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6 f THE COUNTRY HOME j II Women on the Farm Conducted By Mrs. W. H. Felton. 4* Correspondence on home topics or ♦ 4* subjects of especial Interest to wo- 4* 4* men Is invited. Inquiries or letters 4* 4> should be brief and clearly wrltteu ♦ 4* tn ink on one side of the sheet. ♦ 4> Write direct to Mrs. W. H. Feb 4> 4- ton. Editor Home Department Semi- + 4> Weekly Journal, Cartersville, Go. ♦ 4* No inquiries answered by mail. <• 4 »♦♦♦♦♦ >44 ♦ 4 , 4 , 4 HIM »♦♦♦♦♦♦ Protection of Presidents. The assassination of President McKin ley by an anarchist at Buffalo has induced the present congress to discuss and pass a bill against any persons who may kill or attempt to kill a president. It is all right to pass measures looking to the protection of human life everywhere, but whenever steps are taken to place around any citizen of the republic additional and superior safeguards, then steps have also been taken to pave the way for a fu ture monarchy or military despotism in these United Staten. Nobody had a greater horror of the un timely taking off of President McKinley (not of his immediate family) than my self, His death by violence was universally mourned and sincerely deplored all over the union, and nownere more than in the southern states, but this piece of legisla tion is dangerous because of the burden that goes along with it. because it is an entering wedge to other and similar leg islation which will set apart all officials . In time as a superior order of beings, to be surrounded by guard% and with legal exemptions that should belong equally to every free-born citizen in these United States But some will say, why do you Include other officials? Simply because this dan gerous bill says so, in plainest words. Section 13 Includes the president, the vice president and "other officers of the United States entitled by law to succeed to the presidency." 'Where will we find any dif ference in legislation which protects a royal succession in a limited monarchy? We are getting on towards the "divine Tight" of our rulers, to be exempt and likewise safeguarded from pains and pen * allies, in a rapid hurry. As was wisely said on the floor of the house. ‘This bill erects the president Into • peculiar potentate, whose rights as an Individual are merged in his majesty as 1 'an official, and it includes in this awful circle of its solemn protection all who stand in the shadow of tbe throne and expect the glory of the crown.” Such a measure will put six of our chief federal officials in a protected class to themselves, five of them attending to no duty of the president, so long as he Is alive and in active service. After President McKinley's death there were some hysterical interviews published down in Georgia. I remember one judge ' who said "The states should pass strin gent laws g ainst the assembling together of persons for any unlawful purpose, or for any purpose that cannot be spoken of with open doors.” Do you appreciate the meaning? Do our people see and under stand where we are drifting under the Influence of such vicious legislation? What Burt of freedom will be granted this coun try after awhile under such espionage as this? . It is even now called treason to criticise and condemn the Inhuman officials who “water cured" the Filipinos and passed an order to kill and bum down to boys ten years old who were found with arms in their hands. Look at your own 10-year-old child er grandchild, and you will see what sort of a war was waged in the Philippine is lands! *■ One editor of a Manila newspaper wrote tip tbe inhumanity and he was banished under a promise of what more would be done to him the next time unless he walk ed tbe “chalk line" of submission. Oh. it is a sweet pass we are coming to In this once free country! The only effective protection that can be given to human life lies tn a government which rests on the consent of the gov erned. All the laws that may be written will not check an anarchist pure and simple. What care they for the effect on themselves if they accomplish their set and sworn pur pose? Nothing deters them. They know they are daring fate when they make an attempt on a ruler. They like the adver tising it brings, and tbe dread they inspire tn high placer. And you may walk rfround with an anari hist for a blessed month and never suspect his purpose until his time has been fulfilled. It would be preposter ous to arrest on suspicion every man or woman that criticises public officials in this country. We have no Siberia to ban ish suspected persons to. and it is well we have not. The men who have made repu tations and agitated needful reforms have always been such critics of