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The Growth of Anarchy.
In looking over the statistics of Immi
gration for last year into the United
States I was not surprised to learn that
large numbers of Poles. Italians and Rus
sian Jews had come into America in 1900
seeking a home.
Notice is also given that they are more
illiterate than formerly. The increased
percentage of illiteracy la a very serious
one to contemplate.
It goes without saying that this tide of
immigration brings with it the habits of
mind and tendencies in morals to which
these immigrants have been accustomed
in the old country.
As muddy water from one stream will
eventually discolor the clear waters of an
other stream, so the Influx of illiteracy
joined to anarchistic beliefs and tenden
cies will produce national evils before
very long. At least a half million of Eu
ropeans. principally from the lower classes
of society, were flung on these shores in
the year 1900 to make or mar our entire
population to the extent of their com
mingling and influence.
When the general census was taken in
Chicago, in the year 189 i«, there were only
250.000. native born Americans tn that in
land city of a million of inhabitants. For
eigners were in the Immense majority.
The Haymarket anarchists had strong
backing on the shores of beautiful Lake
Michigan. There Is a slumbering vol
cano in anarchy in every city where illit
erate foreigners congregate tn large num
bers. and although the assassin Czolgosz
had but few friends to go to him when
his trial was in progress nobody doubts
but he has many sympathisers in this
country. ’ ’
He acted like a person who Is conscious
of backing. He posed before an audience
that we do not see and are not able to
number, but we all feel certain that
Csolgosz is one of the many that are only
repressed by the present futility of out
ward demonstration.
W’ith immeasurable dislike for and ab
horrence of the assassin and his dastardly
methods we cannot forget that he is a
Pole. and. like all of his nation, full of
the bitter memories of unhappy Poland.
The poet says: "Freedom shrieked when
Koscieusko fell." and Polish emigrants
Haro a lively sense of the wrongs that
Poland suffered when Russian Cossacks
overran their native land. No Russian,
whether he be czar or constable, can de
pend on the humanity of an unforgiving.
ttnregenerate Poiander. Nihilism is his
Dative breath, anarchy his native air.
When they come to us they are ingrain
ed. through and through, with these prin
ciples, unless displaced by cultivation, ed
ucation and refinement. These illiterates
are perhaps always degenerates in the
sense of unforgivenness in their hatred
for those in authority over them, or blind
followers otherwise of those who can con
trol them for evil.
The saloon evil is chargeable with nine
tenths of the disorder in this country.
Csolgosx was said to be at one time a
saloon keeper, and his associations were
of the class and order that congregate in
the low dives of our great cities.
A sober man will be careful. An intoxi
cated man will do what the madness of
his brain prompts him to do, with the
devil’s broth in his veins. Add intoxica
tion to preconceived prejudices and the
flame will burst out at the first opportun
ity with such madmen. The czar of Rus
sia is said to sleep in a room made of
steel, supposed to be bullet and dagger
proof. but his grandsire was assassinated
in one of the most elegant and well
guarded streets in the city with a dyna-
* mite bomb.
The empress of Austria was stabbed to
death under a noonday sun in a quiet
watering place.
This excellent empress was killed sim
ply because she occupied a royal position.
The hatred was turned toward the office,
the station in life, not to the Individual.
King Humbert was assassinated in the
same way. and for the same reason. His
murderer lived in New Jersey. He went
on his atrocious errand from this coun
try- This hot-bed .of anarchy existed
there a year ago.
When you hear the argument advanced
that we must close the ports against this
entrance of anarchists the question should
b£ asked: "What will you do with those
already here, and until the overt act Is
committed where will you (and how can
you) spot the offenders?
Unless there is a method devised to
probe into their secret thoughts and pur
poses the north and west may find
anarchy as great a problem as are the
race troubles of the south at present.
Emma Goldman and her associates were
beyond the pale of the law. The overt
act must first be committed and these
anarchists are aware of their legal priv
ileges.
Like the Nihilists in Russia, they are
schooled In the atmosphere of danger, and
they are willing to face death to carry
out their schemes and plots against rulers
in every country.
There is a growing prejudice against
royal persons on the eastern continent.
As good a sovereign as the late Queen
Victoria was shot at more than once. Per
haps there will continue to be kings and
queens for centuries to come, but they
will stand in “slippery places." English
men beheaded one of their kings and
France another of theirs, and the guillo
tine had a carnival of blood (mostly
royal) under Danton and Robespierre,
who were anarchists.
It Is a malady that is catching. It
seems preposterous that our late presi
dent. chosen by the people, should be
come a target for anarchy, yet we know
Csolgosx had no personal grievance
against Mr. McKinley. He fired at the
executive because he was the chief of
ficial in the government, -just as King
Humbert was killed.
