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| THE COUNTRY HOME
i Women on the Farm
Conducted By Mrs. IV. H. Felton.
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DISTRUST.
It is not the mountain, it is not the land;
And it is not the deep, wide sea;
And not the stretch of the desert sand
Can separate you and me.
Sweetheart.
Can separate you and me.
Hands mav tighten and hold.
And hearts be pressed to heart.
Tet only shadows the arms enfold.
If souls have grown apart.
Sweetheart.
If souls hare grown apart.
Nor yet the gallop of racing horse
Can make the distance wide.
And not the stream or electric force
Can banish us side from side.
Sweetheart.
Can banish us side from side
But the cruel thought, the harsh distrust.
The word that biteth sore.
Bach from each apart could thrust
So far we could meet no more. .
Sweetheart.
In this world never more
—Blanche Nevin in The Independent.
President Roosevelt’s Words • About
Anarchy.
The president of the United States is
talking on many subjects since he occu
pied the white house.
He is not a cautious man in speech as
was his predecessor, but he is more frank
And outspoken in his views.
It is therefore not surprising that he
too much occasionally and beside
that he talks without consideration and
judgment, sometimes without political pol
icy for his own party.
When he addressed a federal reunion a
few days ago. he had something to say
about their struggle with •"anarchy" from |
18G1-65.
To state it plainer, he left the impression
that the Confederates were "anarchists."
This Is manifestly unjust. He used a
term that bears injustice on its face and
was undeserved, untrue.
General Lee and his soldiers were not
anarchists. The Confederate legislators,
were not anarchists.
In his high an 4 lofty indifference to his
own forbears he has done his mother s
people a great injustice for some of them
were on the southern side during the civil
war.
If he thought they were anarchists,
family pride should have restrained his
utterance of the charge without qualifica
tion. It is very evident that President
Roosevelt will have a stony road to re
jection if he keep* up the gait he is trav
eling at present with rash speech.
For instance, he went clear out of his
way to publicly censure General Nelson
A. Mlles in the white house.
Such persons as Generral Miles have
friends and they have memories. It goes
without saying that a deep and lasting
offense was given when there was no call
for it* whatever at the time. General
Miles married a Miss Sherman and the
Sherman Influence is not dead, if the sen
ator and General Tecumseh Sherman are
resting in their eofflns.
The president s rebuke of General Miles
tn public company under his own roof is
positively inexplicable from any point of
view, save his inevitable habit of rhnnlng
amuck when his feelings get away with
bis judgment.
The "anarchy" charge is plainly another
indiscretion in speech. There are a great
many southern people who followed Lee,
Stonewall Jackson and Jeb Stuart who felt
very friendly to Mr. Roosevelt. To class
these veterans as "anarchists" is to range
them along with Cxolgoss and the Hay
market gang of Chicago. The Confeder
ates are not likely to forget it. They have
friends and they have memories. There
was no provocation and the president
went out of his way to shoot an arrow,
when the country had long ago decided to
harmonize the blue with the gray if pos
sible.
But like Senator Tillman the president
eannot hold back hasty speech even when
it works harm rather than harmony. Ac
cording to the symptoms in sight the pres
ident is apt to keep his own party on the
qul vlve for unpleasant surprises.
The Future of the Georgia Fruitgrower
The prices for apples this winter would
indicate that the apple crop of this coun
try is not yet over-crowded. At ten cents
a dosen apples are dear eating, especially
when these apples are not extra fine to
size or extra sweet to the taste.
If we can raise a good keeping apple in
Georgia or supply cold storage for the
fruit during warm damp spells tn the win
ter time, then we will be safe in planting
large orchards for commercial purposes.
We now have a market for green apples
in Great Britain. Germany and Russia.
Even the cores and rinds are utilised for
jellies and wine. There is nothing more
salable than flrst-class apple vinegar, and
with the islands in the Pacific and At
lantic. newly acquired, we will have a
more extended market in those localities
for our fruit. A few counters in New
Tork state cleared over 1i.000.0C0 in the
year 13C1. on apples alone, not to men
tion the plums, pears, apricots, grapes
and other well known money profits from
such crops.
If anybody had predicted thirty years
ago that an orchard of thirty acres set in
peaches would have made for the owner
F.OOO in cash, who would have believed It?
Not I. surely'
Yet there are peach orchards in Georgia
that have done that much and more in
the last five or six years. Pears are ship
ped to England packed In barrels which
have netted the owner from 115 to sl6 per
barrel.
What could be more remunerative for
the amount invested in the crop?
Borne tell us that the peach crops in
Georgia have been overdone by quantity,
but while there are tens of thousands of
people who want to eat peaches and can
buy only a few. there is no danger of
overproduction, provided transportation
can be secured to proper markets.
