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Newspaper Page Text6 | THE COUNTRYHOME Women on the Farm Conducted. By Mrs. IV. H. Felton. * CorresponCence on homo topics or ♦ * subjectz of wr-clxl Interest to wo- ♦ + non Is tnvtted. f Inquiries or letters ♦ * should be brief and dearly written + q. in Ink on one side of the sheet. ♦ * Write direct to Mrs. W H. Fei- + * ton.Edftor Home Department Semi- ♦ * Weekly Journal. Carters rille. Ge. ♦ * No inquiries answered by mail. ♦ <• Nllliteilll l l l ll l l M ♦>»*•», What Twenty Year* Have Done. Chancing to glance over a congressional directory issued tn 1881. it was found that death had removed seven of the elevn congressmen and senators from Georgia who served in lf«l and not one of the en tire number is now left in Washington— as a public official—ln congressional life. Os the twenty-three members then com posing the Illinois delegation, only one Is continued, namely. Hon. Joseph G. Can non. chairman of commltte on appropria tions. in present congress: one of the 8 snoot influential committees kiiown to congressional experience. Not one from Florida remains. Only Senator Allison of the lowa delegation is atiU to office. Maine has Senator W. P. Frye, president of the senate since Vice- President Roosevelt became president af ter Mr. McKinley s passing away. Ohio, that had two Democratic senators —Thurman and Pendleton —(and eleven of the nineteen congressmen were Demo crats)—has now two Republican senators and three Democrats to the entire delega tion. Yet in 1881 such men as Frank Hurd, A. J. Warner, and Thomas Ewing, were great leaders to finance and general statesmanship. All have passed out of sight—from Washington view at least— and nobody talks about silver Democrats or the Greenback national party any more. Not a soul from Tennessee that was in the Mth Congress remains, but Bennett McMillan and Robert U Taylor have both continued prominent in their own state. Then Pennsylvania had a Democratic senator and a Democratic ■peaker of the house of representatives. Now Senator Quay and Boles Penrose- Mr. Quay s right-bower to Pennsylvania politics—hold the fort. Not a scintilla of Democracy now is left but two representatives, and yet no men wielded a stronger influence twenty •years ago than Sam J. Randall. Heister Clymer, and Hendrick B. Wright. N e w York had a Democratic senator, along with Roscoe Conkling-rand the Record tells of the influence of Sunset Cox and Fernando Wood twenty years ago— with large delegation of Democrats. New Jersey had two Democratic sena tors and three Democratic congressmen— and all have passed on to the great ma jority—and with the passing only one Democrat is now in congress. Missouri Is an exceptional state. She has had the same senators for over twen ty years—both Democrats—Cockrell and Vest—and she had a solid Democratic del egation. save one. in MBl. Missouri holds on with tenacity and pluck. in the Michigan delegation only one member has continued—Senator J. C. Bur rows. » . Massachusetts had Senators Hoar And Dawes—and has held on to them—the elev en congressmen of 1881 are np longer there—ail disappearing. Maryland had a solid Democratic dele gation. except the member from Frede rick City. New men, all Republicans, have I taken every place. Except Senator Kel -1 k'gg. to Louisiana (supposed to be a com promise arrangement, after the Hayes- Tilden affair) everything in 1881 was Dem ocratic to the core. Ditto to Delaware, with the Bayard-Saulsbury influence. Yet no Democrats to present congress. Con necticut still holds to Senator Platt, but where Is his Democratic colleague. Eaton? When did Connecticut since elect Demo crats? Colorado has done well to cling to Senator Teller, who has been in the sen ate since IK’S. When the record is scanned in the eternal future the mistake of Dem ocrats in failing to nominate Mr. Teller In IK Instead of Mr. Bryan will appear, but let the dead past bury its dead! Wisconsin had the Democratic warrior. General Edward Bragg, in 1881. and West Virginia was equally loyal to Democracy with Georgia or Texas. What wrought the chan it e? With Randolph Tucker. Eppa Hunton." 1 John Goode and others. Virginia held a high head in 1881. In South Carolina Wade Hampton and M. C. Butler led in solid phalanx, and D. Wyatt Akin was the .great exponent of agriculture to the state. Far away Oregon had two Democratic senators to follow the lead of gallant Zeb Vance to North Carolina. Half the terri tories elected Democratic delegates, and Kentucky was solid from stem to stern to ISBL In this rapid review of former condi tions will somebody rise up and tell us what realjy worked the change? What caused the landslide? In the interim there were eight Democratic years of solid ad ministration influence for Democracy un der President Cleveland, and yet the ball went rolling off down the incline until the south is the only solid spot in the union, and that is solidified by other in fluences rather than tariff, finance or isth mian canal or territorial expansion. With out the south where would be Democracy? 