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A GOLDEN SCEPTER
In the Land of Gold beyond the setting
I sun there dwelt two kings. One of tliese
kings, called Great Heart, was very wise
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and good. The other king. Cross Patch,
was always playing mean tricks on peo-
It happened that King Cross Patch
had a magic scepter of gold and dia
monds. which was his pride and delight
If he wished to make people sneexe. all
be had to do was shake this scepter at
them, when everybody would sneese just
as hard as if they were catching cold.
Sometimes he would tell the scepter to
make the people dance. And dance the
• *oor folks did till they were tired. Again
r be would command the scepter to remove
a chair which someone went to sit on.
Then they would fall to the floor and get
hurt. In fact, one of the court maids was
crippled so she never could walk again,
but always had to be wheeled in a chair.
Now it happened that in this country
It was the custom for everyone to put out
• a dish of food at night for the fairies to
\ eat While King Great Heart would si
ft * ways set out a big dish of cake and good
r things. King Cross Patch seldom remem
f *bered the fairies. If be did it was only
to put out a plate of bones.
This angered the fairies, and they finally
Bstermlned to punish him. One night they
drove him into the mountains, where he
had to live many years. Half that time
he had to sneexe; the other half dance
His golden scepter they stole and carried
away to our earth, where they planted
It. and when it grew called it goldenrod.
Here It lost all its power but the trick
of making people sneexe when they smell
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Os course King Great Heart ruled in
peace while King Cross Patch was a
I* prisoner tn the mountains. But, wonder
ful to relate, when that king returned
home he had learned not to play tricks
' # on other people, and never again did he
want the scepter. So it still blooms in the
■jitumn in our fields.
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to a quiet corner, sit down and darn the
heels and toes of each stocking with a
running stitch. It will show very lit
tle. the stockings will wear much longer,
and you will save yourself much labor.
I Try it.
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DEMOCRACY'S SUPREME CHANCE.
A political opportunity and a national duty, the one as bril
liant as the other is imperative, have swung open to the Demo
cratic party.
From the White House, from the eapitol, from the country's
utmost bounds, come thickening signs that a change in government
is needed and is imminent. The president, however amiable his in
tentions, finds it impossible to carry out his own or his predeces
sor’s policies. He has even found it necessary, or has considered it
proper, to defend the biggest breach of promise his party ever
made. The Republican majority in congress has shown itself un
willing to support measures looking to the public good. The Re
publican minority has proved itself powerless without Democratic
aid. There was never a more entangled or apparently hopeless dis
sension in party organization. And while congress loiters through
day after day, passing no acts of a constructive or remedial char
acter, the country feels its economic hardships and political ills
grow more and more irksome.
Such is the situation that opens the door of opportunity and
of duty, too, to the party called Democratic. A trammeled admin
istration, a divided Republicanism, a weary and disgusted people
in these three things lies the greatest chance that ever came to
Democracy within the past fifty years.
The embarrassment which the premier of England now faces
is scarcely more acute than that of the president of the United
States. The premier faces dissension in his own party and cold
ness in his cabinet. His customary allies, the Irish and the Labor
ites. are both hanging aloof. As a result, it seems now impossible
for the government to put through any of its promised legislation
or even to put through the budget. Under English procedure, it is
customary in such cases for the existing government to retire in
order that the country may place in power men who can act effec
tually. Were that the custom in America. President Taft and his
cabinet and the Republican party would now withdraw.
For, the party has redeemed none of its important pledges and
it has plainly repudiated its most important pledge—that of an
honest, downward revision of the tariff. Since the present session
of congress opened, the administration has been busy with argu
ments, appeals and threats in an effort to accomplish five measures
—the statehood bill, the interstate commerce bill, the postal savings
bank bill, the conservation bill and. finally, the federal incorpora
tion bill—all of these it has striven to put through and so far has
failed to put through. It has called numerous conferences of sen
ators and representatives, have gone and come between the
White House and the eapitol, special messages have been written
and speeches made on every opportunity, yet the administration
has not a single definite accomplishment to which it can point.