Peaches, however, are subject to many
complaints, principally the yellows and
Ban Jose scale.
It seems that this is an age of parasites
on fruit trees and potato patches, because
Time wilf
■X' r* show whether
vkha Jivi y° ur weush-
AV irig-powder is
/ Juvrr da-ngerous.
/ Ijylr ® no can’t tell
Jfl h from the first
»• . few washings.
7R IP "/V After a. time
I* 1 ' your clothes
**go all at once.” Costly experi
menting. But here is PEARL
INE, known and proved to
be absolutely harmless.
Costs but a trifle more than
thepoorest. To save that trifle
you risk all the wash. 670
MILLIONS USE IT
you must spray everything to save the
products.
Os course all this takes time, judgment,
labor and money.
But there is no business that can do
without any one of these four necessities,
that I know anything about.
Labor is the great desideratum. For
this reason I am willing to see the Chi
nese and Japanese come to this country.
They are expert, quick to learn, easily
taught and do their work well.
The scarcity of labor is the great draw
back to southern horticulture as well as
southern agriculture. California’s horti
culture was started to success by the
Chinese who knew exactly how to manage
orchards and vineyards.
Rangy Sniffles In the United States
Senate.
Hon. Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin, is
much blamed for "egging on” the difficul
ty between Messrs. Tillman and McLau
rin. and it is not the first time, that
meddlesome people have pushed on a
quarrel beyond the limit, and then step
ped back to sneer at the scrimmage,
which such meddling has brought about.
Judge Longstreet s delineation of Ran
ey Sniffles fits the case exactly.
Mr. Spooner couldn’t rest until his
friend McLaurin was drawn Into a colli
sion with Tillman. He was plainly itch
ing for a full-sized, rabid difficulty, and
he could hardly wait while the South
Carolina pugilists were apart and he
used his active efforts to bring them
together to blows.
He may be a shrewd lawyer and know
his business as a legislator, but he spoils
the effect by his rabid partisanship and
desire for a fisticuff between his polit
ical opponents.
Time generally evens up with all Ran
gy Sniffleses, and Mr. Spooner may con
sider himself lucky if he does not get
a dose of his own medicine before he
retires from the stage of action.
And President Pro Tem. Frye has play
ed Ransy Sniffles likewise.
What call had he to send out for Mr.
McLaurin? He was elected to sit as a
presiding officer not as a trainer for a
pugilist in the senate.
He "niggled" at the business of rep
rimand also. He wanted to get in some
hard sort of a lick at Tillman and played
the mischief with his own dignity as a
presiding officer, and betrayed his own
unfitness for the place, in his eagerness
to strike a side lick at that annoying
South Carolinian.
"Ransy Sniffles" is the name that fits
the Spooner-Frye combination. Ransy
enjoys a fight, but keeps his own carcass
at a safe distance from it.
Spurious Titles.
A correspondent in Southern Georgia
thus writes:
“Your excellent papers on ‘Timely
Topics’ prompts me to suggest an arti
cle on 'Spurious Titles.’ ’’
A society has been organized in Vir
ginia for the suppression of spurious titles
and I think it could find plenty of lively
work in the Empire State of the South.
A pernicious custom has obtained for a
long time of prefixing the title of "Col
oner’ to everj* attorney at law in the
state. The "Georgia Major” is as you
know historical, but I always thought it
strange that a military title should be
conferred upon the limbs of the law. Why
not "Major” instead of colonel? Why is
"Colonel" generally appropriated?
Better still! as nearly all lawyers aspire
te the judicial ermine at some time—why
not prefix the title of "Judge,” instead of
either "Colonel" or "Major”?.
I felt that it would be very interesting
to hear your views on this subject—there
fore have made bold to* present the sug
gestion.”
Thank you kind sir. for giving me an
opportunity on this occasion!
But you have furnished the text and
the sermon—so I can only exhort a little
for you at the close.
In former times almost as many ex
horters could be listened to, as preachers;
and it was a chilly time, when somebody
did not warm up to a discourse after the
preacher took his seat. It was not al
ways, however, the best part of the dis
course. It was generally the dessert af
ter the solid dishes had been duly honored.
Just so, in the present case. This text
and sermon are intensely applicable to
present conditions. Maybe 1 can only ex
hort in a few words.
Some years ago we had a neighbor who
sold off some land and the newcomer and
purchaser was Introduced around as Col
onel Blank. One day at a friendly dining,
somebody asked. “Wete you in the Mex
ican war. Colonel?"
(It was before the civil war promotions.)
“No, sir. I qas plain Mr. Blank until I
moved up to this part of the country.
Your people begun calling me colonel. I
was never in war a day of my life—nor
have I served in the state militia. I guess
I acquired the title when I bought Mr.
