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CONFEDERATE VETERANS IN
SERVICE.
We respectfully invite public atten
tion to a matter which comes very
near to our religion, the care for the
survivors of the Confederate cause.
We hear much about sympathy for
old soldiers. We are of the mind that
the way to have sympathy, is to do
something to illustrate it. Confeder
ate veterans are getting old now, and
many of them are in need of practical
sympathy, or deeds which will place
them where they may render substan
tial service for a fair compensation.
Recently we have learned that ap
plication was made to our City School
Board to place Confederate soldiers as
janitors in the Public Schools. They
were denied, the Board not being
willing to displace negroes. A com
mittee of Veterans, -with several can
didates, a few days ago, called on
Governor Candler to ask him to ap
point a one-legged veteran to the
position of messenger and janitor
in the state library. On hearing
the committee and candidates, the
governor refused to make such ap
pointment, and told the gentlemen
who called on him that he would not
appoint any Confederate veteran to
the place, but that he would choose a
negro for the position. Why? A negro
has been there for years, and we are
informed that recently it was discov-
he been robbing the
library of books, property of the
state, and selling them on Decatur
street.
We do not believe any old soldier
would do any such thing. Then why
not let him have such place? We
have been informed that since the oc
currence, the governor attempts to
explain his refusal by stating that
such a position is not sufficiently dig
nified for a Confederate Veteran.
Pooh! Would not the state be hon
ored by such service? If a poor vet
eran can accept such a place, and get
a salary of about SSO a month, in
stead of nothing and poverty,
would it not be to . the credit
of the state, and of the governor, to
place him in such position? We think
it is a shame, the way some officials
disregard cur veterans. We shall see
about it some day at the polls. The
veterans arc organizing for the pur
pose of voting as they shot, in solid
phalanx. We deem it appropriate
to say that one of the candi
dates who called on the governor
was Mr. Jacob Haas, who is a Confed
erate veteran, as an ex-member of a
Tennessee regiment. Another who
was with the committee was Hon. Har
vey Johnson. Another candidate who
favors veterans in office instead of ne
groes, is Dr. J. A. Hutchison, who
was a gallant soldier in Virginia. See
to this matter, comrades. See who are
your f iends, and stick to them.
Confederate Veterans’ League.
A special meeting of t.lio Confeder
ate Veterans’ League will be held in
the City Council Hall, in Chamber of
Commerce, on next Monday night, at
8 o’clock. Business of vital impor
tance to every veteran is to be trans
acted. The league will be expected to
require good order and decorum from
every member, and any violation of
the rules of order and propriety, will
bo dealt with in a summary manner.
All members are urgently requested to
attend.
By direction’of the president of the
League.
OUR AD VER TIRING RA TEA
ARE EXTREMELY LOW, AND
ARE A GREAT INDUCEMENT
FGR BUSINESS MEN TO FA
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V Selina Era-
W mons had kuowu
i ,lst ft little more
(il'/S-. about the company
their tracks never
would have crossed
lier !an,l ‘
ilfc-Ws When there was
a rumor that the
electric cars were
com i n g through
|V ’ Brooklyn she dis
''g> approved very
strongly. When the rumor was con
firmed, and the additional information
given that the cars were to run by her
house, Miss Selina was indignant and
a little alarmed. She wondered if it
would be safe.
But when the company wrote and
wanted to know if they might buy a
strip of her land along the river,ab<jnt
two acres in all, on which to lay their
tracks, thereby avoiding the building
of two bridges and a half mile or more
of unnecessary track, she was decided
ly and unmistakably angry.
Sell her land for an electric line,
forsooth! She wouldn't have the hor
rid things within sight or sound of
her if she could help it. What if it
wasn’t anything but sandy pasture
land, growing up to huckleberry and
bayberry bushes. They shouldn't
have it. It wasnothingto her if they
had to build a dozen bridges and go
twenty miles out of their way.
She thought of all the scathing re
plies she might make to them, repudi
ating their proposal. Then a happy
thought struck her. She got her pen
and wrote on the bottom of the com
pany’s letter:
“You may havethe land for SSOO an
acre. Yours truly, Selina Emmons.”
She smiled when she had done this.
How they would feel when they got
that answer! Five hundred dollars an
_y-.pl Whv. she wanted to..sell the.
wnoio ten acres for SIOO, and that had
been thought too much. For a day or
two she smiled whenever she thought
of her answer, and she wished she
could have seen the faces of the com
pany when they opened it.
