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Women on the Farm
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TIME LONG PAST.
Like the yhoet of a friend dead
la Time long pest.
A tone which Is now forever fled.
A hope which is now forever pest.
A love so sweet tt could not last.
Was Time long past.
There were sweet dreams tn the night
sadness or delight.
Each day a shadow onward cast
Which made us wish it yet might last—
That Tim- long pest.
There to regret, almost remorse
For Time long past,
•Tto like a child's beloved corse
A father watches, till at last
Beauty to like remembrance cast
From Time long past.
—Shelley.
Methodist Women.
The wires bring the news that the wo
men of the northern Methodist church
have won their tight and henceforth they
will be privileged to sit as voting delegates
in the general conferences of the church
It has been a long contention and speaks
loudly for their grit and perseverance in
the cause that success at last crowns
their efforts.
Several times Miss Frances E. Willard
was selected as a delegate, but always
was denied the voting privilege during her
life time.
Undoubtedly she would have made a
fine lay delegate, or even presiding officer
tn the ministerial body, if necessary.
She was a pastmaster in parliamentary
law and usages, and no one better under
stood the opportunities In a discussion.
She was a shining light in the church of
her choice and rumor has It that she was
affianced at one time to a minister who
afterwards became a bishop, but the
course of true love failed to run smooth
until the knot could be tied. It now seems
a pity that she could not have been given
the privilege now granted to other wo
men far less famous for usefulness and
holy living than Miss Willard.
The northern Methodist church adopted
deaconess work many years ago. Women
who feel called to this work enter the dea
coness nomes and devote their entire Ilves
to the work of the church. They we»r a
uniform and it is said they are always
respected and given protection by the
lower classes of society. They live in
these deaconess homes just as foreign
missionaries devote themselves to the
Christian instruction of the heathen. In a
city like Chicago you will frequently meet
them on the streets, going to and fro as
missionaries to the poor and Ignorant.
They receive no pay for their services, but
they are fed and clothed in the deaconess
homes.
So many of these homes now exiA that
'they have also a general conference at
stated times
Once when tn Chicago I attended two of
their conference sessions, and met dele
gates from a large number of other cities
beside Chicago. They are enthusiastic
Christian workers, and stand high in these
northern Methodist churches. It was their
united testimony that their churches took
on new life when the way was opened
for these domestic missionaries.
It would seem consistent and prdper to
allow women to go out among their own
nationalities as helpers in religious work,
when such immense amounts of money
are collected to send the same sort of reli
gious workers beyond the seas. This dea
coness work was an Inevitable sequence,
because the domestic mission work has
fewer drawbacks than that of foreign mis
sions. in all practical lines.
This deaconess work has had much to
do in pushing forward the question of
seating women delegates, which has just
been decided in favor of the women. It
stood to reason and was supported by ex
perience that an intelligent woman who
understood her work was quite as able to
make a good report or reject a mislead
ing report as the male delegate who was
obliged to get his information from the
experienced woman before he could ex
plain the matter to the conference.
Aquila and Priscilla were a fine team
for service (I speak reverently I trust)
•ven tn St. Paul's day. and if Priscillas
could instruct the' young students of divin
ity tn those early days, they can be trust
ed to decide upon religious duties and avo
cations at the preseht time in a general
conference.
Sooner or later every evangelical church
in the country will adopt the woman dele
gate system, certainly every one that car
ries on mission work wiy be Impelled to it.
The system naturally leads up to it.
The Roman Catholic church has an un
measured power and influence through its
Sisters of Charity. Subtract their influ
ence and the value of their self-sacrificing
work and an immense void would appear.
The world Is moving on. in what may be
termed new channels.. but in truth these
Innovations are but the unfolding and de
velopment of lines already potent and
progressive.
The southern Methodist church Is dis
cussing the deaconess work, and noted
church women in the south now attend
annual and general conferences regularly.
Our Present System of Education.
An extract from an address delivered
by President George T. Winston, of the
North Carolina College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts.
Under our present system of education
boys and girls are educated away from
skilled labor.
How few of them are taught the use of
tools much less of machinery.
