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Newspaper Page Text4 The Semi*Weekly Journal Catered at the Atlanta PiwtcffW Man Mat ter vs the Secend Claaa. JAMES R. GRAY • Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Twelve •* * «!x ro«tk» !/ TW*V 3*Mths ~ >c The Sean Weekly Journal H published <>■ Tueeday and Friday, and l« mailed by the abort «»i routes tor early delivery. It eoaraina nens from >ll o’er the ■"’t’d benight by special leased wires Into w Jt baa » waff of distln<ulsbed contribute™, with Stmcg departments of apecial value to tbe borne end tbe farm. Agents wanOv, at tvery poatotnee l.lbertl eamioisrtoa allowed. Outfit free. Tbe only traveling representatives we base are J A Bryan. B F Bolton. C. C. Coyte M. H. Gilreath We win he reapooaihle om for nrmpy »wl4 t© tb« ©bore mined travel log | reptweatatleea. 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Ga. * |f i. i - ——— Friday, May 6. 1910 t , May the farmers assembled in St. touts continue to promulgate the doctrine I of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. a The various bribery disclosures } * throughout the country indicate that the I way to a ataieaman's heart, tn some in , ■tances. is through his pocketbook. • If Loeb is made governor on Roose- • volt's recommendation, it is to be hoped fee won t share Taffs misfortune of be ing judged by his patron's standards. , The baseball schedules have been ar yanged so that the teams can play out of New Tbrk when toe coionel arrives. 1 Famous VPar Vete ran Is Claimed by Death > *» * ! n4sa?w' r-. ■' - ■ - . COL. Xi. F- TIOMAi Tb the death of Col. U P. Thomas, whirr, occurred <at his home. <3 West North avenue, Monday evening at !•:#) o’clock, the south lost one of its bravest defenders of the loot cause. Colonel Thomas was commander of the famous Musty second Georgia regiment, and was a well-known Atlantian. His death was due to a stroke of paralysis. Colonel Thomas was in his 75th year, and was a native of Clarke county, nanryta Just before attaining manhood he struck out for California in search of gobi, and lived In the west for several years. He finally returned to his native state, and started a mercantile business at Lawrenceville. Ga. When the civil war broke out Colonel Thomas formed a company of Infantry and was made captain, which was part of the Forty-second Georgia regiment was afterwards made colonel of the famous regiment, and no braver soldier •ver appeared on a battlefield. His reg iment was conspicuous in the battle of (Atlanta on July 2J. IM4. and General * Sherman in his memoirs mentions par ticularly Colonel Thomas' regiment and pays the highest tribute to the great werfhern commander. Colonel Thomas' regiment was stationed then where Oak land cemetery is now, and besides bear ing the brunt of the battle, succeeded in Capturing DeGress' federal battery. ’A The war over. Colonel Thomas made his home In Atlanta, and was for several years chief of police. He was after wards a member of council, and at» one , time sheriff of Fultbn county. - ■ The deceased was twice married He first led to the altar Miss Jane Peeples, * daughter of Judge William J. Peeples, ■of Lawrenceville. His second was Mrs. (Jeannette R. Payne, who survives him. J» Colonel Thomas was the son of Col. «'L. P. Thomas, Br.. who was one of four ’"brothers who held high rank in the con- C-federste service. The other three were (‘Gen Edward Lloyd Thomas. Col. Henry P. Thomas and Major W. W. Thomas. **' Colonel Thomas participated tn all of the battles from Missionary Ridge until . the end of the war He was present at the siege of Vicksburg and left a valu j able scrap book, which told of the .maneuvers around Vicksburg during the -battle and all orders issued to his regi ment. Colonel Thomas was a cousin of Sid ney Lanier, the poet. He w»s a member of Atlanta Camp. No. 159. Confederate veterans, and other confederate camps. Shortly after the close of the war Colonel Thomas moved to Lawrenceville and there resided until his home was torn away by the members of his regi ment, the lumber brought to Atlanta and . built on Larkin street. There the home remains to this day. The house was torn away and moved to Atlanta by his regi ment. sli being anxious to have him live Mere, where he could be in closer touch with them. The funeral services were conduct* ed from St. park's church Wednesday morning at •'clock. KING EDWARD PAYS HIS TAXES. The first man in England to pay his taxes under the new budget which became operative last week was King Edward a significant