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A Biography of Thos. E. Watson.
(Continued from Page One.)
Mrs. Watson welcomed the political
terest which helped bridge him over
tragedy oi the death ot the little daughter.
She has frequently told mo of the absolute
desolateness , . , of „ , his . .... h e, when , the little girl ,
died after only a few brief hours of illness—
though excrj thing that could he done, had
been done.
Perhaps this _ little detail will . show
the depth and the again
breadth of feeling ol the
loan feeling winch showed m his writings
h\j a inch so low leally ever saw at first
<utile Louise T . had . , been , playing . . ... the
m yard ,
v .in the other children that last day; she had
come in at sunset, made her way to her fa
l| ier 18 ! ia<1 beon lier habit; taken oil
tho little hat t she wore and in 'which she
placed some grasses and small flowers which
she had gathered. To this she added a blue
hair-ribbon, and she bade ner father let
these stay here till tomorrow.” The table on
which she placed them was a combination ta
ble mdder, for reaching the higher shelves of
books.
The next day the little one was too id to
leave her bed. And “tomorrow” never came
for her.
. .
At Hickory Hill, when I nos. E. Watson
left to take his place in the United States
off Senate., liis there library, stood that in a closet table, which covered opened by
the cloth which had been on it that day, long
ago, when the little girl had placed the flow
ers and the ribbon, in the little hat.
showing And. its underneath—tne color, the hat, blue the flowers ribbon turn- still _
was
one^°ever 1 touclmd S it—the * bahv^ hands' bavin” S
been the last "
Deen tne last.
wntten J n after E ros ?, the Miscellanies, memory . ot little is this Louise gem— had
thf nrilrof oni-S f 3 y
has ^efS^a/C'oT.'Drca. hoen T Children”
commented on by many awl aB n proso
• poem it deseives rank with the highest:
DREAM CHILDREN.
“Long ago, Charles Lamb wrote an es
Bay on “Dream Children.” He had known
what it was to be tenderly attached to a good
woman whom he could not wed. Always poor,
burdened with the duty of earing for a sister
who was more or less insane, the gentle re
eluse went his way, in mournful resignation,
leaving liis lady-love tcUbeeome the wife of
another, and more fortunate man. But Lamb
never escaped “the quiet sense of something
lost,” Affectionate in disposition, upright
and pure m character, the domestic circle
would have been to Charles Lamb an Eden
q^dless lie bliss. brooded So it was what that, “night, in liis
yea^s. over
been”; called around Ins knee the children
Alions liis fancy; and upon these, the ethereal ere
of his brain, bestowed the caresses
Which actual children never came to enjoy.
children In the imagination of Lamb, the dream
are those that are longed for; or
those that should have come and did not. But
these are not the only ones that might be
called '
“Dream Children.”
Charles Dickens was referring to the other
class, in “Little Dorritt,” when Mr. Meggies,
who had lost one of liis daughters in her child
hood, speaks of the dead child, as growing up
by the side of her surviving sister.
Yes, the children which should have come
and did not, are Dream Babies, but so, also
are those which should have stayed with
after they came—and did not.
These seemed to die. and to the world they
are dead- forever lost. A narrow ridge in the
clnirch-yard, a tablet, with a name and a date;
—that is all. But- to the grief-racked pa rents,
1 the child is not altogether dead. In
dreamland which is as much a part of us asj
tlie visible world itselt, the child Jives; it
comes back to us now and then; reminds us
of every little word and caress; and wrings
our hearts, once more, with infinite pain.
’ In “Little Dorritt.” Charles Dickons fun-1
019s that the dead child grows apace with its
sister, becoming taller as she grows taller, old
er as she grows older.
It is not so at all. The great novelist,
whose soul sympathized with every living eren
ture, made one of liis few mistakes, in dealing;
with the Dream Children. ‘
They do not change. Time halted at their j
jrrave: no 0,0,-o eonkl ,o toko or f iv„ W,„t
they were, the dav they died, tliev remain
Children they were, when Death hushed their!
aio inOrelmlanT' thoy
woro „,1 abon, U,o yard,
™ .N, V l,;.n,dfnl who,, sioknoss rtSd sol;,....... .........; 1
wbiletl’ieniorAid wind and rli, a!,,! d , llj '„nl '
in«f of other feet soon bid tlms,. i;„,. j- 'V ,
So prints tin* leave trick- find hon\Z she would ijf nm, I
the :
would still fit the little shoes Ha' an- laid
'
away.
You sometimes day is done, hear her voice, sortie time!
when the and the Spirit of si¬
lence hits locked a slumbering world; and tin
voice is that which you heard when she climb-!
