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THE ATLANTA SEJtLWEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA, Tuesday, December 23, 1913.
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TOPICS
AN EXPERIENCE IN THE FEDERAL
COURT.
A neighbor of. ours when I first ar
rived in Bartow county, sixty years ago,
then Cass county (an eighteen-year-old
girl bride), was owner of a lot of land
in Fannin county that he drew from
the State Land office when a very young
man and his heirs were contending for
the ownership of the lot in the‘Atlanta
Federal court.
As 1 was a neighbor to this neighbor
I was called as a witness to show that
such a man did live in the county more
than^ fifty years ago. As I am an cdd
citizen I could swear that I knew tins
old citizen in the days gone by. I was
there for four days, waiting the pleas
ure of the eourt. I amused myself by
visiting the library and examining the
court room and its equipment.
The equipments are superb. The
floors elegantly carpeted and with beau
tiful velvet curtains at the windows.
It seemed that this temple of justice
should be devoted to purposes that are
also first class and without any filth
or dirt to harrass the moral or mental
part of a visitor, but there are perpetual
tegal struggles with moonshiners and
*uch like. There also come in there as
•fitnesses some of the hardest cases to
book at that you ever saw. And these
witnesses in the liquor-making and sell
ing business will try to outswear each
other world without end, veritable hill
billies.
Judge Newman is a dignified federal
judge, and is accounted a fair judge by
the lawyers who practice in his court,
and he was certainly courteous to
your scribe. I have nothing but kind
words for the judge.
. The witness stand fronts the jury
and I have been in that witness chair
twice this year in a patriotic effort to
save some wild land in Fannin county to
the people who had (as I shall always
believe) a much better title to the land
and in equity should have had a bet
ter showing against land-grabbers and
timber pirates.
The United States government has ap-
pjropriated $225,000 -to buy up 32,000
acres of land in that wild mountainous
section, and we find that a land and
lumber company is at the back of the
movement. The game has been played
in conjunction with certain government
officials, and the money that is paid
out by the government to these land
and timber traders is taken from the
tax payers, and it is plainly evident that
the state of Georgia has had 32,000
acres of taxable land taken violently
ffom the state ownership—and the gov
ernment has what?
Absolutely nothing but a region of
mountains and ravines—worthless t o
anybody and foi; which the United
States government*has paid $225,000, or
$0 m»r acre.
Some day there will be a raking over,
and this so-called conservation scheme
will take its place along with the fa
mous Yazoo land fraud—that was a dis
grace to a Georgia legislature and nu
merous government officials. I may not
live to see the end, but it is bound' to
be exposed and the scheme shown up
later in the days to come. I found one
of the government officials always pre
sent—always a witness on the side or'
the land and timber dealers, and it was
unfortunate that he was forced into
this relation against claimants in Geor
gia. However, capable and faitthful he
may be to the government’s interest—
he was evidently in constant request
and used against citizens of Georgia,
who were defeated in efforts to get le
gal help from other sources.
passionate and intemperate feelings in
listeners. Abuse oi the court prose
cutors would be only abuse, not a legal
argument, and i continued to remember
that a dieadiui murder nau been com
mitted and somebody had surely been
guilty of taking tne life of a poor
defenseless working girl. The speaker
1 listened to declared that Leo Frank
bad no better showing than a “crip
pled grasshopper in a pen of ducks.’
I did not lorget that this poor little
helpless girl had no better showing
than a little white lamb in a den of
wolves. I am glad it does not fall to
my share to pronounce sentence on such
a murderer, such as he who made Mary
Phagan his victim, but it is plainly evi
dent that a public prosecutor could not
mince words in dealing with such a hein
ous crime, and it seemed to me iri bad
taste to arraign the solicitor in un
measured terms for doing his duty after
a man was regularly indicted for the
murder of a helpless little girl by the
grand jury. Of course circumstantial
evidence is beset with risks and dangers
but there are too many working
girls exposed to Mary Phagan’s hard
luck to allow the murderer to escape
proper punishment, or to thus villify the
solicitors who prosecuted.
The negroes who murdered a poor wo.
man day before yesterday and finally
chopped off her head will soon get
their dues, and there will be a short rone
and quick work to punish the perpetra-
ters of the hideous crime, and they de
serve all that will be coming to them.
But Mary Phagan’s murderer may
never meet his fate, if well paid law
yers can postpone the case until pub
lic interest has been quieted.
