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AM JONES' LKTTEH.
Atlanta JournaL
I wai yesterday at the Maysville, Mo,
ohautauqua, thirty milet east of Bt. Joe
on the Bock Island railroad. I pok
at 3:30 in the afternoon and about
o clock there came on oi the moat
(rightful storm I ever witnessed wind
rain and thnndf and lightning to beat
the band. The great tent began to flop
and flounder and the ait or seven thou
sand people began to stampede and such
another getting up stain ain't never
been teen as we had for about an hour,
When the storm, which was the worst
think I ever witnessed, was over all
hands reported tor duty and we gathered
under the great tent and found no one
wag hurt and I talked to the drenched
mass of people foran hour, and left
them at 8 o'clock at night for this point.
Altogether, that was a new and another
experience of a platform man, going to
and fro through the earth. In com
xuon with all the great crowd. 1 was
thankful to get out with a holeless hide
These storms in the west, like the crops
of this year, are great -but I like the
crops the best.
I was in the great rain storm in south
ern Indiana the first of this week.' but
that was limply rain, but the damag.
done is way up into the hundreds 0
thousands of dollars.
How we learn that we are in the
hands of a great Ood when these storms
t irn loose upon the earth. How great
nature is, and how small man is. How
merciful Qod is and how mean we are,
We see but for the merciful, masterful
htnd of God who directs the storm the
children of men would perish by the
thousands. In spite of storms, cyclones,
Siipwrecks, earthquakes railroad dia
atters pestilence and famine, God
keeps the reins in his hands and still
we live. But we are frequently
reminded that in the midst of life we are
mixed up with death.
The Georgia papers reach me more
frequently these later days. I have
rerd with interest and sorrow of the
death of Hon. Evan Howell. He be
longs in and to the history of all Georgia
and few events in the past forty years
or more but what he had to do with
them if they meant the development of
Atlanta and the well-being of Georgia,
In all the sorrow Georgia 'does not tor
row too much and in all the eulogies
they do not praise too much this noble
man. Like all mortal men he was inv
perfect, but he had a thousand shin
ing virtues to every fault. He threw a
thousand rays of sunshine where he
cast a single shadow. He helped the
thing that was good and hmdeied the
thing that was bad. If any man did
not love Captain Howell it was because
he did not know him. In common
with all Georgians, I drop a tear and
Dluck the sweetest flower I can' find
and lay it on his grave.
G.rady, Hemphill, Howell, all alike,
belong to Atlanta's history, and these
three deserved the honors bestowed
upon them while they lived and the
eulogies given after they left us were
worthily given Atlanta has already laid
in the bossom of her cemetery many
of her noblest sons and daughters, and
they are missed on all sides. Let the
Evan Howell Park be the monument
that Atlanta raises in memory of the
big hearted man we mourn.
I fear the legislature is going to
reach final adjournment before they do
anything but pass an act entitled an
act, nut to act. The reform legislation
we hoped for was not even considered
seriously. When they would do good
evil is continually before them, and
what they would they do not, and
what they would not do they do, and,
like )he old brother in the experience
meeting, they have so many obstacles
and difficulties that they make but lit
tle progress. I am glad the raise in
salaries djies not reach the present
crowd. This crowd is under-worked
and over paid now. Provision for the
sale of the State road ought to have
been made; the anti-Jug law ought to
have been enacted; the Australian bal
lot system ought to have been enacted;
but neither went through. The other
things they have dona they could have
left undone, and things would have
moved along about as of yore. Go
borne, gentlemen, go home, and I
hope you will never go where good
(oiks don't go.
I notice the peace conference at
Portsmouth hat not broken up to date.
Russia is the biggest old bulldozer in
the universe, ft Japan will hold her
ground she will get all she aaks, in my
opinion, ana 11 Kussia oon i come 10
time, then let Japan drive heVbeck
across the desert, to where she belongs.
The world don't need her in its busi
ness beyond certain lines, fiustia pro
voked this war, and ought to fce made
foot the bill. Russia took that island
away from the Japs and Japan ought
to hold it now that she has it back
again, and all other demands of tht
Japs ought to go through intact. . But
I hope for peace between the two war
ring nations. -
It is a constant Joy and source of
gratitude to me to look on the great
growing crops of corn. It tjeme to me
that we have corn to burn, so to
speak. Surely the bumper crop of all
our history, if seasons hold out and no
disaster overtakes it.