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL. THOMSON, GEORGIA.
c d upon your knee, and laid one hand to one
I the saying, "This side, Mama’s,” lending
other to vour kiss
No> they do not grow up, along with the
surviving children,-™ indeed! Carved upon
memory figures by the stern hand of Grief, their little
children are following as immortally young, as the marble
the motionless procession
upon a Grecian frieze,
A on do not place her, in your fanev. he
side the young people in the ball-room or on
i the ,
tennis ground, or even in the school. No:
| sl,< - is too young to be there- She would not
he in her proper place. Nor is she apt to join
the other children, even of her own age, in
the morning, or at mid-day.
No: she comes in the quiet, melancholy
afternoon, when the shadows are the' gTowinu* loner
G r, when the hurly-burly of dav is done
Then, if there should be any little children
playing about in the ‘ yard, or lingering on the
dawn, she will come.
You will see her with playmates of her own
age; you may fancy her voice mingling with
once more, comes the holiest and sweet
of all melodies, her laughter of the years
gone by.
Your other children grow up, pass out of
the home, arc swallowed up in the great big
world. But the Dream Children never leave
you.
There is a, plaintive Scotch song whose
burden is, the sweetheart’s answer to hei
pleading lover, *
1 must not leave the old folks yet, we’d
better bide a wee.”
But the Dream Children are yet more
inseparable from the home and parental love;
they abide with vou evermore
‘
To fhp ]5vh) „ sometimes feel like snv
• t<0b t , t : 00 uld keep M von iimt
as K v. ,,
free from care and sin and suffering.” ‘
Koot - ]ies eV( , n . ,Ii s .', p| ,„i„ fnl( .„, ,” r os ’
wound, hushes everv sob dries every tear "
Eternally round, eternal!v pure ’dav she is
yours closed vet,—a child as she was the *
her ’
eyes
Upon every Christmas Eve, she comes in
to the stillness of the Library• and she lianas
her she little stocking up. in the'fireplace just as
used to do. The other children learned the
secret of Santa Claus long ago •• and they nuit
hanging up their stockings on Christmas Eve
But she never learned the secret: she will uev
er learn it, now; and. in Dreamland, she
loves Santa Claus. So it is—she comes
into the Library, everv Christmas Eve and
stocking, jus/as she did
a you did nqt know how
c- uivered in the voice that
heatd in llamali.
In you and in me, the conflict goes on, for
ever, between tin eivl spirit and the good. To
day, the Evil Genius takes possession of USl
and we sin. Then, the good Angel gains the
upper hand, and we repent bitterly what we did
yesterday—and we do good tomorrow When
the Angel of our better self is with us, the
sunshine is brighter, the song of the bird is
-sweeter, the faces of our friends reflect our
happiness, the home circle glows with joyous
animation, and our souls expand to embrace
all mankind.
When the Evil Genius comes, it is another
world that we are in; and w > are different be
The malign Pontiff of the invisible pa
paev blighting lias put Interdict. all nature and all nations under "a ‘
Joy flees, laughter dies away, the
wind . blows;
the clouds are lea en and low
have no friends; home vields o happiness- W C S
is ' ’
no. worth living.
Y, ho has not experienced this? Happy
man who has not. But tiiriee happy the man
who, being the victim of such a curse, will trv,
and try, and try again, to break the spell of this
tremendous Excommunication
And the lYcaii, Children?
They, also dare not cross (lie dead-line 0 f
the Interdict. On the dreadful dav of
imimcation, they, also, avoid us. In the
struggles of fierce and ruthless passions, they
have no place. They can onlv come, when
Evil One has been (In-own out. But- when
spell has passed, when the heavens smile
Ten the Lost One comes; then she sits upon
.No k„,,- , s „ : lu-ml nostlo.,
the breast again; and once more be-,,-,'
old-time music of her voice, as she pots a lit
W lmu,l to 0,10 "Hior ,-Nooks, ,m,l says,
as yo^Ui, th.AnLnf
n roabn snorod ......'
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•
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I tie Secret Is Out—Lloyd George Tells
(Continued from Paste One.)
this mighty people, if our people throughout the
British empire resolutely, firmly, courageously,
without flinching carry out the message then I
have no fear but that humanity will climb to
higher altitudes of nobility, of security, of hap
piness, than any it lias ever jet known.
We have all had our responsibility—all
had our responsibility. During the war I
stood.for the ruthless prosecution of the war
to a triumphant end. The moment the war
was over. I equally stood for a ruthless prose
cution of peace to an even more glorious end.
Those who make war, whether they are indi
viduals or nations, cannot escape responsibility
for the peace.
It is easier to make war than to make peace
In tlie civil war in America there were millions
of lives men who were successful prepared to sacrifice there their
to wage war, but was
only one man who was prepared to risk his
career to make a .successful peace, and lie was
shot down. You say, ‘Yes. bv ail unbalanced
Sw™ StXLST
Your chairman has referred to the great
step taken recently by your government to
to restore order out of chaos in Europe. .1
acclaim that step with full enthusiasm.