'Did stiver cause this revolution, or if it •was not silver, what was it? Did the. Democrats scatter wildly or da. the Re publicans do better? That good old rule— "Sufficeth them—that simple plan— That they should take who have the power. And they should keep who can.'* Miss Alice Roosevelt and King Ed ward’s Coronation. By all means. Miss Alice should go over if she wants to go, and her dear father can risk the political effect of her appear ance among the ambassadors who are to take a part in the coronation entertain ment. But—l would not be there, if I was in her place, for one good reason, if no more. Let me illustrate: When Mr. Blaine ran for the presidency and was sura he could almost feel the coveted prise in his grip, he attended an immense speech making banquet to Boston (if I am not mistaken in the place) where a preacher rose up and had a few words to say against “Rum. Romanism and Rebellion.” There was a shivering to the audience, the cold chill crept up the candidate's spine the joy of the household, for without ■3* ww Bk ** no happiness can be complete. How Eur Ev K BnE sweet the picture of mother and babe, ® war angels smile at and commend the ■bi ■■ m M thoughts and aspirations of the mother Uy Hl I |T bending over the cradle. The ordeal through ♦ *E— »3 which the expectant mother must pass, how ■MP ■■ ever, is so full of danger and suffering that she looks forward to the hour when she shall feel the exquisite thrill of motherhood with indescribable dread and Every woman should know that the danger, pain and horror of child-birth can be entirely avoided by the use of Mother’s Friend, a scientific liniment for external use only, which toughens and renders pliable all the parts, and assists nature in its sublime kjl RP* K 9 Frak I work. By its aid thousands UMf 3 g 5 KW Sfc MJ 7 of women have passed this |V| || K|V* UjK BUB great crisis in perfect safety ■" ■ ngg y and without pain. Sold at fi.oo per MHgWfr ■ bottle by druggists. Our book of priceless IL Ml MB r * value to all women sent free. Address KT |fW HB* SW BRADHELD REGULATOR GO.. AtMa. Ga. ■ and Mr. Blaine lost his hold on what a lifetime of struggle, strife and stenuous endeavor had been devoted to in vain. The Romanists all over the land crossed themselves, but not for his election. The rum advocates checked up their books and closed accounts. The southern democrats who admired Mr. Blaine quietly said: “Excuse me.” Those were three fateful words!* The Blaine newspapers were frantic in cov ering’over these ugly printed words. Some went far enough to make the Rev. Speaker uncomfortable at least. If Mr. Roosevelt aims to be a candidate for re-election he will do well to keep in mind the fact that Irishmen as a rule are not enamoured with English royalty. There is a great gulf fixed between them —a chasm that.has been bridged occasion ally. but always temporarily. The Boers in South Africa have many friends and some partisans who are voters, in the United States. Their bloody chasm is yawning wide open. There is no bridge— nothing buuabsolute antipathy. The par ty to which the president belongs has been very polite to England for many years. Some are bold enough to say the English idea dominates, and that more has been granted to English diplomacy than the situation demanded, and when the Britsh Lion shows his teeth the American Eagle is nothing better than a little rooster with all the fight left off from his tail feather exercises. There was no particular need for a special embassy to go over to London on a free Junket at government expense. It will be “flung up" to the president that he contrived a nice little trip for Miss Alice, with attentiqna galore, at small cost to mis own pocket, but with consider able outlay to the taxpayers. Don’t you see? Therefore, if I was in Miss Alice’s place I think I would go to London at another time, and see the coronation in the picture papers, as some of us may be privileged to do here at home. Still if Miss Alice is bent on the trip and the president can risk what will surely follow, then let her go. She is doubtless a vivacious young debutante and is in tent on having a good time, and her pres ents sent over by the kaiser will be a fine passport in society where rank and precedence are certified by the size and number of jewels displayed at corona tions. Mr. William Waldorf Astor has gone over, bag