it
.Bk ......... L .
THE HUMBLE-BEE
Ralph
ITJRL.Y,
dozing humble- -
: bee.
Where thou
for me.
art is clime-
Let them sail for Pdrto
Rique,
Far-off heats ; through
. seas to seek;
i I will follow thee alone,
Thou animated torrid-zone! V -Zigzag
oteerer, desert cheerer.
Let me chase thy waving lines;
-Keep me nearer, me thy hearer,
Singingr over shrubs and vines.
Insect lover Mof-thesun,- "
.Joy-of thy dominion!
Sailor of the atmosphere ;
Swimmer through the waves ot air
Voyager of light and noon;
Epicurean of June;
Wait, I prithee, till I come
Within earshot of thy hum,
All without is "martyrdom. .... M ,
When the south wind, in May daysi
X With a net -of shining haze ? '
-Amd, with softness touching all.
Tints the human cpuhtenajioe): -f
With a color of romance; t ' ! .
And, infusing- subtle heats:
Turns the sod to violets,
Thou, in sunny solitudes . c-'
Rover of the underwoods,
The green silence. doth displace
With thy mellow breezy bass. - .
FIND
TOUGH
CITIZENS.
Atlanta Journal.
For years during the occupation
Cuba by Spain and up to the end
the "war of which the United Stales
fought for the liberation of that island
with contemptibly little aid from the
Cubans themselves, we had been pour
ing out sympathy and praise upon that
people. We continued to do so until
better acquain tance forced us to the
conclusion that we have really been
making fools of ourselves in this mat
ter. I
We have found to our disgust, that
the Cuban of our imagination and the
Cuban of bur actual experience' are very
different creatures. There is in the
real article very little toT inspire respect
and very much to arouse contempt and
- indignation. ; . I
A special correspondent who is fa
miliar with Cuba and her people, anjd
who has kept closely up with the cui
rent of events there since the people
were liberated, has recently written
some impressive letters to the New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
If this writer has come anywhere
near the truth the average Cuban s
about as tough a specimen as can t e
raked up any where. - - -
The Times-Democrat has full faith i a
the correspondent who gives these dis
graceful reports of the conduct of ot r
much-petted wards, and it bases upon
these statements the following denuncl
tion of the ingrates: . s x.'
" "Rights of American citizens t
Havana rights of life and rights df
, property have been and are still, a4-
. iiuiiiiiif Li i ir:nr: uiniui'i'.iira. lULiimnniv
jiolatedj Methods of GastiUan. cruelty
and expedients of Spanish persecution
.have been invoked to get rid of Amerik
cans who live in the island. Citizen 3
of the United States are assaulted, rob -bed,
imprisoned. and murdered-tq sat
isfy the' vindictive whim" of these, nn-
gratefuCnhans; J I . 2". :t ,
"When weay ungrateful' we uso
the word advisedly. Never in the his
tory of the world has there been a
case where a people n ave been " treate
so justly, so generously, so magnanioa
ously as these Cubans have been treat
by the United States- In behalf of th
uuuappy luuauiLauus uj. tuat lsiauu mi
nation made war with a power tha
had immemorially been a friend of th
United States. To rescue Cuba from
tyranny, our government spent mil
Ua UWJUCJf OUUSOUiUUCU uiuueauus
of lives. At the close of the conflict
we healed Cuba's sick and wounded
ied . Cuba's famishing, children,?? shel
4ered 'Cuba'a houseless, clothed " her
naked and visited "her widowed and
fatherless.4 We madei lif eahealthiei
and property safer in every town in jthe
1KI.S.TW1 u.nn UTrpF nro nan nnnp an rnia
1 J . a .. . . i - 1 - . 11 A 1
waiter we hail lifted the .stricken ijCu
bans to heir feet' and 'set' them upon
uiin ihk 11 n n. wr t mam m l.i-! 1 mm viivriii
By Ralph Waldo Emenotf :
-rT'.v-'- - V'.:
THE.WEELITTLES BERM,;::. .
THE
ment we presented to tkem the free-j
FAVORITE I
Hot midsummer's petted-crone, "
Sweet to me thy-drowsy tone...--f' . 4 -
Tells of countless sunny hours, -r "
Long days,' and' solid banks of flow-.-"
.. - era; '-.'-;-.:;:- .'''..-:-r'
Of gulfs of sweetness without bound .