The solicitor had every warrant to
press the Mary Phagan case to a fin
ish, and it is not very comforting to
see that the poor child has now so
little said about her rights, and so
much was feaid in praise of those who
were convicted of her murder.
THE EVENING STORY
CASE OF BUENA VISTA
Copyright, 1913.
By W. Werner
When Judge Ambrose Bennett found
that he must again sentence Buena
Vista Peace the little judge worried the
night through, and morning found him
in the jail holding converse with the
big black.
From the moment SereDhiny Peace
face o’ de Great Maker. Poah mammy
had gone by the “alcohol route,’’ and
left her pickaninny yearling, he had
been handed knocks, knocks that oft-
A RENEWAL OP THE FRANK TRIAJE*.
It became convenient- to me to listen
to the closing speech before the su
preme court, when Mr. Frank’s lawyers
made their final effort to have the ver
dict reversed, when an Atlanta jury
convicted the prisoner of the murder
of poor little Mary Phagan.
It gives me great pleasure to listen
to. fine, eloquent speakers, and I sup
posed I would hear a dispassionate
and purely legal discussion of the law
in ' the case, but I was disappointed
because of the attempt to again arouse
Low Fares!
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and Texas
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1914; with exceedingly long return
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All year tourist tickets on sale
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The Cotton Belt Route is the
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TOO MUCH STRENUOSITY.
Inside of three weeks three of the
south’s chief railroad presidents have
died after brief illnesses. These threis
men were easily the very greatest of
southern railroad presidents. This fa
tality is the outcome of their strenuous
living. Like great army generals they
felt the responsibility of their positions
and spared neither the mental nor phys
ical part of them in their struggle for
supremacy as well as rivalry in equip
ment and management of their enor
mous railroad properties.
They have paid the price and all three
have had momentous funerals, but was
the game worth the*'candle to the men
themselves?
The curse of the age we live in is its
unreasoning strenuosity and the hard
pace of its leading minds in finance ^and
railroading. The homely adage about
“killing yourself to keep yourself,” ap
plies in all these individual cases. No
body is benefited except those who suc
ceed them in high positions.
If they, too, determine to travel the
same rapid pace, they will go the same
way. Nature fixes certain limitations
on human endurance and human
strength. “Thus far shalt thou go and
no further,” sayeth these limitations.
If you overtax the mental part, you
afflict the physical ahd vice versa.
Doubtless it was the mental part that
wore down (under pressure) in the lives
of these three great railroad presidents.
They were giants in their sphere of ac
tion. but they were still mortal and the
limitations were obliged to control in a
final test of human endurance. Each
of L.ese men had thousands of men un
der their direction. These inferiors h
office may not be immediately touched
by their going away, but the chances
are that many and various changes will
occur, sooner or later.
I live at Cartersville, on the W. &
.A. railroad, and we always knew when
President Thomas went through to At
lanta because of his beautiful engine
and dapper railroad train. It was
unique and attractive. He had a won
derful father, the elder J. W. Thomas,
whom “Johnny” succeeded as president
He was greatly beloved and much of
this affection was transferred to the
son after the death of the parent.
It is a question, whether it is better
to soar high and stop quickly in death
or to float nearer down and stay up
longer. How is it with you, . dear
reader?
All About Snakes; Real
One, Not D. T. Kind
Snake's Tongue Is to .Hear
With, Not to Sting With
Snakes do not chew their food. They
swallow it whole and often tjie prey is
larger than the, snake’s mouth. How do
they do it? The jaws are connected at
the rear by an elastic ligament which
permits the reptile to temporarily un
lock its jaws and to make the mouth as
large as a paper bag.
A snake will appear to swallow a
small rabbit or some other animal larg
er than its mouth without even batting
its eyes. This is an optical illusion for
their eyes are always shut, closed by a
transparent, fixed lid. This serves two
important purposes: To protect the
eyes without obstructing the sight and
t< facilitate the monthly change of
raiment' in shedding the skin.
The snake listens almost altogether
with its tongue. The hateful little
Torked tongue that is always darting
viciously is not to sting with, but to
hear wjth.
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BROOKLYN TRIES TO OUST
BIG SUGAR REFINERIES
State Claims Title to Water
Front Land Upon Which
Buildings Are Erected
NE\V YORK, Dec. 22.—Suit was filed
today by the state to compel the Amer-
ican Sugar Refining company to re
move its plant from the Broklyn water
front. The plant occupies four city
blocks and was erected at a cost of mil
lions,
Th_e company's title to the land is at
tached and the claim 'made that the
site is state property.
