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I THE COUNTRY HOME
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AN OLD-FASHIONED WOMAN.
No elerer. brilliant thinker »be.
With college record and decree
She has not known the path* ot tame.
The world baa never beard her name
She walks in old. long-trodden way*.
The valley* of the yesterday*.
Home Is her kingdom. love her dower—
She seek* no other wand of power I
Tto make home sweet, bring heaven near.
To win a smile and wipe a tear.
And do her duty day by day
In her own quiet ptace and way.
Around her childish heart* are twined
As round some reverend saint enshrined.
And following hers the childish feet
Are led to ideal* true and sweet.
And find aU purity and good
Ir. her dlrinest motherhood.
She keeps her faith unshadowed Mlll-
Ood rule* the world in good and ill;
Men in her creed are brave and true.
And women pure as pearls of dew.
And life for her is high and grand.
• By work and glad endeavor spanned.
This sad old earth's a brighter place
Al! for the sunshine of her face;
Her very smile a blessing throws.
And hearts are happier where she goes,
A gentle, clean-eyed messenger.
To whisper love—thank God for her!
—L. M. Montgomery in the
Doctors and Wounded Presidents.
When President Garfield died 20 years
•go the country stood a maxed (and cer
tainly disgusted) at the published claims
of the doctor* who attended him In
Washington City and at Elberon, on the
New Jersey coast, where he breathed hl*
last.
He was shot by Gufteau on July 1 and
lingered until September 1».
According to the doctor* he was get
ting well all the time, while be was sure
ly dying for more than two month*. Dur
ing all this agony he had high-priced
physicians to diagnose and report upon
hi* condition. Telegraph wires were kept
hot transcribing and sending frequent
bulletins from ocean to ocean.
They had every appliance that money
could buy and Ingenuity or science could
suggest.
Thev had all sorts of surgical instru
ments within reach and all sorts of de
vices to cure up the wound safely.
They hunted for the bullet day after
day and vowed by the eternal that they
had located it. when lo! an autopsy and
post mortem incision discovered it in a
place never before designated.
When the stomach was entered there
was no bullet there, and it dropped out
from the backbone muscle* accidentally
into a basin placed underneath to hold
the removed portion*, while the wise men
were looking in another place where they
assured the country they had located It
beyond peradventure. Nevertheless they
bad cheek enough to present a medical
bill to congress which was monumental
in sise and charlatan audacity.
It would seem that nothing Is really
learned by experience in some quarters,
for President McKinley was wounded and
died from a similarly undiscovered bullet,
after the same style and fashion, only a
.short 20 years elapsing.
Perhaps it was Impossible to reach the
bullet in either case, but it is preposter
ous that the country should have been
assured at both times that the wounded
men were on the high road to recovery
when they had a death warrant tn a fre
quently examined part of their bodies,
and yet where these doctors were incap
able of locating IL
Wai it Ignorance or were they only try
ing to fool the ignorant? With a bullet
passing through President McKinley's
stomach in two places, they either failed
to look beyond those two bole* or they
concluded to guess at probable result*
and trust to luck to sustain their guess.
Having had sad experience with Mr.
Garfield b wound and the false hopes
created by unreliable bulletin*. It is as
tonishing that the late doctors should
have stumbled and blundered in exactly
the same way in their decisions, bulletins
and opinions tn treating Mr. McKinley.
Perhaps the country may congratulate
Itself that the late sufferer passed off
without more time being given for false
and meretricious pretense and with less
opportunity for extravagant and imprac
ticable protestation* of cure to disgust
the country, where no possibility of cure
can now be discovered in either Instance.
The sole apology which can be accept
ed is one of positive Inability to save life,
but that apology does not harmonise with
the loud sounding declarations, signed
and sealed as a decree of infallible opin
. ion. which pronounced the president per
fectly safe (with no question about It) in
lae minds of nearly a dozen doctors, se
lected becausq of their well known skill
and experience. Somebody is at fault
when a former mistake or miscalculation
went for naught in treating a case al
most exactly alike and under similar con
ditions to the first.
