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JOURNAL’S
SATURDAY
SERMON
To proceed at once to the consideration
of our tekt. I observe:
In the first place, the spirit is here
declared to be a guide. If I am trav
eling through an unknown lan<L where the
dangers are such as to require that I be
accompanied by a guide. Before I car
trust myself to the guidance of such a
one. I must have confidence in his abil
ity to render the assittance I :.eed. And
so. as I journey through life. r?allting
my need of guidance. I may well ask my
self the question. What is there in this
gui'ie who offers to lead me to inspire
such a degree of confidence as will enable
'me to trust my all into His hands? In
searching the word fur an answer we
are there taught that this spirit is one
of the God-hiad. That he is a person
equal in power and glory with the other
two persons in the Gcd-head. the Father
and the Son. That this is true according
to the Scriptures is proven by the follow
ing:
"He Is called God. What the Spirit says
Jehovah rays. Compare Isaiah <; 8. 9. with
Acts 28 : 25. and Jeremiah 31: 33 with He
brews ». 15. K. To lie to tne Hob Ghost
is to lie to God. Acts 5; 3. 4.
k " (2) Divine perfections are ascribed to
him* Omniscience. 1 Corinthians 2: 10. 11;
Omnipresence. Psalms 139. 7; Omnipotence.
‘Luke 1: 38; Roffians 8; 11.
(3) Divine works are attributed to Him:
Creation. Job 28; IS Psalms 194: 30 Mir
acles. 1 Corinthians 12: 9. 11; Regeneration.
John 3: «: Titus. 3; 8.
Hl Divine worship is to be pain to Him.
His gracious .nfluences arc InvoKcd in
'the Apostolical jenedktiona, 2 Corinthians
13: A Wc are baptised into His name.
Blasphen v against the Holy Ghost is
' never forgiven; Matthew 12: 31, S 2. (A A.
Hodge.)
Retry thus one of the God-heud, I can
-follow His guidance, because—
(a) He the way. The way may
be dark and Ircary. may lead “o’er
earth's green Seles ano oceans’ wave
beat shores.” The mountain may be steep
and wiki. the valleys deep and dreary,
but amid It all the Christian need fear
no evil, for nis guide knows the way. He
knewa the way because in the councils
of eternity He detenrined the way. He
knews tl.e pit-falls: He knows the stum
bling stones; He knows the deceptive
branch roads: He knows the alluring rest
ing places: He knows the shelter in a
time of storm. And when the storms
rage and the thunder roars, the tempest
tos«ed soul of the Christian can sing
with peace and joy
“Lead kindly tight, amid the encircling
gloom.
JLead thou me on;
The night ; s dark and I am far from
home;
Lead thou me on
‘Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The dUta*l. scene—one step is enough for
„ , Tne . ”
■F (b) I C 3» follow His guidance not only
Hgbeeause He snows the way. but also be
“cause He is able. and. having begun to
' will not desert me in the way.
Being one of the co-equal God-heads. all
Po wer is given unto Him in heaven and
on the earth. He therefore has power
to lead me througn the valley and to de
feat all those foes which cross my path.
Hath He not said: "Fear thou not., for
1 am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am
thv God. I will strengthen thee; yea. I
will help thee; yea. 1 will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteousness.”
And I know that power will always be
available for me because Paul declares
be “confident of this very thing, that He
which began a good work in you will per
fect it until the day of Jesus Christ.
_ fP*kM. 1; 8, R. V.) The Holy Ghost is
pledged to carry out that work once be
gun. A
that once Jesus hath bound
fw repose.
I will not. I will not desert to his foes:
That soul, though all hell should endeav
or to shake
I’ll never, no nover. no never forsake."
We hear men say they cannot take a
stand for Christ, because they are afraid
they will not oe able to hold out. Yes,
my brother, you are right; you can never
hold out if you are depending upon your
strength, but what if I tell you we don’t
depend upon our strength; we do not
trust to man’s guidance, but we are under
the guidance and love pledged to us by
power of the God-head. That picture we
so often see changes La representation,
and the trusting soul no longer clings to
the cross, but the Christ on the cross
clings to the soul.