For 57 days I have ridden over this
oountry on this present tour, and I am
sure I never saw the oountry and peo
ple more prosperous and happy. There
is a glow on everything, and not a
cloud in sight. I sometimes stop and
wonder how long these times will con
tinue. The crowds I meet daily at
these great chautaoqua centers are
larger than I ever witnessed. The
trains and hotels are fuller and it looks
sometimes like the whole of our popu
lation are on the move, either going
somewhere or coming back home.
To say the least of it, the country is
not broke.
I have two more weeks of Chautau
qua work, then I go home for a few
days of rest, and I propose to go back
into the evangelistic work largely this
wihter. With Excell as our singer, we
arjB to begin evangelistic work in Music
Hall, in Cincinnati, October 29, under
the auspices of the Pastors' Alliance of
Cincinnati. It was in that great build.
ing I beld meetings twenty years ago
with Bishop Joyce, who passed to his
reward a few days ago. Those were
great meetings, and to him I gave
much of the credit. I trust we shall
have even greater meetings this fall.
I get tirecLpf travel and as homesick
as a roving tramp at times, then I get
a new interest in travel and work, and
go it again. I shall go from here into
Ohio, thence back into Illinois and
Missouri, and wind up at Elkhart,
In J., September 1st.
Yours truly,
Sam P. Jones,
P. 8. This is meant and intended as
a written permit to the legislature to go
home and stay there. S. P. J.
A Personal Application.
When one of the large benefactors of
Harvard College Library was a business
man in Lawrence, a customer of bis
firm contracted a debt which ran along
for a year or more without any signs
of settlement. Several letters, says the
Boston Herald, failed to bring about
liquidation.
One day, .while glancing over the
religious notices in a local paper, Har
vard's benefactor saw something which
gave him an inspiration, and he went
to his desk and wrote the following
note to the debtor:
'Mr. .My Pear Sir. I see in the
local press that you are to deliver
address on Friday evening before the
M. C. A., on 'The Sinner's Balane d
Aocount.' I enclose yours, as yet un
balanced, and trust that I may have
the pleasure of attending your lecture.
Yours.truly."
a check came by the next mail.
RlTl "lye's Reply.
The late Bill Nye replied as follows to
a correspondent (who inquirred about
his habit of work and life:
When the weather is such that I
cannot exercise in the open air I have
a heavy pair of dumbells at my lodgins,
which I use for holding the door open.
also belong to an athletic club and a
pair of Indian clubs, with red handles.
owe much of my robust health to
this.
I do most of my writing in a sitting
posture or in an autograph album.
When I am engaged in thought I am
employed in recovering from its effects.
am very genial and pleasant to be
thrown among.
"I dress expensively, but not so as to
attract attention. In the morning I
wear morning dress, in the evening I
wear evening dress and at night I wear
night dress."
Frawd Expos.
A few counterfeit have lately been
makinifand trying to sell imitations of
Dr. King's New Discovery forConsnmp
Hon, Oonghs and Colds, and other med
icines, thereby defrauding the public.
This is to warn yon to beware of snch
people, who geek to profit, throngn steal
ing the reputation of remedies which
have been successfully curing disease,
for over S5 years. A sure protection, to
yon. Is oar name on the wrapper. Look
for it, on all Dr. King's or Bncklen's
remedies, as all others are . mere imita
tations. H. E. Buckles: A Co., Chi
cago III., and Windsor, Uanada. All
druggists.
The Wades boro Messenger mentions
that two children who died of whoop
ing cough were buried the same day in
that town recently, and that six or
seven deaths have reunited from the
disease in that community in the past
lew months.
He who loves men ne'ds not to prsy
for power to love God.
SOCIAL EQUALITY IN THENOHTH
Mrs. W. H. Felton, in Atlanta Joutyal.
The presence of Booker Washington
at the United States Hotel in Saratoga,
N. Y., as the guest of John Wana-
maker, formerly cabinet minister, un
der a Republican president, has the ap
pearance of a political movement to
my mind.
The fact that Booker conducted Mrs.
Warburton to the dinner table indicates
the quality of the political movement
and the man behind it.
It savors of social cquaffty as the bait
to be Aid out to negro voters in the
next presidential race and of Mr, Wana
maker's yearning desire (o be the can
didate of the movement.
Mrs. Warburton, nee Wanamaker, is
apparently willing to lend herself to her
father's ambitions, and we may expect
to hear the proclamation from the
Wanamaker's in due time, announcing
social equality as the basis plank in
the platform of the Wanamaker candi
date. : 1
Some people go as far as to condemj
Booker, and assert his injury to him
self and his cause by allowing himself
entertained by the Wanamakers after
this fashion.
