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8 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 Personal. DR. EDMONDSON'S T*n»y. 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Ft han tsmaMailr rtnd U« eonltiMJ l» 15 W 3» (art. Vttttecit ths mart (tetitais cams. , CAPITAL, *MX),OOO | Tse rat kt treated st kins talar utt gaarasta. If th ban ur«i nrrttrr. ladila jotaak. aadttUlhart actataaipuat, Itwithkietia lattk.fcraTlraal, hnplss. Ccywr Cslsetd Sect*. Gre not tty part of tit heir, lair tr reetevwi folast ost, vnulbr trttft of COOK REMEDY CO. 1 671 Maaonle Temple. Ch ion go, HL V^ R rT R,, '^ R rT 1 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 THE SEMI-WEEKLY .JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1901. 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 DENTISTRY. Write the Southern Dental College, Atlanta, Ua., If You Contemplate the Study of Dentistry. This is one of the oldest and best schools In the country and teaches all the im proved methods now used in dentistry. For information write S. W. Foster, Dean, Inman building, Atlanta, Ga. 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. O /K O 'X* 3R, X -A. « leaix th. The Kind Yea Have Always Botijf 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." A GOOD WATCH And Semi-Weekly Journal One Year for |2.00. We have at last found a Watch which we can deliver postpaid to the subscribers for The Journal (in connec tion with the pafcer'tine year) lor 83.08. Wo have a good guarantee tnat this watch will keep Correct time for one year, provided it la not misused. If It does not, it can M returned at our ex pense This le the watch we have long been looking for anc. just found. It lea rtetu winder and stem setter, t* nickel plated and nandsomo. Thio watch Is offered only to direct eubecrib ers. as wo sell at factory prices from which we buy by the thousand. Bend your name and s2*oo and you win get c. splendid watch and the best news paper in the south. Address THE JOURNAL. Atlanta. Gw School of Technology. The following notice of the Georgia School of Technology Is taken from “Shop Talk," one of the most popular mechan ical magazines in the country: The annual announcement of the Geor gia School of Technology for 1900-1901-1902 is a very fat, very well printed and very carefully compiled pamphlet telling a great deal about what some authorities consider the second important school of Its class In the counfv. The key-note of this Institution’s thoroughness seems to be summed up in the following para graph: “The graduate's commercial valuation, on leaving the technical school, is Invari ably based on his helpfulness—on what he can do, and not on what he knows. He must know things and how to do them, and not simply know about them.’’ The book is plentifully Illustrated with full page half tone engravings of the va rious departments, wnich embrace me chanical engineering, electrical engineer ing, civil engineering, textile engineering, engineering, chemistry, designing, draw ing, machine shop, foundry, etc., etc. 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 the result was a difficulty in which the fatal shot was fired. Richard Lewis managed to escape. The two men are not related. 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 ter would a-cackled, it was so outrageous 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 On Jellies preserves and pickles, spread ‘i i a thiu coating of j PURE REFINED PARAFFINE I Will keep them absolutely moisture and » ’ KB acid proof. Pure Keflned Paraffine is also li t-isl useful hi a dozen other ways about the £3l I bouse. Full directions in each package. I ang Bold everywhere. •? f i STANDARD OIL CO. 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 ter costs $1; the former —well, that de pends; how much did yours cost last year? Hood's Sarsaparilla refreshes the tired blood, sharpens the dulled appetite, re stores the lost courage. ••• 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. PR. SIEGEET'S Angostura Bitters Mg ?s the appetite and prepare the stomach work. A half win.-glass before meals. SI EGERT’S. \ ■« 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. 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It gave W me no pain or inconven- jf einee, and I should.have ■ forgotten about it had it I notbegun to inflame and JP "tfS *8 itch; it would bleed a- "16r r little, then scab over, but W j|B * would not heal. This Wrffi. continued for some time, .TW*' 1% ■ when my jaw began to h,.- ■ swell, becoming very —y ■ painful. The Cancer be- jBS? A gan to eat and spread, 5% JBA ■ until it was as large as a ■ half dollar.when I heard dMafaW f fs S S r.-. 1 d“t-r::;.n- ed to give it a fair trial, ' '■K^gtajUMKr| and it wtrs temarkable 1 what a wonderful effect ; ' - M it had from the verv beginning; the sore began to B heal and after taking a tew bottles entirely. This was two years ago ; theie are StiUM no signs of the Cancer, and my general continues good.—?las. R. SHTtiEk, La Plata? * 3 tkc iT °» blood purifiers, and only one jSfl V dr purely vegetable. for our free bo {fKjg : ~ ’.c and : i-ifortr..-.:-.- :i about this your case :. -> ' ■..■.u.-' for mt-hcal advice. 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