and baggage to the English idea. t He has no use for this country except to’ draw his rent money and cut off cou pons. When the president sends his own daughter over there to bask in the smiles of royalty at a show in royal parade, he need not be astounded at the caustic criti- 1 cism that will make him wince more than once or all signs are deceiving. But Miss Alice does not. cannot ap preciate these things. The young girl would be more than human not to feel elated at her opportunity to fllock with English royalty, because thia craze for a title seems to follow parvenu rich people, such as Mr. Astor, like fleas trek after dogs. If the president can risk the trip I am willing. What Will Become of Them? • A young colored woman came to hire as a cook nearly a month ago. She was strong in body and muscle and I was not, so we made a trial engagement. She had no bedding but one thin quilt, therefore I must provide cover for keeping her warm. I let her sleep in my dining room, Slth plenty of fuel to keep the heater hot I night during the cold weather. There was no limit to her use of fuel save her laziness to go out and bring it in from the woodpile. In the three weeks she remained she broke the dining room lamp into smash, spilling the oil in the center of the floor. She broke five glass goblets, two cups and saucers, one china dish, one gravy bowl, three plates, chipped pieces out,of three more, contrived even to break a stove pot by'carelessness and I winced for the stove every time she put a stick of wood in it. She disobeyed me every day about hot ashes. She would hide them in the kitchen, for no entreaty or command did any good: she pulled and contrived to get the bucket in the well twice. She moved off this morning with the bucket loose in the jvelt. She was insolent, and defiant if she was rebuked for anything. She would “go a piece up the road" and be gone until next day. I am relieved she is gone and as .she is one of a multi tude I ask the readers of the country home column. “What will become of this multitude?” . She will assist in populating <he earth and her progeny will be just like her. The home she will make for herself and her progeny will be full of just such as she is—only more so. Out of sfich homes such as she will make the flends go abroad with no rem edy but the lynoher’s rope and fagot for tbeir miserable lawlessness and ingrained deviltry, bom into them. Give Brood Sowa Nitrogenous Food. Dear Mrs. Felton: My wife and I are readers at The Journal and also read your pieces with great pleasure and profit. It seems you are well up on all of the topics of the day. Surely your interest in the country home will endear you to the farmers of this land. I see you are having some trouble with a pig-eating sow. I have been raising hogs for some ten years, but have riot had much experience in that line. I sus pect, though, the trouble is with her food. She may not get enobglf nitrogenous food. I infer you feed her principally com, and perhaps no pasture range. If so, she needs wheat-bran, peas and such other nitro gen food as will give her a change. Hogs that have pasture range and can get grass, worms, bugs, etc., need not be fed so much of the food which contains a high per cent of nitrogen. Yours truly, T. S. Splendid Recipe for Black Pudding. Three eggs, one and a half cups of flour, one oup of sugar and one cup of black berry Jam, or preserved muscadine hulls, one teaspoonful of soda and bake in mod erate oven. THE SAUCE. Two heaping teaspoonsful of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour or corn starch. Rub them to a cream with a lumb of butter 0e size of an agg. Then add the yolk of one egg and mix until smooth. Then pour on a cup of boiling water, allowing it to boll before removing from the stove, t D. B. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1902. THE BEECHER BIBLES — THE STORY OF A SHARP’S RIFLE BELONGING TO COLONEL HENRY W. CLEVELAND, NOW IN POSSESSION OF PRESIDENT HECTOR V. LORING, OF THE LOUISVILLE TRUST COMPA NY, OF KENTUCKY. . There were two of the guns, and only one of them can now be identified; one old model with the large complicated lock, one new, fired by a hidden bolt Hk® the Prussian needle gun. About the year 1854, the struggle for the planting of slavery in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and New Mexico, which resulted in the civil yrar, began. The only man able to see clearly the im possible nature of the attempt to extend slave territory was Alexander H. Steph ens. of Georgia, later vice president of the Confederate States. In his speech at Au gusta. Ga., on retirement from congress in 1858, will be found his reasons for not being with the Breckenridge party of 1880. (See