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resurrection of the dead and the positfye establish
ment of the truth of that sighed for life after death.
Coming in the springtime, the parable and logic is
vastly simplified; for have not changes and develop
ment just as marvelous and mystifying occurred in
the common seeds and roots which but newly were
planted in the fertile earth’ Is not all nature and
her children waking from a long period of dormancy
so near death that we only know it is tiot such by
previous experience? And over all is the tre
mendous, vital power which men so abjectly wor
ship in earthly shape—idealized and given a divinity
and a comprehensiveness which dwafts the petty
strength of earth and the transient attractions with
which men are wont to make of the earth too ob
vious an ultimate end and Paradise.
The hope, too, and cheer and prophecy which
come with the returning flowers, assume a celestial
significance with the rising of the Easter sun.
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• ng Its most promising period In the past.
Easter and Spring; the Just
and the Unjust
HE simple glory of a spring morning;
the sun just peeping over the edge of
the world into the gray shadows of the
dawn, to cast an orange glow on the
rough stone of a sepulcher built into
the side of a hill; Roman soldiers,
mail-clad, grim-faced even in repose,
lying about in awkward, sprawling
postures of the sleep of great weari
ness; the first faint rustling, the un
easy, chill breath of nature as she
wakes from her deep slumber to an
other day of life; the gentle, plaintive
return of the young vegetation from
its peaceful dreams to the serious mis
sion of feeding cattle and men. Two radiant shapes j
of purity and mild sweetness foreign to jaded earth
seat themselves on either side of this uncouth tom
the solid door to the primitive death house cemen
and sealed with the insignia of the dominant lo
the earth. Within that tomb, pierced by a
wounds, logically dead any wise man would
lies the body of the Man who, shortly befc,
proclaimed, “I am the resurrection and
To carry out the conventional order of t
justify precedent, to vivify the logic of the]
history and experience up to that d ay> t hj
undisputed status should have conned
sun attained its full, courageous
heavens; the trees and the birds settled W
stoical routine of the day and the soldiers
grumblingly prepared their rations and tak< ^
monotonous, accustomed detail of their
Had these events occurred in their naturaj
sequence, we would not now be celebrati
ter, and the biography of mankind would 1
deprived of the most marvelous, revolut
_ m jts te-tr v*? ~*on. *t your t 1 -r«,r of Seldom does tW man
But I was not to be so. In the serene’In fore this. pulsatlY,g radiant health realize that its posses-
*1, * *. , ; -. , , , , v a' uted oibn is a regular asset which must be utilized while
t f these supernatural visitants, and the sodden slum- &
cistence.
loregone
an Eas-
fave been
The “Beneficent, Terrible
Mirage of Inexperience
E often obtain cogency and pith by
going to the- Bible for an illustration
and no more stressed!}’ so than in the
line, “the glory of a young man is his
strength/’ So runs the free interpre
tation, but we may attribute other
meanings than this generally accepted
view. The writer must have meant
other than physical strength, and we
take it that strength of imagination,
strei gth of will, of perception and of
endurance, is also implied. In nearly
every individual instance are these
assertions true of young men or wom
en just rounding the turn from ado
lescence and coming into the open, full stretch of
maturity and the hard realities of existence. The
fact, that youth is endowed with all of these facul-
of freshness and confidence is what causes men
women to regret the passing years and to look
ack, yearningly, on the time when all that was not
lithe today became so tomorrow under the gen-
ous magic of exuberant health and illogical, but
splendid hope. They are also what caused Riche
lieu to enunciate the famous sentiment which has
since become a platitude, “in the bright lexicon of
youth there is no such .word as fail.” In short,
were the sonnets and eulogies and plaints which
have been addressed to young years compiled in one
book, it would be as remarkable and significant a
compendium as any of,the world’s libraries afford.
We see men and women with gray, scant hairs and
stiff, unresponsive muscles and emotions, vacantly,
pitifully declaiming what they would do were youth
once more vouchsafed to them.