Ah. the comfort in the thought that our
guide is able and will not desert a work
of grace once begun. So amid the storms
once more the Christian can sing with joy
and peace.
“So long Thy power hath blessed me,
sure It still
Will lead me on
O’er moor and fen. o’er crag and torrent
till
The sight Is gone.
And with the morn those angel faces
smile.
Which I have loved long since, and lost
awhile."
(c) I can follow His guidance not only
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The Spirit of God
TEXT—“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the
sons of God.”—-Romans, viil:l4.
BY REV. CHARLES R. NISBET,
Pastor-elect of the Westminster Presbyterian Church.
REV. CHARLES R. NISBET.
because He knows the way and is able
and faithful, but also because He loves
me. To use the language oi another, “We
read in Scripture of the indignation of the
Father, and of the wrath of the Son, but
only of the love of the Holy Ghost. He
yearns over us, pleads with us. ano if
we will humbly commit ourselves to His
guidance. He will lean us safely into the
fulness of the great salvation. So Intense
ly does He love us that He prays for us
with groaning* which cannot be uttered.
(Romans 8; 26). What will not love suf
fer?
We read of a soldier who was condemn
ed under Cromwell to be executed "at
the ringing of the curfew.” He was en
gaged to be married to a beautiful woman
who plead with the judge and with Crom
well in vain. “Al preparations for the
execution were made and all awaited the
signal bell.
The sexton, old and deaf, threw himself
upon the rope, as was his custom, but
no sound. The young lady climbed the
belfry stair, caught and held the tongue
of the bell, at the risk of her own life. At
length the bell ceased to swing. The deaf
old sexton supposed he had rung the cur
few. The brave woman descended, wound
ed and bleeding, to meet Cromwell, who
came to demand why the bell was silent.
“At his feet she told her story, showed her
hands all bruised and torn.
And her sweet young face, still haggard
with the anguish it had worn.
Touched his heart with sudden pity, lit his
eyes with misty light.
•Go, your lover Ilves,' cried Cromwell.
•Curfew shall not ring tonight.’ ”
But these human loves, strong and self
denying though they be, are but faintly
suggestive of that love which the spirit
exercises toward God's elect. And I know
that if he loves me thus, he will lead as
best he can.
In the second place, we learn the need
of guidance as Christians.
The Christian experience is described as
a warfare in the Bible, and the armor to
be used in the prosecution of this warfare
is given by Paul in Ephesians 6. 14-18:
“Stand, therefore, having your loins girt
about with truth and saving on the
breastplate of righteousness, and your
feet shod wk., the preparation of the gos
pel of peace, above all taking the shield
of faith wherewith ye shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation and the
sword of the spirit, which Is the word of
God,” etc. Here is the equipment, but how
can this army flght without a leader? The
army of the United States was splendidly
equipped as it faced the Spaniards before
Santiago, but had. it not been for the
leadership of that brave soldier, General
Wheejer, who came to the rescue at a
critical moment, and from the top of a
RECAPTURE OF THE CRATER,
IN WHICH 22 D GA. TOOK PART
I have been reading in your valuable
paper the articles from the old Confeder
ates, their close calls during the civil
war, and I have been much interested in
the experiences of the many old soldiers
from different sections, but seeing nothing
from Warren county I feel inclined to
give a bit of my experience as a Con
federate soldier.
Before telling of the special close call
that I had at the Crater, near Petersburg,
Va., July 31, 1884, when our works were
blown up by the Federais, I will say that
I enlisted in 1881, was elected fourth cor
poral of Company H. Twenty-second
Georgia regiment, Wright’s brigade; held
same office until the close of the war, re
fusing to be promoted, and am still
known aa Corporal Reese by my friends
in the county.