Cleveland’s Life, Letters z and Speeches, 1866.) Outside of the constitutional inhibition of congress having or exercising any pow er, “to legislate slavery into the territories or to exclude it therefrom,” as declared by the supreme court in the Dred Scott decision, there was a practical obstacle, not seen apparently by Colonel Warren D. Wilkes, of South Carolina, and his as sociates who emigrated in armed bands from the cotton states in the hope to vote in pro-slavery territorial and state consti tutions in all of the yet open territory of the Louisiana purchase and of the in demnity grant from Mexico. Mr. Steph ens truly said that there were not enough negroes to cultivate the lands of existing slave states, and that a constant drain from the Atlantic and gulf cotton states to the fertile west already left South Caro lina, Georgia and Alabama short of the slaves needed to tend and gather the cropi of cotton and rice. So convincing was his argument that territory could not be made pro-slavery without more slaves to send there, that Judge Goulding, of south Georgia, from the platform of the Charleston national convention, spoke for a third minority resolution and plank, making a Demo cratic demand to reopen the slave trade, closed twenty years after the constitution was adopted, and, as Mr. Stephens’ alter native, import negroes for an indefinite time, to settle as slave property in the west and southwest. 1 ' That he alone voted for it in a conven tion where Gen. B. F. Butler, of Massa chusetts, voted every ballot for Jefferson Davis, shows that reason had not then en tirely fled. The southern emigrants used the arguments of the shot-gun and the knife; bore with composure the abuse of the abolition press which styled them Border Ruffians, and their field of action Bleeding Kansas; and for a time secured majorities by Intimidation, and made gov ernments. In the heat of the discussion in and out of congress,. and in the time that John Brown began to offer force to force, and to scheme for a Virginia slave uprising to keep owners alarmed at home, but long before his execution at Harper’s Ferry UrTrpritten Chapters in Georgia History. BY GEORGE G. SMITH, Vineville, Macon, Georgia. HE first insight we get into the social life of the new city that was to be is given in Mr. William Stephens” journal. He T came In 1737 and his three vol umes tells of his Ufa in the village till 1742. There were even then two very decided classes In the little village. The people, who were the most num erous. and the gentry, who were few. The people were largely dependent on the government stores and the gentry were office holders and shopkeepers and a few planters. There were enough Scotchmen to have a St. Andrews so ciety and enough young people to have an occasional dance at the ordinary. There was a board tabernacle for a church and a few Methodists, as the Episcopalians who agreed with Mr. Whitefield were called, find the old church people worshiped together. Mr. Stephens, the governor, was a stanch churchman, who had little sympathy with Mr. Whitefield's vagaries, as he called them. Mr. Whitefield had be gun his orphanage and given employ ment to a large part of the Savannah population. The houses were mainly small cottages of one room and a shed, built of broad plank sawed by a whip saw and of logs, with board chimneys. There were a few more pretentious houses. The lots laid off and surveyed were of three kinds—city lots, 90x180; garden lots of five acres and farm lots of 45 acres. The five-acre lots be gan on what Is now Gwinnett street. There was little Improvement for the next 15 years. Mr. Stephens gives some amusing stories of events up to 1742. “A panther was killed in what is now the heart of the city.” “A boat was in danger of wreck whleh had two sows, some turkeys and provisions, and it would have been a'great disas ter if It had been lost.” •‘Mr. Norris, the rector, would play the violin and play cards with the la dles, much to Mr. Whitefield's dis pleasure. Mr. Fltzwalter was annoy ed by Mr. Blank's ram goat, and he Incontinently slew him and Mr. Blank went out gunning for Mr. Fitzwalter’s geese. “Mrs. Camuse, the wife of the Ital ian silk maker, drank too much wine and Mr. Canston was much enraged at her free speech and threatened to her spouse. “Mr. Norris was scandalized by a white servant maid and she was order ed to be whipped for her gossiping— (Mr. Nofrls, however, Interceded and, she escaped.) “Mr. Stephens* servants (white) « were sick most of the time and too lazy to work when they were well. Two of them ran away and were caught by the cow keeper at Ebene zer. "Having a bit of fresh beef for din ner he had engaged Mr. Pat Houston and Mr. William