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Monday, the last day we had in London, was spent in visiting various important business sec tions, especially Paternoster Row (a great book centre), and on Cheapside ( paying dea ,- ly for some things there sold to us), Madame old Bible of "Chinese” Gordon, brought hack from tiie Soudan, and preserved among the wonder ful collection of gifts of the Ouecn at Windsor Castle, has many of its pages so worn you can scarcely read the print; anil in his publish ed letters to his sister occur the notable words—“During the bar ren times 1 read (the Bible) a great deal,” a general practice with him under such citcumstan- The 3tudy of the Bible serv ed to keep the Saviour Christ ever before him as— “A living, lii i«lit reality, More dear, more intimately nigh, Tlmn e’en the sweetest earthly tie." Southampton is an important steamship station. Here we visit ed the clean and attractive modern city, with ils double-decker elec tric tram-cars running under that reminder of the ancient city—the big antique stone arch of the Bar- Tussaud’s Wax-Figure Museum (a great display of the ceroplastic Gate and up High Street, quite in art, yet by no means as fine as the teresting. The greens were love j Eden Musce of New \ork), Re- |y ( t | 1e enclosing walls around many of the residences reminded I us of "the olden time." The pub lic square and Palmerston’s monu ments were worthy a glimpse; especially a walk down on the southwestern (Juay repaid us, where we saw King John’s Palace in Blue Anchor Lane ( said to be one of the oldest houses in Eng gent Park and the Znological^Gar- dens. The weather was fine the greater part of the time, though cloudy to commence with. Early the next morning we got together our portables, and took cab for Waterloo Station, leaving London at 9:20 a. m. by rail for Southamp ton on the sea, arriving there at 11115 a. m., and going at once to j atld ) ( anc ] SO me ancient walls dat the great Southwestern Hotel— 1 ing back to the 1211114th centur our headquarters till sailing-time I ie8| and had fine views of the on the morrow Hau we but thought of it while [ 3 | e 0 f in London that last dav we could beach and the shipping and the Wight, hearing the great guns practising thereupon. My easily have visiteil Bunhill (soften- good 0 | d pard < Mr . Carroll), as we ed through the years from “Bone- hill”) Field (on Bunhill Row, not far from the Bank of England), where lie the remains of the im mortal John Bunyan (author of "The Christian Pilgrim’s Prog ress,” etc.), Dr. Isaac Watts (that listened to the sound of distant booming of artillery, turned to me and remarked: “There are men practicing to see how they may excell others in taking men’s lives. Here, said he, pointing to a hand some circular monument (on ihe king of hymn writers and minister western shore of Southampton), to childhood s joys), Mrs. Susan- j s tbe rccord 0 f one who vied with nah Wesley (the mother of John others to save human lives.” O11 and Charles Wesley), Gen. Chas Fleetwood (Cromwell’s right-hand man), Daniel DeFoe (the writer of Robinson Crusoe), et al. Just across the street from this old graveyard was the home of John Wesley, also the church in which he preached, and the grave in which repose his hones. A friend has given us a good desc iption the monument, which proved a fountain memorial, was this in scription: “In memory of Mary Anne Rogers, stewardess of the Stella, who, on the night of the 30th of March, 1899, amid the con fusion and terror of shipwreck, aided all the women under her charge to quit the vessel in safety, giving her own life bell to one who after a personal visit, but time for- W(4S unprotected. Urged by the bids enlargement. sailors to make sure her escape It was at Southampton that Dr she refused lest she might endan- Isaac Waits was boin and resided, ger the he *vi 1 y laden boat, cheer- in the judgement of many the mg the departing crew with the greatest hymn writer that ever final cry of ‘Goodbye, goodbye.’ lived, one who expressed both pu-1 She was seen a few minutes later, rity and zeal in polished as well as as the Stella went down, lifting forceful diction. In the middle of her arms upwards with the prayer, ol a small but lovely park we saw ‘Lord, save me,’ then sank in the “a marble statue of a very small waters with the sinking ship. Ac and wizened man, of benevolei t j tions such as this, revealing stead- face and venerable appearance, fast performance of duty in the with a Bible in his hand, and on face of death, ready self-sacrifice tiie pedestal in bold letters the for the sake of others, reliance on name—Rev. Isaac Watts, D. D.” God; constitute the glorious hcri- Not far off was another monu- tage of our English race, they de ment bearing the words—“Major serve perpetual commemoration General Chailes George Gordon, because among the trivial pleas C. B. Born at Warwich Jan. 29, ures and sordid strife of the world, 1833. Slain at Kartoum Jan. 26, they recall to us forever the nu- 1885. His last letter to his sister bilily and loveworthiness of hu- closed with the words, I am quite man nature.’’ happy, thank God, and like Law- We had a long walk among the rence, I have ‘Tried to do my big ships lying in dock and being duty.’ The Crimea 1855-6. China repaired, or cleaned, and painted. 