Then came the shock of discovering
lhat her offer had been accepted. The
company had her statement is black
and white, with her name signed to
it, so there was no possible escape for
her.
This was in the fall, and work on
the electric road would not begin till
spring. Miss Selina'felt thankful that
the evil day was so far off. Perhaps
there was a chance yet that the road
would not go through. Nevertheless
she worried and fretted over it all
winter, and it was the worry, the doc
tor said, that brought on the spell of
sickness in March. She was not seri
ously ill, and by the first of April,
wheu work on the road began, she was
around doing her work as usual.
“I’m not going to have folks say I
got sick on account of that company,”
she said. “Anyway, it won’t do any
good to worry. Let ’em come, but if
they expect me to patronize them,
they are mistaken, that’s all. I
wouldn’t ride on one of those cars,
not if Queen Victoria or the President
of the United States told mo to. If
other folks want to risk their lives
they can.”
The thought of the SIOOO was a
great comfort. It seemed like a for
tune to her, and she planned what she
would do with the interest money.
She would have a new carpet for the
parlor the very first thing and have
Che room papered and painted.
By the middle of April the workmen
came in sight of her house, and for a
day or two Miss Selina watched them
with a hostile eye. Then, in spite of
herself, she began to be interested iu
the work, and as it came nearer she
spent more and more of her time at
the windows. When the men wanted
to eat their dinners out under her
chestnut tree and get water from the
pump in the yard she gave a willing
consent. “They are not to blame for
what the company does,” she said.
One of the men carried in a pail of
water for her one dny and got to talk
ing with her. Ho found out that she
wanted her little garden spaded up,
and the next day the men shortened
their nooning and did the work in a
little while. The day after that Miss
Selina carrried out to them a huge
dishpan full of doughnuts, which
melted away like snow before the sun.
When the rails were all laid by the
house and the work was no longer in
sight Miss Selina felt very lonesome.
Still she could see the men go by at -
night and morning, and the young •
man who bad carried the water for 1
her always smiled and waved his I
hand. 1
The first of June the cars were run
ning, and Miss Selina saw them go
by crowded. It was amazing. “I
didn’t know there were so many reck
less folks in the world,” sho said.
She had to admit that there was a
certain companionship in seeing all
these people.
On warm days the motormen and
conductors would stop nearly every
trip and get a drink of water nt her
pump, and she took pride in the cool
ness of the water and in having the
tumbler out there clean and bright.
After a time these men, seeing her al
ways at the window, would speak to
her, wish her good morning or com
ment on the weather. There was one
young motorman who was her especial
favorite, and he was the first one to
discover her aversion to risking her
life on the cars.
“Any time you want to try it,” he
told her, “just come along on my
car, and I’ll be extra careful of you.”
Miss Selina laughed and told him
that she would go on his car wheu
she went, but that she didn’t think
either on# of them would live long
enough to see the day.
In August he told her one day:
“You’d better go with me to-morrow.
It’s my last day on this line. I’ve
been transferred.”
"I’m very sorry, Mr. Baily,” said
Selina.
“So am I,” he answered.
On his last trip in the afternoon he
said: “Be ready at 7 sharp;” then
laughed and swung onto his car and
clattered away. Miss Selina watched
it across the pasture. Then she took
a long breath, straightened up and
said: “I’ll do it.”
She looked about her. “It's aS
good a time as any. I’ve got the
washing and ironing and sweeping
done for the week, and everything
is iu good order. And, besides, I
have faith in that young Baily, and
it’ll be my last chance to go on his
car.”
The next morning at 6.4-5 sho was
all ready, her work done and the door
locked behind her as she sat on the
step waiting. Baily cculd hardly be
lieve his eyes when he saw her.
“Going?” he called. “Well, that’s
good. Sit on the front seat here,
then you con see and get the air.”
He noticed that her hands shook and
that sho was a little pale. A mile
further on he looked around at her.
“Like it?” he asked.
She nodded. Her eyes were very
bright.
On their return they had to wait at
a turnout for another car, and Baily
sat down beside her. Her hair was
blown about her face, and her ex
pression was iJßnated. “She must
have been pretty when sho was
young,” he thought.
“Do you usually go faster?” sho
asfced.
“Oh, just about the same, I guess.”
“I was going to say you needn’t go
any slower on my account. It doesn’t
scare me a bit. I like to go fast.”
