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Friday, February 18, 1910.
Soon It win bo: "Who was Joe Can
non. anyway T’
Winter might vary her long act with an
intermission or two.
Zelaya is going to write a book. Estrada
will be amply avenged.
It is a fast age. We bust a trust or
start a new probe every day.
Please don’t have too many engage
ments today before the closing of the
polls.
MOUSIE'B VALENTINE.
AU the pupils in the kindergarten were
directed to bring their valentines for each
other early on the morning of February
14. Teacher said she would put them
!
0
tn the big heart-shaped box from which
they were to be distributed in the after
noon.
Little Bobby Smith had only a cent to
spend for his valentine. By the time he
came to the store all the pretty penny
valentines were gone, so be bought a
candy heart and slipped it into the box
with the other valentines.
It was recess, and the children were
out of the room when Mr. Mousie crept
out of his corner to examine the room.
"What’s here?" he sniffed as he came
to the valentine box. “Smells like can
dy."
Straightway Mr. Mousie slipped into
he same hole cut for the valentines. What
a feast he had nibbling away at Bobby’s
candy heart 'way down in the bottom of
the box!
Now It was time for teacher to pass
the valentine*. She had given out some
big lace one*, and some pretty folding
hearts all covered with forget-me-nots,
when out jumped Mr. Mousie and ran
straight to his hole in the wainscoting.
After all the valentine* had been given
away, Bobby told the teacher that she
must have overlooked his candy heart
that he had bought for her. Teacher look
ed In the box. and then a knowing smile
crept over her face as she said: "Bobby,
I believe your candy heart ran away
on four gray legs. Mr. Mousie must have
thought it a valentine for him and eat
en tt.”
This delighted all the children, and
after that they would often bring a bit
of cockle or cake to put at Mr. Mousie *
door for his dinner.
\yiT OF OUR TOTS
There is no question that Baby
Agnes’ doll is a very philosophical
member of the household. Somebody
asked Baby Agnes If hers was a talk
ing dal I.
"No." said Agnes, “my dolly only
thinks. ”
• • •
Little Guthrie ventured out one day
when rain had frozen on the sidewalk
and began slipping perilously.
“Ooh, look. ’ne cried hysterically,
“my feet don't know which way I’m
going. ’
“Here is a book I want your father
to read,’’ said a neighbor to Ethel,
aged 5. “but he must send it back to
morrow."
"Better not lend it to him. then,” re
plied Ethel. “Papa’s a bookkeeper. "
Cynthia is a very particular little tot
In everything that pertains to food.
One day she was served with bread
pudding, and was seen to carefully pick
out the raisins.
"Why do you do that?" asked the
ourse.
“Don’t like to eat um eyes,’’ said Cyn
thia.
AN EASY ANSWER TO
OUR HARDEST RIDDLE
For its own inhabitants at least. Georgia's soil holds an easy
answer to the hardest riddle of the hour—the exorbitant cost of
living. In their earth and sun and rain, the people of this state
have ample, though unrecognized protection against the packing
trusts and nine-tenths of the other monopolies on food. Even a
minor amount of attention given to the raising of corn, wheat,
cattle and table vegetables would place every home within our
boundaries independent of those artificial conditions that domi
nate us from New York and Chicago.
Os particular interest and importance, therefore, is the plan
of the Georgia division of the Farmers’ Co-operative and Educa
tional union to encourage the production of food crops. For a
number of years past this doctrine has been preached, but not until
now has it been made the subject of a definite and aggressive cam
paign. The members of the union will meet in Atlanta February
22 and 23 for the purpose of inaugurating a practical crusade in
that direction. Already they have the educational influence of the
State College of Agriculture and of commercial bodies in all the
larger cities, notably the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. More
than this, they have the good wishes and support of the public at
large, for the present prices of meat and other food necessities have
brought home to every housewife and head of a family the impera
tive need of cheaper food.
We believe that the union will succeed in getting its members
to reduce their cotton acreage and to devote more land and more
time to grain, hay, cattle and truck stuff. Such a policy, if carried
out, ivould give us a market, practically unaffected by. speculation.
It would give us products raised w’ithin a few miles of our own
homes, thus saving the cost of transportation and largely that of
middlemen. We would have better food as w-Cll as cheaper food.
The value of this plan to the farmer himself is obvious, but it
will prove an equal blessing to all classes and callings of people.