Perhaps there will be little criticism of
Mr. McKinley's doctors in print for drop
ping into the same unfortunate manner of
saying things that were not authorised
and not relied upon, but certainly the
medical profession Is carrying a burden
that is surely felt if not complained of in
the mistaken treatment of the late presi
dent's wound by the notable physicians
assembled at Bnffalo. Their failure is
mortifying.
Their bulletins smack of something that
closely resembles charlatanism—ls it Is
Dot the genuine article itself.
When one great medical expert rose up.
clapped his heels together and dismissed
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the waiting friends with such exultant
declarations as “All danger passed! Go
home and be easy! The president will be
at his desk sound and well in six weeks'
time!" etc., etc.. It taxes the patience a*
well as the forbearance of a disgusted
people to understand or forgive such dis
astrous evasions of truth and fact
This late exposition of medical inaccu
racy ha* been lamentable for more rea
sons than one. While the nation as well
as the family of Mr. Kinley were hurled
down from the joyful heights of confi
dence and hope to the very depths of
anxiety and grief there is obliged to be
unspoken dread that these doctor* were
from the start, either Incapable in prac
tice or dishonest in their public declara
tion* as to the president's condition dur
ing the week he suffered and finally died
under their treatment.
It speaks loudly for the general indif
ference of the taxpayers that incompe
tence should be paid for services of this
kind without public rebuke, and when
the medical bill is presented, as it will be
presented very soon, for settlement there
should be a thorough going over, with
examination of the misleading bulletins,
and the bill should be scaled down ac
cording to the value of services really
given. It is time to call a halt on over
grown medical fees in cases like those
here reviewed. To prevent repetition the
rebuke should be felt in pocket as well as
pride.
Nobody heard of gangrene until the au
topsy, but the world knows that a bullet
passing through vital parts was danger
ous in the extreme, and since the doctors
never did find the bullet, before or after
death, a half-idiot might reasonably un
derstand that the bullet did kill President
McKinley, and so long as that bullet was
imbedded inside his vital part* It could
not be truthfully said he was out of dan
ger.
Comparing the optimistic reports with
the reported temperature almost normal
accompanied with a pulse beating 125 and
130 was sufficient for a person 1,000 miles
away to know the president was unfor
tunate in his doctors, aw well a* danger
ous as to his real condition. Nothing but
a miracle would have availed in such a
crisis. President Garfield, with a consti
tution like iron, battled with hl* wound
and his doctor* for weeks and months,
but President McKinley had no such stay
ing power In hl* system.
And although Mr. Edison sent his finest
X-ray machine to the sufferer’s bedside,
accompanied by his most expert operator,
these extraordinary doctors put it all
aside as unnecessary. To locate the fatal
bullet, which was the one thing needful
to preserve a valuable life at that time,
was the office of the X-ray machine, but
those confident M. D.’s impatiently dis
missed the X-ray and preferred to leave
the bullet undisturbed. If it was not so
awfully tragic the conceit and obduracy
of this corp* of doctor* would be irresist
ibly comic.
Quacks are not all dead yet.
And the idea of allowing a lot of solid
food to coagulate and ferment th a human
stomach which had two hole* in it. caught
together by frail stitches, was just an
other symptom of defective modern medi
cal practice, combined with dense igno
rance. If the bullet had been located and
lifted out this extraordinary diet might
have defeated the struggle for the pa
tient's life with the bullet’s Influence
averted.
Taking the case altogether our common
average country doctors may take com
fort in the thought that doctor* are born,
not made, and judging by the effort* of
swell practitioners in high life incompe
tency Increases where the responsibility
Is greatest.
FOOD FOR INVALIDS.
Delicate and Nourishing Dishes That
Are Stimulating to Feeble Appetites.
An Exchange.