Yet, sadly, it is seldom that the possessors of this
marvelous force realize its full possibilities while in
their enjoyment. In a vague, unknowing way,
young people know that capacity for work and
pleasure and suffering is practically unlimited.
That labor is easily accomplished, pleasure keenly
appreciated, sorrow piercingly Pgi crt V v '~ i But it is
. "into this
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By HAL STEED,
Writ.en .or ISho iSk 1
F you ha*
to yourt
APRIL it* t
a Career For Young Men
series of articles on the inducements and obstacles which various professions and trades present_to
>mpetentauthorities will be given with each article,and the principal occupations recognized,win o
ome back
■ city, after
say ten
st have no
changes in its
t the most ap-
belng in its
ou will see an
•flew block where
you saw only a
few sq^tty stores. You
will also startled by the
sight of ; mate residences
on a tb< oughfare which
you remember as a c< mtry road. Tlie
old neighborhood whei you lived will
Impress you as being arangely new and
unfamiliar.
This process of er<
^^bted in tills week's artfde are : W. B. Miles. M, L. Lewman and A. V. Gude.
that is done, and absorb it, and study it.
down buildings ir-a-r,*
ing and tearing
ular one. a dally
happening; but you bafe tp come back to
the scene after art A>sence to realize
fully what a big thi'f^ it is. And you
have to compare the oil structures with
the new ones to obart've the growing
Improvement in the °£ building.
Like everything elseythis business has
changed much in itspeope, particularly
in the south. Even.nfy the office build
ing is a novelty in mbit of «nr southern
towns, and we are ‘just beginning to
study the needs of building as applied
to factories and other commercial un
dertakings. The style in residences has
also changed, and instead of the colonial
house we have the more modern stone
or brick house. The cramped space of
our larger cities makes the frame dwell
ing with its lawn Impossible, and we
have instead the apaf inent or flat house.
Then, too, our commercial activity has
given contractors more business and
more variety of b'.isiness, and they are
looking out for yotiltg men to train in
their work. With •'ifce greater demand
for builders, tlvme is a corresponding
need for men to assist them.
Three builders of Atlanta—W. B. Miles,
M. L. Lewman and A. V. Gude—state
what their business offers to beginners,
what future it promises them, and what
is expected of them if they intend to
succeed.
Mr. Miles is a believer in technical ed
ucation, holding that it saves a great
deal of time. He says:
MR. MILES’ VIEWS.
‘‘Building requirements have changed
a great deal in tho last few years. For
merly it was essential that a man know
some trade in the beginning—that he
should be a carpenter or a mason or a
stonecutter. Now, that is no longer es
sential, though I still think that one
should learn a trade if possible. A car
penter or mason, for instance, knows
most of the methods involved In the con
struction of a building.
“The most important thing of all, how
ever, is a technical education, the kind
given at the Technological school in At
lanta. This saves time in that it trains
a man to absorb experience quickly. He
learfls in his course everything in con
nection with building. He is thoroughly
equipped in civil engineering, mechanical
engineering and draughtsmanship. In
some positions he is competent to take
hold at once, and his promotion to a
more responsible place is a question only
of a short time.
"After he has taken his technical
course, then I should advise the beginner
to get some salaried position with a
builder. If possible, let him go into the
office as draughtsman or as assistant
draughtsman, for this is really the most
instructive work Jn connection with the
building. He is both in the office and
with the workmen on the building, and
he learns the requirements of the archi
tect and the details of actual construc
tion. If he can’t get a draughtsman’s
place, let hint do any work around the
building where he can see everything
We had such a young man with us
once. He had just graduated, and came
to us for work. It happened at the time
that we could offer him only one position
—that of time-keeper—which paid $6 a
week. The young: fellow took it. In
less than a year he became an architect s
inspector; afterwards he was a draughts
man, after that he was promoted to va
rious responsible positions on building
contracts. His technical education,
helped by practical experience, was what
advanced him so rapidly.
