News From Everywhere MOUNTAINEERS AND GOSPEL By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. Our American highlanders occupy an area 600 miles long by 200 wide In the mountain region ot eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee and adjacent states. This belated population Is from thirty to forty years behind the time In many sections. Having no navigable streams and only a few railroads, they arc shut off from the world by the geographical location of their mountain homes. They are not foreigners, but blood brothers of us all. Always have they stood by the Union. In their veins mingle heroic qualities of Scotch Pres byterian and French Huguenot ances try. In all our wars they have shed their blood for the right. The men who planted civilization west of the Alleghenies were mostly Virginians, belonging either to the gen try or to the sturdy Scotch-Irlsh or English yeomanry who worked their own plantations. Of this latter class wits the body of immigrants. Including about thirty men, whom James Robert son led over the mountain In 1770 to form the first civilized settlement. They settled on the Watauga and built com fortable log houses. They had a few books, among them the Bible, Wutts' hymns, the spelling book and Pilgrim's Progress. They were so generally edu cated that In 1776 only two In about 200 were unable to write their names. They were shut oft from the civilized world by the high mountains, and were surrounded on every other side by thousands of Indluns. The Indians who made this region their hunting ground AN OUTCAST—A PRINCE; THE CHILDHOOD OF MOSES By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. After reading that depressing book, "The House of Mirth," with its keen studies of conditions in so-called "society," ono struck by the fact that there is no place for a child In that society. Thero la no prattle of baby voices In the book, no love- llght In mothers* eyes, none of the pride of parenthood on the part of the men. Only In the last chapter, as the story draws to Its miserable close, docs a babe appear, and then os The child of the wife of a poor worklngmnn: and the reader sees that, after nuiniiijjiuiiui .mu iul ivnuci o«n all the brilliance and pomp and luxury of the life depicted In the book, it is the hum* Life is not normal except In the midst." That is why so many little children smile from the pages of the old Hook which Is tbo best mirror of life. That, too. Is ono of tho reasons for the perennial charm of this volume to young and old alike. A certain little toddler of 3 was wont ' tarn* „ What shall we read today?" "Read about Moses. 1 And It Is the child Moses that 25,000,000 members of the Sunday schools of the world will read and study this week. A Mother's Subterfuge. Kings cannot successfully legislate against human nature; the Pharaoh who, fearful of the Increase of the Israelites, ordered that all new horn male Infants be destroyed, was undertaking a project beyond the power of royalty and Its forces to execute. All the Ingenuity of a shrewd people would be brought Into play to block his design. Mother lore Is not s light thing, to be over* come hy any potentate’s will. The lengths to which It will go to protect Its own pass the belief of mortal. Several times during the present Chinese famine mothers siit ns a i well content ired 1 —_ l*e well with their offspring. When to a son and daughter of tho tribe were the Shawnees, Creeks, Cherokeea, I Choctaw* and Chickasaw a. The set- - w - n> 50,11 * -***-7 . the “other tiers held their ground for five or six years, till they numbered 200 riflemen, so guarding the mountain passes that not a tomahawk reached the homes of Eastern Carolina. Their own cabins were burned, they suffered many losses, but were the immovable rear-guard of the Revolution. By 1778, a tide be gan to set In from North Carolina, of an element evidently including some descendants of the Indentured servants who had been imported to work the plantations, and some of the descend ants of the criminal class that had es caped from Justice. When the cotton gin was Invented In 1792, and cotton lands became more valuable, many small planters sold out and betook themselves to the mountains. It has been said that “the present condition of these people