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6 (oUAITRY .FjOME TWiTcs fortDOCTED BY MRS. XZH. KELTON. THE LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA SKIRT I guess Dr. Broughton had not heard as this new name for the hobble skirt when he preached on the follies of wom- P» tn‘s dress. But the name is painfuilp- I saw a young lady walking In com pany with a young man. who was obliged to take mincing steps, be«-ause ner frock skirts were so tight and nar row she was just obliged to. There Is reason tn all things and while 1 can remember when it required twenty-five yards of silk to make a full trimmed re ception dress and was a very mannest wearer had the satisfaction of knowing she could go up steps or get Into a car riage without pulling the skirt her knees to allow her to do so. . I was riding on the street cars some days ago, when a young lady took a seat across from me. and I could see her '•good.” On her head she wore a black summer hat that was as large as a parasol. On tt was placed a magnificent Mack plume. I expect that hat cost anywhere frcm 150 to SSO maybe sl's). On her feet she wore silk stockings, so thin I could almost discern trie blue reins .in her ankles. Her shoes were small affairs, but the French heels were nearly two inches high. Between the hat pnd the shoes was .* the frock. It was made of thinnest silk mousseline, with big bunches of pale blue flowers on it. The dress did not meet her ankles by several Inches, and the s’eeves did not reach her elboys by several inches. The boay of the frock was mostly of lace, and there was plenty of neck in K. evidence. There was a blue satin band where the sleeves , ended and wider satin band where the tall of the frock left off. f Her little heels clacked as she walked !' 'or rather as she minced and wiggled ■ along! There was no scarcity of money to buy more frock, because the outlay on that oat would have clothed me bountifully for a year; but the poor little vain child, aimed to be in the height of the fashion, njy matter what it cost to do it. The dressmakers charge as much to make one of those skimpy little frocks | as for a fuller one„ so the girl not only made her vanity conspicuous, but the had manifestly robbed her! e _On her hands aue wore a pair of long, white kid gloves that reached far above H ner elbows The beat was fearful and I eould not bear silk gloves on my hot. perspiring hands, but little Miss Vanity, for some unexplained reason, feh obliged (to cover her bands and arms, almost to the armpits, with kid leather, with the mercury ranging near a hundred de | greee. < . I have told you I could almost count R the veins in her little legs, through her Eb chin stockings. I could tell that there was precious little goods on her bust or » body; but she wore a SSO black plume on her hat—hot and heavy—and kid 'gloves on her hands and arms, that must have , sweated that part of her anatomy pro- | fusel y. | • And this was a fashion style, and big women as well as Utile ones get into frocks that are too tight to allow a wrinkle. because some man-costumer over in arts concluded to use. up his odds and ends of dress patterns and de d pended on our fool women over in this country to pay fabulous prices for his remnants. It is not astounding and as- E tonishing? All fools not dead yet! THE DROUTH. We are having a' serious spell of dry weather In our part of the country. It has not rained enough to wet the clay | ■ in /Over two montha We have hot' weather And a parching dry wind wrfißj any air is stirring at all. I remember a similar season—nearly I sixty years ago. I trust this spell of Hp drouth will not be so serious as that j one proved to be. * In the spring of ISM, we had torrents i ' of rain from January to the middle ofj t .April. Then the farmers rushed the' plow*. On the night of May 1 a killing frost and a heavy freeze came along. ’ Every stalk of cotton had to be plowed up and planted again. The weather ■ * ' turned dry—and we got a poor stand. The corn did better because it was young —and only the top of 'the corn plants was scorched by the frost. During May we had no rain—only hot days and a blighting wind. All the fruit was killed by the freeze and frost, ex cept dewberries and blackberries. These | were badly hurt and much of the fruit dried up on the vines. June came on—with more hot days and . still a dry hot wind, when the air stirred F at all. 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I If you want to do me this favor I write me your name and address at I once and I will immediately mall I you my Free Home Eye Tester and ■ fateet Spectacle offer. Ad- I dress: I DR. HAUX, ST. LOUIS, MO. JJCTS.