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facts and fancies for the fireside THE MODEL HUSBAND AND WIFE OF SCRIPTUBE Absorbed in the rate case and other urgent matters, The Observer is only now finding time to settle the dispute between its Mule Pen and its Salis bury correspondent over a matter of patriarchal matrimony. The Salis bury correspondent, it will be vividly remembered, predicted for a certain young couple happiness rivaling that of Isaac and Rebekah. Thereupon the Mule Pen, eagerly seizing upon a supposed opportunity to display scrip tural learning, pranced in with the I statement that Isaac and Rebekah lhad been confused with Jacob and Not to be stingy with its knowledge, it further told how Jacob Served Laban for Rachel, remarking that Jacob was not only put off with Leah at the end of seven years, but had to serve another seven before Rachel was given him. Ths Salis bury correspondent, however, did not receive this alleged information with i Reverential acquiscence. He cited the Episcopal prayer book as authority | for conferring the honor upon Isaac " and Rebekah. Last came a brief but weighty communication from Mt. 1 Pleasant, in which it was pointed out that Jacob, although he served four teen years, raised such a clamor against the fraud practiced upon him that ’the younger daughter was with held only a week after he had taken * the elder to wife. So much for the dispute and the disputants. It becomes our partly unpleasant I duty to declare the Salisbury corre- I sppndent in the right, and the Mule Pen in the wrong. Isaac and Re bekah w’ere correctly complimented as the model pair of Bible history. Re bekah can bear comparison with her daughter-in-law, but not so Jacob > with his father. It is quite true that Jacob was an incomparably greater man. Though no little, of a cheat in his youth, he became fruly “Is rael, a Prince,” worthy to be father of the twelve tribes of Israel. His meeting and toilfully winning his cousin Rachel bears an aspect of ro mance which Isaac’s parent-made match entirely lacks. Moreover, he loved Rachel tenderly all her life: and Judah’s noble plea before the unknown Joseph for Benjamin—“all that is left to him (Jacob) of his (Benjamin’s mother” —shows that he loved her tenderly after her death. Isaac, on the other hand, was not per sonally remarkable in any respect. Though the son of one great man, and | the father of another, he was himself " a very type of respectable medioc rity. He is recognizable as a gentle, unenergetic person, inclined to medi tative ease and having a slight glut- JHonliness as his one positive fault. || It is only as a husband that he ranks Fhigh, and this evidently came about t-bgcause of qualities which he lacked than those which he possessed. 'fHb h e ls entitled to be I husband of scriptu- ■ ; jQp nr y because he alone among H Btriarchs was not a polygamist, ij ■ word-scene of young Jacob H K the fair shepherdess and ihen, Hgely enough, lifting up his voice Mweeping, is familiar to most peo- WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. pie, but the story of how a wife was found for Isaac has no place in the popular imagination. Yet this earlier event is invested with abundance of interest. Rebekah’s personality does not suffer by comparison with Ra chel’s. We quote the final verse: “And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Re bekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her; and Isaac was com forted after his mother’s death.” Was it Rebekah or Rachel whom Byron had in mind when he wrote these lines for his “Hebrew Melo dies”! “She walks in beauty, like the night Os cicudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meets in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies “One shade the more, one ray the less Had half impair’d the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet ex press How pure, how dear their dwelling place. “And on that cheek and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent.” —Charlotte Observer. A VICTORY OF THE WORKING CHILD. The New York legislative session, lately come to a close, was one of un usual interest in the matter of labor legislation. On one of the first days the Page Eight-Hour Bill was intro duced, prohibiting all children under sixteen years of age working more than eight hours in factories of the State of New York. This soon be come one of the most popular meas ures of the session. The especially valuable feature of the law which dis tinguishes it from any other child labor statute in this country is the requirement that these eight hours must fall between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. Lively opposition against this par ticular feature of the bill developed in the lower house. Opponents de nounced the inelasticity of this ar rangement as unreasonable, and sev eral attempts were made to amend it. But in *he