It is not uncommon for children and old
people to be troubled in the early autumn
months with what is known a* "summer
complaint. *' which is not always the re
sult of warm weather, but may easily
arise from too free a use of uncooked ap
ples. or other autumn fruits. After the
doctor ha* done his work much depends
upon the nursing and food the patient re
ceives. Absolute repose of the body, gen
tle amusement —so that the mind is direct
ed from the trouble—and suitable nourish
ment. is what Is needed. Generally such
a disease produces a parching thirst, but
water is very Injurious. A single sip of
ice wate may be administered to
satisfy the fretful demand, but no more
should be allowed. If the thirst is exces
sive either rice or toast water should be
prepared. To make rice water put two ta
blespoonfuls of clean, washed rice in a
quart of boiling water, and let it simmer
for two hour* until the rice is pretty thor
oughly dissolved. Strain the whole
through a fine wire strainer or a bit of
coarse muslin, and flavor with a good
pinch of salt. It can be drank either hot
or cold, and if stimulant* are prescribed
two tabespoonful* of sherry added to this
make it very palatable.
Toast water, which is a favorite drink in
England with both sick and well, is made
by toasting three or four slices of bread
very brown and dry and breaking them In
small pieces into a pint of cold water.
After soaking an hour, pour through a
napkin, squeezing the toast until all the
liquid passes through. If this is not found
palatable, and such additions are not for
bidden by the doctor, a squeexe of lemon
juice Improve* it greatly in flavor.
A good food recommended for those re
covering from this complaint is gum ara
ble jelly.
Put a half box of gelatine, a cup of sher
ry, two cloves and an inch of cinnamon In
to a double boiler, with a few table spoon
fuls of cold water. Let It stand for half
an hour, then add a cup of boiling water,
three tablespoonfuls of sugar, one of pow
dered gum arable and two of lemon juice.
Stir thoroughly over the Are until the
whole Is dissolved; then strain quickly,
before It has time to thicken, and set
away to cool. Such jelly is fed only by
the tablespoonful and given to restore the
strength of those who have been much
depleted by the complaint.
For those weak from nausea and vomit
ing the best and most soothing foods are
broths of clams or oyster*. Nothing, ap
parently. aids more rapidly in recupera
tion after any violent strain than the
juice* of shell fish, and those faint from
tne long starvation of violent seasickness
find a magical quality in such broths,
which must, however, be served as hot as
the patient can take them, as the heat
of the soup is one of Its most active re
storative qualities and serves to revive the
vital warmth lowered by the emptiness
and spasms of the stomach.
Sour Green Tomato Pickles.
One peck of green sliced tomatoes, ten
gaod-sised onions, add one teacupful of
salt mixed well through them, press
down with a weight, let stand for 34
hour*; drain off this brine and take two
quarts vinegar, one quart water, and boil
tomatoes in it about ten or fifteen min
ute*. or until tender; add two table
spoonsful of clnamon, clove*, ginger,
mace and cayenne pepper. For sweet
pickles make by the above recipe and
add four pounds of sugar. Seal or cork
well.
Degrees.
Judge.
"How do you feel?”
"Miserable. A* if my brain* had been
taken out and given to some one else. And
you?" „ .
"Worse? A* If I had ’em.”
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 190 L
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THE MOTHERLESS.
Two of the Children st the Decatur Orphans’ Home as They Were Found Mothering Some Lost Chickens.
The above picture is of two little or
phans at Decatur just as they were found
mothering a lot of orphan chickens. The
picture and the thoughts It suggests be
come an eloquent plea.
Many people wonder how the orphans
are fed. God feeds the birds through na
ture and He feeds the orphans through
human nature.
The orphans at Decatur, as well as at
other such orphans’ homes, have never
gone without a meal. Last year the
Decatur family went up to 159 orphans,
and these had to be fed and clothed. Every
expense was met. It takes fifty pounds
of flour for breakfast, to say nothing of
a half bushel or so of grits.
Uncle Dan Is his name and he is one of
the best known men In Cartersville. He is
by-no means a. dude, but is a hard work
ing man, whose ability to labor does not
seem to lessen with age. I present him to
the publie, not in his everyday garb, but
in his Sunday-go-tormeetlng suit, for he
absolutely refused to have his . picture
taken unless he was dressed up.
"Well, you had better gv> and get your
hair cut, too,” I suggested. A look of
alarm swept across his face as he replied:
"No, sir. I had hit cut onct. Hit like ter
kilt me. I wouldn’t cut dat hair no moah
for fifty dollars; no, sir, dat I wouldn’t.”