Letters patent to the sie, it is as
serted in the petition, were granted
from 1868 to 1875 to predecessors of the
•company, among them- being' Samuel
• T Tilden . and Grover Cleveland.
Under terms of these letters patent.
Attorney General Carmody charges, the
patentees were entitled to use the land
only for docking privileges. This -was
done, but in addition, six eight and ten-
story buildings have been erected there
on. The erection of these buildings,
the state contends, was in violation of
the letters patent and is sufficient
grounds for asking for their revocation.
Ttt
If
“Gimme one moah chanst.”
times pushed him into unrighteous
paths.
Countless months he had contrived to
partake of the jailkeeper’s hospitality;
the workhouse had been his hostelry
days without number, and before he
was thirty the state’s prison had for
three years furnished him a rooftree.
But the sins which brought unfailing
state punishment to Buena Vista were
not ordinary conventional lawbreakings,
but the uprising of. some uncontrollable
spirit within him.
“You’ve got some qualities of a good
nigger, Buena Vista,” the judge said to
him; “you don’t swear nor get drunk.”
Buena Vista shuffled his big feet.
“Da hain’t no credick cornin’ to me fuh
not cussin’ and boozin’, judge,” he said.
“1 nubbah wuz no sasser, and cussin’
hain’t nothin’ but spitting sass in de
rid de red-eyed hoss o’ drink ontel hit
fell down on huh and killed huh, and I
hain’t nubboh felt no cravin’ to mount
dat hoss! Naw, suh!”
“And yet,” went on the judge, “you’re
always in mischief. What puts you up
to it, Buena Vista?”
Buena Vist scratched his head.
“Hit jfest busts out in me, jedge. I
reckon ’caze I hain’t got nothin’ to hold
hit down!”
“Two terms in the penitentiary,” the
judge remarked presently—“a year for
helping tar and feather a Jew peddler;
then two years for blowing up Addison
Harney’s Hereford bull with dynamite,
and now you steal the old parson’s cow,
paint her hide with peroxi4e of hydro
gen', and sell her for a $5 bill! If I
followed precedent in regard to third
termers, you’d get a life sentence. Had
you thought of that, Buena Vista?
Once back at Frankfort, with the doors
shut on you, there’ll be no more fishing
in the old Clear Water in the springs:
no more eating watermelons at old
Caestar Sprowle’s T patch in the sum
ifiers; no more ’possum hunting in the
falls—forever! But the penitentiary to
the last minute of your life—the very
last minute!”
Buena Vista’s head sank and his jaw
trebled. “O Lawd, jedge,” he stutter
ed, “don’t put dat on me! Gimme one
moah chanst!”
Tii the previous week the case of Palm
Tree Ashes had been disposed of by
Judge Bennett. Palm Tree, a widow
with five offspring, had been trying for a
year to hold her family together by the
washboard. But rising at 3 in the
morning to begin the battle saponaceous
and loosening her hold of the flatiron at,
midnight wore on the weakly little
negress. When she took to fainting over
her ironing board her neighbors re*
ported her condition to the court. The
judge had then remanded. Palm Tree
and her brood to the poor house until
arrangements could be made to convey
the pickaninnies to an orphans’ home.
The woman’s grief and despairing pro
tests against this summary breaking up
of her home and the infliction on her
of the ignominy of the poor house had
been pitiable. Her cry when she had
flung herself at his feet had been *ike
Buena Vista’s cry: “Oh, Lawd, jedge,
doan’ put dat on me! Lemme keep my
arnbly togethuh! Gimme one moah
chanst!”
The judge looked at the dejected sin
ner before him and an inspiration came
to him. “Which would you rather do,
Buena Vista,” he asked, “work as a
free man, behaving yourself uprightly,
and every week the rest of your natural
life bringing $4 of your savings to me,
to be paid over to a weakly widow who
wants to keep ' her five little children
together, or spend* your days in the pen
itentiary? You have your choice.”
