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THE SANDER8V1LLE HERALD.
THE SONG OF THE AERONAUT.
When sunset lias folded Hie earth In a
veil
Of roro-colored tissue cmliroldercd with
gold.
Then 1 rise and 1 rise through the shim
mering skies
To heights where the stars glitter sil
very cold.
IHesldo me the moon glides away to the
west
Tn her shallop of delicate ivory wrought,
And beneath me the clouds are like
mother-of-pearl
Oh, such are toys of the aeronaut!
The world is below with its care and its
woe,
And no one can follow me here with
a bill.
I mn sale from the boro with a story to
tell.
And clear of the dame with a mission
to fill.
No trolleys to catch and no autos to
dodge.
No annual taxes to drive me distraught.
Hut the infinite peace of the limitless
alr-
Oh, great are the Joys of the aeronaut!
Would you feel that the V In your pocket
Is yours.
And no one can borrow or steal It
, away?
Would you tlee from the wrath of yolir
mother-in-law.
Or the thirsty inos<|uito determine d to
slny?
Would you go where the lawn-mower
cannot lie heard.
Or the grnphophoae puncture tin- bub
bles of thought?
Then take a balloon to the top of the
And taste of the joys of the aeronaut.
-Minna living, In l.eslle s Weekly.
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An Old Woman
Whose House
Faced the Sea.
By Fiances J. Delano.
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Once there was nit old woman who
lived In a little house facing the sea.
There was a great hill in back of her,
the sky was over her, the sea In front
of her, and not a house In sight for
many a mile.
It was thought that the old woman’s
days of usefulness were over, for she
could not go to the little fishing ham-
T&t as she used and care for the sick,
lit was all she could do to keep her
house In Order and tend her garden.
iBut still she was useful and happy
^because she hud a friend. She could
not see her friend, it is true, but no
more can we see our friends; it is only
their body we see, and what 'good
would that be if the friend were not
inside?
Well, the old woman knew that her
friend was with her, and she tried to
make her little house a pleasant place.
When she felt the fresh wind sweeping
in from the sea. and saw how the tide
came in and washed the sands clean
every day, and how the rain came down
and washed the whole earth, then she
knew that her friend liked whatever
iwas clean. So she sioured her pewter
plates, and brought white sand for her
floor, and kept her candles always as
good as new.
¥ She found, ^oo, that her friend loved
ibeautlful things; for the great sea,
both in storm and sunshine, was al
ways wonderfully beautiful, and the
flhells thrown up on the beach were
delicately fashioned. So, when she
planted her potatoes, she planted pop
pies, too, and Canterbury bells and fox
glove. Sometimes she picked a flower
or two and set in a cup upon the table,
and then she would smile, thinking of
her friend and of his love for every
beautiful thing.
She found out, after a little, that
her friend loved people—the staunch
old fishermen who kept the ships al
ways steady before the wind, and the
wives of the fishermen, the poor old
wives and the Highly young ones, and
the little children everywhere, and the
wicked people away out in the great
world. The old woman knew that it
was beyond her power to understand
how great was her friend's love for all
these.
v But she tried to help, and, when
ever the fishermen went by, she would
nod to them, and sometimes, when the
weather threatened, she would call to
them: “Ye’re safe, ye’re safe,” she
would call, “whether ye come back, or
no, ye’re safe.” Now and then, in the
summer time, when the children went
wandering by, she would give them
^flowers and help them in their search
Tor shells; and no weary, discouraged
traveller ever vvefu by her door with
out being fed and cheered.
One winter's night, when there was a
great storm abroad, when the wind
came from far out of the north and lilt
ed the sea as if it were a feather and
hurled it against the rocks, when tho
'rain came in sheets on the roof of the
old woman’s cottage, and when every
ahlp that could had been run into har
bor, on this night the old woman lav-
in her bed, which was rocking like a
cradle, and she was listening to the
sweep of the wind, and thinking of
the sailers at sea, when all at once
she heard a strange sound. It was not
the sea, nor the wind, nor the rain:
It was a different sound from any of
.these. The old woman raised her hea£
listened, then Tne cIi'GSESd he rssif.
ijer candle wg.e burning in the lit * 1 1 e
room below, and site seized it -arid peer
ed out into the night, Sne could see
nothing because of the storm, so
placed her candle upon the table and
opened her door. With the wind and
the rain, which almost deluged the
old woman’s cottage, there came also
a stranger into the room. The woman
helped him to a seat, then did her
best to close the door against the wind.
