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Newspaper Page Text6 COLW77? K ttOjSl Women on the Farm Conducted. By Mrs. IV. H. Felton. | 4> Correspondence on home topics or ♦ + subjects of especial interest to wo- ♦ * men Is invited. Inquiries or letters ♦ ♦ should be brief and clearly written 4 * in ink on one side of the sheet. ♦ 4> Write direct to Mrs. W. H. Fel- ♦ <> ton. Editor Home Department Semi- + 4* Weekly Journal. Cartersville. Oa. ♦ ♦ No inquiries answered by malL ♦ tit I MtIM !>>»»< IIIH !»♦♦♦ School Boys Are Interested In Prohibi tion. Since Mr. Guerry‘» announcement as a prohibition candidate for governor, my ochoo!-b?y friends have concluded to make the subject a lively one at the sum mer commencements as debaters usually do at such tlm<*s. I have not the leisure to answer their many and various appeals for helps and pointers, for and against. I would need a stenographer and typewriter to answer many of the letters I receive, and I have neither, but all the same. I am always glad to help my young friends of both sexes, when they apply to me for facts in such a time as the present. The sub ject seems to be unfolding in general in terest and importance. While I have been a great believer in temperance for years, and In a very em phatic way have announced my opinion on the necessity for the suppression of open drinking saloons I am not In this place to champion or oppose any candi date for the governorship in Georgia. In the first place, 1 have not been solic ited to do so. and In the second place. I have no intention of doing so. This much it is proper to explain in endeavoring to place the subject before the school boys who are seeking light on the mooted ques tion. and who ask me to tell them the strong points for debate. There are three classes tn this country who have pronounced views on the sub ject of prohibition of the sale of intoxi cants by legislation. One class demands this prohibition by statute law. as a meas ure of public safety. Another class con tends for the sale under legalised restric tions as a compromise. A third demands Ifbertv to sell as a righj allowed to gen eral trade and commerce, as In other business pursuits. This latter plea is the personal liberty plea, namely, that any person has the right to sell or drink liq uors as a free man in a free country. A law that forbids the sale of liquors is called a sumptuary law. and all laws which regulate. what shall be eaten or drank or worn are called sumptuary laws. This personal liberty idea is the one. therefore, most exploited by anti-prohibi tionists. It is claimed that civil and re ligicus liberty are what our forefathers fought, bled and died for in the revolu tionary struggle, and therefore any man can sell wnat he pleases and drink what he pleases in a republic. We are gravely told that a store In which Intoxicants are sold has as many privileges as a store that sells bacon or calico in equity and ■' justice and no man has the right to stop another man from either selling, buying or drinking what pleases his taste or ap petite or his pocketbook. This* covers the argument of the loonist. as I understand the contention. The compromise argument may be tersely stated in the following way: name ly: Since people will use intoxicating ifqmrww -for various reasons—some for stimulating effects in ill health, others because they claim the right to do as they please in eating and drinking (and ail things else) and since many have such a thirst for Intoxicants that it amounts to mania: therefore the proper plan to pursue, is to regulate the sale under com promise conditions. T)ne of these com promise conditions is the closing of bar rooms when large crowds might be ex cited by drunkenness. such as election days and hanging /lays. etc. The forbid ding of minors to drink in these saloons la another compromise condition. The removal of open drinking places from school houses and churches to sta ted distances therefrom, as now compell ed by legislative enactments, is another. Dispensaries in lieu of general barrooms is another compromise arrangement. The compromise arrangements have been very popular since the civil war. for the open and promiscuous sale of intoxicants became unpopular nearly half a century ago. I remember well the first guberna torial candidate for prohibition in Geor gia. but J was much younger than I am now. Rev. Basil H. Overby made the race in the fifties and received about g.OW votes only. And yet the nomination was made in c. tempest of applause and everybody said. "Tea. the churches will elect him.” It looked that way. but the churches had too many weak-kneed pat riots at that election, and I have never banked very heavily on the churches as a unit on any political question. When "know nothingism” came along the Catholic church gave it fits and never touched it with a vote. When tbs' Baptist convention in Valdosta last year pledged itself to a solid prohibition vote. I said to myself. "I’ll wait and see.” and it is gen erally understood even this early in the campaign that the Baptist preachers will vote as usual—for whom they please— and the Valdosta pledges were simply a rope of sand—that could do nothing—and amounted to nothing except as a