* Wilkes Booth may be termed an anarch
' Ist also, because he fired at the head of
the government In the person of Mr. Lin
coln. but his deed had extenuating feat
ures, in the fact that his patriotism and
love for the "Lost Cause” goaded him to
the deed of a madman in the hour of na
tional defeat.
Guiteau was in one sense an anarchist
of a lower type than Booth. The United
States government had failed to give him
an office and he fired at the head in the
person of Mr. Garfield.
But Csolgosx is a cold-blooded anarchist,
destitute of patriotism and without aspi
ration for office, a germ of something
more Intensely virulent and deadly be-
Suffering Women.
Tucker can curt
you of that awful
I backache. smothering
W'Wt' palnsaround the heart.
fl misplacement. nervous
Jkffik./Mr' fears, short breath, leu-
corrhoea, bloating, In
* digestion and constipa
tion. Advice free Dr.
Tucker. Broad street,
Atlanta. Ga. .
cause the land is swarming with people of
like habits, tendencies and prejudices, and
they are crowding into the United States
at the rate of a half million per annum,
according to the statistics of immigration.
Those who are already here are also in
creasing as rapidly as the rest of our
population.
To prevent their entrance along the
thousands of miles of coast line on two
oceans would require another standing
army for such prevention, with innumer
able opportunities for briber)' and smug
gling methods to be considered by our
law-makers.
And such prevention would work a !
hardship to the honest and deserving who
seek a home on freedom’s soil. Many of
our most worthy citizens are of foreign
parentage, and from the time our owq
forefathers fled from tyranny In foreign
lands this country has been the Eldorado
of freedom-loving people all over the civ
ilised world. There are two vital ques
tions to be settled in the future, namely.
What shall be done with anarchists and
what shall be done with negroes?
These two questions present themselves
with force of conviction that I need not
try to explain.
. The criminal acts of anarchists and
black rapists are alike Intolerable to good
government and national prosperity as
well as domestic happiness.
Unless there can be applied a general
and effective remedy it will be prudent
to have in mind the subject of white im
migration to a country where life and
property are safer and good order may
be secured. When three of our presidents
have been assassinated within a third of
a century and the lynching remedy is the
only one in sight for the most loathsome
and atrocious crime known to civilisation
the time has come to ask ourselves very
seriously. "What can we expect In another
30 years with the same methods of proced
ure and failure to successfully meet such
conditions?”
Find Bostrom’s Improved Farm Level
advertisement, and see what you get free.
Money Needed For Agriculture.
It is an old but wise saying: "It takes
money to make money.” I have been fa
miliar with farms all my life. I was born
on a farm. When I married I went to a
farm to live and now that my head is
white with the snows of many winters, I
still cling to farm life, when nine-tenths
of my old neighbors have flung up country
life and moved to town.
I have learned a few things by experi
ence and hard knocks.
I find it takes money to farm as well as
to run a store or build a railroad, or con
trol matters in a political campaign.
If you are destitute of money, perhaps
you can support life on a farm, when you
might be sent to the poorhouse from a
town or city; but you can set it down in
your books, you can't make headway
in farming without ready money to help
the business along.
In ante-bellum times when slaves did the
farm work and everybody was satisfied,
if bills of the store were squared off once
a year there was no loud call for ready
cash. It was a happy-go-lucky sort of
life, and yet many farmers went to smash,
nevertheless, and bad to sell off a negro
occasionally to balance accounts with the
sheriff.
But farming is a different proposition
from what it was at that time, and the
farmer who succeeds today knows what
he is about, and has the dollars in his
pocket to pick up good chances, or he
is merely holding soul and body together
until death or debt puts him out of the
business altogether.
The most advanced farming that I see
or read about is conducted by people
who have a bank account to draw on
or who run a store to pay hands out of,
or carry on some other business, that
“shells down the corn.” when the farm
Is scant and not selling anything.
The hardest run farmers I know any
thing about are the folks who want to be
something and somebody, and yet must
draw their supplies from the farm that
does not afford the living, and these folks
are straining themselves in agony to meet
obligations and keep up appearances,
when the crop could only bear close econ
omy, hard work and no luxuries.
If a person aims to begin at the bottom
with a farm to support he can make up
his mind to make his first crop on corn
bread and buttermilk (where the cow has
a range to run on and corn is not more
than fifty cents a bushel.) If store
clothes and store provisions are a neces
sity he had better run a dray at sixty
cents for his labor and eat his
fill, per diem, because he will be as well
off as his farm neighbor, who had noth
ing and went In debt for the balance.
It was somehow always remarkable to
my. mind that the best farming I heard
about was done by people who have either
retired from other business with a fort
une or who run with money
made by law, physic, railroading or pub
lic offices.