When he stopped at her house she
sat motionless. “I guess I won’t go
out yet,” she said. “I think I will
ride a little more.”
The next time there was a wait she
seemed abstracted. She was busy
with a problem in mental arithmetic—
namely, how many car rides can be
got out of the interest on $1000?
The solution seemed to please her.
“I cau get along without the car
pet,” sho said to herself, “and the
paint and paper don’t look very bad,
anyway.”—Chicago Record.
What Golf Form Is.
“Form” is everything in golf, as if
was thought to bo in rowing and other
athletic sports, until the youngsters
camo forward who utterly without
form and merely by pluck and skill
won the laurels from the brows of
those who had so long worn them.
Whether or not form is all essential
in the modern game of golf will prob
ably long remain an open question.
Whether it is right or wrong, with
professionals form is the whole thing.
By this is meant not the appearance
of the player to the eye of the ordin
ary spectator, but the correctness of
his swing and that particular attitude
of his body when playing which ex
perience has demonstrated to be the
proper attitude and the proper swing
for getting out of the game all there
is in it.—The Pathfinder.
At the Mountain House.
“Isn’t it magnificent 1” exclaimed
the enthusiastic boarder. “I’ve al
ways wanted to see a storm iu the
mountains. Your remember Byron’s
lines, of course?
“ ‘From peak to peak, tbo rattling crags
among,
Leaps the live thunder.’”
“It sort of worries me,” replied the
other party.
“Why? Are you afraid of light-'
ning?”
“Rather. lam afraid the landlord
jnay charge for this storm in his bill.”
—Puck.
Critical -Arcs For Men.
At forty men begin to feel the strain
of hard work. If they have been
careless or reckless they are liable to
break down. Another critical period
is sixty, when those holding positions
of responsibility who are too absorbed,
to take proper rest go to pieces. Yet
a man who has lived to that age ought
to continue for ten years longer, pro-'
Tided he takes care himself.
MOST FAMOUS COLORED DIVINE.
Synopsis of Brother Jasper’s “Sun Do
Move” Sermon.
The Rev. John Jasper, of Rich
mond, Va., is one of the most popular
colored divines in this country, and
on the celebration of the eightieth
anniversary of his birthday a short
time ago his church in the Virginia
capital was crowded to the doors by a
congregation that had assembled to
testify its devotion to him.
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THE REV. JOHN JASPER, OF RICHMOXD.
The sermon on which his reputation
rests is upon the text, “The Sun Do
Move.” Thio famous discourse he
preaches at least once a year, and the
bare announcement is all that is
needed to throng his
The Rev. Mr. Jasper is well thought
of outside his parishioners, and is al
ways pointed out to visitors as one of
the notables of the city.
The text of Jasper’s famous sermon
is Exodus, chapter xv., verse 3, “The
Lord is a Man of War. The Lord is
His name.” The theories advanced
are: Thq earth is square and immov
able. The sun rises in the East and
moves toward the West and there sets.
The world is flat.
“The Bible says the sun stood still,”
he announces dogmatically. “Is any
body going to say the suij was stand
ing still before Jasher told it to stand
still? Do you think Jasher would
have asked the privilege to stop the
sun if she had not been moving. This
morning when the sun rose it was over
there (pointing to the East). How,
in the name of God, could the sun get
from that side of the house over to
this (pointing to the West) unless it
moved.
“Now Solomon was certainly a
scholar. Do you know he was the
man who said, ‘The sun ariseth and
goeth down and hasteneth back to the
place she moved from.’ It is nonsense
to say the sun does not move. The
man who says the sun does not move
he does not read the Bible.”
He fortifies himself in the same man
ner in his belief that the earth is
square and flat.
Moved a Court House Twenty Miles.
A county court house arrived in
Alliance, Neb., recently, after a jour
ney of twenty miles by rail. It had
been located at Hemingford, and
when that town ceased to be the
county seat the loss of the building
might have been regarded as inevit
able, as its estimated weight was sev
enty tons, its height forty feet, and
its other dimensions thirty-six by
forty-eight feet. Fortunately, how
ever, the new county seat was on the
same branch of the Burlington and
Missouri River Railroad, only twenty
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THE BOX BUTTE (NEBRASKA) COUNTY
COURT HOUSE TASKS A BAILROAD
JOURNEY.
miles away. The “movement,” as it
was culled locally, began when the
floor and frame were made rigid by
the building of four semi-elliptical
trusses of the entire width of the
building, then the court house was
loaded on four common car trucks,
one under each of the trusses; next a
large freight engine was attached,
which at times drew its singular train
along at the rate of ten miles an hour,
though most of the trip was made at
a speed of two or three miles an hour.