When this was done, she turned to the
Btranger. His strength was spent, and
Beeing this, she started the fire to blaz
ing, and made him some gruel.
The stranger was not like the men
she was used to seeing. He was taller
,and thinner than the fishermen, and
hands were white and shapely.
His clothing was like the clothing of
a king.
"Ye come from a far country, be
like,” said the woman, when the heat
and the gruel had restored her guest.
“Aye," Haiti the stranger.
The old woman eyed him keenly.
"Belike ye're a king,” she said pres
ently.
The stranger looked nt the woman.
"Aye,” lie said, and dropped his head
upon his breast.
"Yer courage will come with ycr
strength,” raid she.
But the stranger neither spoke nor
lifted bis bead. Then the old woman
knew that something more than lack
of strength ailed the king.
"Belike he’s forgotten,” said the wo
man to herself, and she gazed sorrow
fully at the king. Her eyes brightened
presently, and she nodded her head.
"He'll find out that there's naught to
take (lie courage out of n man. He'll
find it out." And she be'gan crooning
a little song ns she stirred her gruel.
The storm was over in the morning.
The beach was washed clean, the air
was sweet, and the great sea was filled
with light.
But the-king did not mind the beau
ty of tlie morning. He sat in tlie door
way of the old woman’s cottage with
his head bowed upon his breast, and
lor a long time he did not speak. The
old woman, however, looked out upon
the sea and thought of her friend, and
her heart was glad within her.
The sun was high in the sky when
at last, the king lifted his head and
and looked far tip and down the coast.
"A God-forsaken country, madam,”
lie --•lid, looking hack Into the cot
tage.
The old woman was cutting bread
and cheese for the klmg's dinner. She
stopped a moment, and looked down
at him. "All, man, there’s no such
country as that,” said she, and her
voice was quiet and sure, and there was
a light in her deep eyes that set the
king to wondering.
For many days after this the king
stayed at the little house facing the
sea, and watched the old woman and
wondered at her. At length lie asked
a question that puzzled him.
"Madam," lie said, "why Is it you’re
content? You are alone and have but
little. You may starte, die heie alone
in this miserable place, with no one
to give you a cup of water.”
The old woman gazed at the king,
and he saw that the sorrow in her
heart was for him and not for herself.
"Why Is It,” returned she, "that you,
being a king and having much, no fear
of starving or of dying alone, why is
It you are not content?”
The king did not answer the ques
tion, he turned away and went out and
walked along the store.
For many days after this the king
puzzled over (he question he had
asked. At length, In tha sure way
that God lias of answering questions,
the truth came into the king's heart,
and he knew.
Then he sought out the old woman,
and he had no need to speak; for she
raw that his courage had come, and
she knew tliut lie had gol at the bot
tom of all the truth there Is.
After this the king was for going
back to his own country. And a sad
country it was, too. Strong men sat
idle In the towns. The wheat fields
and the corn fields were gone to weeds.
Little children lay In (heir cribs and
cried because they were hungry. Boys
and girls grew up Ignorant and quar
relsome because the money to keep the
schools had been spent at the king's
court. There were no good laws in
that country, and no one minded what
laws there were and so things had
gone from bad to worse for a long
day.
But now the king was back again,
and he had the courage of a regiment.
He gathered the wisest men in his
kingdom arqtind him, and they made
new laws. The taxes were reduced,
and the schools were opened. Then
the strong men began to work, and
the boys and girls to go to school, and
the little children to laugh and play.
All this time the old woman lived
on in her little house lacing the sea,
nor dreamed that the Joy in her heart
hud spread into a igreat country, and
made thousands of little children glad.
—The Christian Register.
