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n r THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. bstu-rday. jttnb a. isor. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon, (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At B West A tabs ran St, Atlanta. Os. Subscription Rates: <?n# Tesr ItM »* Months *M Throe Months I * By Carrier. Per Week Entered at the Atlanta Poriofflce as seronit-elaaa mall mntter. Telephones connecting ell depart- meiita. I Lone distance terminals. Smith A Them peon, adrertlslne rep- rasentatlvea for all tarrltory ontslda of ..Tribun* Bntldln* Naw York office Potter ftalldlng • sliUIUJi AN Arm JVKWB tfippmm* the rtrruUtlOB deportment nnd hart It promptly remedied. Telephone*! Heir 4927 mite, Atlanta 4401. It la detlrable that all comraunlea. flona Intendetl for publication In THH GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to 900 worda In length. It la Imperative that they be algned. aa an evidence of good faith. Rejected mannacrlpta will not be returned nnlree etaropa are eeot for the purpose. or any liquor ada. •a It uow owns Ita water work*. Other cftlea do this and get gaa na Tow aa 60 eenta. with a profit to the eltv. Thta •hould be done at once. The Georgian and News believe* that If street rail* way* can be operated eueceaifully b* European dUea, aa they are. there ... __ SUI1 Atlanta abgaM act It# free In that direction Persons leaving the city can have The Georgian and News mailed to them regularly by send ing their order to The Georgian Office. Changes of address will be made as often as desired. The Foes of the White Plague. The general committee on Preven tion of Tuberculosis meets on this Sat urday evening, Jana 23, at 7:45 p. tn. at the Carnegie library. To this meeting all who are Inter ested In the general subject of fight ing the Great White Plague are cor dially Invited to come. At tho National Kdltorlal conven tion recently held at Jamestown tho fight against tuberculosis waa set down an one of the three groat prob lems which concern the American people at the present time. However apathetic and Indllforcnt we may be in pur own personal and present exemp tion from this dread dlnegns In our own famlllea and among our own friends, thoughtful men and women throughout the country are coming to view Its ravages with Increasing alarm and to realise more and more the absolute necessity for genoral and or ganized Interest In Its prevention and cure. The recent sessions of two great conventions, tho one held at Washington and the other at Atlantic City for the prevention of tubercu losis, have enlisted the widest com ment from the metropolitan newspa- pera and the various press ser vices throughout the country. We shall bo sorry some day in Geor gia If we fall to give a little of our time and attention to the consldera tlon of this great queatlon. There are some very earnest and In ■)ieaUal gentlemen who have thl9 matter In band and who will be pres ent at the meeting tonight to explain and to Instruct those who are Interest ed In the line'of usefulness In this great causa. We trust that the appeal will not be In vain and that the attendance will fully vindicate the appreciation which our thoughtful people feel for a really serious If general emergeucy. Pointed Paragraphs. Cs»«M eSwno eq.i moij) Stir-confessed Ignorance often Indi cates wisdom. i Most peoplt who are stuck up are nothing but sticks. Beware of the men who apologises When he docs you a favor. Ikeme nice stria wouldn’t be half as Bice If they were sensible. If It wn.nU for the unexpected life would be awfully monotonous. Matrimonially speaking, where there ia a will there’s usually a won't. Limn sharks are snslmia to meet poo. pie who want to borrow trouble. Soma people refuse to put their hest foot forward more than nn Inch. U doesn't matter how cheap a thing |i If you have no earthly use for It. The early bird catches the worm—If the early fisherman doean't heat him to It. The man who marries nn orphan can't blame Ills troubles on Ms wife's mother. It's easier for a girl to forgive a young man for kissing her thon for not doing It. k Many a good woman thinks she has ■Hsch;,rK,-d h,*r duty to her husband In- fpraying for him. A man likes to he told that he is In l*s prime, but u woman always thinks THE “ERA OF GOOD FEELING.” Mr. William J. Bryan has been making some very significant remarka In a recent interview given to The St Louis Post-Dispatch. . They evidence anew the largeness of his mind, and the falmeai of his temper. In speaking of the survival of the American republic, Mr. Bryan said: "Onr national Ideala are greater than our differences and dis agreements . . . The strength of a nation, like the strength of a man, Is to be measured by Its Ideals, Jts qonvlctloni, 1U principles, upon which a people can unite." Of much more Immediate significance If the language uied by the Nebraskan In describing hie own growing disinclination to the making of partisan epeecbei. “Now and then I have made a speech which I considered Democratic doctrine to the core; and then our president has como along right afterwards and made one exactly like It, knocking all the partieanehlp out of mine. I am not lorry for this. It I* a great and Inaplring alght when two great political parties like ours get together In friendship and harmony.’’ Murk you. this Is from the Idol and evangel of our latter day Democ racy—tho leader twice preferred who la still so omnipotent and omnipres ent that no other figure presumes to loom within the horizon of his per gonal prestige and popularity. It would be difficult to compose a more appropriate exordium than this for an argument In favor of the "Era of Good Feeling,” or even for the nomination which was suggested to Mr. Bryan at Chattanooga. It la very natural that The Post-Dispatch In editorial comment should ask: “Has the new era of good feeling eloquently advocated by John Temple Graves In Tho Poat-Dlspatch really come? Following his suggestion that Mr. Bryan nominate Theodoro Roosevelt as tho Democratic candidate for the presidency, Mr. Graves fervently urged that the progressive elements of both the Democratic and Republican parties unite In nominating Mr. Roosevelt on the par amount Issue—the restraint of predatory wealth. On this quea tlon Mr. Grave* regarded Mr. Roosevelt as a representative Democrat, who. through his fight against corporation abuses In the courts and the congress, had made tho Issuo paramount and had Identified it with his leadership. He suggested another era of good feeling for the settlement of all questions growing out of the abuse of corporate power, wealth and Influence. “Mr. Bryan’s remarks on the subject are In harmony with the contral thought of Mr. Graves’ plea. He evidently does not con sider the mosses of the parties far apart. He looks upon Theo doro Roosevelt ns a good Democrat In the main—almost as good ss.himself. "But doubtless Mr. Bryan differs with Mr. Graves on the question of the leader of the good feeling campaign. He prob ably thinks that the man to lead the fight of Democracy against plutocracy Is the Democratic leader and not the Republican trailer. There's tho rub. ‘The masses of both parties are practically united on the main Issuo of tho people against the plunder bund. The Idea of making a political division of the country on the line between the plunderer! and the plundered, between the plain, honest people and the plutocratlo pirates, Is captivating. But can the party leaders be brought together? Can the party generals, captains and Ilcutonunts be persuaded to sink the love of power and the uppotlte for spoils lu the fervor of patriotism?" Tho Era of Good Feeling conceded, the question of a leader Is merely one of plain common sense. Every Democrat would, of course, prefer tho Great Commoner who has marched at the real head of our three campaigns. But simple common sense would suggest that the party de feated, divided and disheartened, could not expect to furnish the leader rather than a party triumphant and already In power. Nor could common sense euggost that a loader untried, untrained and Inoxperlenced should be chosen above the militant and victorious general who was already fighting and winning In thq great cause which Is moving the people to unity and co-operation. The Georgian believes that In bis heart Mr. Bryan approves the sug gestion of an Era of Good Feeling, and that only the shadow of an Im aginary third term peril holds him from saying so. THE CRISIS IN ATLANTA’S WATER SUPPLY. It may not be generally realized, but Atlanta Is at this time face to face with a very serious crisis In the vital matter of Its water supply. ' For several days past we have boon drinking water that Is no longer clear. Every day It Is growing a little moro muddy. Within a fortnight It Is likely to be very much of a part tn color and quality with the water of the rlirgr from whfch It cornea. Mftrcoror, thoro are In the water basins some forty acres of practi cally stagnant water Into which Is poured no other stream fresh from the source of supply. The cause of this situation Is the Insufficiency of the slnglo pipe which runs from the pumping station to the reservoir and which going night and day finds It Impossible to keep the reservoir at Its normal level. Consequently the water comes to tho city skipping one of the