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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-
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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
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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.