Uncle Dan Is remarkable for two things,
his sterling integrity and his knowledge of
the weather. He knows little about books
and such things, but he can give Marbury
pointers on the weather that would be a
help to him.
He Is my sexton. I found him In charge
of)the church when I came to Cartersville.
He is one of the most attentive listeners
in my congregation and recently he came
to me at the close of the service and said:
"You flung some mighty heavy rocks ter
day. I seed ’em a dodgin' all roun’. Yasser,
I did. Some er dem rocks hit putty close
roun' whar I wuz a settln’.”
A year ago last June I announced from
the pulpit one Sunday morning that we
would begin a protracted meeting the
next Sunday. When I was leaving the
church at the conclusion ot the service
Uncle Dan approached me and said:
"You picked out a mighty bad time fer
yx>" meetin’."
“What's the matter with the time?” I
asked in surprise.
"Hit's gwl’ rain.”
"How do you know?”
"1 des knows, dat’s hew come I knows;
yasser, hit gwl’ rain.”
"Well. It won't rain all the time, I reck
on. I expect the meeting to run for two
weeks or more.”
“Hit’s gwl rain mltey nigh all dis
munt.”
"I don’t believe you know any more
than I know, and I know the weather
man doesn’t give out any such news.”
"Nummine! You wait an’ see. Hit gwl
rain al] dis munt.’
The next Sunday It rained, and Dan
had a satisfied look on his face. Monday
It rained again, and Dan was contented.
Tuesday It rained, and the old man was
happy. Wednesday It rained again, and
he was jubilant. Thursday It took a fresh
start and rained some more, and Dan’s
spirits were way up In G. Friday It rained
again, and if It hadn't broken up the
meeting Dan would, in all probability,
have done some old-fashioned shouting.
Saturday dawned clear and beautiful.
I met Dan, and as I thought I had him, I
said': "Well, what about the weather,
Uncls Dan?"
"Gwl rain,” he said, with a chuckle.
“Rain, your foot!” I exclaimed with
some Impatience. “Rain today! You don’t
know what you are talking about.”
"Nummine! You wait an’ see. Gwl rain
•fore nite.”
About 4 o’clock that afternoon the clouds
arose, the rain fell, the winds blew and
the storm beat in all its fury on the town.
I began to have some faith In the old
man’s prophesies, but I also looked upon
him as an evil rain crow,' for not one
night did I have a meeting that was not
broken Into by the rain.
"Well, the backbone of the bad spell Is
broken at last," I thought to myself the
next morning as I awoke and saw the sun
shining. Not a cloud was in sight, the
skies were soft and blue and the breeze
was balmy as the breath of an angel.
I had a fine congreatlon and was in good
spirits. I appointed a children’s meeting
at 4 o'clock that afternoon.
Old Dan, it seemed to me, had a sar
donic grin on his face, as he saw me
coming toward him when the service was
over. He tried to avoid me, but I stopped
Mm and said: “Well, where’s your weath
er now?”
"Look like you dun seed It,” he re
plied.
"But It’s gone now.”
"Don’t you fool youseff dat erway. Gwl
rain some more.”
"You're an old fraud," I cried, "the
skies are clear and there’s no indication
of rain.”
"I can't hep dat, sir, hit gwl rain. Gwl
rain fore nite.”
I left him In disgust, as I had been long
ing and praying for good weather and
If you could see them eat you would
think they were hollow down to the tips
of their toes. The little girl-cooks pre
pare enough for all. The food comes from
kind hands of good people.
So comes rhe 150 hats. 150 pairs of shoes,
150 sets ot clothing and everything else as
they are needed.
The buildings have come in the same
way, just as they are needed, until there
Is now quite a pretty village.
Next Saturday has been appointed as
t..e day in which to work for the orphans.
Those In charge of the home earnestly
plead for these little destitute children at
Decatur. They are gathereu from all de
| nominations and conditions of life, from
I every section of North Georgia. The
“UNCLE DAN’
<BY REV. ALEX BEALER
UNCLE DAN.
nothing but rain came and It seemed to
me that the old man was responsible to
some extent at least. At 4 o’clock the
wind was blowing hard, but the sun was
still shining and the indications were that
the rain was over.
