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THE' ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL,' ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1913.
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WHAT THIS LEGISLATURE CAN DO.
The extravagance of our past legis
latures is something terrible to think
about. They have thrown out the
people’s tax money like it was chips
and whetstones. It is a fact openly
proclaimed and evidently not ashamed
of, that the treasury of the state is
absolutely ldCted at regular looting
time just as the strong box Of the
nation is depleted at the close of every
session of the .federal congress—by ex
travagance.
Everybody admits the looting—no
body disputes this outrageous deple
tion, but yet nobody has couarge suf
ficient to get up and earnestly strive
to stop either or both leaks.
According to Governor Brown’s last
message, we are getting much larger
revenue from taxation tlian ever be
fore, nevertheless we are appropriating
a great deal more money than we can
pour into the strong box of the state.
If any other business conducted its af
fairs in such a manner the sheriff
would sell it out at the court house
door in quick order. Why not stop
such folly?
We have been making offices at every
pew turn in the legislative road. Not
only making new ones, but increasing
the pay of oldei 4 officials. Nobody dis
putes the fact that they can get more
as public officials than they could make
at anything else—yet they are never
satisfied—until there is more salary.
Why not stop tljis practice?
We have set up eleven large and ex
pensive district agricultural schools.
After the heavy expense of building
and equipping these schools has been
overcome we find we must be taxed to
furnish the ten thousand dollars an
nually to each to pay for running these
schools, and when you visit these
schools you find they are really local
schools, benefiting the immediate
counties which were able to secure the
location, and not patronized by other
counties in the congressional district
except to a very limited extent. We
have picked out eleven counties in the
state, and favored them with magnifi
cent local colleges, while the remain
der may get along, if they .can.
When this' legislation was pending,
and before the bill authorizing them be
came a law, Judge John Akin, presi
dent of the senate, said to me that we
were getting into a most amazing di
lemma or difficulty; that the very
class which the bill was expected to
help would only be assisted where they
were in close reach of these district
colleges. The others could not get
there, by reason of their poverty, etc.
Will there be any statesmanship in
dealing with this vexed question? Can
nothing be done to equalize this partial
attitude of the state towards' eleven
couties, and the borrowness of the
vast remainder? The hard-working
people of Georgia are. heavily taxed to
support the ’courts of the state. Much
of the expense is incurred in the trial
and condemnation of lawbreakers—es
pecially murderers. As soon as they
get the criminal in the prison gang or
camps, the lawyers begin to carry for
ward petitions for pardon. Then the
prison commission gets some work to
look over, and directly the prisoner, if
he has money, is out of doors and free
to do as' he pleases. This prison com
mission seems trying to undo what the
courts have been doing, and between
two stools the tax money is swallowed
up. It seems to be an outrageous sys
tem, copied from national methods.
That convicted criminal, Morse, played
sick—and his lawyers pocketed his
money—until the president of the Uni
ted States turned Morse out of doors,
a free manN and also an astonishing
convalescent.
Unless there is a pullup somewhere,
the treasury of the nation and the
states will be debauched and looted, in
the interest of office seekers and par
don commissions. My article is al?
ready long enough, but it can be re
newed again and again as opportunity
offers. Have we no legislators brave
enough to stop these raids on the tax
money of a burdened people?
SOUTH GEORGIA CANTELOPES.
A splendid South Georgia farmer has
just sent me a crate of cantelopes; and
although the weather is torrid and the
distance considerable they reached me
in perfect order, hey were nicely crated
and that was one secret as to their per
fection and value.
First of all kinds is so scarce in my
vicinity that these delicious melons came
when I was fairly hungry for fruit.
Nature has made these melons a real
tonic for those who live in hot-weather
latitudes. They supply a want that
must be satisfied with less palatable
food products, if melons and fruits are
lacking.