B—*s land. Maybe I bought the title with
the land. Do you do such things in this
country?”
This lavish use of the title has, as my
correspondent states, become excessive:
whether it is become disgusting or other
wise. This lavish use has discounted it—
cheapened it—and when soberly consider
ed, ridiculed it. It is ludicrous to think
about in cold earnest.
If I had earned the real title in military
sen-ice, I should feel like taking some
steps to verify my claim to it.
Somebody has said that the war veter
ans are kicking along this line, because
the real colonels at reunion seasons are
not only harrassed by spurious claims to
the title, but find themselves occasionally
completely overshadowed by the preten
sions of the 8. T.’s (otherwise Spurious
Titles) in cities where these reunions are
assembled. The S. T.'s ride their hobby
so hard that the real owners are left in
the rear, and completely out of sight.
If Virginia can afford to begin a weed
ing out or reform. Georgia has no reason
to be more modest or indifferent in this
military title business. •
Plain mister is a most honorable title—
and in lofty officialism, the title of mister
is exploited whenever the owner rises to
speak or to be questioned—in legislative
bodies or organizations.
It is eminently proper to say Mister
President or Mister Chairman, and our
women’s organizations say, Madame Pres
ident or Madame Chairman—for like rea
sons.
But I* take a little satisfaction that
women as a rule are satisfied to have Mrs.
prefixed to their address, and no matter
how often the head of the nouse is col
oneled by mistake the wife has been con
tent to be known and written to as plain
Mrs. to her acquaintances. The timely
suggestion of my South Georgia corre
spondent is worthy of attention. •
An Echo of the Fracas.
Washington Times.
Senator Baller saj-s: "W. C. P. Breckin
ridge's paper down In uextngton. Ky., came
out the other day with a hot editorial advocat
ing the expulsion of the two South Carolina
sepators. It was one of the most severe of
the arraignments in the press of the two bel
llgerants.
"Mr. Breckinridge is inconsistent. I remem
ber how. not so many years ago. In the house,
Mr. Breckinridge had an altercation In which
the lie was passed and In which a blow was
aimed and almost reached its mark. Mr. Breck
inridge did not advocate the expulsion of the
offenders on that occasion.
"I Intend to write to him some day and call
his attention to this little discrepancy in his
•attitude." .
The superintendent of schools at Ko
komo. Ind., makes the startling report
that of 1.300 boys under his charge 400
are addicted to cigarette smoking. This
is a tip that the cigarette manufacturers
will probably appreciate.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1902.
George Washington’s Visit to Charleston in 1791.
BY ELLE GOODE.
For several days before the president’s
coming, the City Gazette, one of Char
leston’s earliest dallies, contained notices
and announcements concerning the all
important visit. The day before his ar
rival the Gazette published a special re
quest that each citizen would sweep and
water well in front of his house eauy In
the morning, for the city was unusually
dry and dusty. ,
The president arrived May 2nd. ana was
rowed across Cooper river by 13 masters
of American vessels. He was accompanied
by his secretary, Major Jackson, Gen.
Moultrie and Col. Wm. Washington, (both
of whom went to Georgetown to meet him)
Gen. Pinckney, Major Edwa’rd Rutledge,
and other prominent persons.
On landing in Charleston he was wel
comed by the governor and lieutenant gov
ernor. Intendant and wardens of Charles
ton, and crowds of citizens. The Charles
ton Battery of Artillery fired a salute, the
bells of St. Michael’s church and-the ves
sels in the harbor displayed their colors.
Washington was then escorted to the
Exchange, a large public building, and
from the balcony reviewed the parade,
bowing pleasantly as cheer after cheer
went up for him. He was then escortted
to Judge Thomas Heywards house on
Church street. Os his headquarters he
writes in his diary as follows:
“The lodgings provided for me in this
place were very good, being the furnish
ed house of a gentleman at present In the
country; but by a person placed there on
purpose to accomodate me, and who was
paid in the same manner as any other
letters of lodgings would have been paid.”
On May 3d the president was visited by
a number of Charleston’s leading women,
gorgeously attired, and of their visits he
writes:
"About 2 o'clock was visited by a great
number of the most' respectable ladies of
Charleston, the first honor of the kind I
Frederick Palmer, journalist
And Author, Visits Atlanta
BY MARIE ALICE PHILLIPS.
Mr. Frederic Palmer, author, journalist
and soldier, has been a quiet guest in the
city for two days. He was visiting his
brother-in-law, Mr. Wilbor, of Albany,
N. Y., whose home is now in Baltimore
block.
When called on Mr. Palmer was in the
nursery, deep in the mysteries of photo
graphing the Wilbor baby in different
poses.
“Interview me!" he said. "Why, what
have I done?” But he smiled genially as
he took a chair opposite the Interviewer.