and illuminating carcumstance. Even before he had given his formal assent to the finance bill he. and his queen, too, paid their income tax in full at the rate of fourteen pence to the pound. Such is the change which a few centuries have wrought in the ideas and the dealings of kings. Fancy Charles the First paying a tax! Imagine his subjects dreaming of such a thing! Nor was Edward under any legaJ constraint to pay his taxes. There is not now any authority to levy on the crown. It was Queen Victoria who inaugurated thas custom of her own free will. She wanted to share the burdens of her people. Her successor is following her example. England still has her monarch, but she is a democracy through and through. Indeed, the rulers of this day who wield any power are themselves democratic, with the possible exception of Russia’s czar. Great Britain is radically democratic as compared with the United States. The new budget is a striking example. It is doubtful if the most venturesome statesmen of the insurgent west would dare advocate such measures as Lloyd-George has actually fashioned into law. President Taft is now fighting hard for his income tax. Eng land has had an income tax for a number of years, and at the present session of parliament it was increased. There was made an advance of one-sixth in the levy on all unearned incomes and on earned incomes above ten thousand dollars. Besides this there was enacted a super tax of two and one-half per cent on incomes beyond twenty-five thousand dollars. An income of thirty thou sand dollars thus pays a tax of seventeen hundred and fifty dol lars and a super-tax of three hundred and seventy-five dollars. It was this tax which the king paid, and paid first among all men in the kingdom. Just what the amount was no one but the tax officials know, for the extent of his majesty’s income is a sedulously guarded secret. When the king pays taxes, the ideas of democracy have taken a pretty firm hold. &fN INTERNATIONAL COURT Despite some of the seemingly awkward things he has done within the past year, Secretary of State Knox hit upon a big and useful idea when he proposed tlnat the leading powers of the world establish an international court of arbitration to sit permanently and to settle peacefully disputes which ordinarily lead to war. He announced the other day that many of the foremost courts of Europe are looking favorably upon this suggestion. There ap pears to be a reasonable chance of its main principles becoming embodied in a definite institution. If such is eventually the out come. the United States will have played a magnificent and epoch making role in the world’s diplomacy. For many years it has been urged that in their differences na tions should follow the same practice now required of individuals thev should settle their differences under the law. not by bloody conflict. The disasters tha-t follow a fight between man and man are multiplied a million times in a fight between nation and nation. The whole world, moreover, is coming to be regarded, and actually is. a unified social group. War in any quarter of the globe be comes in the end costly and harmful to every country and to all peoples. There is thus as much reason and as much need for a court to adjust international quarrels as courts to settle indi vidual quarrels. The theoretical truth of this position has always been admit ted, but its practicability has been doubted. The United States is thus far the only nation that has made a definite effort to secure such a tribunal. And. rather to the surprise of everyone, the sug gestion is meeting with approval. Such a court as is contemplated would probably sit at The Hague. It would, have broader and more specific authority than is now given the Hague conferences. True, it would be experi mental: but it would mark a long stride in civilization ; it would save millions of lives, millions of dollars and would mean a more peaceful and prosperous planet. WESTONS LITTLE WALK. The remarkable journey afoot which Edward Payson Weston completed yesterday should do much to stimulate national interest in walking as a zestful sport and a wholesome recreation. This seventy-one-year-old saunterer crossed the American con tinent in just seventy-seven days, having come from Moncana on the Pacific coast to the office of the mayor of New York city. Bar ring a few trivial accidents, he made the long hike without mis hap and his only illness was due to an overindulgence at one of the banquets which savored along his path. He entered New York hale