These handsome melons were nearly
all of the same size, perfect growth
without the worm holes that so often
disfigure the rinds of other really lus
cious melons. I am saving some of the
seed for next year’s trial in Cherokee,
Georgia.
I have a great admiration for South
Georgia’s enterprise. It really seems as
if It is the equal of the best and super
ior to tfte most, in its agricultural
progress.
I can remember when "its lands were
dirt cheap and a great scarcity of rail
roads.
It has wonderful opportuniay at the
present and is making good In a steady
upward way.
SENSATIONAL AND
BISHOP
1 SLEUTHS TRAILING
STRANGE FIRE
W. A. CANDLER
SPEER, SAYS EXAMINER
UNCLE HIRAM ON CITY LIFE.
Yes, it’s lively in the city, where they’ve
got their ’lectric lights,
And .the people soon have wrinkles from
their stayin’ out o’ nights;
They’ve got shows and things to keep
’em from a-gettin’ lonesome there.
And they look all-fired stylish in the
costly clo’s they wear;
But I guess they have their troubles
just. the same as me and you,
And I reckon that they’re often ruther
worse’n ours, too.
We’ve got wood piled in the woodshed
that’ll last a. y.ear or so,
And there's more out where that come
from, and more saplin’s still to
grow;
We ain’t worried over coal strikes, let
the cold wi,nds blow away;
We can carry in the billets and not have
a cent to pay;
While they’re shiverin’ up yonder where
they’ve got so much to see,
We can heat up fer the babies, that the
Lord sent you and me.
There is always somethin’ doin’ to make
city people sad;
If it* ain’t a sausage famine, why, you’ll
hear the water’s bad;
When the strikers stop the street cars,
*hen the mischief is to pay,
And the people have to foot it, gittin’
clubbed along the way;
And the fever epidemic and the small
pox every year
Keep the city people stewin’, and I’m
glad to live out here.
Oh, it’s quiet in the country, and
there’s few uncommon sights.
And God’s moon and stars up yonder
have to do fer ’lectric lights;
But with ’taters in the cellar and with
wood piled in the shed,
When ther’s hay stacked in the hay
mows for the stock that must be
t fed;
They can have their noisy city, with
the sights i .> there to see,
And the kind old quiet country will be
good enough for me.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
Robbed Court. Then
Undertaker's. and a
Church Next Night
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COLUMBUS, Ga., June 30.—Burglars
are still abroad In the land and the po
lice and county officers appear to be
far from equal to the present emer
gency.
The latest burglary was the Church j
of the Holy' Family on Twelfth street
and the undertaking establishment of 1
Herring & Knight, on Broad, both right ;
.In the heart of the city. N'o caskets
were stolen in the latter place and the
piivate pews were not disturbed in the
former, the thieves being apparently
bent on gathering the "cash,” for they
ransacked the church edifice, scattering
the collection baskets in every direc
tion, but it is stated that little in the
way of money was found.
In the undertaking establishment
seme small change was taken, the of
fice ransacked in every corner, but, as
stated, coffins were not wanted, it
seems. *
T-he robbery of the. county court
house and of a number of store houses
during the past week indicates that a
band is boldly operating in the city and
.the officials are apparently doing all
in their power to run down the guilty
parties, but all in vain.
English Landlord
Raises Rent But
Page Doesn’t Fall
REV. H. MAJOR CALLED
TO MILLEDGEVILLE PULPIT
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., June 30.—
After being without a- pastor for the
past five months the First Baptist
church here has called Rev. Harold Ma
jor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., to fill the pul±
pit and he has accepted. The new min
ister is a recent graduate of the South
ern Baptist Theological seminary and
will come here as his first charge.
(By Associated Pres*.>
LONDON, June 30.—Walter Hines
Page, American ambassador to the
court of St. James, will hold his
Fourth of July reception at a hotel, as
he has not been able to secure a resi
dence. Negotiations were to be con
cluded this week for a house, but the
price was suddenly raised when the
owner learned the identity of his pros
pective tenant. He believed then that
he could get a bigger rent, but found
he was mistaken.