feeler. I never was silly enough to think that such political pledges would hold a pro testant membership, and it is right and proper that it should not. because the hope of this republic lies in the responsi bility of the individual and not In the control of priest-craft over the votes of the masses. Dispensaries have succeeded open bar rooms all over South Carolina, and there are many in Georgia also. The compromisers have been the suc cessful politicians up to date, but as I be lieve the change from general and promls cvcous drinking places to a sale under the before mentioned compromise restrictions was a long step forward, so do I believe that these compromise arrangements will, in the course of the next half a century, give way to rigid and uncompromising laws forbidding the sale of intoxicants as a public nuisance and as a measure of public safety. Lastly. I. come to the contention of the prohibitionists proper, namely, that the laws of the land must be uniform, and look always to preventing injury to one’s neighbor. There is really no personal lib erty at this time, except in the sale of in toxicants All other poisons are sold un der restrictions, the most of them with a death's-head label on box or bottle. I saw a man die once who drank an overdose of whisky. It will kill like strychnine in over doses. A pistol Is considered essential in many homes, but the law does not allow you to carry a pistol about your person, concealed in your pocket or anywhere that any bystander may not see or warn others against you. A pistol under a flap of your coat is considered a public nuis ance. and you will be fined heavily for it and sent to the rock pile if you fall to raise the fine money. You have not injured anybody, and may be you were afraid of mad dogs, or two fOoted brutes, but the law says your neighbor does not like that pistol and you shall not carry it. The law does not allow you to speak ugly words in the hearing of womenkind. I heard of a man who had to pay S4O be- TSfcofts wHtM In ’lm fwtS. Efi Ci Court Synip. Tut« Good. Uae M E to lima. Said try dry^yty.» pr| j cause he behaved ugly where a woman could hear his language, and yet he did not say a word to her. You can't wear a woman's dress on the street. Why? Because It Is displeasing to your neighbor. You must, please your neighbor and behave yourself or run up against a hard law every time, except in selling liquor. The saloon Is an exception to this rule, but no minors are allowed in side. No women can go in and drink, and the trend of the time is toward removing such an injury from your neighbor's life, health and happiness, because It injures him. As briefly as possible I have answered these school boys, who are anxious to have the argument, pro and con. for the summer-time commencement debates. The Tempter in Eden. Since a Methodist preacher in Chicago is about to be excommunicated be cause he avers that the tempter of Eve in the garden of Eden, was in man’s shape, the subject of Eve's temptation and Adam's fall is revived, in many quarters. Os course we know the word "serpent" is used in the Bible-but if it was a rep tile It stood erect before the temptation, because the curse condemned it to a creep ing posture atterwards. This serpent had articulate voice. A snake has no voice or speaking ca pacity. A snake is not a beast—and this beguiling serpent was cursed "above all cattle and every beast of the field"—for its sin. Whatever it was, we are quite certain it was not like Adam, who was "created in the image of God." Thia "serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made,” says the Bible. Dr. Adam Clarke, long ago decided that this serpent was an ape. It is an estab lished fact that apes, outangs, gorillas and chimpanzees are more nearly approach ed to the anatomical structure of man, than other animals. Therefore the rea soning of Dr. Clarke is allowable, at least that far. They have feet and have hands. The Encyclopedia tells me that the chim panzee can sit in a chair, can walk, and fights with clubs and stones. Reptiles (as we know them under the name of ser pents) can do none of these things. Apes and all of the ape family get along faster on all-fours than standing erect. They eat like human beings, and the hands are much less delicate than man's. The aver age chimpanzee is said to be five feet high and covered with brown hair. What the “beguilement” really was. and why the beguiling serpent was allowed to go into the garden to beguile Eve, I am sure I cannot say, and I doubt if anybody can tell. Something happened, after Adam and Eve were installed in the garden, that made them unworthy of the favored spot, and they were driven out. in dis grace. The beguiling beast was the instru ment and the two who were created in the image of God were the sufferers, after eat ing the apples. The breath of God was never breathed into the "beasts of the field," but Adam received this breath, and Eve was built out of Adam's anatomy, and became the mother of "all the living," which evidently means of those who Inherited this won derful “breath" of the Almighty. This “breath' of God," evidently stanus for the soul of man, because the other animgla had life, had instinct and reproductive