basin flltcrcrs and therefore before It has time to lose much of 1U color and Impurity. Now these conditions make a menace so serious to tha health of the city that It scarcely noeda to he presented to a sensible people. Wo are approaching tho sultry and unsalutary portion of the sum mer. In two of our nclghlioriog cities there Is already an eplderoio of typhoid raging as a result of an Impure nod Imperfect water supply. The Uoorglnn has no desire to he sensational, but It la simply a mat ter ot serious tact to say that unloss our present conditions are speedily and vigorously remedied, we, too, may outer upon an unhealthy summer- Certainly upon no ono thing does the health of this community ao Inti, nmtely and vitally depend as upon the purity and the sufficiency of 11a public water supply. The Georgian urges Immediate and vigorous action by the city coun cil and the water works department In this matter. Experts assure us that tho Immediate remedy Is to run no immediate additional pipe from the pumping station to the reservoir, and rather than wait the long tlmo that it will take to run this additional pipe the entire distance wo should find an almost immediate relief In running an additional pipe at least to the 150 foot rise at tha top of tho hill by means of which the larger supply can be forced Into the pipe already used and tha reservoir filled with more water than It at present contains. II the financial question he presented upon this suggestion. Tbs Gonrglan hss this to say: That bonds have already beon voted for the additions to the waterworks, the money from the bonds will be available In the fall, but the emergency Is so greet at this time, and the danger so threatening that we feci confident the city council will t>e Justified In using Immediately the necessary tax money which Is on hand from some other less critical department and restore this from the money coming In from tho bonds at nn early day. In behalf of tho people whose health and comfort and whose Uvea are Involved tn this suggestion, we urge upon tho city council an Immediate and emergency action In this Important matter. A REAL SOUTHERN MAGAZINE. The sccopd issue of Uncle Remus’s makes good tho promise of Its spon sors that It would Immediately reach the standard of the long establish ed big monthlies of the East. It Is a magazine of which the South may he proud, and one which la likely to appeal wtth peculiar force to the thoughtful and cultured everywhere because it Is typical of the South, and therefore typical of the best and truest Americanism. Elcsewbere In The Georgian and News today the magoxlno Is re viewed, and It Is uot our purpose to enter Into a consideration In detail of the Issue. But a glance down the table of contents reveals the fact that the editor, Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, is living up to the high Ideals of Ills announcement. He said In this foreword: ’’.The magazine will deal with the high Ideala toward which the best and ripest Southern thought Is directed; It will endeavor to encourage the cultivation of the rich field of poetry and romanco which, tn the Southern states, offers a constant In vltatlon to those who aspire to deal In Active literature. Itself Handing for the highest and best In life and literature, the magazine will endeavor to nourish the hopes and beliefs that ripen under the Influence of time, and that are constantly bearing fruit amongst the children ot men. , Tho magazine Is not Intended primarily, to inspire the South to take a larger and more serious inter est In literature, or to stir Its literary Impulses by offering a near-by mar ket where writers may receive the encouragement • of compensation. That Is to say. the magazine will not merely fill the Southern field, but It will have behind It u sufficient amount of capital to secure the best wri ters »*f lb- e,--,-,,--- Jnr-r>. By rpPtrlng the contributions of the best, so far aa they can be secured, the magazine will provide an Ideal standard of literary production In the South.” None can doubt that Mr. Harris has, in selecting his material for the magazine, chosen with merit as the only consideration. Therefore It Is particularly pleating to -us who are looking for oven greater achieve ments In literature from the South than were furnished In by-gone days, to observe such names as Don Marquis, Charles J. Bayne, Robert Love- man, Marie Bankhead Owen, C. Alphonso Smith, Clinton Dangerfleld. Lulu Judson Moody, Frank L. Stanston and Relna Melcher, not to men tlon “Uncle Romus” himself, as the leading contrlbi’tors to the July Issue of this magazine. The Sage of Snap-Bean Farm, Don Marquis, Charles J, Bayne, Frank