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to Miss 1 O. Ttanaas, Lock Bos 542, Atlanta. Ga.
MY BURDEN
Bjr Amos R. Wells.
God laid upon my back a grievous load.
A heavy cross to bear alone the road.
I ataaorered on. and lo! one weary day.
- An angry lien swan* across my way.
I prayed to God. and swift at His command.
The cross became a weapon In my hand.
It slew my raging. enemy and then
Became a cross upon my back again.
1 faltered many a league until at length.
Groanin* I fell, and had no further strength.
• "Ob. God.” I cried. "I am so weak and lame!"
Then straight my cross a winged staff be
came.
It sweet me on till I rerained the lose
Then leaped upon my back, again a cross.
1 seacbed a desert. O'er the burning track
! I pteserrsi the cross upon mv back.
Bo shade was there, and in the cruel sun
I sank at last, and thought my days were
done.
But 10l the Lord works manv ablest surprised.
The cross became a tree before my eyes!
I sleet. I woke, to feel the strength of ten:
I found the cross upon mv back again.
And thus through all my days from that to
thia
• The cross, my burden, has become my bliss.
Bor ever shall I lav the burden down.
• For God some dav will make the cross a
crown!
CHAT
Two ladles were talking about an
acquaintance One of them said she
eras sorry that Ada had grown so
bitter, and the other said that unless
a change came pretty soon she would
not be able to live in the house with
. anybody.
"Well.” spoke the first one, “the only
thing that we can do is to love her
and let her know it. Some of these
days she will be brought up with a
shock, and then our love will be a help
to her.”
• * "My dear.” said the other, "she has
not spoken to me in a week. She
passes my door with her eyes right
before her and I’ve searched my brain
to find a cause. 1 think you are very
forgiving to be as sweet to ner as you
ate. after Mrs. Wallace told you what
ane said.”
, “Oh.” laughed the other. "I am try-
ing to show her what a mistake she
* made. Os course, t don’t enjoy hear
ing unkind things said of me. but
some times the remarks of such people
are a truer mirror than our old
friends. When people tell me things
said of me I search my neart to find
out whether I have fallen into such
habits. If I have. I try to overcome
them, and if my introspection clears
iheTtry to* show the party how mis
taken she Is.”
“When Ada finds herself without a
- friend I suppose she will go to your
house and s<ay as long as she pleases?
I wish you could muster courage to
talk to her like she talks about us.
Somebody will have to tell her that
she Is getting crosser and more dlc
•• tatorial every day.”
"No, no,” said the other. "I am
afraid she would eat me up. Truly,
she would never forgive me, and I don’t
tn ink that she would ever admit that
she was in the wrong. Get someone
7 who cares less for her, I can't do that.
“Do you rememuer George Herbert’s
beautiful lines:
“ ’Be useful where thou livest, that
they may
Both want and wish thy loving
• presence stilt
Find oat men's wants and will.
4 And meet them there. All worldly
joys go less
To the one joy of doing kindnesses.'
“That would be a good lesson for
every mother to Inculcate. Every child
should bo taught gentleness and con
sideration for others. I heard a mother
boasting that none of tne children
liked to play with her son; that he
was so dictatorial and rough. He was
only four then, and I wondered what
sort of life he would lead in after
years. Then was the time to
that nature, not to rejoice in it."
I spent yesterday morning visiting
the sick. In three hospitals there were
friends. I had been so busy that 1
oould not go before they had began to
convalesce, and each one showed so
much pleasure that I felt sorry be
cause they had not seen me sooner.
Life is so full of duties that some of
us need at least a week dropped in
occasionally to help us catch up with
the things we should do, and would
really enjoy doing.
In my reading I came across these
lines: “Let us take time to consider.
We are so hurried in our earth-life and
so burdened with our cares and pleas
ures that we have Jlttle leisure for re
flection. JVe are so busy clothing our
bodies that we have not time to con
sider how we may clothe our souls. We
are so engrossed with the accumulation
of riches that we forget to considei
how we may best enrich our minds.
We are so taken up with self and seif
Interests that we neglect to consider
the grand proofs of God's love for us.
and to reflect on His wisdom and
might. Oh, that we could learn to
think more about God, and trust more
fully in His loving protection and
grow daily more dependent upon His
mercies.''
The above quotation fits some of us.
but there are others who. in life's great
struggle take time to feed the sou! with
the Bread of Life and put on the beau
tiful garments of simplicity. Sunday 1
was with a class of sixty-two, all young
women who work hard every day. They
have a class room of their own because
they have outgrown the little church.
The rooms were dingy- and even dirty
when the landlord turned them over to
them, but one night they stained the
floors, painted the split bottomed chairs,
and cleaned the walls. They have two
rooms, one for the meetings, and one toi
thetr suppers. At least three nights in
the week they are at the church. There
is the Mission Study class, prayer meet
Ing. and their teachers’ meeting. To go
home, and return after work would tire
them out. as well as take time, so they
gn there, buy bread, cook a little, make
chocolate or coffee and all have a picnic
supper. They have dishes and a table
and really enjoy IL Then when the
hour arrives they are fresh and ready
for the King's business. This cooking
and eating is shared by the young
men who also have classes and interests
at the church. There are several mar-
ried ladies in the class so there is al
ways a chaperon. Next Wednesday night
I am to take supper with them. I wish
some of you could be here to see these
young people who all day have poreo
over books in an office or bank, sold
goods to perhaps cross and suspicious
people, or made the typewriters click as
they transferred their employer's
thoughts to paper. At eventide they drop
the cares that all day have been with
them, and happy hearted they mingle
with the King's children and go about
the King's business or study His word.
If in this one little church there are
sixty-two young women who give their
spare time to such work how many do
you suppose there are in this big city?
I wish that I might tell you, but I can
not. But be sure of this, there are more
of the working girls and boys who em
ploy themselves this way than in walk
ing the streets and going to theatres.
