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Mrs. Felton Writes
On Biblical Subject
In Romsins and Timothy. Bible renders
WW find tha*-dnnconesnes were vary com
mon. from the early dkya of the Chris
tian church. 4
Gsrn.ar. y seemed to imbibe the spirit
~ e<rly as 1836, principally through the
Lutheran church, but it has' spread
through Europe, where one may find
thousand a of deaconeasea
It seems somewhat strange that the
Churches tn America were slow in this
matter, when they are'usually progressive
with a spirit of rivalry to press them ou
It was in Juhe, 1967, that the first dea
conesses' home was established tn Amer
ica. and it was said to be the outgrowth
of a training school tn Chicago for home
and foreign missions. •
The work of missionary women abread
was essentially deaconess work, so It de
veloped that a work for deaconesses was
soon started under that name in India.
After the Chicago deaconess work was
fully organised. It received the authori
sation of the general conference of the
Northern Methodist Church, and deacon
ana homes were established in a number of
cities throughout its territory.
When the deaconess work was estab
lished in Germany, by the Lutheran
church. It was decided that these women
should wear a uniform and also receive
no salaries.
It is the consensus of opinion every
where that the work’would prove a failure
if salaries were paid, but these women
must be supported, fed. housed and
clothed.
It is estimated that their support de
mands about $8 per month, a trifle, com
pared to what any of them could earn,
if they went out to everyday work and
service as wage earners. This church serv
ice is strictly voluntary, and the deacon
ess homes are the property of the au
thorities of the church.
I attended one of their annual meetings
in Chicago, where a general conference
of this work had assembled, and listened
to what a number of these deaconess
women told of their work and I found
it was simply an organized part of gen
eral home mission work. They go Into
poor, miserable homes, and nurse the
sick, and comfort the miserable Inmates,
by advice, prayers and counsel and put
them In away to get needful sustenance.
They were asked if they were not
abused and ill-tratod sometimes, and
the answer* they gave convinced me that
their self-denial and self-sacrifice enjoyed
the protecting care of Him who never
slumbers or sleeps. Their uniform gave
them protection and the police assisted
them in hard places.
As I see it. these self-denying Christian
women are doing a work that must com
mend itself to all who remember the Sa-
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vtour’s poverty and self-denial, and If we
can send our Christian women as mission
aries to heathen lands under foreign gov
ernment, surely we cannot object to this
service under our own civil government.
The Oook-Peary Row
It is unfortunate that the scientific
world must be afflicted with a furious,
rabid and continuous quarrel between our
two enterprising arctic explorers. They
go at each other like hammer and tongs,
and the more we hear of the quarrel the
less we are reconciled to the disturbance
that prevails between the two explorers.
It has passed the disagreeable stage and
it won t take long to become disgusting
I have an antipathy to ice and cold
wintry weather, and I never was cut out
for any experience where cold was the
chief feature, so they are all welcome to
whatever of fame or reputation or gold
that the north pole will afford them, so
far as I am concerned. I conclude I am
a disinterested critic, and I am quite sure
it is an ugly contention for Mr. Peary
to claim that he knows that Cook did not
reach the tip end of the earth’s great ax’s
without his knowledge or consent.
I guess there was not much desire for
lingering with either Cook or Peary. They
arrived there under difficulties and they
left without' reluctance, and it would be
the limit of assumacy to say that Cook
was not qualified to do as much as Peary
claims for himself.
I am too tired of the controversy to read
the published reports, and I really have
more sympathy for Cook than Peary be
cause he has better command of his
temper.
I notice there was a fight down in mid
dle Georgia between two angry men, one
championing Cook and the other Peary. I
shall not follow their example, and I
would not be surprised if both explorers
will be sorry some day that they have
behaved unseemly.
Sow Wheat. Farmers
The day for’cheap foodstuffs has passed.
Provisions go up In price every week
and month. The people will eat—they
must eat—and somebody must feed the
multitude.
The reasons are not certain, but varia
ble. We may have a bumper crop once in
awhile, but we are not going to see a glut
of the staple necessaries of life.
We get our flour mostly from the north
and northwest, but there can come to that
section a disastrous season.
Some years ago Kansas was overrun
by grasshoppers, until farmers were forc
ed to emigrate to live. Georgia has been
spared times without number, but the
wise man always looks ahead.
Your old friend, Mrs. Felton, now coun
sels wheat sowing—enough to make your
next year’s bread supply, if you do no
more.
