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6 | THE COt/N'TRr I Women on the Farm | Conducted By Mrs. IV. H. Felton. Correspondence on home topics or ♦ < subject* of especial interest to wo- ♦ + men is invited. Inquiries or letters + 4> should be brief and clearly written ♦ * tn 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. + 4. No inquiries answered by malt ♦ ♦ ♦ Hill Illi »»»<♦! HI I l> »»♦♦♦ TWO PHOTOGRAPHS. They corresponded twice a week. Thovsh they bed never met: She eent him soon her photograph In gold and Jewels set: A young and lovely maid arrayed In muslin girlish wise. With pearls about her dimpled throat And laughter in her eyes. He mailed his picture to her. too. A youth*s both straight and tall. And next they named the wedding day. Then met-and that was all. For she was gray, and he was bald. And love was heard to laugh. For each, ah! deep deceit, had sent Another’s photograph. MINNA IRVING. The Future of the State’s Railroad. To those of us who have had lively rec ollection as well as lively Interest in this valuable property of the state for a quar ter of a century and more, it is a sad thought that the commonwealth has granted privileges—without money and without price—by which the State road has been bottled up at both ends, and its value thereby greatly reduced and its In fluence emasculated. It is a sad commentary on the selfish greed of railroad corporations when such a giant has been tied hand and toot and. like Samson of old. shorn of its strength. As I read of the speculation in railroad Stocks In Wall street and was told that this valuable property was being tossed around like a helpless log in a whirlpool of disaster, it seemed the time had come to prepare mourning weeds and to bewail the loss at funeral obsequies, which are evidently close at hand. I know the rental is expected at the end of every month for seventeen years, but a corporation which had the cheek to smite its benefactor hip and thigh will not be scrupulous as to the summary end ing of the lease. When the giant is totally helpless, there will be nothing to do but forfeit a paltry <500.000 and fling the worthless lease back upon a deceived and wounded common wealth. Mr. Pierpont Morgan would not miss that amount front his week’s spending money, and we are brought face to face with conditions which were prophesied (thirty odd years ago—that the liberties of thia republic would be in the grasp of a few money kings, and all legis.atlon would be shaped towards an absolute money oligarchy. After grants of land and corporate privileges which are beyond estimate, these railroad kings now crack the whip over the state of Georgia’s head and tell It to help Itself if it can. When the privilege was granted to run a parallel road a few miles from the State road all the way from Dalton to At lanta. the wedge was Inserted which is now rudely separating the former value of the state’s property from its roadbed. It was then a very small matter to build a continuous line from Chattanooga to Atlanta. I am no prophet, but the day is coming when the state will bewail its incompetent legislators as well as its commercial poli tics If the effect can be raced to its cause, there will be stern indignation for the legislators who betrayed the state into the toils of the conspirators— then and later. It is frequently said now that the con spirators can number and stamp every one of its servants in our legislatures. It is common talk that the triumphant railroad not only passes Its judges and so licitors ©ver its lines free of cost, but when a pleasing verdict is rendered that extensive tours are provided in vacation time for the law officials at the railroad s expense. The Delllahs are not hard to And. and the state looks on in helpless suffering to see how such officials are passed through a general assembly, when they are up for re-election, and how combinations are made to overcome opposition. There was a strong effort made to sell the state's property before the present lease was authorised. A committee brought in a majority report for a sale at Six millions of dollars. The small mi nority on that committee fought the sale, and Anally induced the return of the ques tion to a succeeding legislature, when the people arose in their might and defeated the sale. The time has not come yet. but it will come in future days, when the state will give credit to the unexampled integrity ar.d unpurchasable patriotism of some of its legislators. It was a victory that stood out clear cut from the "trail of the serpent." and it does seem a pity that there was insuffi cient ability to protect the state in its flne possessions and continue to hand down its valuable property to those who will take up the burdens when all those patriots have passed from earth. As said before, mourning weeds may be prepared, because the giant has been fa tally bound, under promises of friendship, and the knell of doom is heard. Every day demonstrates the necessity for the government’s ownership of the railroads of this country. Nothing else will meet the conditions. When the creature not only spits In the face of its creator, but takes the bread from Its creator's hands, it is high time to recall ownership and place metes and bounds. It is the old story of warming a snake at the farmer's hearth. But one remedy is in sight. Paying the Piper. It is an old proverb. ‘Those who dance must pay the piper." Great Britain had its ghastly dance in South Africa, and to pay the piper, a tax is placed on every loaf of bread bought or sold in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The ambitious lawmakers in England were intent on military success in over coming the Boers and the war has cost many hundreds of millions counted in money, and to relieve the deficit in the treasury the poor child must eat less bread to satisfy the claim. The government is also borrowing money right and left