Is directly traceable to slavery; for In making the slave the planter's blacksmith, carpenter, wheel wright and man of all work, slavery shut every avenue of honest employ ment against the working white man and drove him to the mountains or bar ren sand hills/ When the Civir'war closed physical starvation was near at hand. Today mental starvation Is upon them. The ancestors of these kindly people were careless of education, moving to remote places, neglecting to build, and unable to build, their llarvards, Yales, Mount Holyokes and otl|r schools such os were building elsewhere In the South and throughout the North. As the generations passed the Importance of education grew more and more re mote until It was lost from their thought and vision. ",BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY" HAVE BURNETT HANG YOUR WALL PAPER 12 E. Hunter. Bell 3535, At. 3534. Q» and WHISKEY HABIT* cured at home will* out pain. Book of pan tlculara sent I'BEA .0. M. WOOLLEY, M. IX a. Office 104 N. Pryor S‘resi» CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAV*. Acrlr. From — Ravannah .... 7.06zm Jacksonville . 7.to zm Macon .ll.io am Bacon 4.15 pm Depart To- Macon 11.40 pm Macon AN za Macon 4.00 pm &.30 pm Uacon 8.10 pm Savannah 6.15 pm CONCAVED, N0IE0 AND REPAIRED. Called for and delivered. HEALEY BAI.BERS’ SUPPLY CO. Both Phones—No. 1 N. Forsyth 8L nil rt u a iiuiu u t/uuv inij, ... that ho was a goodly child—as If any baby Is ever aught else In the ey»* of Its mother. Ono Ann conviction every mother since Bve has cherished In her heart, namely, that her child Is not Uko other children. And what dream castles these mothers build! Alas, that children should so seldom put the foundations of actuality under them! Hid the mother of Moses dream of a deliverer for her oppressed people? Every little life. It has been said. Is n scaled casket, which may contain pre cious Jewels; possibly the jewel of great price for which the world Is waiting. The inlnd delights to dwell upon this fasci nating theme of the possibilities of child hood; we know of a certainty that tomor row’s great man Is somewhere a boy to day; ho may be the boy nearest you, so treat him wisely. Along with every other mother tbrot*;h out the centuries, the mother of Moses be lleved that her lx>y wns worth saving. There Is never a boy or a man allowed to go down In the maelstrom of life concern- explanation—volunteering to secure a nurse for tbo babe, and calling, of course, tho mother, who, In a sort of grim Joke on Pharaoh, drew wages from his household for nurturing her own babe, whom be had sought to stay. Thus tho cruel ruler was circumvented, and the shaping of tbo child’s early Ideals lay with her who would rear him as a child of Jehovah, and os a patriot Hebrew. Although sho knew nothing of the FEW SENTENCE SERMONS of childhood directs tho coarm of life. Mow. would later grow up am] bo called the son of tho Egyptian princess; but In heart he would remain a Hebrew ami loyal to tho teachlugu of .his Lertto mother. A Patriot’, Blow. A tragic cplsodo In Moecs' life, ns he drew on to maturity, demonstrated that ho was truo to tho patriotic tcachlngi of bla mother. A life spent amid tbo splendor, of sn Egyptian palace could not inure him to Injustice; ns ho looked upon tho burdens °f Ms brethren his soul rose In rebellion within him; that man Is no patriot, what- ever his nation, who can look unmoved npon the suffering* of his frllow-cltlacns. l.vcry citizen must be willing to make com. mon cause with all cltiscns In securing tho welfare of the whole body of citizenship. In the hot blood of youth, when Moses saw sn Kgyptlaa smiting t Hebrew, all his and he killed tho oppresaor. Bo the Justifiable or unjustifiable, It proved that Moses was no mere lachrymose, milk-and- water, drawing-room sentimentalist, but a red-blooded rigorous man. an eh aa are tho hope of mankind In remedying tho wrongs of,tho world. The msn who Is afraid to •trike a blow for right and justice, lest he Injure his own self-interest. Is of small use msiy oioses was mane to drlok the hit- up of Ingratitude which every reformer ■ taste. On tho day after the slaying h« Kgyptlsn he tried to arbitrate a . ret between two Hebrews, for he then was feeling keenly the need for the solld- The best reward for having wrought well already Is to have more to do.