When the judge had made further xe-
planation .Buena Vista said: “Gimme
de free life, jedge; gimme de free
life!” ,,
That evening Palm Tree Ashes round
herself, with Theodore Roosevelt, Nich
olas Longworth, William Taft, Helen
Gould and Booker T. Washington
Ashes, aged seven, six, five, three and
two years respectively, in a rented room
on the outer verge of Whitesville, the
stigma of pauper taken from her and
the promise of $4 a week the remainder
of her life.
Palm Tree did not exactly under
stand the source of the money, but
she knew that it was to come from
“de court,” through the judge, each
Saturday night.
That evening Buena Vista Peace
found night work at the railroad yards
cleaning engines. Every Saturday
night for a ^nonth thereafter at 7
o’clock he cheerfully brought $4 of his
wages to Judge Bennett. And every
Saturday night at 7:30 the widow of
Simon Ashes received her “court
money.’
One Saturday evening Palm Tree
met Buena Vista as he was leaving
the judge's gate. He considerately
waited and held open the gate for
her. ‘Fine evenin’, Mistis!” he
croaked..
“Elegint, suh!” Palmy agreed. “Ex
cuse me, suh,” she added, “but ef you’ll
just swgdler a cup of boneset tea afoah
you goes to bed, hit’ll knock yoah cold
shoah.”
Buena Vista took off his hat. “You’s
powerful good, Mistis. I’ll shoah try
youah kind spoken rimedy soon’s I gits
home.”
"Dat is de 1 finest lookin’ and de
manerest gen'leman I’s seed sence Si
mon died,” thought Palmy. “1 shoah
wonders who tie is.” And all the next
week she wondered.
And Buenaj Vista worked each night
in good chafer, and dreamed by day
that a little pale brown woman was
holding a /cup of hotest boneset tea
that tatsea like a celestial drink, to
his lips.
The hext Saturday night Buena
Vista, lingering in the shadow of the
Judge’s r lilac hedge, saw PaJmy
drop the litle cape she wore and move
on. unconscious of her loss. When
he knocked at her door, with the shawl
on his arm, Palmy beamed on him and
hospitably insisted on his coming in
for a moment to partake of a cup of
coffee.
“I does a smidgin’ o’ washin’,” she
explained, “to help shoe de chil’n. I
sinds ’em to Sunday school and hit
hain’t proper to hab ’em trompin’ in de
Lawd’s house barefoot 1 ”
That cyening Buena Vista thought
long and deeply. As a result a hardly
saved 50-cent piece, in the midnight
hpurs, was slipped under the Widow
Ashe’s door. Palmy heard the clink
of the coin and opened the door. Buena
Vista was tipping away.
’Home co/ne you puttin’ money heah
fuh me, M : stuh Peace?” she called to
him resentfully. “I ain’. one o’ de
kind dat lews me folks give nvj mon
ey gifts? ’s -i, clean nigger woman,
I is!”
‘Foah de Lawd God, nubbah doubted
/ ah pyur* goooness, Mis Ashes!”
Buena Vis<j stammered in confusion.
seed de t>ah dollars I been gibin’ de
judge fuh you wouldn’t keep you fum
wrastlin’ / id de washboard, so I
skimped o.? my eatin’s (I’s been a-eat-
n too mucl,, anyhow) and fotched you
a little ir. ah change. 1 didn’t low
i ou’d ; ketcu me!’
But de c urt gibs me dat $4!” Palmy
cried, bewildered.
“Hit’s m? gibs hit to de jedge,” ex
plained Bufr.a Vista. “He gimme de
privilege o goin' to de penitentiary fuh
life, fuh *>< mepin I done, or wuckin'
• ■utside ano a gibin’ him $4 a week fuh
you de balance o my days! I wuz glad
to get my freedom a-wuckin’ fuh any
body, but sence i’s knowed you is do
one I’s hitli: ’ licks fuh, I des cain’t tell
you how I feels, Palmy.”
His eyes i ested on her with a world
of apologvi.c “Tenderness and Palmy
ma
Of® '
W) m
M
wmmm'wi v
au/4. /r*rt —
“I des car.’t tell you how I feels,
Palmy.” '
ihr^w her <^pror over her head and
c;ied softly
Soon aft«iward Buena Vista came to
Judge Bern**tt in deep anxiety. “Is I
got de r*gLt tc marry, jedge?” he
asked.
The judp»A\ as Troubled. "Supporting
UVC families will tea hard mb, my man.
You understand you'll have to turn over
$4 to me n-^eklj for the widow, even
tli ugh I pc/mit yoti to marry!”