CATHOLICS ARE GATHERING
IN NEW ORLEANS, LA.
(Bv Associated Pr^ss.)
NEW ORLEANS, June 30.—Prominent
Catholics from many states arrived in
New Orleans today to attend the annual
session of the National Catholic Educa
tional asociation. which opens Monday.
Among the earliest arrivals was the
Right Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, of
Washington, D. C., president general of
the association.
Matings will continue until Thursday
night.
DYNAMITE CARTRIDGES
ARE FOUND ON RAILROAD
(By Associated Press,)
HALLE, Germany, June 30.—Ten
dynamite cartridges were placed today
on the tracks of the main railroad line
running between Berlin, Halle and Cas-
sel. It is believed the intention was to
destroy a passing train, as the car
tridges were fastened to the rails.
Sectidn hands discovered the explosive
just in time to prevent an accident.
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I N an article printed in one of the
New York papers recently the evil
of sensationalism in the pulpit was
severely and justly arraigned. It was
affirmed that such "rag-time preach
ments” tenoeu to discredit all religion
in the eyes of many people.
Among other things the writer said
of a certain type of sensational evangel
ists the following, which is a most
seasonable utterance just now:
"Some of these men are mere sleight-
of-hand and phrase performers, buffoons
and freaks, who steal the livery of
heaven and thus make sport of God’s
truth! The offense in this particular,
which has doubtless done more to rob
the genuine minister of power than any
other one thing, is perhaps equally
chargeable to both ministers and lay
men.
"One great reason why the true min
ister meets with such great difficulty in
revival campaigns is because these dan
gerous, incompetent, self-styled evangel
ists have burned over the charges with
strange fire; and preachers o^fttimes, am
bitious for results, when sent to these
burnt districts resort to the doubtful ex
pedient of backfiring or bonfiring.
"It is unquestionably true that in
most of the modern methods of evangel
ism we are either given to creating and
ministering to depraved appetites, or
going to the other extreme in an abject
fear of emotionalism or sensationalism;
so that we preach to sinners in an apolo
getic manner, as if we said, ’You must
repent as it were, be converted in a
measure or you will go to hell, so to
speak!’
"If I were a layman, and my preacher
wanted to bring in some religious freak
in order to get up p revival—say a cow
boy evangelist, or a ^oy-preacher in knee
pants, or any otner of the nine-day
wonders—I should object, unless it
could be shown that the old gospel has
lost its drawing power.”
The desire to win an apparent suc
cess before the eyes of the community
is in most cases doubtless the motive
which leads pastors to engage these sen
sationalists. But the ministers of God
ought to be the last men in the world
to join in the blind worship of mere sue
cess. This xorm of modern idolatry is
most reprehensible in men of the world
even, such as politicians and traders,
who sacrifice principle for success; but
it is intolerable in men who profess
to represent the Christ, who cared so
little for what the world calls "success'
that he died on a cross.
It is repulsive to every principle
of the religion of Him who would
have starved in the temptation of
the wilderness before He would have
yielded an iota to the tempter who of
fered Him "the kingdoms of this world
and the glory of them” as a reward for
one act of idolatrous worship. In
Christianity there is no room for the
base principle thftt men may "stoop to
conquer”; and when serious pastors
stoop to call freaks into their pulpits
in order to draw gaping multitudes into
their churches and secure the enroll
ment upon their church registers of a
list sensation-tasters, they adopt this
principle in its worst form and most
Injurious application. They degrade
religion while professing the purpose
of promoting it.
PRODUCES IRREVERENCE.
The sum of piety in the community
can not be increased by presenting a
few principles of the gospel compounds
ed in a mass of freakish folly. That
process is more akin to profanity than
it is to preaching. It yields more ir
reverence than it produces anything
else.
