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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1891)
7J w A J & v ft -) t0E ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCIPL E: “EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL MEN AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE” X Number 20 Thorne and felton. ox the question of IOCS HOESS speaking IX PUBLIC. jrmos taken very authome has a H against women speaking 4aaJ far Ms own and SO as nation is concerned has been in church meeting where a but h were allowed to vote, , . /this meeting the the women vote was had b to 14, and if allowed to vote the doctor € en under, Wo have been snowed fast taking position with men e and it e avoca tions of life may the doctor saw in the no dis tnre when even his own fat WOU Id be slipping away from Pe did not put the curb on speaking in the church. So Tren d Doctor sat down upon ictice with a dull thud. How¬ ie doctor is cot to go unchal in bis command for the wo I keep silence. Dr. W. H. Fel [Sunday’s Constitution in replies able [Hawthorne’s l. sermon an [e We clip a few paragraph letter. Dr. Felton says |en Dr. Hawthorne denies to Leu of his own or any other I the right to give public assent lent to religious belief or doc> jyhen we presume to do their ig on matters concerning their lalvation, and then commands as a divine law; when he pro jpiritual food, made under his bn, and then issues orders to jr, it strikes me that he has un ?n a stupendous piece of ecle il work. “No God but Allah! Hornet is his prophet!” fvidual Ike interpretation of the Bi fundamental doctrine of the Kant churches of the world, lacher or priest, convention or pical jr council council has the scriptural authority to inter jhe scriptures The and command pee. humblest woman on pit js loves much God right and lives a holy as to interpret piptnres-—for lion Dr. Hawtorne’s and comfort as Dr. Haw jkas jl her to interpret the same—to to keep silence in the les. Utterances sound like the ech an obsolete past—forgotten ped pent. beneath Yt hen he the live issues of enlarges upon p menial condition—“made for P °f man —to be led here or l there, it savors of the time f places ,,men wre to the exposed highest for sale in bidder, resumes the importance of the r depot, who ordered queen p present herself to be made pthing asljti and is jest in a drunken p ’ my model of a r D ; JOess> She asserted her r 00d ’ is her birthright F ted right, that belongs the Phe refus 1 go- She cision and pre¬ p0n poverty to an out a W0Ka o's rights and priv> /-'-'gating biect she was not ,C id or - -«ave, ) “made for his I am proud of YashtL If ^ privileged to listen to d ‘Scourse last Sun tv on.nion, she would have e world ows to : women in -ixed lands, I ' gest, safest, \ 1 °D m g I holy li to Ie rig~i I j -very line of ana printed ser I en^l tu u D re ~ race. When Conyers, Georgia, Saturday, June 13, 1891- the mothers of mankind ave slaves then their offspring will be slaves, the decree is past forbidding her to speak for God and humanity in churches or religious meetings, the next order will be the eastern veil and the precincts of a zenan. Dr. Hawthorne is too learned a man- to apply the tenets of pagan despotism to the noble women America, and not expect criticism. I confess to sur¬ prise and regret. The world moves on. It is going move, whether Dr. Hawthorne leads the van or straggles in in the rear. The Almighty Master of heaven and earth takes no step backward. When the Savior left the tomb, His first commission was given to a woman, “Go tell my brethren,” and presume that announcement was made “stand¬ ing up,” in the presence of men. When the Lord Jesus said to Mary, “Go tell my brethren, I have risen,” it was the most impoitant message ever announced to a lost and sin cursed world; and if Mary could de¬ liver that message standing up in the presence of men, it is time thrown away at this late hour to question her ability and her right to deliver any other message from God. I know of no woman in Georgia who has “rebell ed against God’s order” by speaking iu churches or other places where public speaking is authorized. If the doctor has seen “hideous monstosi ties” among the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, or in the public assemblies of the ladies who belong to the Woman’s Missionary Societies, let him name them and do the sex and the churah the kindness to point them out for public execration. I know of na advocacy of “mischievous innova tions” among our ladies of either or ganization. I have heard no slogan, “Down with Paul and up with the women, / 7 among our Georgia women and espe¬ cially our Methodist ladies who have been as prominent in public addresses in our churches for mis sionarywork. Dr. Hawthrone may not approve of public speaking by women—be is at perfect liberty to disagree with these ladies—and they have a perfect right to disagree with him. The time has passed when any man’s “bruten fulmen,” unsup¬ ported by the proof can invalidate a good woman’s claim to public respect until Dr. Hawthorne can base his objections upon something more than “the dauger that she will mis¬ construe God’s renealed will or set it aside where it does not harmonize with her Jeeling and ambitions,” I submit he has no authority to enter pulpit to arraign true and honorable women, who are as zealous for God’s revealed will as he has ever shown himself to be. By the memory of the mothers wives and daughters who have entered into rest and in defense of the mothers wives and daughters who survive and bless the earth to day with genuine Christian piety aDd good works, I protest against ibis uncharitable, unscriptural un authorized arraignment of women, who are