Coming.
A Tammany man tells a story in con
nection with a caucus held in Troy
some years ago as illustrating how ful
ly alive the Celts of that city were tc
the opportunities of American citizen
ship.
During the caucus in one of the low
er wards of the city a certain Michael
i Mulcahy was nominated for a minor
j position on the ward ticket to be vot-
I ed for at the charter election. Some in-
l quiries were made of Thomas Mulcahy
j as io who this person bearing the same
name might be as no one in the neigh
borhood could call him to mind.
'Tie's me brothers,” explained Tom
with cheerful alacrity. "He’s not ar
rived in the countin'}’ yIt be lie tuk a
ship ov a Wednesday, an’ll be here in
toime for the election.”—l.ippincott’s.
Hot-Air Treatment of Hay Fever.
Dr. Hurllmann, in two serious eas
es of hay fever which resisted all
kinds of treatment .succeeded in caus
ing all the symptoms to disappear
by the employment of hot and dry
air. He used an apparatus with six
electric lamps (red light) arranged
in a fitting manner. The patients
breathe in the hot air by the nose
and expel it by the mouth, from
twenty-five to thirty respirations at
each seance.
Dr. Hulimann does not know if the
red light acts by reason of its color
and hopes that later experiments
made by other medical men may elu
cidate the question.—Swiss Medical
Journal.
Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
Rewards for Barn Burners.
Upon complaint of citizens of Ogle-
thoriie county that a number of barns
have been burned there within the
last few months, Governor Smith
has offered a reward of $100 for
each arrest and conviction of the par
ties guilty of th isp crimes.
The most recent cases were the
burning of the barns of T. .1. Erwin
and A. H. Talmadgc near Winterville
on December 15 and 18, respectively.
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Georgia Liberal to Old Vets.
With what care and liberality Geor
gia provides for her confederate vet
erans is shown by the annual report
of State Pension Commissioner J. W.
Lindsey, which has just been issued
for the year ending December .11, 1907.
Since 1879, this report sets forth,
there has been paid out to the vet
erans of this state $11,208,011.55. For
the year 1879 the pension roll carried
$70,580. in 1907 it carried $932,885.
In 1908 it is likely that $950,000 will
be paid out. In 1906 the number ol
pensioners was 15,298; in 1907 this
number had increased to 16,713.
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Short Respite for Glover.
At a late hour Saturday afternoon,
Governor Smith affixed his signature to
an executive order, in which he de
clined to reduce the sentence of Ar
thur Glover from death to imprison
ment for life, but he granted a res
pite from Monday, January 27, at
which time the condemned man was
to have paid the penalty of his life,
until Friday, January 31. The gov
ernor felt that Glover was entitled to
a few more days In which to make
Ills preparations for death. Glover
was convicted for the murder of Maud
Dean, his sweetheart, In Augusta.
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Road Working Case Up.
The department of justice at Wash
ington has taken up the case of the ci
vilian teamsters in government em
ploy who are quartered at Fort Ogle
thorpe, and who were arrested and
imprisoned for not working on the
Georgia roads. A question of the right
of the local authorities to require the
men to work on the roads Is at issue,
the Washington authorities holding
that the teamsters were bound by con
tract to serve the national government
and that the attempt of the locaJ au
thorities to take them out of the serv
ice of the United States and require
them to work for a definite time on
the state roads is an interference with
the operations of the federal govern
ment.
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Cotton Association to Meet.
The annual meeting of the Georgia
division of the Southern Cotton As
sociation will be held in the senate
chamber of the state capitol at Atlanta
on Wednesday, February 5.
Officers will be chosen for the ensu
ing year, Important resolutions will te
adopted relating to the work of tho as
sociation, delegates at large will be
named to go to the national conven
tion.
It is desired that every county in
the state be represented at this meet
ing and county associations are urged
to act at once In the matter of the se
lection of delegates and to notify Pres
ident M. L. Johnson, room 919 Empire
building, Atlanta, of the names and
addresses of the delegates chosen.
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School Train Ready to Start.
