The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, April 03, 1902, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE CLAYTON TRIBUNE. THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE. VOL. V. CLAYTON. RABUN COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. APRIL 3. 1902. Wen NO. 11. FEARFUL FLOODS SWEEP TENNESSEE I Twenty-Two People Dead Is the Latest Report. FOUR MILLIONS DAMAGE DONE Downpour of Rain Most Terriffic Known in Jlany Years—Farm Lands Suffer Heavily, MILES HIT HARD. The floods ' •< Tennessee, the great est known in Jiany years, have re stated in losses aggregating four mil lion dollars. On the Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. Louis and Louisville aud Nashville railroads several bridges Iimvg been damaged. ' Cumberland, Elk and Duck rivers and their tributaries rose rapidly, the rise at Nashville being more than 22 feet. The streams between Murfreesboro and Belleville advanced so fast that occupants of many houses were obliged to seek safety in the second stories of their homes until the flood had receded. Much property at Mount Pleasant, Shelbyville and Murfrees boro was damaged, but no definite statements as to the amounts can now be given. Several hundred people at Mount Pleasant were forced from their homes by the flood and took refuge in the court house, The storm wrought great destruction at McMinnville. Five factory em- pW*s whose names could not be learn ed were drowped in'the flood. The An- nls cotton, mill and the Tennessee 1 woolen mill 1 were« greatly damaged. The Falcon rolling milk was partially C< rrespondence That Resulted in Call-Down of General is Now Before Congress. A Washington special says: In re sponse to a resolution adopted by the house of representatives, the president Saturday forwarded to that body the full text of the correspondence be tween Lieutenant General Nelson A Miles, commanding the army, and Sec retary Root, concerning a plan outlin ed by the former to bring about a ces sation of hostilities in the Philippines The general’s recommendations are about as stated in the newspaper re ports of the episode. The chief inter est in the publications lies in the sharp call-down contained in Secretary Root's second letter, in which he de clares General Miles’ plan'to be to as sume to himself a military dictatorship over the islands, superseding both mil itary and civil authorities. He scores Miles heavily for certain references made by the latter to al leged methods pursued by American soldiers under General Chaffee, declar ing that Miies accepts as true these al legations without giving officers and soldiers an opportunity to make a de fense. He charges that Miles' reference to these charges is made for the pur pose of getting them published broad cast. and says such a course is to be much regretted. The president's approval of the sec retary’s action Is full and complete. He slaps Miles hard. "Had there been any doubt before as to the wisdom of denying General Miles’ request, these papers would remove that doubt," be declares. destroyed. Practically all the cottages and main buildings In the town wers washed away. The power house of the electric light plant was disabled, and the town was without lights. The river is 20 feet higher than ever be fore. Every portion of the town was inundated. Great damage was wrought in the ridge country by swollen creeks. At Harriman no lives were iost, but there wero many narrow escapes. The property losses, so far as estimated, will reach $132,000, Four bridges are washed out on the Cincinnati Southern and two on the Harriman and Northern. At Jelllco, Tenn., the heaviest rain- fa'I since the town was founded eight een years ago, occurred. Although the Clear Fork river was a mile from Jelll co, back water from the river covered half the town. People were driven from their homes during the night anil many houses were partially sub merged. The damage will be consider- able. V . Cloudburst at Chattanooga. At Chattanooga the storm raged fu riously for a short while, the rainfall being phenomenal, amounting afegjpft to a cloudburst, accompanied bW&fcb The damage on the Cincinnati Southern railroad la considerable be tween Chattanooga and Oakdale. Latest Reports. A special of Sunday from Tullahoma says: As the details of Friday even ing’s storm slowly come In from the surrounding country it proves to have been the most disastrous that has ever visited this section. Several lives were lost and the loss of property will amount to thousands of dollars. A special of Sunday from Nashville says: Reports from the flooded dis tricts of Tennessee emphasises the gravity of the situation. The damage resulting, it Is believed, will reach $4,- •000,000, while twenty-two lives are known to be lost. Several counties certain to have suffered heavily are yet cut off from communication, and the loss tn property and life may go higher than these figures. The section visited by the flood em braces