Manure the land as well as you can
plow It deep—sow it carefully with celar,
well-soaked wheat and leave the rest to
the Almighty. He has said, ’’Seed time
and harvest shall not fall.”
If you strike a drouth next year and
com fails and cotton la scarce, wheat
bread will be a comfort to the best of
us. Don't forget to sow -a few bushels
for safety’? sake.
Old Georgia Is Good Enough
A neighbor’s boy went to Texas a few
years ago to get rich by farming. He
and his industrious wife were alike eager
and energetic.
They have three children and had high
hopes of success and profit, but the pre
vailing drouth In Texas grew so porten
tous that they sold out—lock, stock and
barrel, and rushed back to old Georgia—
because of the dread of farfilne.
I am satisfied it was a wise determina
tion for they got away with enough to
pay expenses and reach the old home,
and they knew they were coming to
friends.
But there are perhaps thousands in
Texas who can't get away, and who had
no friends on this side to come to or to
shelter with until they could establish
themselves again and begin farming under
more favorable auspices.
There has been nothing made out there
to feed stock for a year, and the hot
winds burnt up the sap In the cotton
stalks until they dried up and perished.
So there will'be no money to pay for
sbipped-ln food, for either man or beast.
Such things do happen sometimes and
we have been having our "seven years of
plenty” and may look for some lean
years even In good old Georgia, but I will
take my chances among the old red hills,
rather than with the variable seasons in
far off Texas. I have been acquainted
with farm life many years. I have seen
frequent years of plenty and some years
of fearful drouth. In 1845 we had a dry
year and I heard my father say that he
had one large field of corn which made
some nubbins without a drop of rain to
fall on it. It was river bottom land, how
ever. and grew off rapidly. It was an
awful drouth.
That was the famine year tn Ireland
when hundreds perished over there from
lack of food. I remember there was a
public call for corn and wheat to be ship
ped to Ireland, and our family and the
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1909.
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i The liver, lungs, stomach and kidneys become diseased,
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neighbors gave of their scanty store to
save the perishing.
We were told later that there was great
excitement ovex in Ireland when the
American food ships reached port. Joy
bells were rung and people fell pn their
knees in thanksgiving.
Emigrants left Ireland by the shipload,
and the former population was reduced
more than half because of sickness, fam
ine and emigration. As a child, I eagerly
read the stories that were published of
Ireland’s sad condition and I felt that old
Georgia was God’s country and I have
continued to feel the same way—to three
score and ten.
There may be more fertile lands in
; other states, and people may heap up
riches faster elsewhere, but Georgia Is
good enough for me, and if I am faithful
I can reach heaven by no shorter route
than from Georgia.
THE TEXAS WONDER
Cures all Kidney, Bladder and Rheu
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testimonials. •••
' FRANCHISE VALUE IS
FIXED AT $500,000
1 The board of arbitrators, appointed to
fix a valuation of the franchise of the
■ Western Union Telegraph company, has
reduced the assessment of Comptroller
i General Wright from $950,000 to $500,000.
i. The majority report is rendered by
Madison Bell,, arbitrator for the Western
I Union, and Col. A. J. West, umpire. C.
Murphey Candler, arbitrator for the state,
’ submitted a dissent from the award of
i the umpire. The compensation of the
arbitrators and umpire is fixed at SSOO.
The report of Madison Bell and Col. A.
J. West follows:
“In fixing the value of the franchise un
’ der which the Western Union Telegraph
1 company constructed and maintains and
operates Its lines of telegraph in Geor
gia, we have been unable to designate or
set apart the value of the federal fran
' chise under which the testimony shows
the company operates in Georgia, and our
1 finding is therefore based on and in*
eludes the value of the franchise con
ferred by the act of congress of June, 1868.
• Whether the company is or is not liable
• to taxation upon the value of the federal
■ franchise is not a matter for the deter
-1 mination of the board, its function being
merely to find the value of such fran-
1 chise.
I "MADISON BELL.
» "A. J. WEST.”
• CANDLER DISSENTS TO REPORT.
After recapitulating the various figures
by which Comptroller General Wright ar
i rived at his valuation of $950,000 for the
t franchise Mr. Candler says:
1 "The company claims that its Georgia
•! business is not profitable. This is no
: I measure of the value of its franchises and
• I other property used in this state. The
1 ' very nature ,of a telegraphic business
f • proves the utter futility and absurdity of
' trying to ascertain values by segregating
I • the business in each state. Its lines to
■ | other states and section traverse this
i ■ state, and without this, business would be
1} almost impossible and frequently unprofit
»; able In other states. Its business must
f ■ be considered and valued as a whole. The
’ courts have so held.