Dat’ll b- all right, jedge,” Buena
V : ?ta crieC.. “I doan’t want to be too
free. I can t keep straigh* lessen I’s
sornepn holdin’ me down, and,
1)1'-ss God, de woman you gimme de
support o’ is de v, oman I’s a lovin’ and
c-wantin’ f» marry Sides, I done got
a cyarpenUr s job at $2.50 a day ! I's
bnun’ my wife scant parilize huh insti-
THE FEAST OF THE FAMILY
By Bishop Warren A. Candler
Christmas is pre-eminently the feast
of the family. In it we celebrate the
birth of Him in whom all the families
of the earth are blessed.
The star of Bethlehem shone above
holy motherhood and a divine child, and
the angels of the advent sang glory to
God in the highest when the Eternal
Son of the Father became by a human
birth the Son of Man also.
At th.'s sacre.l season the hearts of
the parent turn to their children and
the hearts of the children turn to their
parents. Innocent mirth fills our homes
anr carries even the aged back to their
^second childhood. All souls, not lost
utterly to human tenderness, become
young again in the gladness of the
fatal hours.
The members 6t households, who
have been separated for many days and
months, come together again around
the family fireside. Memories of the
past and hopes of the future fill their
sculs as they meet one another there.
They bring gifts’ in their hands to ex
press the affection of their hearts.
Such a season is well suited for con
sidering the inestimable value of the
family; and the best Christmas gift
which could come to our nation would
be the restoration to the national con
sciousness of the home as the unit of
civilization.
The life of the republic cannot sur
vive the death of the family, and many
tendencies are prevalent which threat
en the sanctity of the very existence of
this holy institution.
Divorces are more numerous than
ever before in the history of our coun
try, and easy-divorce laws fill and dis
grace our statute books. Marriage is
desecrated by the frivolous spirit in
which many enter the holy relation and
the unscrupulous haste with which they
dissolve it for slight causes.
Apartment houses, lodging houses, and
hotels take the place of quiet and mod
est homes, in order that young married
couples may pursue social pleasures and
escape the responsibilities of domestic
life. Children grow up like calves on
the common or wanton colts in the
public pasture.
Both they and their pleasure-loving
parents live in the most unwholesome
atmosphere of sensation and excitement.
Family altars are unknown by them
and their lives are not blessed by fam
ily worship. Who can measure such the
less which they thus suffer!
In addition to all this, both fathers
and mothers devote themselves to all
sorts of club life and hurtful amuse
ments which are inimical to the home.
The home is being clubbed to death.
There are literary clubs, dancing clubs,
card clubs, yclubs for all manner of
pseudo-reforms, and clubs for preten
tious “social service.” There is a ma
nia for escaping the sacred privacy of
the domestic circle and running into
the deteriorating engagements of club
publicity. While some mothers are
running aftef schemes to rescue way
ward girls, their own daughters, who
are becoming wayward, begin to need
rescuing. Society would not require so
many reform schemes, if the home were
better preserved. There would not be
so many wayward children, if there were
more parents of piety in the homes of
thj land.
Multitudes of people seem to have lost
all faith in the home as a means for do
ing good to the world. They overvalue
other instrumentalities, and undervalue
the family which God has ordained for
the blessing of mankind. Men and wom-
<-n who regard family altars as worth
less, seem to esteem the ballot box as
the very ark of the covenant. In fact
the American mind appears to be infect
ed with W’hat may be properly called
“the superstition of the ballot”. It
seems to be an accepted idea that all
evil things can be cured and every good
thing obtained by voting. Many preach
ers, for example, appear to believe that
tu don a wrastlin’ wid dew ashboa’d
n.'iry nothing day 1 ”
And the \dge heaved a s’gh of relief.
an election can bring to pass many mor
al results which the preaching of the
gospel cannot accomplish; they are
constantly calling for the sheriff and his
deputies to help Christ save the world.
They no longer insist upon parents
praying in the home but they vocifer
ously exhort fathers and husbands to
run to the polls. They cry out, “Vote as
you pray,” not seeming to know that
most of the men whom they are exhort
ing do not pray at all. Now, let it be
said that however useful thes politico-
moral reforms may be, they rank far
below religious life in the home. Un
less a more pronounced piety is stead
ily propa.gated in the homes of the land,
no schemes of reform whatsoever can
save the nation from ruin. As has been
intimated, we should not need so many
reforms, if the homes of the land were'
more religious.