“There are not a great many salaried
positions under a contractor. The
draughtsman is paid about $75 a month,
and the minimum pay of a superintend
ent is $125, some earning as high as $225.
The latter position is a responsible one,
and requires knowledge of the most thor
ough kind. The man who holds it is
soon able to go into business for himself.
"He doesn't need capital to do this
tf ho is capable and honest, and in the
position of superintendent he has abun
dant opportunities to impress people
with these qualities if he has them. He
is in constant association with men in
the building business, and they will risk
capital on him if he shows himself
worthy.
“T shouldn’t advise a man, however,
to go into business unless he first has
a great deal of experience. In the first
place, he needs It for the kind of work
that pays, and people will not trust
youth and inexperience on an important
commission. In the second place, the |
small jobs that he could do in the begin- I
nlng, suOh as cottages and frame build- j
ings generally, are done by carpenters
who have no education outsido of their j
trade. It is best to begin in a salaried
position and stay there until one has
gained enough experience to attempt im
portant work.
“The scope of building has broadened
a great deal in the last few years. At
CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE.
Hha Week in » Bu *»
^ World ^
ft j N C E FRED.
ERICK WILLIAM,
who is reported to
be engaged to Duch
ess Cecile of Meek-
lenburg-Schwerin. i s
the eldest s( ^ n . r 'f
Emperor 'William
and heir apparent to
the imperial thro:.,
of Germany. He
/will be 21 years oM
■'on May 6. anrl ‘ 3
Duchess Cecile £ai<l to 1)0 ^or tl—
sympathetic, kindly young man, tor cnc
most part without the strong °
the military which his father as a
youth so warmly manifested. •
Duchess Cecile is 17 years old and tne
daughter of the late Frederick Francis
111. Through her mother, Anastas a
Michaelowna, she is a cousin of.Emperor
Nicholas of Russia. Her sister, Alexan
drine, is the wife of the crown prince of
Denmark, and her brother, Frederick
Francis IV., is the reigning grand duke
of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The grand
ducal house is the only reigning family
western Europe of Slavonic origin
Efie Picturesque vStory of E-aster
ary mir- 1 ri° as e. It is desy'*
ber of the Roman soldiers, with the silent, dazzling
witness of the sun and the flowers just beginning
to give out a subdued, elusive fragrance—these cun-
ningly contrived doors are burst sheer asunder, and
fall jarringly to either side of the tomb; from within
ihese tight-sealed walls come the dreadful, unmis
takable sounds of life, life in the dead body of the
Man inside, W’hose haijds and feet and sides are
pierced with deep wounds, and Who is shrouded in
all the dread habiliments of death; the sounds in
crease, are intensified; the angels cast eager glances
of joyous, confident expectation into the dim portals
of the sepulcher; and between their fractured edges
emerges the Christ. Him that was but newly slain,
glorified, living, with all the august, terrifying di
vinity of the first resurrected Alan. Smiling gently
r,n the two angels kneeling in loving adoration, we
can imagine Him standing there before His tomb
in the virgin light of a new day, looking out on the
world with all its millions of present and future
inhabitants—the Savior, the Divine Iconoclast,
Who had put to rout all the subtleties of man-made
philosophy, and given living, tangible evidence of
that promise with which Omnipotence must mean
to solve the tangible problems of men.
That was the first Easter in all its simplicity and
wonderful founding of new' thought and new hope.
The visible, breathing proof of immortality, of life
beyond The grave of which we gain vague, tanta
lizing snatches throughout the obscure paths of the
Bible. This original Easter to furnish a cause, a
reward, a definite reason for the pain, and injustice,
and oppression, and temptation, and sin and futility
of human life; to show us this life in its true, won
derful meaning, and to give to unhappy, plodding,
iveary mankind an absolute pledge of relief and re
lease.