THE VALUE OF HOBBIES.
It was Charles Lamb who advised every man to have a hobby,
though it was nothing more than collecting odd pieces of string.
And somehow- or other, it is through his hobby, commonly supposed
to be a weakness, that a man’s richest and most individual self
hood comes to light.
Particularly interesting therefore will be the gathering in
Washington Tuesday night of men prominent in national life for
the purpose of discussing their hobbies. The occasion is to be the
dinner of the National Press club. Speaker Cannon will be there,
together with Commander Peary, former IChief Forester Pinchot,
Champ Clark, Professor Moore, of the United States weather bu
reau, and many others. We shall look forward with zestful in
terest to learn just what their hobbies are, and if they are alto
gether frank, we shall doubtless find that their favorite indulgences
include ridiculously commonplace things. Yet, it is through com
monplaces that the men we call great are most truly interesting.
A COURAGEOUS EPITAPH.
Frank as well as affectionate, Mr. Tobias Philip, of Carlyle,
Hl., has caused to be inscribed on the tombstone of his lately de
parted wife this courageous epitaph—“ Talked to Death by Her
Friends.”
It would be hard to put more truth and pathos into a single
line. Mrs. Tobias Philip, we learn, had been ailing years before
her taking-off, so that her bedside became, as such bedsides com
monly do, the most popular resort, or we might say rendezvous, of
the village conversationalists. Day in and day out she was the
victim of sympathizers. Every good housewife in Carlyle had a
special remedy for Mrs. Tobias Philip’s affliction. How they
gloated over the opportunity of bringing out once again their pet
liniments and poultices, cordials and salves, pills, powders, teas
and whatnot. A sad day indeed it must have been for them when
the good lady passed away. They would not have suffered half so
keenly, had their sewing society broken up.
Such is the life picture sketched tersely and boldly in the epi
taph, “Talked to Death by Her Friends.” We fancy that as Mr.
Tobias Philip reflects upon that simple line, he finds a goodly meas
ure of solace, for he at least has survived to declare the truth of
his wife’s comforters; he who during her lifetime had to sit and
listen through all the droning evenings.
Some day when medical science is farther advanced than now,
wonderful cures will be wrought not by cutting off a patient’s ap
pendix, but by cutting off the tongues of well-meaning visitors.
Mr. Tobias Philip’s outspokenness is as admirable as it is amazing.
A ROUND THE WORLD
PROF. PARKS
JEYPORE, India.—Jeypore is a sur
prising and interesting city. It is strict
ly Indian, and has not been Europeanized
in custom or in population. Out of 160,000
people living in the city, it is said that
there are less than a score of white
people.
In the streets, amopg the trees and on
the housetops, monkeys run about with
out Interference of any kind; the sacred
pigeons by the thousands feed in the
streets without harm or disturbance;
caravans of camels pass to and fro;
huge elephants with people riding on
their backs walk deliberately along the
thoroughfare, gaily decorated with rich
embroideries and handsome trappings;
also there are bulloch carts, bicycles,
ekkas and carriages.
The streets are broad, well paved,
■well-swept, well-watered. Most peculiar
of all, every house is painted in the same
colors. Pink and white, pink and white,
pink and w’hite everywhere.
The walls of the city, the houses, the
stores, all are painted in pink and or
namented with white borders, white
stripes, white lines. For miles up and
down the principal streets one can see
only pink and white.
The people love bright and distinct
colors; and in their dress they make a
gorgeous display in nearly all the colors
of the rainbow. Besides all this Jeypore
is prosperous.
The city is famous for its fine brass
works, its Indian rugs, its richly dyed
clothes. Its jewelry, etc. Many of the
remarkable shops or bazars are on nar
row alleys.
Probably Mr. Zozoaster is one of the
richest and most successful shopkeepers
in Jeypore. He has a rich and varied
assortment of handsome Indian rugs one
of all kinds of fine brass work. To
reach his establishment, we drove
through several alleys and entered an
unpretentious doorway. Within we
found a large court-yard where hundreds
of boys were making Indian rugs and
where scores of skilled men were work
ing in brass. In the shop, the display
of brass-work was extensive and daz
zling. and Mr. Zozoaster, himself, was
a dream in the way of a mercantile art
ist. With broken English, and yet with
most alluring tones, he spoke of his
great joy in welcoming us to his store.