Their farming is a pleasure and a rec
reation, or it seems to be.
One of the homespun, ordinary sort
(and I know much more about this class
than the other starts his year’s work in
anxiety and perplexity, and he is glad to
rest long enough at Christmas to be able
to begin again on new year’s, just because
he is like the cab horse that Mr. Pick
wick hired for a little journey, that some
of you will remember. Mr. Pickwick was
questioning the driver as to some of the
horses' queer antics in harness, when he
was told that the animal “was buckled
up so tight he couldn't very well fall
down."
Scores of farmers are exactly in the con
dition, that they can't quit, and must hold
on especially when they conduct their
farming operations on a credit basis, and
expect to pay for it out of the year's crop,
and oftentimes fail with a bad crop year
to harrass and perplex them.
But If there is money to start on, money
to pay hands, money to buy in bulk, rath
er than a dollar's worth on a credit, mon
ey to pick up a bargain in heifers, or get
a good mule or horse when they are
cheap; that money will work In farm af
fairs like axle grease on a creaking
wagon wheel, it will stop the racket and
get It along without trouble to the end of
tue trip.
I am writing of the average farmer.
There are some few people who would
get rich on a bare rock. They are built,
that way. If you should take their get
tings away and give it all to their im
provident thriftless neighbors and turn
them loose again it wouldn’t be a half
a doxen years until they had it alt back
and more too in their own pockets again
and the others as poor as ever. But In
nine cases out of ten these smart ones
would have some ready money to start
with and you would never find them with
out a little cash to pick up bargains that
drifted along by them.
Some people call this gift "good man
agement.”
I would call lt_the aptitude for making
money, which would work as well In a
doxen other callings as in farming, If they
applied It with the same seal and judg
ment.
The difficulty lies in the lack of this
aptitude in the poor farmer. As said be
fore he may live, and not die from star
vation. on a farm, but he will never find
farming what it ought to be to him, a
pleasure and a benefit in mind, body and
estate. You may set it down it takes
money to farm.
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THE KEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONbAf, PC 1 OBER 2b, IfrOJL.
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Revelations of the Spirit World.
A book, small volume, written by Mrs.
Rebecca Ruter Springer, wife of ex-Con
gressman Springer, of Illinois, lies before
me, and I have finished its perusal with
my soul thrilled by her personal experi
ence of what she feels was a spiritual
existence when she was in the hour and
article of death, as she and others be
lieved.
Mrs. Springer Is an authoress of nation
al fame. This book, “Intra Muros," was
written a few years ago, and to the first
recital she adds what she terms a “sup
plemental chapter.” because of the multi
tude of letters written to her concerning
the book and Its contents.
She is as emphatic as before. She re
asserts that she never claimed that her
strange experience was either a revela
tion or an inspiration, but It came to her
when she was critically 111, suffering un
told paroxysms of pain, and during a pe
riod of great physical suffering and pros
tration and she “considered it as sent in
compensation for that suffering.” Says
she: “I wish I might give the entire expe
rience just as it came to me, but I find
the earth-language is whohy inadequate
for me to do so. The question has been
repeatedly asked me: Was this a real ex
perience or merely a fanciful sketch?'
“To me at the time, it was as real as any
experience In this life could possibly
be." • • *
"I gave It as It came to me."
The question Is many times repeated:
“Does this experience retain its vivid
ness as time passes, or does It grow
dream-llke to you?
"I can partially forget,” says Mrs.
Springer, "some of the happiest experi
ences of my earth-life, but time seems
only to Intensify the wonders of those
days when my feet really stood on the
border-land of the two worlds.” • • •
"I can only tell how It seemed to me In
those hours, when earth was so remote
and heaven so real.”
Mrs. Springer In the first chapter of
“Intra Muros" (Between the Walls),
writes: ’ . . ,
"I was many hundred miles away from
home and friends, and had been very 111
for weeks. I had taken no nourishment,
scarcely even water for three weeks. ’I
had an utterable longing for the presence
of my dear distant ones, but they never
came, they could not. Responsible duties
kept them away. In days of agonised
suffering I found peace as I never felt
before, the refuge of the ‘everlasting
arms.' They lifted me, they upbore me.
they enfolded me. I rested as a tired
child on Its mother's bosom. One morn
ing, dark, cold and stormy, I seemed to
be standing on the floor by the bed, in
front of the stained-glass window. Some
MINISTER WU EXPLAINS THE
CHINESE RAILWAY SYSTEM
During the sessions of the forty-sixth
annual convention of the general pas
senger and ticket agents of the United
States and Canada, which convened at
Asheville last week, Wu Ting Fang, the
Chinese minister, was the guest of honor.
