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It will be a haven of peace and refuge for the wife whose husband, is prone to observe that ' they're not like mother used to make;'* for the woman who has her train stepped on by some awkward galoot; for the woman who holds to a street car strap and glares at all men who have seats; for the woman who has heard that Mrs. Brown is tell ing about that her spring hat is her win ter one made over, and for the woman who is taken for her younger sister s mother. Mr. McDonnell s home for "In dignant woman” will doubtless be taxed to iu utmost capacity with worthy cases. GEISER. GRAIN THRESHERS. AT reduced prices for thirty days at Shaw A Ccmp a, 47 sad • 0, Forsyth St., Atlanta, GA Some Fads and Figures c/lbout the ’ First Battle of Manassas, July 21,1861 Was there ever a more humiliating scene enacted in this country of ours than that as shown by the demoralised and fleeing United States troops at the first battle of Manassas? It has been some consola tion to us old Confederates who have suf fered so long and patiently since the dose of the civil war to know that the army of General McDowell on the 21st day of July, 1881. composed of several thousand old regulars and 36.000 volunteers were badly whipped by the southern troops, who numbered not over 21.000, and of that number only about 16.000 were actually en gaged. They had every advantage of us in means, ammunition, provisions, trans portation. etc. Our regiments were made up of all grades and conditions of men, educated and uneducated. In the ranks were lawyers, doctors, merchants and A. M.’s alongside of our sturdy mountain eers. The latter were accustomed to hard ships and with his rifle the head of a wild turkey at 100 yards was knocked off nine times out of ten. v Just before entering the army I was out hunting with my rifle. I had found a squirrel and was trying to get a shot at him but as fast as I would move quietly, around the . tree he would keep out of my sight by moving around to the opposite side. Suddenly I heard the crack of a rifle and the squirrel fell to the ground, shot through the head. To my surprise. I found that a young man (our overseer's son) had shot him from up the mountainside, some 150 yards from where I was standing. These men were independent and courageous, and often paid but little attention to the discipline Imposed by their officers. While Colonel Strange, of Charlotteville, Va„ was drill ing his regiment In that town a short time before being ordered to the front, he said: • "Mr. Jones, stand square, sir!** Mr. Jones Immediately replied: "Colonel Strange. I are squar, sir!" Mr. Jones was a splendid specimen of the mountaineer and of such material as many of the best Confederate soldiers were made. Yes, we whipped them badly at Manas sas, sometimes called the battle of Bull Run by the Skedadlens. for it was the battle of Manassas that gave to the Eng lish language the new word "Skedaddle.” So much has been written about this bat tle that I will not attempt any special description of the disposition of the troops or their maneuvres, but give you extracts from papers and reports from men who were engaged in the battle, that these facts may be before the eyes of our citlxens, and not rely, as did a young lady to a friend of mine a few weeks ago in Philadelphia, when asked some ques tion about the civil war, she replied after some historian: "About what war. Oh, yes. I remember now,” she said: "you mean the war in which they hung Jeff Davis on a sour apple tree?” I was pnly 15 years old when I visited the camps of Beauregard's army at Manassas. It was my first sight of such a scene. I was with ray brother-in-law- Catlett Fitxhugh, and node horseback about the camps wit nessing the drilling of troops and seeing everything that was to be seen about a large army. General Winfield Scott was too old to command, hence General Mc- Dowell was tn charge of the United States troops on the 21st with the following brigadiers under him: Generals Burnside, Porter, Wilcox, Franklin. Howard, Sher man, Keys. Schencks. Richardson, Blenk eers and Runyon, while General Beaure gard had under him Generals Bonham, D. R. Jones, Longstreet,* Hampton, Ewell and Holmes. General Joseph E. Johnston, who was in charge of the Army of the Shenandoah, reinforced Beauregard on the 21st after a forced match from the Valley of Virginia, his brigadiers being T. J. Jackson. Bee. E. K. Smith. The twelve companies of cavalry were commanded by Colonel J. E. B. .Stuart. In examining my file of papers the Louisville Dally Courier. I find the follow ing letters in the evening edition of Au gust 5, 1861. The first is copied from the Atlanta (Ga.) Confederacy. It reads as follow*: "The battle was a decided success, and was fought with distinguished gallantry by all our troops who participated in it. It is but just to say, however, that the Fourth Alabama regiment. Colonel