Without apparently caring anything
•bout the matter of sales, he begged us
to be at home. He declared that It gave
him inexpressible delight to see us and
he urged us to inspect the artistic as
sortment in which he felt a pardonable
pride. With unfeigned glee, he spoke
of his American friends who had visited
his shop and had admired his goods and
had purchased in hundred and thousand
dollar lots. Finally he came to the
point, and with persuasive manner, he
tried with all the arts of an oriental
merchant to make us buy several hun
dred dollars' worth of his goods, which
were finer and cheaper than could be
found anywhere else in the world.
Upon leaving the shop of Mr. Zozoas-
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1910.
ter, our guide took us to a dealer In
fine stones. We protested that we did
not wish to purchase any Jewelry, but
our guide believed we were rich, and,
as he was probably in collusion with the
dealer, we were escorted to the place,
nolens voiens.
Passing through a narrow and dirty al
ley, we walked up some rickety stairs
and Into a dining room. In the center of
the small room was a table covered with
a white cloth. About the room on every
side were small cupboards, full—not of
bread, but of jewels.
A bare-legged and bare-footed Hindoo
began to draw forth his precious wares.
He untied a towel and within were glis
tening and glittering stones. From va
rious cupboards and various cases and
cloths, he continued to produce a start
ling array of valuables. He showed me a
diamond necklace, which he offered at
30.000 rupees ($10,000). Altogether his stock
must have been worth a hundred thousand
dollars, and yet in Hindoo fashion, he
kept Us valuables in his home covered up
in the poorest of fashion, and apparently
but poorly protected. Tn walking along
the filthy alley, I would never have
dreamed of the wealthy jeweler within.
Jeypore was founded about the year 1728
by the Maharaja Jey Sing; he decided to
move his capital from Amber, and six
miles distant he established the new city
which he named after himself, Jeypore
(Jey’s city.) Most cities develop from
small places and the arrangement of
streets is often a matter of chance or ac
cident; but this Is not true of cities like
Savannah, where the wise founder Ogle
thorpe laid out the streets with an at
♦nost perfect plan. Nor is this true of
Jaypore, which was founded by Jay Sing
about the time that Oglethorpe was sur
veying the site of Savannah. Jey Sing
was a great astronomer as well as ruler,
and he planned everything with exactness
and methodical nicety. The streets are
laid out with regular order, intersecting
each other at right angles; they are wide
like the streets of Macon, Georgia, the
four principal streets being 111 feet wide
and the others about 55 feet wide.
Jeyoore Is the capital of the native state
of Jeypore, which Is one of the 20 native
states forming the Rajputana; the Rajpu
tana is one of the great countries forming
the empore of India. The members of
these natives states are given great free
dom and latitude by Great Britain, but 1"
each state there Is a British resident who
acts sa a quiet advisor to the native rul
er, and who serves as a check to any
extremely unwise conduct or legislation.
Tn the city of Jeypore is a modern hos
pital. a good college, a fine industrial and
art school, a school for girls and a mod
ern museum, a good zoological garden,
ind a lovely public park; all of these are
native. The museum was remarkable.
The largo and attractive building was con
structed of marble, and the scores upon
scores of rooms were full of rare and
costly and beautiful objects. Few cities
in America have so fine a museum.
"His Highness” Siwai Madhoo is tha
Maharaja of Jeypore. He practically
owns the country. His palace is commo-
THE PRESIDENTS’ SPEECHES
Ry Frederic J. Haskin
The forthcoming Chicago trip of Presi
dent Taft will add to his fame as the
most extensive speechmaker who ever sat
In the presidential chair. Already three
volumes of principal speeches and ad
dresses have been published, and a fourth
will soon appear. But they form only a
very small percentage of the speeches he
has delivered since becoming the head of
the Philippine government. When it is
stated that he delivered 417 speeches in
the last presidential campaign, and 275
on his trip last fall, it will be seen that
Mr. Taft is really a great speechmaker.
With thrqp years in the White House
before him, and a prospect of four years
more beyond that, it is estimated that if
he continues to deliver speeches and ad
dresses at the same rate it will eventu
ally require some thirty-odd volumes to
contain them.
• • •
Already there are 16 volumes of Taft
speeches preserved at the White House
office building. During all his speech
making Mr. Taft has had with him one of
his assistant secretaries, Mr. Wendell W.