How few of them can bottom a chair,
repair a lock, replace a broken door pan
el. put a water-back in a kitchen stove,
put a new valve in the pump, cut threads
an pipe and make joints, sharpen the
y mowing blade, put a head on a bolt, make
a new wagon body, put on a horse-shoe,
make a new singletree, put in a spoke, put
on a tire. ’ replace broken glass, make a
new gate, forge an open link. temper steel,
build a chimney, draw plans for a barn,
put in tile drains, survey hillsides, ditches
construct silos, repair harness, and do
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You’ll be told, probably, ” just
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< This is not so. Prove it for
J yourself. PEAR. LINE the
9 best wnshing-powder, the
VMost Economical
the thousand and one things that every
tarmer must do for himself or hire some
one else to do for him at great expense
or at still greater expense leave undone.
Instead of doing all these things or to
be skilled with hands, observant with
eyes and Inventive with brains, our chil
dren are given endless lessons In geogra
phy and history and rhetoric and litera
ture. lessons which they learn with diffi
culty and forget with ease.
They must memorize the names of all
the rivers, gulfs and bays, capes and
promontories on the globe, the ancient rul
ers of Egypt and Asia, from the earliest
dynasties until as recent a period as the
reign as Aser-ban-i-pul. They must learn
the number of elephants in the battle of
Zama, the defects In the Paudlcts of
Justinian, the religious doctrines of Zor
oaster. the difference between synecdoche
and hyperbole, the psychologic depend
ence of Shakespeare upon Beaumont and
Fletcher, the practical value of trancend
entalism, how to spell without spelling,
how to read without using the words, and
how to figure without using figures.
If anything could add to the pertinence
of the extract It is President Winston's
visit to a commencement occasion a few
years ago. It was an academic Institute
with 70 pupils. ,
Hear him: "Everybody appeared on the
program once, half the school twice, and
a large number three or four times. There
were seventeen original orations (com
piled from various sources), twenty-three
dialogues (mainly by the teacher); thirty
five essays (which the pupils did not un
derstand well enough to read correctly);
nine vocal solos, seven .duets on the pi
ano. two quartets with harmonian ac
companiment, a senior class song and two
choral symphonies by the entire school.
"There was not a girl in the school that
could broil a beefsteak properly, make a
perfect loaf of lightbread and cut, fit and
make a complete set of women’s clothes.
There was not a boy who could mend a
broken chain, put a spoke in a wheel,
manage a harvester, tend a dynamo or
give any information concerning the
markets of the world's leading crops, the
great lack of transportation or the status
of labor. The whole affair was ludicrous
and pitiful. It was impractical, unreal,
uninteresting, superficial and artificial.
"The only natural things that I saw
were the boys and girls smiling at each
other as they blundered at their tasks,
the babies sleeping In the arms of tired
mothers and a couple of dogs, worn out
with this endless performance, seeking
recreation by fighting under the benches.”
Perhaps the picture maybe a trifle over
drawn. but It Is full of truth as evinced
by sad experience.
There is sore need of a reform in our
present educational system. •
Nine-tenths of our school children must
do some sort of work to live. The edu
cation they get In the great majority of
our country schools is a miserable pre
tense at education. We have fallen into
the tolls of shrewd book manufacturers,
who are trying to sell school books all
over the land, and the education is car
ried along In channels where these books
can be crowded in the same groove, mere
ly for the selling profit.
The idea is fast gaining ground that
public education, paid for by the state,
should be devoted to tue rudiments of an
English education, and supplemented by
industrial training.
Besides the higher education must be
paid for extra, by the parent, as the mat
ter now stands. >
Only today I heard a vigorous complaint
from a father that the teacher of a coun
try school had sent him word that If his
children rose from arithmetic to algebra
he must pay extra for It. The teacher
gets a good salary and the child studies
no more lessons than before, but the ex
tra pay must come, and the father who
now pays taxes must still pay tuition.
It is a farce, or would be If it were not
a tragedy!
How the whole business needs ripping
op!
DO YOU SUFFER WITH PILES?
Do they protrude?
Do they bleed?
Do they pain you?
Do you have mucous or bloody dls
chanres? 1
I can certainly cure you. Advice free.
Dr. Tucker, 15 N. Broad street, Atlanta,
Ga. •••
Is Crownlnshleld the “Nigger in the
Woodpile?”
A friend who lives at a distance, but
who reads The Journal, thus writes:
"Dear Mrs. Felton:
"It,seems to me. after reviewing the
situation, that on the water 'Dewey did
it,’ also that on the water 'Schley did It.'