Tbeqe are many who do that, too, more’s
I the pity, but it’s not because they are
not urged to join the other crowd.
The mistake many people make is in
failing to join some church, or Sunday
school, as soon as they come to the city.
There they will meet the right class
of people and form the sort of friend?
they can depend on. Try it, and see if I
am nbt right.
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
The Peck Grows to Bushels
Dear Household: It is so quiet tonight and
Muriel’s letter put me to studying. She says
she must have advice from some one. Wuy
not ask your mot tier’ Who ever heard of a
woman taking advice in a case like this? Now,
If she bad said the experienced ones, that
would have let me out. Dear, you are some
where between 20 and 30, fairly good looking,
and have got uneasy for fear you will not get
married, is what haa caused all this peck of
trouble. Have I drawn the right picture? I
am thinking you will have two bushels of
trouble if you become "mamma” to all those
children. Widowers, judging from my acquaint
ance. make splendid husbands, with few excep
tions. If you do not love him, tell him so.
Never marry a man you can’t love.
i As to the other fellow; get him to try some
thing else for those “bad feelings.” I would
.be afraid he would continue with the bitters
'(whisky with the cherry bark tied to the jug
handle). I think that is the way some make
■ bitters.
I Write often. Opal; you are the life of Our
Household. Rougan, I am sorry you have such
; a time getting your mail. Monday will be
i Washington’s birthday—no rural delivery. All
1 you Householders living in the rural section know
what that means. No mall from Saturday until
' Tuesday. That seems a long time. And just a
1 few years back we did not get mail but about
I' twice a week. I, for one, appreciate rural de
"welcome. Frank Snell, you are missing a lot
of good let’era. I am sorry you have been an
. irregular reader of The Journal. I have missed
l a few copies and can sympathise^with
• MISS L ALL* It*.
Informatiton Wanted
Can anvone tell me the whereabouts of Eddie
<''alhoun Grhdick? When last heard from he
waa at Stone Mountain, and said to be mak
ing his way to Texas. His brother was my
husband and I want the children to know of
their uncle.
All answers wil be appreciated.
Address Mrs. Martha V. Gradlck, Oxford,
G*., Route L .
A Clear Statement of Facts
Dear Miss Thomas: Being one of the new
ones. I gladly accept the generous invitation
you offer us. '
I am looking forward with Interest to what
the Householders are going to say to Muriel
to help her out of her “peck of trouble.” The
widower who makes her an advantageous
offer of marriage is of exemplary character, is
well-off in this world’s goods, is a good pro
vider and has eight children. There is nt,
reason why she should not accept his pro
posal? But she does not love him. In my
judgment that is sufficient reason Respect Is
all very well, but that one should have any
way; but it does not take the place of affec
tion. It means a great deal to be a second
wife, and one should have a heart full of af
fection for the father, a fondness for children
and an Inexhaustible store of patience if she
contemplates this step. With a one-year-old
child and others older In the home, there
would be long years of weary work and many
responsibilities.
“My own dear quiet home, the Eden of my
heart.” Muriel, could you bear that senti
ment living with a man you could only re
spect? And would it be fair to him to many
him when you love another? No; then If you
do not love, do not marry. The connubial
yoke sits easy on the shoulders of Love, but
is moat galling If deprived of this one and
most sufficient support. Singleness is blessed
ness compared to marriage without affection.
Be true to your own soul’s high Ideals.
Perhaps no folly holds so strong a place In
woman's mind as that she can reclaim the
one she loves. “If he is a little fast now.” she
tells herself, “he will settle down after mar
riage. into a quiet, sensible husband.” It is
a delusion, a snare, and when it too late to
back out she wakes to find th* will of her
husband stronger than her own, too selfish for
any control, and her life begins Its long agony
of misery.
Yet. in spite of the wretchedness of drunk
ards’ wives, young women are continually
willing to marry men who are tn the habit of
, indulging in the social glass. A young woman
who marries a man addicted to drinking
liquors Is attaching to herself a dead weight
that will draw- her down with himself.
Muriel, as life is precious to you and you
value it highly, take no such chances. Rather
than marry a man who drinks only now and
then for his friends’ sake, wait a while longer;
do not despair, there are many young men of
noble character w’ho ar* looking for true,
pure wives and your chances are not to be
considered finished.
Most women have an Inqjlctive wish to
marry a man superior to themselves in one
! way or other, for their honor is tn their hus
j bands: thetr status In society Is determined b>
' his. Once in a while a woman has force of
character enough to lift her husband up to
her own level, but it Is at the peril of her
higher life. If she finds It impossible to lift
him to her level or to sink to bis there re
mains only lifelong regrets and bitter shame
and self-reproach, or the forcible setting of
I herself free. In such freedom there Is more
of despe.lr than hope. My advice to you.
summed up. is to stay with your parents a
while longer. It is no dishonor to be an old
maid and there is a God like work for them
to do.
I*o. we are neighbors; therefore. I am very
i much interested tn you. your work, and voui
I letters. I met you New Year’s night at a
party. Do you remember?
There are many things I wish to write about
; tn future, but time presses now.
i With best wishes to Miss Thomas and all the
I Household. HOPE.
Roth Enjoy Our Household.
Dear Itonrshold Friends: We will say to t h e
• girl in a peek of trouble and wants advice: fe
, don’t know that we will sar anything that will
do her any good, bnt we think that it will bo
•a good plan for her to wait nn 11 she gets
I thirty. Then we think she will know by that
I time, how to keep lions* for either one of her
; suitors. She wil know by that time that she
iis nothing but a child now and that widower
j will l>e married by that time, as be will get
tired of waiting for her.
I Muriel, live on In good cheer, as wo all need
I encouragement, for hope travels with ns and
I never quits us till we die. Think for yourself.
Sincerely. ALICE AND TED.