and several gener ations will be feeling the burden laid upon their shoulders that the British should dance its dance of death and be able to pay the piper. Cecil Rhodes in his craving for wealth intrigued with the rich men in England to dispossess the burghers and ranchers in the Transvaal and Orange Free State of their gold and diamond mines. These plain countrymen resisted the r- K bers. "England sent thousands of troops to —"•-re the owners of the land. By the force of numbers these Dutch settlers have been overridden, devastated •nd killed out. When they are reduced to serfs the world will witness a suc cessful highway robbery and legalised as- LS wins WHtw All ELS£ FAILS. Fj U BeM Cousti Syrup. Taste* Gkod. Use Bi [3 * n ;lm * Srotnrits. sassinatlon of a brave, patriotic and use ful people. And instead of allowing the American people to express sympathy with these Independent South African farmers every power in the United States government has been used to placate England and give a cold shoulder to the Boers. Indeed, we were too busy at the same sort of business in the Philippine Islands to even take time to shed a few crocodile tears over the murdered men women and children in South Africa. But England gets a reminder of her oppression in a spot where she can ap preciate it. John Bull's pocket nerve is sensitive. It is the money that talks— when John Bull listens. To everything else it turns a deaf ear In war times. While h>n gland has been murdering, burning, robbing the independent citizens of South Africa the Howard association In London drops a few tears of sympathy for the blacks in the southern states and welcomes every colored orator to its platforms and lecture rooms, provided they abuse and vinify the southern peo ple. but the murder and pillage is not si. ked in the Boer country. Bread riots will occur all over Great Britain when the tax is laid on the poor man’s loaf of bread. That Is logic the smallest one of these tollers can under stand and it is a travesty on good govern ment when poverty and suffering must foot the.bill for highway robbery and murder in the Transvaal country. The dance goes on and the piper is call ing for his money. We need to understand this process for future use. When the bottom drops out of our con stantly depleting treasury we may begin aka to pay the piper. Heavy taxation is already our portion. Every hour that congress is in session the pension account is being swollen In bloateu else. We are spending a minion a week In Manila. We must pay the piper. We are engaged in the same brutal butchery In the Philippines. » Cannot Farmers Purchase Acid Phos phate 7 It is being rumored around and about that Attorney General Boykin Wright has decided that nobody but manufacturers of fertilisers can buy acid for use as fertili sers; that farmers themselves are de barred. Is this true? Will not Mr. Harvle Jordan. The Jour nal's agricultural correspondent, look into this matter and give the Semi-Weekly readers a true statement of the case? As soon as I heard this story my mind went back to the Israelites who were in bondage to the Egyptians. For a while the Jews were granted straw to use in brick making; then the task masters re fused to supply the straw, yet they plied the lash all the more steadily and de manded just as many bricks and in just the same time. If it has reached a place in Georgia where manufacturers of fertilisers forbid the farmers from purchasing in the open market anything—no matter what it is— that will assist in better farming con ditions. the time has come to quarantine against the manufactured fertilizers, and self-respect demands that the farmers of Georgia shall understand promptly if they occupy the place of free men or whether they are serfs to fertiliser masters. No straw now to make bricks, and no materials to make their own fertilisers! As sure as we live the lawmakers who helped to weld such a chain on the farm er’s neck will get a curry down that will be felt if this thing turns out to be true. What Not a dollar less of taxation on farms is permitted; no let up In appropriations is seen, and now the ukase is whispered, per haps promulgated, that no man (except manufacturers) shall purchase acid and make his own fertilisers! If the farmers do not kick at such tyr anny, then they deserve to be sold as serfs at public outcry to their masters. I hope that order is not a genuine one. I trust the farmer has the small privilege left of buying what he needs and has the money to pay for or the credit to obtain. If the time has come, however, as be fore said, that the fertilizer trust has clamped its Iron hand on any farming materials sold in the open market, then the time has also come to buy none of their mixed up wares. Heaven knows, much of it is sorry enough to be let se verely alone. A Striking Contrast. I see in The Journal Issue of March «th an article headed "Did You Ever See Such a Winter?” In which the writer says: 'There have been but one or two days thia winter in which the wet ground would admit of plowing." It may seem strange, yet it is a fact, that here in Caldwell county, Texas, we have not had a rain since August to amount to anything. Old settlers say they never saw such a winter. Many people’ are hauling water a distance of eight or nine miles, while oth ers buy all the water they use. Farming is suspended on account of the drought. Some of the farmers have plant corn. which, of course, will not come up until it rains. You can see from this that while you tn Georgia are having a superabundance of rain, we in Texas are suffering from the drought. There is a great deal of talk that the present drought will kill out the boll wea vil, which for the past three years has greatly damaged the cotton crop of this section. o. K. M. Lockhart, Tex., March 20, 1902. Apples as a Medicine. Just before retiring, to eat a nice ripe apple is one of the beet promoters of