unpopular government. If people are to be hauled be fore courts, tried and sentenced for such offenses, then goodby republic. Poultry on ths Farm. Common barnyard fowls are the most independent and thrifty things I know of in animate life. They are shifty as well as thrifty, and when feed is scarce and they are neces- • ssrily neglected, give me the old common dunghill chickens every time—for my use. I have tinkered considerably with high priced fowls in my time, and the most expensive ones that I have bad anything to do with gave me precious few eggs, and were the most trying'mothers with young chicks. I guess 1 am one of the old fogies, but I would not give one genuine old domi nick hen. that I knew 40 yeai's ago. to raise chickens for the table, for a half dozen great big Asiatic fowls that have boots on their legs and are fair game for chicken cholera. A "blue hen" generally gave you a lively brood and a number of them, and I*ll put an old-fashioned "rumpless" hen against a coop full of great big partridge Cochins for a reliable crop of frying chickens. I like the Plymouth Rocks, except that they are prone to limber neck. They are descendants of tbe faithful domjnicas. but in being trained up to high prices they caught on to some of the complaints that my old dominicks never took. Indeed. I never saw a case of chicken cholera in my life until Sherman went along over tbe country. And. to be sure, I never did see any disease but the limber neck. which swept off poultry in such a rush. 1 beard of the approach of the cholera, and went up the road to see what it had done for one of my neighbors. All her chickens were dead or dying, and the dirt floor of her little hen house was as yellow as if sulphur had been poured over it, from tlrcpplngs. It did not take long to come to me, and I bad nearly the same experience with my fowls. One gobbler survived the epidemic, and a few chickens, but the crop was done for until next fait Tbe Yankees brought chicken cholera, and the hateful plantain weed, that will eat up a field of clover in tbe second year. I believe we are much more infested DROPSY U io OAR' TCUTMKT FREE. (L- jJ Eave made D ropey and its com- J plications a specialty for twenty \* J years with the most wonderful > sucoss. Have cared many thou- < \ Z-A Z K **¥ OOM. 1 W/ / SI.ILI.OIIirSBC«S, < V / Box F., Atlanta, Ga. with mites on fowls, bugs on potatoes and diseases on fruit trees than formerly. But we must do the best we can with all these pests. My old-time chickens ate whatever -they could find, and we could always raise Irish potatoes and I never did hear of San Jose scale until a few years ago. * It is true, we had a hardier kind of chickens tn those days, and the Irish po tato seed were not swindles, and hogs rooted about in orchards. But I wolud like to get some chickens like those we used to raise, and were not so tender and so easily diseased, and could pick up a good living around barns and cribs, and could raise big broods of chickens. I don’t think I ever will run my poor old feet down again after any of the fashion able sorts of chickens. If I can’t find domtnicas and "rumpless” sorts, I incline to the game, because it seems to be hardy. Old Maida. Max O’Rell, the volumnlouz French es sayist. says: "Old Maids are the wallflow ers of that great dancing party which is called Life.” Is that true? I think not. It cannot be true unless all our comfort and happiness is bound up in the rearing of children, which often afflict their mothers with anx iety from the cradle to the grave, or un less all womanly satisfaction is confined to humoring and bearing with the fads and whims of an exacting husband and the various restraints of such family cares. I think old maids have splendid oppor tunities and royal times, when they can enjoy their nephews and nieces and also when they can pick up a grip and go for a visit whenever their hearts are set that way. Old maid sisters and aunts are the very salt of the earth. They are mainstays in times of sickness and bereavement. As a rule they are morjt unselfish and their hearts are tender to the younger ones, wha are glad to make confidants of these loving aunts, whose love comes next to their mothers. Asking a friend some days ago about a family that I knew in my girlhood, she answered: "The eldest daughter took her mother's place, when the latter died, and If ever there was an angel of blessing in a household, she (calling her by name) is that angel of self-sacrifice and benefac tion. I do believe she is the best woman I ever knsw, because she has raised her brothers and sisters in great credit and she Is never weary in well-doing.” Mother love is implanted in every wo man’s breast I feel