capacity, then as now. This breath is the eternal part of human kind, the part that does not die. which is rewarded and also punished, here and hereafter. The serpent had sufflcient mind to rea son with Adam and Eve. Its sleek tongue was much in evidence. It could not have been either repulsive or unattractive to our foreparents. But its attentions were directed to Eve. Her objections were first overcome, as to the commission of a disobedient act. Adam laid the blame on the woman, but he did what she did. and attempted to do what she did, with a full understanding that both disobeyed a positive command of God in the doing of it, and both were driven out. Cain wafl the first born son. He was full of hatred, envy and murder. He went through life branded with an indelible dis graceful mark of some sort. He was a "fugitive and vagabond" on the face of the earth, then, and if any of his stock or seed survived the flood, they are the same now. because there has been no re lief in the curse pronounced on Abel’s slayer. But the serpent or ape, or beguiling beast is heard of no more. The Apostle Jude says: "Wo unto them for they have gone in the way of Caln. Caln was the "blacksheep in the .amily of Adam/’ but eternity will alone show us the name and nature of the tempter. Contributions From Smart Housewives Don't plunge your frying pan in the water as soon as you take out ydur meats and gravy. Rub the pan with paper and get off the most of the grease and then wash the pan. It will make the work far less dirty to your hands and the dishwater. If somebody gets burned take equal quantities of sweet oil and lime shake them well tn a bottle and bathe the burned parts. Then saturate old, .well worn cloths and bind to the places. It is fine dressing for scalded flesh, unless the burns are so deep as to require more ac tive treatment. Old-time housekeepers used to prepare a dressing for obstinate sores, inflamed wounds, etc. They called it "frhite wat er.” As I recollect the preparation they took a bit of bluestone and alum, each about the sise of a pea. Beating these bits in the white of an egg. it made a strong, stiff curd. To this curd they stirred in a tablespoonful of brandy, the same of vin egar and the same of honey. The sores were carefully washed with suds of castlle soap and then bathed with “white water.” Lint from linen rags was then placed on the bad sore or raw wound, and over that was bound a greasy cloth and when the dressing was repeated the lint was care fully soaked in warm water until it dropped away without disturbing the new ly formed skin underneath. One of the best and simplest applications to soothe pain in dysentery and ward off peritonitis, is a square of soft cotton flan nel nfade of a yard of the materia! and folded into a square afterwards. After being dipped and wrung out of hot water until no more drops can be squeezed or wrung, then laid smoothly over the parts affected and over this a piece of fine rub ber cloth may be confined to keep in the hot moisture. It does not wet the clothes and bed clothes like a poultice and retains the heat a longer time. Some washerwomen use borax in their starch. Dissolve a little in water and stir In cold starch. They claim it stiffens the linen, makes it iron glossy and the starch will not stick to the irons. To make apple toast or apple sand wiches slice the bread and spread with butter. Cook the apples to a mush, sweet en and flavor If you like with lemon, nut meg or spice and then spread the apples on the bread just before they are to be eaten, while the sauce is hot. It is well always to remember that It is only good things which bring a good price In market. Fat chickens, fine sized eggs, good butter, fat beef and mutton are sure to please purchasers. Don’t expect to make your reputation by selling off all the scrubs unless you are willing to take second class prices for second rate goods. Well fatted stock will do to sell and It is poor economy to sell poor stuff. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 15. 1902. PAUL FORD’S LIFE SPENT AMONG BOOKS, HIS BROTHER MALCOLM’S ON THE TRACK Paul Leicester Ford was born in 18®, in Brooklyn. He was a great-grandson of Noah Webster on his mother’s side. Raised in an environment of books, turn ing the more readily to them because of a weak physique, which precluded a more sturdy life while still a young man, he lifted himself to a high place in the rank of American novelists. His “The Honorable Peter Sterling” was Mr. Ford’s first novel to secure general popularity, and rivaled "Richard Carvel” in sales. Then followed “The Story of an Untold Love,” the popular "Janice Mere dith.” and the “True Story of George Washington. Mr. Ford began his literary work at the age of eleven. The first example was a reprint of Webster’s genealogy of his fam ily, set up by himself, for he was even then a compositor. “Janice Meredith” was one of the big literary successes of 1900. It was prefaced by a long and familiar dedication to George Vanderbilt, the novelist's long time friend, and often his host at Bilt more. Dramatized, the tale won new lau rels for its creator. Nearly 300,000 sales is this book's record. Mr. Ford moved from his Brooklyn home to bachelor quarters in Manhattan, at No. 24* Fifth avenue, in 1899. On March 31. 