That is all rot and nonsense. Booker
understands how to butter Booker's
bread. This is an advertisement for
Booker's purposes. This reads well in
England, where Rev. Alexander Bealer
finds the negro in high feather as a
rara avis in certain classes of society
Maybe Mistress Warburton has taken
her cue from Eaglish negrophobists,
and for my part I am not sorry to be
able to understand the underlying prin
ciples of the Wanamaker tribe of both
sexes.
I have often wondered why Hon.
Matt Qiay could move the State of
Pennsylvania so often and so' easily to
discredit the pretensions of the Hon.
John Wanamaker said the hardest and
the meanest things possible of Senator
Matt Stanley Quay.
When election time rolled around
Hon. Matt was always on top and leav
ing Hon. John W, with an empty bag
to hold. It was apparently a unani
mous proceeding. Pennsylvania had
many opportunities to honor Mr. Wan
amaker, but torn eh j w or somehow else
Pennsylvania preferred to allow the
Hon. John to run his department store,
while somebody else was preferred to
serve Pennsylvania. We may see more
clearly now and understand the quality
of a man's ambition who oould conde-
scend to put his own daughter in such
an equivocal position for a political
purpose.
There is nothing to hurt Booker in
the business. He is not hurtable in
this proceeding. He is simply being
used by the Wanamaker family, men
and women, to win votes among the
colored people north and south.
I have never taken much stock in
Booker's claims to patriotic conduot
and duty. He it after getting fixed in
money and in position to get more
money. He sent his daughter to Vas-
tar to mix with white folks. Booker
aims to mix with white folks where
white folks allow the mixture. His
motives have not even been cleverly
disguised. He has little use for ne
groes, except as money-making step
ping stones for Booker s ambitions on
certain lines. It makes me tired to
hear people reproaching Booker for as
sociating with Mrs. Warburton in the
dining room of the United States hotel
at Saratoga. It didn't lift Booker up
in my estimation, nor did I think less
of him. I am simply absorbed my dis
gust and contempt for the woman.
She pinned her own placard on herself.
If Booker likes such company, to his
hurt, it is evident she has small respect
for her own race and color, so, there is
no need of reproaching Booker, and I
shall certainly waste no pity or re
proaches on the woman.
They are only two of kind and sim
ply an evidence of what one woman
can do when she wants to be seen and
felt in official position, and what many
negroes would do if given the oppor
tunity to find recognition and bask io
social equality with the white race.
There are said to be ninety thousand
negroes in the Bute of Pennsylvania
In a presidential race Mr. Wanamaker
expects to lean upon the negro vote be
cause the whites have indulged a habit
of rejecting him when be essayed to
lead io the State where be lives. We
we will see what it will lead to in the
future.
But if he leans heavily on Booker he
may miss his hold, for, as before said,
Booker is simply for Booker and fie
money, and it is the habit of Booker to
draw money out of the gullible cranks
of the north and west.
Perhaps Booker will draw along as
usual with the greatest contribution for
Booker's benefit and Mr. Wanamaker
will not be the first politician who went
down in tha rutter to find a vote ani
came back besmirched without it.
I hope and trust nobody in Georgia
will set up a? wail because Booker led
Mrs. Warburton into the dinner table
at her father's ohief guest of honor.
Water seeks its level and they are
heartily welcome to all either got out
Af that dinner business.
I felt grieved that the President of
tft United States let down his high of
fice in a similar search for colored
votes, but as for the Wanamakers
Pheugbl They were doubtless enter
tained to their particular liking
Good) Owe of WUaler's Stories.
Marshall P. Wilder, at a dinner in
St. Louis, was telling railroad stories.
"One bright afternoon I was riding
on Southern train," he said. "It was a
hot, bright afternoon. The car was
full of sunshine and jluit, and the air
that swept through the open door was
warm and gritty and unrefreshing,
Everybody was uncomfortable, a little
boy who sat in front of me had his
head poked out of the window all the
time in search of coolness. Now and
then, with some loud remark, he drew
in his head, all coated with dust and
soot.
"The train after a time struck a ser
pontine stretch of track, and began to
rock from side to side. Now we were
hurled to the right, now, we were flung
violently to the left. On we went with
this crszy, rocking motion, and in the
distance a tunnel appeared. As, always
swaying violently, we drew near the
tunnel, the boy in front drew in his
dust grimmed head quickly, and in
wild excitement shouted:
'By Gaorge, I believe we'll miss the
hole!"