But there is an overtowering act to which the people are point
ing. It is the Payne-Aldrich tariff measure. The people were
promised relief in this particular. They were given burdens as
heavy, if not heavier, than those they already bore. Tariff reform
was the most notable plank in the Republican platform of 1908.
The movement to embody it in the platform originated in Mr.
Taft’s own state, and in the months that followed it received his
repeated and earnest indorsement. It was the issue that touched
most closely and vitally the interests of the general public. It af
forded the Republican party its widest chanbe to act squarely by
the people and to perform a real service.
How has that pledge been fulfilled ? In a long and enormously
expensive session, congress enacted a tariff law that frft the im
port duties on wool as high as ever; that made it possible for the
packing trust to sell beef five cents a pound higher in America
than in England; that left farming implements as costly as ever
before, and that brought on the most oppressive era of food prices
the country has known since its beginning. And this was the bill
which the president signed. He then showed reluctance and criti
cism. But he now hastens to its defense. On Lincoln’s birthday
he declared the Payne-Aldrich tariff measure to be the best of its
kind the nation had ever been given. He might as well have
pointed out that death by the noose is better than death by the ax.
The hands of the administration, however, are no more tightly
tied than are the hands of the party in congress. There a group
of progressive Republicans, finding it no longer possible to retain
their constituents’ support or their self-respect, and at the same
time to follow the leadership of Cannon and Aldrich, have re
belled. JThe plainest, most unprejudiced, evidence of Republican
misrule that ever came to light is this break within the party s
ranks. Nor is this band of insurgents confined to the house of rep
resentatives or the senate. It stretches from the doorways of the
house across the whole length of the continent. It is not only an
incident. It is an idea that has broken loose. It is a national de
mand for a different sort of management of public affairs.
And there lies thb Democratic opportunity, the Democratic re
sponsibility. In the house of representatives today, the Demo
cratic minority holds the balance of power. With its alliance the
insurgents have already broken Speaker Cannon’s domination.
Without its aid, neither wing of the Republican party can move.
It is. therefore, the political power to which the country looks for
results and on which the people depend. Whatever wise or effec
tive legislation is achieved in this congress will be due to the
Democratic element.
This internal crack of the Republican party brings the Demo
crats a great strategic moment. But the broken pledges of the
Republican party brings them a great moral moment, for it opens
the eyes of the country at large to the fact that the old machine is
now not only incapable of running, but that from its very inward
nature it is no longer fitted to do the work which the American
people demand. The truth is, every progressive policy which Theo
dore Roosevelt succeeded in beating into the old Republican ma
chine was essentially a Democratic policy. The regulation of
trusts, the purging of political corruption, the square deal—they
were all imported direct from Democratic ideals. The party has
continued to exist in this new century only because it has been
oiled every four years with Democratic doctrine.
But signs are now manifold that, despite this beating and oil
ing and adjusting of gear, the machine is, after all, its same old
self. It has run a long time, but it isn’t keeping up with the
thought and the needs of the people. We can hear a creaking and
wrenching which mean that some day not far hence it is going to
fall to pieces all at once, like the deacon’s wonderful one-hoss shay.
There is but one peril to this supreme chance of Democracy,
and that is the peril of treachery within its own ranks. By stand
ing true to their party's faith and united among themselves, the
Democrats in the present house of congress can dethrone Cannon
ism, mold legislation and blaze the way for victory in the next
campaign. Will they stand true and stand together! Will they
prove loyal to the trust in their hands? Not all of them, it is to
be deplored, have done so. There was a contingent of Democrats,
among them several from Georgia, we are ashamed to say, who de
serted the ranks last spring in a crucial hour. When the chance to
break the rule of Cannonism was open, they slunk away from their
party and for a political sop sold the birthright of themselves and
their brethren. Such so-called Democrats are the sole obstruction
to the opportunity that has opened. They must be watched, for
other sops will be offered them, and they have given us little proof
that they are not conspiring another betrayal. And they are
being watched, by the people of their own districts and by the
country at large. Let them take heed. If this chance of Democ
racy is lost, their treachery wiH be responsible.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1910
SENATOR BEN TILLMAN.