It is sometimes said that irreverence
is more prevalent in our country than
ever before; and if there be truth in
the affirmation, it behooves us to in
quire how much of the evil may be
traced to all sorts of sensationalism in
the pulpit, especially to the perform
ances of sensational evaneglists. When
sacred themes are treated comically in
the house of God immeasurable evil is
wrought. The theatre comique in any
place on the Sabbath day is a wretched
thing, but when it is brought into the
Christian churfch find the chief actor is
a man who is supposed to be preaching,
the thing becomes an ‘abomination of
desolation standing where it ought not’’.
Along with this modern type of freak
ish evangelism there is another , evil
which deserves the strongest condemna
tion; it is Its habit of com
mercializing the work of preach
ing. It is not helpful to the
cause of religion when it is commonly
reported that a leading evangelist of
this type "up North” has amassed, in
a very few years, from holding evan
gelistic meetings $500,000. It was dis
gusting, to read of how a judge in one
of the western states, when petitioned
for a charter to incorporate an evangel
ist and his associates for the business
of running meetings, was under the ne
cessity of rebuking such methods from
the bench. The judge did right to re^
fuse with great positiveness any such
petition.
. When fit man sets out to make a liv
ing by holding meetings, having no fixed
salary and deriving an Income greater
or less according to the measure of
popular excitement he may be able to
create, he comes under the temptation
to burn * strange fire on God’s altar In
order to win credit and revenue from
the flame which he kindles. Who has
not seen instances of evangelists by all
sorts of manipulations of songs and
sob-stories trying to excite a state of
emotion without any relation to truth
in the intellect or conviction in the
conscience? Such mimickry of the
Holy Spirit ought to be as abhorrent to
men as it is offensive to God. But
methods of this kind will be common
while men go about the country mak
ing money in a greater or less degree
according to the amount of excitement
they can arouse in the communities
which they visit.
EMOTION IN RELIGION.
In what has been said there is no in
tention to decry emotion in religion.
A religion which does not take hold of
the whole man—the intellect, the sensi
bilities, and the will—is not the re
ligion of Christ, whatever else it may
be. A frigid intellectualism, or a self-
sufficient moralism, or a punctilious rit
ualism, we justly associate with the re
ligion of the Sadducees and Pharisees
rather than with the piety which Jesus
sought to promote among men. Emo
tion is an essential part of a genuine
Christianity in the heart. When the
Ethiopian treasurer was converted un
der the preaching of l^hilip we read
that "he went on his way rejoicing”
(Acts viii:39); and concerning the work
of grace in the Samaritan city, where
Philip had been preaching before his
ministry to the Ethiopian, St. Luke
says “there was great joy in that city”.
Acts viii:8).
It is difficult to see how the kind
of spiritual life which the gospel pro
poses can exist at all without stir
ring profundly the sensibilities. At
the birth of Christ, angels, excelling
in strength, exulted with joy in di-
vinest strains. The aged Simeon and
the devout Anna rejoiced fervently
when their eyes first beheld the In
fant Saviour at His presentation in
the temple (Luke 11:25-28). Why may
not any pious heart rejoice also In
the experience of His grace and the
contemplation of His goodness? Can
the Holy Spirit deal with the human
heart, bringing to pass a change de-
R, Colton Lewis, Special Agent
Conducting Investigation
Answers Federal Jurist
(By Associated Press.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 27.-—R. Colton
Lewis, special ageat of the department
of justice ,who is here conducting what
he says is a periodical inspection of the
records of the United States court, said
today with reference to Judge Speer’s
speech at Sioux City, Iowa:
"Judge Speer refers to an investi
gator and I suppose he means me. I
know of no detective work being car
ried on in regard to Judge Speer. Fur
ther than that I have nothing to say.”
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scribed in the scriptures as "passing
from death unto life,” without moving
the emotions? As well might we
suppose that the sun in the heavens
could return to the icebound fields and
forests of winter without the glad
ness of the springtime bursting forth
to meet his coming back from the
far south.
