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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY,"S. C., JANUARY 2^, 1890.
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OUT OF THE WOODS.
•Great Gobs” of Sense From
Sago of Rocky Greek
the
hi <Ju«»tlon of ••Hook* and Book
I-aarnln"—Money Knoufh Waited for
Fancy Trlmmins to “Feed the Wtd-
deri and Orplianti and Ituild a
y»rr School Home in Every
Settlement.”
(Copyright, 189C.)
Book learnin is a riRht tolerable good
thing, no doubts, in the right and proper
place. There is nothin like it under
the sun, and
nothin ho ter un
less it maybe
mought ho a lit
tle more of it. |
But it never was
give unto man
kind in general
— weak and
wayward worms
of the dust—to
fix up the right
and proper place
to put it. Only the good Lord can do
that, and if it comes to pass that Ho
didn’t tend to it in layin the founda
tions it simoly can't bo did. And con
sequentially I maintain that in this
present day and generation people
waste more time and more money tryin
to pack down hook learnin whore there
ain't no place for it than any other way.
The money which is hlowed in along
these lines would feed and clothe all
the poor widders and orphants in the
land and build a good log school house
in every settlement.
“Tremcnrtius Heavy Thought*.”
One clear frosty mornin last week 1
saw Billy Strickland, the onlyest son of
Dunk and his wife, pass by on his way
to school, and that is how it come to
pass that I am thinkin these tremendius
heavy thoughts. I took good notice of
that boy as ho ambled along the big
road, and right then and there I couldn't
keep from thinkin of how Dunk and his
wife have worked and worried, and
starved and stinted, and saved and
scratched and scraped up a little money
in orderment to blow it in on that sim-
lin-headed boy at school. You mought
think—and the Stricklands would be
dead certain to say—that it was none of
my infernal business. But that wouldn't
keep me from seoin Billy on his way to
school, and the sight of that boy is
what makes me tell you what I do con-
cernin the great and growin question of
schools and hooks and book learnin.
Understand me now—I don’t mean to
aay that Billy Strickland ain’t worth
bis room in the world or his weight in
sap sawdust. In his own pecurious way
Billy is a rale smart boy. He ain't the
least wise lazy, ami when it comes to
makin plow stocks and ox yokes and ax
bandies and the like of that, he could
beat me out of sight and give me three
ia the game. And indurin crop time
Billy will put as much fresh dirt behind
him in a day as any boy of his ago in
tha settlement. Of course he wouldn’t
be a thoroughbred American hoy if he
didn’t love to swap knives and play
marbles for keeps, and go huntin and
flshin considerable between drinks, as
it were. And yet he will turn off a
boy s full share of odds and ends and
jobs on the farm.
But when it comes to tondin school,
and diggin the learnin out of books
and packin it away under his bat—well,
Billy Strickland ho jest naturally ain’t
there. In the boginnin he don’t want
to learn. Ho knows a gracious plenty
now. And be couldn’t learn very much
if he wanted book learnin so bad till he
could taste it. The good Lord didn’t
fix up no place for Billy to pack away
book learnin and he couldn't tote it in
hi* pocket. More than that, tho boy
can’t see whore ho will ever need any
thing of the sort in his business. If a
boy loves books, and '.ho good things ho
can git out of books, tho more he learns
and knows the better it will be for him,
provldin ho is trained up in the way he
was cut out to go. If a hoy raloy wants
to climb up tho hill of knowledge you
couldn't build a brick wall around him
ten feet thick and a mile high and keep
him down. But if you have got to run
the boy down, and throw him and buck
him and gag him, and lam and cram
hook learnin into him inch by inch, it
is a plum waste of time and trouble and
money.
If it ever comes to pass that I mought
have a boy like Billy Strickland I never
will bo fool enough to blow in much of
his time and my money on tho school
question. Seems to mo like it would bo
a whole lot more better—bettor for me
and better for him—to go forth and step
off forty acres of land, and buy him a
good mule and give him a now ax and
turn him loose an i tell him to pitch in.
That would please Billy Strickland all
over, and he would takif to it like a bog
k> her wallow. He could run a shebang
like that without any book learnin to
apeak of, and that is about the onlyest
layout that will ever fit Billy’s hand.
One Book Only for Hilly.
Now Dunk Strickland and his wife
pass for smart peopl • in regards to men
and things in general, hut when it
comes to their son Billy they ain't got
a lick of sense. They don’t know as
much about the general surroundins in
Billy's case as Billy knows, and Billy
he don’t know anything for certain.