Europe is in a deplorable condition.
is responsible ? What is responsible ? Some
.say it is the Treaty of Versailles. Well I am
not hero to defend the Treaty of Versailles;
J am quite willing on an appropriate occasion
to do so, and to say that it was the best treaty
that could be negotiated under the conditions
of the times. But it is not the Treaty of Vor
sail lea; Every treaty depends not merely
upon its intrinsic merits but upon tlio methods
and manner of its execution.
<ua> events in be lives of men and
in - the lives of nations wlueh are hke the fall
ol> nulumi1 Ioavos - T,10 v I' a11 by t]ic myriads to
-
lhe ground. They are swept by the breezes m
M.......ns'dcri'il corners where .hov ore ,„r
ottou ’ they sink into the soil and torni part
nlo^O
t,l0 ' n !s ......«*• thoy are imli«lminmlml>l<, fro,,,
oillors - Bul 011(10 111 a eentury there are events
aro llk< ‘ tIle fal1 of tll ° sf avs, the frag
raents sfnke ,!l( ' cart,i ancl 801 ul lt roekiug
reeling out of its course.
Book at Europe before the war, study the
™ ap °( Em 'ope toda y> its geography, its
! ‘ ers ’ curren0 3 r > its conditions, its people,
* ls S oven \ ments -— ( study its pension lists. There
were empires that were like the planets in the
lieavens tbat bave been vo1,e ' 1 down into utter
f. s darkness There were countries
Were Ilke , l »® bx ® d stars m the firmament, they
1 ,' ave crash , in, ° atoms - 1 le earth quivers in
? P , 11 cm t ar t' t has been
, j out * ot » lts 0011 *1 sc 1)011 , t be b 8?$ 011
-
( ' uro e ’
( y mit nations cannot say, Am I niv broth
er , s /
would Europe has played a g?|at part. There
have been no known America had there
1)0011 110 Euro l ,e to. find it. You have got a
e at, virile population. If came from
Yoxi have got, great names that inspire your
B 60 !’ 10 . an(1 wi11 continue to do so, world with
onl entk Lreorge , Washington, Franklin, Jef
J orson - Hamiltoil j L incobl - They all sprang
trom European stock, , lour free
1,1 this country—and well you maybe proud of
them—the great struggle for civil anil religious
e, l ualit .v came from tlio Jong agony of Europe,
May 1 say with reverence when the Cross
was tunie(i out <>• Asia and hunted out of Af
rlca > Europe stood by it through the Via Do
lorosa of tlio Dark Ages, and if it is planted
brml y uH American soil Europe carried it
here Don’t be hard on Europe!
,) Vkat .}* roal llvoblom 111 Jbim.po to
da y ? 1 wl11 te " y° u - In spite oi the war, he
cause Europe has been left so much to herself,
she still believes ini force? Why?
l ' ranoe sa > r ,®- ‘Alsace Loraine was torn
froru 0 ,r sl(le . , 50 > rears a ^°- It Was unnnst; it
was W1 '° n ^: i( (vas c r «el; it as oppressive,
Justl0p n0VPr 8' avp 11 1,a, ‘ k to - s. Wo had to
lose one million four hundred thousand of our
young men. You in the British Empire had
to lose 900,000 of yo»r young men. Force gave
1 back to 1IS -’
l>olailfl! l>olail<] sa v ' s: ‘ (),1 ° ; mmlrri and
-
hH , nationhood destroyed,
v vf,ars °-° 011V was
- •
were locked in (he prisons of great; an
We waited for justice- We thought
<*onld hear her passing footsteps, hit they
woro « im P 1 y tho footsteps of our jailors out
unlocked JW lhe door.’ «•> f I* -
The Russian peasant says today: ‘We nev
<•■• «r tlio HkIiI of NNorty until II, o '■ovololira,
wUlB ^ """ ” W '■ n
Wllal doos (.on....... savC '
Conn.nns sa r
-Wo trusted to jnstioo. Wo irnstod
,ut disninied. ‘wf-Z? \u iinve no'll!: no torce. \V' \\ e y! ennnot "i'
D-ust the word ol great nations. Force is the
ooI >' llliaa llial rules in the worhl.’ j
P1 ' i ' 1u liy hollOVOS 'J 1 lom ‘ to
day. , But unless , you. stamp out that convie
lion civilization is doomed on this earth. Uu
loss you can succeed in convincing Europe that
rigllt 111 tho on< ! is (lomillailt over force 1
don’t know what is going . to happen- And who
is going to do it I What nations can give Eu-1
3
rope this conviction ' There are two, only
two—the people of the United States of Ameri*
ea and the people of the British Empire.”