sure, because the baby girl will mother her doll babies as natur ally as she will flirt a fan or primp her hair, but the love of an older sister for the younger ones Is as much like real mother love as you may ever expect to find a parallel in this world. I nave in my mind's eye a sweet faced elder sister who has not only raised her young brothers and a sister until they were all grown and married, but she has made a most comfortable home for her widowed father who is trusted and hon ored in the highest degree. Her mission is a noble one, and as I recall her sweet, cheerful face, I feel convinced that her life mission was quite as nobly fulfilled os if she hod married some suitor and spent the time in raising another family of children that might have called her mother. And I do not think any widower should marry when he has zuch a daughter or daughters to fill the mother’s place so well and satisfactorily. He owes too much to them. » "Wall flowers,” in deed! That is a Frcnchy mistake. . These so-called old maids arc the very calt of the earth—crown jewels! God bless them. Nice Things for Nice People to Eat. CREAM CARAMELS. A pound of sugar, quarter pound of gluecose. ounce of unsalted butter, one and half gills of water, caramel flavoring and half cup of sweet cream. - 801 l sugar, water and gluecose together until well cooked, then stir in cream and butter until it boils hard again; never stopping the stirring. < Add the flavoring last, and then pour out on well buttered tins. When nearly cold cut caramel shape and wrap up in wax paper. BANANA SALAD. Peel and slice four bananas; do the same thing with four oranges; getting rid of seeds; then pare and shred a small pine apple. Mix the fruit in a salad bowl covered in side with lettuce leaves, and then pour a dressing over it, made as follows: Beat the yolks of four eggs until thick, add a cup of powdered sugar, with trifle of salt, and beat until all the sugar melts. Then add the strained juice of two lem ons and set in very cold place and serve when cold. Borne people make banana salad, just as tomatoes are served with plain French dressing. Kerosene will whiten yellow, half wash es clothes. Put in a tablespoonful to each gallon of strong suds. Do your spectacles get cloudy or gummy in hot weather? Then wash them In the niorning with potash soap. Do not rinse them, but ruh with dry cloth to polish them. It seems to prevent the moisture from collecting on the glasses. Keresene will clean paint as well as furniture. If there are dirty finger marks on the paint, put some kerosene in hot water and then wash the facings, and the dirt will yield. CREAM SAUCE. After you melt two tablespoonfuls of sweet butter in a frying pan. stir in two small tablespoonfuls of flour, then take it off the Are and add two cups of cold mUk. Season with salt and pepper. After it is all stirred smooth, put back on Are ‘and stir until it simmers. Whtn it is reads* for the table add a teaspoon of chopped parsley and pour the hot sauce on the chicken, lamb or deli cate meats you are serving. HOW TO TELL WHEN YOU ARE GET TING LINEN. ■Wet your finger and press on a corner and if the cloth is Hnen the dampness will go through. »f cotton it will be much slower in penetrating. PLANKED FISH. Put your fish, skin side down, on oak plank. Beason to taste and bake the plank for 30 mirfutes. Serve on the plank, meat garnished. RICE WAFFLES. Beat or mash your hominy or rice, cold or hot. until it is smooth. Add a cup and half of flour, with a cup of sweet milk, two well beaten eggs, half teaspoonful salt and half cup of melted lard or but ter. Have irons hot and well greased, heat irons well before the baking begins. JELL~ WHIP. Beat the white of three eggs until as light as possible. Add three tablespoons ful of sifted sugar and beat until stiff and glossy. Then add a teaspoonful of jelly at a time until you color th please and enough to taste, and serve in small glasses. Rev. J, S. McLean. of Waukesha. Wls.. has precipitated a discussion by preaching a sermon in which he said that Spiritualism was as sociated with many immoral things. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1902. WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND ITS ILLUSTROUS DEAD B the coronation of Edward VII is definitely fixed for August Sth to 12th, the attention of the world will be so directed to A Westminster Abbey that an account of a visit to that wonderful structure cannot be devoid of Interest. First take an outside view as it ap pears from the street. There it stands lifting its huge Gothic proportions to the sky, weather beaten and covered with the moss of many centuries, but grand and beautiful still. The total length of the church is 513 feet; length of the tran scept from north to south, 200 feet, breadth of nave and aisles, 75 feet; height of church, 102 feet; of towers, 225 feet. I always wondered why this building was calles! "Westminster Abbey” used as it has been for the construction of burial vaults of kings, and celebrated ones. It was for the following reasons: A church was erected on this spot in honor of St. Petef by the Anglo-Saxon king Sebert in 616. With the church was connected a Benedictine monastery, or "minster” (ac cording to the short, quick way of pro nouncing it), which in reference to its position to another monastery, was call ed Westniinster Abbey. The old church was destroyed by the Danes and the regular establishment of the abbey is attributed to Edward tho Confessor, who built a church here in 1049, almost as large as the present one, which also being destroyed the abbey was rebuilt in the latter part of the thirteenth century by Henry 111, and his son Ed ward I, who left it substantially as it now stands; the towers, regarded by many as untasteful, having been placed there by Sir Christopher Wren. At the Reformation the abbey, which had been richly endowed by former kings, shared the fate of other religious houses, the property was confiscated and the church converted into a bishop's cathedral; sendees are held there every Sunday, and also during the week, under the charge of a dean ajid prependanis. It was here that I heard Archdeacon Canon Farrar deliver his memorial address on Dean Stanley. But the two things that Westminster is chiefly used for is as a burial place for great men; and as the crowning place of kings, the first of these being its most general use; and the one that claims most attention. Without detaining the reader we enter by the door of the north transcept. As we gaze upon the -magnificent inte rior of this superb structure, and see the long line of gorgeous tombs on either side, thinking who these ’storied urns, and animated busts" are designed to commemodrate, we find ourselves spell bound. Washington Irving says: “The space and gloom of this vast edifice pro duce a profound and mysterious awe; we step cautiously and safetly about as if fearful of disturbing the hallowed si- BONANZA KING JOHN W. MACKAY WAS A MONTE CRISTO IN REAL LIFE New York World. The etqry of the life of John W. Mackay is the story of bonanza days of the west, of Atlantic cables, of great banking schemes, of great power. It is the story of a man who mounted the ladder of pros perity a dozen rounds at a time, who stood before the world as the unchallenged Bo nanza King, with the shadow of a scepter over every exchange and was hurled with appalling swiftness Into the slough of disaster only to mount again to the emi nence whereon stand the great money forces of the world. He had many friends and many ene mies, but all admired his courage. John William Mackay was born in Dub lin November 28, 1831. His ancestors were of the Highland Mackay clan. He came to New York in 1840. Park Row was his playground. He went to California soon after the Argonauts of 184 P, took to the primitive methods of mining, lost and won, and then, in 1860. drifted into Nevada. An abstemious, self-controlled, forceful man, he became the leader of the bold and strenuous spirits who. were planting seeds of future greatness. The Bonanza discoveries came in 1872. In 1878 the Bank of Nevada, which wielded tremendous In fluence, was established. The inception of the Commercial Cable 1© 1884 completes the date which marked the important events in Mr. Mackay’s life. Crowded between those dates were events that were like Monte Cristo ro mances. , The Big Bonanza. One day Mr. Mackay stood with a friend looking at a smoking cavity in the ground at the mouth of which a windlass was slowly grinding. "Out of that hole," said Mr. Mackay. "I took 3150,000 000 in bullion.” This was the. Big Bonanza, of Virginia City, Nev., the first of the famous mines, and W’hich furnished the foundations of the Bonanza fortunes. Mr. Mackay said this mine was a kidney or pocket of crude ore about as high as the steeple of Trin ity and as large as the New York city hall park. > Four men made enormous fortunes out of those mines, and became known the world over as the Bonanza Kings; their names became household words as syn onyms for enormous, quickly acquired wealth. James G. Fair, who became sen ator from Nevada, had attracted Mr. Mackay because of his skill as a mining expert. William O’Brien and James C. Flood had gone to California as friends in the old Argonaut days. Flood was the financial representative and ally of the two young miners at work on the Bonan za. O’Brien was a partner of the firm