Sterling to share It' with him. "Dr. Pat Graham, surgeon, who had made considerable Improvement In building on his lot in the town, as well as being a constant planter, for these two or three years past, having. Mrs. Cuthbert for his patient, dangerously ill of a fever, as a lodger, the doctor took the opportunity of prescribing matrimony as a specific, and she con senting, they were married. He and Mr. Jones went to the wedding feast. "Mr. Christie objected to wearing the judge's robe because his .other clothes were too ragged and patched.” These few side lights give us a view of the city In Its early childhood and then we get no other view for nearly, ten years, when Sir John Reynolds comes. A SECOND VIEW. When the trustees gave up their thankless, their vain effort, to estab lish a religious and nioral colony for needy people, and Georgia was a regu lar crown colony Sir John Reynolds came to the young city. He found it fearfully dilapidated. There were very few people in It, and they were very poor In the main, but there were enough of the thrifty and well to do In Savannah and about to make a council. There was no church except the old Tabernacle, and only occa sional services In It: He decided, as the jail was Insecure and assembly room about to fall do’wn, and there was so little trade and so little hope, it would be better to remove the capi- by the Virginians, commanded by Lt. Col. R. E. Lee; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher made a move, seconding the “Uncle Tom's Cabin” of his sister, Mrs. Stowe—the real death knell of slavery. One Sabbath morning at Plymouth church, he closed a short sermon by an appeal for ten thousand dollars to buy bibles to convert the Border Ruffians in Kansas-Nebraska. This plea was eloquent and almost tear ful, for he was an actor only second to Edwin Booth, and his vast audience were reaching the conclusion that Beecher had lost both his senses and his courage, and was for moral suasion in a field more hopeless than India or China. After enough of pathos and universal brother hood to nearly stampede his audience, he stepped to the floor, and lifting a Sharp's carbine, he said, "This is the sort of Bible they can understand—give me ten thou sand dollars to buy them.” Except when he put a beautiful Quad roon girl on the platform and auctioned her off for freedom, he never made a bet ter hit, and he raised more than he asked for. This first gun went with others to John Brown and his kind, and its identity is lost, but the story lived on. The second dates from 1860, and so new was the model of the individual hammer and central percussion fire, that experts and collectors of guns—Hon. A. E. Will son, of Louisville, being one—have doubt ed it any guns of that model were then made. There was no bayonet with it, and no new patent, as the model was Euro pean. , Secession was in the air—"the peacea ble secession resulting in hell and damna tion,” as a Georgia volunteer expressed it, and the scheme of WilUam L. Yancey, of Alabama to “Are the southern heart and plunge the cotton states into revolution” seemed for the time to work. In the north only a few openly declared for coercion by war, and Mr. Lincoln, with all his courage and candor, only avowed his purpose to repossess "the ports and dockyards and arsenals” and hold custom house, post office and other ceded property as he did the district of Columbia. He even disavow ed the intention to re-enforce Fort Moul trie, S. C., the move of Major Anderson to Sumter being unexpected. Many voices and pens advised to let South Carolina go, and through moderates like Alexander H. Stephens, Herschel V. Johnson, John J. Crittenden and others to stay the following of other cotton or bor der states. Kentucky, by Governor Burlah Magoffin, proclaimed an armed neutrality and with Missouri and other states, only raised troops to prevent alike all federal and all southern occupation of the soil. Lieutenant Governor R. T. Jacob and oth ers voted in the expectation that slave property would be respected in the border states. So did Crittendon. Judge Holt said: “Mr. Lincoln would like the Almighty on his side, but he must have Kentucky.” i General Winfield Scott, commanding the tal, and so selected a spot bn the Ogechee, and laid oi|t the city of Hardwick. We get no view of the social life and only find thgt things were In a sad tangle, and they continued so till Governor Wright’s ttme, ten years after this. Captkin Deßrahm says he could have bought the best of the lots for >2O. But a better, day Was coming. . THE DAY OF BRIGHTNESS. Sir James Wright came in 1762. Be fore he came the tide of immigration had set Into Georgia. The immigrants had come into St. Johns, where there was