— Charles Kingsley. To make habitually a now estimate— that is elevation.—Emerson. Lot us hopo that to our pralso Good God not only reckons The moments when wo tread hts ways, But when tho Spirit beckons— That some slight good Is also wrought Beyond self-satisfaction. When wo oro simply good In thought Howe'er wo fail in action. —Lowell. Seek not to have things happen as you chooso them, but rather cliooso them to happen as they do. and so shall you live prosperously.—Epictetus. Who keeps one end In view makes oil things sure.—Browning. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again. The eternal years of God are hers. —Bryant. Tho weariness and sadness of life come from persistently closing our eyes to Its greatness.—Lucy Larcom. nrlty of his people. But these disputants. In most modern fashion, eared more for tho petty nffalra of their own little world than for tbo n>moon welfare, so they turn ed upon Moses-with Ingratitude and re- praaehea, charging him with ths murder of tho Egyptian. I'anlr-stricken by the knowl edge that his crime was known, e.en to GENERALS OF LOST CAUSE GROW FEWER EACH YEAR > every trne woman's henrt lyvc- And shrewd plan for savins her child. She pre pared a little boat r' —• carefully water-nroot_ .. Into this she tenderly laid her well-wrapped bshe,* christening the frail craft with her tears, and. breathing prayers to the Pro tector of Israel, she launched the ark among the bulrushes along the bank of the Nile. The Princess and the Waif. The mother of Moses was not a brilliant court lady; she did not know the ways of rtie world; but, what was far more impor tant. she understood human nature. That Is why so many old-fnnhloned mothers and wives are wiser In the deep things of life than their worldly-wise sons and husbands. Moses was oot plant! In tho water at ~a haphazard time or place; hls mother waa co operating with Providence to tho fall ex tent of her power. 8be knew when and where the Egyptian princess bathed; she knew the young woman's character; and she knew that to * " ‘ the appeal of slat! hie. Thus the dear old romance dJd not simply happen;" when the princess came down to the river to bathe, surrounded by her msldens, she could not fall to see the * wrought craft and Its tiny burden. when the babe wept, making the mot. quont of arguments straight to her heart, she "had compassion" upon him. Of course, site was a woman, and every woman looks twice at every babe she meets. Iset that babe lie lost or In difficulty on the city street and see how quickly a crowd of solicitous women gather. Fortunately, this tender-hearted Egyptian ..jaldon had the power to make effective her compassion, she ordered tho little one taken up and cared for upon her responsi bility—such Is the Messed privilege or abil ity. The greatness of the service rendered to God ami humanity the princess never dreamed; but it Is always great to minister in any wise to little chlldrcu. A Scheme That Succeeded, Apparently every contingency had been provided for by tho love-sharpened brain of the babe's mother. On guard over the unique cradle gently rocking on the softly lapping waters, was placed Miriam, tho older slater of Moses—tho first appearance In literature of the faithful older slater caring for the younger brother, aa has been the custom of older sisters since bistoij bo om. Must we not count Miriam a suarer In the greatness that later came to Moses? Is no* — ‘ “ life Bwcca? The plan of the anxious find iJ.irlng moth er worked perfectly. With tho greatest good-will In the world toward her newly as- The officers of the Confederacy are pass ing away with the years, and when another decado has gone many of those now surviv ing will follow the great Gordon, whoso monument on the cspltol grounds Is unveil ed Saturday. The list of general' officers sent by # Georgia In the great struggle shows but few who can still answer the roll call. The others have joined "the bivouac of the dead." ‘Through the courtesy of Telamon Cuyler, formerly of Atlanta but now of New York, The Georgian Is able to present In this Is sue a complete list of the general officers fnrnlshed to the Confederacy by Georgia. It Is remarkable that oat of fifty-two general officers