"I am of opinion that the assessment
! of $950,000, made by the comptroller gen-
• eral is approximately correct, and I
■ therefore, dissent from the award of the
> umpire fixing the same at $500,000 and
the form in which the award is written.”
I
i "Headache, have you? When 1 have a
i headache I go right home and kiss my
■ wife and feel happy."
> "Say—what’s your address ?’’—Life.
!AUTO WEEK ONLY
ONE MONTH AWAY
Committee On Information and
Public Comfort Perfecting Plans
to Handle Great Crowds of
Visitors.
Atlanta’s big automobile races are only
four weeks away—four weeks from Tues
day, next, they will begin. The sizes of
i preparations at the Hapeville track Indl
'cate that these races might be pulled off
Inext week before an audience comfortably
seated In the grand stand and on the
‘ bleachers The final top dressing of tho
1 track with oil is well under way, and an
I automobile might make fast time today.
While the crowds will be allowed to entei
the grounds today, signs were posted yes
terday forbidding going upon the course
itself. Way over under the inclosure the
25 garages, each accomodating three big
racers, are completed, ready for use.
The chamber of commerce committee on
Information and public comfort has been
Just as busy during the past week in pre
paring for the crowds which the event
at the track and at the auditorium build
will attract. It has listed within the
week accomodations in the hotels, board
ing will attract. It has listed within the
where nearly 10,000 visitors will find com
fortable quarters during auto week. It
has employed expert city directory can
vassers, who are calling on citizens and
by the end of the coming week the resi
dence districts will have been visited.
WHAT COMMITTEE DOES.
I Some misunderstanding of what the
J committee is doing has been reported. The
i committee does not expect nor ask any
citizen to open his home to visitors free
of charge; a reasonable charge for the
service should be made. The committee
is listing accomodations In the hotels,
boarding houses and in such private
homes as may be offered, so that it may
be in position to direct visitors to com
fortable quarters. It Is serving merely
as a responsible agent through which
strangers may find temporary homes dur
ing the busy first half of November.
[ It makes absolutely no charge for Its
i services, either to the local hotels, board
]ing houses or to citizens who may offer
1 their homes, nor to the visitors who may
ask Its aid.
The committee is composed of responsi
Ible citizens, whose names are a guaran
tee of a square deal. They are S. C.
Dobbs, chairman: Brooks Morgan, St
Elmo Massengale, W. W. Orr and Dr. H.
B. Shultz. The work that has been ac
! compllshed during the past two weeks has
been entirely satisfactory. If there had
been any question that Atlanta would en
tertain her guests with her accustomed
hospitality, the doubt has vanished—but
no one who knew her ever doubted it.
The committee requests that those who
have places in their homes to spare for
auto week guests shall get in touch with
it this week. Don’t wait for the can
vassers. call or write to G. M. Chapin,
secretary. 510 Empire building, or tele
phone Bell Main 3503. Atlanta 319.
wivfs”dtscuss ustngT
HUSBAND’S OWN NAMES
NEW YORK, Oct. B.—The New York
Legislative league, composed of progres
sive women, has decided by resolution
that it is not Incumbent on a married
woman to use her husband’s name. While
this resolution was unanimously carried,
many prominent speakers declared that
|at the present time, with n»ew in a more
powerful political position, it would be
expedient for women to use some part of
their husband’s names.
"My husband objected to me using my
own name,” declared Mrs. MafKafCt
Holmes Bates, "and It did not do him any
good. I wrote and signed my writings
with my own niirne. It is all very well
In private and social life to use youi
husband’s name, if he is anybody. I
don’t see why any body should use the
name of a nonentity.”
“It depends upon the name,” said Mrs.
i Lillie Devereaux Blank, from the chair.
I "I prefer my name because it Is pretty.”
Discuss Molasses
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—The use and
' limitations placed upon the name "New
■ Orleans molasses" by the terms of the
' new pure food law, will be the subject
of a general hearing before the board of
food and drug inspectors of the depart
ment of agriculture on November St,
next.
DRAPED VELVET GOWN
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Here is a handsome frock for afternoon
occasions, xnade of soft velvet with heav
ily embrodered motifs and coarse-meshed
•ilk net mounted on satin.