Dunk thinks that Billy mought run for
congress, or maybe git elected justice
of the peace byandbv, whilst his wife
thinks Billy will make tho best and
biggest preacher in the round created
world—providin of course they can
scrape up money enough to give him
plenty of schoolin.
The last time I was over to the Strick
land place we got to talkin along this
^ine, and 1 up and told Dunk my gen
eral opinions in regards to Biily.
“If you will but only save back tho
rittoaey you aro now spumlm on Billy at
school, and when ho gits old enough to few words
go forth on his own ho< k, take it and didn’t talk
buy somethin that will fill out hi* hand, whole lot.
it will ho a blame siirht hotter for tha tho edges,
boy,” says I. “Billy ho don't take to
books, and books don’t mix with Billy,
and so there you are. If you was rich,
and Billy was rich, and it was recorded
that you would both remain forever
rich, it mought sorter do to fool off pre
cious time and chunk away good money
in your .Tack-o'merlantern chase after
hook learnin. But under the general
circumference of the present surround-
ins it is vanity—pluperfect vanity.”
Then Dunk swelled up considerable
and lowed that Billy was as smart as
tho common run of boys, and he must
have all tho schoolin ho would take.
But bless gracious. I thought in toy
soul that Mises Strickland would jump
on me right there in h"r own house.
She got foamin mad and flew off at the
handle and turned loose her personal
opinions in great gobs and red-hot
chunks. She would let mo know that
her and Dunk could raise a boy up in
the way for him to go as well as mo or
anybody else. And she would give me
to understand that Billy had learnt as
much as any hoy could learn unless the
teacher would put him in more hooks.
“Hit ain’t natural” says she, “for the
boy to learn very much when he ain't
got nothin to study it out of but one
blue-back spellin book. ’
It was then a mighty good time of
year for me to lay low and say nothin.
So 1 had^to lot Dunk and his wife have
their way in regards to their hoy Billy
and his book learnin. As to that, they
can spend every dollar they can rake
and scrape and keep Billy goin to school
till he comes to bn a full-grown man,
but he will never need any more hooks.
There is more learnin in that one blue-
back spellin book than tho whole entire
human family ever could stuff into
Billy’s head.
Too Many “Fanrjr Trim min*.”
The last time 1 went over in the hill
country—on my return hack homo I
passed by a little shanty down there
on the old Stage Road, where tho Wid-
der Buntin lives. She was Miss Mollie
Fannin before she married Sim Buntin.
which Sim ho took and died two year*
ago and left Mollie with a whole passle
of children to scramble through thi*
vain and fieotin world as b st she can.
Wh.ereas, when 1 couin by their shanty
that day 1 couldn’t h-dp from thinkin
about Mollie Fannin as she use to bo
in them other days, and the widder
Buntin as she is now. Old man Lot
Fannin and his wife didn't have but
the one girl and that was Mollie. They
had some boys, hut Mollie she was the
mainest member of tiie family and tho
general pet of all. Old man Lot and
his wife worked theu.s Ives and their
hoys like so many free niggers, and
spent all tho money they could make
and scrape on Moll e. They kept her
in school till they lowed she knowed
more than tho teacher down at the Cross
Roads, and then they sent her off to
college. When finally at last she had
learnt it all and come hack home, they
skimmed the rnilk and fed her on the
cream, as it were. They lit in and
bought her a fine planner and give her
big parties and dressed her finer than
split silk. They went deeper and deeper
in debtevery year for fine parties and fine
riggins and general fancy trimmin*
which they give to Mollie,
In tho main time Miss Mollie, she
was human ilesh and blood, you under
stand, and in the run of time she took
it into her head that she must go and
get married. So presently her and Sim
Buntin got “booked up in double har
ness,’’ as Andy Lucas were wont to say,
and put in to hangin their clothes on
tho same peg. Now Sim lie is dead and
gon*', and in regards to that, ho didn’t
stack up for very many while he was
livin. From what I hear people say, it
took his level blam lest to keep out of
the poor house, and tho widder and
children can do that much without him.
But honest now, wouldn’t it be a
blame sight better for Mo’lie if old man
Lot bad saved up some of that money
ho spent in sendin her off t<> college
and giving her fine parties and huyin
silks and satins, and put it in land so
she would now have a home for her
children and herself?