healthy digestion we can find. Some in valids have found immense relief from the use of apples as a remedy for con stipation. The juice of an apple rubbed on a wart is said to be a specific for Its final remov al. The juice of onions is also recom mended for the same purpose. When little children are craving for fruit, and raw fruit is injudicious diet, nothing Is more healthful or appetizing than a baked apple, eaten with a little sugar. Its tonic effect on the stomach is remarkable. Apple butter is one of the best and most harmless articles of diet that we can use for table purposes. As an all-round comfort in the household, the apple holds first rank the whole year round. Reckless Running of Trains. The traveling public should not keep si lence when trains are run during fresh ets. times of flood and uncertain trestles. The Camp creek disaster some months ago was a terrible affair and the loss of life should have not been forgotten by the officials of the road. It is therefore preposterous that anoth er train should have been wrecked in the same way, not far from the same locali ty, under similar circumstances, last week. The death of four valuable men seems to be overlooked and forgotten very soon, because it is said the engineer asked time and again to be allowed to stop and watt until the danger was past. It speaks loudly for the patience of the people of Georgia that this recklessness is not checked by some means. At One Bound. (Campbell News.) The Atlanta Sunday Journal is a “dandy." At one leap It bounded into one of the largest, beat and newsiest Sunday papers in the south. The Journal furnishes its readers with the news fresh from the wires seven days in the week. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1902. GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON AND HON. JOHN C. CALHOUN BY MRS. W. H. FELTON. ' It la currently reported that a forth coming history of General Andrew Jack son. written, or compiled, by Colonel A. 8. Colyar, of Nashville, Tenn., will create a very decided sensation in the political world. The readers of The Journal will doubt less remember that President Andrew Jackson and Vice President John C. Cal houn were the leaders of the seventh ad ministration of the United States, suc ceeding the administration of John Quin cy Adams as president and John C. Cal- Calhoun as vice president—lß24 to 1829. During the administration of James Monroe, extending from 1817 to 1825, Wil liam H. Crawford, of Georgia, was secre tary of the treasury and Jonn C. Calhoun was secretary of war. It was during Monroe's administration that General Andrew Jackson was ar raigned before the house and senate for alleged misconduct of the Seminole war, and General Jackson understood that a resolution calling for his (Jackson's) ar rest was presented in a cabinet meeting by William H. Crawford, then secretary of the treasury. This cabinet resolution so angered "Old Hickory" that he was not on speaking terms with Mr. Crawford for twelve years or more. Congress refused to pass any censure and acquitted Jackson by an overwhelm ing majority, and his course in the Semi nole war was fully sustained. Historian Colyar now presents to view a statement which he claims will prove beyond question that Mr. Calhoun was the cabinet minister who brought forward the resolution to arrest General Jackson and that Mr. Crawford is completely exon erated of the supposed Injustice, and that when General Jackson presented the facts to Mr. Calhoun twelve years after the Sam Jones Fires A Broadside At Saloons. IOR twenty-five years I’ve been called an antl-llquor crank. He who builds public sentiment must necessarily F keep to the front and occupy ground constantly contested by the masses. I have reached the years and the place In life when a man looks back and compares, and I am glad to say that the cat Is jumping my way. I am this week with my co-work er, George Stuart, conducting meet ings in Wilkesboro, N. C. A great tent has been provided with seating capacity of 4,000 or 5,000, and the "State of Wilkes,” as it is called is on hand. This county was a few years ago noted for distilling and drinking. It was not an uncommon thing, so I am told, to find a preach er distilling liquor all week and oc cupying the pulpit on Sunday with his church officials and church members also running "still houses.” Today antl-saloon leagues are organized over the county and thfe saloon was voted out of this town by an overwhelming majority, the preachers standing at the polls exhorting their friends to vote right. In this mountain country where a few years ago a bottle of liquor and a pistol were the sign of man hood, better days have come and the pistol and the bottle are rele gated to the “Prill Bellies” and the better classes are looking with con tempt on such things. A few years ago a lad of 12 years was accosted by a stranger In the familiar style Bud!” The lad looked up with scorn and said: "Don't call me ‘Bud.’ I’ve been cussin', chaw’n tq backer and drinking liquor five years.” But better ld°as of man hood are prevailing and not only Is this true in all our mountain dis tricts. but from tfie capital down to the deepest cave of the mountain things are changing around. The United States congress struck a funny piece of logic a few days ago. For years congress has been passing laws prohibiting the sale of liquor among the Indians and our Ignorant and helpless population, and then after voting’ the members would walk down to the capltol sa loons and take a drink. A few days ago after they had voted the saloon off of other government property they waked up to the ridiculous fact that they had voted the saloon off of about all the government prop erty except that that they them selves occupied. When this ridicu lous fact dawned on them they pro ceeded to vote It out of the capltol by 108 to 19. Now carry your logic one step further, gentlemen; let us put