-TV, 4r-» Ham b k.t.bl. could hardly untwist itself during the night. We planted a'large crop of water melons to make up for the lack of ap ples and peaches. The vines bore a few little ones and dried up. On June 17 we saw a rain cloud rise. It was angry—dark—and threatened heavy winds. But it eventuated in a good shower—enough to run off the eaves of tha house and in the middle of the road That started the plants to growing again But we never had another rain to lay the dust until the last week in July. I spent the most of July on a sick bed —and I can yet remembefi my weary longing for a rain. The wheat fields were almost barren of grain—the freeze and frost were so disastrous. Biscuit were scarce In our part of the country. The pastures dried up and milk and butter grew scarce. The farmers planted late corn—hoping to catch a rain, and thus make forage As I agid before, the outlook was gloomy. Dust and drouth prevailed all over Cherokee Georgia. . This sealon of 1511 is very much like the one of 1854. as I remember it. I hope the rain will come to us soon and re lieve the tension; but we must not for get that dry times come along—occasion ally if not periodically. Tomorrow is June 17. I hope we will get a shower. It is well to remember that every acre that will raise forage should now be seeded for that purpose. My Neighbors Roses The roses red upon my neighbor’s vine Are owned by him bfcit they are also mine. His was the cost, and his 'the labor, too. But mine as well as his the joy, their loveliness to view. They bloom for me, and are for me as . fair | As for the man who gives them all his care. Thus I am rich, because a good man grew A rose-clad vine for air his neighbors view. I know from this that others plant for me, And what they own, my joy may also be. So why be selfish when so much that's * fine Is grown for you, upon your neighbor s ! vine? —New York Times: Lee’s Christmas Turkey General Lee in the drawing room was la dignified and quiet gentleman, very •kindly and gentle, especially with wom en and children. "On the field,” says Mapor Ranson in Harper's Magazine, "he was the general, the commander in all essential points. Btu in other points he could be as sympathetic and considerate as he was at home. ”In the latter part of December a bar rel was delivered at our camp, marked 'General Lee and Staff.’ We opened it and found it was packed full of turkeys. We sent word to General Lee, and he rode over to our camp There was snaw on the ground, and we had laid the tur keys out on a board in the snow, the biggest in the middle and the others Sparing off to the smallest at each end. tere were about a dozen of them. “General Lee dismounted and joined the group gathered roqnd the present, carrying his unslung and undrawn sword In bis hand. He was told that big turkey in the middle was his. He stood looking at the turkeys for a moment, and then said, touching the big turkey with the scapbard of his sword: “ “This, then, is my turkey? I don’t know, gentlemeA, what you are going to do with your turkeys, but I wish mine sent to the hospital in Petersburg, so that some of the convalescents may have a good dinner.' “He then turned on his heel, and walk ing/to bis horse, mounted and rode away. We looked at one another for a moment' and then, without a word, replaced the turkeys in the barrel and sent them to the hospital.” Coincidences Consider the coincidences this chronology made up from the testimony of the head of the American Sugar Re fining company before a congressional committee yesterday: 1887—Free competition in sugar refin ing; seventy-six cents a hundred pounds gross profit.* 1888— organized; >1.25 profit. 1890—Competition by Pennsylvania re- Ifineries; seventy-two cents profit. 1892 Pennsylvania competition [stopped; |1.03 profit. 1899 —War between trust and- Arbuck les; fifty cents profit. 1900—Agreement between trust and Arbuekles; seventy-five cents profit. Mere coincidences, of course. There can be no possible connection between monopoly and profits. Russian Justice Washington Post. “You know a summer resort by its hotels,” said an ethnologist on the beach at Coney Island, “and you know a coun | try by its proverbs. Take, for example, ! Russia. "Russia is the most corrupt country in the world. It is Impossible to obtain Justice in Russia And how clearly the Russian proverbs show this! “ ’Offer to heaven a prayer, but to the ' judge a purse,' one wise Moscow saw’ . says. “ ‘The stronger is always in the right,’ | is another pregnant saying of Nljni Nov ' gorod. “ ‘What are laws to me if I know the i judge?’ is a Petersburg proverb that tells i you all you want to know about the Rus sian courts.” Answerd Tit-Bits. "Will you allow me to ask you a ques tion?” interrupted a man in the audience. "Certainly, sir,” said the lecturer. "You have given us a lot of figures about immigration, increase of wealth, i the growth of trusts, and all that,” said the man. "Let's see what you knbw about these figures yourself. How do I you find the common divisor?" Slowly and deliberately the orator took a glass of water. Then he pointed his finger straight at the questioner. Light ' ning flashed from his eyes, and he re plied. 1 na voice that made the gas jets [ quiver: "Advertise for it, you ignoramus!” The audience cheered and yelled and stamped, and the wretched man who had asked the question crawled out of the hall a total wreck. Quieted A clergyman, called to other duties, a writer In the Western Christian Ad l vocate says, 1 preached his last sermon before the Installation of his successor. The local weeaiy paper, in announcing the order of services, gave it as follows: "Sermon by the Rev. Blank; soko and quartet, ’Hushed at Length.’ ** THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1911. i V ILf wiyMC nrTY YEARS AGO TODAY z z I May 6, 1861—The Confederate Congress Passed an Act Recognizing the Existence of War and Authorizing Pri vateering—The Scene in the South Fifty years ago today the Confed erate congress, assembled at Montgom ery since April 29, passed an act rec ognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confeder acy and authorizing President Davis to use army and navy and to issue let ters of marque to meet the war. This act was the first formal an nuuncement of the existence of war made by either government. Davis, to be sure, In his message of April 29, hau referred to the “declaration of war" im plied in Lincoln's call for troops, ana had urged measures for the defense ot the confederacy, but he had not spoken of the war as an accomplished fact Lincoln for his part had in his procla mation studiously avoided the word "war" and had spoken only of the ac tivities of the "insurrectionary com binations." The confederate congress, therefore, in stating the war to be a fact haa taken a step of great Importance; they sad put an end for good and all to the playing at peace. WHY THE' WAR EXISTED. The initial paragraphs of the act, ex plaining the cause for- its provisions and setting forth the view held by the south of the events of Lincoln's ad ministration, were as follows: "The earnest efforts made by this government to establish friendly rela tions between the government of the United States and the Confederate states and to settle all questions of disagree ment between the two governments upon principles of right, Justice, equity and good faith have proved unavailing by teason of the refusal of the government of the United States to bold any inter course with the commissioners appoint ed by this government for the purposes aforesaid or to listen to any proposal tney had to make for the .peaceful solu tion of all causes of difficulties be tween the tw’o governments. “The president of tne United States of America has issued his proclamation making requisition upon the states ot the American union for 75,000 men for the purpose, as herein indicated, of cap turing forts and other strongholds with in the jurisdiction of and belonging to the Confederate States of \ America, ana has detailed naval armaments upon the coasts of the Confederate States America, and raised, .organized and equipped a large military force to exe cute the purpose aforesaid, and has Is sued his other proclamation announc ing his purpose to set on foot a block ade of the ports of the Confederate states. ’ / “The state of Virginia has 'seceded from the federal union and entered in to a convention of alliance with the Con federate States, and the states of Mary land, North Carolina, Tennessee, Qen jucky, Arkansas and Missouri have re fused, and it Is believed that the state of Delaware and the inhabitants of the territories of Arizona and New Mexico and the Indian territory will refuse to co-operate, with the government of .the United States in these acts of hostilities and wanton aggression which are plainly intended to overawe, suppress and finally subjugate the people of the Confederate States. \ "By the acts and means aforesaid war exists between the Confederate States and the government of the United States and the states and territories thereof." RULES FOR PRIVATEERING. The principal provision of the act au thorized the president to "use the whole land and naval force of the Confederate States to meet the war thus commenced and to issue to private armed vessels commissions or letters of marque and general reprisal against the vessels, goods and effects of the government of the United States and of the citizens or inhabitants of the states or territories Thereof.” The remainder of the act was wholly devoted to regulating the issuance of the letters of marque and the conduct of the privateers to whom they should be issued. ' All captures and prizes of vessels and property, it was provided, should be for feited and should accrue to the owner's, officers and chew of the vessels making the capture, save that 5 per cent of all prize money and salvage should go to form a fund for the families of those WHAT I WENT THROUGH Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. 