“You’ve missed It this time, surely,” I
said to Dan as I entered the church. "No
rain yet.”
“Nummine, you wait, nite aln t . come
ylt.” <
The meeting lasted one hour. Jusb be
fore It closed I heard an ominous rumb
ling. My heart sun)t. It was thunder. As
I walked out I saw Dan standing In the
street. His head was thrown back and
he pointed his finger toward a cloud as
black as ink that was rolling rapidly up
from the west. He did not say a word,
but the low chuckling laugh that fell
from his lips and tne expression upon his
face said plainer than words, "Vindicat
ed." .
After this experience I began to watch
Dan closely. He often prophecled about
the weather and seldom did he fail. One
day I called him Into my study and asked
him how he knew so much about the
weather anyhow.
"Well sir,” was Ms reply. "I’m gw!
tell you some, but jiot all. De fust thing
I takes de fust twelve days In Jlnuwerry
an* rite dar you got de wedder fer de
year. Sposen de fust day is bright long
twill nine o’clock; den hit cloud up an’
rain twill two, an’ den it fair off. By
dat I knows de fust er Jlnuwerry gwl be
clear, de middle rainy an’ de last clear.
Dem fust twelve days, dey sho does hole
de wedder fer de year. I dun been a
watchin' em fer nigh onto thirty years an’
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cripple*, the babies, the morally destitute,
the pinched and starved children from
the mountains, the farms, the slums. All
interesiva In this beautiful work are earn
estly requested to devote September 28th
to work for the orphans at Decatur.
Sunday School Day follows the great
work-day, and the superintendents In the
Methodis. schools will gather up the
earnings of the work day and send them
to the agent. Rev. H. L. Crumley, 200 Oak
street, Atlanta.
Twentieth century phllanthrophy says
with Jacob Rus that every child has a
right to a pair of motherly arms about
It. Every child has a right to a fair
chance for a useful, virtuous life. So
please keep their work-day next Saturday.
THE WEATHER
PROPHET
dey most Inglnerly all de time come out
rite. ,
"But dat ain’t all I goes by. Lopk a
dem eyes,” and as he spoke he held his
head down and I saw a peculiarily about
his eyes that I had noticed before. All
around the pupil was a well defined ring,
bluish white In color.
"Dem rings in my eyes” continued the
old man "shows up now, case hits de
full moon, but when de moon’s in de dark
you can’t see but des de little aldge
er dem rings. When I wants ter know de
wedde? I looks In de glass an’ I kin tell
,by de color er dem rings what it gwi
be.
"I gotter nuther sine, my knees; When
a rite bad spell er weathers cornin’ dey
gits so stiff I kin hardly walk. Some
time you see me walkin’ wld a stick, an’
sometimes I aln’ got none. Wen a lite
spell er wedder’s a cornin’ my ankle jlnts
hurt an’ I bleeged ter have a stick. I
got sup’n else, but I aln’ gwine tell you
all. Den Vou'd know much as I does.”
"But can you tell about windy weath
er?”
' "Yasser. When you see de sky git red
atter sundown, look out for win’. ”
"And how about colij?”
"I kin tell de cole by deshere,” and the
old man put his hand on a large wen be
tween his shoulders. "When a rite cole
spell’s a cornin’ hit gits cole. I kin pile
on all de kiver I got an It won’t git warm.
Yasser, I knows de wedder. 1 kin feel
it In mer bones.”
For two years I have watched Uncle
Dan and he has certainly made some re
markable prophesies about the weather.
He seldom falls and I would suggest
to Uncle Sam that here is a chance for
Mm to put money in his pocket. I’ve got
nothing against Mr. Marbury and I wish
him mighty well, but this Is a day of re
forms and I am a taxpayer. I am satis
fied that Uncle Dan could be persuaded
to leave my church and take Mr. Mar
bury’s job. I believe he’d be willing to
work for $2 a day, and throw in Sundays
provided he be allowed to attend a* many
funerals as he wished to attend.