A Happy Stepmother
Dear Household: It has been over a year
. since last I joined vou. There have been
; many changes In some of our homes. Some
. have passed over the river and others have
' gone out Into hemes of tbair own.
I A bright-eved babv bov has come to our
home: the joy and net of every one. And
■ I have also a sweet little stepgrandbaby.
just five davs older than my little boy.
Just think cf it. n.M vet twenty-five and
| can be called grandmother. T have had peo
i pie to ask me if I didn’t feel queer with a
I grandchild and I gladlv replied no, for I
love my stepdaughter and her little son too
well for anvthlnc like that: We are devot
ed to each other, and have always been like
. sisters. We lived together not quite two
THE ATLANTA SEMUWEEKLT JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH v, 1905.
PAPER, PUBLISHED IN 1800, TELLS OF
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Cut of portion of front page of Ulster County Gazette, published
of entombment of George Washing ton. This interesting relic is in the
Atlanta.
On this, the anniversary of George
Washington’s birth, the following extract
from a time-yellowed, old newspaper
published at Kingston, Va„ 109 years ago,
will be of particular interest. The paper,
which is called the Ulster County Gazette,
Is one of the heirlooms of Mrs. Frank
Owens, of Peachtree street, having been
handed down to her from ancestors of
Revolutionary days. The date of its issue
Is December 20, 1900. It contains a news
story’ ot General Washington’s entomb
ment as follows:
years and there was never a cross word
between us, and when she married I felt like
my next best friend was going out of my
home. You know, we think our jnothers are
J>eet friends, and indeed she is.
Lucile, your last letter. the last you
wrote, carried me back to those dear days
of old. when I was a little girl and went
to church with mother. She was always
found near the front and I knew better than
to speak and scarcely moved. Mcst of the
youths of todav seat themselves In the rear
I of the church and talk all the time.
You all remember that Rev. Sam Jones said
"Satan had a pulpit in the hack of every
church.” and I tfenk it mint certainly be
true, in this community anvway.
I had the pleasure of entertaining Busy
Bee’s good husband and youngest boy New
1 Years day. Thev spent the night before
with us and we certainly enioved their com
pany. While reading Busy Bee’s letter of the
12th I thought of how nicelv her little boy
behaved.
I visited home the latter nart of last month.
i Mother is a dear lover of flowers and she
' has so many. I thought of vou. Miss Thom
as. and felt like I wanted to send you an
armful of those sweet double hyacinths, nar
cissus and roses. Alas! for those sweet
flowers: that severe blizzard came and nip
ped them *li
Let me add that I am still a smiling step
mother and have dear, obedient stepchildren.
My 17 and 15-year-old stepdaughters are lots
more obedient than a lot of real daughters.
We have so many goed w’riters tn our page.
All the letters are cheerful and helpful.
Love to our dear Miss Thomas and all the
writers. MILLER’S WIFE.
Mt, Carmel. S. C.
Thistle’s Opinion.
Dear Miss Thomas: It has been some time
since I wrote to you, but when I read Muriel's
letter, it shocked me into a writing notion.
I know that there will be others more capable
than I to give her udvieee, but I wish to have
my say. Don’t, under any circumstances, marry
the widower with eight children or any other
widower with even one child. Have all the
eight children visit you for one month and you
will be glad to see the end of that month,
even if you come out with a white bead.
Do not understand that I don’t love children,
but think of taking the responsibility of such a
band of them and not really loving them. I have
cuildren of my own, and many, many times
1 am at such a loss to know my duty to them.
It takes love, such as few ever have for any
but their own, patience, and wisdom, to rear
them as they should be, and it you have all
these while it is a sweet pleasure it is a
great burden. ~ ,
Muriel says her friends say she would do well
to take him. I should uot call them friends
if they advised me to go into a trouble lue
marrying a man with eight children, when she
savs she doesn't love him.
I’ll let some of the others express them
selves as to her parents being willing to sacri
fice their daughter. I am as much opposed to
drinking as any one. but there are a few things
almost as bad. among them untruihfulneas and
jealousy. Mothers, begin as soon as your chil
dren begin to tnlk, to teach them to be truth
ful and obedient. To be firm with them, wul
gave you much talking and many steps. I’nt
them in Sunday school as soon as they are
large enough to understand, and teach them to
know it la a disgrace to go without know
ing thetr lessons. There are lots of grown peo-
ple who go to Sunday school without knowing
the lessons, fan anything lie said or done to
impress this important question on their minds.
And don’t vou think the older ones ought to
take more Interest, and help the younger ones
as well us themselves': We are responsible for
examples set before the young.
The widower who wrote in defense of Ola
Woman did the most sensible thing I ever knew
a widower to do. I thought he took the right
view of the matter, and I believe him to be
a Christian from the tone of his letter.
If Muriel could find such a widower as he.
It might do for her to take him: that is, if he
haa no children. Let us know, child, which of
the two vou decide to take—the widower or the
one vou love. I must leave, as there are some
wise'sts'ers knocking at the door, and let them
Sincerely. , .mlkDfwvm a
have room. Slncerly,
Whitesburg. Ga. THISTLE.
A Call to the Absentees .
Dear Householders: Aa the evening sun 13
fast sinking in the glowing west that seems
so far away, all the dear ones are busy with
the evening chores, and 1 am all alone, so my
thoughts turn at once to "tlur Household.”
which has given me so much pleasure aud has
b<-n so much help to me in many weary hours.
I am very glad we have such a fine depart
ment as "Our Household,” and the Semi-Weekly
Journal would truly be less attractive without
it. liowgan, I think you have quite a hard
time to get your mail, however. I l»pe you
have a faithful carrier and arc receiving it all
right and "just on time" ere this. I have never
had an experience of that kind, but know it
must be very annoying. By the way. Kowgan.