Many women also have fallen under
this delusion that voting will reform
every vice and establish every virtue in
the earth. They clamor for the ballot,
as if it were the sum of all blessedness.
But the plain fact is that woman’s suf-
rage, where it has been tried, has not
accomplished any such good. Vicious
women have outvoted the virtuous, and
nothing more has been accomplished
than the increase of the ballots to be
counted after the polls closed. The
world cannot be saved by the votes of
either men or women; but it will be
greatly damaged by women neglecting
the home to engage in political strife.
The.sum of human goodness will be di
minished by so much as the attention of
women is diverted from the obligations
of motherhood, and the duties of the
home in order that it may be fixed upon
political themes and absorbed in politi
cal excitements. The truth is that
woman cannot afford the ballot. It
would hinder her in the fulfillment of
her true mission, weaken her influence,
and turn into the beautiful realm of
her moral power ten thousand streams
of weakness and corruption. It would
bring into the home divisive controver
sies which would destroy the identity
of interest between fathers and mothers
and do unspeakable damage to the chil
dren. Years ago Dr. J. G. Holland said,
when he was editing Scribner’s Month
ly, some things which we would do
well to consider today. He Said; “There
is nothing more* menacing in the aspect
of social affairs in this country than*
th^ efforts among a certain class of re
formers to break up the identity of in
terests and feelings among men and
women. Men are alluded to with sneers
and blame as being opposed to the in
terests of women, as using the power
in their hands—a power usurped—to
maintain their own predominance at the
expense of women’s rights and women’s
well-being. Under this kind of teaching
women are to vote, and trade, and prac
tice law, and preach, and go to Con
gress, and do every thing that a man
does irrespective of the marriage bonds.
Women are to be just as free to do any
thing outside of the homes as men are.
They are to choose their careers and
pursue them with just as little reference
to the internal administration of their
homes as their husbands exercise. This
is the aim and logical end of all the
modern doctrines concerning woman’s
rights. The identification of women
with men, as the basis of the institution
of the family, is scoffed at. It is as
sumed that interests which are identi
cal, and which should forever remain
identical, are opposed to each other. Men
and women are pitted against each other
in the struggle for power.”
It is impossible that the home can be
maintained in such a struggle; and it
is equally true that nothing can com
pensate for the loss of the home when
once it is destroyed. When the home
is overthrown both man and woman
will be crushed beneath its ruins. Hu
manity is one, and its best welfare is
promoted by men and women dwelling
together In love, creaking homes and
maintaining homes by each fulfilling
the sphere ordained by God and nature
for each to fill,—separate spheres and
Journal Patterns
The patterns shown below may
he obtained by addressing Pat
tern Dept., The Atlanta Semi-
IVeekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
10c
Wo
mmm
9801
V
9804.
9804—LADIES’ COSTUME. ,
Cut in six sizes. 34, 36, 38, 40. 42 and
44 inches bust measure. It requires six
yards of 36-ineli material for a 36-inch
size. Price 10c.
9420.
942 —BOY’S SUIT,
Cut in four sizes, 3, 4. 5 aud 6 years.
It requires three yards of 44-inch material
for the three-year size. Price 10c.
9800-9801.
9800-9801—LADY’S COAT SUIT.
Coat, 0800, cut in six sizes. 32, 34, 36,
38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. It re
quires four yards of 44-inch material for
a 34-inch size. For short***- length %-yards
less. Skirt 9801 cut in five sizes. 22, 24,
26. 28 and 30 inches waist measure. It
requires three yards of 44-inch material
for a 24-inch size. This calls for two
separate patterns. 10c for each.
9571.
9671—GIRL’S UNDERWAIST, BLOOMERS
AND P ETTICOAT.
Cut in six sizes, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
years. For the eight-year size it will re
quire 1% yards for the petticoat, 1% yards
for the bloomers and 1 yard for the waist,
of 36-inch material. Price 10c.
9798.
9798—LADY’S* SHIRT WAIST WITH
VEST.
Cut in six sizes, 32, 34, 36, 38. 40 and
42 inches bust measure. It requires 2^
yards of 44-inch material for a 86-inch
size. Price 10c.
9796.
9795—DRESS FOR MISSES AND SMALL
WOMEN.
v Cut in four sizes, 14, 16. 17 and IS years.
It requires five yards of 44-inch material
for a seventeen-year size. Price 10c.