In Indian wildernesses found;" -7
Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure, :
Firmest cheer, and bird-like pleasure.
-Aught jmsavory or unclean
Hath my insect never seen ;
But violets and : bilberry bells
Maple-sap and daffodels,
Grass with green OagTiaif-mas
Succory to match the sky, .
Columbine with horn of honey.
Scented fern, and agrimony.
Clover, catchfly, adder's-tongue.
And brier-roses,, dwelt among; ,
All beside was unknown waste, - -'
All was picture as" he passed."'.. ,k
- . : i i . . - ' 1
Wiser far than human -seer; if:J,4,
. Tellow-breeched philosopher;' '-
J Seeing only what is fairry -v . ' ' -?'
I Sipping only what is.' .sweet, .
Thou dost mock at fate and? care,iv!
; Leave the chaff and take the wheat.
J When the fierce, northwestern; blast
Cools sea and -land so far and: fast,
(i Thou already slumberest deiep
- Wbe'and wanttheu-canst outsleep;
Want and woe, which -torture us,
-Thy sleep "makes ridiculous. s
CHAPERON.
dom purchased fothem by the blood
and treasure of" Americans and then
we withdrew from the island.
, "In return for these, our acts of hu-
manity, the Cubans now insuJt Ameri
cans in the streets of Havana, rob them
by day and waylay and murder them
by nigbt. Even the memory of brave
American sailors who sleep their last
sleep in the harbor of Havana be
neath the watersjthat envelop the Maine
-cannot ' deter 1 these bloodthirsty in
grates; fromiihsult,N theft, persecution
and assassination'
It would seem that when General
Bragg' late -United States consul gen
eral at Havana, in a letter to his wife
characterized the Uubans in a manner
that caused histransfer to a post of
duty in China, he did them no 'in
justice. The concurrence of testimony
to the effect that the ayerag Cuban is
a very shabby felldw is wonderfully
strong,., a W rH- r
Politics mfor Sweetheart and Wire.
Everybody's Magazine. '. f p !
Almost every other distinguished
politician in the country has two sides
a public and a private side. 'David
B. Hill has only one side the public,
the politician side. Politics has been
and is sweetheart and wife and children'
and friends to him. It divides his
allegiance with no social pleasure, not
even with his happiness, nor with
horses, nor cards, nor sports, nor -dogs,
nor automobiles, nor anything whatso
ever. He is a yeryable lawyerr but he
practices lawonlyf because he must
make a living; and' tfie one reason for
his rather close attention to hislaw
practice in the last two orT three years
is that the political conditions have
made politics all but impossible for him.
He is fifty-nine years old, . and he has
been a politician" for 'nearly half a
Century. t J - "1 j rfl
hj: llotl&-Wliiter Itlontlis. p
Vanceburg Ky. Sun.
" A Tennessee paper says in one of the
mountain counties only, one man took
a newspaper, and the citizens for some
distancewpuld gather in to hear it read
when it came." A listener one time
asked what the Republicans were doing
in Congress. "Oh," replied the
reader, "they're playing jthe Chickens
over therep they have passed law
adding two months to the year, and
the. worst of it is they have made them
both!. winter months. "4Blast their
fool. souls,! said the listener "and I'm
nearly out; of .fodder,,
It is reported from - Ansonville that
one flight recently some unknown-lper-son
went to the' barn; of Eev. u; -O.
Wilhoit and attempted, to jide" a colt he
had just 2 bought U Failing I in his at
tempt, the miserable wretch took his
knife and slashed the colt down ; the
shoulder blade, making a gash - fifteen
inches long and' reaching the" bone in
places. The animal will probably never
be of any service.
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Atlanta Gonstttatlon' -. f- - , '
r My northern friend who asked me to
hold up on the negro - and - let him so
ueau uas seoi me a ciippins irom- a.