and ruddy and justly famous. Fortunately for the business and the legs of the country, Mr. Weston will have few emulators; few at least who will try to stroll as far as he has. It will be a good thing, however, if his example awakens an enthusiasm in walking as a form of exercise and di version. America is coming to be more and more a country of sports. It is the fatherland of what is perhaps the greatest game ever devised. There is this limitation, however, to baseball, both collegiate and professional: Only a very few people can actually play the game. The same thing is largely true of golf and partly true of tennis. Automobiling serves thousands, but it will never serve the millions, and the millions are the very ones who most need open air and exercise. 'Walking has this supreme advantage—it requires only a pair of legs and a road. Perhaps it should be said that walking as a real sport requires a country, yet that is easily to be had. Given these two simple essentials, any man or woman can get health and enjoymeift. It is nature’s greatest sport. It brings into play nearly all the muscles, and particularly the lungs. It will banish a pale face, beget an appetite, unload a pack-horse heart and clear a cloudy mind. There are many presagements that walking is coming into wide popularity. Colonel Roosevelt did a good deal to bring this form of recreation into favor before he left the White House. He used to tramp fifteen or twenty miles of an afternoon and ruin the patent leather shoes of the immaculate Mr. Root. President Tait boujjht him a sweater soon after he took the oath of office and pre reeded to prove what a man weighing close on to three hundred could do afoot. Mayor Gaynor often takes a jaunt of twenty miles. Even King Edward has been known to bopt his way across the fields on a rainy day. MASTERING THE AEROPLANE. The most significant event thus far in the brief but teeming history of aviation is Louis Paulhan’s aeroplane journey from London to Manchester. He sailed from one specified point to an other in a definite direction, following a prearranged route with remarkable closeness and considerable certainty. The floating of the first sailboat was not a more notable or suggestive accom plishment. It is this definiteness of the trip that lends such importance to Paulhan’s voyage, for it proves that the aeroplane is subject to the hand and the will of man. that it can be made to do his bid ding over a long distance for many hours. The Frenchman cov ered one hundred and eighty-six miles in twelve hours, this time including a rest of eight hours. His average running time was thus something over forty-six miles an hour. At the same rate he could go from Atlanta to Macon in considerably less time than a railway train requires. That is wonderful speed when judged comparatively. But it is not the speed that makes Paulhan’s flight memorable. It is its surety and its sustained surety through a great stretch of space. Control seems to have been, and still is, a crucial problem in aeronautics. With that particular problem once well under stood. the man-bird’s wings will have grown beyond their fledg ling stage and will plume themselves for vast explorations. It is specially interesting in this connection to note the really ' ATIANi'A. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MAY 6, 1910 big achievements of Charles K. Hamilton, who is performing such interesting feats at the Atlanta speedway. The so-called Hamil ton “glide” is said to be one of the most noteworthy contributions yet made to the science of aeronautics. The astounding deftness and certainty with which he manipulated his plane yesterday places him along with Paulhan and the other great pioneers of the air. •Such exhibitions prove the aeroplane’s availability for war and at least suggest the part it will eventually play in traffic. The trip from London to Manchester was independent of road ways. Conditions that would have impeded or stopped a railway train or an automobile were powerless over this craft of the air. GEORGIANS WHO HAVE REPRESENTED THEIR ST A TE IN UNITED STATES SENATE _BY RALFH 3MT TH. WASHINGTON. D. C., April 23.-Geor gia ha? had 43 different men in the Uni ted S»ates senate since the present gov ernment began business on March 4, 1789. —l2l years ago. William Few and James Gunn were Georgia's first sena tors, and while it is a seeming paradox both of them were succeeded by the same man—James Jackson. William Few served for the short term —four years—from March 4. 