There would be money saved in anoth
er way, as he wouldn’t care to go off to
conventions and leave hl* people at the
mercy of the weather.
Then the government could sell all the
costly instruments except the great cup
for measuring the rainfall, and that
tape line Mr. Marbury keeps to use In
measuring the velocity of the wind. Uncle
Dan wouldn’t care a snap for those costly
quarters, either, for he'd make his office
under his hat.
He’d need a sign writer, a telephone post
and some flags. On these flags he Would
have his prognostications written. If he
gets the job here are some of the signs
that will be nailed to the post:
Uncle Dan’s knees are stiff this morn
ing. Get out your umbrellas and over-
Sh Uncle Dan Is walking with a stick this
morning. Postpone your picnic.
Uncle Dan’s wen was cold all night.
Get out your overcoats and blankets and
fill up the coal cellar.
Uncle Dan's eyes are muddy this morn
ing. Nail your shingles on tight and get
your cyclone pit In order.
I hope Mr. Marbury will not be offended
at these suggestions I have thrown out
tn the interest of economy.
Uncle Sam will find that Uncle Dan is
all right. He was born In Tennessee and
before the war belonged to Major Camp
bell Wallace and for a long time served
him as office boy. He possessed the confi
dence of the major and to him he owes
his honesty of purpose. Uncle Dan is re
spected by everybody and those who know
him best will trust him under any and
all circumstances.
I know the old man well and I am
anxious to see him get Into a position
where he can show what he can do. If
Uncle Sam decides to give him Mr. Mar
bury's job he can just direct a letter to
him in my care. If he thinks $2 a c xy 1*
too much, I believe I can get him to take
the place at an even 110 a week. If he can
be allowed to come home every Sunday,
get some clean clothes and ring my church
bell.
What Made Him Writhe.
Minneapolis Journal.
Cxolgosz Is said to have been tortured. Pos
sibly some policeman pushed a cake of soap
under the door of his cell.
It is all over at Buffalo, all over at
Washington, and all over at Canton.
The calamity at the exposition, the
catafalque at- the capitol, and the final
catastrophe at the Ohio home.
The requiem and the anthem dies;
the captains and the kings depart.
The curtain falls upon a great and
noble career.
It rises instantly upon a brave and
strenuous life.
"Le Roi est mort!"
"Vive le Roi!”
It Is not mine—not now—to add to
the elegiac tributes to the dead Pres
ident of the United States.
I have read all the eulogies which
have been written within the territory
of my eye, and have heard all those
that have been spoken within the au-»
dltory of my ear.
I think that Postmaster Edwards,
of Macon wears the laurels which pen
and tongue have plucked from the op
portunities of the shadowed day. Hi*
eulogy at the Macon memorial Is the
best of all. In simplicity, In sincerity,
In directness and In thoughtful power
and classic beauty It is the gem
plucked from the solemn mine.
There has been no dearth of great
ness and even of beauty In the utter
ances evoked by the national tragedy.
There was never a mobler oppor
tunity for the orator, the poet and
the singer. It is the unvarnished
truth to say that the opportunity has
not been fully met. Few of the ora
tions have risen aboye the dead level
of lamentation and eulogy. No great
poem has been born of the crimson
shadows;, and if the singer alone has
swept the heart of the Republic, it is
because the last sigh of the Martyred
President started the familiar song.
I do not readily And a reason why,
in a nation of orators and poets, this
vivid, thrilling, crimson incident, with
a peacemaking hero of Arthurian
type has been so haltingly embalmed
In speech. There has been no dearth of
adjectives and no lack of tears. But
all the utterances have seemed want
ing in depth. In dignity and In tran
quility.
The nation has been hysterical from
the beginning and the newspapers,
with their seething columns, and their
swashing headlines, have intensified
excitement. Horror, Flurry and Hys
teria have either destroyed the repose
which is the matrix of eloquence, or
else the gross and growing material
ism of the age has hampered the free
and noble course of sentiment ex
pressed In speech.
I think tn all sincerity that Harry
Edwards has risen more nearly to
tly level of the occasion’s rim than
any other man.