it off of every foot of land In which Uncle Sam has an Interest. And I believe that time Is coming. On December 17, 1899, Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, arose on the floo* of the United States senate and spoke as follows: •"I desire to give notice In this connection that I shall take an early and convenient time to call the at tention of the senate with some em phasis to the difference between the mode of treatment In our legislation of the men who produce whiskey for consumption as a beverage and the men who use alcohol for the harm less and beneficent processes of manufacture or In the arts; and also to the great difference In the behav ior of our legislators of all parties toward the manufacturers of beer •nd of this class of citizens. Every body seems to be afraid of the brew er and everybody seems to be afraid of the whisky distiller in our legisla tion I think probably It Is about time we should put a little more justice and a little more courage into all our dealings with these sub jects.” Yes, gentlemen, the time has •bout come. Let us have courage, justice and consistency and the bat tle will be short. The liquor crowd are retreating but fighting every foot of the way. They first fought and ridiculed the temperance socie ties and crusaders. These institu tions and agitations gave birth to local option, and they turned their guns on local option, but now that general prohibition is In sight the saloon crowd are crying out "let us have local option; this is a dem ocratic country, let each locality decide for Itself by ballot.” Let us not be deceived, fellow countrymen. When I find the saloon men for one thing I am for the other. They are wide awake; they know what to fight and what to favor and I fight what they favor and favor what they fight. The saloon is making en emies and prohibition is making friends every year. When we con sider the enemies of the saloon It is a marvel that It lives a year. Preachers, philanthropists, reformers occurrence took place Mr. Calhoun did not deny the statement, and it broke friendship foreveW and forced a dissolu tion of the cabinet at once. The facts as stated by Mr. Colyar are as follows: "At the end of the twelve years Mr. Hamilton, son of the statesman, said to William B. Lewis, a close friend of Gen eral Jackson, that he (Jackson) was mis taken in charging William H. Crawford with this resolution of ‘arrest’ in a cab inet meeting, because it was Mr. Calhoun who introduced the resolution as member of the Monroe cabinet, and Mr. Crawford had written a letter to that effect, stating it was Mr. Calhoun who desired to have Jackson arrested for entering the Spanish forts during the Seminole war. “General Jackson did not believe Mr. Calhoun had done him this Injustice. But he sent a friend to New York, who did see the letter, but the letter was not given up. Thereupon another letter was written to Mr. Crawford, who said in re ply that Mr. Calhoun was the cabinet min ister who introduced the ‘arrest’ resolu tion. "General Jackson promptly furnished all these facts to Mr. Calhoun and notified him unless he could deny them the friend ship of years was ended. “The story goes that Mr. Calhoun did not deny, and soon a break up in the cabinet took place. "Mr. Calhoun shortly resigned as vice president and was elected to the senate from South Carolina.” This brief summary of Mr. Colyar's his tory of Andrew Jackson fails to give the name of the person to whom William H. Crawford wrote the letter of explanation, as mentioned by the younger Hamilton, son of Hon. Alexander Hamilton, of New York, but a compilation of speeches and and good women are not the only enemies to this infamous business. The great railroad corporations are against liquor because drunken en gineers, conductors and employes would bring wrecks and loss of prop erty and life enough to bankrupt any system. The manufacturing Companies are opposed to it because drunkenness ruins their skilled laborer and gives endless complications and troubles among their employes. All good lawyers are opposed to it because it fills the dockets and courts with unprofitable work, kills time and destroys the profits in the profession. Drunken criminals pay no lawyer’s fees. All good doctors are opposed to it because when any disease hits drinker the doctors* chances for his recovery are slim and drunk ards pay no doctors’ bills. A few little red nose pill sellers are for liquor because they want to keep touched up on it, and a few little quacks prescribe it for everything from a wart on the nose to a corn on the toe. All sensible merchants are op posed to liquor because if the four teen hundred million dollars burned up in liquor every year were turn ed into dry goods and groceries their business would flourish. 1 ’ When you boil the thing down there are only two friends to the Baloon—-ai)d a > whenever you heat 1 any fellow talking for liquor if you will tree him you will find him in one of two holes every time. The liquor business represents an im mense amount of money and an immense amount of political influ ence. And every little devil that lines up with the saloon gang is getting money out of it or expects office from its Influence. The saloon is gradually losing political power and when that is gone bankruptcy follows and we shall see the end. God hasten the day. SAM P. JONES. THE STORY OF A FAMOUS HYMN Philadelphia Enquirer. Alice and Phoebe Cary were born in a small farm house in the Miami valley, eight miles north of Cincinnati, Ohio., in 1820 and 1824 respectively. Even from their young girlhood their tastes were literary. It is not inapt to call them the Bethany Sisters of American lit erature. They settled in New York in 1852, and in the joint housekeeping Phoebe took, from choice, the large share of the household duties and found less leisure for literary work than Alice, who was an invalid for many years. But it was