1789. to March 3, 1793. when James Jackson was elected for a full term of six years. Two years in the senate, however, was enough for Jackson, and he resigned in 1795, to be succeeded by George Walton. But when James Gunn’s second term expired, on March 3, 1801, Jackson's yearning for public life returned him to the senate. He continued in the legislative harness until his death, March 18, 1806. Many years later Gen. John B. Gordon resigned from the United States senate, to re-enter public life later and succeed his successor—Gov. Joseph E. Brown. Resignations from the senate by Geor gia senators were not uncommon in the oiden days. Among the senators who re signed were William H. Crawford, Wil liam Wyatt Bibb, George M. Troup, John Forsyth, Freeman Walker, Thom as W. Cobb, and J. MaePherson Berrien. Senators Troup, Forsyth and Berrien, each, resigned twice. RECORD OF GEORGIA SENATORS. Appended is a list of Georgians who have served as senators of the United States, showing the term of service of each: William Few. 1789-1793; James Gunn, 1789-1801; James Jackson. 1793-1795; George Walton. 1795-1796; Josiah Tatnall. 1796-1799; Abraham Baldwin. 1799-1807; dying in office; James Jackson, 1801-1806. resigning; George Jones, August, 1807- November, 1807; William H. Crawford. 1807-1813, resigning; Charles Tait, 1809- 1819; William B. Bulloch, April, 1813- November. 1813; William Wyatt Bibb, 1813-1816, resigning; George M. Troup, 1816-1818. resigning; John Forsyth, 1818- 1819, resigning; Freeman Walker. 1819- 1821, resigning; John Elliott. 1819-1825; Nicolas Ware, 1821-1824, dying in office, September 7, 1824; Thomas W. Cobb, 1824- 1828, resigning; J. MaePherson Berrien, 1829. resigning; Oliver H. Prince, 1828-1829; George M. Troup. 1829-1833. resigning; John Forsyth. 1829-1834, resigning; John P. King, 1833-1837, resigning; Alfred Cuthbert. 1835-1843; Wilson Lumpkin, 1837-1841; J. Macpherson Berrien, 1841- 1852, resigning; Walter T. Colquitt, 1843- 1848, resigning; Herschel V. Johnson. 1847- 1849; William C. Dawson. 1849-1855; Robert M. Charlton, 1852-1853 Robert Toombs, 1853-1861, retired and seat declared va cant; March 14, 1861; Alfred Iverson, 1855-1861, retired, January 28. 1861, before term expired on March 3. 1861. The state was unrepresented in tire senate from 1861 to 1868, because of the war between the states. H. V. M. Miller was Georgias first senator after the war. He was elected by the legislature to fill out the unex pired term which began on March 4, 1865. He entered the senate February 1, 1871, and served until March 3, 1871. Joshua Hill was elected by the legisla ture to fill out the unexpired term, be ginning March 4. 1867. He also entered the senate February 1. 1871, and served until March 3, 1873. After the retirement of these men the senators succeeded as follows: Thomas M. Norwood. 1871-1877; John B. Gordon, 1873-1880. resigning; Benjamin H. Hill, 1877-1883, dying in office. August 16. 1882; Joseph E. Brown, 1880-1891; Pope Barrow, 1882-1883; A. H. Colquitt, 1883- 1894,’ dying in office; John B. Gordon, 1891-1897; Patrick Walsh, 1894-1895; Au gustus O. Bacon, 1895 ; Alexander S. Clay, 1897 . SOMETHING ABOUT THE MEN Thanks to the biographical congres sional dictionary, it is possible to learn something of each of the 43 senators Georgia has sent to Washington, and, though all of it is history, much of it will be news to readers of The Journal. William Few was a colonel in, the Con tinental army. He was a native of Mary land; was presiding judge of the Rich mond county court; practised law at Augusta; was a delegate to the Conti nental congress; moved to New York, and was member of New York legisla ture; died at Fishkill, N. Y.. July 16. 1828. James Gunn was a native of Virginia. He studied and practiced law at Savan tnah. He died at Louisville. Ky., July 30. 1801, while a senator from Georgia. James Jackson was a native of En gland. Settled in Georgia in 1772; was a captain in the Continental army; grand master of the Masons of Georgia, 1786- 1789; was a member of the first con gress from Georgia; was governor of Georgia from 1798 to 1801; died in Wash ington, D. C., while still a member of the senate. George Walton was born in Virginia and began practice of law at Augusta, Ga.; was a delegate to the Continental congress; served in the Revolutionary ■war; was governor of Georgia in 1779; was chief justice of Georgia, 1783; was again governor of Georgia in 1789, and again chief justice in 1793. Died at Au gusta, 1804. Josiah Tattnall was born at Bonaven ture, Ga. He served in the Revolution ary