He was in a happy frame of mind, and
■poke as follows on "Railways In China:"
"The generosity and hospitality of
Americans are well known all over the
world, although I was agreeably sur
prised on my arrival here to receive a
key to the city. I nave been much pleased
with the picturesque scenery of this love
ly city, but so far have failed to observe
any gate. I shall take It as a symbol of
the good will of the Inhabitants of this
qlty to the humble representative of the
far eastern country.
"Mr. S. H. Hardwick, from whom I re
ceived the Invitation to attend the meet
ing of this association. stated that I
should say something about the general
‘passenger agents in China, the railroad
fares in China, the ticket arrangements,
the conductors’ cash collections, and such
other subjects as I might deem advisable.
I have the honor of being a pioneer In
the railway business in China, having
hefped to build the first railroad In China.
I can tell you at once that an associa
tion of general passenger agents Is un
known in China, and we have no need -for
them. I am sorry to have to say this
In your presence.
The first railway conducted In China
was not In a thickly populated city, but
we had to penetrate the Interior in order
to escape opposition and to fight the prej
udice on the part of natives. We bought
most of our tickets in Europe in order
to avoid fraud. As to the cash collection
by conductors. We call them guards,
and this is the term used in England.
Conclusive Evidence As to Nancy Hart.
The following letter to Mrs, Robert
Emory Park from Miss Fanny L. MlttJh
ell, of Athens, will be read with keen in
terest by all those interested in the ques
tion as to whether the redoubtable Nancy
Hart were a veritable person or merely
a mythical heroine:
Dear Mrs. Park:
Certainly, we will not give up Nancy
Hart.
The Revolutionary war ended In 1783,
and my great-grandfather, William
Mitchell, moved to Athens from Virginia
In 1803. At that time Nancy Hart was liv
ing in Clarke county with one of her
sons. Mr. Mitchell’s youngest child, Ra
rtiel, afterwards Mrs. Hugh Nelsler, was
my grandmother. She often spoke to me
of Nancy Hart, saying she had seen her
several times, and that Nancy sa.d she
would have to move away, the country
A Descendant of Nancy Hart Speaks.
Please allow a Hart, a descendant of
Nancy, to tell the public through your
paper what she knows about Nancy Hart.
Nancy Hart did exist. She lived in Elbert
county, Georgia, during the Revolutionary
war, after which, with her family, she
moved to Kentucky, where the greater
portion of her descendants now live.
Nancy had six sons and two daughters.
Here Is the genealogy from Nancy to my
self. Nancy’s son Morgan (James Morgan)
was the father of Edmund (or sometimes
called Edward) who was the father of
Robert, who was the father of the late
Dr. O. C. Hart, of Cresskeys, who was my
father. ,
Mrs. Nannie Hart Mcßae and Mr. Jesse
Hart, of Atlanta, are my father's sister
and brother They, together with my
brothers, Henry and John Hart, and sister,
Martha, are your city’s representative
of Nancy Hart's descendants, so far as
I know. I have referred Mrs. R. E. Park
to my grandfather's brother, Madison
Douglass, Casey county, Kenutcky, for in
formation.
Suffice it to say we do not know where
Nancy Hart was buried.
The lady who says she has an old flax
■pinning wheel of Grandmother Nancy’s,
sn heirloom of the Hart family, must, al
low me to destroy her pretty story, if she
has reference to the wheel which Miss
Patrick allowed to be placed in one of
X.ADIES’ velvet Gainsborough Hats elab
orately trimmed. Stylish draped felt
Turbans, a.so Hats and Caps for Chil
dren and Babies at
Miss Mary Ryan’s
Fashionable Millinery Store,
45 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA
one was standing by me, my husband's
favorite brother, who 'crossed the flood’,
many years ago. 'Shall we go now?’ said
he, as he drew me toward the window.
I turned and looked back into tne room,
that I felt I was to leave forever. It was
It its usual order. The attendant sat by
the stove reading a newspaper and on
the bed lay a still white form, with a
shadow of a smile on the pain-worn face.
"My brother drew me gently, I passed
with him through the window, eut on the
veranda and In some unaccountable way
doyvn the street. 'You are so weak, I
had better carry you,’ and Frank stooped
and lifted me In his arms, and I yielded,
resting my head on his shoulder, and
laying my arms about his neck—l felt so
safe, so content, to be thus in his care."
The story of her entrance and sojourn
In heaven Is too long for this article, but
her experiences are soul-thrllllng.
Being acquainted with both herself and
her distinguished husband, and knowing
her fine character as a cultured lady of
rare graces and genius, the story of her
other life was very delightful to me.