the Dorchester settlement, into St. Mathews, where there were Ger mans, brought by Captain De Brahm, and into St. George's, where many Virginians and North Carolinians were making settlements, and so Savannah had begun even before he came to rally. In 1740 Mr. Patrick McKay had brought his first cargo of goods to the colony, and Messrs. Harris and Huben bum had opened a shipping house, and now tHe Scotch traders were bringing their goods to Savannah and sending them thence Into the interior. Sir James soon quieted the trouble about the capital. It should be removed from Savannah, and >so Savannah be gan to take on a vigdroys life. Wharves were built, stores were open ed, ship loads of negroes began to come in. The country round about be gan to develop rapidly. South Caro lina planters came across the river and settled on the Ogechee. The sea island planters came with their, Indigo and cattle to market, and boat loads of furs and skins came down the river on thelg way to England. A newspaper was established by Mr. Johnson, The Georgia Gazette, In 1763; the courts had regular sessions; people began to dress handsomely and live in style. In 1759 when Mr. Abraham Johns died he left four coats, four Waistcoats, four pair breeches, four capes, three grizzle wigs, one hat, three volumes of exposition of ye Bible,three volumes of Hervey, one volume of Hill, one Bi ble, one 1 book Spiritual songs, one calendar book. And when Robert McClatchee died. In 1766, he left a blue broadcloth cloak, black cloth coat, two beaver hats, two pair socks, one pair sleeve buttons, eight socks, mathematical instruments, seven and one-h Alf quires paper, 675 quills, sixty volumes Latin and Greek books, thirty-one English books. Thomas Loyd died in 1768, leaving eight negroes, forty-seven china plates, one large lot china, looking glass, book case and drawers, knives and forks, 306 ounces silver plate, a sword and hanger, one gold watch, pistols and holsters, gold headed cane, three um brellas, a parcel of books, 230 sides'of leather, six hogsheads of rum. Rev. Barth Zouberhuhler, who left the first large Request ever made In Georgia to education, Jest fifty-four negroes, of them eight were named, January, February, March, April, May, June, July and August. He was an Episcopal minister and a rice planter. There was before the revolution great prosperity and contentment except with some few of the men. There was much comfort and elegance. Some of the houses built then are standing now. Some were jandsome edifices of wood, som* of brick. A visitor to Savannah will see on Bay street, just on the borders of Yama craw, a very handsome old house once occupied by James Habersham, and as he gdes up East Broad street will see more than one almost in ruins now, which were occupied by the wealthy planters, and lawyers, and merchants of Sir James Wright s Golden Age. Among these merchants Cawher and Telfair brought slaves from Siera Leone, Africa, and shipped all kinds of produce. Mr. Morll shipped live oak timber, hides, wool, myrtle wax, fresh butter, hogs. There was a new Presbyterian church. David Gordon taught a school. The ladles dressed elegantly and there were great gatherings of the pleasure seekers at Tondee’s long CURES WHERE alCelse Fais. ' raj bJ Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use I’g] in time, gold by druggist*. army, wrote a letter in which he used the words spoken when a sinful nun was walled up alive: "Wayward sister, depart in peace.” x Horace Greeley from The Tribune urged that it was “inexpedient to live in a union whereof one part was pinned to the other by bayonets;” quoted the assertion of Daniel Webster that “a compact broken on one side is broken on all sides.” 1 Henry Ward Beecher, then preaching politics and not evolution, collected a mass of cuttings, fastened them with a pin and sent them to Mr. Lincoln, who was not saying anything and a terse note: “What are you going to do about it?” Mr. Lincoln had heard the former story, and sent an army calibre Sharp’s rifle and an Equally terse reply: "We will try them ag&in with Beecher Bibles.” This is the second gun, now at the residence of Mr. H. V. Loving, it is said. About the year 1874-5, the issue between Theodore Tilton and Mr. Beecher began, and Dr. Cleveland was informed by the Unitarian, Rev. Clarke, that he had bought Tilton’s paper, The Golden Age, begun after he lost The Christian Union hope and Independent fact, and that an unnamed party about whom they held dangerous secrets was about to give ten or twenty thousand dollars rather than be exposed. A card implicating Mr. Beecher appeared soon after and Dr. Cleveland had leave from Manton Mar ble, the owner of The World, to defend Mr. Beecher from