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Pinkham’s vege table Compound: If you would like special advice about your case write a confiden tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free, and always helpful. killed on the privateers and for the sup port of those wounded and disabled. One section provided that "a bounty shall be paid by the Confederate States of S2O ofr 1 each person on board any arm ed ship or vessel belonging to the Unit ed States at the commencement of an engagement which shall be burnt, sunk or destroyed by any ’ vessel which shall be of equal or inferior force, and a boun ty of $25 shall be paid to the owners, officers and crews of the private armed vessels for each and every prisoner by them captured and brought Into port.” The act was supplemented by a letter of instructions from Robert Toombs, the secretary o£ state, which especially de fined tho course of conduct in regard to neutrals. Under these Instructions corf traband was to consist of all arms and implements of war and material for the equipment of ships. "Towards enemy vessels and their crevyV said the instructions, “you are to'proceed, in exercising the rights of war, with all the justice and humanity which characterize this government and its citizens.” THE SOUTHERN'spTRIT. All this clearly indicated that the south was ready to get down to work, on the sea as on land, and to begin ac tual fighting whenever opportunity should offer. The war spirit was as intense In the south as in the north. Daily companies were being enlisted, organized into bat talions and regiments and hurled to the points where they were needed, the greatest number to Richmond. In these companies were men of every rank and position in life, from the water front idler or the day laborer to the planter or the lawyer of foremost promi nence and wealth. The greatest number of these were commissioned officers, elect ed by the men they commanded as being the most competent and acceptable, but many were in the ranks. T. C. DeLeon tells of a rich young Georgian, whom his friends met clad in the uniform of first sergeant of a Geor gia battery. “How is it you haven't your commis sion, Frank?” he was asked. "When we parted at Montgomery it was promised you.” «, ’’Pledges are not commissions, though,” he answered. "I got tired of waiting the secretary’s caprices when there was work to be done, so one day I went to the war department and demanded my sheepskin or a positive refusal. I got only more promises, so I told the ‘sec’ I needed no charity from the government, but would present it with a company. Then to be as good as my word I sold some cotton and some stock, equipped this company and—that's all.” "But you are not commanding the com pany?" they asked him. "Couldn't do you see,” he said. "Wouldn’t let .the boys me an "of ficer and have the ‘sec’ think I had bought my commission! But I'll win it before the month is out, and, if GdU spares me, mother shall cal] her boy Colonel Frank before Christmas.” Alexander H. Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, might well say as he did in his speech at Atlanta, April 30: “We have ten millions of people with us, heart and hand, to defend us to the death. We can call out a million of people, if need be; and when they are cut down we can call out another and still another, until the last man of the south finds a bloody grave, rather than submit to dictation.” “EXISTENCE OF WAR.” Everywhere the word was th< same "I will tell you what I see here in tne city,” wrote Mrs. R. L. Hunt from New Orleans to Secretary Chase. ’’Every night the men are drilling. Young and old. professional men and laborers, law yers, doctors and even the ministers are all drilling. The ladies hold fairs, make clothes, lint, etc., for the army and animate the men by appeals to their chivalry and their patriotism to resist the enemy to the death. What is seen in New Orleans pervades the whole south. Never were a people