“On land it was nicely done by ‘Paddy
Miles’s boy.* (this was the pet name given
to the general amongst the union soldiers
of 1861-65.)
"It is true Miles has his faults, but who
to going to throw the first stone?
"From my standpoint Alger suffered
from the bad effects of 'embalmed beef.'
and Secretary Long longed a long time
for some of the 'glory enough for all.’
"Maclay is at least convinced that a
mastiff prefers to jump on a lone cur than
on a pack of hounds, but Ido think
crowninshield is the real ‘nigger’ in the
wood pile.’
“How much he used Sampson we do not
know, but after Sampson had his hair cut
by Schley. Crowninshied made a cat’s
paw of Sampson.
"How about our esteemed scholar. Hon.
John Temple Graves? Is not his loyalty
to Schley rather shaky?
"His views on negro deportation seem
to be at variance with other and later
views in The Journal.
“The nigger is all right enough, until
there gets to be too mucn of him in the
woodpile, or when the word passes around
that he must have special laws to"pre
serve hWn.
"The same’ laws do not seem to have
like affect on the two races. The 'nigger'
is something like my dog. perhaps I would
like to get rid of him, but I can't find any
body willing to take him." •• •
When congress takes a hand In the
Sen ley controversy then we Will see what
we will see, and my correspondent from
a distance will find out if he has read the
signs of the times correctly. But it is
clearly plain that Dewey did it at Manila
and Schley did it at Santiago, and the
gratified people of the United States will
not fall out with either of them concern
ing the manner of doing it. If either had
failed as did Admiral Byng, nearly two
hundred years .igo. he might have been
courtmartialed ahd possibly hanged at the
yard arm. But they did not fail and
the country Is proud of both of them.
An Inquiry For Shallots.
FORT PIERCE, FLA., Jan. 1, 1902.
Mrs. W. H. Felton:
An old Confederate soldier. 72 years old.
comes asking for information. I want to
know if you have in your garden any
"Shallots.** or Eschallots. I haVc tried
nearly al io fth« seedsmen and cannot find
them.
When I was a small boy nearly all fam
ily kitchen gardens grew "shallots.”
Now if you have any in your garden,
send me by mail enough to start me. If
you do not have them please advise me
where I can get some.
I enclose stamp for answer.
Yours truly, J. T. GRAY.
While Thomas Brackett Reed was In Wash
ington on legal business a few days ago a
gushing young woman effusively compliment
ed him on his ability to say clever things.
“O. Mr. Reed.” said she. “I should so love
to hear you make an epigram." The ex
speaker, replied drawlingly: “I am sorry,
madam. but this is my day for composing
•pic poems.” |
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 20. 1905,
HOBSON GIVES GOOD ADVICE
TO SEAMEN IN CHARLESTON
, BY ELLE GOODE.
CHARLESTON, S. C.. Jan. 14.-Captaln
Hobson addressed a number of “rough
sailors'* and quite a crowd of Charlesto
nians at the Seamen's Home Mission, on
Market street Sunday night. In the after
noon he had made an address before the
Y. M. C. A. members, which thoroughly
aroused and enthused his apreclatlve au
dience. So when he entered the mis
sion he was cordially greeted, and after
the singing of a hymn, in which he and all
joined most heartily, he was introduced
by Chaplain P. A. Murray. After a few
introductory remarks, he opened his ad
dress by relating a few of his early ex
periences at Annapolis.
These all tended to prove the loyalty
of sailor to sailor, and how they stood up
for each other, come what might. Once
while out on a cruise two of the sailors
left the boat as soon as it anchored to
swim ashore and back. In coming back
one of them was seized with cramps and
cried out for help. "The first thing I
knew.” continued Hobson, “the sailor at
my side was over and making for him as
fast as he could. Then another was over
board, and another and another, till posi
tively the captain had to order that not
another man should leave the ship.”
Another Incident he referred to was of
the wonderful Influence Captain Phillip
had over his men on board his vessel du
ring the Cuban war. After the glorious
victory of the American fleet, the sailors
were about to cheer, when Captain Phil
lip stepped Into their midst, saying,
“Boys, don’t cheer—those poor men over
there are dying”—pointing towards the
Spaniards. Not a sound was heard. "Let
us kneel and thank God for our victory,”
he quietly said, and every sailor joined
| MRS. FELTON DISCUSSES
| SOME
In ante-bellum times, when a favorite
coachman, butler, cook or chamber maid
was given extra presents from the “big
house,” the less favored slaves would say:
"Massa (or missus) had better gib dem
nice t’lngs to poor nigger down heah at
de quarter; dey jes’ bln greasing a fat
sow to help dem high-livin' niggers.”
