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The Leeson of the Assassination.
Amid the Brief, indignation. disappoint
ment and sympathy which are thoroughly
mingled In the death of the president of
the United States, by violence, one fact
stares us plainly In the face—one feature
of these assassinations commands re
spect.
To state this tact and feature in as few
words as possible. It is the Impropriety
and Impracticability of advertising to the
multitudes the presence of the ruler of
the nation In a promiscuous assembly
for days and weeks ahead of time, at a
certain place and a certain hour, as oc
curred at the Buffalo exposition.
I understand fully the objections which
may be raised to this statement, the plea
that the president should be entitled to
circulate at will among the people of this
country and enjoy himself by this com
mingling and sightseeing as do other Citi
zens of this country. As Mr. McKinley,
the citizen, this was his privilege, but as
the president of a great nation, it was a
mistake to place his valuable person at
the mercy of degenerate*, demoniacs and
crazy tncdmcn as it happened in Buffalo.
It has been the custom I know, and I have
seen more than one president on exposi
tion grounds, but I have never seen one
in «ueh a position that I did not recollect
that hi* person might be a target for some
evil-minded assassin. It wa* always a
matter of great risk, great danger, as has
been proven In my opinion. Since I be
came a grown woman I have lived to
know of and to grieve over, assassination
of three presidents of the United States—
a terrible faet to be remembered in so
short a space of time as I fully under- I
stand. 1 was roused from sleep. In a
poor refuge home near Macon. Georgia,
in the early morning to hear Federal
troops galloping through our enclosures,
loud, angry voice* commingled with the
clatter of canteens and the rattling of
sabres as an accompaniment. They did
not enter the dwelling house but they
aroused the colored people on the place
with their imprecation*, threats and
prophesies on the death of Mr. Lincoln.
I was fairly -dazed with the news. It
seemed so improbable that President Lin
coln in the very semblage of victory,
should pas* away in such a manner. I
knew It was the madness of the time,
which made the deed possible and at the
distance of a third of a century from
that time I still mourn that the deed was
committed by a southern man whose
*mind was certainly unbalanced by brood
ing over the disasters of his country.
Mr. Lincoln a martyr to the war
spirit of the early sixties, and his taking
off was the worst thing that could have
happened for the southern people. *
Mr. Garfield was a personal acquaint
ance. I was somewhat acquainted with
bis wife and the little withered, aged
mother, who was so proud of her boy
that she fairty twittered in her mother’s
pride and personal delight. It was a cruel
shot he suffered that bright July morning
twenty years ago. It was a-base deed
G'titeau committed. The assassin should
have been dispatched on the spot before
his smoking weapon left bis hands. I do
verily believe that Gulteau's long trial
and the feelings aroused thereby, gave
aid and comfort to the assassin who fired
the fatal shot at Buffalo. Czolgosz had
an example to follow. Some people are
so constituted that their minds absorb
horrors, and they become also demoniacs,
brooding over terrible things of this
sort. .It Is more than likely this late as
sassin expected to enjoy a similar oppor
tunity to the one granted to Gulteau.
God forbid that his crime and his doc
trines should be thus allowed to advertise
themselves again before this country!
Mr. Lincoln's presence in a theatre in
Washington City gave Wilkes Booth the
chance to appear tn real tragedy. Mr.
Garfield's fondness for Senator Blaine,
when exhibited in a public place, touched
a match to the intense hate of a dissent
ing member of his own political party —
and the president was fatally shot as we
all remember, only a few short days and
weeks after he took the oath of office,
for the first time.
If Messrs. Garfield and Blaine had qui
etly taken the train at some quiet hour
in the day or night without any demon
stration of their particular fondness for
each other, in so public a place. Mr. Gar
field might have been living today—in
good health and spirits. As plain Mr.
Garfield he had every citizen's rights and
privileges—even to embraces for his
friends—when he met Mr. Blaine that
morning, but if there had been no demon
stration of the kind mentioned, the presi
dent might not have been shot. I empha
size the necessity for caution. In the pres
ident. During his term of office he is more
than a plain citizen. He owes prudence
and caution to the office he is seeking to
fill and was elected to fill.