There have been three other experiences
which have fallen under my own knowl
edge personal and related to me by those
who saw and heard for themselves, and
whose veracity was unquestioned and
above criticism; I fell to comparing them
all with Mrs. Springers’.
A well-remembered physician, a near
neighbor, a gentleman whose name would
be Interesting to scores of people In
North Georgia, Insisted on his own death
bed that he had been looking down on his
own struggling frame, racked with suf
focating agony, and the vision was entire
ly distinct from the peace of mind and
body which he felt within, or which pos
sessed him just before the final passing
Many passengers boarded the train with
out tickets, and what were we to do with
them?
“I believe your system Is to collect the
fare and a little over. How much over
I have not been able to find out. Now,
in regard to tne water competition, there
are many rivers in China, but the rivers
do not: go'far enough, and the merchants
in China found it more convenient to send
by railway; that is, the railroads could
deliver goods nearer their destinations.
1 hear that your assoclattoiv is forty-six
years old.
"I was examined by a palmist today
and she predicted that I would live to be
eighty years old. I believe I will live to
be 100 and I want you all to come to
China before I die. Come to China in
IMO, just five years before my demise,
and you will receive a cordial and friend
ly reception.”
was getting so thickly settled.
It does not seem possible that twenty
years after the war, with Nancy living in
their midst, that the people of this section
would let the tales of Nancy's heroic
deeds go uncontradicted, if they were
false.
My grandmother was told these tales,
and she never heard them disputed.
Does it not seem strange that the Geor
gia legislature would name a county af
ter a woman who was a myth?
Or if there was a woman bearing that
name who never rendered any valuable
service to the state?
I am personally Interested in this mat
ter; for 1f there was no such person. I
Shall have to cut out several pages from
my history. Sincerely,
FANNY L. MITCHELL.
Athens, Ga.. Oct. 17.
Jacobs’ showwindows last year and which
had also the honor of being written up by
The Dally News. My father, Dr. C. C.
Hart, bought that wheel at a sale of Mr.
Harris Goodwin’s household furniture. No
Hart save he ever owned it. We would
never have sold such an heirloom. Never!
My mother did sell the wheel, which is
doubtless very old, to Mrs. Patrick. Her
daughter. Miss Lucile, simply got the
story confused. When Orrle Tuggle wrote
me asking for a picture of our home to
put in The News with a picture and story
of Nancy Hart’s spinning wheel, then on
exhibition at Jacobs’, I of course refused
and corrected the mistake, but too late,
as I was told that "the paper had gone
to press and the story would do no one
harm.” Consequently It was read and by
•jme believed.
None would take keener pleasure than
I in knowing the location of Nancy Hart’s
grave and seeing there a monument erect
ed to her memory. Any question which the
D. A. R’s. may desire to ask I will be
delighted to answer If it Is in my power.
MRS. ELIZABETH HART ELLIOTT.
Chamblee, Ga_, Oct. 21.
An Odd Pig Pen.
A Canadian farmer had on his land a
very deep hole, 12 inches wide, resulting
from an unsuccessful attempt to form an
oil well. Four little pigs belonging to the
farmer tumbled Into this hole, probably
In search of food, and fell 45 feet to the
bottom, where a little cave had been
formed by the caving in of some sand
from the sides. The farmer dropped corn
into the hole every day for a month,
knowing the pigs were alive from hearing
contented grunts ascending from below
ground. At last he had the hole widened,
and descending by the aid of a strong
rope, he rescued two piggies from their
strange prison. The other two were dead.
BY
MRS. W. H. FELTON.
away. The minister related this experi
ence as the dead body of the useful and
beloved physician lay In Its coffin before
burial during the funeral services.
Again. A young man well-known to me
in girlhood, died apparently, had yielded
up his last breath and attendants were
making ready for the shroud and last
arrangement of the poor, worn body,
when the apparently dead man revived,
opened his eyes, recognized all the mem
bers of bls large family connection, gath
ered about him and told of his heavenly
vision, its sweet rest, perfect beauty and
joyous welcome. He maue his will, divid
ed out his earthly goods, bade each and
everyone “goodbye” and died again, the
happiest of mortals, about two hours
later.
Another: I was, with others, watching
a sick youth, the son of two of my dearest
friends, when he passed out of life (as
we felt), with the death-rattle in his
throat and two physicians pronouncing
the vital spark gone, extinct, as the strug
gle ceased. After a cons.uerable time the
pulse began to flicker and beat again, and
the supposed dead boy opened his eyes
and told of his heavenly vision and of
those he knew and beheld over there.
"I am spared only for a season," was
his answer to Inquiries.