Miss Mollie use to could read and
write and talk latin as free and easy as
I can handle plain United States, and I
reckon sho can till yet. But tell me,
patient and long-sufferin reader, what
good will that do tho Widder Buntin
and her children six ? She could like-
; wise knock tho livin socks off of a
! planner, and maybe she mought do
that now if sho had one. But that don’t
i put no moat in the smokehouse or meal
j in the barrel. Sho has forgot more in
regards to hooks than the common run
of women w.ll ever know, hut at the
same time sho is just simoly tho Widder
Buntin today, livin in tbat little shanty
down there on tho old Stage Road,
worryin along as best she can workin
305 days in tho year--exceptin Sundays
—to keep tho wolf out of tho front
door.
Remember now, it aint for mo to say
a word out of tho way concornin that
good woman. I used to think a great
pile of Miss Mollie Fannin, and I ruther
like tho Widder Buntin. It aint none
of her fault that sho is now a poor
lone widder, with a whole passle of
orphants to raise and nothin to go on.
And she ain’t in no wise to blame for
the free and reckless way in which tho
old folks spout their money on her in
her young days. But if old man Lot
Fannin could wake up today and peep
out of his grave and see his daughter
Mollie as the Widder Buntin, ho mought
likewise also see wherein he played
the fool wh< n ho spent all his money
to give her somethin that she never did
raley need, and which ain’t worth a
continental now.
and plenty of sense. He
very much, but ho said a
He never wabbled around
He shot to hit and most in
generally plugged the bull’s eye. And
1 never have forgot, from that good day
to this blessed hour, a short and power
ful sermont which he preached to me
oncst upon a time.
“The mainest thing with poor folks,
Rufus, i* to make the edges cut comin,”
says ho. “Save your time as well as
your money, and make the Jiggers count
your way. Settle the question as to
what you will do and what you will he,
and then set your pegs and work out
your plans accordin. If you mean to he
a farmer, which I reckon you will, as it
runs in the family, it would ho vanity
to spend your money to g > off to college
and learn everything in the high flurtin
branches. It will pay you hotter to take
the money you would spend for fancy
book learnin and put it into a pair of
good mules. Latin and algebry and
history and tho like of that will do tol
erable well if a hoy has got plenty of
time and plenty of money to take it all
in, but you can bo a good farmer and run
your business to the winnin pint with
out all them fancy trimmins. If you
can read and write and figger through
the rithmetic that will do to start on,
and if you must learn any more you can
pick it up on tho run. Lawyers and doc
tors and school teachers have to go on
up into the higher branches, as they
say, but that wouldn’t stand for much
with you when it comes down to rock
bottom and plain business. Make tho
edges cut comin, Rufus, and spend your
time and money for somethin that you
need in your everyday business—some
thin that will fill your hand and help
you in the fight.”
Now then. Sot you down this. The
money that people spend for hook
learnin, which never will be worth a
continential in the great issues of every
day life, would feed all the widers and
orphants in the land, and build a new
school house in every settlement.
Ruffs Sandkus.
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SEED ENDS IN POTATO CULTURE.
Natnro of Eye* and Growth of Sprout*.
Stem End* and Other Cut*.
An instructive instance of What ab
surdly wrong conclusions even tho best
reasoners may arrive at when they
build upon theory rather than practical
experience is that of recent discussions
about the value of seed ends in planting
potatoes. The seed end has a large
number it eyes close together. For
the theorist it is but natural to conclude
THE CHEAT! 7 :.iA>\
A.rp Tolls of tin I i i . Opin
ion Among i-.d ,.i~»Ora
When AnUoiI the OutMtin'i V. .i» \V«» the
Greatest Man of the I.a*t II .II Cen
tury— Inlliieiifc* Caused
Some Answer*.
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PEOPLE.
Mascagni was lately tuked in what
Furopean city he would like to live, and
replied: “From 9 to 11, London; from
11 to 5, Paris; from 5 to7, Vienna; from
7 to 10, Budapest, and after 10, Berlin.”
The atutue of Ole Bull, which the
Scandinavians of Minnesota are to erect
in Minneapolis, is being modeled by
Fjelde, the Scandinavian sculptor of
that city. It is expected that the bronze
statue will be completed in about six
months.
Li Hung Chang is now in Pekin, no
longer viceroy of the great province of
Chihli. Relegated to a little temple at
Pekin,a few followersnnd the members
of his numerous family gathered about
him, he is, it is said by those on the
spot, really shelved. His health is said
to be failing and his prestige is nil.
Nelson Dingley, Jr., the chairman of
the committee on ways and means,
never had any profession other than
that of a newspaper proprietor and ed
itor, creating in 20 years of hard work
the most influential and widely-read
paper in Maine, the Lewiston Journal.