But the sensuous emotionalism
which the sensational evangelist seeks
to commercialize has not the slightest
kinship to the jo ; y of the Holy Spirit.
It is as* far removed from anything
truly religious as the strange fire of
Nadao and Abihu was foreign to the
sacred flame which burned on the al
tar of incense (Leviticus x:l). Sucn
mock excitement discredits the re
ligion which it falsely claims as its
source.
LUCRATIVE EVANGELISM.
A lucrative evangelism is a very
modern thing in the history of Chris
tianity. It was unknown tc Whitfield
and the Wesleys, Jonathan Edwards
and his associates, in the days of the
“Great Awakening” would have
scorched it with holy indignation.
Moody and Sankey gave no place to It
for a moment. It Is a thing of the
last twenty-five years, and it has hin
dered true religion as much as heret
ics and rationalists.
Many thousands of pious people in
all the churches throughout the coun
try are yearning and praying for a
great work of grace In the nation such
as blessed England in the days of the
Wesleys, refreshed New England under
the ministry of Edwards and the T£ci-
nents, and such as renovated the whole
republic in the "Great Revivals of
1800 and 1858.” May their supplica
tions be effectual on the behalf of cur
people!
But we can expect no such work oi
grace as they desire until this God-
displeasing and man-destroying evan
gelism of commercialized sensational
ism has been utterrly put away from
us. God will have no fellowship with
such Baalism.
Sensationalism is not the power of
God unto salvation- The Gospel, and
the Gospel only, edn be relied upon to
save the people of our day or the
people of any day. It is a real spirit
ual power, and it is a sufficient spirit
ual power. Preaching in sincerity and
unde r the unction of the Holy One can
not fail of renewing men in righteous
ness and true holiness. It will stir
the sensibilities as no unwholesome
serisationalism can; and following its
glowing influence on the soul will
spring up fruits oT righteousness and
peace.
ALL GEORGIA VETERANS
WELCOME AT BRUNSWICK
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
BRUNSWICK, Ga., June 30.—Bruns
wick wants all veterans of the Georgia
division. United Confederate Veterans,
to be her guests at the fifteenth annual
reunion to be held July 16 and 17.
General orders being sent out from
the headquarters of the Georgia division
at Waycrdss, say in part:
"It is needless to say Brunswick will
make good her promises at Marietta.
Her natural attractions, and her renown
for hospitality is a sure guarantee of
much pleasure and gratification to all
who attend. Ample provisions are made
for our entertainment.
"On arrival comrades of camps will
register their men at court house and
receive their badges. Headquarters
will be in court house, where veterans
can find the commander and the adju
tant general and chief of staff when
not in the auditoriym.
It is gratifying to learn that our
Daughters and Sons throughout the
state will be well represented.
"It is with pride I present herewith
the names of our official ladies, towit:
Matron of honor, Mrs. Robert C. Holley,
Rome; sponsor, Miss Regina Rambo. Ma
rietta; maids of honor, Miss Cora
Brown, Atlanta; Miss Edith Dunson, At
lanta; Miss Buford King Aikin, Bruns
wick.
"All veterans will respect, honor and
love them accordingly.
"H. T. DAVENPORT,
"Commander Ga. Div. U. C. V.
"JOHN A. COBB.
"Adjt. Gen. and Chief of Staff.”
fortune Grows Out
Of 25 Cent Capital
NEW YORK, June 30.—Captain Is
rael J. Merritt, who died several months
ago, left a net estate of $681,813, accord
ing to the report filed with the transfer
tax appraiser. Captain Merritt started
life in this city with a capital of 25
cents. He obtained a vessel and began
dredging in New York harbor for lost
anchors. Those that he recovered he
sold and thus got his first capital. With
it he started in wrecking ventures.
The estate goes to his widow and his
four children.