The heavy affliction that has befallen Senator Benjamin R.
Tillman, of South Carolina, is cause for grief throughout the south
and for sincere regret over all the nation.
Even should Jiis life be spared, and this apparently is hopeless,
his remaining years must be voiceless and barren of that consola
tion which springs from interchange of human speech. To a man
whose interests and powers lie in public affairs, particularly in
the halls of congress and on the platform, no loss could be more
poignant. In his particular sphere, it means what Irtinduess meant
to Milton and deafness to Beethoven.
For the past fifteen years Senator Tillman has been a domi
nant and picturesque figure in our national life. v Few men have
ever matched such powerful impulses with such a keen and
rate intellect. It is this rare blend of temperament that Ijas dis
tinguished him. His explosiveness was like that of a masterfully
fashioned gun which drives a bullet always straight to a mark.
He was never merely invective. There was a purpose and a method
to his ardor. > . v
Senator Tillman spent the first thirty-nine years of his life on
the farm, with the exception of a brief monfli or so in sixty-four,
when he joined the Confederate army as a boy of seventeen and
was forced through a critical illness to retire. At a time of life
when most political leaders are nearing their zenith, he was just
beginning his public career. In South Carolina, as governor, he
opened a new chapter in the history of that state. When he first
entered the United States senate, there was a rather general ex
pectation that he would prove disappointing. But swiftly and
steadily he won the respect of his colleagues. He proved himself
more than a match for those who met him in debate and, more
than this, he proved himself a statesman rich in constructive
thought and purpose.
Indeed, there is far more of the constructive element in the
record of Senator Tillman than is commonly supposed. In his
native state two institutions of learning, among the most useful
and important of their kind in the south, stand to his memory.
They are the Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical college and the
Winthrop Normal and Industrial school. He was an educator as
well as a fighter. He believed in building up what was good as
strongly as in tearing down what was bad.
Above all, he was fearless and honest —absolutely fearless and
absolutely honest.
THE REFLEX INFLUENCE
OF THE MISSIONARY MOVEMENT
ON OUR OWN LAND
- by BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLE*
It is evident that the Christian churches
of the English-speaking nations are en
tering upon an advance movement in the
work of foreign missions which will be
greater in extent and more impressive in
significance than the campaigns of the
Crusaders. During the year 1909 more
converts were won among the pagan na
tions than were ever made in any one
year since Jesus rose from the dead, not
excepting the first years of apostolic
times when Paul and his fellow-laborers
achieved so much in Asia Minor and
southern Europe. The year 1910 gives
promise of still larger results. The lay
men’s missionary movement will set for
ward in an unprecedented degree the
cause of foreign missions. By It thous
ands of new churches will be erected in
heathen lands during the year and thous
ands of new missionaries will be sent
forth from Christian lands.
These new forces will go to their posts
of labour far more quickly and expedi
tiously than Paul and his associates
went on their slow sailing vessels of the
first century. To all Intents and pur
poses New York is closer to Shanghai
in the twentieth century than Jerusalem
was to Rome in the first century. Steam
and electricity afferd means of speedy
transportation and communication which
virtually annul distance, and which defy
time and space. Along with these ti
tanic forces, operating for the advance
ment of Christianity, goes the art of
iHnting, an agent, almost omnipotent,
that vias unknown to the Apostles and
the primitive Church.
It has been observed by writers who
have treated the life and labours of St.