I will not guess as to what your name may be,
but. gness your fa her or mother’s name to
be Morgan or Duggan and the other was or is
Morrow.
Necla. I think you are right in sending your
children to the school with refined pe»ple aud
In a first-class community. One's companions
can certainly Influence them for either good or
bad. and one Is looked up<»n as no better than
the company they keep. Parents should be very
careful as to ihe company their children keep,
also about the reading matter that falls into
their children s hands. To read good books Is
of more value to one than the price of them,
but sorry ones are not worth picking up and
you get no benefit from reading them.
Busy Bee, I was very glad to read a letter
from you. Come again soon and give us that
description of your part of the country. What
have become of all the absentees? Come again,
t ,f you. INVALID GIRL.
Home Pleasures.
Dear Household: Aithourh I have been si
lent for a lone time I know I have nut
■ been missed, for there have been so many let-
| ters. and I have enioved them very much,
for there is always somethin* in them that
will help one of us If we look for it. I
know I can not write like so many others,
yet if I can put a word that will be a bene
fit to some one I will net feel that mine
has been a failure.
I want to speak in favor of good literature,
good magazines and *<x>d books, more cf it
In our homes, for I think it one of the great
est home comforts, and I think if parents
would see that their children had more good
reading the chcan novels which are so com
reading thhe cheao novela which are so com
mon. and the cheao stories, and consequently
fewer nf them would go to the bad, for cer
tainly the cheap ones have a bad Influence
When I am tired and blue ther<l is nothing
rests me mers than a good story, one with a
good moral, and I don't think that kind of
literature will hurt our boys and girls.
I know a mirlstqtr who was always op
posed to any reading of that kind; he would
not allow his children to have it and his
only son. as soon as hs got old enough to
“On "Wednesday last the mortal part of
Washington the Great, the Father of
his country and the Friend of man, was
consigned to the tomb with solemn honors
and funeral pomp.
"A multitude of persons assembled from
many miles around at Mt. Vernon, the
choice abode and last residence ot the
illustrious Chief. There were the groves—
the spacious avenues, the beautiful and
sublime scenes, the noble mansion, but
alas! the august Inhabitant vzas now no
more. That Great Soul had winged its
earn money, would buv the cheap dime nov
els and detective stories. He got to be one
of 'the wildest, and todav is estranged from
most of his family.
Don’t vou think that father would have
better placed some good magazines in that
! boy’s reach? Thev are bcund to read. I also
! know a man of familv who condemns all
me.zazlnes and books that have stories in
them, he classes them all as novels and "nov
el” with him means vellow backs of the
cheapest grade. Yet he likaa his sporting
news and baseball pacers. What do you sup
pcse his children will read? Some say “If
you give them stories thev won't get their
lessons.” See that t he lessons are first.
Why, it does me good lust to sit down and
I look at pictures in a good magazine if I don’t
, read a word.
i And another pleasure In horn* life Is music,
leave all that you can. and parents, try to be
I companions to vour children as well as rul
ers. I must step out now. for the office cat
says I am taking up too much space. But
I send a little poem that I have had a long
time which has been a benefit to me, and
If Miss Thomas thinks It worthy of a place
she will pass it along to the Household.
Perhaps it mav benefit some other one. With
love to Miss Thomas and the Householders.
YANKEE MARY.
Don’ts for Some Visitors
Dear Household: One balmy afternoon last
spring I took a walk of half a mile to visit
one of my neighbors who was very sick. Know
ing how much she loved flowers. I gathered a
handful of fragrant roses, and putting on iny
siinlxmnet. went to the short road across the
inendoa' and a strip of woodland. As I crossed
the old etile a mocking bird, sitting on a free
near by, poured forth a flood of melody.
• Bloe'ona.’’ my pet cow. raised her head from
ti e grnsa, and looking at me gave a low “moo"
of recogtiltion. Bees flew by me returning to
their hives laden . with sweets. Everything
seemed at peace. I thought of the time, one
year ago, when my friend and I roamed the
woods in search of wild honeysuckles. And now
•lie was shut la from all this beauty. Three
days had passed since I had seen her. but bad
been told that she was better. The first person
I saw on entering was Auat Milly Leake. Now,
“Aunt Milly.” as she was called by everyone,
was as kind-hearted as she could be and very
helpful In many respect*. She wouldn’t have
knowingly hurt anyone for the world; but she
didn’t know what to say and what not to say
in a sick room.
“Law mee. Mis’ Simpson, I don't believe you
are looking as well as you did when I was
here before.” “I think I feel better,’’ said my
friend, trying to laugh.
“Have you tried that yarb tea I told you
about? When my Julie was down with the
fever, It done her more good than all the doc
tor’s stuff. Riit, poor gal, she died after all!
She was worked Just like you are, too. Mis’
Simpson; kinder restless and oneasy like all
the time.”
“How many little chickens hare you now.
Aunt Milly.” I asked trying to change the sub
ject; and then I commenced to tell about mine.
sn<: how nretty my flowers were—but It was
no use. Some one remarked that Mrs. Snooks
was passing.
“I never see Sary Ann Snooks but I think
of the time her Luther had pnenmony fever.
Doctor Allen didn’t know what ailed that boy.
I ain't got no faith in him. no how. Luther
just lasted ntne days and three hours from the
time he was tuck. He was one of the prettiest
corpses I ever seed: so placid like!”
•Wbv, Aunt Milly.” I said, “I think Dr.
Allen a fine physician. Were I sick I should
prefer him to anyone.”
“Everybody to tlielr notion. It’s time I was
going,- towards home. Well, goodby Mis’ SiW*
son: if you git worse send for me. and I 11
come and do what I can. There’s a hqap of
sickness now. No telling who will git down
next. Peggy Short’s baby is powerful bad off.
Now, Annie, -you be sure to let me know if
vour maw gits worse,” and she was gone.