because Flood would have no interest he did not share. "Billy was my partner once,” said Flood one day. “He Is my partner now, and he will be my partner fArdver.” O’Brien died during the Bonanza times. Flood died a few years ago in Germany. Fair died December 28, 1894. Now Mackay, the greatest of the Big Bo nanza Four, is dead, after only recently achieving one o fthe greatest victories of his career, the substituting of his tele graph system for that of the Western Union on the Pennsylvania railroad. Hls First Success. Mr. Mackay’s first success was In the gold mines of Downevllle, Sierra county. Cal. It wasn’t a remarkable success, but he made a living and he learned mining. It was in 1867 that he married the daughter of Coi. Daniel C. Hungerford, of New York. She was then a w’idow living in California with her daughter, who subsequently married Prince Co lonna. The four «neo who became known as bonanza kings first went to work on the Hale & Norcross mine, which had ceased to pay dividends and which demanded as sessments. They secured control of It for 380,000. The Bonanza mines which they operated have produced more than 3150,- 000,000. It was in 1871 that .the Bonanza days for the Big Four began. Ju&t when they began to wane they started the Nevada bank, which became one of the most powerful In the country. It was that year that O’Brien died. The three who were left began to branch out. Mackay became well known in Wall street. His investments were as fortunate as his mining. The fame of the Bonanza Kings grew and their wealth increased. They built great palaces In San Francisco. The Commercial Cable. The Commercial Cable Is said to have been the greatest achievement of Mr. lence of the tomb, while every footfall whispers along the walls and chatters among the sepulchres, making us more feasible of the quiet we have interrupted. It seems as if the awful nature of the place presses down upon the soul, and hushes the beholder into nolielss rever ence. We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times, who have filled history with their deeds and the earth with their re nown.” It would be impossible for me in a brief article to speak of a tenth part of the il lustrious ones interred here, and many have monuments here who were buried elsewhere. The first name I read fills me with awe. It is William Pitt. Lord Chatham, the statesman, who died in 1778, whose elo quent voice was raised in deprecation of England’s conduct tow-ard American colo nies, just as some of our statesmen are now raising their voices against American treatment of the Filipinos; Lord Mans field's tomb is nearby- The judge, in pur est marble, is seated on the bench on his judicial robes. Passing a dozen others looking like the finest groups in our city cemeteries we come to the tomb of War ren Hastings, governor general of India in 1818. Now we stand over the toYnb of Richard Cobden, founder Os the Cob-, den club, which favors free trade and to which every Briton, even the king, be longs. Passing two dozen more we come to the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton. Think of being so near the dust of such a great man! Passing still others we come to the grave of' Charles James Fox, which is ©ear that of the Younger Pitt, and re call the words of Scott: "Shed upon Fox's grave a tear. Twill trickle to bls rival's bier.” Near this spot we find the tombs of Dr. Isaac Watts, the hymn writer, and John Wesley, the reformer; Spurgeon has been added to the list of divines. To the right we turn and reach the poets' corner (in south transept), where sleeping as in a common bed we find Grote, the historian; Garrick, the actor; Barrow. the theolo gian; Addison, the author; Macaulay, the historian; Thackeray, the novelist; Han del, the composer;'Campbell, the general, and Goldsmith, Thompson, Southey, Campbell Gray, Butler, Johnson, Milton, Shakespeare, and other poets, Longfellow has been added to the number, the only American I know of sleeping in that quiet bed. There,, too, was the grave of Dickens. At the east of the building numerous chapels have been added as the burial places of the kings and their families. In the chapel of St. Edward we find the tombs of Lady Jane Seymour, Lord John Russell and Edward Bulwar Lytton. A flight of twelve blank marble steps brings us to the chapel of Henry 7th, a superb structure erected, in 1520. The roses on the gates refer to the marriage of Henry 7th With the daughter of Edward 4th, which Mackay’s life. .He spent <nuch time in Europe, and maintained constant cable communication with the United States because of his great interests in this country. The excessive rates charged by the cable monopoly set the Bonanza King to