Paul that he was specially qualified for
his wide mission to thd Gentiles by the
fact that he was a Roman citizen, and,
therefore, was protected by Roman law
wherever he went. This we know to be
true. To the Roman law he appealed
for protection when he introduced Chris
tianity into Europe at Philippi in Mace
donia. But strong as was Roman law
in the first century, and jealous as were
the Roman authorities for the rights and
security of Roman citizens, Paul did not
escape jails and stripes and stonings,
his life was in jeopardy every hour. But
under the protection of International
law’, a vastly more potent code than the
statutes of imperial Rome, and beneath
the flags of Great Britain and the United
States, the modern missionaries from the
English-speaking nations may go safely
to the ends of the earth, few in any
land daring to molest them or make them
afraid. Christianity has so filled the
strongest of the modern nations with its
influence that through their, pre-emi
nence and power, security for its preach
ers in all lands is provided in advance of
the coming of the missionaries.
The ends of the earth axe brought to
gether and no Christian worker can go
where the powers of Christendom are
not felt for his defense. All the nations
have become neighbors and all foreign
missions are becoming home missions.
All these facts cheer the Christian army
in its advance. But there is another side
of these same facts which must not be
overlooked.
Heathen lands are as accessible to the
unchristian influences of Christendom as
they are to the consecrated missionaries
and the pure gospel. The same ship may
cary to China both Bibles and brandies.
The godless and Immoral trader, in pur
suit of gold, sails often in the same ves
sel which carries the Christian mission
ary who goes forth to preach of rights
eousness, temperance, and judgment.
Vile books and periodicals issue from
presses in Christian lands and find their
way to the hands and homes of the
heathen as truly as do the holy Scrip
tures and Christian literature.
Moreover, many from pagan nations
are coming to our shores while our mis
sionaries are proceeding to unchristian
countries. Chinese gentlemen visit Amer
ica, and are treated with Indignity; not
infrequently. Oriental students enter our
colleges and universities, and there they
hear sapient instructors putting dis
credit upon the Christian Scriptures and
casting doubt upon the Christian evi
dences. Wise inen from the East, travel
ing among us, witness the iniquities of
our trusts and the shame and squallor
of our slums. Our commercial frauds
and political corruptions are known to all
mankind. The social sins of our "four
hundred," are not hidden from heathen
peoples. The frivolities and vices of our
"society” par excellence are the jest of
the heathen, the grief of the missionary,
and the astonishment of the native
churches in pagan lands.
From all of these things it is manifest
that Christendom must be more Chris
tian speedily, if our holy religion is not
to be dishonored before the heathen world
and stayed in its progress among men.,
We must do a more intensive work at
home while doing this great extensive
work abroad.
It is to be hoped, therefore, that the
Laymen’s Mirsionary Movement marks
the beginning of a revival of religion tn !
our own land.
The wealth of Christendom must be
come more Christian, or the poverty of
Christendom will be paganized befor*
our eyes and the excesses of opulence
will make -Sodoms and Gomorrohs oround
deserted churches which a dead faith
will He entombed. Trade must be purged
of its baseness, and commerce must rise
to the level of consecration. Politics must
be cleansed that the righteousness which
exalts nations may prevail among us. In
short Christendom must be really Chris
tian.
If we may not expect to see at an
early day the perfect fulfillment of this
ideal, surely it is not too much to hope
that the reflex action of this great mis
sionary movement will be felt in a migh
ty elevation of Christian life in our own
land.
The reflex action of the Crusades was
seen in the production of the excellencies
of the chivalrlc virtues. The Crusaders
went upon a warfare which we can not
justify by enlightened reason; but that
mistaiken movement, nevertheless did
muck to lift up the life of Europe.
This nobler crusade, so Scriptural,
reasonable, and benevolent, can not faJl
to affect beneficially the English-speak
ing nations. A suggestion of what may
ccme of it in one direction at least was
Indicated recently by an address of Mr.
Alfred E. Marling, a leading layman, of
Brooklyn, who called upon business men
of great earning capacity about to retire
on a competence in middle life, to con
tinue in business a few more years for the
sake of Jesus, and to give all their earn
ings during those years to extend their
Lord’s kingdom. It that sort of thing
should become at all general it would
change the character of our commerce
and raise the spirit of our age. It such
clear-eyed, wide-visloned, and resolute
benevolence should spring from this
Missionary movement what
manifold forms of good In our own coun
try might arise rrom it!