blackmail, Mr. Tilton being then in the free-love camp and in different to his wife’s honor. This Dr. Cleveland did by showing from sermons printed long before the contro versy such Beecherisms as “The ragged edge of dispalr,” "bird-nesting,” etc., in connections which could not possibly bear the evil significance placed upon them by the Messrs. Berch, Tilton’s coun sel, in his letters to and about Mrs. Til ton. The verdict of "not proven” fol lowed, and it is likely that the Jury saw more newspapers than the court knew of. The small debt due from Dr. Cleve land to Mr. Loring led at first to giving old books as a security, then old coins and currency, and at last the gem, which he was not able to redeem. Mr. Beecher is dead and no certificate was taken, a" no thought of parting with the large cali bre army gun then existed. Colonel R. T. Durrett, who claims the gun of Dan iel Boone, General .Bennett H. Youngs who has a great store of prehistoric and pioneer relics. General Duke, Judge Bruce, and others, have relics, the authenticity of w’hich have never been* questioned. Dr. Cleveland - ' has none for sale and hqffitaas therefore never attempted .any piwfs. One or two are in the hands of Sir Knight Julius L. Brown, Atlanta, . Ga. Note premium list in this issue, make your selection and subscribe at once. room or in the old Fllatine buildlqg. All was on a boom when the war came. THE MIDNIGHT OF SAVANNAH. When the war cloud burst there was nowhere the colony had stronger nor the king more friends than In Savan nah. The story of Savannah during the war has been so fully and so well told by Stevens and Jones that If I had any love for such accounts (and I cer tainly have none), It would not be needful for me to tell it. It fell into the hands of the British, but not till the war had been going on for over three years; but before the British came the wealthy and Influential loyal ists were forced to flee. They went to the Bermudas, to London, to Scotland, and their estates were sequestrated. Then they came back and made reprl- • sals on the Whigs. The enmity was bitter, and the war to the death. Old Governor Wright sued Major James Jackson and burned nine of his barns. But the war ended at last, and the Whig exiles came home again. , The estates of the loyalists were now seized by the Whigs. James Jackson got the home of Josiah Tattnall by a grant from the state. Nathe Green got the elegant plantation of Governor Graham, and others received the same consideration. But those not banished came back again. Governor Troup’s father had been in England ■ during the war, and he now came to Savannah and opened a large store, where men's and ladles’ hats were sold. Mordeccia Sheffield had Ma diera wine, pitch, tar and turpentine. Hearn kept a book store. Mr. Hunter taught a mixed school, and every thing went bounding ahead. For the 20 years after the war the growth of the city was very rapid. There were no up country people comparatively in Savannah, and the circles of society were very clearly drawn. No new comer whose ances tors did not come before the war and no- descendant of the poorer class got any foothold. Handsome homes were erected all In what Is now the lower city and a stately style soon began to make the best society. Mr. Ellington came to Christ church. The Academy was opened. The Independent Pres byterian church was the kirk of the leading Scotch people. There were many slaves, much luxurious living, and also not a little deep drinking. For several years Savannah ruled the politics of the state, and then for a longer time she shared In Its rule. If a part of Bristol or Glasgow or London could have been transported across the sea. It would have been the Savannah of 1800. \There was no social connection between Savannah and the up country, and while at this day, he is too polite to say so. the descendant of the man of Sir James’ times, won ders a little how the country man can make any claims to the culture, the elegance'and the blood of the old time inhabitants of the city. A delightful, attractive, high toned class of men they were, as chivalrous as Bayard, and as polished as Sidney—and the women the best of the old feglme. The pension committee of the house Is overwhelmed with 4,000 or 5,000 pension bills and about that number are on the files of the pension committee of the sen ate. War not only seems to be hell, but a heap of It, when you think about the pension lists. THE GIGGLING GIRL. If you tell her she's modest or tell her she’s vain She'll giggle. She heeds not the fact that It gives you a pain. That giggle. Though you may address her in serious key. Make speech that presents no occasion for glee. Or even for smiling, her answer will be A giggle. She runs to the door when her Chawley boy rings And giggles. While helping him take off his cold winter thlngu She giggles. When seated for sparking within the bright rays Os dollar per gas or the grate's cheery blaze She answers the sugary things that he says With giggles. In church if she catches a girly chum's eye. She giggles. There's no provocation, she doesn’t know why. Just giggles. 