L. Stanton and Relna Melcher are all Atlantans; Robert Loveman and Clinton Dangerfleld are Georgians, born and bred, and have won fame by their work done-in tho Shadow of tho Blue Ridge. Mrs. Owen and Mrs. Moody are Alabamans, and Dr. Smith, of the University of- North Carolina, is one ot the South’s most eminent scholars. The East Is, of course, represented in the magazine, by such writers as Charles G. D. Roberts, Carolyn Wells, Harold Bolce and Paul Tletjens, but It Is essentially a Southern magazine. So It was last month, and so ft will doubtless be In the future. It It can be the lot of Uncle Remus’s Magazine to add impetus to the literary movement in the South, to encourage the young to achieve ments which will repeat the fame won by Poe and Pinckney and Timrod and Lanier and Father Ryan, and in latter days by Cable and Page and Hopkinson Smith and Jpel Chandler Harris, It will be justified as worth far more than the vaat work and worry and trouble of establishing It It Is gratifying to note that a great Improvement baa been made la the typographical appearance of the magazine. Faulty press-work was the only criticism the most finicky could have found with the Initial num ber. The second number admits of none. THIS MATTER IS URGENT. The action of the water board and a special committee from council on Friday In accepting a bid for the new water main from the river to the reservoir, does not fill the Immediate and pressing need ot the hour. What the city council should do Is to use the tax money now on hand and go to work oh this extra pipe at once to save the city from a summer of epidemic and disease. Tbe action taken by the water board and the Committee has no more effect upon the Immediate situation than If It had been passed by a de bating club. The issue In this water matter Is urgent, pressing, mensc- Ing and dangerous. The city has authority to use the tax moneys for this pressing and Immediate service and has Its ample guarantee In the money for the bonds which will soon be on hand. The public Insists that there shsll be no quibbling In this matter, and that tbe pipe shall be bought at once and put lu without delay, and If the bond money Is not Immediately Available that the council shall pay the blit and let the bond money be reimbursed when It comes. WOMAN THE PRINCIPAL SUFFERER UNDER THE PRESENT CONDITION >••••••••••••• •! By MAX NORDAU. Womnn la the direct, Iromcdlnte victim of our modern view of matrimony. Man, aa naual, escapes very ettally—If lio does not have the nullity or courage to nssumo the responsibility of founding a family in tbe midst of a society which Is hostile end pi ratical, Instead of being kind and encour aging, as would be more natural, be remains unmnrrled. but without renouncing the full grAtlflrntlonof all his Instincts. lie has the tnclt permission of society to procure the plensures of woman's compan ionship when and where he can; It calls his selfish enjoyments successes mid sur- rounds them with a kind of rohmntic halo, so that the nralahle vice of a Don Junn nronses ft sentiment coinpofted of envy, sym* tain substnntlnl ndruntages he is allowed by custom to seek right and left the pleas ures which he doe* not find in tho society of his wife, or If this is not exactly al lowed It Is yet not considered n crime which should exclude him from Intercourse with reapactabla people. Quit# the reverse Is the caso where wom nn is concerned. By the present organism tlon of society «h« la compelled to look upon marriage a* the only possible refuge from disgrace, poverty nod even starvation. What la the lot ot the unmarried woman7 Her familiar appellation, old jnnld. con tains a scornful sting. Ilia aolldnrlty of the family does not extend usually Into the matures years of the children. >Ybeu tha parents die, tbe brothers and alatera sep arate, each one wishes to tread alone the V«fh of life, mid Ihe constant companion- •blit of the rest become* a burden. The girl who la too aeualtlve to wish to be 80 encumbrance to either brother or sister, especially If they are married* finds that she la nleuo In the world, far more solltnry than the Bedouin In his desert. Shall ahe found a house ot Uer owu? It for no masculine friend could alt dc„„ „ the fireplace without arousing the gossip of the neighborhood. Feminine friendships nre rnre and beyond a certain point un natural, and least of all tvould she Intro duce u sister In misfortune Into her home to ndd to Its melancholy and bitterness. Home wise being Is all ready with the ad vice: She need not concern herself about tho gossip of other women, hut let her as- eemble tue congenial friends around hor, whom she may. But with what