We have the beauties of landscape; the glories
of poetry; the triumphs of science; the ponip and
circumstance of ambition, aspiring men and lovely,
alluring womanhood. The genius-smitten mind of
maji has decked the earth with shapes and scenes
and palaces and spectacles which dazzle and bewil
der the senses, and stimulate the keen activity of the
human brain. The earth has its million wonders,
its million pleasures, its million ambitions and at
tractions—they sink into insignificance by the side
of this surpassing statue of animate, risen Divinity,
the First Cause, the Great Metaphysician, the
Father of all humanity, the True Intelligence which
sees and knows all things and Whose power is limit
less as space.
To us it seems that this is the primal lesson of
Easter. The absolute sundering of all previous tra
dition, the accomplishment of that which science and
reasoning had previously declared impossible—then
it is present, and made the most of ece it inevitably
departs. -That young man who sees things in their
proper proportion is rare. And this is the reason
that the \-ast bulk of criminals from the cultured
phases of life are young men. Youth appears so
fruitful in possibilities that young men and women
enter on stupendous, questionable enterprises, Avith
the rash confidence of inexperience that somehow,
some time, they will be able to carry a chimerical
scheme to a happy ending. If depression and doubt
come, they are brief visitors and leaA’e brighter,
more bounding hope in their train.
Where the young man of ambition and creative
projects realizes the limitations of youth and un
derstands that it is subject to the same laws and
bounds that hedge prosaic, slow-going middle-age,
a combination is wrought which is matchless and
irresistible. Zeal and energy are tempered Avith
discretion, and while the mirage is still present, it
is known for a mirage and only its buoyant, benefi
cent side is used. This particular class of young
men realize that never again in this life Avill initia
tive and aggression be so strong within them, allied
Avith the poAver to materialize the dreams which flit
through their minds. Here is seen the benign power
of youth, employing its prerogath'es advisedly, and,
taking the lesson from nature’s processes, sovving in
the spring, and laboring in the summer, that in the
autumn may come the full ripened har\ r est.
Xoav see the reverse side of the panorama. Wild,
majestic Ausions float across this young man's hor
izon. His fresh mind evolves plans Avhich shall
bring him speedily to the front in business, the law,
literature, commerce—what not. He sees to his
front obstacles through which he must tunnel, or
painfully surmount. If methods just a little uncon
ventional, a little daring, a little ILLEGAL are
brought to bear, he sees where his progress may be
expedited, and in the meritricious haze of the
mirage, he KNOWS lie will be able to justify, to
redeem things and reap the results of his enterprise,
without suffering from his slight lapse from the
moral laAv. Further and further into the morass he
goes, deeper and deeper does he become involved
in questionable dealings, until he finds it impossi
ble to extricate himself without an exposure. He
may eA^en contrive with the guile of a serpent to
conceal his tracks and plan to emerge Avith scarcely
a strain on his reputation. Sooner or later, gen
erally the former, a reckoning swoops down on him
with appalling lack of ceremony, and he is stranded,
hopeless, on the rock of wasted character; lost op
portunity, disgrace and degradation. He may, fortu
nately, occasionally evade such a drastic de
nouement, but the haunting sense of his own folly
and dereliction will handicap him in anything fur
ther he may essay.
It, therefore, behooves the man just treading the
first of life’s varied phases, to be mindful of the fact
that His world is not different from that of more
experienced people. It may throng Avith more vivid
hopes and magnificent vitality, but it has the same
pitfalls and immutable laAvs. The beguiling mirage
'■‘f bounding youth, with its possibilities of retriev
ing tomorrow the missteps of today, is fascinating
—but it spells undoing for tjiose too blinded to see
th£ warning finger, of judgment.
Written for ZTAc Sanny Sotifh
H.E name of the annual fes
tival observed throughout
Christendom In commemo
ration of the resurrection
of our Savior, like many
other Christian celebra
tions, is a survival of the
old Teutonic mythology.