1900. his engagement to Miss Grace Kid der, of Brooklyn, was announced, and on September 17,' the same year, they were married. The wedding was at the Kidder resi dence. No. 118 Remsen street. The Rev. Dr. Burgess, rector of Grace Episcopal church, read the marriage service. Worth ington C. Ford and Miss Katherine Dryer were the best man and maid of honor. The bride was one of the beauties and favorites of the Heights set of Brooklyn society. Tall and graceful, she presented a striking contrast to her husband, who was much smaller. After a long wedding trip the young couple went to live at their new home, in Seventy-seventh street. Mrs. lord is best described in the de scription of Janice Meredith painted in miniature, for which she was the model. Malcolm Webster Ford was best known to the public as an athlete and as a wri ter oh athletic events. Physically he was the direct opposite of the brother whom he killed Saturday. Paul Leicester Ford was an undersized, dwarfish man; Mal colm W. Ford was a magnificent specimen of physical manhood. He was muscle from head to foot, without an ounce of super fluous flesh. It was when the young man's remark able prowess as an athlete made him con spicuous and set athletic clubs all over the country to bidding for him, that the elder Ford objected. He had other ambi tions for his son and told him so, but Mal colm Ford was a born athlete and refused to stop competing in amateur athletic events at the behest of his father. The bitter feeling born of the young man’s refusal to give up athletics lasted up to the death of Gordon L. Ford, and was the reason that the millionaire cut off his eldest son without a cent. In 1883 toe New York Athletic club got hold of Ford and he competed in the games of the club that year, winning the 100-yar< race by a safe margin. Then he turned around and won the high and broad jumps, astonishing everybody by his ability in all branches of athletic sport. In 1892 Ford was married to Janet Wil helmina Graves, daughter of the late Rob ert Graves of Brooklyn, the wall paper manufacturer. The wedding took place at the bride’s summer home at Irvlngton-on the-Hudson. Worthington C. Ford acted as best man and Paul Leicester Ford was one of the ushers. Miss Graves had $400,- 000 in her own right. On March 18, 1898, Justice Wilmot M. Smith granted a divorce to Mrs. Ford. The Fords had been living at Babylon, L. WU TING FANG VISITS f > WASHINGTON’S TOMB BY MILT SAUL. ASHINGTON, May 9.-Ac cording to an ancient cus tom of his country Mr. W. T. Fang, better known per- w haps as Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister, has made a pllgrim to the tomb of the dead. This pilgrim age. made last week, was to Mount Vernon, tne tomb of George Washing ton. ' With Mr. Fang went Mrs. Fang, Miss Fang and several little Fangs. Maybe, though, the odd looking little ones were not children of the Fang household, but since everybody who saw them thought they were they made the party quite as interesting as \ if they had really been little Fangs. ' The entire party, except one boy, wore the queer Chinese afternoon out ing costume. In the matter of dress Mr. Wu Ting Fang was distinguished from the feminine Fangs only by a black silk skull cap, for they all wore trousers and they all wore the loose blouses which so closely resemble the American workman’s overall-jumper cut en train. Os course the material of which the costumes were made was the choicest oiled silk to be had in the Oriental markets and it sparkled and shone in the sunlight until the sheen was painful to look upon. The promi nent colors throughout were black and pale blue, though one of the young la dies had five stripes of purple braid sewn about the bottom of her sky blue trouser legs. They all wore Orien tal shoes except one elderly looking lady who had her poor, pinched feet encased in new patent leather boots. Before the pilgrimage was half done this dame was supported between two attendants as she walked, and the ex pression on her face plainly showed she was not supremely happy. The boy whose costume varied from the others wore a suit of American boys’ clothes with a stylish straw hat with a buzz-saw brim. His long queue was plaited and half hidden under his coat but the lower half hung below the coat and made the boy appear to have a tail like a monkey, though he was a good-looking boy even if he did wear thick spectacles. The hair dressing of the feminine members of the party was a wonder Indeed. The elderly ladies wore their glossy black hair in nets at the back of their necks, but the young ladies had caught theirs up in a coquettish knot over the right ear where it was ornamented with exquisite green and red and blue bejeweled flowers. Not one of the ladles wore a hat. Their oval faces, one and all, were delicate ly enameled. Each lower lip had a brilliant daub carmen paint right in the bend of the Cupid’s bow. They all carried fans, of course; even Mr. Wu and Mr. Chung, his first secretary. Mr. Wu also carried the only umbrella in the outfit and. since hfe was some few hundred yards in advance of the others during the entire pilgrimage, its grateful shade fell