right does this strong and Independent charncter ad vise a gentle, timid girl to renounce for Ufe thf saflsfactl on she obtains from the re- apect and appreciation of her equals, n Infection which appeals with effect to < tho strongest of us. A reputation la a substantial possession and the oplnloi. __ one's aoclnl equal* plays tho most Impor tant part In the inner and outer life of tho Individual. And shall the lonely maiden throw sway her title to thin possession? Slie would then pass her Ufe among stran gers, mors dependent than if marrltd, more exposed to calumny than tha married wom an, tha preservation of her reputation her Incessant and tormenting cart. for society require* It untarnished, although It does not offer her the natural prise for It—tha hus band. To emerge unbanned from such a atru requires great heroism, a heroism for wl there la no reward. Tbe old mold who baa lived tho life of a saint amid munifold temptations finds no recompense, no assurance in her heart which asks: “Why did I struggle? Has my victory benefited Any one? la society with Its hurt], selfish maxims worthy of the sacrifice I offered upon it* altar—my llfe'a happiness? And the anawer Is apt to be an emphatic NEW HUSBAND NEEDED FOR THE NEW WOMAN By DOROTHY DIX, bread end butter, but ere making Jam an Inch thick on |t. It would 11* tbe greatest possible misfor tune to *;*elety f«r those women not to marry and roar tumbles. It would |»a a great misfortune to the women themselves to l*» iWJmirod from the sweetening end broadening Influences of family life, but It la manifestly Impoaslble that they * hould marry on the Name platform that their grandmothers did. Their grandmothers were poor girls who had never been taught how to earn a dot- lnr, and when they married poor men they went Into the kitchen, naturally anil rightly, because It was the l*-*t thing they could jlo to help their husbands, but It is ridteu- loug to think of putting tho woman who can earn <£> or $38 or 660 a week to wrestling with pots and pans nud the washboard, ou . Wtw Man Next. She Is a skilled laborer, and the would waste her ability at such work Just as much as a flue doctor or lawyer would If he guvs up bio profession In order to split the stove wood or do chores about the house. Aside from this, there Is the waste of time nud money that a woman spends on fitting herself for nn occupation if she bua to give It up the minute she Is married because her husband wants her to cook for him. Of course It will be said that if a woman noean't want to give up her profession when fho marries she has the choice of remain ing single, bat It may he equally truly seld that If a man wants merely a cook when he marries be might pick out a wlf# who la already in the kitchen instead of selecting one who‘is In an office. To a degree money give* the happy pos. aesanr of the purse tlie privilege o'f Me taling terms. If a loan la rich enough to of. fer u womnu a ftnecure he might jM>Bslbly mnke the Imus with her about giving up her work; but If he len t and the best lie can do la to give her menial physical latior n exchange for well paid brain work, he Is certrInly a monument of egotism andVl- fish»•-** that she does well to eecepe. (toying Achieved financial Independence for herself, a girl do*** not have to marry for a home, bhe nisrrle* *ole|v f,»r coni- panlonshlp, and it really looks n* if men who want to marry —* * have f~ ~- Htnee There Is • new woman. tbie Is not the monstrosity pictured by the j humorist—a creature who wenre bhmmere, and short hair, and men's shirts and collars, and who gm*a off of a night to club meet ing*. while her poor, down trodden busluud ; washes 14* dlshce and walks the bn by. The real new woman la nn exceedingly l good-looking, well-dressed young peraou, i who Is following some painful occupation 'with profit to herself and the world, who la bright, breety* capable and Independent, jaml knows very well what she wants of ( She ha* a heart, but «he aJao has n brain. 1 filie can love, but ahe can also see at might, i She would like to marry. If the right man i cam* along, but alto Is incapable of becom- ! Ing a slave. 