Sitting down near the bed I talked quietly
but in a bright and cheerful way for a few
moments, telling my friend that we would take
another ramble in the woods as soon as she
was able, and recalled an amusing incident ot
ATLANTA GIRL WRITES A BOOK
DEALING WITH BILLY 9 POSSUM’
Miss Mary Brent Whiteside is Author of a Book Clever Verses,
Which Promises To Be a Success.
By Ralph Smith.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27.—The
passing of the Teddy Bear and the com
ing of Bill ’Possum Is merrily sung of in
a recent book by Miss Mary Brent YVhite
side, ot Atlanta, as follows:
“De poodle dawg done had ’ls day,
Lakwise de Teddy B’ar,
En eve’y place dey use ter be,
De ’possum’s settin’ dar.
“Dey tied de poodle wld ’er chain,
En kyar’d 'im all eroun’,
But eve’y place he use to go,
De ’possum now am foun'.
“Now atter while dey tu’ned eroun’,
En lubbed de Teddy B ar,
But 'tain’t no use ter look for 'lm,
Kaze he no longer dar.
“But eve’y whar he use ter be —
In books cn pictures, too.
You’ll fin’ des sho’ en sart’n, dat
Bill ’Possum grins at you.”
On the eve of President-elect Taft’s In
auguration, Miss Whiteside, who is a
niece of Governor Hoke Smith, of Geor
gia, and a well known author, has written
an attractive little book that promises
to make a bld for Instant success. It is
dedicated to Mr. Taft as a nyxlest me
mento of his visit to Atlanta, and is en
titled "Bill ’Possum—His Book.” Several
Washington booksellers and department
stores have stocked themselves with large
supplies of the work, and it is the pur
pose of some of them to take advantage
of the inauguration to push the book.
Miss Whiteside tells interestingly of
the ’possum and the negro In her book,
depicting the affinity between the two,
and relating cleverly many amusing
stories. Each chapter is introduced by
109 years ago, and containing story
possession of Mrs. Frank Owens, of
flight to Him who gave it. But, ah, how
affecting! How awful the spectacle of
such worth and greatness, thus to mortal
eyes fallen! Yes! fallen, fallen, FALL
EN!
"In the long and lofty portico where
oft the hero walked in all his glory, now
lay the shrouded corpse. The countenance
still composed ana serene seemed to ex
press the dignity of the spirit which late
ly dwelt In that lifeless form. There those
who paid the last sad honors to the bene
factor of the country took an impressive—
a farewell view.”
our last trip. I gave her my little nephew’s
message, "Tell Miss Sallie that Fanclion has four
little puppies, ami I named the spotted one for
her.” Then I told her that Dr. Allen told me
the day before that she was decidedly better.
The depressed, anxious look began to fade from
her sac«. Thinking Annie needed the fresh air.
I told her I would stay jvith her mother while
she fed the chickens that were at the back door
clamoring for their evening meal, brought in
the clothes that had been washed that morn
ing and did some other necessary things.
After my friend recovered we had a hearty
laugh over Aunt Mllly’s consoling remarks, but
it was rather a serious matter at the time.
Don't be officious with offers of help or ad
vice in the sick room, but if anything needs
to be done help to do it quietly and deftly.
Don’t tell of some accident that has happened,
or relate some exciting adventure. Never whis
per. The sick person may think you are talking
of bls condition and the nervous strain to try to
catch your words may prove very Injurious. l?e
careful what you take to your sick neighbor to
eat. If he sees It, he will perhaps insist on
eating it, and If unsuitable it will likely male
him worse. I know a lady to die from ea'.lng
lee creaw that a well meaning but unthinking
iriend lirouglit her. Don’t stay too long, and
when you rise to take your departure, go at
once. Don’t become offended If you are not
allowed to go In to see the sick. If the doctor
forbids it, he knows what is best. Some sick
people have been made much worse by too mucn
company. An old lady told me that she went
to see a young man who was very low with
fever.' His sister, who had been giving the
medicine, of which there was two or three
kinds, was called out of the room. When the
time came to give him some medicine his mother
poured about a half teaspoonful out. and he
swallowed it down. When his sister cemc oack
she said: , ~,
"Ma, did yon give Tom his medicine?
“Yes,” said her mother.
"Which bottle did you drop it from?
“That black bottle.”
"Why ma, that’s not the medicine for him
to take now, it’s out of this bottle,” the tirl
exclaimed in alarm.
“Well, what’s the difference! aid the moth
er with much asperity, “he’s got to take it all
anvhow.” . ...
Ignorance is a hard thing to contend with.
1 wish to s'ate. however, that the boy got wtei.
in spite of his mother.
Opal, vou spoke of getting the Household o
send you a sweetheart for a Christmas present.
You’ll have to make it an Easter offering now.
And. remember, it would be rude to refuse to
accept n present.
Observer, come often. You ask my opinion ot
persons being unequally yoked. A good many
people find themselves so situated, or else ac
cept the conditions with their eyes open. There
are many ways in which we can be unequally
voked. To my mind one of the saddest is «hen
a sensitive, refined woman Is united for life to
a husband not her equal socially, mentally or
morally. Tennyson says:
“As the husband so the wife is.
Thou art mated to a clown:
And the grossness of bls nature
Will have power to drag thee down.
Do you agree with the poet? I can only s*y
that we should make the best of such things
and by strength of will and prayer try to rise
above them. .
Love to Opnl. Busy Bee. Observer end <
Pat. who seem not to nave forgotten this N<>rth
Georgia member. BINGHAM.
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well-being and theirs. Bad judgmerft is
but nother name for ignorance. The
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means of a rythmical jingle, and most of
the book Is in negro dialect.
“The ’possum language,” says Miss
Whiteside, “being translated into human
speech, naturally takes the form of negro
dialect, for between the negro and the
'possum exists a peculiar affinity which to
the white man is unknown and unattain
able.”