When I read Hon. Mr. Lovering’? reso
lution to pension all ex-president’s at
125,000 per annum during life, I felt some
what as the darkles did about "greasing
a fat sow.”
It actually does look like some people
are so built that toadyism becomes pat
urally the bent of their minds.
Presidents of the United ntates always
come up from the ranks of plain citizen
ship. An ex-president simply becomes a
citizen again after his term expires. He
gets a fine salary and perquisites as long
as he is de facto president, and a splendid
house to live in at the cost of the govern
ment. Besides he has the whole tribe of
flatterers, toadies, pap-suckers and polit
ical adventurers ready to bow down and
worship at his feet, so far as liberty is
given to their worshiping propensities.
A vice president counts small—not as
much as a millionaire cabinet official—
until he steps into the upper seat by rea
son of death or accident to the president.
The very minute the oath of office is
taken for presidential powers and privil
eges he becom.es another person, at once
and entirely, and the dancing political
Dervishes have a new quickstep aryl a
fresh impetus to their laudatory exercises
for him.
But now there arises a new light In Bos
ton who wants to add a pension to ex
presidents' perquisites and privileges, so
that the country may have retired rulers
and different dynasties, ex-kings and
dowager queens galore.
This pension business has already leap
ed over all metes and bounds, apparently.
It won’t take long to pension everybody
that ever held an office in the republic at
the rate we are going. We are charged al
ready with class legislation for the benefit
of the few over the many, but when one
class must all be supported by the labor
of the other class it cannot be a great
while until the bottom will fall out of the
whole business and some military chief
tain will raise a rumpus and the republic
will be no more forever!
When President Harrison left the white
house a few years ago he went again to
the practice of law, and his fame as a
great lawyer sounded all over the land.
His political promotion meant shrewd po
litical management and party success, bgt
the great lawyer's fame rested on Indi
vidual superiority, and was a personal tri
umph. He was a citizen of whom the na
tion was proud, because his intellect was
his crowning attribute of greatness.
A pension, in its last analysis, means
help to those who are unable to help
themselves. Any president of average sen
sibility would prefer to be known as a
person capable of self-sustenance rather
than as a pauper applicant for support in
private life from the taxpayers.
If ex-Presldent Harrison was able to
make a good living for himself and family
after he left the white, house, and ex-
President Cleveland can’live at ease with
dignity in his New Jersey home, there
would seem to be no immediate necessity
for adding a $25,000 pension to the well
paid office of president at this immediate
juncture.
The pension roll carries the names of
several widows who were large property
owners at the time the pension was al
lowed and these pensions were granted
simply because their husbands were
prominent In public life. The grant was
a tribute to political prominence and the
precendent would seem to be of very
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Discovered.
Ninety-five per cent of all cases of deaf
ness brought to our attention is the re-
Ellises
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vapor current generated in the Actina
passes through the Eustachian tubes into
the middle ear, removing the catarrhal ob
structions as it passes through the tubes
and loosens up the bones (hammer, anvil
and stirrup) In the Inner ear, making
them respond to the slightest vibration
of sound. Actina has never failed to cure
ringing noises in the head. We have
known people troubled with this distress
ing symptom for years to be completely
cured in only three weeks* use of the
Actina. Actina also gures asthma, bron
chitis. Sore throat, weak lungs, colds and
headache; all of which are directly or In
directly due to catarrh. Actina is sent on
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doubtful propriety from the standpoint of
equal privileges to all citizens of the re
public..
As sure as we live a halt must be called
somewhere to this pension outrage. I
have before me an index of the bills Intro
duced into the present congress in less
than three weeks of session during the
month of December.
It is an unbound volume of closely
printed matter, containing three hundred
pages, and ninety-hundredths of these
bills are applications for pensions. House
bills numbering over 7,600 and the senate
bills between two and three thousand. Os
course ninety-hundredths will become
laws and whether the claims are merito
rious or otherwise no pension commis
sioner will dare to turn them down.'