Kven now he finds time on occasions to
write a leading article.
Paul Louis Courier, when bitterly as
sailed by a French professor, quietly re
marked: “I fancy he must be vexed.
He calls me ‘Jacobin, rebel, plagiarist,
thief, poisoner, forger, leper, mad
man, impostor, lioeler, a horrible,
filthy, grimacing ragpicker.’ I gather
what he wants to say. He means that
he and I are not of the same opinion,
and this is his only way of putting it."
FASHIONS IN RINGS.
In N ero’s time there was a fashion
prevalent of wearing large rings, the
setting of which was carved with the
bust of the special divinity who was the
wearer’s patron.
Paradise rings were greatly worn in
Italy three centuries ago. They were
very wide and bore on fhe circumfer
ence representations of Adam and live
in the Garden of Eden.
When the tomb of the groat Em
peror Frederick, who died in 1250, was
opened in 1780, his coronation ring,
set with a beautiful emerald, was still
found upon his finger.
The ring of Edward the Confessor
is preserved among the royal regalia
of Great Britain. For several centuries
it was used in the coronation cere
monies of the English kings.
In the Etruscan tombs of northern
Italy gold rings have been found made
in the shape of a cord, a large knot of
intricate pattern forming the princi
pal part of the ornament.
Mourning rings were greatly used in
Europe during the 17th century. After
the execution of Charles I. his sym
pathizers in England wore mourning
rings in token of their grief.
The scarabaeus, or sacred beetle of
the Egyptians, was a favorite subject
for a setting in the early Egyptian
rings. It was carved in stone, the work
oftea being exquisitely done.
UNO* EPHRAIM’S WISDOM.
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NORMAL GROWTH OF WHOLE POTATO,
that tho sprouts here will bo numerous
and crowded, and therefore weak, and
that the result of seed end planting will
be a large lot of small tubers. But, alas
for theory, and fortunately for the prac
tical hut unscientific grower, writes T.
Greiner to Country Gentleman, nature
has made special provisions to guard
against ill results of planting seed ends,
whether alcne or with the entire potato.
The sprouts here do not all develop, by
any means. Usually there is one sprout
in advance of all others, and this will
not only be the earliest but also tho
strongest o’ all the potato will ever de
velop.
It shows :he earliest, writes this well
known authority, because it is tho most
vigorous to begin with, and it remains
in the lead because it has the first pick
of and fr.ee access to the prepared plant
food in the tuber. If this sprout is left
intact, it may possibly be the only one
that starts from the seed end and not
infrequently the only one from the
potato where it is planted whole. In
most cases a few more sprouts will
grow, hut these are the best of all that
could possibly be produced. “There
can be no doubt that nature intended
the seed end to furnish the sprouts, and
that the other eyes are only reserve buds
to be called on for growth in case the
first and more valuable ones on the seed
end. for some cause or other, are lost.’’
Tho normal growth of a whole potato is
shown in accompanying illustration,
Fig. 1. This is not a fancy sketch.
The Early Ohios which Mr Greiner
used for his first planting, and which
were placed singly in plats, seed end
up, under the greenhouse benches, to
“green' and sprout, look at planting
time as like tin* illustrated specimen as
one egg looks like another. Sometimes
one finds smallish tubers that have
grown on the stalk above ground. These
usually show sprouts at the seed cud,
but nowhere else This is one more
proof, he thinks, that growth was nat
urally intended to start fiom the seed
end He says
The simultaneous development of
sprouts from the eyes all over tho pota
to, such as shown in Fig 3. is an ah
normal development, resulting usually
from a general weakening of tho seed
tuber, in consequence of loss of tho first
sprouts or of other abnormal conditions
These are facts which any practical po
tato grower can observe for himself
Mr. Greiner expresses surprise at the
advice sometimes given “to cut off the
seed end " Ho would soomu cut off the
V?
.5EED EnD Fig ?•
GROWTH OF WKAKENKU SEED TUBER
stem ends and throw these away than
the seed ends. Another point to which
attention is called is that “some eyes
noarei the stem occasionally refuse to
grow. They remain dormant, oven if
cut and planted singly.”
A I'livveri nl short ••Sermont.”
My good old grandfather (may bia
tribe iuuruuao loruvurj wan a maft Ot
“Dah ain’t no heahaftah, chile—dc
prlsint am etahnal.
“Yo* termorrah am tol’able safe ef
jo* libs terday ez cf yo’ wan’t er gwine
ter hab none.