one of ■ the -richest portions of the state, and damage to farm land! is a serious Item. It Includes counties lying between the mountains on the east and the Tennessee river on the west and between the Cumberland riv er and the Alabama Una. Stone fences that have stood the storms of forty years were washed away in many of the famed riverside farms of Lincoln Occurs on June ii ami the State Con ' TenticHjt’Will Mdetjluly 2 crops destroyed. . GEORGIA STATE PRIMARY ARP P.UISES Birtow Philosopher Addresses the Hom9 Mission, Society- HIS WORDS ELICIT GREAlf INTEREST Recounts the Good Afork and- Loving Self-Sacrifice of Eve’s Daugh ters—A Synopsis of His Speech. Georgia’s democratic primary will be held on Thursday, June 5. On that dtfte candidates for governor, state house officers, United States senator and Judges and solicitors general of the.superior courts will be voted for, and on Wednesday, July 2, the state convention will meet In the hall of the house of representatives to nomi nate the candidates for whom the democrats of the state express a pref erence In the primary. The state demoq$al4 c executive com mittee fixed the foregoing dates at its meeting Saturday without a dissent ing vote, and the general rules govern ing the conduct of the primary were | churches similarly passed. These are the usual 1 rules adopted every year for the gov ernment of the primary, with slight change to meet any new condition. A feature of the rules Is the paragraph inviting all white voters, without re gard to past political affiliations, to a^ligh themselves with the party In the coming primary, provided they will pledges themselves to support the nominees of the party should their right to vote he challenged. Recently In Cartersvllle, Ga.. the Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the north Georgia” conference met. Among those who piade^ddresses were BUI Arp. His talk wj|$ Interest ing throughout, and Is, by’rdjjfuest from many, reproduced in 1 full ttt The At lanta Constitution in lieu oFhis regu lar letter. Among other things, the Bartow phllisopher said: ? “If our youth is happily spent, our old age will be crowned with'pleasant memories. How blessed are those chil dren whose homes are happy, whoso parents are kind and loving,- who are not cursed with wealth- nor pinched with poverty. I believe that it Is possi ble for parents to make the home so at tractive that even the boys would rath er stay there in' their leisure hours than to seek the careless company of those about town whose homes are not happy. I don't know about David’s | home, nor what he did ip’hls youth, but ills prayer was one of, grdat anguish when ho said, ‘Visit Trot"upon me the Uiiquitiees oy»y $gutb,’ - "But I vli ^ruminating jg^^jout the state and ^I{tlon;,of :; M®th|flsm and missions in the Ioflg ago/ whan I was young and the most of you wore an unknown qiianiUy.yhen I was in my teens and was- jhst; noticing, the girls -4 and wohpaaiag what-UK• Ylfltu^MAfldA for, the- Methodist church was thp only church in our town—and it had the only graveyard, for I had to pass right by it every night that I visited my sweetheart's home. I had a rival la her affections, and one dark night he saw p ghost and ran home- and I got rid of him. though I was accused of being the ghost. Near there was the church and there were the people, but where was the hell and where was the steeple, for It had neither. It was an old-fashioned, unpainted building and hnd small glass windows of S by 10 glass, and two doors in front, which used to be a peculiarity of Methodist It was said that one door was to take In the converts and the other to turn them out. The Baptist churches of that day had but one door, for wheh once they got In they never got out. This old church contained on the Sabbath nearly all the religion that was In the town, aud at night was the before him the book of membership and read out the roll and remarked that somebody had been adding to some of the names In pencil with such capital letters as D. D., which he sup posed stood for doctor of divinity, but learned later that It stood for dram drinker, and there were other letters, such as B. K., which stood for bar keeper, and N. T. for nigger trader and H. R. for horse racer, and there was G for gambler and an F. for fid dler. He raised a big rumpus over all such as these and declared they should all be turned out and they were. He reminded me of old Simon Peter Rich ardson, who, while stationed here, went over to visit his old home on the Peedee, in South Carolina. When he returned I asked him If he had a good time, aud he said yes he had a glo rious old time in his old church—the church he first joined and used to preach in. Oh, said he, we had a glo rious revival, the best I ever experi enced. Did you take in many? said I. Take ill, take in; no, my friend, we never took in nary one; but we turned seventeen out, thank the Lord. Oh, it was a glorious revival.' "But 1 was ruminating