I was in many of the engagements near
Richmond and Petersburg, and fortunate
enough to receive only two slight wounds
during the many fights and close places.
I shall commence to tell in brief my close
call at the Crater.
On the morning of the 31st of July, our
brigade was ordered to the front at this
point, to recapture our works, broken by
the blow up. Our works were compeltely
filled up with Federal troops and many
colored troops among the Yanks. Before
making our charge upon the enemy in the
Crater and our works, I counted 27
stands United States colors within 100
vards of our works and near the Crater.
This was a hot place for human flesh to
face, but our brave boys were equal to
the occasion, although wc lost in killed
and wounded heavily.
I made my way to the works under this
heavy fire and crossed bayonets with a
colored Federal at the ditch. Every man
within 30 steps of me was shot down
and our line faltered under such heavy
fire. To all human eyes, it seemed impos
sible for one to remain standing under
such a shower of lead. Our loss was
heavy, while that of the enemy was ap
palling; the Crater and ditches were full
of dead men.
I reached the works but my company
under such heavy fire could not. I fired
three rounds at a close range into a mass
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tree directed the attack, the men with
their splendid equipment would have fall
en into the hands of the Spaniards. So it
is with the church and with individuals.
Be the equipment what it may, there must
be a general, there must be a leader, there
must be one who, possessing the ability
and power and at the same time occupy
ing a position above, wherefrom this van
tage ground he can look down upon his
forces, will direct the attack.
But again, we need a guide not simply
to direct while in action, but to lead the
hosts of the Lord all along the way. No
man would attempt to scale the lofty Alps
unaccompanied by a guide. The passes are
too wild, the precipices too steep, the way
too long. Night comes upon the lone trav
eler and, wrapped in darkness, he knows
not where to turn, for to advance only
a step may mean death.
So in scaling the Alps in pathway
we dare not proceed alone. The way is
rough, the storms rage, the pitfalls and
stumbling stones are all around; dark
ness throws its pall upon the earth and
we know not where to plant the foot.
Oh, in a time like this we need a guide. A
guide who is able, who will persevere,
who is willing, whose eye is never closed
such a one the Christian has in the Holy
Ghost. *
In the third place, we learn not simply
that the Holy Ghost is the Christian’s
guide, and that the Christian needs his
guidance, but also that condition into
which those who are led by this guide are
introduced. They are the sons of God.
By the working of the spirit in his heart
the Christian is enabled to cry, Abba.
Father, and in thus addressing God to
feel and realize what that intimate rela
tion implies. For the spirit beareth wit
ness with our spirits that we are the
children of God, and, as Paul continues,
if children, then heirs of God and joint
heirs with Jesus Christ. Heir to what?
To that inheritance incorruptible and un
defiled and that fadeth not away (Det.
1-4). We understand more now what
Christ meant when he said, “In my Fa
ther’s house are many mansions,” etc.
We are to be there with Christ, because
through the redemption purchased by
Christ, applied to us by the Holy Spirit,
that is our Father’s house, and as his
children we have a right to a joint heir
ship in these our Father’s possessions.
Oh, trusting soul, w’earied and worn by
the toils and hardships of life, humiliated
by the judgments of this world, forlorn
and cast down by the failures of the past,
take courage, look up, hold high your
head. Let a new song burst from your
lips, rejoice and be exceeding glad, for
you are the child of a King, the child of
the King of Kings; you shall inherit the
earth, yea, the heavens and the earth.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of
God they are the sons of God.
of men and 1 Im sure my bullets went into
human flesh as far as the powder had
force to send them. I remained in my
position until the darkness gave me an op
portunity of getting out.
I have seen much service, but to my
mind this retaking of our broken line
at the Crater was the hottest place of the
war. I have seen this fatal spot since the
war. and every point and position w’as
perfectly familiar to me, and this event
will ever be fresh in my mind, but these
will soon perish as we drop one by one
from the stage of daily toil and be gath
ered together at the last day.
JESSE REESE.