Within a few short months, when ap
parently in perfect health, happy as
youth, affection and everything earth
holds dear could make them, suddenly,
without cause, without an accident or
hurt of any sort, he became delirious and
passed away in two or three days, and
with the vivid recollection in the minds
of all persons around him in his previous
illness of the vision he haa experienced
and which I have striven to relate to
you at this time, as certainly seen by my
own eyes and heard with my own ears.
St. Paul told of his absence from the
flesh, and the unutterable glories of his
spirit life. We are familiar with his ex
perience in the Sacred Book, as he de
scribed it.
During a yellow fever epidemic in Sa
vannah nearly fifty years ago (when his
colleague fell a victim), one of the most
beloved ministers of the Methodist con
ference In Georgia had a spiritual experi
ence that thrilled his mind and heart, a
vision of heavenly rapture, rest and peace,
when death seemed to claim him.
These witnesses are first-class, they
spoke what they believed in the fear of
God and sight of man.
It is a mystery of mysteries! Knowing,
as we do, that death is waiting for us all
of every name and nation under heaven
that it is one of the certainties, with no
power to evade or avoid, that we must
go, sooner or later—it may not be either
a miracle or a strange occurrence when
glimpses of the better land are vouchsafed
to the “pure in heart, who shall see God.”
BE MIRTHFUL, SAYS PASTOR.
Dr. McLauflln Advocates Abandoning
Mourning in the Pulpit.
Rev. W. H. McGlauflln, pastor of the
Unlversalist church of this city, has just
delivered an address before the Univer
sallst conference now in session in Buf
falo. The papers of that city devote two
columns to tne sermon.
The burden of the address was that min
isters of the gospel should discard the
clergy's conventional solemn visage and
smile, if they want to, and recreate as
other men.
The following excerpt from a report of
the address by The Buffalo Express gives
a fair idea of how striking was the ad
dress:
Should a minister play pool?
Certainly.
And golf?
To be sure.
These and a lot of questions of equal
pertinence were answered In an address
that was brimful of public Interest and
humor delivered by the Rev. W. H. Mc-
Glauflln before the Unlversalist confer
ence in session at the Church of the
Messiah yesterday morning. Mr. McGlauf
lln, by his remarks yesterday, proved
himself to be a broadminded minister;
one who believes that it Is not necessary
to walk around with a solemn face, cast
ing gloom upon every sort of amusement,
In order to lead people In,the right path.
He thinks that ministers should have
recreation, the same as any other per
sons.
"Man,” as Mr. McGlauflln says. "Is the
only animal that laughs. He may misuse
this distinguished trait, but he may also
employ it and his mirth be as religious
as his mourning."
The morning session, at which Mr. Mc-
Glauflln spoke, was presided over by the
Rev. Henry L. Canfield, D.D. The song
service was led by the Rev. O. M. Hilton
and then came Mr. McGlauflin's address,
which he termed "The Minister’s Diver
sions." He said:
“That the minister, like all other men,
needs diversion, is apparent. As all work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy, so
all duty and no diversion makes the Rev.
John a dull dominie.
"The pastlrAe is essential to the preach
ing time. The creation of good within
the parish goes step by step with the
recreation which Is good within the pas
tor’s experience.
"Diversion is to duty what wit is to
wisdom—it brightens, cheers and attracts.
Laughter lightens labor and that is Its
excuse for being, and reason enough why
the muscles of merriment are in the
face; why the sense of humor is in the
brain and the thrill of joy In the heart.
"Man Is the only animal that laughs.
He may misuse his distinguished trait
as also any other, but he may rightly
employ It and his mirth be as religious
as his mourning. The command that we
shall weep with those who weep, exhorts
to rejoice with those who rejoice, and it
puts the rejoicing first. All rejoicing is
in the direction of diversion. God places
a fun-loving element in the soul and then
arranges affairs so as to call it forth into
expression.
“The minister’s diversions may be nu
merous—more so today than in the past,
perhaps, because he now stands, not so
much over his people, as with them—not
their arbitrary rector, so much as their
friendly director. Together they may
choose amusement from the catalogue
that runs from ato izzard. To follow
the pattern of the child's picture-book
and perhaps illustrate the title of this
address, also:
"A stands for angling, B is bicycling, C
suggests circus and D is for dancing; E
Is for euchre, F means football, G is for
golf, H hunting in fall; I is for idleness,
when weary the day, J points to journeys
near home or away; K flies a kite, L loit
ers round, M money makes, N is non
sense mid sound; O Is the opera. P’s pic
nics bring, Q is for quoits, R Is rowing in
spring; S goes out swimming, T theatres
names, V enjoys vaulting, U umpires the
game; W goes walking for needed diver
sion X joins phonetics and stands for X
cursion, Y is the yacht club with all Its
well wishers, Z zeal-less parsons who
plav upon zithers.