8be wants to bo another's, Ini i likewise she wants to be her own. HI) wouldn't marry a man whose opinion eh didn't respect, but ahe has no Idea of be coming the echo of nny one. Bhe wants to I merge her life In another's, hut she desires to retain some part of her own Individual- ** Alt this has brought ol*out a • curious state of affair*, an*! crested a demand for S new man as u suitable mute for the new woman. Novel Argument, A recent newspaper article was devoted to di*cu*Hlng a concrete cose of this kind. A young woman who was an expert and highly paid stenographer wae engaged to be married to a young man getting only a small salary, and he demanded that his fiancee should give up her situation upon their marriage. In order that ahe might keep house for him, that Is. do tin* cooling, and washing, and scrubbing, and cleaning of the sum 11 fiat that was all hla menu* en abled him to provide—for, of course, hiring a servant was out of the queatlon. Tl>u girl refusud on the ground that ahe knew nothing whatever about housework, ahe had on undeniable talent for atenogra- ^ ffo* further pointed out that the combined cm ruing* of the two would enable them to have every comfort of life, whereas tho wages of the man alone would force them to an existence of griuding economy, nud she wound up by saying that she could uot ►ce why, because she married, she should be forced to give up delug the thing that she liked to do, nud found It profitable to do, |u order lo do the thing that she brttoil U) do, and that any Ku-woek hired girl could do better than *be_ could. enlly . sic of the situation went, the girl undoubtedly had the best of the cam*, but men nr« not amenable to logic when It Interferes with their own wishes, and the man replied that he wanted home- •‘•Miking and pies such u* Ills mother used to make, end she could either giro up her pin * ‘ ace or give up him. The girl didn't deair# to do either—hence these tear*—and the suggestion that n new an will have to be raised up to marry * m w woman. Nor 1* thl* Idle speculation. A* far ae w.'ineu are concerned. In the Immortal words of mV, Cleveland, “it la a 11 tlon and not a theory that we Z*i'2L m "r would to climb up to that point of view. 1 the necessity for a now mnu. An Easy Question. (From Tbe Boston Globe.) A recent novel says a man really needs two wives—a Martha wife to air the beda and order the dinner, end a Mary wife tt look at and talk to. Guos* whether the novel was written by a woman or a man. We are sure we are here, but we are not nure of the hereafter—therefore It's advisable fer ua to be as good us we can. ARMY-NAVY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Army Order*. Washington, Jun* It.—Captain The' ophllua B. Steele, coast artillery corps, from Eightieth company, coaet artillery oorpa, to unaxilgned llet. Captain Ed ward Klmmel. ooaat artillery corps, from state college of Washington, July II, to Eightieth company, coast artli lery corps. Captains Jay J. Morrow and James B, Cavanaugh and Flret Lieutenants Edward N. Johnston and Clarence O. Sherrill, corpe of engineer*, before board at army building. New York city, for examination for promotion. Captain Fltzhugh Lee, Seventh cav airy, to Fort Riley, thence with First squadron. Thirteenth eavalry, during march to Fort Sheridan. Captain Sam uel A. Purvlance, Second cavalry, mill tary attache, to general hospital, W Ington barrack*. Brigadier Ge John M. K. D&vts to Boston and await further orders for convenience of the government. Navy Order*. Captain O. B. Harber, detached Indo pendence, to command Maine, July 10. Captain N. E. Niles, detached Maine, July 10, home, wait orderz. Captain G. P. Colvereesea, detached naval acad emy, home, watt orders. Lieutenant W. Aaeeraon, detached Tacoma, home, wait orders. Midshipman V. K. Coman. detached Indiana to Tacoma. Midshipman R. P. Bcudder, detached Iowa to Truxton Medical Inspector C. T. Hlbbett. de tached navy department to command naval hospital, New Fort Lyon. Sur geon T. A. Berryhlll, detached naval hospital. New Fort Lyon, to Nebraska. Movement* of Vessels. ARRIVED—June 1(, Porpoise, Plun ger. Shark and. Nina at Newport; June 10, Lebanon at Lamberts Point, Denver and Cleveland at Sues, Olympia at An napolls, Prairie at Savannah, Nero at Norfolk. BAILED—June >0, Hannibal from Philadelphia for Portsmouth, N. H.; Wolverine, from Muskegon for Harbor Bprings, Mich.; Nero from Newport News to Norfolk. “WHAT IS 8INf" To the Editor of The Georgian! One of your reodera, H. E. Gunning, of Wsthalle, S. C, who likes the re llglous department ot your great Jour not (and thera are others who also like such discussions) has raised the ques tion, “What Is sin?" Though tho die cuselon of such a theme Is almost end lees like that of “Doing Away With Hell,” yet the columns of a modern, up to-date newspaper are a proper forum for such discussion. To add a mite to the Interest of your readers, wo ask your Indulgence for a brief space on i he origin and nature of sin. It la proper to say that whtlat sin originated In heaven, God had nothing to do with Its conception nor inception. The flret eln was the voluntary act of a free moral being, an angel In heaven. Lucifer, ‘‘Bon of tne