Blind Boy Scores 174
In Bowling Tourney
NEW YORK, June 30.—August Sten-
eck, a blind youth, made a score of 174
in bowling yesterday. Steneck and
eight other sightless persons have play
ed 108 games in a tournament lasting
three weeks, and average above 100
each.
Barely did a ball go down the gutter.
The matches were played at the Light
House, the New York association for the
blind, for a prize. When pins were left
standing after the first ball the bowlers
were aided by shouted directions as to
the location of the remaining pins.
THE EVENING STORY
THE OLD
(Copyright, 1913, by W. Werner.)
LADY
She was a very old lady indeed. "If
I live until the 12th day of November t
shall be ninety-two years old," she said,
smiling.
She was very tall and thin. Both her
hair and her teeth were gone, but a
charming cap hid one defect and an ex
cellent dentist attended to the other. Her
cheeks were sunken and her temples hol
low. Hr black eyes burned far back m
her head., The skin on her face ana
hands was faded and finely wrinkled. She
wore a black silk dress with the skirt
made full enough to admit of a small
hoop, w’hich gave her a swaying motion
when she walked. It perhaps hid what
ever unstediness there might be in her
gait. Yet she was still remarkably ac
tive and alert, and her mind, she laugh
ingly asserted, was exactly as good as
if it had never been used at all.
For all she was so old, and looked it,
too, there was something exceedingly at
tractive and enoyable about her. There
was a merry tinkle in her laugh. When
she sat she held herself gracefully erect.
"I never hankered after carrying a hump
on my shoulders,” she said. She crossed
her slender feet and hands as she had
been taught to do in her yopng girlhood,
and she was extremely fastidious about
the set and hang of her frock and the
ribbons that adorned her cap.
She lived in her own house and man
aged her own money, of which she had
considerable. Her only companion was
a widowed friend to whom she gave a
home. She got along admirably with
Ella, who let her do exactly as she pleas
ed "That ought to be my privilege at
ninety-one,” she declared.
Every four weeks on Thursday after
noon from 3 to 6 she held an at home.
Anybody who wished could come ana
look at her and speak to her. At all
other times she was accessible or not as
she chose. She never failed on an "at
home” day. Then she wore a brocade
satin with yellow lace draped softly
about her throat. Her cap had rosebuds
in it, and she wore her cameo brooch
and her wedding ring and carried a
duchesse point handkerchief that to see
was to covet. And she sat In her high
backed chair and dispensed hospitality
and good cheer.
There was also a superfluity of deli
cious cake and hot tea and chocolate
and dives on her tea tabl, at which the
prettiest girls in the place took turns
presiding. There were flowers, too.
After they had served their turn at the
"at home” they went to sick folks,
while the cakes left went to the children
of the neighborhood.
It chanced that the finest day in March
and the "at home” came together. After
a long siege of stormy, cold weather the
old lady felt the inspiriting influence of
the day. She hummed gayly while she
was being dressed. Still humming, sbe
walked from vase to vase in the parlors
admiring the bouquets of spring flowers,
and awaited the guests’ arrival.
Soon the big, sunny, flower-scented
rooms were filled with young and old.
There was the shimmer of beautiful silks,
subdued laughter, the softened sound of
many voices, the tinkle of china, and th‘.
fragrance of the best tea.
The old lady was in her best ele
ment. Her black eyes shone: she
smiled almost girlishly; she 'aired all
her choicest bon mots and ~evelled in
the good time she was creating.
Suddenly, in the midst of it all, she
saw a hand held out to her. She took
it and raised her eyes slowly to the
face of the owner. It was a wonder
ful face, round, dimpled. deliciously
tinted, with two warm violet eyes.
The old lady gave a start. "Why.
where did you come from?” she ex
claimed. The girl laughed musically
"Why aren’t you pouring my tea to
day?" demanded the lady, not waiting
for any answer to her first question.