war. He died at Nassau, New Prov idence, June 6, 1803. Abraham Baldwin was a native of Con necticut, and a graduate of Yale col lege in 1772. He was a chaplain in the Revolutionary war; moved to Savannah after the war and began the practice of law; was a member of the legislature and delegate to the continental congress; i was a member of the first congress from I Georgia, and was re-elected to the sec ond, third, fourth and fifth congresses. He was elected president pro tempore of the senate. He died in Washington in 1807. IN THE NEW CENTURY John Milledge was a native of Savan nah. He served in the Revolutionary war, and later became attorney general of Georgia. He was a representative in the second congress. He also served in The fourth, fifth and seventh congress es. He was governor for four years, from 1802 to 1806. He died at Sand Hill, Ga., February 9, 1818. The biographical congressional diction ary tells nothing of George Jones, ex cept that he was appointed a senator from Georgia, vice Abraham Baldwin, deceased, and served from October 26, to December 9, 1807. William H. Crawford was born in Vir ginia and moved to Georgia in 1783. He studied law and began to practice at Lexington. He was elected to succeed Abraham Baldwin, deceased, as a United States senator, and was chosen president pro tempore of the He declined the tender of- President Madison to be secretary of war, but accepted the am bassadorship to France: became secre tary of war subsequently, August 1, 1815, and on October 22. 1816. became secretary of the treasury, serving until 1825. He was the defeated Democratic candidate for president in 1825, and on ac count of illness declined to remain sec retary of the treasury under president J. Q. Adams. He returned to Georgia, was appointed judge of the northern circuit, which position he held until his death, at Elberton, September 15, is Little is known of Charles Tait except that he was born in Virginia, well edu cated, moved to Georgia, became a su preme court Judge, was elected to the senate, moved to Alabama. where he died. October 7. 1835. William B. Bulloch, the son of Arch ibald Bulloch, was born In Georgia. He was liberally educated, studied law and began the practice in Savannah. He was mayor of Savannah and later col lector of the port. He served in the war of 1812. He was one of the founders of the State Bank of Georgia, and was its president from 1816 to 1843. He died at Savannah, May 6, 1852. ALABAMA’S FIRST GOVERNOR William Wyatt Bibb was a native of Virginis, where he was liberally educat ed. Subsequently he entered the Univer sity of Pennsylvania and was graduated from the medical department in 1801. He located in Georgia and entered poli tics, serving in the legislature. He was elected to the ninth congress as a Dem ocrat. and re-elected to 10th, 11th and 12th congresses. He was the first gover nor of Alabama and died at Fort Jack son, July 9, 1820. George Mclntosh Troup was born at Mclntosh Bluff, Ala., in 1870. He was graduated fi-om Princeton college, stud ied law and began the practice at Sa vannah. Was a member of the legisla ture and subsequently entered congrfess. to serve in the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th congresses. He was elected to the sen ate as a state's right Democrat. He died in county, Ga., May 3, 1556. Born in Virginia. John Forsyth was educated at Princeton and moved to Au gusta. Ga., where with his father he studied law; was attorney general of Georgia in 1808, and was in. the 13th, 14th and 15th congresses; was elected to the senate and resigned to become minister to Spain; was elected to the 18th and 19th congresses and again elected to the senate. He was appointed secretary of the state by President Jackson, and re signed from the senate; he was reap pointed secretary of state by President Van Buren, and died at Washington, D. C., October 21. 