Morning,” an arch angel, was the first being who ever sinned, and by that act he lost his In- noconcy, hla high place and was cast out of heaven, and he lx now chief of the fallen angels, the enemy of God and man and Is called satan, the devil, tho evil One. He was a pure and holy being, but hi* own free act of rebellion made him a devil. Bln must be a great evil when tt changes the nature of a holy being Into that of an unholy and malignant one, Aa to the origin of *ln on this planet. It woe the voluntary set of a pure and free moral being, under tha temptation of the devil. God still had no port In th* bringing forth of sin. The atti tude of God toward eln I* and has al ways been one of opposition, of hatred for It and a determination to extermi nate It. If God Is almighty, as we are taught He to, why does He not at one fell swoop exterminate sin? For the simple reason that He exercise* om nipotence in the physical realm of the universe but not In the moral world. God deal* with man a* a sovereign In the moral world. He respects man's free agency and does not use force In the control of moral beings. As a free, intelligent moral being God deals with man according te th* attribute* with which he Is endowed by creation. Man's flrst act ot sin changed hts nature. He beeame unholy, sinful, wicked. A eurse for disobedience fell upon man, upon woman, upon other creatures and upon tho ground. Man transmitted te his children not hie holy nature whleh God gave him, but the sinful nature which he received from the devil. Thl* sinful nature, which was Injected by the devil Into man. when he sinned, Is th* source (mm whence comes all th* sin that troubles our wqrM today. Bo much for the origin of sin In heaven and — earth. In discussing “What Is sin,” we will have to go Into definitions. The Westminster eateehlsni says: “Sin Is any deviation from or lack of'conform ity to the law of God." Mr. Wesley, who Is regarded as one of the most lucid of all theologians, defines eln as the voluntary transgression of a known law.” It wilt be hard to And a better definition than that of Mr. Wes ley. We might go on and say that sin Is the voluntary act of a free moral be ing under temptation. The reason why there ts no much sin Is because man In an unconverted state Is possessed of a nature that Inclines him to sin Instead of purity. Here again we see tho awful nature of sin—It Inclines God’s crea tures to go against His will and law and Inclines them to do the devil’s will and law. 8alvatlon through Jesus Christ delivers man from this sinful bias and Inclines him to love God, to do Hts will and to obey Hts law. God would savt all Ills creatures from the power of tbe devil and from tht bias of nature to stn, hut these creatures being free moral agants ehposa rather to lie servants of the devil than to be the saved sons of God, and they are allowed to choose for themselves. So every man’s character la the result of his choices. By hla own cholc* he ts a servant of the devil or a trans formed eon of God. W. O. BUTLER. Loganvllle, Go. mmmihimhmmmii IDIOSYNCRASIES' HHMIMMHJ IES. j h**u IlnMalg vrfis on hi* deathbed, a _ miration of physician* was tailed. Tho Val hundred tbouMoil «» a, ‘ oponoU hi* eye* nod looked *t By MR8. JOHN A. LOGAN. 'opyricht. 1817. Amertcnn-Journul-Kxftmlner. one l* constantly treated to exhibition* of temperament which come under the head of ldlo*yncra*lee that are often ntnuaing and •ometlmes very trying. Some people affect peculiarity In dre** pnd are excueed because It la an |dl«>»yttrr**y with them; other* do til *ortii of queer things and presume to enter place* where angels would not dare • You meet persona afflicted with “ ‘ry where. They n»k moot —, offensive queatlon* and are usually victim* of atupeudous conceit, using to tread. . thl* disease impertinent nud usually victim?* of stupei the pronoun *T' freely. Among tho most aggravating of this ui young i uo*t aggravating of this ape- who Insist upon colling alto. |uentl3% forbidding ushers or entlemeu.’