Through this great movement is coming
the nation-wide revival for which thou
sands of devout souls are praying and
waiting.
FAMOUS LAND SUIT
BEGUN IN LOUISIANA
LAFAYETTE. La., Feb. Is.—Almost
rivaling the litigation of Jarndyce vs.
Jarndyce, the case of Eugenia Trahan
vs. Pierra D. Trahan, an action insti
tuted 15 years ago, was taken up for
trial in the district court here today.
The suit involves the possession of
about 20 acres of farm land. Several
surveys to fix the boundary in dispute
have been nullified by some fatal de
fect or legal technicality.
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TIMELY TOPICS.
Get a Home if You Have a
- - Famliy
A good marty people tell me (those who
live in town) that they prefer to rent a
house to owning the property. Taxes are
so high and. repairs constant—there is
danger from fire and continuous wear and
tear, etc.
There is good reason for these state
ments as I am well aware, and it is a
reason backed by high taxation—that nev
er decreases, but gets heavier every year
because we are paying over $25 per thou
sand in the town I live in, state, county
and municipal.
That makes a heavy drain on the value
of such property with next to nothing
to show for what goes with the money. I
own a little town property, the accumula
tion of years, with economy and constant
pen work, and it has reached a place
where I would like to see somebody In
possession and bound for the taxes.
But a man with a family, who lives
In the country should own a home if the
land only measures two acres on which
his tenement is placed. Kvery time I drive
out to our farm I pass a neat little home,
newly built, where a former tenant lives,
with his wife and his son’s family.
They paid as I understand SIOO per acre
to get the site (beyond the city limits)
and they only bought two acres, but the
two acres gives them ample room, with
barn lot, garden, front yard and patches.
They were able to find renting land
very convenient, and they live at home
and feel comfortable at home, and every
lick they put on their property come*
back to them as real improvement and
Increases In value.
If the father or the son should chance
to die, then the women will have a home
that Is their own. for we know that death
comes alike to all, young and old, often
unexpected.
As renters they had furnished tenants
with flre wood, patches, etc., and they
paid no taxes of course, and the landlord
was expected to do everything in repairs,
and get back only some percentage on the
amount invested, when this land was
purchased, yet they felt the need of a
home.
I know another family of father, moth
er and seven children who rent land and
make considerable money, with cotton at
present prices, and they are at no ex
pense for shelters, flre wood, etc., but
if death should come to the 'father, there
would be no home for those left behind
and unless they have hoarded more mon
ey than anybody knows of, there would
be a helpless family, with dependent
children, out on the hard world.
If I was this man, this renter, I would
also buy two acres or more of ground,
put a house on it, barn, etc., and I’d live
there and feel sure when I laid down to
sleep at night that my family could stay
where they were and nobody able to fling
them out of doors after my coffin started
to the graveyard, no matter where it hap
pened. yl would buy this small piece of
ground where I knew there was good
land that could be rented, and I’d pay
a good rent to be able to live in my own
home and own it.
A Few Words on Rheumatism
A noted medical writer teJUs his readers
that rheumatism is an infectious disease,
catching like tuberculosis afid some other
things that afflict the human family, that
a "child who has a rheumatic parent is
very liable to develop the disease, and if
both parents are rheumatic, the liability
becomes a certainty.”
So it becomes a necessity to examine
into family histories for rheumatic ten
dencies as well as consumption, etc. He
further writes: "Parents may deny having
had rheumatism, but if pressed, will ad
mit the existence of one or more of the
non-articular manifestations of the dis
ease, although they are not recognised by
them as rheumatic."
The essay is too long to print in full,
but some points may be noticed.
We all appreciate the prevalence of
what is known as tonsllltia, and we are
gravely told that in 40 per cent of rheu
matic cases In childhood, the disease first
showed itself in tonsllitis.