only upon him while the ladles, hatless though they were, trotted along patiently and ap parently satisfied under the full glare of the noonday sun. No one outside of the Chinese lega tion knew the minister and his house hold were going to the tomb of Wash ington until an automobile with four coy young Chinese ladies on the seats appeared at the Mount Vernon railway station. A crowd of excursionists from Baltimore had been stanolng for half an hour at the station waiting for a train when the auto came up and un loaded its pretty burden right in the crowd. Os course there was a rush to see the Chinese maidens and the impatience of the excursionists gave way to admiration for the Oriental •> * t F// ■ •■■■- v > W < ’ l i ■ Ors A ‘W • * jfek a\i ' i 1/^SkWI JR 1 wmPS IB * Ai 4 T$ till * // i I iSSr fl n K : SB ■ H ill > i / /WJaP : > ♦ ♦ Paul Leicester Ford, the Novelist, His Wife, Who was the Beautiful Miss Kidder, of Brooklyn, and the Inspiration of ‘‘Janice Meredith,” and MaL colmn Ford, the Athlete. 1., in Mr. Ford's beautiful home there. Mrs. Ford went back to live with her mother and Mr. Ford came to this city to live. The facts in the divorce suit were jealously guarded and few of the friends of the couple ever found out just what was the matter. Mp. Ford brought the suit and Ford did not attempt to tight it. Early In his athletic career Ford’s fath er had told him that he would disinherit him unless he gave up athletics, and for years relations between father and son were strained. Finally Ford was stricken down with typhoid fever and for days was near to death. His sickness brought about a reconciliation, but Gordon /L. Ford nev er changed his will, and when he died on November 13, 1891, thbre was no provision made for the son. Ford decided to fight the will, and he served notice on his brothers and sisters of a contest. When the will was offered for probate. Ford agreed with his brothers to sign a waiver of his rights, and did so. Ford maintained that his brothers Paul, Leicester and Worthington Chauncey promised that there should be an even dis tribution of the estate left by their father, which was Valued at $1,500,000. The brothers, however, declared that they they had never made any such ar rangement and Malcolm never got a dol lar. On May 11, 18?4 he began an action before Justice Gaynor in the supreme beauties. The auto departed, leaving the four with the crowd, but soon it returned with four more feminine subjects of the Celestial empire. These joined the first ,four who plainly showed in their countenances the sense of relief they felt at the arrival of their friends. Again the auto sped away and when it came again it con tained Mr. Chung, with the young boy in American, clothes and two la dies. These having alighted the auto once more steamed away.' When the auto for the fourth time appeared, Wu Ting fang, all alonq and in full regalia, enveloped with the stately dignity that is naturally expec ted to hover about a diplomat of’ his exalted station, sat on the front seat with his silk umbrella held grace fully over his head and his übiquitous red fan waving gently to and fro be fore hl« serene physiognomy. Led by the diplomat himself the Chi nese party boarded the train which ar rived a moment later. The Baltimore party made a daah for the car he en tered but to consternation a guard waved them back and shouted that they must make the pilgrimage on a special excursion train. Only tnose who were not excursionists from Baltimore were allowed on the train by which Mr. Wu Ting fang and his party journeyed. Even at that the coaches were crowded and the diplo mat had a time of it securing seats for all his household. On the eight-mile journey very little conversation passed between the Ori ental pilgrims. Once when the train was proceeding at a snail’s pace up a steep incline one young lady, in face tious Chinese tones, spoke to Chung. The smiles her remark occasioned among the others led to the belief that she asked him wny he didn't get out and push, but she spoke tn Chinese and for all the common pilgrims knew she might have observed that the train was going about as fast as Mr. Fang was going to Georgia. One demure young thing produced a box of choco lates on the w;ay out and she ate the entire boxful without offering to treat the others, but none seemed to con sider that a slight an<j none snatched at the chocolates, as some well bred American girls might have done under the same circumstances. But it was at Mount Vernon where the pilgrims created, the greatest in terest. A more picturesque outfit nev er entered the gates of the historic en 'closure. Several thousand people were on the grounds when they passed in a procession through the portals after Chung had produced the necessary en trance fees from the mysterious folds of his garments. The place was there fore crowded, but the Oriental pilgrims found no difficulty in making their way about, for each and every American courteously stepped aside from their path to let them go by, so that -wherev er they went they found a passage way open—even if they did have to run the gauntlet, as it were, of curiosity and endure the cross fire of stares and interested exclamations relating to the