as pious as eloquent, and as zealous for /God’s revealed will., as the learned pastor of the First Bap tist church in Atlanta. The enterprising managers of a i Brooklyn cemetery make the follow- I buffer pataonsge: "Graves flee ly situated surrounded by the beau- j ties of nature, commanding a fine I view of the bay and in short meeting J e eiy rennu-ement lequ.iement of ot the the human m.ma ' family. People who have tried them cannot be persuaded to go else where. HARRISON’S HOSANNA. Fellow citizens! Behold me and The the presidential bee in my bonnet As we Hit from flower to flower! Indeed, as a flitter I have few rivals And no superiors! I am the great and only Peripatetic president, With the American eagle For a preamble, The Fourth of July For a declaration of principles; And the bntt end of A n observation car. For my platform! You will observe, I hope that I do not talk politics! That is because I am Not in politics on this round ! I am in the hands of my friends A nd the hearts of the people! The national glory; Our magnificient resources; The republic cne and inseparable The Unity of Citizenship; The One-God, One-Flag, One Country snap, Our Growing Commercial Interests; Our great ar d Magnificent Future; Our Educational Advantages; The Perpetuity of our Institutions; The E Plnribns Unanmity Of our Liberties; The Purity of Australian Ballot Box; The guardianship of Equal Rights To all men and women Under the Constitution; And such other Time-tried and fire-tested Brands of patriotic utterances Are my best hold now. Alia I think I've got ’em Where the hair is short! Attest: My various speeches During the present vestibuled Campaign tour I am Conducting so unanimously. Not to say vociferously, And with enthusiasm And aplomb! Fellow citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen, Also my deaf little children, When I started out on This largest circulation Ever attained by any president, My grand father’s liat Was big enough for me To organize a parade of myself in! N ow it fits me like A Baby McKee night cap, And I haven’t sat up with John and Jerry and the boys In the commissary car, either! No. Fellow citizens, It is because this is The greatest republic op earth, And your receptions Of its Chief Executive— “Our Ben.” as you delight to call him— Testify in thunder tones That you know a good thing When yon see it!! But I am not ambitious! Caesar was ambitious And he was defeated In ’92 B. C., or thereabouts And I seek no Caesarian booms! As to a more modern style Fellow cit'zens, I leave that unexpected, And certainly unsolicited Honor entirely to your Wise discretion. And excellent taste!! I’m rather small, But, Oh, my!! —New York Sun The stingiest man in Georgia ac¬ cording to the Rochelle Recorder lives in Wilcox county. He has been married elevenyears and during that time has only bought one sack of flour and one 75 cents calico dress. He lives at home and the spinning wheel is still at work in his house. Is ail right the recorder thiaks, if a man wants to this way but to put a woman where she cant talk aboue tbc styles and never knows the pleasure of wearing a new hat, is too w ------- Subscribe for this paper and be happy. A Church Car. The school on wheels, or railway car fitted up with school apparatus and provided w r ith a teacher, which the Russian government some time since sent out upon the line of the new rail¬ way in Turkestan, has a worthy imi¬ tator in the church car now running upon the railways in North Dakota. Bishop Walker, of the Episcopal dio¬ cese of North Dakota, having long ex¬ perienced the need of places where he could conduct religious worship in new railroad towns, resolved to have a rail¬ road car fitted up as a church or chapel, wliich could be hauled from place to place as needed. By the aid of friends in his own dio¬ cese and in other parts of the country Bishop Walker has been enabled to provide himself with such a traveling place of worship. Ills new car is ma rked “Church of the Advent” in one place and “Cathedral Car of North Dakota” in another. Externally it is not unlike an ordinary palace car, but has a pro¬ jection upon each side simulating that of the transept of a church. Within, the car is provided with a double row of chairs, seventy-five in number, with pointed backs, on each side of the aisle. At the end is a raised altar, and in the rear comer a small organ. There is also a room in which the bishop puts on his robes and sleeps at night. He is his own organist and his own porter, and takes with him no as¬ sistant.—St. Louis Republic. He Scared the Child. This odd glimpse of a noted English¬ man is given by Mrs. Ritchie, Thack¬ eray’s daughter: On a certain day we went to call at Mrs. Proctor’s with our father. We found an old man standing in the mid¬ dle of the room, taking leave of liis hostess, nodding his head—he was like a little Chinese mandarin with an ivory face. His expression never changed, but seemed quite fixed. He knew my father, and spoke to him and to us too, still in his odd, fixed way. Then he looked at my sister. “My little girl,” he said to her, ‘ ‘will you come and live with me? You shall be as happy as the day is long; you shall have a white pony to ride and feed upon red currant jelly.” This prospect was so alarming and unexpected that the poor little girl sud¬ denly blushed up and burst into tears. The old man was Mr. Rawuel Rogers, but happily he did not see her cry, for he was already on his way to the door. Meissonier was one of the many men who pay great attention to the care of their hands. His were beautiful in shape, and they were frequently treated by a manicure, who, besides keeping the nails in oi-der, was wont to massage the artist’s hands and exercise their muscles, so that all should develop equally. Un pardonable. He—I cannot hold you to your prom¬ ise of marriage until I have first con¬ fessed three terrible tragedies which have saddened my life. She (with emotion)—Go oa He—The first occurred at a summer resort. I took a girl out in a boat, we got caught in a whirlpool, the boat up¬ set, and in spite of my exertions to save her she was drowned. She—You were not to blame for that. Do not worry about it longer. He—The second occurred in the win¬ ter. I was out skating with a young lady, when she suddenly disappeared through an airhole, and in an instant was beyond human aid. She—That certainly was not your fault. I will marry you, of coarse. He—The third also happened in the winter. I took a girl out sieigiiing and she froze to death. She—Begone!