The Easter of the English
speaking races and the Os-
tern of the Germans are
derived alike from Easter
or^Ostara, the goddess of
spring, to whom the fourth
month, our April, called Eostur-monath,
was dedicated. This goddess, probably
because she was the personification of the
early dawn of morning, and also of the
coming of the warmth and brightness of
spring time, seems to have been a special
favorite with the Germans. Her worship
was introduced into England by the Sax
ons, and a great /esth-\al was held in her
honor about (me time in April that
EasteJ is now cj. rated..
1 One anay looktf aih Ih'tli’e New l’esta-
tnenf, ^r in th^ t ifigs of the apostolic
fathers of Christendom for any mention
of the celebration of Easfer, or indeed of
any other sacred -event. Neither Christ
nor His apostles enjoined the observance
of such festivals. There is one passage
in the New Testament, First Corinthians,
fifth verse, that has been sometimes er
roneously interpreted as referring to the
keeping of Easter by the apostles.
As a matter of fffct the early Christians
had no need of such revivals of the reali
ties, as it were, of the eveofts in the life
of the Master. They were living much
nearer those events than the Christians
of later times, and they were still vivid,
therefore they gave no heed to the san-
city of special times.- Says Chrysostom,
referring to the erroneous interpretation
By Helen Harcourt
of the passage above mentioned, “The
whole of time is a festival unto Chris
tians, because of the excellency of the
good things which have been given.” An
other early writer utters the same
thought in saying, “The whole life of a
Christian should bs one continuous Eas
ter rejoicing.”
ASTUTE POLICY PURSUED.
In accordance with the usual astute
policy of the fathers of the church, re
garding the pagan festivals to which
their converts had been accustomed, the
festival of Easter, which could not be
rooted out, was adopted into the Chris
tian church, but with a difference. In
this case the transition was easier than
in some others. Rejoicings over the ris
ing of the natural sun and the awaken
ing of nature from the deathlike sleep
of winter, readily became rejoicings ofer
the rising of the Son of Righteousness
from the grave.
Friday had been early fixed upon as the
day upon which to commemorate the
Savior’s death, and as the resurrection
took place on the third day after the
crucifiction, this of necessity fixed
the / celebration of Easter on Sun-
day. The p'roper se-ason • for ,the
observance of Easter, which
necessarily settled that of Holy Thurs
day and Good Friday also, was a subject
of no little tribulation and controversy.
In the second century a stormy dispute
arose on this question between the east
ern and western churches. Many of the
former, being mainly composed of con
verted Jews, clung somewhat to old cus
toms, and therefore they celebrated Eas
ter on the fourteenth day of the Jewish
month, or calendar moon, which from the
time of Mcses had been considered “full
moon’’ for all ecclesiastical purposes.
This Easter observance the eastern
churches considered equivalent to the
feast of the Passover. The western
churches contended on the contrary that
the Easter festival could’have nothing in
common with any festival of the hat/d
Jewish nation, since it was observed in
commemoration of the resurrection of
Jesus, whom the Jews had slain.
The controversy was finally settled by
the council of Nice, in the year 325 after
Christ, and in favor of the western !
churches. The usage of the eastern
churches was condemned and branded J
with the name of “quartadeciman here
sy.” But after all, this decree only set
tled the point that Easter day should be
observed on a Sunday, -the first after tho
calendar moon. It did not fix any special
day of the month or moon for the great
festival. The council of Nice did not de
termine tho proper astronomical cycle for
calculating the occurrence of the Easter
moon.
The Metonic cycle was already 1n use,
however, and on this the Georgian cal
endar of 1582 was based. The question
arose at this latter time, whether Easter
should continue to be a movable feast, as
heretofore, or whether a fixed Sunday
after the 21st of March should not be
adopted. It was that deference to olden
custom that Is innate in the human heart,
that led the ecclesiastical authorities to
adhere to the old method of determina
tion of the moon. There was a reason
for this method, too, that was still ap
preciated, one to which we shall present
ly refer. This decision was an important
one, for Easter, being the most ancient
and revered of the movable feasts of the
Christian church, fixed the time for the
rest, being the hub around which all the
other feasts revolved.