Newport -paper- and ' says: fllere U a
good text for your next letter. Jt readar
as f pllowa : ' Jfewport, Octdber 14i At
a meeting of the school committee to--daytJedrge
Eilisrahd wife-objected to
having their, son taught by a colored'
iuiu Biuu tuai 11 - ineir son was
not admitted to another school where
the teacher was white they would keep
him at home. The committee refused
to change him And prdered the. boy fto
be arrested as "a'truant?' The father
filed a plea of. not guilty and , the case
will go tolthe : h&heVic6urt ana be
J tested',' They,nave compulsory eduG
uuu - iuere.f seems..- uiai inis
teacKeV"' ' is 3K the4- idaughty of a
preacher, who is" the-American consul
af St. Thomas.- 'r He. is .a loyal republi
can aHd there is politics' in it and the
lily whites are in Mninbrity She;
may be. one of the 400 that Watterson
is troubled about, and 7 so , I will turn
over the text to-liim.' "The same mail
that brought .mg th,text brought a
letter from my grandson, wha is in the
employ Of the iWestinghouse Company,
of Pittsburg, and is an electric" engineer
and is now putting -down , a rplant at
Utica, NrY. He writes that his com
tractor had a number of white men
employed but asiabor waff scarce- he
picked up an idle negro and told him
to go to workt The "white men rebelled
violently against this and threatened to
quit, and so the negro had to be sent
off. When I was last , in Mississippi
the barber who shaved me said he came
down from Illinois on aecount of his
health and was amazed tcT;find: white
folksdown here patronize negro bar
bars and' that ii one '"dared "to open a
shop in any town in Illinois he would
be mobbed aud run out of the place.
Like Bah quo 's ghost, this race problem
will not down. It has" as many jjhases
as there are-times-andi places. Shortly
after the war, the yankee school marms
hurried down here to educate ihe negro,
but they -soon tired of it and went back.
Now a negro woman has. gone up there
to teach their white children. That is
all right. We don't- care. As Cobe
says: "It's all optionary with meJ'
Now I will let the negro go dead for
awhile. It will take many years yet
to settte the problem, but it will be set
tled. ;;The two races wrk together very
harmoniously in our town and county
and we are reconciled to the situation,
r wish that" every community had as
many blessings as we enjoy. No strikes,
no murders nor outrages of any kind
no street fights, no cursing, no cyclones
nor floods nor famine no ' pestilence,
no fires. We have good schools, good
churches, good preachers and good hum
ble congregations. ' Every church has a
nice comfortable home for the preacher
and there is one more for the. presiding
elder. We have a good sociable com
munity with no stuckup families. Not
ever Sam Jones' folks, put on any airs
Over the rest of us- I visited them on
Sunday eve and was treated with the
most cordial hospitality. Their home
is a palace and their garden and
grounds a little paradise. I am getting
strong again and walked to town last
week for the first time in three months
when I came home my wife shook
her fist at me and.said:. "I believe you
will outlive me yetl" Ifrom the tone
of her voice I thought maybe she was
mad about it. .We have nearly com
pleted the finest court house in the
state. It is in full view" from the win
dow where I write and I never get tired
of looking at the beautiful dome that
shines like silver in the sun. "A thing
of beauty is a joy forever. " ' Our" gar-
4 den is now adorred with beautiful roses
and I cut, them every morning and my
wife allows me to send them to the
pretty girls no, 1 mean to the ancient
mothers in our neighborhood. My wife
isrpeculiar about thati i At night I have
to help, a pretty lassie with her arith
metic and algebra and Latin. I get
stalled sometimes, but we generally get
through all right; We have a tele
phone and my. daughter, who lives a
mile aaray, has one. So when her
daughter gets stalled she telephones
here and our .lassie tells her oyer the
'phone how to do it. Sometimes
it takes many figures, multiplying and
dividing, etc., and if there is ar mistake
made on only one t figure nearthe be
ginning it runs through to the end and
gets bigger and bigger as it goes. And
so jny lassie is disappointed because
she did not get the answer. Then I go
over all the figures carefully and find
the errorahd she has' it to do over again.
Just so it is with our habits, and con
duct. If a little boy tells fibs or stories,
the Habit wIl gjxiwjm him and byhe
time he is grown he will' tell -lies. If a
boy swaps knives withfanother boy and
cheats him r he will get into a habit. of
cheating in" a trade and nobody will
trust him. When Tom Benton waif or
the first time a. candidate . for office, it
was told on nim that when he was a
school boy he stole a knife rfrom'an
othef boy and had to give it up and
take a whipping. And so he didn't get
elected: -- ' ' " ' ' s".'