the housekeeper, not the poet, that won almost worldwide fame in one hymn, bearing the title "Nearer Home." Phoebe Cary wrote this beautiful lyric, which will probably outline all her other poems, when she was only a girl, 17 years of age. It was on the Sabbath. She had attended church in the morning and on coming home to a friend’s house with her heart stirred with emotion by the services In which she had just taken part, she retired to her room and wrote this hymn. Metrical versions have been made by many compilers, and the poem is. now found in nearly all the hymn books of the English tongue. After she and her hymn had become fa mous this friend wrote to her inquiring about the hymn and its story. In answering her friend’s letter she says: "Illnclose the hymn for you. It was written, eighteen years ago (1842) in your own house. I composed it in the little back third-story bedroom one Sunday morning after coming from church, and it makes me very happy to think that any word I could say has done any good in the world.” The Rev. Dr. Russell H. Conwell, the distinguished pastor of the Grace Baptist Temple, began a tour of the world in 1870, as a newspaper correspondent. In one of his letters and also In his lecture on “Les sons of Foreign Travel” he gives an inci dent of unusual interest. When in Hong Kong. China, he went to a gambling den in search of a young man to whom a friend In the United States had sent a package. He could not then be found, but was expected to return In a short time. While waiting for his coming Dr. Con well's attention was attracted to two men engaged in gambling. One seemed to be about 22 or 23 years old, and the other was possibly 60. The young man had hard luck with the cards, and the other was continually in dulging in profanity. A third game was begun and more brandy was drunk and while the elder was dealing the cards the younger leaned back in his chair and thoughtlessly be gan to hum a tune, and then to sing in a soft tone: "One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o’er and o’er, I’m nearer my home today Than I ever have been before.” Before the first stanza was finished the man stopped shuffling the cards. He stared the singer in the face, then threw the cards to the floor, and asked in a tremb ling voice: "Harry, where did you learn that tune?” Harry hardily knew what he had been addresses made by presidents was publish ed in the year 1853 by one Edwin Williams, and he gives the name of John Forsyth as the person to whom William H. Crawford addressed the explanatory letter, and which was the means of informing Presi dent Jackson that Mr. Calhoun had been secretly inimical to him in Mr. Monroe's cabinet, when General Jackson had rea son to believe that his enemy was William H. Crawford, and that Mr. Calhoun had defended him at the time mentioned. Afterward the president manifested strong personal hostility to Mr. Calhoun, and it was more than likely that both Crawford and Calhoun failed of the pres idency because of these personal and po litical antagonisms In high places with open hostility from Jackson. Mr. Clay was also openly charged by General Jackfton’s party with bad faith, when John Quincy Adams was elected by congress Instead of by popular vote, a very serious charge. Mr. Clay exerted himself to the utmost to have General Jackson reprimanded by congress when the Seminole war was un der discussion, and General Jackson was arraigned for entering the Spanish forts and for the execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister at Pensacola during this war with Seminole Indians. But he had won a signal victory and gained a triumph at new Orleans over General Packenham, the British general, and the people of the United States al ways stand by a brave man. just as they will defend Admiral Schley, no matter how many presidents or cabinet ministers urge his downfall or rebuke. But it is remarkable that President Jackson should have been kept in the dark for twelve years and have mistaken Crawford for Calhoun in a matter which was a life long grievance to "Old Hickory.” singing, and inquired, "What tune?” • Tears wen streaming down the other’s face as Harry told him he had learned the hymn in an American Sunday school. Taking Harry by the arm the gambler said:' "Come, here’s the money I have won from you; I don’t want it; I have played my last card and have drank my last bottle. Give me your hand, my boy, and say that for old America’s sake, if for no other, you will quit this Infernal business.” Dr. Conwell was onced asked what be came of these men after their return to the United States. He said he had lost trace of Harry, but the "old man,” as he called him, had been a sailor for forty three years, and was a desperate gambler. His name was John H. Hodgson, and af ter reaching America he began the work of an evangelist in San Francisco, and was wonderfully successful. He was finally sent to Oregon, where he established many missions, and after eight years, which were full of surprising victories in Christian service, he died in that state in 1889. Miss Cary's hymn was first introduced in Great Britain when Moody and Sankey began their evangelistic services there in 1873. It was sung by Mr. Sankey with surpris ing tenderness, and it not only made a deep Impression at the time but it has retained a wide popularity in that country. This is in brief the story of a simple but lovely song, from the heart of a frail but noble-minded woman. Miss Cary could not appreciate the in fluence of her hymn until she heard how it had gone, as "God’s invisible angel,” with that young man throungh years of sin, and finally lifted him and his com panion out of the depth of wickedness and transfused into one of them, and, pernaps the other also, the beautiful spirit of Christian manhood. She read this Incident in 1870, one year before she passed away, and the knowl edge that her lines, which were