I sat in the great Auditorium theatre
in Chicago, the night before the great
World's Fair and exposition was
launched and the machinery started by
President Cleveland, who had been sworn
In only a few weeks before to the office
of the president. The president's party
came in quietly that night and the lights
in that vast theatre building were turned
low until he was safety seated. Then the
whole building was flooded with lights
a»l the bands began playing and the peo
ple shouting tn honor of the nation's chief
tain.
With a long opera glass I drew the pres
-ident's face close to my view and I saw
the discolored bruise on his forehead
where he had struck the carriage door
that day in getting from the train to his
hotel.
I was within less than a dozen yards of
the box he occupied and the thought of
what might happen right there (as did
happen to Mr. Lincoln only .eighteen
years before) flashed in terror across my
tnlnd. He might have been riddled with
bullets sent on their deadly mission with
amokel'ss powder before his best friends
could have protected him from a bloody
death.
As sure as we live the time has passed
anywhere in this country or in other coun
tries when the highest official in the land
or nation should be allowed to tempt as
sassins to violent deeds after such a
fashion. In that brief interval of semi
darkness Mr. Cleveland's assailant might
never have been placed, if an attack had
been made, such as was made on Mr.
Lincoln.
Chicago was at that time only steadying
herself after an experience with anar
chists which was horrible to recollect,
and still uncertain as to final result*. The
•tty's name was clouded by those Hay-
Suffering Women.
Dr - Tuck ® r can cur *
you of that awful
backache, smothering,
pains around the heart.
V misplacement, nervous
Jxaß , fears, short breath, leu
corrhoea. bloating, in
jwMf ' Jta: * digestion and const! pa
tion. Advice free. Dr.
3A Tucker. Broad street,
Atlanta, Ga.
market violators of law. Nothing was
easier than to buy a ticket and go in an
Immense theatre and there sat the na
tion’s ruler in full view of the populace
and as helpless as an infant if an assas
sin had chosen this time for a black deed
of crime and revenge.
It Is a risky business. These show pa
rades cost more than they come to. It
is asking too much to urge a president to
risk his life and the nation's peace merely
to advertise a show.
Tomato Catsup.
To make tomato catsup to taste like
bought catsup, to eight pounds of skin
ned ripe tomatoes add two quarts water,
boil until the pulp is thoroughly done,
rub through fine colander, add two quarts
good apple vinegar, two pounds white
sugar, one coffee cupful salt, one table
spoonful black pepper, two dozen chilli
peppers, one cupful white mustard
(ground); boll fifteen minutes, strain
through a coarse seive, bottle and cork
well or seal.
Wanted.
CENTER, Indian Ter., Sept. 11. 1901.
Mrs. W. H. Felton. Editor Home De
partment Semi-Weekly Journal, Car
tersville, Go.:
Dear Madam—ln reading The Journal I
notice an Inquiry by Mrs. Ben L. Camp,
wishing some one to send recipe for mak
ing sweet and sour cooked green tomato
pickles. I thought I would enclose re
cipes for same, also for making tomato
catsup. I have tried them and find them
excellent.
I will be glad if Mrs. Camp will kindly
explain the work she is epgaged in that
she refers to in same article of inquiry.
I am old. my children all married and
gone, and want some light wofle to do.
She might give me an insight into some
thing to help while away the long, lone
some hours.
Wishing you happiness and prosperity,
I am
MRS. CATH. F. STEPHENS.
Mistress and Maid.
In summing up the points in the long ar
gued and still undecided case of mistress
versus maid, I am impressed by several
salient, ever present features.
Human nature exhibits similar traits
tn castle and cot, so there will ever be
mistresses at fault in their attitude
towards their domestic, either through
vagaries of temper or lack .of discretion
ary discipline. Just as surely as there are
and will always be with us survants who
shirk their duties, are rebellious at con
trol or merely lack the guidance of a
trained mind to accomplish work of the
first class.
We most of us know the kind of wom
an who with the help of a small negro
girl can do well the work of an average
family, keeping herself in health and
spirits and her handmaid in good hu
mor and allegiance.
