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NEWS FROM THE WORKERS
Mrs. Sage Makes Mrs. Felton Happy
Widely over the South, among her
countless friends, who have enjoyed
her brilliant pen-work for a genera
tion, there will be rejoicing for the
sake of Mrs. W. H. Felton, the
“grand old woman” of Cartersville,
the famous home of Georgia celebri
ties.
A Cartersville correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution tells the story in
brief as follows:
“Believing that one Joseph H. Slo
cum, a prospector, who was befriended
by Dr. and Mrs. William H. Felton, in
1855, was no other than her father,
Mrs. Russell Sage, of New York,
has sent Mrs. Felton a check for
$2,500, to cover with interest a board
bill which the prospector was oblig
ed to leave unpaid when he left Car
tersville. The check will be devoted
toward establishing a cchool for moun
tain girls, for which Mrs. Felton has
already donated fifty acres of land.
“When, during the time of the Cri
mean war, Mrs. Felton and her late
noted husband, opened the doors of
their home for the reception and en
tertainment during the "winter of a
Northern prospector, whose company
went to the wall, leaving him noth
ing with which to remunerate his host
and hostess, they were obeying the
combined injunction and prophecy of
Holy Writ, “Cast thy bread upon the
waters and it will return unto thee
after many days,” for the gentlemanly
engineer who came South during the
Ducktown copper ,craze, looking for
that valuable ore, was none other
than Joseph Slocum, of Syracuse, N.
Y., the father of Miss Olivia Slocum,
who afterwards became the wife and
widow of Russell Sage, one of New
York’s wealthiest and most eccentric
men.
“When Mrs. Felton received her
mail yesterday there fell from an en
velope a check for $2,500, payable to
Mrs. William H. Felton, and signed by
Mrs. Sage. This was the fulfillment
of the prophetic promise, and it
came to the brilliant Southern wom
an as a token for the kindness shown
by her and her late husband toward
Mrs. Sage’s relative more than fifty
years ago.
“The gift, while coming to Mrs. Fel
ton without any strings attached, and
to be used as she desires, was not
what could be termed a personal gift,
but was sent for the purpose of form
ing the nucleus of an institution, the
FLORIDA HAS A PROHIBITION GOV
ERNOR.
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enlarging. It is a pleasure to live in a State
where the Chief Executive stands for, and en-
law and order. He has been faithful
to every trust imposed upon him in the past,
(and they have been many), and we predict
he will make the best Governor Florida has
ever had.”
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AN AVALANCHE OF REFORMS FOR THE
NEW YEAR.
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bring pressure to bear upon Congress for these
bills. Never before have the legislators of
the Nation been so deferential to the popular
will, and yet, to our shame, it must be said,
never before has the clean manhood and wom
anhood of the country been more negligent in
making its will bring a golden sheaf of reform
legislation with its advent.
P. S. —Write your Congressman and United
States Senator, Get up a good, strong peti-
erection of which has been the fondest
desire of Mrs. Felton’s life, and which
now promises to become a fact.”
Later: And now Mrs. Felton comes
out and delares that Mrs. Sage’s
check came, not as a payment in any
sense for the board bill for her one
time prospecting father, but as a prac
tical, big-hearted, out and out gift to
the school for mountain girls which
Mrs. Felton proposes to establish. We
all feel like saying of both Mrs. Fel
ton and Mrs. Sage, “Bless their dear
old hearts!”
May the wedding of their unusual
hearts and brains and purses bear
golden fruitage in better homes and
happier womanhood through all the
vears.
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SOUL-WINNING CONFERENCE IN
ST. LOUIS.
Rev. J. F. Rake, the enterprising
pastor of Euclid Avenue Baptist
Church, St. Louis, has arranged a
comprehensive program for the “Soul-
Winning Conference for Christian
Workers” to be held with his Church,
January 21-26, which reveals a scope
of work that we imagine St. Louis
sadly and badly needs.
The following notes, clipped from a
printed letter being sent out by these
earnest people, will give you some
glimpse of their enthusiasm about the
work. Send for the program, and,
better still, go:
This is a Conference for Christian
Workers of all denominations, several
of which are represented on the pro
gram. Its sole purpose is to awaken
the Church and individuals to their
tremendous responsibility and oppor
tunity in saving the lost and preparing
the way of the Lord.
The large Conference Choir this year
will be made up of the best singers
from a number of chorus choirs of
the city, and will be led by Mr. Chas.
Bull, who is a master in this work.
The committee in charge are doing
everything in their power to make
these meetings of the largest possible
good to the hundreds who will attend,
Mr. Charles Butler, doubtless the
greatest gospel soloist of the country,
will very probably be at the Confer
ence. He was once soloist for both
“Billie” Sunday and Dr. J. Wilbur
Chapman, in their great evangelistic
campaign.
To reach Euclid Church from the
union depot, take 18th street car north
tion concerning these reform measures, espe
cially the Sheppard-Kenyon bill, on interstate
shipment. The people must stir themselves,
if they expect to stir Congress and win!
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ANNIE O’BRIEN.
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thing has happened him. What will I do, sir?
I know no one in Americay. Perhaps he might
be on boord and me not know it. He’d be
askin’ for Annie O’Brien, and he’d be Pat
Nolan, that I’m promised to. Would ye—”
But the captain had flung wide the door; and
Pat was on his feet, and with a roar like that
of a buffalo had flung his arms about her.
