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6 ; 11 | THE COUNTRY HOME Women, on the Farm Conducted By Mrs. IV. H. Felton. + Correspondence on home topics or ♦ ♦ subject! of especial Interest to wo- ♦ ♦ men it invited. Inquiries or letter! ♦ + should be brief and clearly written 4 ♦ Id Ink on one aide of the sheet. ♦ ♦ Write direct to Mrs. W H Fel- ♦ ♦ ton.Edltor Home Department Semi- ♦ + Weekly Journal. Cartersville. Oa. ♦ + No inquiries answered by mail. ♦ 11111» 1 111 i mm »»»♦♦♦ 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. Note premium list in this issue, make your selection and subscribe «t once. • THE KEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONbAf, PC 1 OBER 2b, IfrOJL. •I* 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 PJHNER SET FREE tor wiling 24 box** Rslrona Soaps or bottlesTalrona Periumes. troduceoor Soaps and Perfumes, re r-.ve free to every pur chaser of a box or bottle, a beautiful cut glass pattern 10-Inch fruit bowL or cboiea of UYOyUI many other valuable articles To the agent who sells 24 boxes soap wa give our to-piece Dinner Set full size, handsomely decorates and gold lined. We aiso give t-nrtalaa. 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TH€ SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, SA. try that it is-a sad state of affairs when a "public carrier” can take or not take 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. Rest, Beal th »n( 'omfort to Mother u 4 Child. MBS. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING BYBUP, tar children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammatiou, aiLuys all pain, and cures wind colic. 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