“I am down here to wrtte up four ar
ticles on the south for Collier's Weekly.
The Charleston exposition will be one,
then 1 shall go to Florida, Texas and New
Orleans.”
Mr. Palmer Is a broad-shouldered blonde
of the "Little Blllee” type. He is rather
English, with a freshness and vigor that
suggests the cold bath; has bright, steady
gray eyes and trim beard, and yet there is
a certain easy courtesy of manner that
gives a suggestion of the Latin Quarter.
A gray tweed suit, loosely-fitting, counter
acted the severe dignity of a pair of spec
tacles which he adjusts frequently. He
smiles with eyes and mouth.
"The south,’’ he said, "is a good field
for newspaper work. All the great things
that Grady predicted for it in his famous
after-dinner speeches are fast coming
true. She Is learning to develop her own
resources, to manufacture her own goods,
supply her own demands, and more—and
one can clearly see her great future.
"It is something of a revelation to me.
I have circled the globe twice, but have
■ever been farther south than Washington
before.
“Atlanta strikes me as a city of very
tall buildings and of very busy people.
Her dally papers are fine, too, but I knew
that before I oime. They are considered
among the best wherever known, and you
would possibly be astonished to know
how far and wide they are known. '
“That will please Atlantlans? Well, I
didn’t say it for that reason. The re
markable thing to me is that you have
only two.
"Do you know you have a great man
here?”
“Yes, of course, but to which one do you
refer?”
"Joel Chandler Harris, and there is an
other. Frank Stanton writes good stuff.
I noticed a picture of you in khaki uni
form—did you go out to meet the Boers?
“Oh, no, that was taken in China. I
was in Pekin during the Boxer movement
as a war correspondent. I had been to
the Philippines, but came back to Amer
ica with Dewey; returned to the Philip
pines soon after and reached Pekin at
the beginning of the disturbance. La
ter, I went to Japan and on through Si
beria.”
Mr. Palmer Is a delightful, easy talk
er and rambled on in an Interesting way
about the foreigners. In drawing a com
parison between the Chinese and Japa
nese, he pointed out the commercial In
tegrity of the Chinaman, and his loose
ness in other respects, so directly opposed
to the Japanese whose business methods
are based largely on th£ philosophy of
David Harum, "Do unto others as they
are sure to do to you and do it first,” and
their high sense of honor and moral ob
ligation in all other respects.
"The Japanese policeman,” he said, “is
not to be cajoled or bribed; it is a posi
tion °f honor and trust. He leaves bri
bery to the statesman, that is what he
is there for. to get the spoils.
"The little Japanese is an Ideal warrior
and Is prepared through custom and tem
perament to accept and utilize all modern
Inventions and innovations. His courage is
positive while the Chinaman’s courage is
negative. The latter is not afraid to die,
but is poorly equipped to live or die; the
Japanese as individuals, are philosophic.
If a Japanese wer? to spend a year of his
best work and undivided attention on a
vase, and were by chance to break it, he
would only smile. ‘Why worry,’ he
would say, 'it cannot be mended,’ and
straightway begin on another. They arc
a charming people and interesting always.
Their women are more cultured than oth
er oriental women, much more than Chi
nese women, though strange to say, the
Chinese woman is the only exception
among the orientals to the rule of bur
den-bearing; the Chinese woman is a
queen, however humble, whereas the
Filipino woman is the man of the family.
“It was often amusing, when the Fili
pino wants anything of the American
officers it Is always the woman who faces
the fire, while her timid husband follows
and stands off afar in a detached condi
tion, as a slave would 'do. It seems out
of place and deplorable to an American
in the Orierit, to sec women at work in
the fields.
"I am sorry I can’t be interesting,” he
said, "but really, journalists seldom are.
’Copy’ is the great question with them
and all things else are subservient to that
one aim; but the world somehow has got
ten the idea that it is the duty and priv
ilege of these roamers to be public enter
tainers. Whereas, the writer hopes
for nothing beyond making his
books Interesting; for in them he has put
his own personality. If what the reader
finds between the covers of a book does
not appeal to him, then the author as an
Individuality can never hope for a place
in his heart.
It is from the newspaper men—journal
ists—that our cleverest latter day au
thors come. It is their unusual advant
ages in a broad field of experience, their
contact with all sorts and conditions of
men, that so eminently fit them for the
portrayal of lite and the trutns govern
ing it.”
Mr. Palmer is the author of three books
and is engaged in writing a book of fic
tion now—he will not divulge the name of
his new book. He was war correspon-
had ever experienced, and it was as flat
tering as It was singular.