Mlschler, who is a “pothook" artist of the
master class. He has caught every speech
just as it came from the presidential
lips. At the end of a trip he takes out
the pages of his notebook and pastes them
In a great scrapbook, in the order of
their delivery. When Mr. Taft wants to
know exactly what he said at any way
station on his trip, he simply calls Misch
ler, and in a minute the secretary is
reading to him what he wants tp know.
Anyone who has practiced stenography
knows how hard it is to read notes after
they become "cold,” but Mischler’s word
signs and phrasing seem to be 'as plain
to him as the printed words, even after
the passing of months.
• • •
As he gets time from the pressing duties
of an assistant secretary to the president,
Mischler has his notes transcribed and
files the typewritten copies away. When
enough accumulates he sends them to the
printer and has them bound. In this way
he has made up the 16 volumes which
constitute the record of six years of
speech-making. These volumes contain
an average of 400 letter-size pages each,
and as perhaps half of the pages are
written single-space, there probably Is an
average of 400 words per page. This would
make some 6,400 pages of typewritten mat
ter in the set of books—nearly 2,000,000
words. The first volume begins with
speeches delivered at Manila, and the suc
ceeding ones embrace all that have fol
lowed.
• • •
All of these speeches will not be pub
lished at an early date, but when the
works of William H. Taft are collected
and published in years to come they
probably will appear in full. The works
of six or eight other presidents have
been collected and published. In the case
of Washington they embraced more let
ters than speeches, as speech-making was
not so popular as it is today. Up to the
time of Theodore Roosevelt the record as
a maker of presidential literature was
held by Thomas Jefferson, with 20 vol
umes. But even Jefferson's efforts have
been made to appear brief beside the
printed works of Mr. Roosevelt —and he is
not yet through. No other president has
talked or written about such a wide va
riety of subjects as Mr. Roosevelt. While
Mr. Taft may exceed the Roosevelt rec
ord, so far as the volume of his speech
making is concerned, he can never hope
to rival his predecessor in the range of
subjects or the picturesqueness of presen
tation.
• • e
The speeches delivered by Mr. Taft
have been delivered before all sorts of
audiences and at all conceivable times.
At high noon and at midnight, in the
banquet hall and from the rear platform
of a train at a water tank stop, before
those who see and to those who are
blind—even to the deaf. On his last trip
he addressed a school for the deaf at
Jackson, Miss. The pupils seemed to
comprehend every word the president
spoke, although they looked at him more
than at the signs of the Interpreter.
• • •
In the case of many of the earlier pres
idents all of their letters which could be
found were embraced In their published
■works. For Instance, in the case of
Washington, one finds in his published
works a letter to his stepson who was
attending school at Annapolis. The boy
had written him asking to whom he
should look for pin money. The frugal
old patriot replied that he had been sup
plied with six pounds, and that with such
a liberal supply of spending money such
a question ought not agitate his mind.
It manifestly would be impossible evsr
to publish all the letters of a modern
president, even the ones dictated by him
self. The White House mail ranges any
where from 500 to 2,000 letters a day, and
everyone is answered directly or indirect
ly. The president may see as many as a
hundred of these. But copies of all cor-
dious and is surrounded by a beautiful
garden. The enormous brass gates lead
ing into the palace grounds are the
largest and finest in the world. A special
permission having been secured, a vis«t
was made to the stables of the Maharaja.
There were 200 horses and each was at
tended by two coolies. Four hundred
men is a large number to look after 20C
horses, but it must be remembered that
the Maharaja’s horses are very fine, and
that the Maharaja’s subjects have no
more Important duty than that of lookin,:
carefully after the comfort and the lux
ury of their master. They are practical
ly his servants. That is the way tha
Maharaja looks at it and the people seem
satisfied with the way he runs things.
In fact the more extravagant and the
more spectacplar the display made on all
occas : ons by the Maharaja, the more his
loyal subjects are pleased.
They dn’t care anything about democ
racy or the rule of the people, but they
do love to worship a fine looking, rich
ly-dressed. gorgeously arrayed pluto
cratic and aristocratic chief. They are
like some degenerme Americans in this
respect—only they are “more so.”
In separate stables were a large herd
of elephants owned t>y the Maharaja,
For each elephant there is a mahout or
driver and also an attendant or two.