It should be well understood’., however,
that it is not the actual moon, or the
“mean moon” of the astronomers that
determines' Easter, it is an imaginary
moon- whose periods are so arranged that
the new ‘‘calendar moon” is always be
hind the real new moan by two or three
COVn^TOKD^jT^OirRTlTpAGEr
in
and claims to be tho oldest sovereign
house In the western world. The grand
dukes style themselves princes of the
AVends. Their genealogy begins with
Niklot, who died in 1160, and comprises
twenty-five generations.
(R. I. K. FUNK, of
kew York, who has
'set the psycholo
gists and spiritual
ists of the country
agog by insisting
that not only has he
been in spiritual
communication with
Henry Ward Beech
er, but has actually
been face to face
with and been
spoken to by the
Dr. I. K- Punk ghost of the famous
preacher, is president of the Funk Hz
AVagnalls Company, publishers. He is
tho compiler of the Jewish cyclopedia,
and was editor-in-chief of the Standard
dictionary. Dr. Funk founded The Homi
letic Review. The Voice, The Mlssionary
Review and Thef Literary Digest. Ho
was born in Ohio sixty-four years ago.
graduated from a theological semi
nary, and from 1861 to 1872 was a min
ister, filling various pastorates.
blE Countess Mari
anne von Csakv-
iSzell, who is to wed
the world-famous
(violinist, Kubelik,
was born in 1881.
Her father, Wolf
gang von Szell Bes-
genyei, is president
of the senate at De-
breezin, Hungary.
The countess is a
celebrated beauty,
very accomplished,
Countess Marianne and plays the violin
well. She was married four years ago to
Count Csaky, but divorced him after a
few months. The countess is a relative
of the minister president of Hungary,
Von Szell
lUDOH JOHN M.
DICKINSON, who
has been appointed
by Secretary of
'State Hay as coun
sel for the United
States before the
Alaska -boundary
commission, -was an
assistant attorney
jgeneral of th
United States at one
time, and is no"'
general counsel for
Judge Dickinson the Illinois Central
railroad. The commission will sit in
London next fall. Judge Dickinson was
born in Mississippi, was graduated from
the University of Nashville and the Co
lumbia Law school and then went to
Leipsic and Paris to study international
law. For several years he held a pro
fessorship in law at the \ r anderbilt uni
versity.
Southern Poets (&L Authors
Sarah Anne Dorsey
&
(This Is the twentieth In a series of ar
ticles on southern literary celebrities be
ing published by The Sunny South. One
will appear each week until the series is
exhausted.)
By EDWARD YOUNG CLARKE, JR.
Written .'or Vhe Sonny Soutth
T has often been said tha*.
it must be left to the dis
cerning eye e’nd sympa
thetic heart of woman to
accurately portray those
quieter feelings and tender
emotions so manifest in
every life at certain times.
The truth of this asser
tion is proven in thousands
of instances where women
have with delicate touch
and keen perception laid
bare the heart feelings of
the characters they are endeavoring to
picture.
A typical example of this kind is found
in the person of Mrs. Sarah Anne Dorsey,
who in one book at least, showed that
her ability as a portrayer of often hidden
feelings and emotions, was equal to the
best. In her recollections of Henry Wat
kins Allen, one of the former governors
of Louisiana, she proves that a woman
can write a btogra'phy in such able ana
entertaining style as to win the praise of
the most ardently ‘‘literary.’*
One of the noted and beloved confed
erate period governors was Henry W.
Allen, a typical southerner in every re
spect. proud, rich, and thoughtful of his
friends. He staked his all in the civil
war and lost, after which, he determined
to leave for Mexico. Mrs. Dorsey takes
up the whole career of the man and
describes the scenes of his triumphs and
his downfalls with vivll exactness. She
did other literary work, but this was by
far her best production.