thinking. The monopoly was all powerful. Maegay thought that the ab solute control ©f the telegraph by this combination placed the markets of the world at its disposal. The cables were foreign. Mr. Mackay decided that the‘United States ought to have a cable. came in contact with James Gordon Dennett, who had long nourished the project of an independent cable. Mr. Mackay placed half a million dollars at the disposal of the Commercial Cable Company, and that was the Incep tion of the'Mackay-Bennett cables. The scheme did not commend Itself to the financial world. It was pronounced a sentiment, not a business proposition, at the time. It was called “a revolt against Gould.” x Foreign capitalists would not enter into the plan. It was said that there was no room for additional cables; that If the rates were high, cables were a luxury, and those who used them could afford to pay high rates. Mr. Mackay announced that the cable would be laid if he had to lay it him self. He and Mr.' Bennett assumed all risks. The cable devolved upon Mackay. It became his own enterprise almost as much as the Nevada mines. Portal Telegraph Enterprise. In addition to laying the cable under the sea it was realized that those who controlled the American end of the ca bles also controlled the land telegraph system. There were a few sporadic lines, but one company, the Western Union, practically held the system. It was of lit tle use to lay a cable without having a land telegraph company. Mr. Mackay de termined to start such a company. In the land company Mr. Bennett had no Interest. Mr. Mackay established the Pos tal Telegraph Company, which is the only one that has escaped the maw of the Western Union. After the -Mackay-Bennett cables were laid the trouble was just' begun. The new line proposed to make a rate of 40 cents a word. The old companies said that the nfcw one must make a rate of 60 or 75 cents a word or they would cut the price to a mere nominal rate. Mr. Mackay said he had promised to serve the public by reducing the cable tolls to a fair rate. He proposed that the other companies agree on a rate of 40 cents 3 word. Then came the bitter war. The old lines came down to 12 cents a word. Mr.- Mackay fixed his rate at 25 cents a wprd and stuck to it. Th® Commercial Cable Company won the fight. The old compan ies became tired. They offered to com promise on a 50-cent rate. The Commer cial Cable Company answered that It could make all the money it thought it ought to make at a 25-cent rate. Fair-Mackay Fued. This cable war had an influence on the Neyada bank. When Mr. Fair went back to' San Francisco from Washington in 1884 he was so much dissatisfied with Mr. Mackay’s management that he wanted to sell out his interest or buy those of Mr. Mackay and Mr. Flood. Long before that Mr. Mackay and Mr. Fair had quarreled over domestic mat ters. They had not spoken for years. Mr. Mackay was willing to buy Mr. Fair’s interest, but Mr. Fair would ndt sell unless Mr. Flood sold too. That is, Mr. Mackay must buy the whole bank. Mr. Mackay agreed to this and Mr. Fair relinquished his Interest an # d retired to Menlo Park. Mr. Flood also sold his third. It was asserted at the time that Mr. Fair Insisted upon Mr. Mackay tying up his money in the Nevada Bank, because he knew that Mr. Mackay wanted it for his ?able enterprises, and depriving him of his cash might bother him. When Mr. Fair was out of the Nevada Bank Mr. Flood returned and bought back his one-third. Mr. Fair was credited with spreading damaging statements in Wall street about the condition of the Nevada Bank, to the effect that Mr. Mpckay had only 325,000,000 when he left the Pacific coast, and that 37,000,000 of this was tied up in the cable and fl.OOd 000 In Mexican railroads. A more friendly authority said at the time that Mr. Mackay had 125. >A).OCO. of which 310,- 000,000 was in government bonds, and that he had never drawn his profits from the bank. Famous Wheat Deal. The most trying experience of Mr. Mackay’s life grew out of the famous yheat deal of 1887. That was the time tvhen he was on the verge of ruin, and united the houses of York and Lancaster; and ended the war of the roses. Wash ington Irving says of this chapel: "on entering the eye is astonished by the pomp of architecture, and the elaborate beauty of sculptural detail. The very walls are wrought into universal orna ment, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems by the cunning labor of the chisel to have been robbed of its weight and density, Suspen ded aloft as if by magic and the fretted room achieved with the wonderful minute ness and airy security of a coburb. In this chapel are Lady Mayant Douglas, Mary Queen of Scots, beheaded