about the dif ference between now and then in church work and missions and salaries and church environments and the cul ture of the preachers. There was old Father Donally, with his wooden leg, who always came to our campmeetlngs and attracted great crowds, who came to hear him scare the sinners and scar ify the Christians and denounce the fashions and follies of the day. I have not forgotten 'his rebuke to a gay young couple who behaved unseemly during the sermon and the old man stopped and said, ‘If that young man over there with ‘hair on his face and that young woman with a green bon net on her head and the devil’s martin gales around her neck and his stirrups on her ears don’t Etop their giggling „whileA.anj i p,roj£l>jjRg,God’.s message.to sinners, 1 will pint ’eitf’Otfi to the con gregation.’ "But mission work was totally un known as an organized feature of church work. The first we ever heard of was Introduced by some northern emissaries who came to this region to plant Christianity among the Indians. “But you must pardon me. I did not forget that the object of this confer ence was home mission.work, but elo quent men and cultured women who have preceded me have faithfully cov ered that ground in every phase and have left me nothing but memories that are only kin to It- There Is, how ever, no dividing line. Both foreign and domestic missions are founded in Christian charity and Christian prog ress. “Just think of it for a moment. Do you know that we have eighteen thou sand missionaries In foreign lands? In China, India, Turkey, Egypt and Capo trysting place of the old people who [ Colony, and these missionaries are CHURCH ROOF DEMOLISHED. Debris Comes Down and Sontters Con gregation at Easter Services. One of the filercest wind storms ever known In that section struck Pitts burg, Pa., Sunday Just before noon and did tremendous damage to property and Injured many people, some of whom may die. Scores of houses were unroofed, many trees were blown down, mill stacks toppled over and telegraph and telephone wires were generally disabled. The most serious accident reported was the unroofing of the Knoxville Presbyterian church. The church was filled with an Easter congregation numbering about six hundred persons. Whll’e the minister was in the midst of his sermon a gust of wind blew off the large chiteney and lifted a portion off the roof o: the building. The bricks from the chimney crashed through, the roof and carried a huge piece of the hardwood celling, measuring about 40 loved God and the young men and maidens who loved one another. No tice was given that meeting would be gin at early candle-light. Candles! that gave what Milton calls a dim religious light. Don’t smile, my young friends, tor Shakeospeare wrote by candle-light and says, ‘How far that little candle throws Its beams, so shines a good reinforced by eighty thousand native preachers In twenty-three thousand towns and villages, with one and a half million communicants and Chris- tlon communities of over four million people. These missionaries have over one million pupils under Instruction. They have ninety-four universities and colleges, and some cf them are world- deed'in a naughty world.’ Everybody | renowned and rank well with our own. was familiar with the amen corner | The best endowed of these colleges are aud had reverence for those who occu-! a *- Constantinople, Beirut, Pekin, Egypt pled it. My wife and I still remember the low. gutteral amens of Brother Murphy, the snap-short amens of Brother Ivy, and the deep groanings of old Father Ivy In echo to the plead ing prayers of the 1 preachers. Father Norton wns a very close and stingy man, and on one occasion got to shout ing and clapped his hands and ex claimed, “Thank God for giving Us a religion that has never cost me 25 cents.’ And the preacher responded, ‘And may the Lord have mercy on your stingy soul.’ We remember, too, the good Sister Jenkins, who always had thfee or four little children tag ging after her, besides one at the and Cape Colony. Then there are over one thousand secondary schools for training in the arts and industries, ancLalso one hundred and twenty-two kindergarten schools. The most grati fying and significant fact is that more than one-third of all the pupils arc girls. The colleges have over two thou sand of them, and In the common schools they constitute more than half the number of pupils. Just think of it and rejoice, for it is a pitiful fact that for centuries In these benighted lands woman has been under the ban, and young girls were slaves to man’s domi nation, convenience and passion. What a beautiful and glorious picture sho by feet down upon the people. A, panic endued and a rush was made for the doors «uu windows. i the front bench and the pulpit was The excitement soon subsided and tbelr crawling ground, and when they work of rescue began. At least 40 wanted water the reached up to the were caught by the wreckage pulpit and 3ot it