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8 The Golden Age (SUCCESSOR TO RELIGIOUS FORUN) Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden sAge Publishing Company (Inc.) OFFICES: LOWNDES “BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA. Price: $2.00 a Year WILLIAM D. UPSHfXW, - - - - Editor A. E. RAMSAUR, . . . Associate Editor W. F. UPSHA W, - - - - “Business Manager H. R. BERN ART), . . . Sec’y and Treas Entered at the Post Office in Atlanta, Ga., as second-class matter. To the Public: The advertising columns of The Golden Age will have an editorial conscience. No advertisement will be accepted which we believe would be hurtful to either the person or the purse of our readers. Poor Lige Dowie! He doesn’t intend for his man tle to descend upon anybody for sometime yet if he can avoid it. But Voliva is yearning for it. Howdy, Atlanta Georgian! Congratulations, Mr. Graves and Mr. Seeley. We like you' mighty well and like your principles still better. The Atlanta Georgian is the noblest Georgian of them all. At the recent annual reunion of the Confederate Veterans at New Orleans it was resolved that each Southern State be asked to grant a pension to such surviving slaves as followed their masters through the Confederacy, and in many instances fought by their sides without ever having been enlisted as soldiers. It is an ill quake that quakes nobody good. Many San Francisco fiances have suggested to their be trothed that if “If ’twere well ’twere done, then ’twere well ’twere done quickly” and many mar riages have resulted, the happy couples beginning their married lives coincident with the life of the new San Francisco. Mr. John D. Rockefeller gave one hundred thous and dollars to the San Francisco relief fund and by some strange chance the price cf oil rose a little. We know there is no connection bet wen the two incidents and it’s a shame to insinuate that our Cousin John is raising the price to get his money back, but there is something odd about the sen sitiveness of coal oil. When Cousin John gives up, oil goes up. A news item informs us that an lowa man’s whiskers turned white while he was engaged in a lengthly joint debate speech. We regard this as a warning. The same paper mentions a Methodist minister in Brixton, England, who has been preach ing seventy-seven years. So far as our knowledge goes, he holds the record. It is possible that this is the minister who was holding forth on one occasion when a visitor came rather late to the church door. He asked the usher how long Mr. Blank had been preaching. “About thirty years,” the usher answered. “Then I will go in. He must be nearly through,” the visitor said. There are those who claim that the hey-day of American humor is past and that we have now no American humorists. These people are not wise to the true situation. They are honest in their belief but they do not look in the proper place for the hu mor. They read our funny magazines and the edi torial pages of the dailies and we cannot blame them for their opinion. Your true humorists are the authors of the plate matter going to make up the “patent insides” of the country weeklies. There humorous gems of purest ray serene are hid den away, and it is there that we learn how far it is to the moon; how tall the Washington monument is, how to prevent blight in pear trees; and some day we will find there the name of the man who struck Billy Patterson. The Golden Age for May 3, 1906. Father Sherman’s March. Father Thomas Sherman, a son of General Te cumseh Sherman, is making a trip through Georgia over the route covered by his father on his March to the Sea. Father Sherman began his journey un der the escort and protection of eight enlisted men and two lieutenants of the regular army stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Chicamaugua Park. Under protest of the Georgia senators, the war department has ordered the soldiers to return to the Post after reaching Resaca, Georgia. Father Sherman does not need a mil'tary escort through Georgia. The people of the South have no idea, of attempting to visit upon the son any ill treatment for the sins of the father in his wanton destruction of property forty years ago. Father Sherman is really not so important as he believes. It is conceivable that he could travel over the route traversed by his father and no appreciable excite ment result from his passage. There are not so many of the Father as there were of General Sher man when he made the trip. It might even be per missible to refer to him in the singular number, but we won’t do it here. We will sneak of him as “they” for the brief time we devote to him. Father Sherman does not need a military escort. He merits an escort of the tender and sympathetic nature usually accorded to those who march through Georgia to Milledgeville, in said State. The Torrey-Alexander Meetings. Next Sunday, May 6th, these remarkable men of God will begin their meetings in Atlanta. These services have been anticipated with great expec tancy on the part of the active church workers in Atlanta, and the Business Men’s League—a notable body of consecrated business men, under whose aus pices these meetings are to be held, have wrought diligently and prayerfully in their preparations. It is to be regretted, of course, that a larger hall could not be secured, but still, if all the people who will throng the Peachtree Auditorium shall carry away a spiritual blessing the opportunity of the evange lists will be great and the benefits far-reaching. Dr. Torrey has been to Atlanta before and his powerful