I had a most ' grateful compliment
the other day( and it was asr pleasant
it s was unexpected IThe Dalton
lawyers and the Calhoun, lawyers 5 Were
here, totten4ifanal;vOij' Qolonel
Hais;f " Af tejcL .that r sad?, mission was
over they joitieid with our. local bar and
our judge visited me in my sick room
-and did me'speciarhonor. 'For a while
we-, exchanged Jwit 1 and - wisdom and
pleasant' anecdotes. X" shall not forget
their kind and gratefuf visit as. long as
I liveVUfiK things - are worth- being
sick for .1; .-f:;'t'J , '
And.wejiad a baby show? yesterday
at my daughter's home. She has a fine
little boy a year "old who is beginning
to walk and talkii :Soahe "gave- din
insr the vounsr mothers, who each .had
f alittle girl a : year , old hud they, were
J learning to walk: t-It beat ' the Atlanta
I horse show to see: the three littler tots
tottering across the room as merry as
larks as they tried: to show ' off, -:. some
times they colliding and" falling 'down
then up again on another round. '-' It
was -a4 pretty "sight and . their r mothers
were :r proud and C happy r A young
mother;i8 the proudest creature iOn
earth. 1 She is always calm and serene.'
Bixx Akp.-
J-
A TalW ot a Fanooi ltarIamaB. J
In a book published recently by T. P.
Freemarrtle, who is an authority on ri
fle shooting, the following story Is told
of a man who is famous In the history
of international rifle matches: - -t
Sir nenry.'Halfprd on one occasion
'it'washot a-very "clear day was about
; to begin shooting at lt000. yards and
thinking that the markers must now be
through the telephone, "Are you all
"XOU PUT A BTIiliKT ' XNTO IT,"
rights "The marker replied AU right
Shy in a minute."' But unluckily Six
Henry took "All rights sir," instead of
.the whole sentence and ; removed th
telephone from his ear. He lay. down
and fired his shot and on looking
through the telescope to see Where it
had hit was horrified to see the, marker
with a perfectly white face .staggering
away toward his shelter. He was rin.
tensely alarmed, and in a moment
there came a ring at i the , telephone."
"What has happened? ArejVou badly
hurtr" "No, sir, I am not hurt, but I
had a bucket of vwhitewaBh-" between
my: ; legs painting the target and yott
put a bullet into it and splashed it all.
up in my face." ' ' ,
u u-r..' -rrr-y : '
Wben the Statue Falli. . .
The three were indulging in their
favorite pastime, jesting, Messrs.' Rup
pert, Ryan and Fitzgerald of New York
composing the party. Ruppert had just
handed but a box of cigarettes when
Representative O. H. P. Belmont came
through the Democratic cloakroom.
"Look at him. Ain't he handsome?"
said Fitzgerald, with a merry twinkle,
pointing to the distinguished Belmont
"And see how chipper he appears,
chimed Ruppert
"A regular three ply fashion plate,"
piped Ryan.
"Oh, by the way, Mr. Belmont" said
Fitzgerald; who is usually up to, some
innocent '.pleasantry, 1'ye got a new
joke to spring bh you. Then he start
ed in, "If the statue of Liberty in New
York harbor, were to fall into the bay,
what would It be?"
Belmont hesitated, glanced at Fitz
gerald's companions - a -moment and
then said smilingly; .
"Why, Mr. Fitzgerald, a statue-wet
of course." Washington Post
. Carnesrle's Wjr.
"It is better to give than to receive,-"
began a clergyman the other day. ad
dressing Mr; Andrew Carnegie ;as he
descended the steps of the Lotos club.
Mr. Carnegie scented a: petition for
a donation and, as he makes it a rule
to select and investigatev his. charities
for himself, tactly observed ? as he
passed: . . , ;
5 'I' hav found that rule works both
Twsiys. I'll frankly admit that -I have
found great pleasure, in receiving aa
well as in giving. I like to give, but in
myown way. Perhaps it is a selfish
pleasure, 5 bat I can't help it" New
York Times,
Davy Crockett's Rifle.