Fourth Corporal, Company H, Twenty
second Georgia Regiment.
Warrenton, Ga.
ANTIQIJTTYOTHUMAirRACE.
Prof. Matthew Flinders Petrie in a lec
ture this week sums up in a few sen
tences of intensest interest the latest ev
idence of the antiquity of the human
race, says a London cable letter. Anti
quarians now have to deal with Egypt
alone. There is an unbroken chain of
historic record from 5,000 B. C., besides
actual objects which carry history back
2,000 years further, thus giving, 9,000 years
to human history, but this is y«t far
from the beginning.
There were traces which showed that
civilization must have come from another
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country, but where no one has the slight
est idea. The earliest graves have fig
ures of a race of bushmen of a type dis
covered similar to those found in France
and Malta, proving that the race exten
ded from Africa to Europe. Then there
are figures of women of earlier races,
which probably were of the paleolithic
age. Beyond this there was a time the
climate of Egypt was totally different
from today: when a rainfall fertilized
what is now a desert, and when animals
of which all trace has been lost inhabited
the country. .
Other land might show the age of man
to be more remote by physical evidence,
but nowhere could we feel more plainly
the certainty of the antiquity of man
than where 9,000 years' continuous re
mains did not yet bring us into the vast
periods of those climatic and geological
changes through which man had kept up
the chain of life to the present day.
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Demand For Horses
In South Africa.
"Most of the horse and mules imported
.for army use into South Africa are pur
chased in the United States. Animals
brought from other countries stand the
climate well and require but little rest
after landing before being put to work,
but their lack of size and strength ren
ders them unsuitable for farm and city
use,” writes United States Consul General
Stowe, of Capetown, to the state depart
ment. “The veldts of South Africa are
dotted with carcasses of horses that have
fallen by the wayside, overcome by fa
tigue, starvation or sickness. Mules are
more hardy, especially American mules,
which, owing to their size, strength and
adaptability to all kinds of work, are al
ways in demand. Although many horses
and mules have been imported into this
colony during the war, many more will
be needed. By the time hostilities have
entirely ceased, there will be a dearth of
these animals. Many farm horses have
been commandeered, and those undisturb
ed by the military authorities are sadly
in need of recuperation. There has been
one sale by the authorities of horses and
mules unfitted for army use. These ani
mals were offered at a low price, with the
object of benefiting the farmers who have
suffered loss of live stock during the war.
With a little care many of them could be
restored to health. The need of the army
has been so urgent that many of the
horses were not allowed sufficient time to
recover from the effects of the ocean voy
age before they were put to work. Horses
that have become acclimated are said to
be ‘salted.’ An American firm in this city
has built up a large business in the sale
of American horses and mules. Among
its importations have been a number of
excellent carriage horses. On arrival, the
animals are allowed to rest, are well tak
en care of, and generally become accli
mated without suffering. The company
owns commodious stables at Capetown.
“After the war is over the opportunities
for business in this line will be greatly
increased, not only in Cape Colony, but in
the Transvaal, the Orange River Colony
and Natal. Capetown Is a good place at
which to land and care for stock before
shipment elsewhere. Prices, are, and will
continue to be, satisfactory."
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School of Technology.
The following notice of the Georgia
School of Technology Is taken from “Shop
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The annual announcement of the Geor
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is a very fat, very well printed and very
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of this Institution’s thoroughness seems
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“The graduate's commercial valuation,
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He must know things and how to do them,
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GOLD DREDGE BOATSOLD.
Consolidated Gold Mining Co. of Dah
lonega Buys Privileges.
DAHLONEGA Ga., Sept. 5.-The gold
dredge boat and mineral privileges of
Birch Bros, on the Chestatee river, ten
miles from here were sold today at public
auction, and were purchased by Capt.
George H. Breymann, vice president and
general manager of the Consolidated Gold
Mining company, for 11.515. The boat has
been tn succesful operation tor about five
years, and the proprietors have in that
time cleared between 325.000 and $30,000 by
the boat. But ill-health and domestic
reasons demanded a change of business,
and the property was sold as stated. The
price is regarded as exceedingly low. and
Captain Breymann is being congratulated
on his bargain.