On Wednesday, May 4th, the Society of
the Cincinnati, of South Carolina, gave a
banquet in honor of Washington at Mc-
Crady's tavegn. In reply to an address
made in his honor, the president said:
"I ani much obliged by the respect
which you are so good as to declare for
my public and private character. I recog
nize with pleasure my relation to the
brethren of your society and I accept with
gratitude your congratulations on my ar
rival in South Carolina.
"Your sentiments on the establishment
and exercise of our equal government are
•worthy of an association whose principles
lead to purity of morals and beneficence
of action.
“The fabric of our freedom Is placed on
the enduring basis of public virtue and
will, I fondly hope, long continue to pro
tect the posterity of the architects who
raised It.
“I shall be happy every occasion to
evince my regard for the fraternity. For
your prosperity individually, I offer my
best wishes.”
•Fifteen toasts were offered, as follows:
1. United States. i
2. July 4th, 1776.
3. Louis XVI. of France..
4. National Assembly of France.
5,. All nations in amity with the United
States.
6. Count D’Estaing and officers of
French navy who served in America.
7. Count Rochambeau and French offi
cers who served in America.
8. The vice president of America,
9. Secretary of state.
10. Secretary of treasury.
11. Secretary of war.
12. Army of the United States.
13. Agriculture and commerce.
14. (a) Memory of those who fell In de
fense of American liberty; (b) By the pres-
dent during the Greeco-Turkish war for
the New York Press, also furnished arti
cles to Scribner’s. In 1898 he was sent
to the Klondike by the New York Press
and Scribner’s. He has a wide experience
for so young a man. "I have been far
and seen much,” he said, “but that does
not make a good journalist.”
Mr. Palmer has the modesty of true tal
ent. His remarkable success speaks for
Itself. He could never have written "The
Ways of the Service” except he had him
self seen service, experienced the hard
ships and barbarities of war. His two
books on the Greek war and the Klondike
respectively are recognized as valuable
contributions to literature. ,
WEEDS INDISPENSABLE.
Alnslee’s Magazine.
The manner in which weeds are known
to improve poor soil forms a remarkable
sclentflc discovery. Their roots extend
into the stiffer and more compact subsoil,
’where no ordinary plant can reach, and
after loosening and opening it up so that
air and water can have action upon it,
suck up from below great quantities of
potash salts and phosphoric acid. When
these weeds are plowed under or die.
these salts and acids can be utilized by
the cereals and root crops which live
upon them. For instance, wheat and po
tatoes flourish well where these weeds
have gone before and done the work of
getting th necessary food for them from
the sub-soil and the air.
Much land is of no value until these
weeds come iff and make It so. This Is
particularly true of sandy soils and re
claimed march .lands, which are deficient
tn potash, a thing necessary in all farm
ing land. On these the deeper rooted
legumes, speh as gorse, broom, alfalfa,
lupines, sulla and the perennial beans are
of great value. Their roots not only reach
down very deep and bring up potash from
thes üb-soil In the manner described, but
their leaves take great quantities of nitro
gen from the air. Now, when a soil is
rich In potash and nitrogen It Is good soli,
and as these pjants die and leave their
gathered potash and nltgrogen on the
surface, the sandy and marshy soils be
come good land. All the farmer has to
do is plow these rotting weeds under and
he has land on which he can raise cereals,
root crop and tobacco —that hardiest,
most wearing plant upon soil.
The government has Induced farmers
to try the Florida beggar weed. One ex
perimenter reported that by planting It
In his field and plowing under the annual
crops for two successive years, the soil
had been completely changed in texture
and color. Another farmer discovered
that a crop of beggar weed turned under,
will, when decomposed, retain near the
surface In ready reach of the roots of
succeeding crops not only all the nitrogen
that it took out of the atmosphere, but
also whatever fertilizers were subsequent
ly applied. A third reported that all his
field produced more luxurious crops after
having been given over one to a
rank growth of this weed.
To find out how much chemical value
this weed really takes from the air and
the sub-soil. the government planted a.
sandy field (bare of any of the qualities
on which ordinary cereals and Vegetables
con thrive) with beggar weed, and when
the crop was at Its height harvested it,
root and all. The crop was then reduced
to ashes and the restilt analyzed. It was
found that every ton of beggar weed
ashes 508 pounds of lime, 230
pounds of phosphoric acid, and 482 pounds
of potash. Twenty to twenty-five tons of
beggar weed hay were required to make
one ton of ashes, bdt every acre yielded
four tons of beggar weed. It was figured
out that at a four ton yield per acre,
which Is an average, one acre of beggar
weed would yield 150 pounds o. nitrogen,
worth fifteen cents a pound, or $22.50
worth of nitrogen, and potash and phos
phoric acid worth $5.25, making a total
0f'527.75 worth of fertilizing chemicals ta
ken from an acre of soil worth nothing
at all.