Memphis Commercial Appeal. " " J ' -
One of the most interesting relics on
exhibition in the office of "Secretary 5 of
State Crockett .is. the rifle which was
presented by admiring, friends, to his
great-grandfather, the immortal Davy
Crockett,: hero of the 4 Alamo, 1 and
author of the equally immortarphraser
"Be sure you are right and then go
ahead." ' '- ' ' -
i ' This gun was carried by the grandson
of the first owner, the, Jate Gen; .'fBob"
Crockett, who .brought .dpwn .much
game' with it, but now it r has- been
retired with laonor and full pay to pass
the remainder of itsdays, or centuries,
as a relic of one of the. greatest charac
ters this Country has ef eFpr6o!uced.tIt
is f.a: formidable lodkihg eapon,
originally , oL the fiintlock; type,. J.with
a 40-caHbre bore. The barrel was
originally Iforty-fiixiiiches " long, but
some of it has been utVoff andit is
now onlv fortv and one-half inches. It
T . ' j. r - . - ar f - - -
was presented to DavidCrpckett ;4 soon
after his secdndclectidh to Cohgre in
18: by someof bis J adnalrinfir youhg
jWhig friendlof PhOadphia! it- cost
$250 and ,waa made especiaUyJfor vm
The 1 donors raised the money 1 by
contributing "half a.! dollareach to the
fund;, The 8tpek:i8 trimmed fjnt sterling
silver. aDDrobriatelv :desifimed '..with
figures of the Goddess T of Liberty, al
raccoon; i a deer's head anatf otner
figures. Along theiUpperl part '.of the
barrel are the letters set into the metal
in gold,?some"ol" wlucnas ? warat-outj
! Pres6nted by the Young Men of Phil
adelphia to the; Hon. David Crockett
of Tennessee, In -fiimilar letttrs t near
the "muzzle are" the " wordsf , Go
ahead;'?1 - : ;;y " ,
i t ill! in. Ilia 11 : I
IDYLLIC ISLAIf X LIFE.
No Drnnttennetif dime, Police. JTalla
-Dr Coorti In Cocoa-Keeling.
PaU Mall Gazette. , Z r - - I'
" Away h from the ordinary ; track' of
ships,' and blessed with a splendid clim
ate, are the CocosKeeling Islands, Tin
the Straits Archipelago.'" Their history
is a strange and romantic as their pres
ent life'is curious and unique. :: r
Inil825 a Scotch sailor named Ross
landed'and,! seeing that the isles were
very - good, : he took , possession , and
settled there with his family. The na
tives were gentle and; teachable, so that
Boss had no difficulty in making him
self thetr. ruler, ...In 1851 he boisted.the
Union Jack as a precaution agaihsf the
visit of a wandering FrenchT man-of-war,
and six yearalater the isles were, form-
aUy . annexed by the; British. Govern
ment - With rare ' tact and wisdom
Boss devoted himself to governing the
people;; oyer whom f he had so quaintly
established himself as a; king, and on
his'decease'he bequeathed his mission
of;, government and ..proprietorship of
the Cocos-Keeling f to his son. The
present owner and ruler of the island s,
JG. Clunies Boss,- is tbe'tbird in suc
cession He was studying engineering
at Glasgow when his father's death
called him to' the fore fifteen years ago".
Abandoning his European - ambitions,
he settled; in his kingdom, married a
C0008 wife", and devoted his life to the
welfare of the juatives who are hirchil-,
dren rather than subjects. The work
of the Rosses j in thus . ordering these
East Indian Islands forms a fascinat
ing story, and the Cocos-Keeling group,
though generally unknown, is ' perhaps
the most picturesque . in the British
Empire. ''The little ''horeeshoe-stiaped
cluster of islands, three days' 8 teaming
south of Java, are blessed, with a perfect
jlimate, luxuriant soil, and man here is
seen at his very best.
i The inhabitants number about 600,
of whom 400 are Cocos born and the
remkinder coolie laborers from Java.
Under the rule of the Rosses,1 the only
white-residents schools ; have been es
tablished,, and all. the, islanders are well
educated, the schoolmaster-in-chief being-A.'
Ross, a master of ' arts of Glas
gow University. .Every male is also
trained to work in brass, iron and
wood, and is a skilled artisan. Every
Cocos girl similarly serves a term of
apprenticeship in Clunies Ross's house,
learning sewing, cooking and the whole
round of domestic art under the tuition
Of his; wife. Formerly the Cocos par
ents . used to arrange their children's
masriages,s but under the new order
each man and woman is a free agent,:
and chooses - a partner according- to
European usage. Marriages , are; cele
brated according to the Mohammedan
law, put polygamy is prohibited, and
there have been only ? two divorces in
the last, fifty years. . There, is neither
jail nor pol ceman, for c ime does not
exist in these islands. Opium and al
cohol are forbidden, and the wi y Chi
nese is also excluded. Vaccination is
compulsory, and all sales are made by.
barter, ' for Mr. Ross will not' allow
money, holding it to be the root of all
evil. . . . . .