1841. Freeman Walker, a native of Virgin ia, was a senator from Georgia for two years, and died in Augusta, September 23, 1827. Graduated from Yale college in 1794. John Elliott, of Sunbury, Liberty coun ty, became a United States senator, De cember 6, 1819. He served until March 3, 1825, and died at Banbury, August 9, 1827. Nicolas Ware, who served in the sen ate from December 11, 1821. to September 7, 1824, ras born in Virginia.' and died in New York City. A NATIVE GEORGIAN Thomas W. Cobb was a native Geor gian. Born in Columbia county, he was well educated, studied law and began the practice at Greensboro. He was elected to the 15th, 16th and 18th congresses. He resigned from the senate and became a judge of the superior court. He died at Greensboro. February 1, 1830. John Macpherson Berrien was a na tive of New Jersey, and a graduate of Princeton college. He studied law at Savannah undeV Joseph Clay, and began the practice at Jefierson county, then the capital of the state, in 1799; he removed to Savannah, and be came solicitor of the eastern circuit: subsequently judge oi the same circuit; he was captain of tne Georgia Hussars, Continued Next Tuesday. T7 L? ABSOLUTELY NEW T?T> T? T7 L 1 IvJIYJIY eureka bent trimmer JT JaE/11/ See That Tension 8-1 nch Self Sharpening Shears These are'not the old-fashioned Straight Handle Shears that you can buy for 10 or 15 cents. OUR SHEARS are the VERY LATEST PATTERN and are preferred to the Straight Handle Shears, as they FIT THE HAND, making the cutting of Heavy goods easy. Will cut the thinnest of silk or the thickest of Woolen Cloth. THEY ARE ALWAYS SHARP. Another Strong Feature. Our Secret Spring TENSION SHEARS are adjustable, easily cleaned, always ready. 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We have an end less succession of courts, endless liti gation, and jurymen should be legally and carefully selected, or we shoud omit juries and get a chancery judge to render decisions. There is unlimit ed opportunity for spite and prejudice, as well as injustice, as the matter now stands, and people are losing all re spect -for doubtful methods. A gentleman who has lived in Bar tow county for a number of years, with large business imerests and emi nent for his intelligence, told me his name had never been found in the jury box at all. He said it had been esti mated that fifteen hundred men of up right character and intelligence were in the same plight, and that I could see for myself if I would scan the lists of selected Juries that were printed in the public gazettes. He said a few men had been continually drawn out and that we had two sets who served alternatively, with very little varia tion, and with remarkable luck as to frequent selection. I am going to scan tne lists here after, and will report further, God willing. The law is pungent and em phatic as to our legal mode of get ting Jurymen, and every person who is called into court to seek justice or defend themselves from bad men and injustice should be made to feel that they have an equal chance with the other man in the matter of a Jury, and if the "Jury fixer” has got in its work, there should be some way to catch up with it, and then we should fight shy of electing such people in the near future. Hon. A. H. Stephens often discussed the importance of honest court trials and a clean judiciary. He said they were the hope of the country, and when they failed everything else would give way in free government. When suspicion and distrust enters there can be no confidence in the way that trials are conducted, and it will de stroy progress as well as confidence. A trial that has been decided by a packed Jury will forever carry the stain of corruption in its results, and if they are given time enough it will break down with its final doom of fraud. There is too much looseness in the se lection of Jurymen. Every man who serves on a jury which is to decide on the personal liberty or the property rights of others should be a man of in telligence as well as upright character, and his name should be drawn from the jury box In a legal way, and that would put a check on the particular class of people who hang about the court house to get "caught” on the jury. Complaints are general in many places as to the privileges that are granted to suet push ers in, because they are usually as ig norant as they are notorious brawlers and intent on getting a finger and some money In the mess. I have known men to be caught on the jury in this county to decide important matters in court when they not only could not read and write, but were evidently intent on spite and prejudice in making a verdict. Their ignorance displayed itself in that particu lar way. 3. This catching business is a serious thing and all courts should close when they feel obliged to run with such caught ups as those who are known to be (by those familiar with existing conditions), not only a menace to civil liberty, but also known to be unfit. The law directs that no man's name shall go in the jury box without some knowledge as to his upright and intelligent reputation, and it is not Just or fair or honest that men who are grossly deficient should be "caught” and placed where they