“1 didn’t know you had any tea to
pour until I got here and saw all these
people,” the girl explained. "Then I
wished for a moment I had stayed
away. They’re all strangers to me.”
"Well. I’m not a stranger.”
"No, and it seems queer, too, for I
never saw you before. But then I’ve
been hearing about you all my life. And
I’ve seen your picture.”
The old lady shifted her feet from a
huge velvet hassock and kicked it for
ward. "There, sit down.” she said.
"I suppose you haven’t had any bakes
cr tea?”
The girl shook her head. "I Just
came/’
"Eliot,” said the old lady, “please
bring miss here some refreshment.”
The young man who had escorted
hi3 splendidly dressed mother ap
proached with alacrity. He looked at
the girl on the hassock and smiled
h‘s gratitude to the old lady for sum
moning him. Quickly he brought
everything he could lay his hands
upon. It was all very pretty and very
amusing, but suddenly the old lady
dropped the curtain upon the scene
with a quiet: "You may be at liberty
now. my dear boy.”
Eliot looked as if liberty were the
last thing he coveted just then, but
he moved away obediently and began
to talk to the girl who was pouring.
His eyes, however, constantly re
turned to the old lady and the strange
young girl upon the hassock.
"He’s a nice boy,” remarked the old
lady—"a very nice boy, my dear, and
I don’t mind his appropriating you
after a moment. But first I want to
talk to you myself. What brought
you* here to see me today?”
"I was sent,’’ the girl answered sim
ply—the old lady looked interested—
"on an errand”—the old lady smiled—
“from your life long enemy. She told
me to say that,” added the girl. The
old lady laughed. "That sounds like
her. You see, I know whom you mean.
But how did she come to send you?”
"Why, I’m' her great-great-niece,’’ re
plied the girl.
"Dear me.” said the old lady. “Is
it possible that she could have any
thing so genuinely young as you re
lated to her? I outlived my relatives
a generation ago, ana have only friends
now.”
"It’s nice to have friends,” said the
girl, nibbling a cake and looking at
Eliot.
"But too many friends make you
appreciate an enemy, especially such
a good old enemy as your great-great-
aunt Eliza. We were as young as you
when we fell out. I’ll tell you what it
was over. I hadn’t thought about it
in years till I saw a bit of white ar
butus somebody had sent me. There
was a certain place it grew on the
hills, and I thought nobody in the
world knew it was there save myself
and Heth Sandelen.
"Every spring he gathered the first
and gave it to me on a certain day.
He had done that for four years. Of
course I could have got it for myself,
but I preferred to receive it from
Heth. But one day he failed. That
night at a party Eliza came in wear
ing the white arbutus. How I felt!”
Now you laugh over it!” the girl
exclaimed, horrified.
The old lady laughed the more. "It
was all so silly. There we were—
Heth, the false lover, and that little
snip of an Eliza, who had stolen him
and his arbutus, and I myself with
the very devil in my black eyes, they
said. I snatched the arbutus from
her breast and stamped upon it. And
I said Some wild, foolish things which
I don’t recall now. Then I rushed out
of the house. I thought my heart
was broken.”
“Poor dear,” murmured the girl,
patting one of the old lady’s hands.
"Poor fool, you mean. To get the
right purspective, my dear, you want
to look back on that sort of thing
from a seventy year distance. "Well,
I vowed to hate Eliza forever, and
she vowed to hate me. We did every
thing In fact but tear each other’s
eyes out. Between us we both lost
Heth. He went west and got killed
by the Indians. After a while I got
married. Eliza also married, I guess
I haven’t seen her in forty years, and
then she wouldn’t speak to me. I
don’t know that I wanted to speak to
her. She’s been a good enemy.
There’s a queer thing about having
an enemy. You forget your friends
after a while, but your enemy you never
forget. I’ve never forgotten Eliza. I’d
like to talk over old times with her.
She’s the last one left from my youth.”