Sifting the sentiment of the repub
lic. after these two weeks of stress
and storm. I seem to gather the Ideas
That McKinley is the best Joved
President who has occupied the white
House since Washington. Better loved
than Lincoln because there was no
faction which failed to understand
him, and better,loved than Jefferson,
who was the target for the partisans
whose theories he opposed and over
threw. -
That his greatness had the indis
pensable requisite of goodness and
that his sincerity was so clear that
all men, whether for or against his
theories, had respect for his convic
tion*.
That he filled the mission which our
own Henry Grady begun of loving a
nation Into Peace, and with the aure
ole of Fraternity as his crown went
swiftly into Immortality.
That his death above every incident
of the decade heralds the Republic’s
unity, and solidifies the world’s auto
nomies in definite action against the
blood-red wrist of Anarchy.
That again, Hl|e Grady, the luck of a
fortunate life found Its crown and cli
max in the hour and argument of his
death and at the xenith of his power,
at. the acme of Ms fame, at the very
high tide of hl* universal popularity,
with, not one leaf of his laurels staled
by time or withered by circumstance,
died as. the day dleth, .swathed In
splendor, the Peacemaker of a Re
public, and the foremost figure of the
worlds
I think that Henry Grady and Wil
liam McKinley, President and pri
vate cltixeh, linked in the noblest
mission that moves the energies of
men, were also the most fortunate
of mortals in dying at a time and in
away to emphasise and underscore for
immortality all that was best and
noblest ih their work and in their
What a sorrowful thing it is for a
public man to live too long! • <
What a glorious thing It Is to die In
perihelion, and be forever with the
sun!
The mission of McKinley was ended.
He had finished his work and was
worthy of his rest. The route to It
was dramatic, but in the main pain
less and swift, and the flowers among
which he fell were not more fragrant
than the memories which survive him.
The mission of Roosevelt has just
begun.
He is a different man and he has a
different mission.
If one should seek to find In this
tragic horror the meaning of that
Providence "wMch moves In a mys
terious way its wonders to perform,”
there must be at least a significance
in the characters of the men who fill
the central space.
The task of the Peacemaker Is end
ed. The smooth, soft and kindly day
of diplomacy is over.
The work df the builder and the
master begins.
Roosevelt is the prophet and priest
of "the strenuous life.” He Is a
brave, outspoken man. He has never
worn a collar, and ha* never recog
nised a bos*. He 1* Incarnate action,
and embodied courage. He 1* the
genius of progress, and his fierce and
resistless energy must be set by Prov
idence to the "strenuous” period of
the Republic's life.
Who that forecasts the future does
not see the need of a strong hand at
the helm of state? Whether we will
or no. and past all the protest of fac
tion, the Republic Is sweeping out of
isolation into a majestic competition
with the powers of the world. It Is
an age of commerce, and the seas are
the highways of rivalry in trade. But
the Lion and the Bear growl behind
the gunwales of competition, and the
time may come when the battleship
shall be the escort, of the merchant
marine. World-policies are forming;
colonial governments are In process;
the full grown battle for the markets
of the world is at hand; and who shall
not say that, in the strife and the stir
of this eager, fierce and tempestuous
era the masterful and strenuous
hand of Roosevelt may be a more ef
fective instrument of destiny than
the kindlier way of his predecessor?
The period of assertion demands a
frank and positive man. And behold
he is here.
The period ot commercial aggression
requires a fearless and aggressive
man. And behold, he Is here! The pe
riod of new Ideas, new conflicts, and
the passage over fierce opposition of
oolltlcal policies, require resolution,
dominance? nerve. They are all em
bodied here.
Then, too, the spirit of the age and
the growth of the Republic demands
the destruction of the Boss.
Who In the wide realm of politics,
save Grover Cleveland, stands with
such will and stomach for the work
as Roosevelt? Who better than this
Civil Service Hero can reduce to ranks
the throned Iniquities of Hanna?
Who better can deny the oily trick
eries of Platt? Who more resolutely
VALE! SALVE!
BY JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
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can frown upon the Infamous politics
of Quay? and who, may It please you,
can better denounce the machinations
of Richard Croker?