She was born at Natchez, Miss., in
1829. was given the very best of educa
tion, and traveled • most extensively be
fore she was married, ‘ She was tne
daughter of Thomas G. P. Ellis. In
1853 she was married to Mf. Samuel AV.
Dorsey, of Tensas Parish;- LaJ Here
she found scope for her energies in lite
rary- and other ways. She was very
energetic in the establishing of schools,
and churches for the slaves of Louiiiana
During the war, because of the destruc
tion of their home, they moved to Texas,
later returning to Louisiana. In 1875 upon
the death of Mr. Dorsey she removed to
“Beauvoir," spending the balance of her
days In literary efforts, assisting Jeffer
son Snide in the preparation of “Tho
Last Days of the Confederacy.” Her death
occurred in 1879.
The following Is from her “Recollec
tions of Henry W. Allen.”
A CONFEDERATE EXILE ON HIS
WAY TO MEXICO, 1866.
“The people wept over Allen’s depart
ure. They followed him with tears and
blessings, and would have forced on him
more substantial tokens of regard than
words of regret. They knew he had no
money—his noble estates had long been
in possession of the enemy; hundreds o'
hogsheads pf sugar had been carried off
from his plundered sugar houses; his
house was burned, h>s plantation, a wide
waste of fallowfields, grown up in weeds
He had nothing but confederate and
state money. One gentleman begged him
to accept $5,000 in gold, as a loan, since
he refused it as> gift.. Alien accepted
five hundred. With this small amounL.
his ambulance and riding horses. If. start
ed to Mexico. His journey through
Texas was a complete ovation, in
stead of a hegira. Everybody, rich
and poor. vied with each othes
in offering him attention and the most
eager hospitality. The roof was deemed
honored that sheltered his head for the
night. He stopped at Crockett to say
“godiJhy.”
“This conversation occurred whilst we
were returning from a visit to Governor
Moore’s family. I had driven over to
their cottage In a buggy, to invite them
to_ join us at dinner. Allen had accom
panied me. ... .
These exiles were personal friends of
mine. I suffered in parting With them:
for some I suffer still—for those who
are still absent and still living! Every
thing was very quiet and still, nothing
audible but the low murmur of our
voices, when suddenly arose from the
prairie beyond us, one of the beautiful,
plaintive, cattle or “salt’’ song3 of Texas.
These wild simple melodies had a great
attraction for me. I would often check
my horse on the prairies, and keep him
motionless for a half hour, listening to
these sweet, melancholy strains. Like
all cattle calls, they are chiefly minor.
I thought them quite as singular and
beautiful as the Swiss Ranz de* Vaches,
or the Swedish cattle calls. They can-
sisted of a few chanted words, with a
cadence and a long yodl. Sometimes the
yodling was aided by what the Texan
boys called "quills”—two or more pipes
made of reed—cane (arundinaria macro-
sperma). This made a sort of limited
syrinx, which gave wonderful softness
and flutelike ^clearness to the prolonged
tones of the voice, as it was breathed
into them. The boy sang one of his
saddest “calls.” I looked quickly to see
if Governor Allen had noticed the melan
choly words and mournful air. I saw he
had. He ceased talking, and his face
was very grave.
“The boy sang:
" ‘Going away to leave you,
Ah-a-a-a—
Going away to leave you,
Ah-a-a-a—
Going away tomorrow,
Ah-a-a-a—
Going away tomorrow,
Ah-a-a-a—
Never more to see you,
Ah-a-a-a—
Never more to see you,
Ah-a-a-a.’
“This had always been an affecting
strain to me; it was doubly so under
the existing circumstances. The song
died mournfully away. AVe drove on in
silence for a few moments. Governor
Allen roused himself, with a sigh: ‘That
boy’s song is very sad.’
“ ‘Yes, but he sings it very frequently.
He knows nothing about you. It is
neither a prophecy nor intended to be
sympathetic—you need not make special
application of it!’