The Georgia Dredging company has
been operating for several montWß a gold
dredge boat on the Chestatee river within
two miles of Dahlonega with such success
tnat the company is bui.ding a second
boat.
IN ATTEMPT TO SAVE WOMAN
NEGRO IS FATALLY SHOT.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Sept. 5,-Mack
Lewis was shot and fatally Injured yes
terday afternoon by Richard Lewis. The
two men, who are negroes, reside In the
same house and have’ a woman cooking
for them.
Richard Lewis was about to strike the
woman, when Mack Lewis interfered, and
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An Unanswered Prayer.
New York Tribune.
"I have been teaching my children some
thing of the power and usefulness of pray
er," said the happy mother of three fine
youngsters. "I thought little Bobbie had
grasped the idea in spite of the limitations
of a mind three years old. His faith is
badly shaken because his first request
was not granted. Looking devoutly to
ward the heavens he asked:
" ’Please, Dod, (row down a moQ-cow.' ”
ROMANCE OF KNOLL LIGHT.
§ BY LYNN ROBY MEEKINS.
X
X Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Publishing Company.
Knoll Lighthouse was several miles out
in the great bay. At night it sent forth a
brilliant radiance that kept the ships
from the shoals beyond. By day it was a
round pile of stone that looked veff lone
some In the waste of waters around.
Life there looked dreary. Few would
have chosen it for a place of residence,
but old Captain Sharp belonged to a fam
ily of lighthouse keepers, and it suited
him. It also suited his wife, a rotund
dame, who was in the h?bit of saying in
reply to all questions:
“Why shouldn’t I enjoy it? You city
folks have dust and flies and mice and
rats and such things to flght and to make
you tired and sad, while I can keep my
house clean from year's end to year’s end
with no trouble at all.”
And if ajiy one asked Captain Sharp if
he did not long for company sometimes
and did not sigh for the land, his fat sides
would shake with laughter and he would
aay:
"Bless you, no! In them city houses
jammed together like bricks in a pile you
never see nothing: while out here you see
everything. And the fish you eat—how do
you know they’ve been put of the water
w
Capt. Sharp.
•
two days or two weeks? Why, we just put
down our lines, and in three shakes of a
whale’s tail dinner’s ready. Healthy? We
don't know anything else, and I actually
believe the good Lord put a limit on hu
man life so as to keep us light-keepers
from livin’ forever.”
And another laugh rolled over his ex
panse of corpulance and reverberated
through the room.
“Oh, yes, all Boris of queer things hap
pen, and we don’t get hum drum here—
not a bit of it. The funniest? Well, nogr.
Eliza, I guess that little experience in the
October blow was about as interesting as
any of ’em, wasn’t it?”
She looked up from her knitting and
nodded a smiling assent.
“Oh, that was funny,” said Captain
Sharp. "You see, it was this way: George
Hazard has a lot of vessels, and one of
’em was going to pieces on a shoal about
twenty miies down. She’d run aground in
a gale, and they couldn’t get her off. Her
cargo was wbrth a good deal. At last
old man Hazard calculated he’d better go
and see for himself. He owns a nice tug,
you know, and it’s fitted up pretty well,
and when his daughter Helen—that’s her
nan*?” he asked, referring to his wife.
“That was her name,” was the reply.
"I guess the Helen part of it is the
same yet,” said the captain, “but that
ain’t neither here nor there. Helen start
ed out with ’em. Well, after they’d left
the city about an hour the blow started
up and the sky got blacker’n the Inside
of a stovepipe and all on board begun
to get a leetle skeered. It wouldn’t do
no good to turn back, so they kept on.