Byway of contrast take the statement
of a lady who on a recent visit to a well
known Georgia town was invited to tea
at the home of a prominent citizen, with
a state reputation in his possession. On
the company being seated at supper there
was not one of the three servants hired
on the place available to wait at table.
The wife of the house was not domestic
enough to regulate the affairs of her
menage.-
System and order are as necessary in
domestic economy as In the conducting
of any real business affairs, and now that
our employes are gathering the strength
that Is found in numbers by banding
themselves together in unions, etc., it is
only fair, and in fact would simplify
matters, if a code of rules and regula
tions could be drawn up adjusting, ex
plaining and defining the laws affecting
the relations between mistress and maid.
LUCY LEA BELL.
Learning Telegraphy.
Any person, old or young, it is said,
can learn telegraphy and become a good
operator, but. like piano playing, the best
time to begin the study is when one is
young, or not yet reached middle age.
People can learn late in life and make
good operators, but these are the excep
tions and not the rule.
It is generally supposed to be a compli
cated operation, but I am also told by
those claiming to know that it is in
stead extremely simple and easily un
derstood.
Railroad management and commercial
use of the telegraph are constantly in
creasing and we also know that its pres
ent use is immense. There were more
than a hundred thousand operators in
the United States in the year 1900.
The commercial and official relations
now existing between Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines will call for an im
mense number of operators for foreign
service.
Operators are well paid. They are said
to be better paid than most other wage
earners. «
They get anywhere from forty to one
hundred and fifty dollars a month, ac
cording to the business carried on and
accumulated responsibility in various po
sitions. ■
I am also informed that the business
can be learned with four months of
steady practice.
Is there another trade where a good
business can be so quickly learned and
made so quickly remunerative to the
young man or woman, who is anxious to
earn his or her own living.
The time is surely coming when com
munications by mail will be confined to
the leisure class and will be used for con
fidential letters. The world is moving so
fast that quick information is as valua
ble as time Itself. The cotton trade of
this country is conducted almost entirely
over telegraph wires.
We read in the afternoon Journal all
the happenings that are wortn the men
tion from all over the world during the
forenoon. Newspapers are generally
crowded with the happenings of a few
hours, reported by cable and overland
wires.
All these things are becoming necessi
ties, the people will have them, and will
pay for telegraph service.
It is admirable work for young women,
who must go out tn the marts of trade
to earn a support. It is work performed
under shelter without undue exposure to
either heat or cold. It requires a sober
brain and an honest mind and heart. It
means responsibility as well as good pay
and integrity. It is instructive work, be
cause a telegraph system to in close touch
with all the great current events of the
era we live in. The good operator needs
to be alert in mind as well as with fin
gers and good operators, like first class
preachers, are always in demand.
Telegraphy is one of the greatest pub
lic operations of the present century. It
stands near the very top of the highest
elevation in science, trade and politics.
If its Influence could be measured the
world would stand amazed at its scope
and value.
I am moved to write about it because
of its outlook for capable boys and girls.
It is a practical business. It means suc
cess in capable hands. Learn telegraphy!
BUBBLES.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
We can’t spare the fat man.
The chicken raiser needn't be a cooper by
trade.
Even a liquid voice may deliver a dry
speech.
A* a rule, the scapegoat bunks up against a
lot of trouble.
The chair-bottomer will give you a re-seat
for your money.
Because a man's "square” to no sign he to
as broad as he to long.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1901.
|AN “UNRECONSTRUCTED REBEL” WAS
THE MOTHER OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
§ She Lo'bed the South and During the War hung a Confederate Flag From the Window of
Her Boudoir—Her Husband and a Mob Could hot Make Her Remove It—Her Visit
to Savannah Is Recalled--President's Spirit Comes From His Georgia Blood.
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From the father’s side may have
$ come some of the blood that gave
President Roosevelt his Indomitable
IjJ spirit, but certain it is that the ma
jlj ternal branch was rich in that quality
that marked the Bullochs of Georgia
£• for their resolution, pertinacity and
strength of will. No better exponent
$ of those traits could be found than
$ Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother
of the president, says the Savannah
Morning News.