So-called "growing pains'* are set down
as an initial manifestation. Overexertion
will account for much df the trouble, but
the symptoms will be there when there
has been no extra exertion.
Says this writer: "The manner in which
children are clothed is often the cause
of ’myalgia’ or growing pains. For in
stance, the exposure of the child's limbs
In cold weather satisfies the esthetic
tastes of the mother, but is harmful."
I have no doubt in my own mind but
/Ws Coofc Book!
Stuffed Dates. —The days must nrst
be picked apart, washed in warm ■water,
and dried in an old napkin. Remove
the seed from each with a sharp knife,
slip a nut in its place, press together..-
and sift over with granulated sugar.
Leave .•landing a while on oiled paper to
become firm. They are nice served at
the end of a dinner with the dessert.
Quick Biscuit.- —Two cups of flour and
half teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful
baking powder, sift all i together. Rub
in a tablespoonful of butter, mix to a
thick batter with milk. Drop by small
spoonfuls on a greased pan and bake In
a quick oven. These are nice for break
fast.
the general delicate condition of the >.
health of modern woman has been largely
caused by the foolishness of mother’s who
followed the dictates of fashion, or as
they attempted to follow them. I know a
growing girl who has become a sufferer
from catarrh, to a painful degree, because
her foolish mother has dressed her un
suitably in severe cold weather. It is time
thrown away to try to reason with a wo
man who blinds her reason to this pre
vailing folly in dress, but it would ba
an eye-opener if the number of such ln-«
curable children could be estimated and
tabulated.
It would be wise (if it was possible to
carry out the plan) to compel public
school teachers to send such faultily
dressed children home whenever they
came into the school room improperly
clothed for severe weather as a health
precaution. .
Vanity is one of the beset menta of the
sex, and a young girl with a fancy frock
on, will be inclined to show it off if every
nerve in her body is tingling with cold,
and if she is encouraged at home, she
will risk her health every time rather
than fail to show it off wherever she
goes. Exposed limbs will soon engender
chronic inflammation in the joints, and
the same cause which has provoked the
painful joints will soon extend to the
heart, lungs and pleura, according to this
writer on rheumatism.
General debility will ensue, of coufm,
accompanied by anemia. Impoverished
blood will cause both anemia and gene
ral debility, and when a child is allowed
to gorge on unhealthy diet, to pack its
stomach full of unwholesome candies,
incipient rheumatism is getting in
its work. We can account for much of
disease, without going crasy over "hook
worms'* or inherited tuberculosis.
Nature will assert itself. It win got
its pay somewhere and somehow, after
the human frame has been maltreated
by its owner.
I can hardly foresee the suffering that
awaits this growing girl, who has be
come a victim of catarrh, because her
health was neglected that her frocks
might attract attention.
She is sallow, easily upset with her
stonjach, inert in her lack bf outdoor
exercise, and bids fair to become a con
firmed invalid before she gets half '
through her teens.
As soon as she marries, as nearly all
girls do marry, she will subside into
another specimen of the class of invalid
mothers, who are a burden to everyone ‘
that touches their lives, except the doc
tors, who make a fat living from their
complaints and inflrmatles.
If children come into the world, they
are subject to all the parent’s infirm
ities and this condition of things will
account for many inherited diseases,
among them the tendency to rheumatism.
A rheumatic child will naturally be
come dull in brain as well as diseased
in body. "Its growing pains" may sub
side. as they will subside if the child
is well fed. well clothed and forced to
take reasonable exercise, but if the con
trary condition is allowed, we need ex
pect nothing better than a cripple in
mental and physical being, to the end
of the chapter.
It is the duty of the physicians to
make these things plain to the public,
and then care should not end with the
treatment of one child in a family where
other children may be infected. I am
satisfied that injudicious dressing in
childhood as well as womanhood will ac
count for a large proportion of invalid
womankind that we see so constantly.