When they got down as far as us things
looked bad. But Hazard, who kin grip a
dollar tighter’n a catfish kin bite a worm,
was determined to save as much as he
could of that cargo. But what was they
to do? There was only one thing and
they done it. They come up to the light
house and asked us to take care of the
girl while they kept on down to the
wreck. Just then the sea began to flare
up and when we were getting the young
missus in a big wave come along and
covered her. But we got her on deck
in the house. I mean—all right and I
shouted through the storm that we’d take
good care of her and that everything
would be all safe and sound. So they
went along and were soon lost in the
cloud and rain.”
Mrs. Sharp looked up again from her
knitting. “Poor thing,” she said, “she
was most drowned.”
“That she was,” said the captain, “and
she was such a slim little bit. I declare
she reminded me of a kitten that had
fell overboard. We got her to the dry
room in a jiffy and then Eliza took her
in tow. ‘Course she had to have dry
clothes and there was only one thing for
Eliza to do and she done it, but, gentle
men, you ought to have saw the conse
quences. Without calling attention on
necessarlly to my wife. I may say that
she is not what you might call a lady
a-fadin’ away. She have got her share
of sise. and neither her nor me is
ashamed of it. Well, as I was sayin’, you
ought to have saw Miss Helen Hazard
when she come out of that room wab
blin’ In Eliza’s clothes. I didn’t like to
laugh, but I jest couldn’t help it—a oys
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reediculous. And she took it fine, too.
•Jest go on with your laughin’, she said
to me, ‘fur I feel as funny as I look,’
and then Eliza couldn t hold in any long
er, and we laughed ourselves almost sick,
until we happened to hear a voice crying
for help.”
“Where was that, captain?”
’ Right out in front of the house.
‘Course I jumped out to do what I could
and I seen a young feller havin’ a very
bad time of it in the rough water, but
holdin' his own as if he’d been there be
fore and was used to swimmin’. He come
nearer and nearer and hollered that he
could make it if I’d be ready to fish him
up, and I got the boat hook and pretty
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soon I had him safe and sound on the
lanuin’.”
“He wouldn’t have lasted much long
er,” put in Mrs. Sharp.
“Deed he wouldn’t. It was jest about his
last stroke, but a miss is as good as a
mile, and he was mighty glad to get in
doors, I can tell you. I was too busy
to notice the young woman—”
“She turned pale as a ghost, but never
said a word,” put in Mrs. Sharp.
’Then it was my duty to get some
clothes. Well, this young man was Alex
ander Pitkin—you know him—the young
fellow who sails yachts. I’d seen him goln’
by many times and so he wasn’t a strang
er. Well, he’s a tall, lanky sort of a chap
—and, gentlemen, all I got to say is that
what you can see with your own eyes. I
ain’t built on the narrer style, and some
time ago I had to get more room on the
stairway in order to clean the lights. And
so when young Pitkin got lost in them
clothes of mine, he looked up and said:
“ ’Captain, where’s the compass and the
chart?’
“ ’For what?’ I asked.
*’ ‘To find my way out,’ he said.
"And we were laughing at the little
joke when we come out of the room. Then
I did notice. Pitkin stopped as if he’d
been shot and the girl looked out the
winder without saying a word. ‘Well,’ I
says to myself, ’here’s a mess. I wonder
what’s the matter.’ So I ups and says,
‘As long as we’re here together and not
many in the crowd I guess we’d better
be sociable. Miss Helen Hazard, here’s
Mr. Alexander Pitkin, and our name’s
Sharp, and now I hopes we all feel ac
quainted.’ Well, sirs, the little girl seem
ed to try to get down in Eliza’s clothes
and the man kept his eyes out the other
window and ’peared all the world like one
of the scare crows you see in the fields,
my clothes' hanging on his bones like a
mainsail on a fence pole. I kept on talk
in’ to cheer ’em up and they kept on
lookin’ out the winders, ’till finally Eliza
said the coffee was ready then they
jest had to face each other. Oh, that was
the time—”
"The man give in first," said Mrs.
Sharp.
“No, slrree. he didn’t; not by a jugful.