/ The dialect Is smoothly written and Is
easily read. It shows a familiarity with
the lingo of the negro that is pleasing and
Instantly remindful to those who have
heard the old-time negro and appreciate
his love for the 'possum, and likewise the
’possum’s enmity for the negro.
One chapter of the book is devoted to a
graphic description of a 'possum hunt in
Georgia, with an old negro in the lead.
The telling is natural and easy, and the
picture is so true to life that one who
has had experience In hunting ’possums
is carried back to the good old days when,
with the pine knot torches and trained
dogs, he tramped the woods of his native
section looking for fat ’possums.
The songs and jingles of the old ne
groes are appealing, as instance this one:
“ ’Possum clam’ de 'simmon tree,
Grinnin’ fit ter kill;
Sump'n lam ’im side de head,
En out de tree he spill.
“Nigger caddy come erlong,
Lookin' for de ball,
En fin' dat 'possum layin’ dar,
Zackly whar he fall.
“Possum meat fer bobbecue,
Taters on de side;
Talk erbout dat game er golf—
Bes’ you eber tried.”
The ’possum dinner given President
elect Taft at Atlanta a short time ago, is
also described in the book, the descrip
tion being the joint work of an imaginary
negro and a possum.
* PLYMOUTH— BETHEL’
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T Srooklyh
“IN THE CROSS OF CHRIST WE GLORY”
“The preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness; but
unto us which are saved it is the |»wer of God.’’—l Cor. 1:13.
It is very remarkable that the Cross, which
symbolized the most ignominious form of capi
tal punishment under the laws of the Roman
■ empire. Ehould be the symbol of Christianity.
Thus, believers who are deeply learned in the
Bible will have no difficulty in discerning that
the same Divine Providence which in advance
marked bread as a symbol of the Bread of
Life from heaven, and water as a symbol of
the later of life from the throne of God. ana
marriage as a picture of the relationship be
tween Christ and the church, directed also
that the Romans should adopt the Cross as a
symbol of Ignominy. Was not this anticipated
in the Divine prophecy which declared.
"Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree”—
a cross? And did not our Lord Jesus use this
very word Cross with a proper figurative sig
nification considerably in advance of his own
crucifixion, saying. "If any man would be
my disciple, let him deny himself, and take
up his Cross, and follow me.”—Matt. 16:24.
Evidently the Cross, the shame of the Cross,
the ignominy of the Cross, the ordeal pictured
by the Cross, were foreordained picture-les
sons—lessons of the self-denial sand sacrifices
expected not only for Messiah, but for all those
who would bp associated with him as his
“Bride” classes, "members of his Body,” h’s
"Royal Priesthood.” his Peculiar People,” his
"Holy Nation.”
It will be discerned that we are drawing a
sharply-defined contrast between the meaning
of the cross presented to our minds in the
Scriptures and the unregenerated sentiment
which sec.* it merely as the symbol of pride
and ostentation whether upon banners or
' buildings or bestudded with iewels for personal
I adornment. Let us be understood, that the
people’s pulpit stands for the Cross In the
simplicity of Its original institution as a sym
bol in the words of our Lord and His apostles
• —a symbol of sdf-denial. self-sacrifice, sufer
in* for righteousness’ sake in opposition to the
spirit of the world, the flesh and the adver-
' sary.
On the other hand, let us not be understood
to have any superstitious reverence for a
, splinter from the Cross of Christ or for one
of the nails reputed to have been driven
through our Saviour’s flesh. We do not bow
down to them nor reverence them In any
sense. Our thought goes out to th* Cross of
Christ on a much higher and nobler plane
when we recognize the work of grace con
nected with our Saviour’s sacrifice. whl*h was
i finished on the Cross. In the proper under
’ standing of the matter our Lord took up his
' Cross as soon as hr reached manhood's estate
! J under the I.aw —when thirty years of age. Im
mediately he presented himself to John at
1 Jordan and made a full consecration unto
■ death, symbolizing it by water Immersion.
‘ There, begotten by the Holy Spirit, he cam* up
out of the water and for three and a half
1 years figuratively, symbolically, was bearing
’ bls Croas. His Cross consisted not In His
living separate from sin. for He had lived
separate from sin up to that time. “He knew
1 no sin.”—ll. Cor. 5:21.
His Cross, on the contrary, consisted In self
’ denial as respects things which would have
‘ been entirely proper and right, against which
there would have been no law. These he sac
; rificed in the dolxig of the Father’s will. In
laying down His life a ransom for mankind.
; Although His own will was a righteous one,
, He tells us that he came not to do His own
. will, but the will of Him that sent Him—the
, Father’s will. He tells us what this will was,
( namely, that He should lay down His life,
. giving Himself a ransom for many, and that
! ultimately He should receive His life again as
[ a reward, on a higher plane, and that thus,
. by the sacrifice for our sins. He should be
! qualified not only to atone for our sins and
! thus to purchase the world by the sacrifice for
sin. but additionally that He should have
i power and authority to save the world from
■ It* lost condition—from sin and death.
Purchased by His Blood.
. The Apostle Peter states the same matter
i In other words, savin*, that we were re-
• deemed "with the precious blood of Chri*t, as
i of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”
(I Pet. 1:19). As the Cross of Christ was not
merely the Umber to which He was nailed
at death. »o the blood of Christ was not that
which issued from the suear-thrust in His side
after Hie death. The scriptural statement is
that the "Life is in the blood.” In accord
with this the Lord's sacrifice of His life was
the sheddin ■ of His blood.
ndeed, is a proper name for anv violent death.