more united and more determined.” De Leon, who saw the scene In Mont gomery, Wrote: "The mass of the peo ple now sprang to their places; mon- May 7, 1861 —Arlington Heights, the Home of Robert E. Lee, Opposite Wsahington, Were Occupied by Virginian . Troops—Tennesse’s Military Alliance Fifty years ago today Arlington Heights directly across the Potomac river from Washington, were occupied by a detachment of Virginian troops, and for the first time since 1814 the Federal capital was exposed to the fire of an enemy's guns. Guarded from capture as "Washington now was by the presence of northern troops, the close proximity of the Vir ginian forces and the knowledge that from the heights of Arlington their can non might batter the White House or even the capitol Itself caused no slight alarm to the city's inhabitants, civil and military alike. From the south widows of the White House the Virginian encampment with its Confederate flag could easily be seen, and at one of these windows Lin coln was ofteg ot be found standing, with gloomy face, looking through a glass across the river. HOME OF THE LEES. Arlington was best known as the site of the home of Robert E. Lee, now com manding the forces of Virginia whose wife had inherited the property from her father. George Washington Parke Cus tis, the grandson of Mrs. Washington and the adopted son of George Washing ton. ’The Custis estate comprised some 700 acres, and on it was the Arlington house, a fine old southern mansion,, built by Mr. Custis in 1802. For many years the mansion htM been an attraction to all visitors to Washing ton, alike because of its historical as sociations and of the Washington relics collected and preserved there by Mr Custis. "Here,” writes Miss Emhy Mason, “were to be seen the original portraits of General and Mrs. Washington, paint ed at the time of their marriage, which have been so constantly reproduced; the portrait of Mrs. Washington’s first hus band, Col. Parke Custis, and several pictures of the great revolutionary bat tles, painted by Mr. Custis. "Here also was the last original por trait of General Washington by Sharp less. 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Fifty years ago today the state of Arkansas seceded. In M arch the state convention had contained a union ma jority, but a second convention, called April 20, upon receipt of the news of Lincoln's proclamation, found in proclamation cause for adopting an or dinance of secession. (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Liter ary Press.) upon which he died.” Arlington house was surrounded by groves qf stately trees, except in front, where the hill descended to a lovely valley spreading away to me river. The view from the height showed Wash ington, Georgetown and a long stretch of the Potomac in the foreground, with wooded hills and valleys making a back ground of dark foliage. It was here that Robert E. Lee, a young West Point cadet, liad courted pretty Mary Custis. Here he had mar ried her, here he had made his home during service at Washington, or when furloughs had enabled him to return from distant posts, and here had been born their seven children.! IMPORTANCE OF SITE. When in April Lee had been obliged to decide whether he would go with the union or with his state the thought of leaving the old home had served more than arty other one thing to make the choice a hard one. For, able officer as he was, he really saw that the site of Arlington house made its occupation es sential to the federal forces if they would hold Washington, or to the Confeder ates if they would capture it, so that In any case it was likely to be the scene of military operations. From Richmond General Lee had writ ten April 30 to his wife, who still re mained at Arlington, warning her that conditions were not likely to continue. "I think, therefore,” he ad vised, "you had better prepare all things for removal from Arlington—that is, plate, pictures, etc., and be prepared at any moment.” Somewhat later he had repeated the warning. "I was very anxious about you,” he wrote. “You have to move and make arrangements to go to some point of safety. The Mt. Vernon plate and pictures ought to be secured. War is inevitable, and there is no telling when it will burst around you.” COLONEL MANSFIELD’S REPORT The Importance of occupying and hold ing the heights of Arlington had. indeed, already been appreciated by the federal commanders. On May 2 a general conference had been l held on the defence of Washington, and on the following day Col. Joseph K. F. Mansfield, who on April 28 had taken command of the military department of Washington, had presented to General Scott a report