The overdress comes to a point low on
the skirt In the back, and, while full,
is drawn close to the figure, an id#a
which Is followed carefully In all dra
peries.
The hat is a drooping shape of velvet,
trimmed with short broad feathers about
the crown. This drooping hat is very be
coming to slender faces.
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rabid
Continued From Last Week
The doctor calculated with three-quar
ter rations to each man and full rations
to the dogs, they might hold out for
three weeks.
By three in the afternoon everything
was ready for the start.
It was almost dark, for, though the
sun had reappeared above the horizon
since the thirty-first of January, its light
was feeble and of short duration. The
moon would rise about half-past six.
The days wore on. Progress was slow.
Blinding snow storms held them back.
Moreover, the men, in spite of their iron
will, began to show signs of fatigue.
Halts became more frequent, and yet
every hour was precious, for the provis
ions were rapidly coming to an end. >
On the 14th of March, after 16 days'
march, the little party found them
selves only yet in the eighty-second lat
itude. Their strength was exhausted,
and they had a hundred miles more to
go. Rations had to be still further re
duced. Each man must be content with
a fourth part, to allow the dogs their
full quantity.
Worst of all there were only seven
charges of powder left, and six balls.
A little game was shot, but quick
ly devoured. The weary men could
hardJy drag themselves along by now
The dogs had begun to gnaw their
traces.
Thalr last meal, on the Sunday even
ing, was a very sad one—unless help
came, their doom was sealed.
The next morning Johnson saw a beau
of huge dimensions. The old sailoi
took It into his head that heaven had
sent this bear specially for him to kill;
and without waking his comrades, he
seized the doctor's gun, and was soon In
pursuit
On reaching the right distance he
took alm; but. Just as his finger touched
the trigger, he felt his arm tremble.
His thick gloves hampered him, he
threw them off But what a cry of
agony escaped him! The skin of his
fingers stuck to the gun as if it had
been red-hot. and he was forced to let it
drop. The sudden fall made it go off.
and the ball was discharged In the
air.
It was the last bullet
Dr. Claw'oonny came out and saw
what had happened. He dragged the
poor fellow Into ths tent, where he made
him plunge his hands into a bowl of
water. Johnson’s hands had hardly
touched it before it froze Immediately.
“You are Just In time; I should have
had to amputate soon,” said the doctor.
That morning they had no breakfast.
Pemmlcan and salt beef were both gons.
Not a crumb of biscuit remained. They
were obliged to content themselves with
half a cup of hot ooffo®» and start off
%hey scarcely went three miles before
they were compelled to give up for the
day. They had no supper but coffee, and
the dogs were so ravenous that they
were almost devouring each othep.
Another day—B4 hours since they had
tasted food. Yet they continued their
march, sustained by their superhuman
energy of purpose. They had to push the
sledge themselves, for the dogs could no
longer draw it.
Then Johnson grew haggard-eyed and
wild. He caught the doctor’s arm that
"That bear is following us, he cried
hoarsely.
“A bear following us?"
“Yes, for the last two days!”
"Have you seen him?”
"Yes. about a mile to leeward.”
"Terrible. And we haven’t a single
ball to send after him!” said the doc
tor.
"He Is reckoning on a good feed of hu
man flesh!” cried Johnson, his brain giv
ing way. “He ts sure enough of his meal!”
continued the poor fellow. {’He must be
hungry, and I don’t see why we should
keep him waitin';.”
"Johnson, calm yourself!”
"No, Mr. Clawbonny, since we must
die. why prolong the sufferings of the
poor beast? He is famished like our
selves. There are no seals for him to
eat, and heaven sends him men! So much
the better for him, that’s all!”
Johnson was fast going mad. The situ
ation was desperate. “Johnson,” said the
doctor, "I shall kill that bear tomor
row!”
“Tomorrow!” said Johnson, as if wak
ing up From some bad dream.
"Yes, tomorrow.”
"You have no bullets."
"I’ll make one.”
“You have no lead.”
"No. but I have mercury."
So saying, he took the thermometer,
which stood at 50 degrees above zero,
went outside and laid in on a block of ice.
At dawn they rushed out to look at it. AH
the mercury had frozen Into a hard pieca
of metal i ready for use.
Just then Hatteras made his appear
ance. and the doctor told him his project
and showed him the mercury.
The captain grasped his hand silently,
and th" three went off In quest of their
game.