The elephants are supplied with costly
saddles and rich coverings gorgeously
orna , mented with gold and silver em
broidery. One of these gorgeously ar
rayed elephants, walking down the
street is worth going miles to see. Aft
er inspecting the several public build
ings in the palace grounds, and after
walking through the lovely garden, wa
came towards ine large palace where the
Maharaja lives; but this was surrounded
ed by high walls, and entrance was de
nied. Within was the harem or zenana,
where reside the three wives and the
300 concubines. It is impossible to write
anything of the fine dresses they wore,
or to tell whether or not they were
pretty, for the simple reason that they
are never seen by the public. Even
when on special occasions they leave
the palace, they always go in closed
carriages, or palanquins, or bulloch
carts. Sometimes when his highness
plans a big celebration with a parade
through the main street of the city he
arranges for them to be transported in
closed vehicles to a palace in the city.
From this closely-guarded palace there
are tiny windows through which the
fair ladies can see and yet not be seen.
The Maharaja was Invited to attend
the coronation exercises of King Ed
ward VII at London in 1901. At first it
seemed impossible for his highness to
make the trip. He was strictly ortho
dox as a Hindu and it was awful to
think of a trip among foreign outcasts
respondence are preserved and a card In
dex kept, so that the man who comes to
publish the correspondence of a Taft or
a Roosevelt will find abundant material
from which to cull.
• • •
McKinley was not so much a man of
letters as many of the other presidents.
His published speeches constitute about
his only effort In the field of literature.
Few presidents have had more written
about them, however, than McKinley.
His tragic death resulted in a veritable
flood of ill-prepared biographies, most
of them published by the time his body
was laid in the tomb at Canton. They
were gotten out merely to catch the sub
scription book trade and with little view
to their permanent value.
• • •
Grover Cleveland paid little attention to
letters until after his second term as
president, but from the end of his career
in the White House to the date of his
death he found ready sale for the articles
and books written by him. The royalties
from his published books are said to af
ford his family a comfortable income.
Benjamin Harrison wrote two excellent
I books after leaving the White House.
Chester A. Arthur was little given to lit
eijiry endeavor, and in the big card index
of the library of congress there is not
a single card showing a printed docu
ment from his hand. Aside from his
messages and routine papers he has left
nothing to literature. In James A. Gar
fileld the presidency had its only min
ister of the gospel. He was also a col
lege president. While his utterances in
congress are a comprehensive resume of
reconstruction times, he left little else to
the abiding literature of the country.
• • •
For profitable endeavor in literary work
first place will have to be accorded to
General Grant. Ground down to sheer
poverty by the Grant & Ward failure,
he was forced to write his memoirs in
order to provide for his family. He
had written but little before, but it de
veloped that the fighter was also a writer,
and his autobiography has had a sale
far above the half-million mark. Mrs.
Grant received one check for $200,000 and
another for $150,000, to say nothing of
many smaller ones. It is said that the
royalties on the memoirs of General
Grant represent the highest reward that
has ever come to the authorship of a
single work.
• • •
Lincoln enjoyed few’ educational ad
vantages, yet all the world recognizes
his Gettysburg address as one of the
classics of American literature. His
writings have been collected Into eight
good-sized volumes, and reveal the many
sides of this wonderful man. Aside
from Washington he is perhaps the most
written-about of all the presidents.
• • •
James Buchanan wrote a review and
defense of his administration before he
died. George Bancroft, the historian,
collcted the letters and diaries of James
K. Polk, and intended to publish them.
They are now bound in 22 quarto vol
umes and are in the possession of the
Lenox library. New York. William Hen
ry Harrison once wrote a pamphlet on
the aborigines of the Ohio Valley, and
Martin Van Buren published an inquiry
Into the origin and causes of political
parties. John Quincy Adams was a lit
erary man. and some of his poems and
essays have survived In the popular
mind. His poem on "Man wants but lit
tle here below, nor wants that little
long.’’ has found an abiding place in
American literature.