9815.
9815—A PRETTY FROCK FOR MOTH-
ER'S GIltL.
Cut in five sizes, 8, 10. 12, 14 and 16
years. It requires three yards of 44-inch
material for a ten-year size. Price 10c.
9436
9436—GIRL’S ONE-PIECE DRESS.
Cut in four sizes, 4, 6. 8 and 10 years.
It requires three yards of 36-inch material
for a six year size. Price 10c.
9485.
9485—GIRL’S DRESS.
years. It reqnires four yards of 36-inch
Out In four sizes, 8» 10, 12 and 14
material for an eight-year size. Price 10c.
9486.
9486—LADIES’ DRESS WITH CHEMI
. SETTE.
Cut in five sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42
inches bust measure. It requires five
yards of 44-inch material for a 36-inch size.
Price 10c.
9665.
9655—LADIES’ FOUR-GORE SKIRT.
Cut in five sizes, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30
inches waist measure. It requires four
yards of 36-inch material for a 24-inch
size. Price 10c.
9684.
9584—LADIES’ WAIST, WITH FRENCH
. BODY LINING.
Cut in five sizes, 32, 34, 36. 38 and 40
inches bust measure. It requires 3% yards
of 36-inch material for a 36-inch * size.
Price 10c.
9439.
9439—LADIES’ DRESSING SACK.
Cut in six sizes, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and
42 inches bust measure. It requires three
yards of 36-inch material for a 36-inch
size. Price 10c.
9511.
9511—LADIES’ DRESS WITH TUCKER.
BISHOP W. A. CANDLER.
sacred spheres, which neither overlap
nor antagonize one another.
In addition to all the influences
threatening the home, which have been
mentioned, the Churches themselves are
pursuing certain policies which contrib
ute to the damage of the family. The
Churches have too many meetings anfl
societies and conventions. Christian
men and women are gaddng about too
much in attendance upon assemblies
more or less religious, and are not stay
ing at home enough. A good man said
to me some days ago that his Church
imposed on him so many duties in con
nection with Boards and Committees
that he seldom had an evening at home.
Multitudes of men and women are thus
misused and overused by their
Churches. It cannot be doubted that
in the long run such excessive engag
ing of men and women in the operation
of ecclesiastical machinery will dimin
ish the amount of true religioh in the
land end weaken the Church rather than
strengthen them.
Le( all our people at this sacred
season of Christmas—the feast of the
family—set about the task of making
more homes and better homes in the
land.
Let young married couples go out of
hotels, boarding houses, and apart
ments into the holier and happier pri
vacy of quiet homes. It is better to
dweil in the smallest and poorest cot
tage than to live in a public stall.
Let all of us go home more and stay
there longer, for the sake of our own
souls and for the welfare of our chil
dren. God pity the poor child who in
childhood knows nothing of the sweet
ness and sanctity of a Christian home,
and who in mature life has nd such
home to which to look back! Blessed
is the man who carries in his memory
the picture of such a holy place! The
homeless man,—the man who has no
home in faot, nor in memory, nor In
prospect—is a hopeless man. Home is
the very heart and centre of every true
life, the place where the dearest affec-
- are nourished and around which
the most saving and sacred memories
cling. Nothing can compensate one for
its loss. What shall a man take in ex
change for his home? it is the best
thing on earth, and the very type of
heaven itself. “It stands at the end
of every day’s labor, and beckons us to
its bosom,* and life would be -cheerless
and meaningless, did we not discern
across the river that divides it from
the life beyond, glimpses of the pleas
ant mansion prepared for us.”
Cursed be the things by which thou
sands of children arc robbed of homes
on earth, by which are diminished their
chances for the heavenly home when
their earthly lives have ended! Cursed
be that deification of pleasure and am
bition whicn leads fathers and mothers
to neglect prayer and run after perpet
ual publicity, to renounce the obliga
tions of piety in order to engage in
public parades!
9436
till
9486
I
95f!
9573
Cut in five sizen. 34, 36. 38, 40 and
inches bust measure. Tt requuires
yards of 27-inch material for the tuc
and seven yards for the dress, for a
inch size. Price 10c.
9573,
9573—LADIES’ HOUSE DRESS.
Cut in six sizes, 32, 34, 36, 88, 40
42 inches bust measure. It requires :
yards of 44-inch material for a 86-!
*ize. Price 10c,