—New York Weekly. A Now Kind of « Card. “Here is a card that typifies my line of business,” said an energetic trades¬ man to a friend, banding out a business card so light and thin that bnt for its elasticity and crackle a blind man would have said that it was gold leaf. ^ was thinner than ordinary writing §£$ ££* <j££ I ; s ma j e of aluminium,” said the trades man, “and it is a novelty. It is the \ finest card made, and as I sell the finest; goods made it typifies my business. *t i is more durable than anything that I have been able to find, and lliave tried j everything and celluloid.”—New made of paper, York metal, Times. wood j 1 Price per Year, SI.00 THE TRUE MAN ABOUT TOWN. He Isn’t a Rounder, but a True Bohem¬ ian, Undefiled by Surroundings. “The New Yorker who is pointed out as i man about town,” said a club man, “is, if he really deserves the ti¬ tle, a pretty clever fellow. Very often the name is misapplied, and a man who is a familiar figure in the best known barrooms and in non-respectable resorts, who is properly a ‘rounder’ in the worse sense of that term, is con¬ founded with the bright and interest¬ ing man whose intelligence and good taste place him far above the man who is compared with him. “The man about town is properly a Bohemian of the highest class. He never seems out of place, whether he be in a Fifth avenue drawing room or in a Water street dance hall. He is never contaminated by his surround¬ ings, whether these be the snobbish¬ ness and affectation of the Angloma¬ niacs or the unreserved coarseness of a lot of Fourth ward toughs. lie looks at everything from the standpoint of the thorough cosmopolitan—a man who understands that all sorts make up the world, and who is desirous of knowing everything that is of human interest without appearing to pass judgment on anything. It is this disinclination to pose as a critic that makes him look so impassive at all times, and that gives rise to the impression that he is blase. II© really isn’t, and can be as jolly as any untamed school boy. He is al¬ ways the best and most interesting of companions, and the least egotistical. “Such is the true man about town, and if the average man would fall in his tracks for a few days only he would realize how much there is in this big city and how much enjoyment can bo gotten out of it by the inquisitive citi¬ zen. The man about town may be a millionaire, an artist, a merchant, a newspaper man, or anything else, pro¬ vided he has the instincts of his genus. The artist and the newspaper man have naturally more opportunities to develop in this direction than men in more prosaic walks of life, but the keenest reporter may never become a man about town nevertheless, because he may lack some necessary element in his makeup. “Men about town usually recognize each other at first sight, and there is always a bond of sympathy between them. They naturally meet frequently in traveling through the highways and byways of the town, and, curious, though it may seem, they all strike about the same places. Being con¬ stantly on the hunt for new features of city life, they come upon a new thing at very nearly the same time. If, how¬ ever, one should be more fortunate than the rest, he doesn’t selfishly keep his knowledge to himself, but imparts it to his fellow inquisitors.”—New York Sun. Too Many Bears. A young huntsman of Helena, Mont., was following the upper course of the Milk river and came suddenly face to face with a bear. He brought his rifle to his shoulder, took careful aim and shot the bear dead. The next moment a second bear appeared from a rocky den. The young hunter again made a successful shot. To his surprise a third bear came out of the den. He killed this one also, and before he had time to move from the spot bruin number four appeared. It was exeiting s^ort, to be sure, but there were more bears than he cared to see at one time. How¬ ever, he made a good shot, and bruin tumbled over, making four dead bears. While the huntsman stood watching hfs game a fifth bear, larger than any of the previous ones, came out of the den and rushed forward. The young man fired, but missed; and before he could reload the infuriated beast was upon him! One blow of the huge paw sent the gun flying from his grasp, but he quickly drew his hunting knife arid wounded bruin in the neck. In doing this he received a severe squeeze from the brute and a fearful bite on the shoulder. Then lie lost consciousness. When be recovered his senses, his horse was between him and the bear. The horse was kicking viciously, and bruin was making but feeble resistance, ^ „ „„ ,„ to the brush . qq ie hunter was badly shaken up, and the wound in bis shoulder was exceed } ng i y painful. With difficulty he mounted his horse, which was uite un hurt, and rode to a place of shelter a f ew further on, where his injuries received attention, and his game was secured.—Youth’s Companion.