* he exclaimed, attendants from announcing their names. Some people seldom if ever enter tho doors of a bank. They entertain a eupposition that they are not welcome unless they have an extreme ly large amount of money to deposit. It is our desire to relieve such people of these errone ous ideas. Wo mvite them to call and get acquainted and let us offer a few rev sons why a bank account, no matter how small, is a distinct advantage. MADD0X-RUCKER BANKINGC0. Alabama and Broad Streets. The Stepmother Question.; iMiHMMittimimt By JOHN ANDERSON JAYNE. T *f * tfifteSfi*** ,oe,tlon (> reel pint , .h&.refJpKStK AM Stfluaar to 1 **"• citMM ° nJ ’*• Juzt now tt hos been given a f»e.h In- eplratloo by the atatement of Vice Chancth lor Pitney, ef New Jerwy. Thl* gentle man, who, with * number of ether*, 1* irek- Ing f*m* by abort route and cheap path, I* reported to hare *ald: "I never knew or beard of a stepmother who wa« a good mother.” The opportualtlei for obuevatton given »omo men ore exceedingly limited. Limited virion frequently inetn. calomel Ignorance. Were It not for tbe attention th»t I* being paid to the Tie. ebancrilor'* atat.ment, on. might think b. had naver made It, or, at beat, that ha wa. “only joking." Assuming, however, that ba did make tho .tatament, tha vice chancellor la a round man In a square hole, ringulnrly in appropriate for hie exalted position, or ba ha* forgotten. I'osribly, however, be It * man In ncarcb of n stepmother for his children, and has bean an unsuccessful •niter for lotne lady’* fair band. “Hell hath no fury like • woman aeorned’’ la tho old saying to which might be added, “The bitterest tengw I* that which ono* whis pered honeyed word* to a woman who re fused to lliten." But there nr# Stepmothers sad stepmoth ers I Stepmother* gqod, bad and Indifferent. Likewise there are father* and mothers who may b« placed In th* mm* mt*gery. Many a father ban mid: Children should be cast off at t certain age as n cat esata off her kitten*. Many • mother ha* ra- timed to acknowledge h»r own offnprlng, and y*t th* two torra*, mother and father. J r* thf doarast word* In oar language. We greet majority Of bon- orabl. fathers and awset mother* by th* few who are fathers and mothers In phy.l- cal fact only. Bo with tho stepmother*. There bar* been bed •tapmothera. flat tho { rest majority of tham—God bfaas tb.ml- r* an honor to civilisation and a real sa- Tlor to unfortunate boys and gtrla who need a genuine mothering. stepmothers have more te contend with than moot people vaalim. They »r* *1. ways compared with th* drat wife, an si- war* accused of spending all that tha flrst wlf* saved! Usually th* children she cum** to mother have been poisoned In thalt thoughts ralatlva to her by sea* dlagrua- tied old maid slater, crank sent, tool on. el* or unwise fritndf With nil thin to con tend with *b. most begin her work. If sb* la at all nervous (and what woman Is not at times?) ahe la criticised, mallet)' ' gossiped IbSut unmercifully. If ana he rod to train th* child, “*h* > the poor little "dear* of th* A... --- - . nn awful time. That la, they do If you be lieve all you hair about stepmother*. , Ilut thl* riur on atapmpmr* •* a alar upon Americas womanhood, it aecnsra our women of being sriflah, opinionated, unjust, unmerciful, unklod. And you know thou sands ot woman who nr* the reverse of The fact Is our American woman, whether mothers, stepmothers, aunts, cousin., sis- -*M, or *v*a bachelor girl*, era the nwaal- it U^bed ef Uulr sex an tbe face ot <?ur women nr* what th* man have mtda them. er privilege than any ' mothers. . Before you Jedgs nod condemn them put yourself fn their place, you might not do All honor today te mother! who hnv# girls In hand and r men end women. . —- -- never wa* * greet character for good In the world but beck of that character there we* * good woman—a good mother or a good ntepmotbef. smile, saying: "I am going to pnt s&TBfcfwaSwwsns'M r*ra, M a alia* their names to aspect to be .ry memberad ur recognised ^^*0*. srih ...... - —y flte by.wlth'u't one wltucMlng Instance* of egregious ton Ity. Another clam equally offenalve are tn* who. the moment they *M Ri»**ntea lien they meet laiilee, begin tnelr coll versation with fulsome compliment* s' 1 '!'* travsgsnt eapiwWm* of admiration of their gown*, personal epp**r*ne*. graejow own* ner* or rapabllltte*, forgetting |b«t '»•? si f-affiRSiS Mhhorn Fr flatter?. Sort i»r*ona tray their ntrn poverty of tnoUKht of* 1 ? ci*Hfy b*i*l naunljF provoka th* *•?*•$!* J5 ti»*» IncnxlttloM ffatrnrr. who, u •,*JJp*JgJ tfinntoa unmontefi oomplltnenla at thwr t* u ralnc. _ Women hava Iritoayncraflea aa wall ■■ m*n. and HomBtlinaa maka tbamaalraa iv dlaagraeable In the exhibition oftnenq ThB«e p«»r»ouR are atwaya aapBr»rniHtr*""j ln*l*t upon liolna rndiirad, thinking tn tftnrlca rtpald T*b oxmaad u'f ilo, beeauae thry are ^naturally Aa A matter of fact, aolflabneaa *• at bottom of nffreted p«cullarlllta» Pi- aona affaotlnc thorn aro ladlffarw^t to comfort of other* and are promt to them solve* in the *n»ttfleAtloo whim*. u.» thought heln* given how ylcftMtut tt may no for other*. _ It fecins^very aa»y to^r» *ent them*4*1 V n* with nn ln«ivm*tlnt comes In contact. ihroneh Mj without offending of really multitude If one would remember to a* proper consideration for til sritb whom ° V IT i