When it is said that we were >ought with the
precious blood of Christ It signifies that th»
valuable sacrifice of His life was made on our
behalf. That sacrifice, that shedding of His
blood, began when He was thirty years of
age. at the moment of His consecration unto
death. It continued for the three and a half
years of His ministry. It was finished when
He cried with a loud voice and gave up the
spirit of life. His life. His blood was thus
graduallv shed, and the shedding was com
pleted before the Roman soldier pierced His
side. As wc see this proper, broad conception
of the cross of Christ and the shedding of th*
blood cf the Lamb of God. we find that the
two thoughts are identical, merely stated from
different standpoints and renresented by dif
' ferent figures of speech.
The vafue of the self-sacrifice of our Lord,
represented in these two pictures, is the gos
pel theme. On it hang the law. the prophets,
the promises of the scripture, both of the Old
and New Testaments. Without it our race is
undone, in hopeless desoqjr. Without it death
to humanity would mein the same as to the
brute beast. For although man was made in
the image of his creator and with noble quali
ties of mind and heart, constituting him an
earthly Image of his heavenlv creator, never
theless all of his rights were forfeited, lost,
through Adam’s disobedience and the death
sentence upon him would reduce him to the
level of the brute. Onlv bv the "Blood of His ■
Cross" is recovery through redemption made
possible. He sacrificed himself. He died, the
just for the unlust, that He might bring man
kind back into harmony with God. The entire
transaction was aside from humanity. Our
heavenly Father planned it all from Wfore
the creation of the world, for we read that
our Redeemer was the I/imh slain from be
fore the foundation of the world”—in the di
vine purpose or intention. IRev. 13:8 )
The Triumph of the Cross
Ah! wc have made a great mistake in the
reading of our Bibles. We have failed to dis
cern that God's time for dealing with the
heathens is future: that a millennial age is
to be introduced, in which Christ with power
and great glory will suppress the power of
Satan and drive away the mists and fogs of
Ignorance and superstition and lift from the
degradation of s?n and death all who will
then accept His gracious provisions This is
the kingdom for which the Master told us to
pray, saying. "My kingdom is not of this
world (age).” (John 18:36.) Again, he said,
"Pray ye: our Father, which art in heaven;
hallowed be thy name: thv kingdom come, thy
wUI be done on earth aa it is in heaven.”
(Matt. 6:H. 10.)
Preaching of the Cross Foolishness.
If, then, it is the Divine program that Christ
shall establish His kingdom, shall overthrow
: the rule of Satan and sin and death and en- 1
I lighten mankind and deliver the willing and obe
dient, why aid He not begin tnat work eigh.een*
centuries ago? Why has valuabl* time been
lost? Is it not a foolish waste of time to preach
the Cross ot Christ aud faith and obedience, un-'
i der the present adverse conditions? Do not
J the results of these eighteen centuries of preach
jing show the folly or this procedure?
We answer in the words of our text. Yes. the
I preaching of the Cross of Christ seems foolisb
• ness to the perishing ones—to the world In gen
. eral. But it does not so seem to us. The saved
1 ones, we who have come into relationship with
the Fa ber througii faith in the precious blood
’ and have come to an understanding of tue
‘Divine Plan of Salvation, realize the "Cross to
l>e the power of God.” (1 Cor. 1:18.) To us
. the message of the Cross has been a transform
ing one, which, more and more as we have eouie
jto appreciate it, has been changing our char
-1 acters and lives from glory to glory, enabling
us to more nearly approximate the glorious char
acter ot our cear Redeemer and io become at
heart "copies of God's dear Son.” Romans 8:29.
, In a word, God has divided mankind into two
geenral classes, and has niade arrangements that
only one ot these classes will be specially
t drawn, blessed and saved by faith now. leaving
I the other to be dealt with during the Millen- i
: nlmu. Th eclass favored in this present time are
. such as have the "hearing of faith” and came i
[into relationhip to God uuder the terms of the'
; great Abrahaiulc Covenant. Their special bless
ing now Is not because they are sinless, "for
there is none righteous, no. not one.” (Rom.
3:10), but because they loved righteousness and
hated iniquity. On this account they may be the
"fellows" or "brethren” of Christ, liecanse they
have this heart likeness to Him of whom it is
written, "lliou hast loved righteousness, and
bated iniquity: therefore God. even thy God.
hath anoin ed thee with the oil of gladness
t*ioly Spirit) alxive thy fellows.” Heb. 1:9.
Those who are now specially drawn of the
1 Father are uot compelled to become fellows with
tils Son. their Ileedecmer. bnt are privileged to
have this honor it they wish on certain terms
and conditions. To attain this relationship ;hey
must stand trial in thia present time, while sin !
and death are still reigning and while it wu:
cost the sacrifice of earthly Interests to be |
footstep followers of their Lord and Saviour.
In a word, the Scriptures declare that they can
have the great prize of joint heirship with Christ
! in his Millennial kingdom and it* work of bless
ing all the families of the earth only np<a |
condition that they make their calling and elec
tion sure "by faithfulness uuder trials and test-
i inga and difficulties.
1 Comparatively few of the hundreds ot thou-
sands of those who have named th? name of
Christ, and who have come under various de
nominational yokes, have any knowleoge of the
Mystery of the Cross of Christ, the Mystery of
the Gospel. "The Mystery which hath been bid
from ages and generations, but now is ihade
manifest to his saints.” Col. 1:26.) Alas, the
majority seem content to have merely a "name.’’
to live and to wish merely to be called Chris
tians and to wear a jeweled cross. It is but the
few of those who have tasted that the Lord
Is gracious and have felt an earnest desire
to know and to do the Father’s will at the
cost of self sacrifice. With the majority the
intimation that a certain course in life is the
“narrow way,” “the way of the Crees.” is
sufficient to turn them in the opposite direc
tion: for, while they would like io share the
heavenly glories and honors of the Lord, they
are unwilling to be sharers in his ignominy,
sufferings aud death. These, without relin
■ qulshing their desire or righreouneao, are dls-
I incllnetl to go to such lengths as the Master
and the apostles taught and exemplified. Hence,
i they are not interested in the “deep things
|of God’s Word, but merely in the more supeT-
I ficlal. In the language of the Scriptures, they
are willing to say. “We will eat our own
bread, and wear our own apparel: only let na
be called by thy name, to take away our re-
I proach.” Isa. 4:1. \
I The mystery of the cross, then, is that it
lis the divine purpose that the Lon! Jesug
; should be the head or chief priest and that
I during this gcspel age God would draw out
I from amcnest this world and sanctify to him
' self through the merits of Jesus’ sacrifice an
I under-priesthood, who. as “members of the
I bodv of Christ.” would delight "to fill up
I that which is behind of the afflic-.ions of
Chris*.” (Col. 1:24)
Foolishness With Men—\\ isuom
With God.