And there von are’ 1
a country pie Igx ■t t
nexation of o!h»
.self to the
Britain- \vh ; h ■
pose.
Have you re; T
duced, very e?m frit • 9 notice <
much was Is unsaid : i .
Do yon notice that there was no reference
to the fact flint die people of the United States
went on record, at the polls, in expressing
their opinion against all that the wiley little
Welshman was pleading for ?
Are we ready to .slip our heads in the
noose so \urcfully prepared, and make safe
forever—not the peoples of Europe; not the
'ssalion of wars of otlmr nations, but make
tome'- ! y sale those tremendous investments
of the International Bankers, whose best bets
are arums, navies, guns and gun powder?
Emm'gnfion Of The Southern
* fijp/im ’ J *
The Sentinel iias not had anything to say
about the exodus—so called-of the Southern
to the Northern and Western States,
for the reason it thought the negro was as free
to choose new homes for himself and his farni
ly. as wore the white people who moved,
Just now. there seems to be a decided
change of heart on the part of many who left
the Smith for the dazzling wages offered most
ly for work which few negroes were capable of
doing skillfully. Many tries are coming down
from tin States where the Southern negroes
went in sue], numbers, but the most amazing of
all comes rom Pennsylvania-that wondrous
State m wlueh the C’lty of Brotherly Love is
situated; that State which did so much to ou
courage the rmmwav negroes before the War;
.....J class *!»., wl.i-l, Nile,! and ovor t l„win R wi.ll
a ol u.umgrant from Europe that few
In (Icorsin. Ilic planters and small far
mors suffered hardships in more than one wav,
when the farm hands and their families joined
tram of negro “movers.” Many of those
who owned laud woke one morning to find a
plantation which had been supposedly safe for
planting season, on which many dollars had
been spent for food and clothing for the hands,
without a single tenant, and the resultant loss
to be borne with no ehnee whatever of a come
in payment.
But the employment agents from the North
to come South, fill the ignorant ne
with tales of great wealth, social equality
i' Pmi*ps, vitil thft ^ bite d-thti working bait-was folks in the Land of
i 5 swallowed. The re
petion ha •5Q sol in! just when the average far
mer bad djnsted hims A f to the changed con
(htions. and < hen fare 5 were being tenanted
J, more whit o hands than had been the case
(for years----along comes the S. O. S. from
many of the travellers* and urgent plea is made
for return tickets to home—and comparative
comfort: at least, out from the frozen North,
which takes such heavy toll, every winter, of
its jioor.
|> llt <(> Ret hack to Pennsylvania: the May
or of Johnstown 4 had ordered all negroes who
have hwu 8i( j 0 „^ 1]lpi . (> , oss than seven
veark, to* leave—and spend little time in tlio
p-aving. One of the professors of a negro col
]ogp jn Washington, took a trip to Johnstown
|Vmisvlvania. and tl.is is whet he reports the
conditions affeetiu"' a negro population of
^OOD.
“ T)]P population consisted largely of raw
re.-nuts from the South without the wholesome
j„n,„. lu . ( . ,f | K)U1(1 ’ elinrch or social agency ti,,,™
qq y , andStse . j • sfocknrlen theli-^oSant
dampness, dirt were
companions. I visited a stockade with 100 in
ma t es . There were no modern sanitary pro
visions. The sheets and pillow eases judging
f rom appearance, had not been changed for
«; v rmm ths Smoke -iml ,lin -,n,l anYneh „r n « an \„j
m-cumulated upon the floor half thick
yiv soul sank within me as I saw splendid
specimens of physical voum- manhood fresh
f r om (lie open air of (he South, immersed in
this dreadful environment, destructive alike
( 0 body and soul.
, „ . ., ° f r 1 ., lC r S, 1 ? X)te .
‘ ‘ ‘ o,Ji,,°hi,!p ’ "vTtiic"nt° \ S ‘wlTc
, v A,." r, oko j ; ‘"'5 ehimm V v s drt driven Z
. , .
To’atkm V" l'” NlTrT l °i
i,„, livor' ll,«' desm-d m’do
,la m] S s l,r,wl«l ,,iaoo and
tlH ' f,.,, ™ mi "'“"T
o, -Todor , snob oiroomstaneoa , , ml “Vo'Ide,
gambling. Tv'""" tU Niese men were all employed " ,M in >
the mills at remunerative wages. The surplus hiuse
left from the exactions of the hoarding
L ''l>ers and stockade tax was spent in carous
mg and gambling. When a set of men gamble
among themselves, one man’s loss is supposed
10 be another man’s gain. But in Johnstown
all the men are broke and no one seems any ,
hotter off alter the game is over.”
(Continued on Rage Four.)