• * *
Monroe, who Ilves In the popular mind
as the author of the Monroe doctrine
wrote an extended essay on the conduct
of the executive, and another on a tour
of observation he made. His state pa
pers are among the most interesting
written by any president. Madison’s
Notes on the Constitution, and those on
the confederation, are documents refer
red to by constitutional writers to this
day. Jefferson’s Declaration of Inde
pendence, his manual of parliamentpry
practice, which still remains a general
code of rules for the senate and house,
and his Notes on Virginia, are among
the most Interesting productions from
the pen of any presidential man of let
ters. John Adams wrote a number of
essays. Washington’s Maxims, and his
Transcrlots of Revolutionary Corres
pondence, constitute his literary pro
duction. but his Farewell address takes
front rank as a state paper.
• • •
Taking the whole sweep of American
history up to the time of Cleveland, it
is probable that the most notable docu
ments that have come from occupants
of the White House are Washington’s
Farewell Address. Jefferson’s Declara
tion of Independence. Monroe's Monroe
Doctrine. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
and Grant’s Memoirs.
where he would be contaminated by
foreign customs, and Influences, by
means of which he would lose his caste.
However the invitation was seriously
considered and after full debate and de
liberations a plan was devised whereby
his highness could go to London and not
lose caste. It was arranged that he
should charter a steamboat for the round
trip, on which he could carry his own
native food, his own water, and his
own servants and attendants. On the
ship he had his own temple, his own
priests, his own cooks, and his own serv
ants and a good supply of wives and
dancing girls. In London he rented a
palace for his exclusive use. He at
tended the coronation exercises arrayed
in all his Oriental splendor and no for
eign visitor attracted so much notoriety.
He was graciously received by the king
and by the dignitaries of the kingdom,
and he was extensively written up by
the newspapers.
The Maharaja made the trip of more
than 12,000 miles without contamination.
He returned to Jeypore highly pleased
with his long trip and full of new ideas
for his kingdom.
A year after the return from London,
in November, 1902, Lord Curzon visited
Jeypore. At a banquet given in honor
of Lord Curzon, the Maharaja made a
happy speech referring to his visit to
England and to the pleasures and ben
efits he had received. Ixird Curzon re
plied as follows:
“When I persuaded your highness to
go to England as the chosen representa
tive of Rajputana at the coronation of
the king, you felt some hesitation as to
the sharp separation from your home
and from the duties and the practices of
your previous life. But you have re
turned fortified with the conviction that
dignity and simplicity of character, and
uprightness and magnanimity of conduct
are esteemed by the nobility and the peo
ple of England not less than they are
here. I hope that your highness' exam
ple may be followed by those who come
after you. and that it may leave an en
during mark in Indian history.”
By special permission, and considerable
red tape, a friend and I secured the use
of one of the Maharaja’s elephants to
visit the ancient and deserted palace at
the dead city of Amber. The trip of six
miles from Jeypore is made partly by car
riage and partly by elephant. First we
drove from Jeypore four miles in a car
riage- leaving the carriage, we found
awaiting us the elephant, the driver, or
mahout, an attendant and an officer of
the Maharaja. The officer carried a
shield and we learned afterward that en
trance to the old city walls could only
be gained by persons accompanied by the
shield-bearing officer.
The big elephant was made to koeel,
*3
Falsehoods and Suspicions
A very excited correspondent writes
me an article about the trouble that fol
lows lies, and bearing false witness in
court, etc. It is too personal to publish
but I can say In this place that liars are
about as bad as murderers in some par
ticular Instances.
Eternity alone can sum up the evils
which grow out of lying and bearing
false witness in the courts of the land.
The wrongs that follow are sometimes
Irreparable this side of the judgment
bar of God. There have been stains
fastened on the reputations of innocent
people by scandal-mongers that have
been worse than murders because the
Innocent walked through life unaware
that their good name had been tarnish
ed and they could not even know why
they had been shunned and slighted, so
insidious were the falsehoods and so
cleverly were these charges fastened on
the injured ones, without their knowl
edge.
The charity that beareth all things
and hopeth all things is completely at
the mercy of envious and malicious peo
ple.
When I was but a small girl. I remem
ber hearing of a case that I have pever
forgotten, where a young lady was talk
led about in a scandalous way by some
person who started a rumor. She was ab
sent on a visit to relatives in a neigh
boring state and was absent some months
owing to the long distance and no rail
roads, so the story was more difficult to
clear up than usually happens in such
instances.
The scandal might have still been liv
ing In the minds of those who survive
now over 60 years ago, but for the Neme
sis which sometimes tracks along be
fc nd the evil minded and perjurer.