queer dress of the ladies and the tight little shoes which made them walk in such an uncomfortable manner. As soon as Wu entered the gate he surged on ahead of the others and left them m charge of Chung and the boy. This little breach of the etiquette which prevails in America did not of fend the party in the least. They strolled along leisurely in his wake, their eyes widespread to take in all the interesting sights. Often they were halted by persons who wished to talk with them, generally female per sons, of course, but even this did not disconcert them at all. The young ladies would merely hide their faces court in Brooklyn, to have the waiver set aside. Justice Gaynor said that he would like to have given a decision in favor of Malcolm W. Ford, but that legally the latter hadn't a leg to stand on. Ford’s bitterness against his brothers has been a matter of comment among his friends for a long time. After his divorce Ford, according to his friends was prac tically penniless and began to brood over the wrongs he believed his brothers had done jhina. He I complained bitterly to friends that Paul snubbed him when he went to him and asked him for help, but as far as could be learned he never intimated to any one that he would ever resort to violence. Nevertheless an intimate friend of Ford, who would not allow his name to be used, said yesterday: “Malcolm was a desperate man. He hacj been to Paul time and again and tried to get him to agree to let him share his father's estate. He had even asked him to make some small settlement on him. but had been refused. He told me that Paul wouldn't even help him out a little when he needed money. Ford was not a man to take this sort of treatment easily. He had lobt about everything in the world worth having and he was a des perate man. I can truthfully say that while I am horrified at thia tragedy I am not surprised.” behind their fans and smile ingenious ly at teach other or toss about a bit of pleasantry in the lan % age of China. When they found a camera levelled at them they put up their fans to shield their faces but made no other protest. With something like awe and rever ence in their manner they entered the j mansion where George Washington lived, ajifl died. From room to room they slowly jourpeyed. pausing here and ' tfrerd to read little ex plaining the various apartments and their contents. The texture of fabrics and the ancient style of the musical instruments seemed to interest them most. In the kitchen of the old place they nearly burst into laughter at the pots and pans and great spoons and knives and forks which hung about the walls. Chung acted as their guide and ex plained things as best he could while they took all he said in credulous si lence. He bought a souvenir postal card for each of the young ladles and gravely presented the tokens with a speech. They touched nothing about the place nor did they make Chung weary with questions. They simply looked and listened like tne well-bred young ladles they are. Late in the afternoon when they had made a tour of the entire place, in cluding a peep into every nook and corner in the mansion, kitchen, stable, and servants’ houses,, and after they had stood in reverend silence with bowed heads before the great tomb itself, they traveled wearily but hap pily back to the entrance to wait for Wu whom they had now completely lost in the crowd. They had kept within sight of the early part of the afternoon but when he got to talking and asking questions and finally stopped to make a speech to a crowd of school girls who nailed him on the front portico of the mansion, they lost him altogether. Wu’s journey through the place was somewhat different from the journey of his party. Nothing came into his range of vision that did not call forth a question from him. He seemed bent on getting at the detailed history of each article on view, from the warming pan in the North Carolina room to the banquet board in the din ing room. Os course he found every body willing to answer his questions and perhaps his curiosity was satisfied even if some of the answers did go wide of the mark. “Whose bed was that?” he asked at the threshold of a sleeping apart 'ment. “Nellie Custis's bed,” some one re plied. "She slept on it?” ‘ “Yes." “What those steps are for?” “For her to climb into the bed.” “Ah! She climb into bed with rteps. Yes?” Later on he came to the room where an old brass warming-pan hung on the wall. "What that?" he asked. "A warming pan.” he was told. “What’s a warming pan?" “They filled it with hot coals and put it in the bed to take the chill away in the winter time.” "Ah! It didn’t burn the bed?” “No. Simply warmed it.” “They didn’t use it in summer time, no?" "No.” “Why not?” And he smiled. But the informant had fled, and Wu quietly took out a note book and made in it some characters which might mean that he will Introduce the warming-pan as a household article in the Chinese empire or it might mean that he had found a Chinese custom in vogue over here. Before the tomb of Washington Wu halted for a longer perlod/than at any other spot. He reverently gazed through the iron bars at the marble caskets qf Washington and his wife. He asked what they were and looked