Her voice changed suddenly from its
tone of reminiscence. "You’re exactly
like what she was that night when she
wore Heth’s white arbutus.”
"She says I am, I’m named after
her, too,” sighed the girl. "It’s all
so sad. Your story of the white ar
butus makes me want to cry. And
to think you both lost him and he
was killed!” The violet eyes were
tender. . "Oh the pity of it .to think
, mig.it have been so beautiful
• • ;n bloxkness and '
enmity and death! It ended and was
done. And nothing came of it—no
thing. Nothing ever can come of it
now.” She mused in deep regret.
Eliot came and took away her cup.
After which he lingered as near as he
could.
“I haven’t told you my errand yet."
she said, suddenly arousing herself.
"What is it?” asked the old lady.
"Great-great-aunt Eliza sent me all
the way to tell you by word of mouth
that she—that she’s your friend—your
best friend and wellwisher.”
The old lady was silent. She seemed
to ponder deeply. Then she laughed
amusedly. "You tell Eliza I preferred
her as she was. But it’s all right. I
shan’t quarrel with her. She can have
her way about it.” She crooked a finger
and Eliot sprang eagerly forward. "I
Eliza Ware,” she said slowly, "and Mr.
Heth Sandelen Eliot great-great-niece
and nephew of my two best friends.
And now, Eliza, you may tell that story
to Heth if you please. And, Heth, dear,
you may give Eliza all the white arbu
tus you’ll find in that vase on the satin-
wood cabinet.”
Former President of Mercet*
University Accepts Splendid
Position in Arkansas '
MACON. Ga., June 30.—Dr. S. Y. J&-
meson, former president of Mercer
university, has accepted the presidency
of the Ouachita Baptist university, at
Arkadelphia, Ark. This information
was received here yesterday afternoon
by the family of the former head of
Mercer. The family of Dr. Jameson
will leave this afternoon for Romo,
where they will have a family reunion
for a week and then they will proceed
to Arkansas to join Rev. Dr. Jame
son.
Dr. Jameson left Macon two weeks
ago to hold a conference with the trus
tees of the Arkansas institution about
accepting the presidency.
He has a large circle of friends in
Macon and throughout the state who
regret that he has accepted a position
that will carry him and his family to
another part of the country.
Mistakes Woman for
Burglar. Slays Her.
Then Kills Himself
BOWIE, La.? June 30.—Abraham
Blanchard, who attempted suicide on
June 18 immediately after he had un
intentionally shot and killed Mrs. W. L.
Walters, died from his self-inflicted
wounds today. Mrs. Walters was pro
prietress rt a hotel where Blanchard
was a guest, and was shot to death by
him when she entered his room while
he was asleep. To other guests of the
hotel who were attracted by the pistol
shots, Blanchard declared he had mis
taken the woman for a burglar, and
had fired at her while only half awake.
In remorse, he then turned the weapon
upon himself. He never regained con
sciousness.
Error of Jurist
Technically Gives
Prisoner Freedom
MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 30.—Al
though convicted and sentenced for op
erating a gaming table and then re
leased because he was given six months
In the penitentiary instead of a half a
year at hard labor, Mike Minto must
fight for his liberty.
Robert C. Brickell, attorney general,
who agree dto the release of Minto dur
ing habeas corpus proceedings before
Judge Gaston Gunter in the city court
Wednesday, announced Thursday that
he would "apply to the supreme court
for a certiorari as well as appeal from
the decision of Judge Gunter.”
The action of the city court in re
leasing Minto after he had been con
victed and sentenced, the court of ap
peals had affirmed the case and Gov
ernor O’Neal had refused to grant a pa
role has started a war of words, the
participants being Governor O’Neal, At
torney General Brickell and R. G. Ar
rington, assistant county attorney.
Minto was sentenced to six months in
the penitentiary under section 6985 of
the code when he should have been
given six months at hard labor under
section 7620.
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