Behold, then, tn the light of these scrip
ture testimonies, the power and wladom and
1 love of God connected with the cross of
i Christ! See how now it is the power of (10l
unto salvation to everv one that belleveth
and who is of a readv heart to accept the
divine mercies. Note the grace of God in
permitting sinners from the verv lowest plane
to be iustified bv faith and to be made heirs
of slorv ana. as the anostle declares, to be
made “partakers of the divine nature.” (II
Pet. 1:4.) If this present grace which cornea
onlv to those who have the hearing ear and
the appreciative heart were all. were the end
of the triumph of the cross of Christ, it
would be a wonderful triumph, a glorious one,
even though all the remainder of the race
except these salntlv ones of the first resur
rection class, the body of Christ, should per
ish. should never come to a knowledge of
the grace of God. should never attain to
eternal lif on anv plane.
But God declares emphatically that It is
not His will that anv should perish, but
that all might turn unto Him and live. And
He has made full provision whereby everv
member of the race mav be brought to a
knowledge nf the truth, that all may thus
be saved “Who will have all men to be saved,
and to come unto the knowledge ot the truth.”
(I Tim. 2:4.»
The selection of this favored seed of Abra
ham. thesChrist (Gal. 3:16. 291 is but the be
ginning of God’s great work of salvation
through the cross of Christ: as soon as the
"elect” shall have bsen completed and all
tested and proven and glorified with th*ir
the “new covenant.” sealed with the
prtcious blood, will become operative. The
blessings withdrawn from natural Isne! when
our Lord was crucified will be restored to
them under that new covenant. Splritv.el
Israel will rule and bless the world through
natural Israel, and all th* families of the
earth w!ll then be encouraged to come into
harmonv with God under the terms of the new
covenant bv becoming “Israelites, indeed.”
Thus Abrahams seed eventually will bless
all who can be brought to love righteousness,
all who under full knowledge and opportunity
will demonstrate thetr love for righteousness
and their hatred for iniouitv. What wonder,
then, that while others are sneaking slight
tnglv of the cross of Christ and claiming that
there was no need of redemption; that our
race never fell and will never be restored—
what wonder, we say. that we who see some
thing of the “length and breadth and height
and depth of the love oi God.” glory in the
cross of Christ!
Trulv did the Lord declare through the
prophet. “For as the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my wavs higher tl)an your
ways, and my thoughts than our thought*.
For my plans are not vour plans, neither are
your mt.hods mz methods, salth the Lord.”
(Isa. 55:9. 8.)
“In the cross of Christ I glory.
Tower o’er the wrecks of time;
All the liaht of sacred stogy
Gathers around its head sublime.”
ANSWERS MRS. FELTON
Editor Journal:
Referring to card In your edition of
the 2nd, signed by Mrs. W. H. - -.tan,
entitled "Politics in xennessee.”
I rise to remark that the difference
between what Mrs. Felton knows about
the situation, as evidenced by the arti
cle in question, and the facts aa they
really are, is world-wide.
Like the Red-Nosed Band of Tennes
see. the lady is exploiting her impres
sions or Ideas and as facts,
and proceeds with one fell swoop to
try and condemn the Coqpers—a thing
that a judge and jury, as well as a
number of fairly intelligent lawyers
have been wrestling over for weeks, and
as yet without results.
What’s the need of courts of justice
if we can without persuasion secure the
services of women to try these cases?
The affairs of the household can rest,
let the babies howl, and the daughters
learn the hard lessons of life by expe
rience, while the lady of the house is
using the hammer on all matters that
don’t concern her, especially those in
distant states.
Robin Cooper hasn’t asked for sym
pathy. nor does he desire it.
Tennessee and Tennesseans are as
good is anything else that ever happen
ed, Georgia and Georgians to the con
trary notwithstanding.
WM. SPENCEB.
R. F. D. No. 2, Nashville.
TOOTH BRUSH DRILL
NOT NEW TO SENECA
Editor Atlanta Journal:
In a recent issue of Th* Journal appears an
article on "The Tooth Brush Drill,” in a
London school. To wove that there is little
to claim priority upon for the London school
beg to sar: For about six years the essential
features of th* above svstem has been In
vogue in the Seneca Graded and High Schools.
Our idea Is that this important matter of oral
hygiene should be taught to the youngest
children and by skilled Uentlsts. in which pro
fession America excels. Our children get thia
Instruction, the teachers see that it is carried
uot dally and marks the uuiol as in other
studies. Yours verv trulv.
E. A. HINES, M. D.
Seneca. S- C.
SEEKS WHEREABOUTS
FATHER’S BROTHER
Editor Journal: Can any of the readers of
The Journal tell me where Mr. lohn Sherllng
is? He is the only brother of my father, 11. T.
Sherling. The last time heard from he was in
Florida. My father went to Florida this win
ter. but could not find any one who kne.v
where he was. and any one wri’fng me about him
will confer a great favor, as we are anxious
to find elm. Address Mrs. Trudle HoUcmon,
Klchlaud. Georgia, R. F. D. No. 4.
ROCKING STEEL HOUSE
TO FOOL EARTHQUAKE
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