If disorders come from whose hand
would mailed authority speak more
plainly, and In the struggle with chaos
and the assassin, where more firmly
would the iron heel of power bruise
and break the damned neck of An
archy?
God makes men for the eras that
need them, and the sudden tragic
elevation of the Rough Rider of San
Juan Is an omen in our horoscope of
’’strenuotts" days to come v ... ... s ‘ - w* ¥
Roosevelt types the and trie ~
temper cf the times. He Is well nigh
the typical American. With the blood
of four races and of two section* In
his vein*, with hl* modern ideas, hl*
progressive policies, bls up-to-date
alertness, with his resistless energy
and his undaunted courage, he need*
only steadiness and balance to make
him the ideal head of the "strenuous''
Republic in its new career.
And responsibility will perfect these
great qualities in which he is not now
lacking. He is sobered by the awful
Incident of his elevation to conserva
tism, and there Is no fear among thoss
who know him that he will be rash
or imprudent.
The traditions of the Peacemaker
abide with him also. The finest trib
ute that ha* ever come across the
line to the Confederate soldier and
the Immortal chief who led him, come*
from the new president of the United
States.
Two days before .he tragedy at
Buffalo he made In Vermont a speech
as broad, a* patriotic and as frater
nal as the last beautiful message
which McKinley sent to the nation*
from the Pan-American platform.
It the last public words of the dead
President might be written as hit
noble epitaph, so the last unofficial
utterance of the new President may
well be accepted as the inspiring shib
boleth of his administration.
And, so as we bury the old leader
with love and sorrow and grateful
memories, let us receive the new head
of the nation with faith and trust and
confident good will.
We are all Americans, and the wel
fare of the nation is the welfare of
all.
“God reigns and the government at
Washington still Uvea”
Va,e!
Salve! ]
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The Case of Wellington.
Memphis Scimitar.
"McKinley and I are enemies. He has
been guilty of an unpardonable offense
toward me. I cannot say anytMng good
for him, and I do not think It is just the
time to say anything bad. I despise the
man. I have no use for him and there is
no reason to say anytMng. I am totally
Indifferent, in the matter.”
These words were spoken by George L.
Wellington, United States senator from!
Maryland, upon being' informed that
President McKinley had been shot. In
consequence of this utterance he has been
indicted by the American people for an
unpardonable offense against public de
cency and there is a general demand for
his expulsion from the senate. According
to the constitution each house of con
gress is the sole judge of the qualifica
tions of its members and may expel a
member for any cause which it may deem
sufficient
The senate has exercised this right in
four instances. William Blount, one of
the first two senators from Tennessee,
was expelled In 179", being charged with
taking part in a conspiracy to deliver
New Orleans,, then a Spanish city, to
Great Britain. During the civil war pe
riod three senators were put out, vlx:
Johnson, for making a speech subsequent
to hi* election, evincing a__aqjrit hostile
to the government; Polk,"'of Missouri,
for giving aid to the publication of a
secession newspaper, and Bright, of In
diana, for "disloyalty.” Bright's act,
which construed as being disloyal
was writing a letter to Jefferson Davl*,
recommending a friend who had an Im
provement In firearms. He explained
that the letter had been written in March,
1861, before the war had begun, and that
he wrote it merely to get rid .of 'the in
ventor's Importunities. But he was ex
pelled on the sth' day of February, 1862.
It will be observed that all of these
cases hinged upon the charge of treason
or conspiracy. Neither would hold in
the case of Wellington. But he could be
expelled on the general ground of the
outrage upon public decency which he
has committed and which makes him un
fit to hold the office of United States
senator.
There is any telling what the
senate will do. A majority of its mem
bers seem to take a certain degree of
satisfaction In flouting public sentlmenL
But there can be no question as to what
the senate ought to do.
Brunswick Gives to Monument Fund.
BRUNSWICK, Ga., Sept. 23.-The citi
zens of Brunswick are going.to assist The
Journal in raising funds for the McKinley
monument. Representative W. F.
Symons having been named as treasurer
of the local fund. Contributions will be
solicited at once.
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