Jones; the Seventh Georgia, Colonel Gartrell, and the Eighth Georgia Lieutenant Colonel Gardner, both under acting Brigadier Bar tow; the Fourth South Carolina. Colonel Sloane; Hampton’s Legion, Colonel Hamp ton; the Sixth North Carolina, Colonel Fished, and the Eleventh and Seventh Virginia did the hardest fighting, suffered most and bore the brunt of me battle. Colonel Kershaw's and Colonel Cash’s (S. C.) regiments came into action late, but did most effective service in the pur suit which continued nearly to Center ville. General E. K. Smith’s brigade reached Manassas during the battle and rushed to the field, a distance of seven miles, through the boiling sun at double quick. As they neared the field from a double-quick they got fairly to running, their eyes flashing, the officers crying out. On. boys, to the rescue!’ and the men shouted at the top of their voices. When General Johnson saw Smith he exclaimed: 'The Blucher of the day has come.’ They soon arrived in front of the enemy and with a shout that might be heard from one end of the battlefield to the other they launched at the adversary like a thunderbolt. They delivered but two fires when the enemy began to give way, and in a few minutes they began to give way and were in full retreat. The bri gade is composed of one Tennessee and one Misslsstpi regiment and a battalion from Maryland. As they rushed into the fight, I could but recall with an appre ciation. I never felt before the words of Holy writ, ’as terrible as an enemy with banners.’ The artillery companies did good service also. Those engaged were the New Orleans’ Washington artillery, Latham's battery from Lynchburg. Imbo den's from Staunton, Kemper’s from Alex andria, Thomas' frqm Richmond. Pendle ton's from Lexington. Rogers’ from burg and the Wise artillery. Captain Ar burtus. The Washington artillery and Latham's battery and Kemper's were in position to do most, but all the companies raaneuvred well and delivered their fires with great effect. I do not believe that I have informed you in any of my letters that Colonel Cameron, of one of the Pennsylvania reg iments. had been killed, and that his brother, Lincoln's secretary of war, had sent a friend, one Arnold Harris, a lobby member about Washington, to ask for his body. As he did not come under a flag of truce. General Johnston ordered him Into custody and sent him to Richmond. The Republican secretary chose to ignore the existence of our authority and the rank and position of our officers by send ing a verbal message and without a flag just as the ministers of King George were wont to act towards General Washing on and the continental congress during the first revolution and therefrom our of ficers chose to send the aforesaid Mr. Harris to prison. I have just heard that five more of Ellsworth’s Zouaves—Old Abe’s pet lambs—were captured today in the woods near Centerville, one of whom was Colonel Farnham, the successor of Ellsworth. He had been wounded and the others remained behind to take care of him. "While on a visit yesterday to the Sev enth regiment I had the satisfaction of examlnging their flag. It has foqrteen bullet holes in It and the flag staff was struck in four places. After Colonel Bar tow's fall I Jeu tenant Paxton, of Virginia, asked leave, the color bearer being wound r ed. to tyirry the flag. His request was granted and he and W. L. Norman, one of the color guards of DeKalb county, were the first to place it upon the cap tured battery./ There is another'incident which deserves public mention, and which shows of what stuff the Georgia boys are made. William Dejarnett, of Rome Light Guard, having been slightly wound ed and left behind, concealed himself in the bushes. The Second Rhode Island regiment passed by. without seeing him, THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JUNE 12, 1902. but Colonel Slocum, who commanded the regiment, and who came on behind, dis covered him in the bushes. Attempting to draw his pistol he said: ’Your life, you rebel!’ For some reason he could not get out his pistol easily, and seeing Dejarnett level his musket at him. he cried out: ’Don't shoot.’ But the Georgian did shoot, and killed him. too. I saw Slocum's grave today in a little cabbage garden by the roadside and also found there Major Ballou, of the same regiment, who had his leg shot off. "There is still another fact I cannot forbear to record. After the terrible fire to which the Eighteenth Georgia had been exposed and which they recived with the immobility of a marble statue, Gen eral Beauregard passed the little rem nant of the regiment that was still left and which was ready to strike yet another blow, and raising his cap with undisguised admiration and sympathy, he said: ‘Eighth Georgia, I salute you.’ ” The Canadian Press on the Battle of Manassa*. The Quebec Chronicle has the fol lowing: "The New York press will be doubtless sadly downcast now. For ourselVes, we have not exulted over the much vaunted northern victories, and see no great reason to rejoice in a north ern defeat. All our desire is that the war should cease, and that we should be spared the spectacle of seeing brothers in race and language in mortal combat. Neither the north nor the south can sub jugate the other. Let them agree to what we call a separation de bieus, and be at peace. There is room enough on this great continent for three great nations— a union of the British colonies —a union of the northern states, and a Confederacy of the southern republic.” The Montreal Gazette has the following: "The grand army that was to exterminate the south-, erners is in full retreat upon Washington, utterly beaten by the superior tactics of the southern general, which has enabled him to man his troops as to do what the northern general intended—o .’erwhelm the enemy. It was not a pleasant thing for philosophic minds to see that the defeat of the northern army was received rather with* satisfaction than regret by pepple on the streets here. The north has brag ged so much and so loudly, has been so insolent in its tone, not only towards the south, but towards Britain; it has bragged so much about thrashing Great Britain, and crumpling up poor little cowards, that sympathy has been alien ated from the braggart and bully. The south has been hemmed in by the great masses of troops, a portion of her terri tory wrested from her—her ports blockad ed—her every effort jeered at—her pros pects of successful fighting for her own territory turned into ridicule, until no one could help feeling some desire to see the braggart worsted, and the much abused south, driven to bay, achieve a success.” I take the following from the same paper: "Stories set afloat by the black Republican press of the barbarous treatment of the wounded by the Confed erate troops is denied by The Baltimore American, an administrative ’ paper.’ "From troops passing through here, and particularly from the members of the Michigan regiments, who have a large number of wounded with them, we learn that every attention was paid to the wounded which the most humane could have deserved: one soldier affirming that he called upon a man who had shot him down, for some water, and that the Con federate supplied him from his own can teen.” No country produced a more hu mane type of men than did the south. A lieutenant of our own qity. whin fall ing back under the tremendoc.-i fire at the battle of Gettysburg, was appealed to by a Yankee officer for help—when, with out a moment’s hesitation, he stooped A GEORGIA YOUTH AT THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS I had passed my twentieth year before the 6th day of Mhy, 1864, the day of the terrible battle of the Wilderness, and as we were entering into the battle, a mo ment before we engaged with the enemy In deadly conflict, I sent up to Almighty God a short mental prayer that could not be surpassed in fervency or earnestness. I had no time to pray for more than one thing, nor would I if I had had more time, for ail my sympathies were concentrated on that one thing. It was for the life of my brother I prayed. ✓. My brother Henry was two years my senior. There was an affectionate sympa thetic attachment between us that Is un common, except between twin brothers, and that each of us well knew could never be broken. I thought he had the finest in tellect of any one I ever knew; nor was this partiality in me, for others who knew him well thought as I did. One can think fast in time of great danger. I did not suppose our people at home would mourn less at my death than his, but I felt while I prayed that they could better afford to lose me than to lose him; besides he would be more useful in the world than I could ever hope to be. These reasons, together with my great love for him and knowing how well he loved me, was why I felt at the time and still think it was right and best to plead Fith the giver of life for his life In prefer ence to mine. So I appealed directly to Almighty God that if either of us must dte on that occasion it should be me and that he might live. At Gettysburg, during the severest mo ments of the second day's battle, when we of Benning's brigade had advanced so near the enemy that all on both sides must be killed unless one side would give way within a few minutes, I noticed him, to gether with aqpther young man named Watson, quietly advance several yards in front, nearly half way to the enemies lines, seemingly to get a better view of their position and numbers, and while I admired his cool courage, I did not feel the least uneasiness. It did not seem to me on that occasion that he would be hurt. And what made his cool bravery the more remarkable, it was the first time he had ever been in a battle. But I will return to the dreadful scenes of the Wilderness. We had marched hard tne day before from the