He was about to cave, but the girl beat
him. She tried to keep her face straight,
but when she got a good look at him she
couldn’t hold herself. Talk about your
hysterics! Her laugh was one of these
silvery things that jest make the air tin
gle, and the harder she tried to stop the
more she went on, and then we all got
it, and Pitkin leaned back so far that one
of the suspenders slipped and he was
The Majority Pro-Boer.
A New Yorker, who signs himself “T?
H. P.,” has sent to The Sun a letter
which he lately received from “an officer
very high in the councils of the British
government,” in which an Interesting
statement is seml-officially made concern
ing the situation in South Africa. The let.
ter is an appeal to American citisens to
stop encouraging the Boers. In many re
spects it is a remarkable statement and
entirely unobjectionable. The writer rec
ognizes that the great majority of Amer
icans sympathise with their fellow-repub
licans of South Africa—a fact that is now
recognized everywhere, commenting on
which The Springfield Republican says:
“The sympathy Britain gets in this
country for her destruction of republics
has been steadily declining ever eince the
war began. Kruger could go from New
York to San Francisco and see thousands
of people cheering around his car, while
Chamberlain would see none.
“The most remarkable part of this letter
from the high British official, however, is
not his appeal to Americans to stop en
couraging the Boers, or his frank assump
tion that America is now pretty solidly
pro-Boer. The extraordinary thing about
it is his own explanation of the prolonged
war, in this closing passage:
“ ‘You express surprise that a small
body of men, not more than 5,000, can
GREAT EXPOSITION OPENS
AT TALLULAH SEPT.
TALLULAH FALLS. Ga„ Sept? 5.-
Only two more weeks till the gates open
for the Blue Ridge and Falls
exposition.
Superintendent Wilcox, - from Mt. Airy,
is here now with a large force of hands
enclosing the grounds and erecting ad
ditional buildings. The Cliff Hall and the
Billeard house and boiling alley will all
be used for exhibits, while a new build
ing is being constructed for machinery
hall, and sheds are being built for live
stock, poultry and pet animals.
Mrs. M. H. Gale, superintendent of flor
iculture, is having built a log cabin, which
is to be an exact reproduction of the
hermit - s cabin about which there are so
many legends, and in front of it is being
erected an Indian mound to be covered
with flowers.
The ladies are here every day now plan
ning and arranging their various depart
ments. Miss Sarah E. White, of Tallulah,
has interested the Federation of Women’s
clubs in the opportunity for work among
the poor and Illiterate women among the
mountains, and she expects quite a num
ber of ladies from Atlanta and other
polnts«to visit the fair on this account.
Col. W. H. Grant, from Clayton, passed
through here yesterday and reports that
the mountain people are surely coming
says more than 200 from around Clayton
will come and camp out around the falls
during the fair, and he says they will
nearly all bring down some specimens of
minerals and hardwoods.
It is estimated there will not be less
than 5,000 people here from the mountains
of Georgia, North and South Carolina,
and even Tennessee.
While the beautiful fall weather, which
just now is ideal among these mountains,
is sure to attract large crowds from the
cities. It is really the most attractive
season of the year to visit this section.
The fair management is providing a let
of free attractions to amuse the crow’ds,
but the most of those who come the
grandieur of the falls and the cliffs and
the climate will far more than repay
them for time and expense.
The railroads have all made a rat® of
one fare for the round trip, wtiile the
Tallulah Falls road will probably run a
dozen trains a day over its line to accom
modate iae people w’ho will prefer to stop
at other towns and hotels.
There will be a ball every night at the
Cliff house and the Great hotel, called the
Lodge, which has just closed, will be re
opened for fair week. This property is
owned by the railroad and Major Dunlap,
of Gainesville. The popular general man
ager has announced that the Lodge will
be brilliantly lighted by electricity and
equipped in first class style; it will be run
jam up during the fair as an advertise
ment for the road.
The people are certainly worked up over
the fair, and are expecting big crowds.