Elijah
Issues Orders
en Love aad
Marriage.
John Alexander Dowie, of Zion City,
has taken charge of the courtship and
marriage of all Zionites in a ukase
issued to the followers. ; The order
decree continues : That each family
shall bring a baby to the baptismal font
each year, thus evangelizing by birth'
rate for the church and crusading
against race suicide. That lovers shall
not embrace or kiss each other before
marriage. That no faithful member of
the Christian Catholic Church in Zion
shall marry without first obtaining the
written consent of Apostle John Alex
ander Dowie II. That marriage per
formed by justices of the peace shall
not be recognized by the ohurch as
legitimate,
Nothing est the market Equal to
4 Baaakerlala'e Colic, Cholera
aatf Diarrhoea Reassdy.
. This fact is well known to druggists
everywhere, and nine ont of ten will
give their customers this preparation
when the best is asked for. Mr. Obe
Witmer, a prominent druggist of Joplin,
Mo., in a oircnlar to his customers, says :
"There Is nothing on the market in the
way of patent medicine which equals
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy for bowel "complaints.
We sell nd recommend the prepara
tion." For tale by M. L Marsh and D
D. Johnson.
Prosperity has its drawbacks. Kan
sas is worried because its farmers are
getting the gout.
are instantly relieved, and perfectly
healed, by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. O.
Rivenbark, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., writes:
I burnt my knee dreadfully ; that It
blistered all over. Bncklen's Arnica
Salve stopped the pain, and healed it
without a scar." Also heals all wounds
and sores. 85o at all druggists'.
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ROW IS TBI THUS TO GET WELL
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stta la Short Order.
The summer months are the best in
the whole year for the treatment and
cure of stomach troubles. The out
door life, with natural exercise, the
fruit and berries which are so freely
eaten, all help to Restore healthy action
to the digestive organs.
Now when nature will aid Mi-o-na in
curing Indigestion and giving strength
to the stomach and whole digestive sys
tem, is the best time to use this re
markable remedy.
If you suffer with headaches, indiges
tion, flatulency, specks before the eyes,
fermentation, heart burn, dizziness, or
have a variable appetite, and a genera
feeling of despondency or weakness, it
shows clearly that the stomach is not
digesting the food as it should.
Just one little tablet out of a 60 cent
box of Mi-o-na for a few days and all
this will be changed for the better, and
health restored. Ask Gibson Drug
Store to show you the Mi-o-na guaran
tee.
Twasa'l His Name.
Philadelphia Record.
An officious, individual, who prob
ably had in mind the ordinance of Coun
cils requiring all vending carts and
wagon to bear the owner's name and
license number, seemed to be greatly
oonoeroed yesterday on beholding a
vehicle on South Penn Bquare which
bore only a few undecipherable hiero
glyphics where the name should have
been. Approaching the driver, he
pointed to the faded lettering and re
marked: My good fellow, do you know that
your name it obliterated? ' "Whoa!
what's that?" queried the teamster,
pulling up. "I said your name is ob
literated." "You're away off," re
ported the driver: "my name's O'Brien.
Qitep!"
To Via His Slae.
The late Tom Reed Czar Reed-
was, as everyone knows, a big man
physically, and tLere were few men
who wore larger collars. One hot day
in the summer of 1901, Reed was in
Portsmouth, and, having to wait over
for a train, he decided to make an im
promptu toilet, changing his collar, etc.
So he hied himself to the nearest hab
berdasher'l and began a sutvey of the
collars displayed In the store.
"Waited on, sir T" queried one of the
clerks,
Not yet," responded Keed, and then
added, "I would like a collar."
"What size r" piped the clerk.
"Size 20," answered Reed.
"We don't keep collets so large, but
I think you can be accommodated at
the store jutt around the corner."
Reed found the store around the cor
ner to be a harness shop.
We learned not long ago that towsid
the close of the Mid Summer Meeting
at Jackson Springs, a tpelling-bee was
organized one night, and the crack.
apellert of the company faced each
other in battle array. After a severe
and thorough contest all the forces fell
but four; and three out of the four who
who stood learned to spell in Webster's
old "blue black" spelling book. We
are not sure about the fourth it is
quite probable that she was also trained
that unrivalled text book but we
happen to know where the three learned
to spell. Charity and Children.
Worship is but the voice of love.
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In conceding the next presidential
election to the Republicans Editor Wat-
tenon must have an idea that the Dem
ocrats are going to nominate Bryan
again.
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