surprised when informed. The idea of having the caskets where they might be seen perhaps struck him as some thing unique. He wanted to know Whence Comes This Mighty Healing Power? All the Land Wonders at the Remarkable Cures Effected by Prof. Adkin. Heals Diseases Called Incurable. Ministers, Doctors and Professional Men Tel! How He, Has Cured the Blind, the Lame, the Paralytic, and Many on the Very Brink of Death. Free Help For the Sick. I Prof. Adkin Offers to Help All Sufferers From Any Disease Absolutely Free of Charge—Profes sional Men Investigate His Powers. PROF. THOS. F. ADKIN, President cf the Institute of Physicians and Burgeons In all parts of me country men and women doctors and surgeons, clergymen and educators are wondering at the re markable cures made by Prof. Thomas F. Adkin, discoverer of the Adkin Vltaopathlc treatment. Professor Adkin heals,not by drugs, nor by Christian Science, nor by Osteopathy, nor by Hypnotism, nor by Divine Healing, but by a simple psychic force of nature in combination with certain vital magnetic remedies which contain the very elements of life and health. A reporter recently talked with Profess or Adkin and was asked to invite all read ers of this paper who are sick or who are worried by the ills of those dear to them to write to him for assistance. “Some peo ple have declared,” said Professor Adkin, “that my powers are of God; they call me a Divine Healer—a man of mysterious powers. This is not so. I cure because I understand nature—because I use a subtle force of nature to build up the system and restore health. But at the same time I be lieve that the Creator wou|d not have given me the opportunity to make the I discoveries I have, made nor the ability to I develop them if He had not intended that I should use them for the good of human ity. I therefore feel that it is pay duty to give the benefit of the science I practice to all who are suffering. I want you to tell your readers that they can write'to me in the strictest confidence if they ar? troubled with any kind of disease and I will thoroughly diagnose their cases and prescribe a simple home treatment which I positively guarantee to effect a complete cure, absolutely free of charge. I care not how serious their cases, nor how hope less they may seem; I want them to write me and let me make them well. I feel that this is my life’s work. So great is the sensation wrought in the medical world by the wonderful cures per formed by Professor Adkin that several professional gentlemen were asked to in vestigate the cures. Among the gentle men were Dr. L. B. Hawley and Dr. L. G. Doane, both famous physicians and sur geons. After a thorough and painstaking investigation these eminent physicians were so astonished at the far-reaching powers of Professor Adkin and the won derful efficiency of Vltaopathy that they volunteered to forsake all other ties in life A Chaplet of Sayings About Women. Auld nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work sbe classes, O; Her ’prentice han’ she tried on tnan, An’ then she made the lasses, O! —Burns. A lamp is lit in woman’s eye. That souls else lost on earth remember angels by. -Willis. V ' " The world was sad! the garden was a wild! And man, the hermit, sigh’d—till woman smiled! • . ■ ■ . —Campbell. ’Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; ’Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; 'Tis modesty that makes them seem di vine ! —Shakespeare. Honor to women! To them it is given To Garden the earth with the roses of • heaven. —Schiller. where the door in the rear of the crypt led to, and when some one told him other members of the family were buried back there, he wanted to know why they were burled back there. “Are you familiar with the history of George Washington?” some one asked him as he stood before the tomb. Wu smiled and started to leave. "A little,” he answered, "but not so much as you are. maybe.” After leaving the tomb he observed a crowd about a pump in the rear of the mansion. This attracted him at once and he hurried up to see what the crowd was looking at. "Isn’t that Wu Ting fang?” asked the man wielding the pump handle. "I don’t know,” a companion re sponded. “He’s a Chinaman and all Chinamen look alike to me.” Wu didn’t hear this tribute to his race, but nevertheless he wedged through the crowd and waited for his turn at the dipper, from which he drank a copious draught. His thirst slaked along with his curiosity, which about that time had led him into pos session of all the information on the Mount Vernon plantation, he strode away under his umbrella to join his party at the station. It was Wu’s first pilgrimage to Wash ington's tomb. Look at our clubbing offers and re new now before your paper is discon tinued. When those Macon politicians go to comparing “jag" records we have a prize ready to offer for the highball champion ship. and all other kinds of treatment and de vote themselves to assisting Professor Ad- j kin in his great work for humanity. With the discovery of the Adkin Vltaopathlag treatment eminent physicians are general ly agreed that the treatment of dlseqaa has at last been reduced to an exact science. ' In all some 8,900 men and women have been cured by the