vicinity of Gor donsville and bivouaced late In the night near the battlefield. At daylight we marched rapidly to the assistance of A. P. Hill. My brother’s feet pained him so severely from the previous day's march that it was plain he was in rto condition to remain in ranks, and we tried to per suade him to drop out and get in the rear. On any other occasion he would have gladly done so, but as we were to go into battle he held his place In great pain. It was seein- him suffer so as we were hastening to the battle that made me feel uneasy and intensified my sym patnies. We soon met Thomas' brigade, which, after a most heroic resistance, was finally overpow’ered tjy the weight of the ene mies numbers and forced from the i,c.d. We had not a moment's time for re connoitering or planning. The tremendous forces of the enemy flushed with victory were rapidly and confidently moving down upon us before we were in position to receive their onslaught. Generals Lee and Longstreet were in the front with us. and all they could do was to quickly, hasti ly, in double quick tlrtie form us across their front. ’ , We did not watt a moment for tM® ® n_ slaught of the advancing enemy, but quickly and rapidly moved forward to meet them. We all well knew what was before us, that our yanks would be quick ly thinned; that many of us would be .... BY .... DR. W. B. CONWAY, Corp. Co. C, Fourth Regiment, Vir ginia Cavalry. down and gently lifted him upon his back and bore him away to a place of safety. This was Lieutenant T. P. Oliver, a pros perous merchant and a most excellent citizen of the city of Athens. Our soldiers never resorted to such barbarous treat ment of men as the water torture, prac ticed by the United States troops in the war In the Philippines. Nor did we burn houses down over the heads of women And children, (as I witnessed In the valley of Virginia), by the order of General Sheridan and approved by the United States government at Washington. Now let us see what, on both sides, who were interested In this first campaign against Richmond; these extracts are from of ficial dispatches: General Scott to Mc- Clellan, July 18: "McDowell yesterday drove the enetpy beyond Fairfax court house. He will attack the entrenched camp Manassas junction today. Beaten there the enemy may retreat both upon Richmond and the Shenandoah valley. I may reinforce htm (Patterson) to enable you to bag Johnson." Secretary Cameron to Governor Curtin, July 18: “The Penn sylvania troops were expected to have joined the forces going into battle this week. I trust there will be no delay to prevent them sharing the honors of the expected battle.” General Scott to Mc- Clellan, July 21, a. m.: "Johnston has amused Patterson and reinforced Beaure gard. McDowell this morning forcing the passage of Bull Run. In two hours he will turn the Manassas junction and storm it today with superior force.” General Scott to the commanding officer at Balti more, July 21: "Put your troops on the alert. Bad news from McDowell's army, not credited by me.” Captain Alexander to Washington: "General McDowell’s army in full retreat. The day is lost. Save Washington and the remnants of this army.. The routed troops will not reform.” General Scott to McDowell: "Under the circumstances it seems best to return to the line of the Potomac.” President Davis to General Cooper, Ma nassas, July 21: "Night has closed upon a hard fought field. Our forces have won a glorious victory.” Colonel Kerl gan, at Alexandria, to Cameron, July 22: "There are about 7,000 men here without officers: nothing but confusion.” General Mansfield to Captain Mott at the Chain bridgt, July 22. "Order the Sixth Maine to keep these demoralized troops out of their camps.” General Mansfield to Gen eral Runyan, July 22: "Why do the regi ments I sent to you yesterday return so precipitously to Alexandria without firing a shot?” W. “T. Sherman to the adjutant general, July 22: "I have at this moment ridden in with, I hope, the rear men of my brigade, which in common with our whole army has sustained a terrible de feat and has degenerated into an armed mob.” General Scott to General McClel lan, July 22, 1 a‘. m.: f After fairlx beat ing the enemy and taking three of his batteries, a panic seized McDowell’s army, and it is in full retreat on the Potomac. Almost unaccountable transformation into a mob of a finely appointed and admir ably led army.” These few extracts are enough to show the Utter rout of the Federal army. Twenty-eight pieces of artillery, about 5,000 muskets, and nearly 500,000 cartridges, a gafrlson flag and 10 colors were captured on the field or in the pursuit. Besides these we captured 64 artillery horses with their harness. 