end the merit of this bill was recognized, inasmuch as it makes for real enforcement. In fu ture factory inspectors will not have to discover how many hours a child has been at work in any factory, but its mere presence there before eight in the morning, or after five in the afternoon, will in itself be a viola tion. *A wave of public sentiment carried this humane measure triumphantly through the legislature. It was a foregone ppnpjpsion that Governor Hughes would sign this very step in his inauguration message. The law marks a real gain for the working child. In New York City, especially, where the distance be tween factory and home is often very great, and the transportation facili ties poor, a working child often rose at 5:30 a. m. in order to reach work at seven o ’clock. And even if he left work at six o’clock, he was forced to 4 ravel home in the great crush hour, when facilities are at their worst and travel is most exhausting even for adult men and women. This beneficent legislation will, therefore, give the working child an additional hour for sleep in the morn ing, and an hour for recreation at night.—Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, in the Wo- Man’s Home Companion. THERE’S NO ONE LIKE MOTHER. The world naturally loves a pretty woman, a woman blessed with taste, easy in her manners, gentle in dis position—kind and considerate of others, but with us, there has never yet lived a woman that has in all things, taken the place of our mother; and as we grow older, we are more convinced that no one, ever so good, can occupy the spot in our heart that belongs to mother. In all conditions of life, prosperity, adversity, an out cast from society, tried and convict ed, serving in prison, condemned to die at the hangman’s hands —when all others have deserted him —there will be r.ne. and only one, in ell the world, who will not desert him, and that will be mother. And there is one being the world loves —admires, and that is the boy, the man, who never forgets his mother and who never puts any one ahead of mamma, we love —the world loves, that boy.— Mer Rogue Democrat. MAN’S LIFE OF WOE. A man’s life is full of crosses and temptations. He comes into the world without his consent, and goes out against his will, and the trip be tween the two is exceedingly rocky. The rule of contraries is one of the important features of his trip. When he is little the big girls kiss him, and when he is big the little girls kiss him. If he raises a large family he is a Phinizy & Co. COTTON FACTORS Augusta, Georgia I HIGH CLASS SECURITIES I Among other*, we mention a small block of stock in one of the largest and most conserva tive banking institutions in the hotrtfa, which will increase tfiO.OO per share in the nart year I This is nf interest to large or small investors and will be on the market but a short time. You ' *9 wi 1 find this a genuine bartrain. Call or write CHAS. E. THOMPSON. Stocks and Bonds, 204 Equitable Bldg., Atlanta. Ga. PAGE ELEVEN chump; if he raises a small check he is a thief. If he is a poor man he is a bad manager; if he is rich he is dishon est; if he is in politics it’s for pie; if he is out of politics you can’t place him, and he is no good to his coun try. If he does not give to charity he is stingy; if he does it’s for show. If he dies young there’s a great future before him; if he lives to a good olu age he has missed his call ing. The road is rocky, but the man loves to travel it just the same.— Exchange. HELP YOURSELF. Don’t quarrel with others about not helping the farmer, when you are nnt trying to help yourself. Some farmers do a lot of howling and no work, because they are too poor—they think—to do anything else but howl the calamity howk The man with manhood and plenty of grit and energy in his make-up, need never ask others to give him room. About all this man needs is to put his natural talents to work with a vim and the world will give him plenty of room. Why all thia talk about organizing the farmers of to-day, when our daddies and grand daddies lived better than we de with out any organization among them selves! Because our daddies and granddaddies produced almost every thing they needed to eat and wear upon their own farms, excepting salt, sugar, iron and what little money they needed then to pay taxes, which for these small items was not very hard to get out of his surplus cotton and other crops and stock. And now we fool cotton growers have, for 10. these many years, been trying to ge* rich buying all these things at the other fellow’s prices, and paying for them with our cotton, also at the oth er fellow’s prices. We are compelled to organize before we can price our own cotton.—Seneca Journal. Norwood, Ga., Sept. 30. 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.: I enclose you SI.OO to renew my subscription. I can’t do without the paper. Yours truly, V. A. GHUNLING.