“ ‘NO, but it may prove a strange coin
cidence.’
“ ‘You shan't say that. T won’t listen
to such a thought. You’ll only spend a
pleasant summer traveling in Mexico.
IDayne Macveagh
IAYNE MacVEIGH
has been appolntrrl
•to represent the
United States at The
(Hauue in the settle
ment of the A^ene-
fcuelan difficulties.
{Many of the unal-
•lied powers’ claims
are so small that the
ex-cabinet officer
will probably repre
sent these powers
also. Mr. MacVeigh
is a diplomat and
international lawyer of wide reputation
and experience. He has also figured
prominently in the practice of big cor
poration law in America.
|CGAR E. CLARK,
who, it is said, has
been selected to
succeed Carroll D.
Wright as United
States commissioner
of labor, leaped into
Sudden note by his
appointment on the
coal strike commis
sion. Mr. Clark has
served continuousiv
tsince 1890 as grand
chief of the Order of
Railway Conductors.
and.
Edgar E. Clark .
He was born in New York In 1856.
coming west In 1S72, began his career as
a brakeman. In 1884 he became conduc
tor on the Denver and Rio Grande rail
road. Since his connection with the rail-
w w ay conductors’ union Mr. Clark has
We’ll see you at the opera In New Or- m ade a special study of labor. He was
appointed a member of the strike com
mission on the recommendation of
lean% next winter.'
“ "I 'hope so.’
“Our conversation reverted now to past
years. ‘ Allen spoke of his early friends
among my relatives; of his whole career
in Louisiana; of 'his wiTe, with tender
ness—she had died in 1850—of her beauty
and her love for him. His future was so
uncertain—that he scarcely alluded to
that—never with any hopefulness. It
was only in the past that he seemed to
find repose of spirit. The present was
too sad, the future too shadowy for any
discussion of either.
“During this last visit I never renewed
my arguments against his quitting the
country. I had already said and written
all that I had to say on that subject.
"Besides, our minds were In such a con
fused state, we scarcely knew what any
of us had to ekpect from the victorious
party, or what would become of our
whole people. So that in urging him
not to leave Louisiana I argued more
from instinct, which revolted at any
thing like an abandonment of a post of
duty, and from a temperament which
always sought rather to advance to meet
and defy danger than to turn and avoid
it, than from any well-grounded assur
ance or hope of security for him, or any
one else. I felt more anxiety for his
reputation, for his fkme, than for his
•life and freedom. His natural instincts
would have induced similar views; but
his_ judgment and feelings were over
powered by the reasonings and entreaties
ox bis friends.”
Secretary Shaw.
Danger Lurks in Exhausted Brain
Cells.
Success: Nerve specialists say that a
great many suicides are the direct re
sults of exhausted brain cells.
AA'hen you find yourself becoming mo
rose and despondent, when you are con
scious that the zest of life is evaporat
ing. that you are losing the edge of your
former keen Interest in things generaliy.
and that your life is becoming a bore,
jou may be pretty sure that you need
more sleep, that you need country or out
door exercise. If you get these, you will
find that all t'he old enthusiasm will re
turn. A few days of exercise in the
country, rambling over the hills and
meadows, will erase the dark yrreturea
which haunt you. and will resto® buos--
ancy to your animal spirits.
No man is in an absolutely » rma l con
dition until he enjoys bare vinK - and
feels that existence itself A a P r ®cions
boon. No one Is normal/*? 0 . does not
feel thankful, every day f a : h ® is alive
and that he can think ! 0t vigor
and effectiveness. ..
Oh. to be strong;./<} *brili of
life in every nerv-Vouth. ♦ In ^'ddle
life and old age amg ]amh= ° en ^ oy ex
istence as do thoiother ov» ca,v -<’ s
which chase <y' pastures • ♦ t ' le flelds
and meadowjAv’s do whl in
mere living« ice in th. l hey
over the fi ° e cr * 3 $* ot
winter!
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