A Bride’s Trosseau for $75.
In the March Ladles' Home Journal Mrs.
Ralston tells how a bride may buy a complete
trousseau, ready made, for $75. Here is the
list:
Tailor suit $15.00
Walking-skirt ... , 3-50
Dress of challie 12.00
Silk waist 5.00
Flannel shirt-wait L 25
Two wash waists at SI.OO each 2.00
Wrapper 2.00
Corset 1-50
Two nightgowns at 85 cents each... ... 1.70
Two nightgowns at $1.25 each 2.50
Two chemises at 50 cents . ... 1.00
Two chemises at SI.OO each 2 00
Two undcrwalsts at 75 cents each 1.50
Two underwaists at $1 00 each 2.00
Two pair drawers at 50 cents each ... 1.00
Two pair drawers at 35 cents each .... 1.70
One sateen petticoat 1-00
One muslin petticoat 1-00
One muslin petticoat 50
Hat •’ 5.00
Gloves two pairs 2.50
Stockings, half-dozen pairs 1.50
Shoes ... 3.50
Handkerchief, one dozen 1.50
Sundries 2.85
Total $75.00
THE BLESSINGS THAT ARE MINE.
I humbly thank the gods benign.
For all the blessings that are mine.
My books, my garden and my dog,
For mountain, meadow, fen and bog.
The morning drips her dew for me,
Noon spreads an opal canopy.
Home bound the drifting cloud crafts rest.
Where sunset ambers all the west;
Soft o’er the poppy fields of sleep
The drowsy winds of dreamland creep.
What Idle things are wealth and fame
Beside the treasures one could name?
I humbly thank the gods benign
For all the blessings that are mine.
—Robert Lovenian in Country Life.
dent, to General Greene and all officers
fallen In defense of American liberty.
15. The patriotic fair of America.
In the evening a large ball was given
at the Exchange, at which some 250 were
present. Early that morning, before his
breakfast, Washington visited the lines of
attack and defence of tht city. In his
diary he says, “I was satisfied that the
defence was noble and honorable, al
though the measures were undertaken up
on wrong principles and unpolltlc.”
On Thursday he visited Ft. Johnson, on
James’ Island, and Fort Moultrie on Sul
livan's Island.
On Friday he rode over the city on
horseback, and dined with Senator But
ler. In the evening a ball was given by
the governor.
On Saturday he visited the Orphans'
house and climbed the steeple of St. Mi
chael’s' at which church he attended ser
vices the following day.
In his diary he thus describes Charles
ton:
“Charleston stands on a peninsula be
tweet the Cooper and Ashley rivers, and
contains about 1.6C0 dwelling houses and
16,000 Inhabitants, of which about 8,000 are
white. It Iles low with unpaved streets.
There are a number of very good houses
of brick and wood. The inhabitants are
wealthy, gay and hospitable—appear hap
py and satisfied with the general govern
ment.”
The president left the city at 6 a. tn.,
Monday morning for Savannah, Ga. He
was escorted to the boundary of the city
by prominent officials, where short ad
dresses of farewell were made.
’Bears the You Havß Alwa ? S
• What is the Soul)
By Mrs. W. H. Coppage.
In a recent issue of The Journal was
noticed a clipping that says a professor
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has located the
soul of man In the spine. This brings a
question, and one that every one who
has arrived to any knowledge has often
asked: "What Is the soul?” Now, If we
turn to the word of God which Is the true
wisdom and science, and not depend on
human speculation and wisdom, we find In
the second chapter of Genesis, seventh
verse, that man has not a soul but is a
soul. God formed man of the dust of the
ground and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life and man became a living
soul. God having formed an Inanimate
body, the next step was to give life to
It. The body was not a man, soul or
being until the breath was blown Into Its
nostrils. It had eyes, ears, mouth, tongue,
nostrils, heart, blood, lungs, but was
powerless until the breath came to it,
when It became a living soul, a
sentient being. It took both the
breath and Inanimate body to pro
duce a living soul, a man; a lifeless
human organism had by the breath of
God became a man, which before was a
corpse. The body is not the soul. It was
formed first, then the breath, (rush, He
brew, spirit of life) coming in contact with
the formed body produced the living soul,
sentient being, man, giving It power to
live, and when the man dies, “Then shall
the dust return to the earth as It was,
and the spirit (power of living), shall re
turn to God who gave it,” Eccl, 12, 7.
God created man In his Image, that is,
with Intellectual powers and qualities of
himself, who Is of a higher organism, of
spirit; He gave man dominion over the
earth, in his likeness as he has dominion
over the universe. Job. 22, 8 says: "But
there Is a spirit, or breath of life. In man,
and the inspiration (animation given by
God) giveth, or causes, them understand
ing. In Eccl. 8,8, we find: “There is no
man that hath power over the spirit.