Not long after the ejvll war Mrs.
Roosevelt was on a visit to Savannah,
**; where she had many friends. She was
$ a Georgia woman of distinguished an
cestry, the Bulloch family being one
of the best in the state, and its distlnc
£• tion In the highest positions. It was
but natural, therefore, that she should
have been well received upon her visit
to this city, and that there should
•J* have been rare pleasure to her, and un
reconstructed “rebel,” in her Inter
•l; course with her own people, those who
X had fought and bled upon the field of
$ battle or fought the greater fight of
£ waiting and watching.
§ Reunion with her southern friends,
after the yebrs of the war that she
%• had spent at her home in New York.
•2‘ was a pleasure to Mrs. Roosevelt, and
it was with the keenest relish that she
J*‘ recounted stories of the times and of
the trials that she suffered in the city
$ of her adoption through her unswerv-
X Ing loyalty to the cause of the south—
••• a cause in which one brother, Irvine I.
Bulloch, fought as an officer aboard
the cruiser Alabama, and which an
other brother represented at Eng
v land's capital city. One of these stories
£ clearly revealed the character of the
woman and leaves little difficulty in
X determining whence the president gets
some of those qualities that have tend
er ed to his preferment.
A Glimpse of the Tallulah Fair.
BY PABSIE FENTON OTTLEY.
Few invitations have been accepted by
me with more alacrity than was the one
to attend the Blue Ridge and Tallulah
Falls exposition, which has been for some
time billed for September 17, 18, 19 and 20.
It seemed to me that the mere fact
that this wonder country of ours, so rich
and so beautiful and yet so undeveloped,
had decided to have an exposition was in
itself worth going to see, and so sure do I
feel of the great future of the section once
developed that It struck me as worth
while to stand by and watch the entering
wedge of progress driven In.
The result justified my fullest expecta
tions. and for place, products and peo
ple. for achievement and promlse i for per
formance and possibility, I shall ever
number the three days spent at the Tallu
lah exposition as among the most Inter
esting of my life. '
It may be well to state that the exposi
tion ' aspired to show the products and
resources of the territory to be opened up
by the Blue Ridge and Tallulah Falls
railroad. Habersham and Rabun in Geor
gian, and Macon, In North Carolina, are
most Interested, but tributary counties, In
cluding Clay, in North Carolina; Oconee
in South Carolina, and Union, Towns,
White and Banks in Georgia, were asked
to participate and compete.
The wonderful climate and the magnifi
cent scenerj' of the section spoke loudly
for Itself, as the fair was held at Tallu
lah Falls, a spot upon which nature has
lavished beauty with wanton profusion.
The fair was held around the Cliff house
In various buildings and the "speakings”
were either In the Cliff house dining room
or under the trees, where benches held the
people, and Cliff hall porch the speakers.
For two nights and a day, at the begin
ning of the fair, the weather was all It
should not have been. Opening day saw
nothing but torrents df rain, which lessen
ed attendance at the formal speech-mak
ing by officers of exposition, the governor
of the state and others, and produced a
prospect gloomy enough to make doubly
dear the exquisite sunlight and the deli
cious coolness of the next and all succeed
ing days.
For my own part, the rain on opening
day was a mixed evil, as it gave me the
opportunity for an entire morning of un
interrupted pleasure in the mineral ex
hibit, which was beautiful and attractive
enough to interest the most ignorant.
Mr. Thomas E. Bean, of Clarksville, Ga.,
superintendent of the department of min
erals, has every reason for satisfaction
with the exhibit as a whole.
Besides general solicitation for the ex-
It was at a dinner given In Mrs.
Roosevelt's honor by Mrs. Henrietta 3.
Cohen, that ' she tojd the story. Os
late years, because of Theodore Roose
velt's rapid advancement, It has been
recalled l>y his mother’s old friends,
who feel pride In having known the
mother of' the president, and gladly
ascribe to her some of the traits that
are seen in the son.