not in tended for public use. had been the direct means of doing so much good afforded her immeasurable consolation during the last year of her life. RELIGION IN RUSSIA. The Multifarious Sects That Exist In the Land of the Czar. London Standard. The holy Synod has always xeld as a closely guarded secret the exact data it possesses with regard to the sects in Rus sia. This notwithstanding the lately taken census gives some approximately correct figures concerning the non-con formists and sectarians, properly so called, although' it may be observed the latter are practiced adepts In misleading the census enumerators in respect of their creeds. The largest body of non-conform ists is the Straro-obrladzl, or the Old Be lievers, who are divided into two chief groups, the Popoftzi and Bezopftzi— that Is to say, those whose spiritual af fairs are directed by irregularly ordained clergy (popes and those who inspect the ministrations of clergymen.) The Papoftzl are again subdivided into two sections and the Bezpopoftzi into five subdivisions. Among the latter are the Benguni, an ex tremely fanatical sect, which, some few years ago, it may be remembered, created, a shocking sensation by burying alive fif teen of its members at Tiraspol, near Odessa. If one differentiate more exactly between the various divisions and off shoots of the two chief groups above men tioned, there are really some fifty distinct sectarian divisions, all having their own particular creeds, customs, superstitions and codes of morals, and differing in dog ma from the original chief sects. They may be divided generally into two cate gories—rationalists and mystics. Among the former are the Dukhobortzl ( a great number of whom are now settled in Can ada), Molokani, Stundists. the followers or disciples of Tolstoi, the Zionists and a few others. Among the mystics are the Skopt zl, or self-mutilators. There are some thirty smaller sects unknown by any dis tinctive names, whose dogmas are all more or less secret and their religious practices extraodinary compounds of su perstitious Christianity and heathenish be liefs. The late census gives the total number of the Russian sectarians as 2,- 173,738, but the actual number Is probably about the official figure. The holy synod has recently ordained a vigorous campaign against the sectarians in those provinces where their numbers are latterly more largely Increasing. The powers of the. specially appointed missionaries will be supplemented by those of the police. Apos tacy from the orthadox church Is still a criminal offense in this country. A Kaiser Anecdote. London Court Circular. The kaiser is fond of children, and likes them to answer frankly the questions he asks them. While visiting the Syrian Or phange at Jerusalem—one of the institu tions that owes its existence to the Ger man Protestant mission—the emperor ex amined the little native scholars in geog raphy. He asked one boy what those Af rican states were called that were not under the sway of native rulers. "Ger man colonies,” was the prompt reply, which elicited from William II the follow ing laughing observation: “If I were to carry out this boy’s dangerous policy of annexation it would plunge me at once into a war with England and France.” With the smart girl the fob is taking the place of the watch chain. But it is only the fob which shows originality which finds favor in her eyes. She cares nothing for the conven tional one of black moire ribbon or gold links. The cupld fob is the latest. It even appeals to the girl who says she scorns things senti mental. It shows the chubby faces of two rose gold cupids looking out from gold wings, which in certain lights reveal tints of green and pink. The winged heads are covered with rose-gold chains and finished with a heart charm. “How did old Grumpleigh receive young Smythe when he returned to tell him he had eloped with Grumplelgh's daughter?" “Like a son! Invited him out to the woodshed.” SOME OVERLOOKED GEORGIANS BY GEO. G. SMITH, Vinevllle, Macon, Georgia. • NLESS a history covers a very short time, or Is Insufferably long, .t is impossible to give that attention to Individuals u that they deserve. I felt this very forc ibly in writing my "History of Geor gia,” when I was compelled to give so little space to sketches of some of the noblest heroes of the Revolution. __ John Twiggs, EHgati rke « James Jackson were without question the three men who did the best wont in securing the independence of Geor gia. Os Jackson we know a great deal. He wrote himself a sketch of his life, and Judge Charlton wrote a full biog raphy of him. Os Twiggs we know less, but White, in his statistics, has given a considerable and a satisfac tory sketch of him. But of Elijah Clarke, save as his story' Is told in his deeds and by White, we Know but lit tle. White says he came from North Carolina, but he gives no authority for the statement, and does not say from what part of North Carolina he came. I doubt whether he was a North Caro linian. My own opinion, which is based largely on conjecture. Is that he was a Virginian, from Lunenberg. I have searched the records of eastern Forth Carolina, but I can find no trace of him, but I do find an Elisha Clarke mentioned in Brunswick, Va. He could not have been Elijah Clarke, of Geor gia, but was possibly’ his kinsman. The celebrated Adam Clarke, the great commentator, was descended from William Clarke. His father, when he was a young man, was about to emi grate to America, but did not do so, but he had an uncle, John Clarke, of whom he says he was a farmer of whom he knew nothing. Elijah Clarke’s oldest son was named John. A John Clarke was in Lunenberg, Va., In 1746. Is it not likely that Elijah Clarke de scended from this John Clarke, who must have been born In Ireland about 1690? The faces of Adam Clarke and Elijah are not unlike, but this Is mere conjecture. He was born about 1730, and was In his