Governor Candler has Invited Governor
Aycock, of North Carolina and Governor
McSweeney. of South Carolina, to join
him .in opening the fair on September
17th.
MANY STATES~WILL~EXHIBIT.
South Carolina and Alabama are com
ing to the Interstate fair.
Secretary Martin, of the fair, has just
funnier than ever.
“ ‘You folks seem to have met afore,’ I ’
said after we got a bit quiet.
"But they didn’t say nothin’—not a sol
itary word. Then byme by I went up to
look at the lights and Liza was busy in the
other room and they was left together. We •
stayed out quite a while and when I got
baxk I crept in ruther quiet, so as not to
disturb ’em, and what do you think I ,
seen?. They was standing at one
and the sleeve of my old coat was ai
the waist of Eliza’s old dress—jest like
it used to be before we got married ”
"You can leave that out of your yarn,”
said Mrs. Sharp.
"And they did look the happiest and the
funniest that ever was on land or
sea. After awhile she heard me and she
gave me the sweetest smile that ever was,
and he was as red as that sunset out yon
der, and he got redder as he said:
" •Captain, it was the best thing that
ever happened when the squall upset my
boat and brought me here,’ and she said<
" ‘l’m glad they left me In your care.
"Then I seen it all. They’d had a tiff
and broke off keepin’ company, and
now they’d come together agin. I done
my best in way of a reply, sayin’, ’l’m
mighty pleased to have you, but I’m.
mighty afeared if you’re wantin’ weddln’
guarments from this shop you 11 have to
take a double reef in the present outfit,’
and then when old man Hazard come up
the bay about dusk and asked for his
daughter, I told him that she was iriside in
the hands of a pirate and it looked to me
that he’d lost her for good. Well, it seemed
that old Hazard was also mixed up in
the breaking off of the match, but when
he saw them two young’uns in them togs
he jest had to give in, and the '‘wed
din’ come off the very next week—and we
got special invitations, with letters R. S.
V. P down in the corper. I took it to mean
radishes, soup, veal and potatoes, but I
guess I was wrong. Anyhow we didn’t go,
but every time the Pitkins pass here they
either stop or salute and ”
“They send the captain a new suit and
me a new dress every Christmas,’’ added
Mrs. Sharp.
RECUPERATIVE EFFECT.
Considered with reference to its recuper
ative effect, there is not so much good in
the ordinary vacation as there is in a sin
gle bottle of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. The lat
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withstand the British force_of 1,000,000. If i
you knew the conditions in South Africa
you would not be in the least surprised.
South Africa is largely a Dutch colony A
and the very men that take our money andJH
eat our food as loyal citizens and
of King Edward are at the bottom
their hearts pro-Boer, just as you
be In America.’
“Now, consider that for a momeMH
‘South Africa is largely a Dutch
and people there who appear to be loyal f
subjects of King Edward are ‘at the bot
tom of their hearts pro-Boer.' Here is an
admission that the majority of the white
people of South Africa, including those of
Cape Colony, are hostile to British rule. It
Is an admission that Britain is imposing
her government and flag by force upon a
people of European race who prefer Dutch
nationality, which has already been firmly
established in South Africa in the course ~
of half a century of Independent existence
by the Boer republics.
"There Is no better reason than that for
sympathizing with the Boers, for the
Dutch are a great people and well quail- d
fled for developing civilization in Souths
Africa.
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been notified that Chester county, South ’
Carolina, wdll make one of the largest dis
plays ot any county among all those which
will enter the prize competition. Arrange
ments are now being made there by sever
al prominent citizens to compete for the H
SI,OOO first prize for the best county exhib
it and as Chester is one of the richest
counties in the Carolinas the exhibit will
probably be one of the best at the fair.
Secretary Martin has also been informed
that Madison county, Alabama, will be
one of the county exhibitors. This will
throw, for the first time in several years,
the products of Georgia. South Carolina
and Alabama against each other in com
petition.
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