18624. Th e Soudan 1874-9 and And hours were spent in real rc-st, 18845.” Gordan was a man of so much needed after our laborious remarkably vital faith in Christ, land-journeyings. seeming to live in His presence; The next day (Wednesday, June at certain periods in his life, when 1st; at 10 a. m. we left our hotel Cnrist seemed to dominate him by cab in the ram for the palatial most, he studied the Word of God steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II at from 7 to 11 in the morning, and the Noah German Lloyd dock, often until the noon hour. Tnc where it had just ^arrived from Bremen, and whence it was bound toithwith for "Our Fatherland’’—i America, for, as an old saying has it—“Every man has two countries, his own country first.” And yet | we confess we feel almost as much at home in Great Britain as in America— "O Columbia, the kmii of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free; The shrine of each patriot’s devotion, A world offers homage to thee: Thy mandates make honors assemble, I When liberty’s form stands in view, Thy banners make tyranny tremble, When born by tiie red, white and blue." the two are so congenial and near ly alike; hut of course no land can he “Homeland" like one’s own na tive country, am we may.add, our conscientious belief after our travels in many other lands, there is none so calculated from every standpoint to furnish a real home as our own great country—the United States of America, the land ot the brave and the free, descendent from the noble Briton. “Breathes there 11 man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, •This my own, my native land!’ Whose heart within him ne’er hath burned As home his footstep- lie hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand." All! we cannot tell you how our feet longed to rest again on the deck of an ocean greyhound with prow headed “Homeward!" Child and wife and mothers and friends and churches lonoking for us to hid us "welcome home!" The old medley comes to mind intensified by the band’s playing— “Don l wish I was in Dixie, boo-ray I lion-ray I In Dixieland, I’ll took my stand, to live and dm in Dixie, Away, away, away down South in Dixie, Away, away, away down South in Dixie." It’s enough to stir any heart,and we confess our hearts were stirred as our great vessel at 1 p. m. set sail o’er the bosom of the mighty deep, what an object for contem plation this lost—“the deep divine, dark dayshinc of the sea;” not without purpose did the Infinite God “spread this vast pavement of His temple between the hemis pheres so that He who sails to foreign shores must pay a double tribute to the Most High; tor through this temple he has to car ry his anticipations when he goes and his memories when lie re turns." And, as Jane A. Stewart has finely observed: "It is a rare sensation of freedom and novelty which the environment ot ocean brings. The chief joy of it all consists in the abandonment of mnch that clogged and hampered our thoughts on shore; and th it kept us from the Infinite. At sea as perhaps in no other place, one feels the nearness of God. The sweet sense of utter and complete dependence finds permanent im pression. The sea bodies forth I His immensity. It represents i eternity. It leads us to confide in Him who ‘ruleth the raging of the seas, who stilleth the noise of their waves and the tumult of the people.’ The strange and happy calm which the sea awakes takes possession of the willing consci ousness, bringing joy and peace in the cheerful thought— •O’er all its breadth, His wisdom walks O11 ull its waves His goodness shines.' What greater happiness than this augmented tiust in Him who knows ‘how to build His kingdom beneath the sea of human opposi tion as He built the continents beneath the ocean waters.’” And it may be added, "a voyage fills in life much the same place that a rest fills in music. There is such a sense of repose in the isolation of the wide stretch of sea, unbro ken often by even so much as the speck of a distant sail.” Hence we adopt Wordsworth’s advice, “Rest and be thankful!” Our vessel is the largest express steamer in the world, with a speed of 23 and a half knots an hour, weighs 11,200 tons (for the car riage of which 1120 German rail way cars or about 20 large freight trains of 120 axles would be re quired; ; measures in length over all 706 feet 6 inches, beam 72 feet, height from top line of keelson to moulding of promenade deck 52 feet 6 inches, draught to load-line 29 feet 6 inches; has a displace ment of 26,500 tons of salt water (sufficient to fill a canal cf 30 feet width, 6 feet depth, 5153 length); and, apart from the 5700 tons for the hunkers and the entire engine plant, possesses a capacity of 20,- noo tons. Its electtic lighting plant comprises 2700 incandescent lamps of 25 candle-power, dis tributed over the saloons, cabins and state-rooms. It is capable o! accommodating 775 first-class, 343 second-class, and 770 third-class passengers, and has "imperial" and "luxuty” apartments. Add to this the complement of the steam er of 6 0 men, including captain and officers, and it will be seen that the ti.tal number of people that will he conveyed by the steamer is 2500. Its appointments throughout are elegant and chaste, especially in dining-saloon, smok ing saloon, children’s saloon, the grand staircase, wamscoating, lui nislungs, decorations, etc. There were about 80 of the I Grosser Kurluerstharts returning to the States with us,among whom special mention from knowledge might he made of Rev II. H.Bell, 1) D , and Miss Mabel II. Ilewes ol California, 1’rof. Henry Houck and the Messrs. Wurtz of Penn sylvania, Mrs R. E. Larcom of Massachusetts, Mr. W. li. Thomas of West Virginia, Rev. S B. Roberts, D. 1), of Minnesota,Rev S. B. Bowyer of Illinois, Rev C). S. Thompson, I). 