The indus'ries of the island consist
in gathering cocoanuts and - preparing
their oil and copra. Bechede mer and
a bark for dying are also exported by a
chartered vessel which calls annually
for the purpose. Provisions are fetched
once a month from Batavia, but rice is
the only food .'largely imported, for
fruit abounds in the islands, poultry is
plentiful and the sea teems with fish.
The gentle and handsome native leads
a life idyllic in graceful content and
happiness under the parental eye' of
Ruler Ross III. He carefully guards
his little Utopia against the introduc
tion of European customs with their
attendant ills. Christmas Island, close
by, is similarly ruled by his brother,
Andrew Ross. Coffee flourishes there,
and so do rats and cats, almost to - the
extent of a plague.- Hitherto these
atoms, of -Britain have enjoyed serene
isolation, but the new electric cable
from Durban ' to - Adelaide touches at
the Cocos-Keeling and - Christmas is
lands, so that they are now linked with
the greater ' world , n ot, it is to , be
hoped, to the spoiling of their arcadian
character. : -'- " " , ' A
. TTlie Only Pawnword.
Pniladelphia Public Ledger. r
Booker T, Washington recently. , told
a gathering of negroes that one of 'the
great faults of his race1 was a disposition
-to exhibit.knowledge under any and all
circumstances and. asserted that, :f until
the negro learnsnot to display his' van
ity, he was useless in any confidential
capacity; ; By way of illustration, he
told a story which, he said, might be
or might n'bt be apocryphal,'' but which
was good enough to be true.: fl '.k i
, Gen. .Sherman had been told that the
soldiers' of a negro, regiment in his
comniabd were lax ' when on sentry
duty, and showed a fondness for pass
ing doubtful persons through the fines
j ust to indulge their", power to do so.
To ascertain if this were so he muffled
himself one' night in a cloak And tried
to get pasta black sentry.. After .the
"Who goes there?" the "A friend,"
and "the Advance friend, 'and give the
countersign, ' had been i exchanged
Sherman replied; ,,r -v-fn 'm - Un
' "Roxbury.". . , ' T" - .
4 "Hb; sahl" was the polite,but firm
response, 'u irr
"Medfordr
lfCharlestonl" Sherman hext teied ?
i&N6 sahi No, liBahf'said the. ne
gro, determinedly .Then be added:
"Now, see a heah -yo can go fra th
whole blamed joggrafy; but Massa Sher
man he'done sa, that nobody, can . get
ma nrifont a.vin Cambridcrel"
UOO Am.v - . v-p-;.
- woman that . respects herself is
more beautiful thau a single star; more
beautiful than many stars at night.
1 Respect always a silent woman ; great
is the wisdom of the woman that hold-
eth her tongue.
8 A fa JONES' LGTTDR.
Atlanta Journal. .
With my co-workers, : Rev. George
Stuart and Oecar Seagle, I have been
conducting a 1 series of evangelistic
meetings in Paducah, Ky., for the past
ten day. The pastors and churches
have rented a large tobacco warehouse,
furnishing ample room for 6,000 or 8,
000 people. The attendance has tested
the capacity of the building at night
and good audiences in the . day : time.
We had anything but a dull time here
with 70 saloons and all the other ac
companiments on the other hand. The
devil certainly has the right-of way in
Paducah.- This city is a typical Ken
tucky.riyer town of 22,000 population,
splendid commercial interest with many
many features to commend, while there
are many ' to'cbndemnr : When ever
whisky is on the, throne,-, God 'is de
throned J-: whenever the saloons are do-ingrgood-
business -the- churches are
doing a smaU business,
-The pastors have taken the -census,
they tell me, on beautiful Sunday
mornings and found from 1,200 to 1,500
people in all the churches, leaving of
course more than 20,000 of the 22,000
population somewhere else other than
the churches. I said to : the" pastors :
You have got to do sometbing you
have not been doing or you will have
to get out of business, for when the
devil has 20000 of the population at 11
o'clock on Sunday morning and the
preachers have less 1 than 2,000 the
record for that town for piety uoes not
show up very well. ; We close our meet
ing here to-morrow morning. ' I wish
my "physical strength and other condi-
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teii days longer, 'but I am working out
all right ' '.'