which read. In part: "We now come to the city of George town and arsenal, exposed to ths Vir- [ ginia shore. Here I must remark that the president’s house and department buildings in Its vicinity are but two and a half miles across the river from Ar lington high ground, where a battery of bombs and heavy guns, if established, could destroy the city with comparative ly a small force after destroying the bridges. "The capitol is only three and a half miles fjom the same height at Arlington, and at the aqueduct the summits of the heights on the opposite shore are not over one mile from Georgetown. "With this view of the condition of our position it is clear to my mind that the city is liable to be bombarded at the will of the enemy, unless we occupy the ground which he certainly would oc cupy if he had any such intention. "I. therefore, recommend that the heights above mentioned be seized and secured by at east two strong redoubts, one commanding the Long bridge and the other the aqueduct, and that a body of men be there encamped to sustain the redoubts and give battle to the ene my if necessary. "I have engineers maturing plans and reconnoitering further. It is quite prob able that our troops, assembled at Ar lington, would create much excitement in Virginia; yet at the same time if the enemy were to occupy the ground there a greater excitement would take place on our side and It might be neces sary to fight a battle to disadvantage.” CONFEDERATES IN POSSESSION. The arguments address by Colonel Mansfield for taking the heights were convincing, and General*Scott was con vinced by them, yet for some reason no action was taken, and the Virginians occupied the ground unopposed. The "greater excitement” which the colonel had foreseen quickly followed the appearance of the Confederate flag on the heights. "The alarmists,” wrote an officer in a New York regiment, “threatened us daily with thunder and .bursting bombs,” while in the south the movement was hailed as the first step toward the capture of Washington. In reality, however, the citizens of Washington had no cause for fear. 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I 1 “The Truth 53 Arrow think S About Coca-Cola” ®* Coce-Cels |pL=—_- j —Tr sign state of Virginia.” Hereafter, however, the policy of the Virginian generals, even of Geneial Lee himself, might have io defer to that of Presidon. Davis and his cabinet, for St years ago today Virginia, by a vote of the congress at Montgomery, was admit* ted to the Confederacy. TENNESSEE JOINS CONFEDERACY. Fifty years ago today also a military alliance was concluded between the Confederacy and the state of Ten neosea ' The accession olf Tennessee was in large measure the work of its governor, Isham G. Haris, who from the had sought to put his state solidly la the ranks of secession. Calling a session of the legislature early in January, he had in his message urged the caning of a state convention The legislature had passed a bill sub mitting pie question to a popultr vote, together tmn a provision —at acy ordi nance of secession should req uh w rati fication by the people before tailing ef fect. In February the vote had been taken, but the election for delegates had result ed in a very heavy Union majority, and a somewhat smaller majority declar ed against holding a convention at all, For the time, therefore, the t scesslon movement in Tennessee was stopped. As in the other border states, rowever, it revived with Lincoln's call for troops, ::In such unholy crusade no gallant sog of Tennessee will ever draw his sword," wrote Governor Harris, April 20, and forthwith he proceeded to prepare ts join the Confederacy. The legislature, which he called again, had a majority of secessionists in both houses, and May 1 they passed a joint resolution directing the governsa “W en ter into a military league with the au thorities of the Confederate States.” In spite of governor and legislature, the state was by no means a mlt for joining the Confederacy. In eastern Ten nessee Union sentiment, if not predom inating, was widely diffused, and even in Nashville there were many wh<:> wished to continue in the Union. “The present duty of Tenness ie," had stated a committee of influential clttseps in an "address to the people” of April 18, "is to maintain a position of ndepen dence, taking sides with the Union and the peace of the country against all as sailants, whether from the north or south. Her position should be to main tain the sanctity of her soil from tbs hostile tread of any party." Such war the opinion shared by many in the state. (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Uterary Press.) v f.