(Power of living which comes from God)
to retain the spirit, neither hath he pow
er In the day of death,” for that power
returns to God who gave It.
Solomon in Eccl. 3, 19 says that man
and beast have one breath, (power of
living), one kind of life. “As the one
dleth so dleth the other.” When he asks
Eccl. 3, 21: “Who knoweth the spirit of
man that (It) goeth upward and the spirit
of the beast that (It) goeth downward to
the earth?” he Is controverting the heath
en theory which even at that time had
begun to speculate that man had some
inherent quality which would prevent his
death, even when he seemed to die. He
challenges any proof or knowledge to such
effect.
Yet God says the soul’(living being)
that slnneth it shall die; the power to live
will be withdrawn.
Then is there no hope for all mankind?
Yes. bless God in his infinite mercy, he so
loved the .world of mankind that he gave
his only begotten son to redeem them.
Our redeemer poured out his human soul
(being) unto death for us; He made his
soul (being) an offering for sin. Isaiah 53,
10. 12. and It wap the soul (being) of Adam
and all his seed (mankind) that he thus
bought with his own precious blood. He
redeemed our souls (being) not our bodies.
Paul tells us in Ist Corinthians, 37, 38,
"Thou sowest (ip death) not that
body which shall be, but God gives it (the
being) a body that pleases him in the
resurrection.
As In the creation of Adam, the bring
ing together of an organism and breath of
life breathed into the nostrils produced a
being or soul (one capable of thought,
sensation, preception) so the dissolution
of these puts an end to sentiment being,
stopping thoughts, feeling, etc., the body
returns to the dust as It was. while the
spirit returns to God who gave it. One
cannot control it any more until God
chooses. But God aims that being to live
again through Christ, and for this reason
they are spoken of as asleep by the in
spired writers, or unconscious until the
resurrection.
Christ was the first to arise from the
dead. First Cor. 15, 20 and St. John, 3, 13,
says: “No mail hath ascended up to
heaven but he that came down from
heaven even the son of man.”
In Acts 2, 34. we see that David is not
ascended into heaven, and the Apostles
did not expect glory at their death, but
through Christ at his appearing. Col. 3.
4. 1 John, 3. 2. The bible teaches us that
the dead know not anything. Eccl. 9, 5.
Psalms. 146, 4. Isaiah 38. 18. 19, Job 14. 12.
15. 20, 21. The dead do not praise the
Lord. Psalms 115, 17. 6, 5. Eccl. 9, 6.
Neither did the Apostles expect to be re
warded at death. I'Peter. 5. 4. 2 Tim. 4.
8. 1 Pet. 1. 4. 5. When the chief shepherd
shall appear. If God’s dear children
would search the scriptures as our master
told us to do, they would not be barren
or unfruitful In knowledge, and how the
m.sts of error would fly away and things
called mysteries would be unraveled by
the light of truth shining so abundantly
in the precious word In place of abiding
In darkness to the grand and glorious
truths shining therein, which the Father
hath revealed for the children of men if
they would but turn to him and his word,
depending not on human wisdom and
philosophies, which shall come to naught,
but the word of God only.
Sixteen inches of room would seem an Inade
quate accommodation for each in a
street car. Yet this Is the space to be allotted
In Westminster Abbey to those fortunate 8,000
who will lie bidden to attend the coronation.
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Tillman Was Called a Liar Once Before
The Globe-Democrat.
COLUMBIA, S. C., March 3.—South Car
olinians of the upper class seem to resent
even more keenly than the fisticuff In the
senate the terms of Senator Tillman’s
apology. They consider the senator’s dec
larations that his term of four years as
governor of the state just previous to go
ing to the senate had to some extent un
fitted him for properly wearing the dignity
supposed to enfold a United States senator
was a distinct Insult to the state. Here
many look upon the governor’s office as
more important and having more dignity
attached to it than any other except pres
ident. Newspapers and Individuals are now
charging Sentator Tillman with having
dismantled the governor’s office of its dig
nity when he went into it. The immediate
predecessor of Tillman In that office w as
John Peter Richardson, a typical South
Carolina gentleman of the “old school.”
His father and grandfather had been gov
ernors before him and the office had been
held by five of his family. Kindness and
courtesy were prominent characteristics
with Governor Richardson, but the dignity
of the office was felt In the very air. ,
Within the last week northern newspa
pers have alluded to Senator Tillman as
a South Carolina bourbon and McLaurin
as the representative of the young, pro
gressive class*. As a matter of fact Till
man went Into office with the cry of
"Down with the bourbons” on his lips.