It was just when the spirit of peace,
uncertain as to whether It should
alight, was hovering over the land.
New York was aflame with passionate
patriotism, and anything smacking of
the Confe.deracy was not tolerated.
Feeling ran high, (and woe was It for
any who braved the popular tide and
showed a leaning toward the cause of
the south.
Theodorf RooeeMlt. the older, de
cided at about that time to give some
great social function. The Roosveelt
mansion was accordingly bravely
decked In bunting and with American
flags. From every window, save one,
flew the Stars anu Stripes. That one
was of Mrs. Roosevelt's boudoir. Her
husband had not designed to omit It
from the decorative scheme, but she
would have none of it. Instead, she
hit upon a plan that would clearly re
veal her sentiments.
Stopping not to consider the peril in
which it might place her and her hus
band, but determined to show that all
In that house were not of the cause of
the north, she drew from among her
mobt cherished treasures the stars and
bars, the emblem of the south. Going
to the window, she firmly fixed Its
staff and allowed its folds to flutter
from the breeze.'
On the instant, almost, the hostile
ensign was noted. A passerby in the
street below descried It. In hot Indig
nation, he pointed it out to another. As
mobs will, so one began to grow, and
hlblt he had almost entirely placed the
Georgia minerals. Os these the most in
teresting was the display of gold, which
was, I think, from White county.
The benefit of co-operation in exhibits,
as in all other matters, was well demon
strated by the fact that the really mag
nificent display of minerals from Macon,
N. C., was very generously made to do
duty for exploitation of Georgia's pro
ducts, not so well represented, the North
Carolinians testifying that their varied
products were to be found also in Rabun
or Banks or White.
North Carolina could surely afford to be
generous, as her minerals and their ex
quisite arrangement were a source of con
tinuous admiration.
Most beautiful were two very large box
cabinets given by Macon county to the
state. The inner lid of each showed an
exquisite inlaid pattern of Macon county
hard .woods, of which 1,700 pieces had
been used. Buckeye, cherry, cedar, holly,
maple, poplar, sumac and walnut made a
beautiful contrast of color and of grain
and the work, having been done in Macon
county, added much to their interest.
These cabinets contained the very
choicest specimens of minerals and prec
ious stones. A four pound amethyst crys
tal was the most beautiful single piece In
this collection.
Dr. F. T. Smith, of Franklin, N. C.,
had brought a portion of the collection
of his father, Prof. F. T. Smith, in his
day a mineralogist of national renown.
He showed some very handsome precious
stones, among them that rare gem. the
Hiuuenite. The Smith collection, shown
entire at Chicago, received highest medal.
Other beautiful collections were shown
by Messrs. B. M. Angell and T. P. Moses,
of Higdonvllle, and Mr. G. A. Jacok, of
Cullsaja.
Two other citizens of Macon county
deeply Interested in the exhibit were Hon.
F. S. Johnson, of Franklin, president of
the Exposition company, and Mr. Henry
Robertson, also of Franklin.
It may be Interesting to mention the
present and the possible mining industries
of this bit of the Blue Ridge country, as
told in detail by these gentlemen who are
practical experts. <
I was surprised to hear so little of gold.
They all say the entire section has gold,
but their interest certainly did not seem
fixed upon it. The chief present mining
Interest is corundum, of which,the two
leading mines of the world are situated at
Corundum Hill, N. C„ and Laurel Creek,
Rabun county.
Both of these mines, and, I think, one
other at Buck Creek, Clay county, belong
soon the street was chocked with an
gry people, who shook threatening
fists at the Confederate flag and In
veighed most bitterly.
Alarmed by the gathering that was
swelled every moment and that direct
ed Its wrath again his home, Theodore
Roosevelt sought the cause that had
stirred the people to anger. He was
not long in finding It. Fierce acclaim
directed his gaze, which rested upon
the fluttering emblem of the south.
The Roosevelt nature has never
quailed before a crowd. Theodore, the
elder, saw that imminent danger could
probably be averted only through his
persuading his wife to remove the ob
jectionable flag. With a word to the
crowd, he left, entering the house and
finding his wife. He told her what she
already knew—that the anger of the
mob had been excited by her indiscreet
display of her colors, and that It would
be well for her to take In the flag.