Witness the fight on H. Clay Evans be
cause he weeded out some glaring cases
of fraud!
never has been within the mem
ory of man such a flood of pension bills
as the influx since congress met in De
cember last, and the apathy of the coun
try under this terrific raid on the strong
box of the nation is one of the hopeless
features of our present condition.
But this latest effort from Boston to
“grease the fat sow” is preposterous!
A pension to ex-presidents of $2,500 per
annum Is using fat grease with ludicrous
prodigality.
The comparison between fat sows and
ex-presidents is a little out of the com
mon, I will admit, but the swill tub
seems to be a fitting illustration for the
highest as well as the lowest.
Reckless Running of Trains.
Every day’s recitaltef the news brings
to notice accidents, disasters, wreckage
of cars and engines, and many -times a
heavy loss of human life. Today’s Journal
Is filled With a harrowing account of a
collision or rear-end smash-up inside of
a railroad tunnel, under the very heart of
New York city, in which fifteen passen
gers were killed outright and more than
as many more badly injured. A train in
side the tunnel was run into by another
train, and the engine of the latter plough
ed Its way into crowded passenger cars,
and those persons who were not crushed
to death were scalded, maimed and crip
pled and otherwise Injured seriously.
It has reached a place where somebody |
should be taught a wholesome lesson as
to reckless train management, for It Is
the result of recklessness In train hands
in nine cases out of ten. Os course inex- |
plicable accidents do happen occasionally,
but the tunnel accident here noted carries
no excuse in its defense.
If proper directions were given then these
directions should, be followed, or a rigid
account should be rendered for such dis
regard of human life.
There is a tendency to sacrifice safety I
suit of chronic catarrh
of the throat and mid
dle ear. The air pas
sages become clogged
by catarrhal deposits,
stopping the action of
the vibratory bones.
Until these deposits
are removed a cure is
impossible. The inner
ear cannot be reach
ed by probing or
spraying, hence the
inability of aurists or
physicians to cure.
Ear drums are worse
than useless. That
there is a scientific
cure for deafness and
catarrh is demonstra-
in the prayer.
"People who live ashore year in and
year out have no conception of the bare
realities on the one hand,” continued - Cap
tain Hobson, "nor on the other of the
great advantages of the life of a sailor.
Speak of the great horse power of ma
chines used only on land. Why one
half of the horse power of the world is
controlled and managed by these sailors
out on the seas. Speak of your means of
transportation on land! You know noth
ing of traveling till you have been out
on the seas. My men,” looking straight
Into the deeply Interested faces of the
sailors sitting directly in front of him.
“What an advantage Is yours! What a
life is yours! Have an ambition in life!
Have a plan! Study yourselves, and If
for Instance you are in hopes of being an
engineer some day, direct all your read
ing and stuuying to that one object. What
you do do well. I have tne greatest pity
for these half-hearted, shiftless, indiffer
ent people. I think their case is most pa
thetic. Study, learn your duties and make
your captain and yourself to know that
you are to be depended upon on all oc
casions.
"If it is your duty to shovel coal, do it,
and do it well. I have been through It
all, I have shoveled coal, raked the fire,
and everything else, and I have tried to
give myself to my work. A sailor must
have a good strong body, and if that Is
so, certainly he must have a strong spir
itual nature. Religion helps a man—put
aside doctrines, creeds and all forms and
rituals—take the man, rough sailor
though he toe, who is naturally religious,
and what a power for good he is. Re
ligion helps a man to live, and It helps
Unwritten Chapters in Georgia History.
BY GEORGE G. SMITH, Vineville, Macon, Georgia.
IMEAN by early Georgia Georgia
before the beginning of the last
century—and I propose in this pa
per to make as correct a state
ment of how the people lived as
it is in my power to do.
After the first days of settlement,
when all were on the same footing,
there was a diversity of conditions,
which became more and more pro
nounced as years went on, and no his
tory can be a true one which falls to
recognize this fact. There were only
two towns of any size in Georgia, Sa
vannah and Augusta, and in each of
them life was very different, and life
in both of them differed from life in
the rural sections.
These were the frontiersmen, the up
country people who had just come to
the state, the low country people who
had been in the province before.it be
came a state. There were even then
the planters, the small farmers, the
crackers and the slaves. The two main
divisions were, however, the town peo
ple and the country people. An old
Savannah man of 40 years ago knew
no Savannah and no Interior counties.