26 wagons, and much camp equipage, clothing and other property abandoned in their flight. Would that we could have ended at Manassas, and the thousands of lives of the heroic men of the south been spared. * "Adown the did beat The pulse of ’hope, life seemed so bright That little recked we of defeat. Nor dreamed such days should close in night ” Athens, Ga., May 24. lying dead and many mangled with wounds within the next few minutes. But not a man among us faltered, not one. It was while thus advancing to meet the enemy, and a moment only before the firing commenced, that I turned my eyes and looked into my brother’s face, who was a few' feet to my right. Our eyes met, for some influence caused each of us to look into the other’s face at the same instant. The lines of pain had van ished from his features and he looked calm and at ease. And such tender love for me as I could see in his eyes. It ap peared to me as if he feared I would be killed, and wanted to take one affectionate look into my face while I was yet alive, it was during this short space of time that we were looking into each others face that I prayed directly to God for his life. But we had to look forward how we went, besides the time had come for dead ly action, and we had to look away from each others’ faces and commence firing, and it was a great mercy on me that I was forced to look away from his face. It has never seemed like I could bear what I would have seen if my eyes had lingered on his face an atom of time longer—praying as I was with such earn estness to the giver of all' good for his safety. And here an unaccountably strange thing happened that I have thought may have been a mercy to me. As soon as we looked away from each others’ faces, the instant my short mental prayer for his safety was ended, my brother passed to tally out of my memory, nor did I once think of him during the whole dreadful battle, and I do not know when he would have returned to my memory again if a comrade had not forced me to think of him. The instant we looked away from each other the firing commenced and we had advanced some distance by the time the enemy abandoned the contest and gave back a half mile or more. But as yet no one knew whether the enemy were not preparing for another onslaught with re doubled fury, and while many of the men continued lying as they were when the enemy gave back, ready, some had risen up and were standing still, and a few were walking about just in rear of the line, slowly and aimlessly. There were no staff officers, couriers or orderlies passing about with orders. No one seemed to be in command. Men were not talking to each other. There ha<4 suddenly come a strange silence and stillness over that part of the Vilderness. There were no wounded within sight or hearing, for the litter bearers on each side had done their duty well and promptly, bearing the severely wounded away to the hospitals as fast as they fell. Our dead were scattered about in rear of the line, silent and free forever from the strife of horrible war. Commencing a few yards in front of our line and ex tending out for nearly a half mile were lying equally as silent the dead of the enemy, and also forever freed from hu man strife. The great number of the enemy’s dead was truly shocking to be hold, and when we came to examine the field it seemed strange that any escaped from it alive. There were many small oaks growing there from two or three to six inches in diameter, and all the bark was shot off every one of them from the ground upward into the limbs, and many of.them three or five inches in diameter were so completely riddled or shattered that they were fallen down. Such was the case*over many acres of the ground near the main road, and It was all done by rifle balls in the hands of the infan try. It was among this destruction of the forest that such shocking numbers of the enemy lay dead. Just beyond this de- struction we came to one long straight line of their dead, seemingly one-third of a full line of battle, their heads all pointing forward in the direction they were advancing. This was done by Thomas’ men with one volley before they were forced from the field, as related above, having held their fire for the pur pose. According to the usual proportion of wounded to killed there could have been but few, if any, Os that column es caped unhurt. It may have been ten or fifteen min utes after the firing ceased, while the strange stillness was over the battlefield, when we seemed to be abandoned or for gotten toy those In command. I was standing a few feet in rear of the line, silent like every one else. I have no idea what I was thinking about, but my broth er had not returned to my memory until a comrade came up to me unseen and said to me hoarsely: “George, do you know Henry is killed?" I remembered looking at him without speaking, that I did not believe he was telling the truth, though I did not doubt he thought he was. I remember the hor rified look that suddenly came over his face, his turning away quickly and start ing off In a sort of sneak, rapidly getting faster and faster until he was among the other