The diagonal guy ropes shown in our
illustration were fastened to two
loaded coal cars having a capacity of
sixty thousand pounds each. — Har
per’s Weekly.
Where P.arls Are Food.
Pearls are found iu both salt and
fresh water, and it is said that they
belt the earth, including all of the
tropical portion and a part of the tem
perate zones. The great “Queen
Pearl” was found in Paterson, N. J.,
in 1857. It was sold to the Empress
Eugenie of France, and is valued to
day at SIO,OOO.
KRUGER’S REPLY
IS UNYIELDING
England Momentarily Expects the
Boers to Attack.
WAR NOW SEEMS A CERTAINTY
London Papers Indicate Serious
ness of Crisis—Text of
Kruger’s Reply.
A London special under date of
Sept. 18th states that the Transvaal
situation still remained practically
unchanged. The general apprehen
sion in regard to the outcome was re
flected by the decline in consols and
stocks on the stock exchange where,
although all stocks continued dull,
there was not the slightest approach
to excitement.
The text of President Kruger’s
reply was issued by the secretary of
state for the colonies, Mr. Chamber
lain, Monday afternoon, but it added
nothing of importance to the summary
cabled to the Associated Piesi. The
language in many places is taken to
indicate a firm, unyielding position.
The reply, however, concludes:
“If her majesty’s government is
willing and feels able to make this de
cision a joint commission, as at first
proposed by Mr. Chamberlain, it
would put an end to the present state
of tension. Race hatred would de
crease and die out, and the prosperity
and welfare of the South African re
public and the whole of South Africa
would be developed and furthered,and
fraternizing between the different
nationalities would increase.”
The London evening papers nil in
dicate the seriousness of the crisis,
but The St. James Gazette says:
“It need not be imagined that any
thing will be done on our side in a
hurry. The cabinet has first to recon
sider and secondly to formulate fresh
proposals. Therefore these comment
ators on the crisis who assume that
fighting will immediately commence
are obviously a little nervous. Os
course, it is quite possible the Boers
mr.y begin hostilities, in Which case '
our troops will have to defend British
territory. But unless the Boers take
the offensive, the negotiations will be
prolonge! until the reinforcements
now on their way to South Africa
reach their destination.”
Text of Kruger’s Reply.
The text of Kruger’s reply, as pub
lished officially, is in part as follows:
“The government deeply regrets the
withdrawal, as the government under
stands it, of the invitation contained
in the British dispatch of August 23d,
and the substitution, in the place
thereof, of an entirely new proposal.
“The proposals, now fallen through,
contained in the Transvaal dispatch of
August 19th and August 21st, were
elicited from this government by sug
gestions made by the British diplo
matic agent in Pretoria (Conyngham
Greene) to the Transvaal state secre
tary (F. W. Reitz) suggestions which
this government acted upon iu good
faith and after specially ascertaining
whether they would be likely to prove
acceptable to the British government.
This government had by no means an
intention to raise again needlessly the
question of its political status, but
acted with the sole obj.-ct of endeav
oring by the aid of the local British
agent, to put an end to the .strained
condition of affairs.
“This was done in the shape of a
proposal which this government
deems, both as regards its spirit and
form, to be so worded as, relying
upon itimations to this government,
would satisfy her majesty’s govern
ment.
“This government saw a difficulty
as to the acceptance of those proposals
by the people and legislature of the
Transvaal and also contemplated pos
sible dangers connected therewith,
but risked making them on account of
a sincere desire to secure peace and
because assured by Mr. Chamberlain
that such proposals would not be
deemed a refusal of his proposals, but
would be settled on their merits.”
boers’massixg artillery.
Kruger’i Troops Are Occupying All Point*
of Vantage.
Dispatchers of Monday reaching
London from South Africa state that
the Boers are massing artillery in po
sitions commanding Laings Nek.
Small Boer detachments also occupy
positions above the Buffalo river.
Democratic Committee In Conference.
The democratic national committee
men held a conference in Chicago
Monday for the purpose of listening
to suggestions about organization and
preliminary campaign work. The
three sub-committees held separate
meetings for the purpose of forming
permanent organizations.