H$ only knew the city and the coun
try, and it would have been an af
front to have asked him what city he
meant. In his view there was only one
in Georgia. I propose in this article
to let the cities alone and confine my
view to the country at large.
THE HOUSES THE PEOPLE LIVED
IN.
The first comers, the people on the
frontier lived in log cabins of the
crudest kind. Cabins like them some
what Improved, are now found
In every section of rural Georgia. The
cabin of the first comer was merely
of poles, with a rooX of boards held
in its place by weight poles. The
chimney was of stick and dirt, and •
the floor was of clay.
These houses were generally in
groups and the owner of a thousand
acres and the squatter alike, occu
pied them. They were never out of
sight In early Georgia and then the
dirt floor was succeeded by the floor
of plank, and the door was hung
with white oak hinges, but was hung
and was a door, and this cabin held
xts place as the domicile of a great
number for over a score of years.
Many a man who came from Virginia
with a couple of slaves lived in a cab
in like this. When his two had be
come ten but generally the cabin gave
way to a better house of hewn logs.
Soma at th««o houses are still stand-
a man to die. There are moments when
each one of us are very near the end,
and were It not for our faith in the di
vine Providence. God alone knows how
we would survive. Use every influence
you have for good and give the glory to
God,"
At the close of his address Chaplain
Murray thanked him in behalf of the con
gregatlon and added that If any of the
sailors cared to meet Captain Hobson to
please come forward. And thefi the citi
zens. Nearly every sailor went up, for
each one seemed to have been touched
especially by the friendly manner in which
he'spoke right to them.
Then the citizens went up to meet him.
I was with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Carring
ton. Mr. Carrington is the president of
the Charleston Port society, and of course
was among the first to shake hands with
him and thank him for his very impressive
remarks. As Mrs. Carrington shook
hands wdlth him she said: “Captain Hob
son, there is only one more thing to be
desired now, and that is to meet your
mother. I am so glad my son heard you
tonight, and I hope that he may follow
your advice.”
"Mrs. Carrington, whenever you find
any good in this world, and especially in
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GREASING A FAT SOW.
j RECKLESS RUNNING OF TRAINS.
’ to fast time on many railroads, but a
public carrier should be cbmpelled to go
slow enough with sufficient precautions to
prevent one train from crashing Into an
other just ahead of It, as the accident
her? noted did occur in the tunnel under
the city. There seems to be no way to
wake up a railroad conscience except by
demanding money for reckless running of
trains—but the pocketbook should feel It,
and feel It heavily, when a trainload of
helpless people who had paid their money
for transportation has been massacred by
an indifferent crew on another engine and
train of cars.
Telephones and telegraph machines are
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iness I would say never allow two trains
sufficient opportunity to collide on the
.same track, and if one train follows an
other. compel them to keep at le§st ten
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iness, where human life is not at stake,
as it is every day on railroad trains.
It is heart-sickening to read about these
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or less killed and Injured. When a flood
fills the water courses no train should run
over doubtful chasms or insecure bridges,
especially in the night time. Better that
passengers should stay on the road a
week than run them Into an abyss of
death and disaster to connect with an
other train. It is not a killing matter to
be delayed by high water or through fear
of an unsafe trestle or railroad bridge for
a few hours. Any sensible traveler will
prefer to tax his purse for lodging rather
than break x.is neck to catch a train in a
freshet.
Perhaps elderly people are not the sort
of people to direct about mail trains and
such like, but their advice sounds very
reasonable after a wreck and slaughter of
human life has taken place. You may be
sqre there are more\ valuable lives saved
by prudent caution than by sixty miles
an hour conveyances. When the time
comes to fly we will not be bothered with
steam engines and slippery tracks or
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railroad employment; but until flying
time gets to us we had better instruct our
public carriers that it means considerable
money from them when this reckless
running is unchecked.
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Ing and are still occupied. The home
place of old Tom Hamilton, who owned
such a great estate in Columbia
county, and who settled over a hundred
years ago on the little Keokee Creek
was standing and occupied by my host.
Rev. M. Smith, when I visited him only
a few years ago.
It consists of a large room of per
haps 24x20 feet, of a story and a half.
The doors, floors and celling were of
strong boards and were held together
by wrought iron nails. The double log
cabin, made of hewed logs, with a wide
passageway and large shed rooms, was
the home of many of the wealthiest of
the Georgians in its .early days; and
there were up to 1800 very few better
houses. The houses of the low country
planters were only slightly different.