An agrclultural train, conveying ex
hibits, expert lecturers and President
A. M. Soule of the State College of
Agriculture, will start on Its journey
of 3,000 miles over the state at
Commerce on Febraury 10, at 8 o’clock
in the morning.
The train will reach more than 150
towns, and take one month in so do
ing. It is the purpose of this train
to confer upon the farmers of Georgia
many useful and important facts re
garding agriculture. The baggage car
will be filled with exhibits. Two pas
senger coaches will be used as lec
ture rooms. Five stops will be made
each day, each one being in length
an hour and a half. It Is figured that
the train will reach over 300,000 citi
zens, this having been taken from the
last census; in this estimate, however,
the larger towns are not taken in.
The last stop will be made at El-
berton, March 14.
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Falling Off in Tag Sales.
According to reports made to the
agricultural department the fertilizer
tag sale is falling off considerably,
this spring, from what it was last year,
indicating a curtailment of acreage be
ing devoted to cotton and in conse-
qence a diminution in the amount of
money to be raised from the sale
of these tags.
The eleven agricultural schools
about the state and the $100,000 agri
cultural college at Athens, which has
just completed such a successful "cot
ton school" are supported out of these
proceeds.
To increase this fund a bill is now
pending in the house, which will raise
the price of these fertilizer tags from
the present rate of ten cents a ton
to twenty-five cents a ton, therefore
more than doubling the sum to be
secured.
One of the chief fertilizers used in
Georgia, and throughout the south, is
cotton seed meal which serves in a
dual capacity of being a good fertil
izer filler and in addition when mix
ed with cotton seed hulls becomes the
best known cattle feed. All of these
district schools and the agricultural
college at Athens urge the use of it
both as a fertilizer and cattle feed.
The state department of agriculture
has sold only $6,405 worth of fertilzer
inspection tags since January 1, as
compared with sales aggregating $11,-
458 for the same period of 1907, a fall
ing off of $5,053.
As January and February are the
big months for sales of these tags, this
fact is considered as bearing out the
recent statement coming from the de
partment that there is prospect of
large decrease in the sale and use of
fertilizers as compared with last year,
WESLEY MEMORIAL CHURCH
Soon to he Built in Atlanta, is Art*
ncuncement of Building Committee.
Announcement was made through
the daily press last week that Wes
ley Memorial Church, the institutional
church of Georgia Methodism, will
soon be under construction. This an
nouncement comes from the building
committee of the church, and will be
read with Interest by the people of
Georgia. The great movement looking
to the erection of an Institutional
church, a hospital and a dormitory for
girls was inaugurated In Atlanta on
June 16, 1907, by seven of the bishops
of the Methodist Episcoal Church,
South, who came at the invitation of
the executive committee of the Wes
ley Memorial Enterprises. On that
day more than $200,000 was subscribed
and since that time other subscrip
tions have been made from Atlanta,
other cities and from rural communi
ties of the state.
Wseley Memorial Hospital, which
was opened about two years ago, and
which was a part of this undertaking,
Is doing splendid Work, and is favor
ably knovn throughout the state. It
has been enlarged since the beginning
of this movement by the addition of
an annex, and from time to time fur
ther additions will be made. Tho
dormitory for girls will be built at
a later date. This dormitory will fur
nish a comfortable home for girls who
cannot afford to pay the prices de
manded by the best class of boarding
houses. The church, on which work
will soon be begun, will be planned
pnd equipped in accordance with mod
ern ideas of institutional church
work.
The building of this church, dormi
tory and hospital is of interest to
the people of Georgia outside of At
lanta, because of the fact that tlie
work will be especially among those
who go to Atlanta from rural districts
and towns and cities of the state. The
church will l:e fitted with attractions
that will draw young people from
dangerous places of amusement; the
hospital is open to people of the en
tire state, and the dormitory will care
for young women who go to Atlanta
from other places. Altogether the
movements is one whose Influence will
be felt throughout all of Georgia.
The purpose of this movement is
explained in detail in a booklet which
has been issued and which can be
secured upon request from the secre
tary of the executive committee of the
Wesley Memorial Enterprise, Candler
building, Atlanta.