When the young lady finally reached
her home and brought no bastard child
with h£r. some of the busy bodies, who
I had incautiously talked in the presence
of children found themselves brought up
standing to give the author of the story
of the long visit made for concealment,
etc., etc.
One word brought on another until the
whole affair got to dangerous condition
for there was “blood on the moon, so
to speak, as well as a court trial for
slander about to begin.
The gossips then hastened to “clear
their skirts” or clear their own state
ments before the angry brothers of the
young lady, and the scandalous story
was finally traced to a young woman In
good circumstances, and of supposed
good character, and a companion of the
young lady, so cruelly wronged by her
envy and malice. There seemed to be no
I other motive In the world for this at
tempted defamation of character.
| In less than three years, however, the
slanderer so well exposed and well de
spised. failed to make such a visit away
from home for herself and the commu
nity were shocked to be convinced of
her utter lack of virtue or decency and
could understand why she had attempted
to destroy the good name of an innocent
companion in such a fearful way. She
brought untold woes on her own inno
• »nt family and got back in full meas
ure what she had attempted to fasten
on a pure, sweet girl, in this later expose
of her own unworthiness.
If she had been a little more cautious
she might have escaped detection and the
sweet girl’s reputation might not have
been fully established by her friends, be
cause you must be able to make a start or
at least get acquainted with what is being
buzzed around by gossips to know what to
meet, etc.
Girls who indulge the idea that they can
flirt and go “fast,” to make themselves
popular and attractive, may take a little
lesson from this true story of what oc
curred when I was a small child. They,
would do well to understand that “fast
ness” means risk If not danger, like fast
railroad trains, fast automobiles, etc., and
while they may be as pure as an angel,
they can become targets for envy and
and then by means of a ladder we climb
ed Into the big saddle on his back. We
were warned to hold fast to the saddle
and tt was well, for as the powerful an
imal arose to his feet he came near toss
ing us to the ground. My friend, our
guide, and I sat in th® saddle; the of fl
cer, the attendant and a couple of boys
walked, while the mahout sat on the el
ephant’s neck, and directed the course
It was a stately ride. The distance of
two miles was made in an hour. The
ponderous beast made long and slow
strides, but he jolted and shook us as we
had never been jolted before. It was
worse than a camel ride and as bad as
a pitching ship. To make matters worse.
It was midday: a tropical sun was shin
ing from a cloudless sky and the heat
was Intense. We were uncomfortable and
miserable, but we held on. Tt was too
hot to walk, and besides we had come to
Jeypore to ride one of the Maharaja's
elephants, and we proposed to get the
ride. Two miles to Amber palace, and
two miles back we rode on the elephant.
And now we are among the favored few of
earth, who have ridden one of the Ma
haraja's elephants to Amber palace. But
confidentially, to my friends. I am willing
to admit that we couldn’t be paid to re
peat the rare experience.
One such honor In a life time is enough
for us. We only regret that some of
our friends could not have shared with
us the unspeakable pleasure of that cel
ebrated ride.
Amber City was deserted about the
time Georgia was founded, and most of
the stone and marble buildings are per
fectly preserved. We walked for miles
among the halls, the rooms, the build
ings, the palaces, and the gardens. It
was magnificent. It would take a vol
ume to tell even a small part of the
romance, the tragedy and the interesting !
historical facts connected with the an
cient and forsaken city. For 1.5700
years it was a great city, the home of
wealth and beauty and power; but now
only the buildings remain—Amber is
dead.
In leaving Jeypore, on the train a few
miles from the city, we saw in the jung
les, wild deer, wild peacocks, wild mon
keys. I counted 76 deer, and in cross
ing a river, we saw three crocodiles laz
ily basking in the sunshine. We were
told that tigers roam in the same jung
les. Only a few years previous, when
on a visit to Jeypore, the prince of
Wales killed a tiger within eight or ten
miles of the city; Lord Kitchener also
shot a tiger nearby. The Maharaja
himself is a great hunter. Frequently
his men capture alive the wild tigers.
He puts them in cages in his famous
zoological garden and upon occasions,
as a mark ot special favor, he makes
a present of one of the man-eating tigers
to some friend.
I was never very fond of the fierce
man-eating tigers, and as I made no
heroic efforts to gain the undying
friendship of his highness, the Maharaja
of Jeypore, it is needless for me to in
form my friends that I shall return to !