■♦Which of all the catalogue shall a
minister choose and may he do a.» that
the laymen wisely does ’ It is not diffi
cult to divide the sheep from the goats,
but not so easy to choose among the
Sheep themselves. For of two sheep that
appear equally well, one Is seen to have
yielded profit and ti.e other loss, after
the shearing time and the wool is
weighed.
Bears ths The K' nd You Havfl Alwa I FB
ROUTED BY LADY ROBERTS.
Buller Could Fight Boers, But Was
Vanquished By Petticoat.
S NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Interesting de
tails concerning the enforced retirement of
Sir Redvers Buller are given in a dis
patch from London to the Herald. It Is
an open secret that what is known as
"petticoat influence" has been far too
strong about the war office ever since the
duke of Cambridge resigned, and the po
litical commander-ln-chief has not es
caped it.
There are many people who are inclined
to applaud the speech of Mr. E. C. Rich
ards, K. C. M. 8.. the night before last at
Northampton, who declared that if Lord
Roberts would leave bazaar openings to
Lady Roberts and take the selections and
war office reforms into his own hands,
there might be great reform at the war
office.
It is said that ever since General Buller
refused to correct his Spidnkop dispatches
he has been subjected to the bitter hos
tility of Lady Roberts, who used every
effort to force her husband to demand his
recall.
Within the last few days her antipathy
has taken fresh vent owing to his West
minster speeches. It is sa!d she Induced
"Bobs” to go to the war office and demand
that an order be Issued for General Bull
er’s resignation.
Such an order was issued, but old Buller
replied with a flat refusal to resign.
Then Lord Roberts and Mr. Broderick
put their heads together and waited for
the Instant of the king's return to Lon
don to lay before his majesty the alterna
tive of Buller's dismissal or their resigna
tion.
At first the king refused point blank to
countenance any such drastic proceedings.
Lord Roberts and Mr. Broderick threat
ened to resign instanter unless a royal
mandate were Issued for Buller's decapi
tation.
His majesty used every effort to induce
the commander-ln-chlef to reconsider his
determination. Only when he finally dis
covered this was out of the question was
the royal consent reluctantly given to the
order for General Buller's dismissal.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS. ’.
Chicago ,
Policemen. Ilk! the hairs of a man's held,
are numbered.
Virtue is frequently its own reward because
there are no questions asked.
Humor is said to be one of the elements of
genius, but it la impossible to make a pessimist
believe it.
If a man does one bad .act and it is found
out it casts a shadow over a dozen former
good ones. • . ‘ *
SERIOUS COMPLAINT MADE
BY GEORGIA COTTON SHIPPERS
MOLENA. Ga., Oct 21, 1901.
I notice In issue of October 9th an arti
cle headed-" Car Famine Imminent," and
seeing it gives an erroneous idea of the
situation of the cotton traffic in Molena,
Ga., and adjacent paints, I ask you to 1 al
low me space to give the situation: aa seen
by all business men (except railroad men)
and especially those interested in cotton.
I have been shipping cotton from this
territory for the past four seasons and
am in a position to know the situation.
The movement of cotton is nearly a month
later than last season, as you will see
from the facts. On October Ist last season
the railroad bobks shdw that 814 bales
had been shipped from Woodbury, ftve
miles from Molena and this year on (Oc
tober Ist 213 bales had been shipped and
the difference at Molena Is greater than
at Woodbury. ( . • «
Now this don't look like the cotton had
been rushed on the market as stated .in
your article of the 9th. Since. October Ist
at Molena I am told that not more than
100 bales have been moved and the small
platform furnished by the railroad is full
of cotton and the agent instructed "not to
receive any cotton that can’t be put on
the platform.” Now what does this mean.
The shipper cannot sell cotton from the
fact that he cannot deliver it. The banks
cannot pay for It from the fact that it Is
tying up their money where they cannot
use it. The farmer cannot sell his cot
toh and the merchant cannot collect his
accounts, and the article above re
ferred to, it is ail to save the railroad the
expense of paying mileage on cars to han
dle the cotton. The crop is small and the
demand for cars to haul the cotton up to
October Ist has been lighter than for
many yearg, and it seems to those not In
terested more In railroads than In the gen
eral business of our cotton growing coun-
Is the Negro Race Dying Out}
The last census gives some Interesting
figures, on the negro race, which seem to
dispute the theory that the negro is dy
ing out, although they show a slight de
cline in the ratio of Increase during the
decade from 1890 to 1900. The last census
shows that the negroes constitute 11:58 per
cent of the total population. In 1890 the per
cent was 11.98. In 1790, when the first cen
sus was taken, there were more negroes in
proportion to whites than there have ever
been since. They then numbered nearly
a fifth of the population—l 9.27 per cent.