The executive committee of the en
terprise is as follows: ‘R. J. Guinn,
chairman; T. K. Glenn, vice chairman;
Forrest Adair, Asa G. Candler, E. V.
Carter, M. M. Davies, C. J. Haden, R.
A. Hemphill, J. G. Lester, R. F. Mad
dox, James L. Mayson, Dr. C. E. Mur
phy, J. K McCord, H. Y. McCord, J.
N. McEachern, presiding elder of At
lanta district, and pastor Wesley Me
morial Churclx
The building of this church will
mark a great step fordward in relig
ious and moral life, and the people
«f Georgia will undoubtedly give their
loyal support to this church and it#
Institutions which are planned fo»
great helpfulness to the peojile, e»
gecially the young people, and for cap
«5ig for the sick.
BLACKBURN "KNOCKS” BECKHAM.
Governor of Panama Butts Into Ken
tucky Senatorial Fight.
The senatorial deadlock was not bro
ken In the Kentucky legislature Wed
nesday, and there seems to be no im
mediate prospect of a shift in votes.
Senator Campbell received a tele
gram from ex-Ssnator Blackburn com
plimenting him on his stand agairnt
Beckham.
Those legislators who stood by Mr.
Blackburn in 1896, when several demo
crats declined to support him a3
against a republican, say It looks funny
to see the Panama governor congratu
lating men for doing tha same thing
he denounced, when he was the nom
inee.
MORAL: GET BUSY.
-Showinn Thai oomfifimes All an L'nwelconir Visiln? Needs Is a Swift Kick.)
"Wind! Ynu licit .yet? Gel out. I sn} ! Can't you »ec t’u» bu»y?’'
“Now will you gel. out?”
—Cartoon b.v Trigg*, in the New York Press.
MERCHANTS LOOK FOR A GOOD YEAR
Manuraciurers and Wholesalers Say Conditions Are Prom
ising; For 1903--Collections Much Easier—Retailers
Sending in Orders to Replenish Depleted Stocks--
European Merchants to Keep Up Prices.
N'i*w York City.—A canvass of the
Font intent in a dozen important
trades, as expressed by members of
different industries and the edi
torial opinions of recognized trade
journals in the last few days, has
developed a distinctly hopeful tone
for (lie outlook for 1908. Of 1907
there is apparently a common opin
ion— (hat (lie first eight months
were satisfactory to a marked de
gree, and in some instances sur
passed former records as far as vol
ume of business was concerned. The
financial disturbances of last fall,
however, brought about a great
change in this respect, and several
trades suffered severely. A state
ment of conditions in a majority of
the trades covered appears to those
most interested to justify the expec
tations of good business in 190S.
Particularly is (bis lhe ease in a
good many of the dry goods trades.
A member of one of (be largest Im
porting houses in New York, whose
buyers reach every Important centre
in Europe and with salesmen in every
section of the United States, declared
fhat. the reports which his firm re
ceived were distinctly encouraging
for a trade recovery all over the
country. The reporls front all over
the Middle, Western and Southern
States indicated the best. Christmas
trade among retailers on record.
These reports covered San Francis
co. Portland, Los Angeles and Ta
coma on the roast; Minneapolis, St.
Paul. Milwaukee and other cities in
the Middle West, and several cities
such as San Antonio, tn the South
west, Atlanta, in the Southeast.
Combined with this continued de
mand upon the retailer Is the fact
that little or no goods have been
bought since the early fall, and
stocks are becoming relatively ex
hausted. From the sourco referred
to above it was learned, for ex
ample, that one house in a Southern
city sold $191,000 of goods in No
vember and bought $9000. As a
result, orders which were canceled
are reported as being renewed and
new orders received to replenish
stoek3 tliut were neglected in the
weeks of uncertainty following the
financial flurry.
Coupled with this increase of de
mand, an Improvement in collections
is reported in many branches of the
dry goods trade, which bids fair to
bring that element of the business
bnck to normal within a comparative
ly short time, so far ns the interior
of the country is concerned. Tlie
prediction is lining made in dry
goods circles that this fact coupled
with (he release of hoarded money
by interior banks will operate to ease
the money situation materially with
in the next sixty days.