They soon sighted him. about 300 yards
distant.
"Friends, this is no idle sport,” said
Hatteras. "We must act prudently.”
"Yes,” replied the doctor, "we have but
the one shot. We must not miss. He
would, outstrip a hare in fleetness:”
"We must go right up to him,” said
Hatteras. "I have a plan.”
"What is it?” asked the doctor.
"Well, you kept the skin of the seal
you killed, didn’t you?”
"It is on the sledge.”
"All right! We’ll get it. Leave John
son here to watch.”
At the snow hut, Hatteras slipped into
the seal skin.
“Now, give me the gun,” he said.
"Courage, Hatteras!” said the doctor,
handing him the weapon, which he had
loaded with the mercury bullet.
Soon a seal was making its way toward
the bear. It was a perfect imitation. The
bear, greedy-eyed, waited.
When the seal was »en naces away, the
monster sprang forward with a tremend
ous bound, but stopped short, stupefied and
frightened, when Hatteras threw off his
disguise, knelt on one knee, and aimed
straight at the bear’s heart. He fired, and
the huge monster rolled back on the Ice.
Hatteras had aimed well, and before
either of his companions came up he had
plunged his knife in the animal's throat.
"Hurrah! Bravo!” shouted Johnson
and the doctor, but Hatteras stood cool
and unexcited, gazing at his prostrate foe.
The beast was very fat, and weighed
1,500 pounds. The hunters were so fam
ished that they had hardly patience to
cut up the carcass and carry home the
flesh to be cooked. It needed all the doc
tor’s persuasion to prevent them eating It
raw.
On entering the hut, they were struck
with the coldness of the amosphere. The
fire was out The exciting business of
the morning had made Johnson neglect
his accustomed duty.
The doctor got the tinder and asked
Johnson for the steel.
The sailor went through his pockets and
searched the hut. Ths steel was gone.
"Ngt got the steel!” the doctor repeated,
shuddering. "Look again."
But it was gone.
"This is a serious business, doctor,"
said Hatteras, gravely.
Each sat looking at the other, and at
death. It was serious. Then the doctor
sprang to his feet.
"An idea has occurred to ma.”
“What?” said Hatteras.
"Let us make a lens.”
"How?"
"With ice.”
"We’ll try It Bring your hatchet
Johnson.”
A good sized place was soon cut off,
about a foot in diameter, and the doctor
set to work. He chopped it into rough
shape with the hatchet; then with his
knife, making as smooth a surface as
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possible. He finished the polishing pre*
cess with his fingers, rubbing away until
he had obtained a lens as transparent as
crystal
The sun was shining, the tinder was
held beneath the ice lens to catch tho
rays. In a few seconds it took fire, to
Johnson’s rapturous delight.
He danced about like an Idiot, almost
beside himself with joy, and shouted,
"Hurrah! hurrah!” while Clawbonny
hurried back into the hut and rekindled
the fire. It was soon roaring, and it was
not many minutes before the navory odor
of broiled bear steak roused Bell from
his torpor.
What a feast this meal was to the
poor starving men may be Imagined. The
doctor, however, counseled moderation tn
eating, and set the example himself.
“This Is a glad day for us,” he said,
"and we have no fear of wanting food
all the rest of our journey. Still we must
not forget we have further to go yet. and
I think the sooner we start the better."
"We cannot be far off now." said Alta
mont, who could speak almost perfectly
again; "we must be within 48 hours*
march of the Porpoise."
“I hope we’ll find something them to
make a fire with,” said t-e ooctor, smil
ing. “My lens needs the sun, and there
are plenty of days when it does not mak»
its appearance here, within less than four
degrees of the pole."
“Less than four degrees!” repeated
Altamont, with a sigh; "yes. my ship
went further than any other has ever
ventured.'
“It is time we started,” said Hatteras,
abruptly.
On the way the doctor asked Altamont
what had brought him so far north. The
American made only evasive replies.
Clawbonny whispered to Johnson: "We’ve
got two men that need looking after.”
“You are right,” said Johnson.
“Hatteras doesn’t talk to this Ameri
can, and I must say the man has not
shown himself very grateful."
“I don’t like the expression of his faoe,"
said Johnson.
‘1 think ho suspects Hatteras* plan."
“Then you think that Altamont*
“His ship was certainly on the road to
the north pole.”
“But didn’t Altamont say that he had
been caught among the ice and dragged
there irresistibly?”
Continued in Next Issue.