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ALEXANDER HUNTER, A BRIL LIANT SOUTHERN WRITER. Some time ago, we presented to our readers a selection from an article entitled, “The Women of Moseley’s Confederacy.” This most interesting story was written for “The Confed erate Veteran,” by Alexander Hun ter, a Southern author, whose prin cipal work was “Johnny Reb and Bily Yank” —a splendid book dealing with the men and the events of the great Civil War. Os this work the Chicago Inter- Ocean says: “This attitude of mind on the part of the author promises some good reading. Some facts about the au thor should also be of interest. From two or three modest paragraphs in a preliminary chapter devoted to a description of the war madness that possessed Alexandria, that historic old Virginia city just across from Washington, and from a foot note extract from ‘Lockwood’s Historic Homes of Washington,’ we learn that the author is one of the old Virginia family of Hunters. At the breaking out of the war the Hunters lived on a splendid estate of 650 acres on the Potomac between Washington and Alexandria. This estate had been the family seat of the Alexanders and Hunters for nearly three centuries. The founder of the American family was John IV., son of the Earl of Sterling, who arrived in Virginia in 1659 and held all the land from Georgetown to Hunting Creek by let ters patent. He died in 1677 and left to his son John the land between Four Mile Run and Hunting Creek, so that the historic home became the THE MARVEL IN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT In South Georgia is MILLTOWN, “ ODN „ Located in the best Farming section —The healthiest Country—Our town has grown from 175 people to about 1500 in 24 months. We are offering a few reserve lots at SSO each on easy payments—You will never get such an opportunity again. Write Quick—SOUTH GEORGIA LAND & INDUSTRIAL CO., Milltown, Ga< home of the Alexanders. Descendant after descendant inherited the estate until it, together with Arlington, fell into the hands of Girard Alexander. Girard sold Arlington to George Washington, who bought it for his stepson, John Parke Custis “The author says of the family home which he lost by confiscation: “ ‘I doubt whether in the whole Southland there existed a finer coun try seat, the house was built solidly, as if to defy time itself, with its beautiful trees, fine orchards, its ter raced lawns, graveled walks, leading to the river a quarter of a mile away; the spacious barns, the stables with fine horses (for which my father, a retired naval officer, had a special fondness), the servants’ quarters, where dwelt the old family retainers and their offspring, some fifty or more.’ .... “ ‘ln the national capital my fath er owned a fine mansion of forty rooms and spacious grounds, corner of C and Third streets, N. W., be sides a dozen or so smaller houses and many lots.’ “ ‘Mr. Lincoln sent him word that he would not be called upon to draw his sword against his native state, and asked him to let his name re main on the retired list, pledging him that all of his property would be strictly guarded. My father refused the president’s courteous request, and, infected by the rabid contagion that swept through the South, lost all reason, and he left all his great business interests to go to the dogs, without on precaution whereby he might protect his rights.’ ” “Truly a praphic picture of the WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. war madness of Alexandria, in the midst of which the young author en listed in the Seventeenth Regiment.” MOTHER LOVE. (From the Baltimore Sun.) Take the glory of the conquest and the grandeur of the morn, The splendor of the triumphs out of toil and patience born, The beauty of the cities and the ar mies of the just Moving down the golden valleys to the victories of the dust— But the mother love that wraps around a wayward child its wings Is sweeter than all triumph and is stronger than all kings! The mother love is patience bearing all the years of care, With faith to take the burden up and strength to lift and bear; The mother love is warder of the rosy gates of life, With kiss goodby to little ones who go to face the strife. And arms of old endurance waiting there to clasp and greet The loved who wander back again, the lost with weary feet! The mother love is gentleness that mellows through the years, With lips to kiss the brow that aches and song to stay the tears; The mother love is tireless in the vigil that it keeps To guard the couch from danger where the bloom of lovehood sleeps! Oh, wayward, weak and weary, and ye who walk in sin, Be sure the heart of mother love will ope and let you in! COURTESY AFTER MARRIAGE. “Maud Muller,” writing in the Chicago Journal, says: “A great many people seem to think that the marriage ceremony ab solves them from all courtesies and attentions to the person whom they have wed. “After that they are always in negligee, both as to manner and clothes, when they are at home. “This is a fatal mistake. Because a woman is married is no excuse for her going untidily about the house and telling her husband home truths that hurt his vanity. Because a wo man is his wife, gives a man no right to sav things to her he would not dare to say to other women who possessed a big, able-bodied brother. “Good manners are the preserva tives of peace and concord, and are warranted to keep happiness in any climate. “The problem of how to be happy through married life is really no prob lem at all. No mystery should ever have been made of it. “It is merely fair dealing, in fair partnership—giving the other party the same privileges and perquisites you assume for yourself and allow ing the person you love as much con sideration and civility as you would show a stranger.” Governor Hanly, of Indiana, says, that President Roosevelt “is not in fallible.” This from a Republican governor is nothing less than trea son. It is evidently the work of Charles Warren Fairbanks and can proceed from nothing else than a spirit of envy. PAGE ELEVEN