men. I do not know what he saw In my naturally mild, harmless look, but judging from his appearance and motions I think he was in mortal fear that ,1 would shoot him on tne spot. He never after ward mentioned the circumstance to me, nor I to him. But there was nothing to do but to make sure that he had given me a wrong report, and slowly I went over every spot of ground where my brother could have been during the battle, hoping and believ ing I wouid not find him dead. While thus engaged I came to a young man of about my brother’s age, lying dead, with his brother, who was about my age, sit ting on the ground beside him weeping bitterly. While I stood looking down at them the weeping brother looked up Into my face steadily, helplessly, appealingly. Suddenly he ceased weeping; a calmness came over his countenance; he really look ed as if he felt pleasant. I have thought he probably saw greater distress In my face than he felt, for copious weeping had been some relief to him, while I felt too badly dazed and distressed to weep. Still I did not believe my brother was dead. That young man, If alive, is now an old man, and X he should read thia he will doubtless remember it. I could never bear to look Into the face of the corpse of one who was dear to me and I do not know what I would have done or how It would have af fected me if I had found my brother’s mangled and dead body lying on the ground. The truth was, as I afterward learned, my brother was one of the first, if not the first one, in the regiment that was shot, the cruel ball striking his temple, frac turing the skull and injuring the brain, and the litter bearers quickly bore him away to the hospital, where he slept his life away without feeling pain. As I turned my eyes from his face as described above, the firing commenced, so that the instant I looked away from him as my earnest, righteous prayer for his safety was being ended, that instant he was stricken down. And to think that if the cruel ball had varied from his brow but a fraction of-an inch in its course he would have es caped! For many weeks I felt disconso late and dazed, wondering what was the use of fervent, righteous prayer when such results would follow, though I never for once lost faith in the goodness and justness of God. It was years afterward before it ever occurred to me that while I prayed, that while my brother was so tenderly looking into my face, he prayed the same prayer I did, only in a reversed order, praying as fervently for my safety in preference to his own. probably neither of us pray ing for God's will to be done in preference to ours. In those days of war tens of thousands of people were praying to God in direct op position to each other, some praying for the success of the southern arms, while at the same instant others were praying for the success of the northern arms. But as well as I remember, it seemed to me after my unavailing prayer that God had nothing to do with the battles, that He had for the time abandoned the American people and let them destroy each other on account of their wickedness, north and south, and that the prayers of the noble Christian, Stonewall Jackson, were all in vain, any farther than they would nat urally tend to keep him in an humble, de pendent frame of mind. For some cause both sides delayed long after the enemy gave back before putting out any pickets. Finally I was sent out with others as scouts to beat up the ene my, and we found them in double line of battle about a half mile in our front. The ground immediately in their front was thickly covered with scrub oak bushes, so that we crept very near them near enough to plainly hear them talking. I selected a position where I could see them through a narrow opening in the bushes. They appeared to be in a very great flurry of excitement. 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You recall that beautiful quatrain from Gray’s elegy: "Full many a gem of purest ray resene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush un seen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.” When our Lord comes to make up his jewels he will gather “full many a gem” from places that were "dark, unfathom ed caves to the wordly wise,” and "full many a flower” from spots that were "desert air” to the rich and proud. "Know ye not that a great man and a prince has fallen this day in Israel” is often truer when spoken of some of God’s poor than it was of the mighty Abner. When a great man dies it is easy to think of fine things to say. "His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world,, “This was a man.” Or, “He won the white flower of a blameless life.” Or, “We shall never see his ‘like again.” Such sentiments are just as true of many whom the world did not know and of whom it was not worthy. All the kings and queens have not worn crowns of gold. All of earth’s heroes have not been immortalized in song or story. Their