do not properly belong, especially if they are also known to be grossly prejudiced, ig norant and spiteful by their neighbors and acquaintances. What's the use of a jury box at all if such riff-raff can push in? Why not go out and pick up a half dozen sorry men and defeat justice (as is sometimes done), and omit any pretense of a jury box? As sure as we live, there must oe a stopping place somewhere to such op erations! They are too rabid to thus run at large. The Great Discovery When brave Balboa gained the mountain's height. A glorious prospect burst before his sight: The great Pacific atretebed before him Iles. And fills with new delight his ravished eyas. O sight sublime! It meets the sky; The splendid image of eternity: He gazed the sea. his hope of old. Whose waters wonder by the realms or gold. Visions of wealth and glory fill his wind. And he forgets the toils he left behind. The dream is realized—that dream sublims That bore him onward through each deadly clime. O'er burning sands and o'er stormy main. Through death and danger,, far from ancient Spain. His bursting heart adores that mighty power That brought him safely homage pays. And -to the God of heaven devoutly prays. The Pacific ocean was discovered by Balboa, a Spanish explorer. Balboa had rrttled Spain, where he cultivated a farm, w hen tn« expedition started for the west he wanted to Join it. but be was in debt, and issued a proclamation not to let a debtor Spain. Balboa was determined to go. bad himself secreted on the ship tn a cask and did not make bls presence known until tne ship was far out in the ocean. At first t ■ commander threatened to throw him overboard. The land of gold farther west inflamed the mind of the Spaniards. The mountains were covered with snow and the seas tossed storms, but they never lost nope. Balboa became the head of the expedition. Many In dian tribes were ,t<i be mastered. The war riors soon fell into the hands of the Spaniard’. Onward the brave Spaniard went. leading bit soldiers. They came in sight of the mountain peaks, which rose before him. On one of the peaks be commanded his soldiers to halt and went to the top alone, sword in hand, and 10l the Pacific lay before him! Immediately he fell on his knees and offered thanks to <«bd for permitting him to see the glorious sight. On his return to Spain a large crowd cams to meet him. The Pacific and if discovery may illustrate the ~ean of God's love. The sinner is settl< <» down in htg sins: he is employed in cultivating for Sataa. He bears the revival of religion; be is determined to join it. but he Is in deb’. He la determined to join the expedition that is bound sos heaven. He seeks the salvation of his soul. H i* in the way of difficulty. Satan come’ to tempt him. Hia old master stares at him. but he fights on and he reaps a glorlona harvest. He i’ with the children of God. He la templ ed but goes on keeping, praying and flghtimt. Satan fails, and the time is near! The hear only guide directs him. He ascends the peak— Mount Calvary—end looks beyond, where lies the oeean of God's love. There It la covering all time and eternity-immense, boundless overwhelming. When this almighty sea of love His rising soul surveys. Transported with view he's lost In wonder, love and praise. Tonre truly. BERNARD HARDEN. Baked Beans Wash and pick over one quart of navy bean’, cover with fresh cold water and soak over night. Then drain, cover with fresh water, and bring slowly to boiling point; let simmer until the skins will crack, which may bo tested bv taking a teaspoon of beans and blowing on them; if the skins burst, the beans are sufficiently cooked. Drain - beans, throw away water. Scald rind of one pound of salt pork, scrape, and remove two one-inch slices; lay these tn tbe bottom of the bean pot. pee! and slice one medium siaed onion over pork. Score tbe rind of tbe remaining pork every half inch, making gashes one inch deep. Put beans in pot and bury the pork In them, leaving only the rind exposed. Mix In a bowl one tablespoon Bait, one tablespoon mo lasses. and two of sugar: ad one cup boiling water and pour over beaus: then fill up bean pot with boiling water until water bubbles up among the beans. Cover bean pot. and placo in oven. Puke slowly six or eight hours; re move cover the last half hour of cooking Jto brown and crisp tbe pork rind. When neee««ary add mere water. One-half tablespoon of ground mustard may be aded with the other season ings. It seems to add to the digestibility of the b»ans. Serve with steamed Boston brown bread.