.-. There have .been hunareds oi conver
tions andno; doubt there will be an
ingathering to ' the churches. ' I have
simply given the plain if acts of .Padu
cah, not that she , is worse than any
other city, brit this mirror is held up that
othercities many See themselves. If
Atlanta officials should ever be as lax
as officials heref the'h this would be the
drift of tbingsinrAtIanta.1 Let law be
enforced, and, order maintained, and to
evil influence draw a line, thus far thou
shalt come and" no farther. ' "
This "is what they call a wide-open
townThe secretary of , the Y. M. C.
A. furnished me with the following
data which : is enough, to : make the
aMgeU veep: li U ' , .
Number of young men in Jfaducah,
4,000 members of the Y. M. C. A. 302;
average attendance at bunday afternoon
meetings, 43; daily attendance, "38 ; the
churches open ' five hours a week ; Y.
M. C. A. Open 93 hours a week; saloons
open ,133 hours a week. I have been
doing my best to influence the parents
of this city that such a state of things
tended toward ruin as truly as that the
old Ohio river which winded about the
city was going to " the gulf . It is a
question in all cities in these days of
material prosperity whether its best to
hold up pur boys and let commercial
interest go down or hold up the com
mercial interest and let the boys go
down.Hjf v";-r:'--:f'y:" ,
Tbis is the 16th day of October. I
awoke this beautiful morning to find
myself 55 years of age ! If I live I will
soon be a patriot, I feel in my blood
and bones that I do not feel as, young
as I used to feel. For more than thirty
years I have fought with all my might
all rover - this country every "evil that
blights and blasts the ! character, and
championed everything that makes
home happy, and our country decent,
and I am going on to the end fighting
the same things and walking by the
same rule, r " t - 1 ; -
The sad neWs came to me of the sad
death of two of my fellow townsmen of
Cartersville,' Judge J. W. Harris and
Mr. Westerfelt -How sad their deaths,
and they fell like a pall of gloom and
despair Upon the homes of which they
were the "husbands' and fathers. May
God temper the wind to the shorn
lambs:ry ;.-5t ;---; .;' " -
A few days ago I greeted them both
upon the streeta and little did I think
they would be called - so soon. My co
worker, JBro. Stuart, ; was summoned
home last Tuesday ,by telegram on ac
count' of f5 the " serious illness of his
brother-in-law, Dr. - 8mith, Cleveland,
Tenn. . He wired me next day, saying
that it was a hopeless case and that
he was sinking gradually. Oh ! the
troubles, v and griefs . of . this world.
Sometime I rejoice that I have passed
as many of the : mile-posts as I have,
on my journey to the other world, and
I am one fellow that "don't want to go
back and try It over again..
I have been reading with eager inter
est the efforts .made, by the president
and " Penhsylvanians and 'New York
officials in "their endeaver" to settle the
coal stride It will take a masterful
stroke of genius, .wisdom ane prudence
to carry that J thing through. In any
event, labor.has had its best hearing
k n -l a a a 1 'i4a m aa Vk m 1I1 n H n flvrDll
ences;: fjyf :fr3 - V Sam P. Jones.
! f . Prof. Lorenz Palls In One Case.
:DEim, 'Col-'Oct-.SO.Prof. Adolf
Lorenz of Austria, , who ' came to this
country to operate on T the . Armour
child, ; arrived 1 here last eveninsiad
torday performed six ' oper-
congenital dislocation orv
Four were successful, one only partially
so'.' and the sixth was a, failure; the age
of the child, 9 years, and the firmness
of the muscles preventing the surgeon
from' accomplishing his purpose. Dr.
Lorenz said that after a child so de
formed, reaches the' age ;of 7 nothing
can,; be done save to ameliorate the
deformity. : : - ' ,
IProf. Lorenz will remain a day or two
and operate daily. ; He highly praises
the American surgeons he has met.
1? Judge Griggs,: of Georgia, 1 chairman
of the democratic victory in November
elections is a bright one. - v
V"A': vain woman Js to. be feared, for
she will sacrifice all for her pride.
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