"I shall not do so," declared the
mother of the president. "The flag Is
mine; the boudoir Is mine. I love the
flag, for it represents my native land.
No ruffian hand shall Invade the pri
vacy of my boudoir to drag down that
flag, nor shall ruffian shouts force me
to remove it from the window of a
room that is wholly mine. Explain to
them that I am a southern woman;
that I love the south. Do anything you
like except touch that flag. It shall not
come down.”
And It did not. Theodore Roosevelt
■went again to face the crowd. He
made a speech, dwelling with finesse
upon his wife’s love for her own lar/d
and moulding the mob to his will and
to an Indulgence of Mrs. Roosevelt In
her desire to fly the flag of her beloved
south.
The crowd dispersed, but the story
remains to show a maternal quality
that has made a president.
to the International Corundum company.
One other at Tate City, Towns county, is
owned by other capitalists.
All these works, except the one at Co
rundum Hill, have been shut down until
recently, since 1892, because of the under
selling of corundum by foreign emery,
which stands on the free list in this much
protected country. Perhaps every one
does not know that corundum is the most
powerful of abrosives and that emery will
only partly take its place. Garnets are
used in Its place in many instances, as
they are of cheaper product. Jackson
county, North Carolina, is shipping tons
of garnets for this purpose.
Corundum crystals are of endless variety
and beauty. Among them are to be found
such well known friends as the emerald,
the sapphire and the oriental ruby and
topax. So much for corundum, the great
est of Macon’s and Rabun’s present min
ing products.
Next comes mica, of which gorgeous
specimens were shown. Third Is kaolin,
white and perfect, of which Jackson coun
ty already ships 700 or 800 tons each year.
Fourth stands asbestos, to be found in
quantity. White county ships most of It
at present. It sells for from 310 to 340 a
ton, while the Canadian product some
times reaches 3125. Ours is said to be
more serviceable, however, though not so
fine.
A great deal of Nantahala talc Is ship
ped and other sections can offer as much
and as good. Among the products which
these sections offer in abundance, but
which capital, railroad facilities and en
terprise will yet have to improve are
chromite, copper, bauxite for aluminum,
iron and magnetic Iron, malib denite.
You’re I
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PEARL-
C-V INE.
"Work”
I and "Wear" are both avoided
by washing without rubbing,
-the PEARLINE way. More
economy. You save heeJth.
strength, and money when
you use PEAR.LINE. Facts
never disproved. The com
mon sense. up-to-da.te wa.y
of getting things clean is the
Pearline Method
opalite, soap stone, zircon and fold.
The precious stones which w< re shown
in abundant specimens at the Tallulah
exhibit were amethyst, beryl, sapphire,
cairn gown, rhodolite, hlddenltf, garnet,
emerald, ruby, topaz, rutile ai d chalce
dony.
With such showing as this it is easy to
imagine that when the railroad extension,
now practically decided upon, strikes
from Tallulah Falls through Rabun Gap
to Franklin, N. C., and then ;e out to
Murphy, capitalists will fall i >ver each
other in the race to give to the world
these marvels.
Almost as alluring as wealt 1-brlngers
and quite as beautiful is the rast store
of hard woods which this section boasts.
The exhibit of them by Rabun ind Macon
was the other object of paramount beauty
at the fair. Mr. John F. Earl, of
Clayton, Rabun county, had per
haps the most numerous and beauti
fully selected specimens, but the beauty
and interest of Macon county’s vood show
rather surpassed that of Georgia, since
the North Carolina woods were brought
in the cross section of the (tree, thus
showing bark and size and grajn, finished
and unfinished, and making a more impos
ing effect. Mr. W. B. McGuire, of Frank
lin, was, I believe, chiefly responsible for
North Carolina’s excellent display. It
would be an education in nktlve hard
woods for the people of Atlanta and mid
dle Georgia if Mr. Earl and Mr. McGuire
would bring their exhibits to Atlanta.