powers of Professor Ad kit/ Some were blind, some were lame, some were deaf, some were paralytics I scarcely able to move, so great was their infirmity. Others were afflicted with Bright’s disease, heart -disease, consump tion and other so-called incurable diseases. Some were sufferers from kidney trouble, dyspepsia, nervous debility, insomnia, neu ralgia, constipation, rheumatism, female troubles and other similar ills. Some were men and women addicted to drunkenness, morphine and other evil habits. In all cases Professor Adkin treats he guaran tees a cure. Even those on the brink st the grave, with all hope of recovery gone, 1 and despaired of by doctors and friends alike, have been restored to perfect health by the force of Vltaopathy and , Professor Adkin’s marvellous skill. And, remarkable as it may seem, distance has ’ made no difference. Those living far away j have been cured ,in the privacy of their own homes, as well as those who have been treated in person. Professor Adkin asserts that he can cure any one at any ■ distance as well as though he stood be- ‘ fore them. Not long ago John Adams, of Blakes- ‘ busy, lowa, who had been lame for 29 years, was permanently cured by Pro- . fessor Adkin without an operation of any 1 kind. About the same time the citj of Rochester, N. Y.. was startled by the cure of one of its oldest residents, Mr. P. A. i Wright, who had been partly blind for a : long period. John E. Neff, of Millersburg,; Penn., who had suffered for years from al cataract over his left eye. was speedily re stored to perfect sight without an opera tion. From Logansport, Indiana, cornea the news of the recovery of Mrs. Mary Eicher, who had been practically deaf for a year, while in Warren, Pa,, Mr. G. ,W. • Savage, a noted photographer and artist, who was not only partially blind and deaf, but at death’s door from a complication of diseases, was restored to perfect health and strength by Professor Vltaopathy cures not one disease-alone, but it cures all diseases when used tn com- > Iblnatlon with the proper remediea If yen are sick, no matter what your disease nor who says you cannot be cured, write to-j Professor Adkin today; tell him the lead- - Ing symptoms of your coinplalnf, howlong. you have been suffering and he will at , once diagnose your case, tell you the exact? disease from which you are suffering, and prescribe the treatment that will posi tively cure you. This costs you absolute ly nothing. Professor Adkin will also send vou a copy of his marvellous new book, entitled. "How to be Cured and How to Cure Others.” This book tells you exactly how Professor Adkin will cure you. It fully and completely describee the nature of this wonderful treatment. It also ex plains to you how you yourself may pos sess this great healing power and cure the sick around you. Professor Adkin does not ask one cent for his services In this connection. They will be given to you absolutely free. He has made a wonderful discovery and ha wishes to place it in the hands of every sick person in this country, that he may be restored to perfect health and strength. Mark your letter personal when you write and no one but Professor Adkin will see it.. Address Professor Thomas F. Adkin, office 191 T, Rochester, N. Y. ’Tis hers to soothe the ills below, And bid life’s fairer views appear. —Crabba Fortune and women are partial to fools —Anonymous. Eternal Joy and everlasting love there!# in you, woman, lovely woman. —Otway. Next to God himself we are indebted to woman, first for life itself, and then for making ft worth having. ' - * * * —Bovee. There is a woman gt the beginning of all great things. - —Lamartine. Woman’s at best a contradiction still. ; —Pope. ] A hundred men make an encampment and one woman makes a home. —Hindoo Saying. What is civilization, and I answer the| power of good women. —Emerson. 1 MURRELL’S CAVE IS A MATTER OF DISPUTE. ... _ JACKSON, Miss.. May B.—An exceed ingly warm controversy is now going on between Holmes county. Miss., and Har-i din county. Illinois, as to which county really has the cave In which John A. Murrell, the famous highwayman and murderer, made his headquarters, and; hid all his goods, during the early days, of this territory. According to the early settlers In? Holmes county. Murrell followed the old Nxtchez trail, would waylay or overta^is 1 men who floated their goods down from Ohio to New Orleans in flatboats on tbs. Mississippi river. His haunt and head quarters, according to the Holmes county, people, was in the Funnagusha hills, nine miles northwest of Lexington, in Holmes county. In these hills there Is a very large cave, in which have been found ar ticles that would have belonged to one of Murrell’s stamp, and the people claim . that this was the hiding place of the f*- mous bandit, and highwayman. But Hardin county. Illinois, now comes forward with a cave which the people ot; that section claim was the hiding p!acs of the famous Murrell, and they produce the cave and other signs to sustain their claim. The way to renew your subscription: Go to your postmaster and purchasn a money order, sending same to us with your request, always naming the pre mium desired and sending full amount, so there may be no delay.