addresses during the Christian Workers’ Convention some years ago are yet gratefully re membered, and Mr. Alexander, after all, is coming back to his own. A Tennesseean by birth, a Geor gian by brief residence, a Moody Institute man by education and the world’s most blessed singer by the grace of God, he comes with his consecrated magnetism to sway and sing thousands into the Bet ter Way. The readers of The Golden Age who have followed the work of these beloved evangelists for many months through the graphic reports of Geo. T. B. Davis, will be kept in weekly touch with the Atlanta meetings, and we who are here on the field of battle are rejoicing that the Light we have seen from afar cometh now to us. Nightly meetings are being held this week at the Auditorium, addressed by leading pastors of the city, preparing the people in prayer, song and in struction for the month’s campaign. Dr. Marion Hull has done peculiarly effective work in getting ready for the King’s business a large company of “personal workers,” and we trust that the Revival Spirit, capturing and peimeating the famous “Atlanta Spirit,” will carry a moral and spiritual uplift not only to our great “Gate City,” but through the arteries of her influence over the en tire South. The T. P. A’s. It was the high privilege and refreshing expe rience of the Editor to be the guest of Post B. of the Travelers’ Protective Association at their reg lar monthly meeting in Atlanta last Saturday night. That was a genial and royal crowd that assembled in the Convention hall of the Piedmont. Mr. W. 0. Stamps, a prominent wholesale gTOcer in Atlanta, occupied the chair, dispatching business and intro ducing speakers in a most graceful manner. Strong resolutions were adopted, urging the railroads to grant a two-cent rate on mileage books of two thousand miles, and two and a half cent rate on one thousand miles interchangeable on all lines of the Southeastern Tai iff Association. It was brought out in the meeting that such a rate has been given in Virginia even on books of five hundred miles, and the merits of their plea were strongly urged. The T. P. A. is a powerful organization. Thousands of strong and influential business men are counted in its membership, and the influence of these men is one of the strongest factois in th? building up of our commercial life. The class of men on the road has gone through a wonderful transformation during recent years. There are many devout Chris tian men among the traveling salesmen now, and the Gideon’s Band, composed of active Christian men. is doing a gracious work among them. In a brief speech to this genial band of drummer broth ers, the writer expressed the hope that every mem ber of the T. P. A. would honor God in his life, and as they travel over the land touching thousands of lives every year, they would fulfill Goldsmith’s dream of the “Village Blacksmith”— “Lure to brighter worlds, And lead the way.” Dr. Folk in Atlanta. The visit of Dr. Edgar E. Folk, of Nashville, was /• greatly enjoyed in Atlanta last Sunday. He came especially under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon League. Dr. Folk is president of this vigorous stale organization in Tennessee, and has done a ' wonderful work by his masterly leadership in. that state. The fact that he is the brother of the fa mous reformer, Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Mis souri, naturally invested his coming with peculiar interest on his distinguished brother’s account, but as Dr. Junius W. Millard said in his happy speech of introduction, “Dr. Folk does not gather his dis tinction from this source by any means, for he is a reformer on his own hook, having led in the fight which has closed hundreds of saloons in Tennes see.” Dr. Folk preached at Ponce de Leon Avenue Church on Sunday morning a tender and beautiful sermon, and at night at the Anti-Saloon League rally at the First Baptist Church on Sunday after noon he made an address of great power. Short addresses were also made by Dr. Cofer, of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, and Dr. L. G. Broughton. The Chatauqua salute was given Dr. Folk as a token of the appreciation of his stirring address. Altogether it was the most enthusiastic meeting which the Anti-Saloon League has yet held in Atlanta. Tennessee has -taught Georgia what great things can be done in the fight against the saloon by wise organization and vigorous prosecution. We are sure Dr. Folk’s splendid services will again be in demand in our Georgia campaign. The Congress of Mothers. Organization seems to be the order of the day in every branch of social and domestic, as well as in financial and commercial life. There is, therefore, a fully organized and very effectual International Congress of Mothers, but no branch of this order is to be found in Georgia. A meeting, however, which was termed a “Mother’s Congress,” was called in Atlanta a few days ago. It was under the auspices of some of the leading club women of the state, and was addressed by able educators, as well as by writers and thinkers of more than a local reputation. The occaion attracted many women to whom no other call for “organized effort” would have appealed, and the results of the first meeting promises to be far-reaching. It is an established principle that “in union there is strength,” and if in every other ethical and actual work this is true, then surely in the supreme work of being a mother—and a good mother—the experience, the aid and the co-cperation of many mothers must inevitably result in good to the indi vidual. see.”