Since nothing in the way oif minerals
and woods has been heard of Habersham
county it must not be that that
beautiful old county was unrepresented.
She does not boast of these specialties in
the same degree as do the mountain coun
ties, but in manufactures she led all the
rest, while in farming products and stock
she stood high, and in the exhibit of art
and woman's work, furnished a large and
creditable per cent.
As to the woman's work, I can say little
more than that as usual it drew the crowd.
The most interesting feature was the splen
did display of handweaving, such as that
for which the Georgia Federation has
been so successful in finding sale.
It would be impossible to close without
speaking of the greatest benefit of such
occasions, particularly in rempte regions,
the gathering together of the people to
hear the discussion by wise and thought
ful and loving speakers of treat, vital
questions.
I only had the privilege of attending one
such session and I count it indeed a priv
ilege to have sat among these strong, vig
orous, able, earnest people as they hung
in rapt attention upon the weirds of such
men as Commissioner Glenn.; Hon. Hoke
Smith and Mr. W. G. Brantley while they
urged upon them the necessity for more
and better education for their 1 children.
At the close of the exercises it was an
nounced that Habersham county had or
dered a vote to be taken in behalf of a
local tax for educational purposes.
There can be little doubt that the tax
will be voted and that Rabun county will
soon do the same.
Superintendents Grant and O'Kelly, of
the two counties are constancy circulat
ing the idea among the people and they
will receive in this crusade fori better edu
cational facilities the able teaching of
the Rabun County Woman's club and the
Habersham County Woman’s Hub. organ
ized on Wednesday, for the of all
kinds in behalf of their respective coun
ties.
Surely the Blue Ridge and Tt llulah Falls
exposition has been already p-oductive of
great results, and another year will bring
forth more wonderful ones.
The company ha« been made a perma
nent one, and it is hoped that each suc
ceeding year will see greater and greater
gatherings arid rewards.
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DISTINCTLY A GENTLEMAN.
In the almost universal praise of Wil
liam McKinley as a statesman and a
great peacemaker there is one side of
his character that has not been comment
ed upon to the extent that it deserves.
The New York Evening Sun alludes to
this appropriately,when it speaks of the
lamented president as “An American Gen
tleman.” The Sun says:
“Os the word ‘gentleman’ there is no
satisfactory definition. Not even Robert
Louis Stevenson succeeded when he tried
to hit upon it. But we are able. to say
that so-and-so fills the bill, while some
body else does not. Our Judgment in the
matter is largely a matter of instinct.
‘He died like a gentleman,’ said a man
about an enemy to whom he wished to be
just. It was a tribute which could not be
withheld in fulrness. Some persons in his
tory have gained great reputations be
cause they knew how to die well though
they lived ill. Charles I received this trib
ute from a Puritan poet who, writing
about his taking off* said that ‘He noth
ing common did or mean, upon that mem
orable scene.’ His disreputable son.
Charles 11, half redeemed a bad life by
the grace with which he left it. Addison
proposed to show his dissipated stepson
how a Christian could die. There was
something rather priggish about this,
though perhaps it might be partially jus
tified by the worthy object in view. At
any rate, disinterestedness was displayed
by all three just mentioned in their last
moments. And they have been for this,
among other reasons, ret down as gentle
men.
“William McKinley will occupy a dis
tinguished place among historical per
sonages distinctively gentlemen. All his
life as well as in his last hours he dis
played the elusive qualities that must be
found, in those who would fill the part.
■Tender and true’ might have been his
motto. He showed that he had only
charitable pity for his assassin. His only
complaint was that he was causing a
great deal of trouble to those who were
caring for him. He wished everything to
go on as usual. He had no curiosity as
to how the calamity affected the country.
And when there was no hope left he gave
the few lucid moments that remained to
him to showing for the last time a devo
tion which had been conspicuous for
years. <
"We may not be able to say just what
a gentleman is, but we all know one when
we see him. And here was a notable ex
ample.”