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OUR OFFER! || Semi-Weekly Journal . . . SI.OO Mo. Valley Farmer 50 $1.50 Both one year for only . . SI.OO Address THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Society Retires to Her Orisons. Society has closed her eyes on the world and has begun tier forty days of penance and prayer. Laying aside the gay ap parel she donned at the beginning of the season, in sackcloth an*, ashes she now kneels at her orisons. The cynic may hint that these days of isolation from the world, the flesh, etc., are to freshen up dilapidated gowns and allow the purse to wax fat for the coming Easter costumes, but the forces of ma terialism will steal in, no matter how strong the battleinent of purity raised against them,and in this case they are but weak and powerless. This season Society comes to her prayers with a better conscience than in years past, because she has lived on a more wholesome diet; for with Society the conscience has chiefly to do with the condition of the stomach. Re ceptions, with their courses of indigestible salads and ices, have given place almost en.irely to teas, with daintier, lighter re freshments; and so. instead of closing the winter season with a digestion impaired with heavy doses of chicken salad, she proudly boasts a constitution nourished by gallons of mild tea and bushels of harm less sandwiches. So her sleep and her de votions will be disturbed by fewer hob goblins and she will return to the world refreshed and renewed and with read justed thoughts and opinions. Lent has closed a session of unusual brilliance marked by many triumphs. Be ginning with the horse show, which was the brilliant, sunrise of the gayeties, there has been a series of dinners, oances. de but, parties, luncheons, teas and recepJ tlons continuing from the early morning hours to the very sunset of the season that has marked it a notable one in At lanta's social history. Chief among her triumphs. Society has this season charmed into bloom a fairer set of deßutante buds than have graced her garden in many a year. From various parts of the country have come compli ments to the variety.beauty and fragrance of these tender blossoms. She has noted, too, this season many brilliant weddings jf some! of her fairest daughters and most beloved sons, .and has already pledged others equailjj dear to her. So this period of rest and quietude and devotion comes as a well-earned holiday after unceasing labors. Society has done her duty well, and she sinks to her prieu dieux with a sigh of relief and turns her thoughts to higher things. If her mind wanders sometimes and her eyes look away from her prayer-book Into the' com ing post-lenten days, she sees ahead of her another burst of splendor marked by a series of weddings and gayeties, but she looks quickly back to the psalter of the day. Poor, hard-worked Society! May her thouguis be worthy durinng these forty days of fasting, and her prayers uplifting! K. G. ■ ■■ _ Representative Wilson, of Brooklyn, was strolling leisurely through the lobby of the capltol the other afternoon when he met a tall, gaunt, heavy mustached person, who stopped him to inquire about a member of Congress from Kentucky. Mr. Wilson looked the stranger over care fully and gave him the, desired informa tion, and then, suddenly remembering that the stranger’s face was familiar, turned and inquired: "Are you from Kentucky, sir?” "Not by a darned sight!” was ths reply, "I'm from Tennessee, but I’ve beea. sick a week; that’s why I look so bad." LITTLE WOMEN. "Let’s play that we are women," Little Willie said, ’ "And make a house so cunnln*. -•» Out there in the shed. ‘We’ll hang some qujlts upon the wall, » To hide the ugly cracks. And tack them well lest they should fall. With some of brother's tacks. "Then lots of pictures we will pin. Round about so pretty; We’ll have our stove, cupboard and bln. And, too, we’ll have a party. ‘We’ll have for our party c ? r- 1 Some apples, nuts and cakes. We'll have some of the nicest candy,' Just like mamma makes. "We must use our prettiest dishes, • ' i And have nice things to wear; We'll put cm mamma's long dresses. And comb up high our hair. "We'll invite some little friend. And have just heaps of fun; I'll be mamma, you be the maid. „ And Walter my little eon.” —MRS. W. B. CUMMINGS.