vigor when the revolu tion began. He evidently, like Twiggs, had very few advantages of education, and. Governor Gilmer says, had very small property. The first thing we see of him is when the ill-fated expedition under General HoWe started for St. Augustine, that he, with a battalion of mounted men from the up-country, joined the expedition and In a despe rate charge at Alligator creek he was shot through the thigh and narrowly escaped capture. This was in the early part of 1778. After Colonel Clarke re turned to Wilkes he does not seem to have seen active service till the vigor ous campaign of 1779. He joined Colo nel Pickens and Dooly when Boyd In vaded the state, and bore himself very nobly In the battle of Kettle Creek. Stevens says that after the British and Tories were driven across the creek and were making a desperate stand, that Clarke, with about fifty men, came behind them and turned the scale and gained a complete victory. But for this masterly stroke of get ting in the enemy’s rear the -result might have been different. He was put In charge of the mil itary affairs In this upper section of Georgia. The war was largely what is now known as guerrilla war. Colonel Innes commanded the British and the Tories and Colonel Clarke his parti sans. Innes pursued him to the remote frontier In Banks county, where Clarke repulsed him. The pursuer was now pursued and at Musgrove’s mill, in what Is now Madison county, Clarke won a signal victory. Having freed the frontier from the foe, he per haps unwisely attempted to recover Augusta, but his effort was a futile one. It was now evident that with the men In the field, the stock killed, She fields uncultivated that there was only starvation before the women and chil dren, if they remained on the Georgia frontier and they determined on a wholesale exodus. There were secluded valleys In what was then North Caro lina and Is now Tennessee, where the people were all patriots, and where the grain crops were good, and these leaders resolved to conduct the help less there. They were gotten together and with Clarke’s battalion to protect them they begun their toilsome march. No one has told the story of what must have been one of the most thrilling events of the revolution. When women who had been brought up like Mary Candler and Hannah Few and Hannah Clarke, with all the com forts of Virginia life now were forced to turn their backs on their humble homes in Georgia, and make a journey of 400 miles to a place of safety. The roiite they traveled must have been up the Savannah river to Its source, then across the mountains to the Tennes see valley, then through the moun tains of western North Carolina, and across the. Alleghanles Into what Is now Johnson county, Tennessee. On ly one who knows the country can realize the difficulties of the pilgrim age of the exiles. It must have cost* them 60 days of weary travel. The ri fles of the hunters and wild berries along the way were the dependence for food as they climbed the mountains and the occasional settler they found in the North Carolina valleys gave them bread, but* they reached the Wa tanga, and Clarke and Candler saw the dependants safely cared for by their friends and with their troops hastened to join the southern army. The battle of King’s Mountain had been fought and Sumter was caring for the British in the lower part of South Carolina, and Marion, the Swamp Fox, in the east, and Clarke and Candler went at once to the field. Jackson was already there, and these Georgians did valiant service. General Jackson had high admiration for Clarke and said: “1116 first action in which the militia were brought to disregard the bayonets of the British was gained by Elijah Clarke over a detachment of the British in South Carolina.” He was wounded the third time at Long Cane and had a severe attack of smallpox after that, but had recovered and saw Augusta fall. He continued In the field till the war end ed. The state made him first a briga dier and then a major general, and gave him a valuable estate, as some recognition of his distinguished ser vices. He was a rugged, rude, fear less warm-hearted frontiersman, per haps not free from the wild habits of those days. Governor Gilmer says he once prose cuted a man for horse stealing, and the man was acquitted, but the old soldier seized him and was dragging him to a tree, where he Intended to hang him anyhow, when Nathaniel Pendleton succeeded in begging him off. When the war was over he, like Pickens and Sumpter* and Hampton, was a comparatively rich man, but he was a soldier by Instincts and there was a call for his services. The In dians were on the warpath and had in vaded the settlements and Clarke pur sued them on their retreat, and over took them in the wilds of what is now Walton county, and there conquered them thoroughly at what was called in honor of his brave son. Jack's creek. He was now. perhaps, the most pop ular man in the -a *•—vio-s had been so great and h.s sufferings for the people so many that they were ready to honor him In every way, but he did not seek for political honors. He was restless in retirement, and there crossed his path his evil genius, a Frenchman. The French revolution was successful and Citizen Genet had come to America to Invovle her In the wars of the new republic. He persuad ed the brave Clarke to accept a com mission as major general in the French army, and organize forces to invade Florida, a province of Spain with which the republic was at war. He accepted the place. He did make a raid on Ame ntia Island. He did appoint subalterns and he did Invade the Indian territory with his adveflturers and build two forts. Colonel Chappel, who greatly ad mired him. writes an elaborate de fense of his motives, and I am not dls i posed to controvert his opinion. They I t»*ed to oust him from the Indian lands by legal process, but the people were on his side. At last Governor