good works were not down in the gaze of men, nor their great worth sung by admiring bards. But their Father which seeth in secret shall reward them openly. God seeth not as man seeth. "Man looks at the outward 'appearance, but God looks at the heart.” "I have re jected him” may be said of .many whom the world hath idolized. And those whom the Pharisees have despised and cast out may enter through the gates into the city of God. Painted piety will not deceive the judge of the quick and the dead. No dark caves or desert air can hide his jewels from him. From the uttermost parts of the earth, from the places of suffering and lowly labor he will gather them to their great reward. The savage, or the unskilled man sees nothing of value in the dull rock, nothing of interest in the moth-eaten volume. But the minerallst sees a diamond in one; the scholar sees a rare literary treasure in the other. We see nothing notable in the men and women we meet every cay. They seem dull and commonplace to us. But in heaven, if we get there, we may see these commonplace people take rank and place above some whom we now stand In awe of as the great and ven erate as the good of earth. Another thought. Like these collec tors of valuable books, like the searcher after goodly pearls we should be on the lookout for beauty and good in out of the way places. And can’t we do some thing to help uncover these hidden beau ties and bring to active service these lat ent forces? Many there are who would like to work if some man would hire them. They stand idle all the day for lack of leaders, teachers and encouragers. Timid ones need encouragement. Un taught ones need light and knowledge. “Phillip findeth Nathaniel and sayeth unto him: ‘We have found him of whom Moses and the prophets did write.’ ” Have you found anyone? Are you seek- Ing anyone? "Let’s do noble things, not dream them, all day long.” There are those whose lives are spent searching for the rare and beautiful. They explore out of the way nooks and corners, visit ruins, fathom caves, and tempt the dangers of the desert and the ocean. But the brightest jewel, the most perfect invention, the highest achieve ment of art will fade and pass away. But he that winneth souls doeth work that will "shine as the stars forever and forever " There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. God gives homes to the foxes and birds of the air. He clothes the flow ers of the field. These all have their prop er sphere and appointed work. Is it any accident then that we are placed where we are? Why not esteem it part of a divine plan for you to be where you are and to do what you have to do? It is no more honor to work for God among princes than among paupers. The soul is a soul, a man is a man, whether richly robed like a king or mean ly clad like a beggar. It is noble and Christ-like to give to those who have naught to give in return, not even grat itude or thanks. Like their Lord many of the wise and great of the earth have given their days and talents to the cause of the poor and needy. Living and laboring unselfishly they passed into immortality. By losing their lives they attained to life eternal. They lived to give and yet they received vastly more than others who only lived to get. For the giving hand brings back more than the hand that goes out to gather for itself. Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens among novelists espoused the cause of the lowly. Gray, Burns and Whittier. in deathless song, have told “the short and simple annals of the poor." John Ruskin gave to poverty and misery his fortune, his talents and his beautiful Ufa And all these shine as stars of the first order in the constellation of the great , . Some there are whose names will live Not in the memories, but the hearts of men. Because those hearts they comforted and And when they saw God's images cast down, Jft . » Lifted them up again and blew the dust From the worn features and disfigured limbs. A Scattered Sermon. (Philadelphia Times.) When the Rev. Madison C. Peters, at one time a popular Philadelphia divrne, was, a very young man he was invited to deliver the sermon in a rural church on a Sunday in June. The day was extremely warm; and a window behind the pulpit had been raised in the interests of ven tilation. Mr. Peters laid the rather vol uminous manuscript of the sermon he had prepared on the desk of the pulpit and began; but the third word had not pass ed his lips when a breexe from the win dow caught the manuscript and blew its hundred-odd pages of 1 note-slse paper scatteringly over the expectant congre gation. Mr. Peters looked flustered for a moment; then, recovering himself, he smiled and said: "Well, pdrhaps that sermon has reach ed more of you than if it had gone from the pulpit in the usual manner.” Evanston. 111., church people are going to run a billiard and pool room. The moun tain is gradually coming to Mahomet