in 1587; George Monk, the maker of kings; King Charles 2d; William and Mary; Queen Anne and Prince George of Denmark. The nave of the chapel contains the vault of King Henry 7th and his wife; George the 3d occupies the same vault; George 2d is here buried without a monument; here too rests the remains of Queen Elizabeth. In this chapel are sarcophagi in the form of cra dles where rest some royal children, Mary, daughter of James Ist, who died when two years old; and Edward Sth and his brother, the Duke of York, murdered in the tower. The chapel of Edward the Confessor contains rich monuments of Henry 111. and Queen Eleanor, wife of Edward 1., Edward 111., JUchard 11., Edward I. and Edward the Confessor. In this chapel are kept two great curiosities, one the old coronation chair of Scottish kings, con taining the "stone of scorn," said to be the stone on which Jacob rested his head at Bethel. In this chair Edward VII. will sit when crowned in August. Then there is the new coronation chair, made for Queen Mary, in which Alexandra will take her seat. A platform will be erected .n the great nave, upon which these chairs will be placed. At 10 o’clock a. m. Edward VII. will leave Buckingham palace and come to the church and be met at the west door by the highest of the nobility. From the robing room near the entrance the king will be escorted to the place prepared for him. The bishop of London will preach a sermon. Ine archbishop of Canterbury will do the anointfng; a liturgy will be said, communion taken and prayers of feren. Then comes the worship, bowing and kissing of hands, then medals (not coins as of old) will bq scattered among the people, and Edward will be just what ho was before. King of England and em peror of India. Os him it may be said that he rose by his own unaided efforts from being heir apparent to the throne to the throne itself. We, the undersigned, believing Dr. SETH ARNOLD’S BALSAM to be a re liable Remedy for Bowel Complaints, hereby guarantee a twenty-five cent bot tle to give satisfaction or money refunded. Brannen & Anthony, Atlanta. when he made the hardest and most suc cessful fight of his life. At one time it seemed certain that the Nevada Bank must go under. After Mr. Fair left the bank George L. Brander was made vice president and put in full control by Mr. Mackay, who had absolute confidence in him. Mr. Brander was a very bright young Scotchman, who had received his business training in Edin burgh. It was not long after Mr. Fair left the bank that the course pursued by Mr. Brander began to cause gossip. It seemed that the young man, with two or three brokers, divined that a European war, or some other manifestation of Providence, would make wheat very dear. He began to loan money on wheat. First half a million went, and then millions went after it in order to sustain tne market. Mr. Brander was in a position to do just as he saw fit. He plunged into spec ulation boldly. It was always denied that the bank itself was directly Interested in the speculations. The surmise that the Nevada Bank was booming wheat in Chi cago remained a surmise only. Confidential agents did Mr. Brander’s work. The deal was begup in San Fran cisco. The bank picked but two wheat brokers worth 3250,000 each as agents. These agents made advances on wheat to the extent of 38 OOO.COO or 310,000,000. They kept whooping things up until wheat touched 32.17 1-2. Then the bottom fell out and there was a crash. Mr. Mackay was in London all this time. He learned of w*hat was going on through an Idle rerhark of his London banker. He came to this country Immediately. When he arrived In San Francisco he learned that the bank was buying the wheat crop of California at about 30 cents aboye the market value. Mr. Mackay started in to straighten the affairs of the bank. The straits to which it had been reduced for ready cash were sore. All the property ow*ned by Mr. Flood and Mr. Mackay was offered for sale. Even the bank building was placed upon the market. The money could not be raised. Mr. Mackay saw ruin ahead of him. And it meant not only ruin to him but a great financial depression all along the Pacific slope. There was only one man in San Francisco who had the cash neces sary to keen the bank from going under. Not long before that Mr. Fair had sold 3750,000 worth of bonds to the government. Mr. Mackay went to him. The old quarrel was patched up, Mr. Fair put up the ne cessary money and returned to the bank as its president. That was the only time I Says I r I I to myself says I — ’ , jSflb. ’1 • g Uneeda I Biscuit W Say s I to my self says I — J 0 they only cost five cents a package. . rajsj Sold only in the Packsges. / Hi M l \\\ TX ' National Biscuit Company. lu! P t/ jZWW ■ rHi Genuine Rogers Silverware. **(<>*"<?’ We make these extraordinary low prices for the month of June only to test thz value of advertising. $1.45 KELLEY, JgVh E iXS>si%«. I T*e'«pio^. b eoo 8p °°™’ QHiiHiiniiiiininiiniiiHmiiiiiiiiiniiiiiinHiiißiiiiiuiimmsiimiiiiiiniiiiiiiiHiiu | "a THF, c | Semi=Week'y Journal’s | Summer Contest for Agents. I We offer SIOO.OO in cash to the fourteen agents S who send us the largest number of subscribers fro m S May 6th to the Ist of September. 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Some of our best agents’ territory has been S thoroughly worked and now some new agents will =S have an opportunity to secure the larger prizes If S they will only thoroughly canvass their locality. ’ For further information, sample copies and sup plies, address 5 | The Semi =Weekly Journal, ATLANTA, GA. the bank in difficulties. Mrs. Mackay has done as much as her husband to keep the Bonanza name be fore the public—of late years she has probably done more. She is a woman of great social ambitions. Not finding a field in San Francisco, she went abroad, os tensibly to superintend the education of her children. Mackay bought a fine house in Paris for $250,000 and gave his wife 310,000,000 in United States government bqnds. The house was magnificently furnished, and when it was opened Mrs. Mackay began to entertain upon the most lavish scale. She has made her home in Europe ever since. While in Paris her daughter was mar ried to Prince‘Ferdlnand Colonna of Stig liano. Mrt. Mackay’s London house is one of the most magnificent in that city. Mrs. Mackay has given entertainments there upon a royal scale and she has se cured a position very high in European society circles. The Bonynge Fued. Os all the domestic affairs of the Mac kays which furnished food for gossip abroad, there was none which aroused such interest or caused so much laughter as that known as the Bonynge feud. For a lona*time stories had been floating about in London and Paris that Mrs. Mackay had been a washerwoman and that her father, who was supposed to have been in the United States army, was really a barber in San Francisco. A number Os English newspapers printed this story, and Mrs. Mackay sued one of them for libel, and got a verdict. Before the newspapers prlntjed the sto ries some one .was telling them indus triously in London society. The Mackays suspected the Bonynge family. Mr. Boh ynge was an Englishman who had gone as Mr. broker and made a few millions. Then he went back to London, taking his family with him, and pro ceeded to cut a figure in society. The two families were jealous of each other. A newspaper warfare was kept up for months. Matters reached such a pass af ter a while that it was understood that each family had an agent in the United States to keep the scandals moring along. The thing which drove the Bonynges to desperation was what purported to be a history of them which was published in a weekly paper in New York, and which was sent, with the story carefully marked, to prominent people in London society. This broke off an engagement between Miss Virginia Daniel-Bonynge and the then Viscount Cantelupe, now Earl of De La Warr. The article said that the young woman was the child of a man named Daniel, who liad been a prisoner in a California penitentiary. Then a book was published against the Bonynges, it was alleged, at the Instiga tion of the Mackays. This book was called ‘Mrs. Jonathan Abroad” and purported to give information about American women who had achieved social prominence in Europe. It contained a venomous attack upcn the Bonynges. The affair culminated In a fight between John W- Mackay and the elder "Bonynge In the Nevada bank In Ban Francisco on January 28, 1891. Mr. Mackay explained that he had secured proof that Mr. Bon yngg had been circulating scandalous sto ries about Mrs. Mackay and that he had decided to punish the Englishman at the first | opportunity. He did so then and there. Shot by a Crank. Mr. Mackay was shot by a crank named Rlppl In San Francisco February 34. 1893, and came near dying. Rippl had been ,erased by poverty, and he believed Mr. Mackay was the cause of his misfor tunes. He killed himself after shooting Mr. Mackay. Os late years Mr. Mackay spent much of his time in Europe, but was also in New York a good deal. His fortune has been variously estimat ed at between >80,000,000 and 1100,000,000. In appearance he was tall and well made. His hair, once very light, had turned nearly white. He was shy and re served In speech, but quick so act. Once he made up his mind nothing could swerve him. - .. Jj |j He was a good friend to have and a ter rible enemy to provoke.
