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4 The Semi-Weekly Journal Kntrrrd at th* Atlanta PnstAfflc* •» Mall Mat tar as tke Hec.-nd Class. JAMES R. GRAY Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Twelve month* $1 *> Mix month* "* Tkrve :nontL» The Hews W eekly Journal to published m Tneaday at><! Friday, and to mailed by the abort eat mute* f"r early delivery It contain* new* f-vm all over the world, brv-isht by apeclal leaaed »Irea into "nr office. It ha* a staff of di*tln«ui*bed contributor*, with etranc department» of apecial value to the home and the farm. Ajent* wanted at every poatnffiee. Ulberil eomuklark'tt allowed. Outfit free. The only traveling representative* we have are J. A. Bryan. B. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle and M. H. Gilreath. We will be rraponaible only foe money paid to the above named traveling representative* ♦ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS ♦ ♦ The label used for addressing ♦ ♦ your paper shows the time your ♦ ♦ subscription expuires. By renewing ♦ -w at least two weeks before the date ♦ •a- on tide label, you insure regular ♦ ♦ service. ♦ -o- Tn ordering paper changed, be ♦ ♦ sure to mention your old. as well as ♦ e- your new, address. If on a rural ♦ ♦ route, please give the route num- ♦ ♦ ber. ♦ w- We cannot enter subscriptions to ♦ ♦ begin with back numbers. Remit- ♦ ♦ tance should be sent by postal ♦ ■e order, or registered mail. ♦ ♦ Address all orders and notices -e- ♦ for this »department to THE ♦ ♦ SBMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, At- ♦ ♦ lasts, Ga. ♦ 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