from Georgia, only seven snnrlve, and all of them bear tbo rank of brigadier general. They are William IL Boggs, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Alfred Camming. Augusta, Ga.; Clement A. Evans, Atlanta, Ga.; George P. Harrison, Opelika, Ala.; Alfred Iverson, Kissimmee, Pis.; Wil burn II. King, Sulphur Springs, Tex.; B. P. Alexander, "Tho Dunes," South . Island, S. C. Georgia came next to Virginia in the number of general officers furnished the Confederacy. Virginia had seventy-nine, Georgia fifty-two, Tennessee forty-four, Texas forty, etc. In all there were 431 general officer* (luring tho period of war. All of the "full" generals are dead; only three of the nineteen lieutenant genera la survive; only eight of the oighty-one major generals are still living, and only fifty-two °fthe 3C5 brigadier generals survive. The complete roster of Georgia's gen eral officers, as complied by Mr. Cuyler. Is as follows: Tho date following the name Indicates time commissioned with rank named: Lieutenant Generals. William J. Ilardco, October 10> 102; died it Wythovllle, Va., November 6, 1871 (ma jor general October T, 1861; brigadier gen eral June 17, 1361). Major Generals. Howell Cobb, September % 1863; died October 9, 1SCS (brigadier general Febru ary 13, 1862). ' John B. Gordon, May 14, 1864; died Jan uary 9, 1904 (brigadier general May 7, David It. Jones, October 11, 1862; died January 19, 1SG3 (brigadier general Juno 17, 5 'jjfayetto lfcLaws, May 23, 1862; died July 22. 1897 (brigadier general Septem ber 25, 1861), Davfd B. Twiggs. Mar 23, 1SS1; died Jill, 15, U83 (brigadier renernlln 1861). William If. T. Walker. Mar 53, 1863; killed near Atlanta July 22, 1861 (brigadier general May 25. 1SC1). . Joseph Wheeler, January 29, 1863; died January 25 1906 (brigadier general Octo- Wright. NotcmVr J8, 1SC4: died Pc,‘ember a, 1673 (brigadier general June ^P. H.' IL Young, December 30, 1861; died Jolr 6. 1696 (brigadier federal September Brigadier Generals. H. P. Alexander, February 88, 1864. George tp Anderson, Korember J, 1563; died April { 1961. Robert IL Anderson, July 16, 1861; died February L 1886, Francis H. Bartow, July —, 1S61: killed at Bull Run July -, lS8i; Henry L. Denning, January 17, 1863; died JYIjllnm n. Boggs, November 4. 1862. William M. Brown, December 1664; died —; 1884. Goode Bryan. August B, 1863; died Thomas ft. It JIjobb. September I, 1663; died March 26, 1894. ^Philip Cook, August 5, 1864; died May S3, Alfred Cummins,* October 39, 1*63. George Itolea. November 1. 1863; killed at Be them, church. May JO, 1861. Dudley M DnBoee, November 16, 1664; died —, 1881 ‘ leraent A. Evans. May 19. 1864. William M. Gardner, November 14, 1861; died at Memphis, Tenn., June 10, 1901. * . . ■— (njpmt 33, 1864; died at Itlaota. Ga.. April 7. 1891. Victor J. B. Glrardey, July 39, 1*61; kill- d1 at rotersbnrg, Va.. August 1864. George P. Harrison, Jr., February —, 1865. Alfred Iverson, Jr. November 1, 1SC3; died March 4, 1613. Henry IL Jsekson, Juno 4. 1861; died February 37, 1866. Alexander a Lewton, April 13, 1861; died July 1 1896. John K. Jackson, February 14, 1863; died February 37, 1866. Alexander It. Lawton, April 13, 1861; died July 1, 1896. IMA _ James P. Simms, November 8, 1861. William D. Smith, March 7, 1862. O. Moxley Sorrel, October 27, 1864; died August 10. 1901. Isaac M. St. John, February 16, 1665; died April 7, 1680. , t Marcel I ua A. Stovall, January 20, ISO. Edward L. Thomas, Novoml»er 1, ivy. Robert Toombs, July 19, 1881; died D» comber 15, 18S5. D. Tracey, August 1C, 102; killed at Port Gibson. Mias., May 1, 1353. Henry C. Wayne, December 14, is$l; died March 15, 1883. Claudius C. Wilson. November 1C, 1853; died November 21, 18G3. W, T, Wofford, January 17, 1863. TEETH EXTRACTED positively without pain, 60c tNttW T not buy hot PHILADELPHIA DENTAL ROOMS, No. M Whitehall 8t. In, 60c each. Heat Money can Premature Grayness Is ths fata of many a young face. Imperial Hair Regenerator. Is the only harmless preparation known which when applied can not h< detected, Is unaffected by baths or shampooing; penults curling, ltcatorca llulr to Its Nat ural Color. Sample of hair col* ored free. Frlracy assured corro- spondgnea, (■pBrial Ckta. Me. U, 135W.234SL, IT. Sold by Jacobs’ Pharmacy, Atlanta, Ga*