Reports received by one large
house from nine different centres of
manufacture lor exportR on the other
| side of the Atlantic indicate that the
European trade organizations and
the individual producers, regardless
of such membership, will do what
they can to maintain prices with the
idea of curtailing production rather
than crpate a situation where prices
will have to come down, to the injury
both of the producer and of the
American importer.
JUSTICE JOHN M. HARLAN PROPHESIES A GREAT. RACE WAR
Ii9 -Ycruld VotB $50,000,000 a Year For a Bigger Navy—■
Must Fight Yellow Men—Conflict Will Shake the
Earth and He Wants the United States
to Be Prepared For It.
Washington, D. O.—That there
will be eventually a conflict between
the yellow race and the white race
that will shake the earth is the
opinion of Justice John Marshall
Harlan, of the United States Supreme
Court. In an address before the
Navy League of the United States,
this eminent jurist, according to the
Washington Post, said:
“If I had the opportunity T would
vote for an appropriation of $50,-
000,000 a year for a period of ten
years for a larger navy. The great
importance of a navy is shown in the
Constitution, which restricts the ap
propriations for the army, hut sets
no limit for those for the navy. There
is no such thing as friendship be
tween nations as between men. Na
tions make no sacrifice to preserve
friendships and do not forbear to do
certain things because they do net
meet, with the approval of another
nation. Do you think England cares
a cent, for what we think of her
navy? Or Germany cares a cent?
“How large a navy ought we to
have? That is a question 1 cannot
answer any more than whether a
hospital ship ought to be command
ed by a naval officer or a surgeon.
1 don’t care how large a navy we
have, but. I want to see a navy large
enough to take care of the Pacific
and Atlantic Oceans and our ports
on those oceans.
“The trend of (he immigration of
the white people in the past has been
from the East (o the West. There
Loses Life Deciding
a Fifty-rent Wager.
Chicago. — On a bet. of fifty cents,
J. H. Harrington, a lineman for the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
climbed a steel pole on the Drainage
Canal power ..line at Rockwell street,
touched a 44,00(1 volt wire and was
almost instantly burned to a crisp.
Harrington and a gang ot linemen
were coming downtown when a dis
cussion arose as to the distance be
tween the wires of the sanitary
power line. Harrington went up to
find the distance they were apart.
has been none from the West. Just
across the water there is a country
with an immense population whose
commerce we are seeking. We re
fer to the people of Asia as the yel
low race. There are 400,000,000
Chinese, as strong physically and
mentally as we are.
“There is over there another na
tion whose people are progressive
and ambitious. We may some day
see a skilled army in Japan of from
5,000,000 to 10,000,000. They will
say: 'You claim Europe as your
country. This is ours. Get out!’
I don’t think they have any such
idea now. and we have no hostility
toward them. But there will be a
conflict between the yellow race and
the white race that will shake the
earth. When it comes 1 want to see
this country with a navy on both
oceans that will be strong enough.”
In conjunction with his belief in
the obligation to build ships. Justice
Harlan holds that it is the duty of
the country to fortify thoroughly
every seaport under the American
flag and make it impregnable. War
comes suddenly, he says, and from
the most peaceful outlook it may de
velop. before it is possible to make
preparations, or even to build a
battleship, much less a navy.
He believes that a nation which Is
weak in martial spirit, or which has
not a strong navy, is in danger of
being forced into waj when it is
not desired, and when the nation is
least able to meet such an emergency.
Hard Tirucs Fill New
York Workhouse.
New York City.—Extra cots have
been sent to Blackwell's Island to
make room for the largest prison pop
ulation in the history of New York.
The Workhouse is full, and long
term vagrants are being transferred
to the Blackwell’s Island Penitentiary
and to the Raymond Street Jail, in
Brooklyn, to make room for the daily
arrivals of as many as 100 prisoners.
There are more than 700 women and
nearly 900 men in the Workhouse of
the metropolis.