“ Glory be to God and all the saints!” he
cried. “You’re not dead at all. You’re alive!
I’ve got you safe and sound! They’ve been tell
in’ me you were dead. God help the man
that put the thrick on me, for I’ll lave but the
bones av him.”
“Quiet, there!” shouted the captain. “Down
with your fists, or I’ll put you in irons. What
did you mean by asking for Annie O’Brien a
The Golden Age for January 16,1913.
to Washington Avenue (about five
blocks) transfer to Page car going
west, and get off at Euclid avenue.
All communications should be ad
dressed to the pastor of Euclid
Church, Rev. J. F. Rake, 1363 Euclid
avenue.
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PROF. J. C. WARDLAW WILL GO
ABROAD.
It is announced that courtly, golden
hearted educator, Prof. J. C. Ward
law, of the Chair of Pedagogy, at the
State Normal School, at Athens, will
again conduct a summer party to Eu
rope.
The party will sail from Boston on
June 17th by the White Star Line
steamship “Cymric,” and will tour Ire
land, Scotland, England, France, Bel
gium, Holland, Germany, (the Rhine),
Switzerland and Italy, returning to
America via the Mediterranean
route.
The price of this comprehensive
British Isles and Continental tour is
$550 and includes every necessary ex
pense except fees to stewards on
ocean liners, steamer chairs, mineral
waters, wines, laundry bills, etc,
which are considered personal ex
penses.
A short tripos sixty days can be
taken with the same party for $450.
The Editor of The Golden Age is
personally acquainted with Prof, and
Mrs. Wardlaw, and can vouch for the
safety of their chaperonage and the
charm of their fellowship.
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IT EVEN MAKES FOOLS OUT OF
MONKEYS.
It would seem that men with sup
posed reason would steer clear of in
toxication when they see what mon
keys it makes out of men, and also
what “men(?)” it makes out of mon
keys. An exchange tells the follow
ing:
According to a recent letter from
the Congo region on the west coast of
Africa, the monkeys there are inordi
nately fond of a kind of beer made by
the natives, who use the beverage to
capture their poor relations.
Having placed quantities of the beer
where the monkeys can get it, the
natives wait until their victims are in
various degrees of inebriation, and
when they mingle with them the poor
creatures are too much fuddled to
recognize the difference between ne
gro and ape.
When a negro takes the hand of
one to lead him off, some other fond
creature clings to the hand of the lat
ter one, and another one to his hand;
thus a single negro may sometimes be
seen carrying off a string of stagger
ing monkeys.
When secured the beer is adminis
tered in decreasing quantities, so that
they may only gradually awaken to
the sad results of their spree.
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JAMES E. WRAY IN FLORIDA.
Many friends from Texas to Georgia
will be interested in the reception
which has been accorded the brilliant
and genial James E. Wray, preacher,
poet, scholar and gentleman, by his
new charge in the beautiful orange
girdled city of Orlando.
The Orlando Citizen gives the fol
lowing account of Dr. Wray’s first
Sunday there:
“Sunday was a great day in the Or
lando Methodist Church, for it was
the first Monday, under the supervi
sion of the newly arrived minister,
Rev. J. E. Wray, D. D., of Macon. The
Church was filled long before the
stated time with an expectant audi
ence, and the people were not disap
pointed. Home folks and winter vis
itors were enthusiastic in their praise
of the new pastor and the feeling was
general that there is a good year
ahead for this organization.”
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EVANGELIST “BOB” JONES
Is Stirring up the Wicked Ones in
Scranton, Pa.
Scranton, Pa., Jan. 12. —(Special.)
“Bob” Jones, the Southern evangelist,
has stirred this city as it has never
been moved before, following a week
of union meetings, during which he
crusaded against existing crime and
liquor conditions, the leading business
men of the city have organized all the
churches to carry on the fight. A
fund of SIO,OOO will be raised to em
ploy Detective Robert Wilson, who is
aiding “Bob” Jones and who cleaned
up this city and Pittsburg several
years ago, and the evangelist will also
be asked to stay in the city and carry
on the work he has begun. The
meetings held by the evangelist have
been the largest seen here in many
years and he is speaking daily to
crowds of 3,000 people.
A monster mass meeting of the citi
zens will be held in the great audito
rium next Sunday and addressed by
both the evangelist and the detective.
More than 500 converts have already
been taken into the churches.
steerage passenger, when you wanted Annie
Bailey, a first-cabin passenger. That is the girl
that stands there. This is the name she gave
us —Annie Bailey.”
“Captain, dear,” cried Annie, clutching her
Pat by the coat-tails, “captain, darlin’, Pat niv
er knew —he did not. Since writin’ him, my
mother —a widdy—married again wid Mr.
Peter Bailey, that kapes a foine tavern in our
town. So long as I was goin’ from her, and
he proposin’ to her, why wouldn’t she? And
he, havin’ money to spare, said I should come
like a lady, and paid me passage in the foinest
place; and out iv compliment to him —being
my mother’s husband and so generous to me —I
sailed as Annie Bailey. That is_the way it was,
captain and indade all the throuble arose
from it —for I wanted Pat to find me sated in
the iligant saloon, and remained there waitin’
for him.”
“You’ll excuse me, sir,” said Pat, bowing
low, “on account of what I’ve been through.”
“All right, my man,” the captain answered,
and then Pat threw his arm about his Annie
and led her away, the happiest fellow alive.