Mathews ordered General Twiggs to march with militia against his old companions, and for the first time in his life Elijah Clarke retreated. No drop of blood was spilled of Indian nor white man. A few years after this he died. I think he was born about 1735, as his wife was born in 1737. He died on his plantation in Wilkes in 1799. Governor John Clarke, Colonel Elijah Clarke and Colonel Gibson Clarke were his sons, and his daugh ters were wed unto some of the best families of South Carolina and Geor gia. I am indebted to George White and he to Colonel Joseph W. Jack son for much that is in this sketch, and while the facts hero given are by no means new to those who have White’s somewhat rare books, they will be new to most of your readers. These facts, however, are very few and unsatisfactory, and If this article shall lead some one who knows more of this old hero to tell the story it will serve a good purpose. Governor Gil mer gives a short sketch of him and - so does Colonel Chappel, but the story of his life Is very Incomplete. T Haynes' Love for Children. J Every true poet loves children, and la child life finds Inspiration for the purest and tenderest efforts of his muse. The poetic literature of all lands is full of examples illustrating this fact, and in poems and lyrics for and about children our American poets stand in the front rank. Only a largely gifted poet, one with rare spiritual insight and master of his divine art, can write poetry for and about children that Is worthy of a per manent place in literature. The names of our native poets, living and dead, who ex cel In this delightful field will readily oc cur to the reader, and some of these, though themselves childlees, have given us some of the sweetest and most graze ful verse of the kind in the language, Whittier, for Instance, is entitled to wear the laurels of a “child's poet,” and some of his finest verse deals with this sub ject. He repeats, in substance, the lessen taught by Christ, when our Divine Mas ter blessed the children, when Whittier says in one of his poems: "We need love‘s tender lessons taught, As only weakness can; God hath His small Interpreters— The Child must teach the man. “We wander wide through evil yearSt Our eyes of faith grow dim; But he is freshest from His hands. And nearest unto Him.” Paul Hayne had this excellence in his art. He loved children, he revered them both for what they are and what they suggest—simplicity. Innocence, nearness to God; all the qualities, the lack of whose influence we feel so sorely as we become hardened and seared in the fierce strug gle with the world, till finally the early fragrance and freshness of heart and soul have passed away like the sweetness and beauty of a flower, which the storms of winter have withered and torn from its stem. Hayne called the little ones “God’i an* gels,” and the love he had for them wag reciprocated by them with touching ardor. When the poet’s-funeral cortege passed through the streets of Augusta the chil dren of the city crowded the sidewalks and hundreds followed the hearse to ths cemetery, bearing flowers to strew upon his grave. In one of his poems he says: "If Christ’s pure favorites love me, all la well; Let Fame’s proud trump it* lordlier echoes cease! And graven only on my pastoral tomb Be these brief words, traced in tbs runrise bloom: His lays, though marred, yet bore one heavenly spell The children loved him, so he sleeps in peace!” , The writer’s daughter, Ida, was a great favorite of the poet; a year or two before her death Mr. Hayne addressed the fol lowing lovely poem to her, which is re produced here as an example of the ten der and graceful verse to and about chil dren . written by Mr. Hayne, and which forms such a charming part of the poet’s "Complete Works,” published in 18*2. though the following is not included -in the volume: A CHILD’S HOROSCOPE. To Ida M. Hubner, Atlanta, Ga. What Is it in her frank young face Which, more than beauty, more thaa grace, Holds in Its warm and strong control. The instinctive homage of my soult 1 A spirit constant, faithful, high, Shines deeply in her earnest eye. And, ah! her tranquil lips are fraught. With talismans of truthful thoughtl J Child-woman! hath her morn too soon Been touched by prophecies of noon? , For something sad, though scarce defined. Girds the grave bastions of her mind; But ripening thro’ the outwork’s fold. Her life Is still a stream of gold; s A stream that with harmonious sound Shall force, some day, its narrow bound. And in Its tide of stainless flame. May mirror the clear stars of famel “ Dear child! the genius of your birth Is winged by heaven, if wrought of earth; A Saxon steadfastness of will, jBF A bucklered heart to conquer ill A calm defiance turned on those JU President Palma on Florida. I The Havanna (Cuba) Post. Senor Palma and Governor Jennings were very complimentary toward each other. In speaking of Florida Senor Pal ma seemed greatly touched. "If It had not been for Florida,” he said, "Cuban Inde pendence would probably never have been rc ized. When other ports one at a time closed against us, Jacksonville still re mained open. There was always a little cigar store there from which arrange ments could be made to start any expedi tion which had been planned. If the Spanish consul had put a bomb under the little cigar store Instaed of doing so much protesting to the government, he would have accomplished more.” Presi dent Palma spoke in a very amusing vein concerning tne matter of coaling stations. He said the Cubans thought very much of Ke- West, and that he thought the United States, instead of demanding the Isle of Pines for coaling purposes, should, on the contrary, give Cuba tne Island of Key West. ’ Key West is closer to Cuba than Florida, anyhow,’ he said. That affair In the Philinplnes has reach ed the stage where it appears that It is be- Imr carried on just to spite General Miles.