With that cry he rallied those he term
ed “the common people” aroupd him, de
clared he was one of them and against
everything that had the taint of aristoc
racy. It took five years for him to work
up the populace to that pitch, but suc
cess, overwhelming success, followed. It
has also been printed that Tillman served
for several months in the Confederate
army and lost his eye in the war. That is
entirely Xthout foundation. He never en
tered the aViy, ar*. so far as can be as
certained, lost his eye diving in a mill
pond and striking a snag.
McLaurin is decidedly more of a “bour
bon,” measured- by those qualifications to
which that term Is applied in this section.
He Is of old family, has pride in his race,
received a college education and has tastes
for things Tillman affects to despise.
When Tillman entered the governor’s of
fice he made a change In the atmosphere.
He worked hard. He did all of his corre
spondence. The private secretary of the
governor became no more than an office
boy. He copied letters and answered the
door. That was the time of harvest for
the reporters. The governor prepared
things for them. They .would sit around
his office half the day, and following his
example, would put their feet on his desk.
The governor “cussed” there as freely as
ever. It was understood the reporters were
not to say anything to his disadvantage,
and only use news as he gave it. One
disregarded this unwritten law once and
was barred the presence. The training the
governor gave himself was that of a Dem
ocratic-autocrat, If such Is possible.
The last occasion on which Tillma.’’ bad
the epithets Indulged in by McLaurffi ap
plied to his face was at Marion, S. C., dur
ing the campaign of 1890, when Tillman
ran for governor. Factional bitterness was
at its height. It seemed that a bloody
riot would break out at almost every
meeting. Every man went to *those meet
ings with at least one pistol on his person;
some carried five. Mr. Shirley Houghson,
who was then studying for the ministry
and who has long since been ordained,
was then acquiring useful knowledge of
human Mature and the evil one by act
ing as campaign correspondent for a
Charleston paper. Mr. Houghson was the
mildest mannered little gentleman imag
inable, very quiet and very careful.
It was the habit then to charge newspa
pers with trying to deceive the people.
Captain Tillman was not yet a trained de
bater and sometimes in an angry flurrj
would say things that looked bad in print
next day. It was after one of these Httl<
outbreaks that the campaign party reach'
ed Marion. Perhaps fifty men in the towi
were opposed to Tillman, but fifty timei
their number catna in from the countrj
wild with Tillman enthusiasm. Getting uj
before this crowd Captain Tillman soot
had them yelling frantically. Then he re
ferred to a report in Mr. Houghson * papei
and declared the reporter had purposelj
misrepresented him.
The reporter got up from the rear of th<
stand and stepped to the front. ‘‘Pull him
off,” yelled the crowd. ‘‘Ride him on a
rail.” When he could be heard he demand
ed to know if Tillman meant that he hax
been purposely Misrepresented by him.
“Yes, I do,” yelled Tillman.
“Captain Tillman, you are an Inferna
liar,” retorted the student for the mln-
The crowd closed. Meh tore at each
other to get to Houghson. Tillman did not
move or speak. Perhaps he felt the deadly
peril. There were a handful of his op-
I ponents there, but they were determined
I men, who were on the stand or directly in
front of him. It seemed that if the in
furiated countryman laid hands on Hough
son they would tear him to pieces. They
would surely have done so, but for the
fact that their leaders were quickly warn
ed that if Houghson was touched Tillman
would instantly become the target for
fifty pistols. They might kill Houghson
and a dozen or more others, but the great
“reform" leader would go with them. So
Tillman leaders from all sections of the
country yelled to their followers to stand
back and put up their pistols. And so
Tillman was saved for the United States
senate and Mr. Houghson for the church.
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Love Is God’s Magnet.
Sorrow is the reflection of joy. There
is no shadow unless the sun is shining,
and it takes both sunshine and shadow
to make the world beautiful.
“It is a question whether it were not bet
ter to be the shabbiest of fools, and know
the way up the little stair of imagination
to the land of dreams, than the wisest
of men, who see nothing that their eyes
do not show and feel nothing that the
hands do not touch.
OLIVE SHREINER.
PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.
Philadelphia Times.
“Let us prate.” said the Pharisee.
In. first drink of whisk, makes a wry faca
By and by it means a “rye nose."
If souls visit the planets after death, those
from the torrid zone will do well to fight shy of
Mercury.
One of Grimm’s heroes, the “Faithful Jo
hannes.” burst the iron band that he had put
about his heart, to restrain its generous im
' pulses. There are few millionaires who would
feel that need, or experience the same catas
trophe.
Women always think of the clothes; men of
what is in them.
“I want a rest, Jedge. Please send me up for
a year, won’t you?"
“Six mbnths." ,
“Well, that’s somethin’. Half a loaf U bet
ter’n no loaf.”
It looks like it will be quite awhile yet
before Cuba is able to tell which side her
bread is sugared on.