from the preacher’s hart Of this num- pitcher. ver. p | “By and by a committee waa who was determi itlvely few of church of its lex ber*. ;?At SMI breast, and spread them out on the' now has of the freedom and elevation long front bfench and took a basket j of her sex, and It has all come through of biscuit and fried chicken to keep j the work of missionaries, and Is worth them quiet, and all the space between a million times more than it has ever cost i "The freedom and elevation of man in the most glorious and heavenly work of the past century, and It still goes on, not only in foreign lands, but here at home. Woman Is now at tho head of every charitable work. Who -else Is educating our children In the public schools? Who Is foremost In the church, the Sabbath school, the Epworth League and the aid societies’ Who Is In almost exclusive charge of this conference? Fifty years ago she had no voice In these things and they were considered beyond her sphere, and St. Paul was quoted against her every time she presumed to talk in meeting or speak very loud at home. “Love is stronger than creeds-or kindred or country. EspeciaHJr the love of woman. How often do we see Methodist or Presbyterian women chosing their mates outside of their church and joining the church of their husbands. They do not stop to con sult the creed, but change their church as willingly as they change their name, and I have known, them to do that two or three times. Brother Sam Jones os not ashamed to tell how he found his wife In a Baptist duck pond, and I make no secret of telling how I found mine in that same old Methodist church I have described to you—not up in the ‘Amen’ corner among the saints, nor afar back among the sinners, but about midway, where the angels con gregate. Men do not change their churches to please their wives, for they still maintain their rightful lord- ship as the head of the family. But for love a woman will change not only her church, but her name. The love of woman has no parallel. It extinguishes all fear. The apostles shrank from danger and hid themselves, and one betrayed and another denied his Lord and master, but woman was last at His cross and earliest at His grave. “Then we bid you God-speed In your noble work, you members of this mis sion. If Paul had respect for the Jews because unto them was committed the oracles of God, how much more shall we have respect for the Christian wo men of this land who are planting those oracles at home and abroad.” HeCOUD-UKKAKIMG ItAlKM. V/ ’ V ' **‘4^"** iF Mississippi 1 n'hil r;t)i<Ist#Ha" , 'Wi«loie*^fa» lly Unprecedented Floods. Mississippi and Louisiana experi enced the worst rain storms In their history Thursday and Thursday night. At Vicksburg nearly eight Inches of rainfall In twenty-four hours almost isolated the city so far as railway traf fic and wire communication was con cerned. Not a train on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley road entered or left the city for thirty hours, when a mall and passenger train left for New Or leans Thursday night. This train only succeeded in getting as far as Gibson, 25 miles south, where it was held, the tracks being washed away. Train No. C, due- In Vicksburg at 12:15 o’clock Thursday morning, ran Into a washout at Melton between Ilarrlston and Port . Gibson, the engine, baggage qnfl in cars going Into the ditch. Nobody wi seriously Injured. Passenger an freight trains north and south 6f th city were stalled ail along the road, the tracks being covered with water at a score of places. Jackson was almost completely cut off from the world during Thursday. The rain started Wednesday evening and kept up all night. It was unpre cedented. The weather bureau sta tion reported at 9 o’clock that the rain fall from 5 o’clock Wednesday evening until 8 o’clock Thursday evening had been six inches and 28-100. Out of the twenty-eight passenger trains which come In and out of tho city every day, only one was able to roach Jackson Thursday. This train was from Meridian, and when it arriv ed about 9 o’clock It found that there were a number of washouts between Jackson and Vicksburg, and It was unable to proceed further. ltlG STRIKE IS POSTPONED. Mark Hanna Takes Prominent Part in Pacifying Miners. Mine workers and mine owners of anthracite fields debated their differ ences for four hours Thursday in a conference lit New York arranged by the conciliation committee of the Na tional Civic Federation, but the'meet- fag was without result, save that the workers agreed not to strike op. April 1. as decreed at the Shamokip'conven tion. There is to be further friend ly discussion between the'-two Inter ests, and Senator Hanna, as chairman of the'Industrial department-of the federation, was empowered to’ call an other conference at any favorable time within the next tbj&fcy.dpys.

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The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, April 03, 1902, Image 1