In very few of these were glass win
dows. These double log houses, or
hewed log houses of a story and a half
gave way to a style of building which,
according to Hallam in bis "Middle
Ages,” was found in England among
the gentry of the sixteenth century,
came to America, and has continued
till the present time. A box house of
two stories, with a porch or piazza
and shed rooms. What the school girls
call colonial mansions did not come
into the rural districts until about 60
years ago.
THE FURNITURE OF THE HOMES.
As one may well suppose, where the
mansion was a log cabin with a dirt
floor, the furniture supply was very
scant, and men who belonged to Eng
lish, Scotch and Welsh families of no
ble line lived In cabins less comfort
able than the poorest negroes live in
now, and had less furniture than Is
found In many an humble laborer's
home. There were neither bedsteads
nor chairs, nor crockery, nor wash
bowls or tin pans. There was a bed
made first of dried leaves In a tow bed
tick, then of straw or long moss, a
bench, a puncheon table, a platform
on which the bed lay and some rugs
or coverlets brought from Virginia,
and deer skins and bear skins 'tor cov
eriiw.
The frontiersman had come into the
country before the roads were made.
He was not a rich man or he would
not nave moved, and he had little in
Virginia or North Carolina save land.
Perhaps he did not own that, but soon
after his coming he was able to trade
his skins and furs in Augusta for
blankets, pewter plates and nails to
make articles, and he Increased his
household conveniences, but it was a
long time before he had more than a
bed, a pine table, a few spilt bottomed
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chairs, a peggin, a churn, a skillet and
a frying pan.
After the revolution there was bet
ter furniture, but it was by no means
elegant. The old inventories are very
exact and minute, and I have examin
ed hundreds of them; out of the cities
there were in the best homes but few
articles of furniture and they were
very plain: On one page of my note
book I find one estate, which had one
bed, one loom, some tools, a rifle, a
mare and colt, a'horse, a flax wheel
and a cotton wheel, one hdd. of tobacco
and one negro.
A second, 1796, had four negroes, one
dresser, five chairs, three horses, two
hackles, one looking glass, six cows,
one flax wheel, two sad irons, one ta
ble, one griddle and two beds.
In 1799 another had one-half of a bed
and a bedstead, a Bible, a Prayer book,
spelling book, a still and 80 gallons of
brandy. With the exception of the
Dorchester settlement and some sea
Island estates the same scantiness of
furniture was found in lower Georgia,
and I find the same thing true in North
Carolina and In Virginia. I regret to
spoil the charming story of those who
write historical novels, and to show
the descendants of the barons of the
James or the Potomac, dwelling In
such humble homes with such scant
furnishings, but really these old barons
in Virginia were very few, and were
confined almost altogether to one sec
tion of that state, and the most re
markable thing about them was their
fecundity and the immense number of
their descendants. If one will, howev
er, remember when he tries to get a
view of the homes of Wilkes that it
was 200 miles to a seaport from the up
country counties, and that the plan
ters who had independent means, had
no money to buy furniture, and no way
to have it conveyed to their homes, he
will be better able to understand the
condition of things.
TABLE OF THE EARLY GEORGIAN.
The story of the table comforts of the
frontiersmen and of the settler of 20
years afterwards is not a refreshing
one. At first, if he was not a good
woodsman, there was real danger of
want, but if he had a good dog and
was a sure shot, he supplied his lar
der with game, but this source of sup
ply could not be relied upon. As soon
as he could get his patch cleared he
looked to the com field for his bread,
but while he was getting it ready he
was mainly carnivorous. There was
neither flour bread nor rye bread, and
only a limited supply of corn bread,
but the settler soon began to gather
his harvest. The cows gave him milk
and butter, though fe'w had churns.
The woods gave him venison and
smaller game, and on these viands he
fed his children, who were many for
the early years. The corn was made
into hominy with ashes, beaten in a
mortar into meal until mills were
erected, baked into corn cakes, ash
cakes, hoecakes and Johnny or Tommy
cakes. Strangely enough. I find no
mention In the-early Georgia invento
ries of bacon or lard, but there were
few hogs until the "varmints were
killed out, and this accounts, perhaps,
for it. The beef was dried in the sun
or over a fire, and when t»j»re were
hogs they were killed when small and
eaten fresh. In the low country rice
and potatoes were the bread staples,
and but little meat was used. It was
not until about 1790 in the upper coun
ties that any stores were established.