' This is a beautiful and well deserved
tribute to the character of the man
whom we mourn. We often excuse men
in high places, those of great natural
gifts or rare attainments for a lack of
courtesy and kindliness which we are
ever ready to condemn in the ordinary clt
izent. But we honor the illustrious man
all the more when we find him gentle,
considerate of the feelings of others and
worthy to be called "tender and true.”
William McKinley was always and ev
erywhere the true gentleman and to ap
ply to him that term in its full signifi
cance is to give him high praise.
Awaiting a Conciliatory Tariff.
Europe, wants to enter our markets more
freely, and it has been resenting the high
tariff wall that wo have raised against
her. She has shared something of the feel
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when they think of the practice of some
protected manufacturers who sell their
goods abroad at lower prices than they
charge at home. And they have been in
clined to regard a tariff system under
which that was possible as a sort of gov
ernment subsidy against which it was im
possible for them to compete. So they are
watching eageny for signs of a change
of policy here.
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sprinkle the whole with finely chopped
pickle.
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Intermixed with the distress and suffer
ing of our heroic soldiers and people dur
ing the civil war were many amusing and
curious incidents.
One day, late in the year 1864, the oppos
ing picket lines being near each other,
north of the James river, but cfincealed
at one point by Intervening woods, one of
the Union soldiers asked permission from
his officer to go out to a persimmon tree,
a short distance in front of their line, to
gather some persimmons.
Taking a tin cup in hi* hand to put them
in, he sauntered in the direction of the
tree, arrived at it and turned and made a
dash tot our line as fast as his legs could
carry him. He fell in a swoon as he reach
ed our line, still holding on to the tin cup.
It so happened that General Lee was rid
ing slowly and alone along the picket line,
arriving at that point the moment the
deserter did, so that when he swooned
and fell forward hi* head almost touched
the forefoot of General Lee’s horse.
General Lee stopped until the soldier wag
revived and raised to his feet, which was
quickly done.
He then asked the deserter one or two
questions in a low tone of voice and roda
slowly on.
Os course the soldier knew nothing about
General Lee being out on the picket line,
but to those of us who had seen General
coming, it appeared that he was mak
ing such haste towards us in order to
reach us before General Lee would pass
the point.
This incident, occurring, as it did, on
the picket line a considerable distance
from the main line, was witnessed by
very few.
I wonder if any one who witnessed it and
recalls the circumstances will read this
article. G.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 27.—The sub
committee appointed Wednesday by the
Republican state committee to prepare a
platform for submission to the guber
natorial convention was in session until
nearly 3 o’clock this morning. The com
mittee submitted the resolutions to State
Chairman Franklin Murphy, who will be
nominated for governor.
Mr. Murphy, gave his approval and the
platform will be adopted without opposi
tion.
The following is the platform:
"The blow* which ended the life of our
beloved president was cruel. Inhuman and
lawless. It was aimed, not at the gentle
and lovable McKinley, but at the repub
lic and the majesty of law which guar
antees liberty of person and safety of
property. Any doctrine which justifies or
encourages assassination Is utterly hos
tile to civil station and the welfare of
mankind and must be no longer tolerated
In this country and we demand and In
sist that laws, state and national, be
enacted for the effective suppression of
such teachings.
The pledge of President Roosevelt that
he will continue absolutely. unbroken the
policy of President McKinley has our un
qualified approval and commends our
loyal support.
If continued in power the Republican
party pledges itself to guard the sources
of Income of the state and to use the
surplus thereof for the further reduction
of the rate of local taxation, the enlarge
ment of our school system, the extension
of our good roads, the benefit of our agri
culture and our Industries and the com
mon Interest and welfare of the whole
people. »
The convention was called to order
shortly after noon by Senator E. C.
Stokes, of Cumberland county.
There were 800 delegates. All of the
party leaders were here except United
States Senator Newell, who, on. account
of illness, missed his first convention in
26 years. .
Their Preference*.
Philadelphia Record.
"I like a play with a good, husky villain in
It," remarked the ingenue. '
"I would rather have one with a good,
husky angel back of it,” replied the comedian.
That Was It.
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"Your fiancee is a very reserved girl,” *aid
Hunker to Spatts.
“She is," replied Spatts. "She is reserved
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