Had this rate been malntalnel there would
now be nearly 15,000,000, whereas the num
ber of negroes according to the last cen
sus Is 8,840,789. The population by races
is thus given.
Whites W,990.802
Colored-
Negroes .... 8,840,789
Chinese 118,050
Japanese 85,986
Indians 266,700
Total colored* 9.312.5 K
Total, all c010r5.../ .... 76,308,387
The negroes constitute 95 per cent of the
total colored popillation. Since 1890 the
Chinese have decreased 6 per cent. This
is due largely to the Geary expulsion act.
The Indians have decreased 3 per cent.
As stated, the negro population was pro
portionately larger in 1790 than it has ever
been since. It was then 19.27- per cent. *ln
1890 it was 18.88; In 1820. 18,39; in 1840, 16.84;
in 1860, 14.13; in 1880, 13.13; in 1890, 11.93;
in 1900, 11.58. With trifling fluctuations the
decrease has been gradual and steady.
In 110 years the ratio of negro popula
tion has decreased from 19.27 to 11.58 per
cen t—or from nearly one-fifth to less than
one-ninth of the total population.
The shifting of the negro population in
some of the southern states is shown in
the following figures, which indicate some
what unaccountable changes in the pro
portion of negroes to the entire popula
tion in the states named:
1900. 1890. 1880.
Alabama.... ... ... ... ... ... 45.3 44.3 47. S
Arkansas»-0 H. 4 26 2
Florida 43.7 42.5 47.0
Georgia 46-7 46 7 47.0
Kentucky«... 188 14.4 16.5
Louisiana 47.2 49.9 51.5
Mississippisß.J 67,6 57.5
North Carolina 33-3 34.7 37.9
South Carolina 58.4 59.8 60.7
Tennessee 23-8- 24.4 26.1
Texas ... ... ... ... ... ... .• 24.0 21.8 24.7
In Louisiana, where the negroes were In
the majority In 1880 and where the popula
tion was about equally divided in 1890, the
whites are now In the majority. The only
states which now have negro majorities
are Mislsslppl and South Carolina. Out
side of Kentucky, Tennessee has a smaller
negro population than any other southern
state, and negroes constitute more than
one-fifth or 23.8 per cent of its population
—though this per 6ent is less than in 18S0
or 1890. The negro population of Alabama
Is less than It was In 1880 and more than
it was In 1890. The same is true of Flori
da. There has been little change in Geor
gia during the past 20 years, while the ne
gro population of Arkansas has -steadly
gained. Texas presents a peculiar case.
In 1880 negroes constituted 24.7 per cent oi
its population. In 1890 this had dropped
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commodities of trade as it suits them, to
the detriment of all others. When you
compare the two Interests it looks like
starving thousands to-feed one. Our rail
road commissioners, who are paid- by the
state to adjust railroad traffic can do
nothing only tell the cotton men and those
interested to just wait, stop their business,
let the cotton set on the platform In the
weather and damage 810 to 315 to the bale.
Farmers who are obliged to have money
sell their cotton for less than market
■value. Shippers tell their correspondents
to stop their mills until the railroads can
work back their cars from distant points,
which may be next spring or summer or
some time that suits the railroad.
Molena now hauls cotton to the Macon
and Birmingham road to ship to Macon,
but some shippers who want their cotton
to go to Cblumbus and Atlanta are tied
hard and fast—cannot move the cotton
even if they were offered 10 cents for it,
and they have been waiting since October
Ist and no relief ’in sight yet. There has
not been as much cotton moved from
Molena and Woodbury to date as was last
season in September. Hoping we may soon
find relief from any sources whatever and
best wishes for The Journal, respectfully,
. R. H. 8.
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FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
Berlin now uses an electric system for
lighting street gas lamps.
Twenty Infantry companies' in the French
army are now equipped with folding bicycles.
The English War Department has offered a
84,000 prize for tbs best self propelling mili
tary wagon.
. The proportion of people in Norway who
speak English is. larger than in any other
country in the world.
The cellars of Portugal hold 132,000,000 gal
lons of wine and there Is no more storage
room for the new crop.
No fewer than 587,884 prisoners were in ths
prisons of British India In 1899-1900, an in
crease of 92,064 over the number for 189 L Os
this huge total only 24.565 were females, which
is a much smaller proportion than In western
countries.
Paris is Just beginning to realize how price
less are the treasures which It has secured
by the late Baron Adolph Rothschild’s bequest
of medieval gold and silversmith's work to
the Louvre. The collection will all go into
oiw room, which is now being prepared for
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