Georgia without bringing a tiger witn |
me.
BECOMING AND
SIMPLE COIFFURE
"Ws
That "her hair is woman’s crowning
glory” is more true now than ever before.
Methods of dressing this crown are al
most as varied as hats and gowns.
This girl wears a wide bandeau made
of gold-colored satin and set with deep
crimson poinsettia. A cluster of these
glowing flowers is set on the corsage of
the gold-colored evening gown.
malice and secret shafts can do great
hurt.
Suspicion in the human mind is one of
the most destructive things to happiness
known to the human family. Get a well
grounded suspicion of any evil sort fast
ened into a mind that is weak and un
just and there will be woes innumerable
so long as that mind is alive and able to
wound by its influence. Such a person
can make home a hell on earth and gen
erally spares nobody when their turn
comes to be set upon by the suspicious
person. ,
There will be hints, inuendoes, questions
and impugned motives until we cannot
at last wonder why there are so many
divorces and so many broken up homes.
Generally this weak and unjust person
is lazy, has time to give to this unworthy
business of setting a neighborhood by ths
ears for busy people are the most con
tented as they are most useful every
where, but there seems to be no way to
avoid or abate these nuisances except to
get out of sight and hearing and then
you must recollect that these pests of so
ciety can write letters and keep up the
warfare from a distance. The "poison of
asps” is under htelr pens as well as their
tongues and there is no use in denying; the
fact that suspicious, envious and lazy
people have greater opportunity to do se
cret Injuries than any other sort of folks
in the world, i
Will Be GlaTtrßead It
“WILLARD, Ga., Jan. 24, 1910.
“Dear Mrs. Felton:
"Would you like to read the history
of the ’lmmortal Six Hundred,* Confed
erate officers, who were sent from Fort
i Delaware, in August, 1864, and who were f
confined on Morris island, below Charles
ton, under the fire of our batteries at
Fort Sumter (and others), for 42 days
and guarded by a negro regiment?
“We were then divided—a part sent to
Hilton Head and a part of Fort Pulaski,
below Savannah—to winter.
"I would so much like for you to read
it and comment through The Journal in
your Country Home column.
“There are thousands of our southern
people who have never heard of our
sufferings. If you will accept a copy
will send you one.
“I dearly love to read your letters, so
much Information and so much good ad
vice!
“May God give you a happy and pros
perous new year! I am getting to be
an old man—7l years old. I still love our
cause, believe we were right.
“With highest regards and best wishes,
I subscribe "myself your old friend and
constant admirer of your writings.
“C. R. E.,
“Fourth Georgia Regiment Infantry."
Be Careful About Borrowing
Money
A correspondent from southern Geor
gia writes me concerning a certain Loan
and Trust company, into which he ad
ventured and lost ail that he paid in be
cause he lapsed In his monthly dues. He
is anxious I should put the public on no
tice, not to touch the aforesaid company,
etc.
My business is not the line of detective
work. I am privileged to call attention
to public evils, but private business must
be settled elsewhere than in my Country
Home column.
I am, however, at full liberty to warn
our readers that borrowing money is a
risky business, especially if you are not
reasonably sure that you can meet the
obligation at the time stated.
I had rather do anything else any time
rather than begin to borrow money and
pay the accumulating interest, and if I
can do without things and live pla<n
and keep out of debt I will try to follow
that plan, world without end.
Sometimes there comes a time when
you must get some money, (cash) or lose
a good deal more than the risk you as
sume as a borrower.
It happens once in awhile that one
must have money or lose far more than
the money could be worth, then it is
prudent to go into the market as a bor
rower; but little boats must keep near
the shore because it is dangerous to ven
ture out into rough water at your own
risk, among sharp financiers.
Big moneyed men can borrow and find
it easy sailing, but honest men of small
1 means will do well not to go in debt or
go to borrowing money so long as they
can economize and live hard until they
can live easier.
Makes Inquiry
“Can any reader of The Journal give me
any name of any member of Capt. John
M. Garrard’s Eight battery, organized at
Savannah, Ga.? Any name or address
will be much appreciated by J. A. Lee,
Pavo, Ga.”
“When I wath a little boy,” lisped a
very stupid society man to a young lady,
“all my ideath in life were thentered on
being a clown.” B ,
| “Well, there is at least one case of grat
ified ambition,” waa the repbb