The nearest market was Augusta, and
sugar and coffee were out bf the reach
of the people. Then there were few
families who used these luxuries. By
1786 the roads from the east had been
opened, and the Virginia people of
larger means were able to move -in
their wagons and had fixed their
homes in Georgia. There was now a
rapid increase in creature comforts,
and before the end of the century the
tables were spread with great profu
sion. Then old Virginia people brought
with them well trained servants and
as they had no market for their farm
products, they furnished their tables
very generously. There were lambs
and kids, sucking pigs, hams,, turkeys
and now the wheat patch furnished
the flour bread they needed, but
these gentry, who had coffee and su
gar and negro cooks were a compar
atively small number. The most of the
people still lived in single-roomed cab
ins and on bacon and corn bread and
milk.
DRINKING HABITS.
The' first-comers were in the main a
sober people but they were so from
necessity and not from any total ab
stinance principles. They did not
think it a crime or even a misde
meanor to drink rum, which was the
national beverage, if they could get
it. but it was not made in Georgia,
but it) the West Indies, and in New
England, and thej' could not procure
it. As soon, however, as the stores in
Petersburg and Washington were
opened, the rum barrel was tapped,
and then if there was money to buy
it was freely bought. After 1785 the
distillery of fruit began and soon on
the sideboard of all the solid men, was
the decanter of peach brandy and be
side it the jar of honey. The good
wife mixed an apple toddy fur her
husband, and joined him in drinking it
without compunction. The Scotch and
Scotch-Irish element as well as the
English recognised "spirits.’.’ as they
were called, as one of the good thtngs
of life, to be used, and not
The pioneer classes did not drink
much till the stills furnished cheap
whiskey and then the drinking was
fearful.
The story of Scotch drinking as told
by Dean Ramsay, was the story of the
early years of the last century in
Georgia. Drunkenness was mildly
condemned, but drinking moderately
was regarded as almost a duty. When
the good Baptist Adiel Sherwood In
1828 began the temperance work in
Georgia he was regarded by many as
a wild fanatic, and Josiah Flournoy,
the Methodist steward, nearly lost his
life for his fight against barrooms.
I have already spoken of the amuse
ments of these first comers to Geor
gia, -and need not repeat the story.
Slaveholding was the exception in the
last years of the 18th century and
hard labor was the rule. The women
spun and wove the clothing. The men
drove the plow. There were few
chances for education and few en
ticements to luxurious living. Country
people, as they were generally called,
were in the main very plain and un- .
\ pretending. There was but little
that would be termed crime in the
land. Few men carried weapons and
while flrstcuffs were many and men
were occasionally disfigured by having
an eye gouged out or a ear bit off,
was but little real bodily harm
resulting from these encounters. Such
were our forefathers and such was
life in Georgia a tyundred years ago.
DID HIM~A FAVOR.
"I understand that Mrs. deStyle snubbed
you terribly last night.”
"Nothing of the sort. She couldn’t have
been more considerate to me.” .
"I was told that she turned her back on
you.”
"Well, could she have shown more con
sideration than by turning such a face
away from me?” i ,
Thebaud Had 275 Scarf Pins.
Cholly Knickerbocker.
Os all the features of the jewelry robbery
at the expense of Paul Thebaud, there is
nothing that has excited so .much comment as
the-fact that he should have had no less than
275 scarf pins. In fact, he has been sub
jected to much chaff about the matter, and
the idea of a man who, owning a different
scarf pin for every week day of the year,
suddenly finds himself without a single pin to
his name, appeals to one’s sense of humor
rather than to one’s sympathy.
I have known men to have collections of
two And even three score scarf pins. Lord
Marcus Beresford being among the number,
while Lord Anglesey's 40 pins represent a
large amount of money, one pin alone con
sisting of a magnificent pearl, valued at
150.000, while another Is worth 120,000.
But 275 pins takes the palm, and would
suffice to fill an entire showcase at Tiffany's.
The fad of collecting jewels for one’s own
wear is comparatively rare among men nowa
days. and young Lord Anglesey, who in court
gave evidence the other day that he was In
the habit of traveling about with a quarter of
a million's worth of jewelry for bis personal
adornment, and the late Duke of Bruns
wick. popularly known as the ''Diamond
Duke,” have but few imitators.
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