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THE' ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL,' ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1913. 5 OUNTRY I'jOME TIME-Ut TOPI Co 1 OonwCTEP BI2TRS. \T. H.3TE.L.TCM < 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. c T he Cheerful Life It is the right of everyone to live and enjoy the cheerful life. We owe it to ourselves and those who live with us to live the cheerful life. We, cannot do so if ill health takes hold of us. The wife, mother and daughter suffering from hot flashes, nervousness, headache, backache, dragging-down feeling, or any other weakness due to disorder# or irregularities of the delicate female organs—is not only a burden to herself, but to her loved ones.*. There is a remedy. Forty years experience has proven unmistakably that DR. PIERCE’S Favorite prescription will restore health to weakened womankind. For 40 year a it has survived prejudice, envy and malice. Sold by dealers in medicine in liquid or tablet forrm S3r. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Tablets can be had of druggist or mailed on receipt of one-cent stamps—for $1.00 or 60c size. Address R. V. Pierce. M D. Baffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate and Invigorate ■toaach, live* and bowels. S agar-coated, tiny granule* 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. 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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. 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