1), of Iowa, and . Rev. T S. Young ot San Jose, On the third day out the ship was all day pitching fore and aft in the wake of a storm, accompan ied by a most unpleasant tremor of the vessel. Many of us fell too squeamish and lightheaded to stand or walk about; and most of j the time was spent lying down. | As Oliver Wendell Holmes puts the matter of an ocean voyage: This is one time when an author! becomes a contributor to the At lantic, whether he wants to or not. Withal the author passed many a, quiet hour at such seasons reading Dr. R. .1. Campbell's “The Mak I ing of an Apostle” and “City Tem ple Sermons,” and Emil Reich’s! "Foundations of Modern Europe" and “Success among Nations" (the I ist very suggestively dealing with success economic, national, imper ial, intellectual, religious; especi ally with success among the I.at 1 ins, the Slavs, the Germans, the British and Americans). Among many interesting things discussed by Reich we were peculiarly struck with the force of these words, which undoubtedly need some emphasis: "In Europe, de spite the numerous attempts at feminism—a movement which might be more aptly teimed de feminization of the woman—the woman has still kept, with more or less success and grace, her posi tion as a mother, ruler of the household, and wife—that domes tic trinity which is the chief credo of her life. In her attitude to wards the man she does indeed recognize that he is, from certain points of view of social economy and of social ethics, her martcr, and the mastery she wants to ex ercise over him she naturally seeks to win, not by superior masterful ness, but by greater grace and womanliness The evils of the over mentalization of the Arneri can woman, of this high-galvamza- tion of her energy, are now no longer the theme of foreign in veighing alone. Of late years they have been pointed out in con demnatory spirit by American women themselves. It must in deed be feared that this cultivation of a fierce energy is beyond the >ole of woman, and bids lair to culminate finally in her absolute physical breakdown. It also miss es its mark, tor nothing is shown more clearly by statistics than that the number of distinguished women-workers in the domains of art, letters, and science is small compared with the number cf bril liant women authors arid women painters of Europe.” 'This may not be the whole truth, but it is at least worthy of consideration by American womanhood. God made wo nan out of man’s side, not that sine might go ahead ot him, or be put behind his back, but that she WE’RE BUS>-a> Yes, we’re still too busy to detail our bargains in this advertisement, hut we are never too busy lo show you our goods. If you have not been in our store since it has been enlarged, come and see if you don’t think it is a great improvement. Come, wlietli or you want to liny or not; you will be cordinlh welcomed. We.just want to say. Unit just as soon as (lie carpenters and painters get through with their work, we are uoiug lo give you some bargains that will make you open your eyes. We expect to begin this great sale about Match Id, and full unnuuncc monl will he made next week. So look for our ad. next week wo are going to surprise you. NEW YORK BARGAIN STORE, NEWNAN, GA. Aetna Lite Insurance Co. ol file Here is wlinI a prominent olliciul of tlm Central Georgia Railway hits to sav about bis policy in Aetna Life liisuninco Company. Savannah, (la., April 25, 11105. Mr. W. A. Malone, District Manager, Aetna late Insurance Co., Savannah, Georgia. Dear Sir: I’oliey 184,008 was written lor the undersigned by your Company in 1800 under the 20 pay 5 year plan distribu tion. First and second dividends exceeded the estimate by the agent. I have just received notice of the third dividend amounting to #722.50, which is left optional to lie either with drawn or allowed to remain w ith the Company. I was inform ed when the policy was first written that if the dividends accru ing on this policy were left over with the Company that there would probably he enough surplus to the credit of this policy to issue a paid up policy at the end of the 14th year. The Com pany notified me promptly at the end of the 14th year that I could gel a paid up policy and discontinue payments if I de sired to do so. I do not hesitate recommending the Aetna Com pany to any person who may desire this kind of insurance, as I have always and slilf believe it to he one of the most economical Insurance Companies now doing business. 'The results of sev eral policies which I hold in your Company have been entirely ' ‘ Wishing you success in your new undertaking, I satisfactory, beg lo remain, Yours truly, J. T. JOIINHON. See F. M Bryant, District Manager Aetna Bile Insnr- aiice Company, lor ibis kind of insurance might he at his side in eveiy sense of the word a true helpmeet. 'To fulfil such a part is the highest mission of the woman—riot be neath her, nor beyond her, hut m her gift, if she could everywhere but realize it. Yet with not a few it seems a lite lesson not easily learned, as ihe "new woman” type manifests. Tne iougiine<s of the sea ha^ so far made the trip a "swell” affair, our stomachs being “up” like the waves. And our dear old cabin- mate, .Mr. Carroll, than whom a wittier or more companionable or sweeter spirited soul never lived, has been under the weather no little. Seafaring has gone hard with him indeed, yet he is not oni to be easily downed. Right hurt let me say, we shall never forge him while life lasts, staunch arn true and tender in his friendship and loyal to the Great Captain o our Salvation, a man anybody might trust. There is but litth noisiness on the part of the trav olers; yet there is too much of th 1 gaming habit aboard, and of th< trivial and the light, on every sid among the passengers to he con genial t > ihe ihou_htfui. Hence one’s own cabin is oftei the best [dace t > bp apart from th< distractions of the crowd of “Don’ ! Cares.” (Continued on i<uge 7.;