“Hit am er ma’v’lis t’ing how brazen-
lak some o’ we uns kin look er good
reserlooshin in de face w’ile we’s er
aina«hin' hit all ter tlindahs.
“De man w’at nebbah leches han’ ter
ahubbel am de man ut meks de mos’
reroa’k* erbout de comiishiu oh he
neighbah’s sidewalks.
“Hit am er ha’d t’ing ter be cz ’dus-
tri’a w’en de stockin' am done filled up
ez w’en we’a er fightin’ oh de wolf fum
de do’, but I don’t know no uddah way
ob keepin’ de stockin’ full.
*T’a er winkin' hit didn’t tax de faith
ob some ob yo* niggahs s’ much ter he
es good ter de Lawd ez yo’ is ter de pa’-
Sugar Cano In Florida.
lu his recent report Commissioner
Wombwell says;
Investigations extending over the
greater portion of the present year, with
a view of ascertaining with some degree
of certainty the relative adaptability of
the soils of Florida to sugar culture, as
compared with lands of other sections of
tho south, have been made, and tho fact
satisfactorily demonstrated that tho
juice from sugar cane grown upon the
sandy soils of this state contains a high
er percentage of sacchurino matter and
a proportionate lesser amount of glu-
eoso than that grown upon the lands of
any other state in the cane producing
region The yield per acre and tho cost
of production arc both very largely in
favor of our state. The same remarks
apply with equal force as to investiga
tion and results in tho case of ramie
production.
Until the present season chinch bugs
have been unknown in Ohio.
It was a goodly company and a bounte
ous feast. While enjoying both wo dis- |
sussed the affairs of the nation in a philo
sophic mood, and in a temperate, c.insid-
erate manner expressed our opinions of
men and measures—noting the dilT renees
that honestly possessed each different
guest, 1 ventured to a-k a question that I
each might answer. Who is the greatest
Ainerie in, living or dead, of the last half
century? It would he surprising to hear 1
the answers to this question in any little |
coterie of intelligent, well educated gentle- '
men. Almost every man has his idol
whom ho worships or admires, not with- !
out reason, hut with more regard than is
justly due. We are drifted into channels
af thought by circumstances, by surround
ings, by heredity. We become the creat
ures of prejudice, both in polities and
religion. This is human nature and there j
is nothing wrong about it when it is kept (
within bounds of toleration for the opin- !
ions of others. Only the intolerant get I
up discord.
“Who is tin* greatest man?” I asked, j
“Grover Cleveland,” said Mr. Fite. “Bob j
Toombs and Gen. Grant," said Mr. Jar- i
rail. “Dr. Atticus Haygoml." said Judge |
Akin, promptly. “Jefferson Davis," said
Mr. Carey. “Ah, there now." they all re
sponded. "Of course—of course, Jefferson '
Davis was tho greatest man—the very
greatest man.” When t was called to re
spond I said: “None of you are old
enough to have seen die greatest man,
but 1 saw him when I was a lad. and he
put Ids hand upon my head and said kind
and tender words to me. IB* was pass
ing through our town and my father
‘ook me to tho hotel that 1 might see the
greatest and best man in the nation, as
ho called him. It may he that his licne-
iietion upon me has had something to do
with my hero worship, my idolatry, hut
my occasional pi nisal of Ids biography
ind his speeches have confirmed n.o in my
opinions. IB* has been dead forty-five
years, but 1 still believe that John (’.
Calhoun was tho groatost man. He was
the model upon which Jefferson Davis
built Ids own great character."
Now. see how our little party differed
and their differences can he traced to
some collateral iulluciircs. Emory College
and John Wesley Methodism had some
thing to do with Judge John Wesley
Akin’s idolatry. 1 suspect that Ids second
■'hoiee would he Judge Bleckley, whom he
loves to speak of. He vi-iinl Judge
Bleckley at Clarkesville not long ago and
listened eagerly as he discoursed of Ids
*arly life. "My mother,” said he, "was
not an educated woman. In fact, she
was homely. 1 never saw her look beauti
ful hut once, only once, ami that was
when she was dead and was shrouded for
the coffin. Sin* looked like an angel
■deeping there, and 1 wept great tears of
•sorrow. My heart was almost breaking,
for she had l«*on such si dear, good moth
er to nio." Tho Judge paused long enough
to wipe the tears that came from his
cavernous eyes and to recover his wonted
speech. "But. my friend, her life and her
religion was nil eoiieontr.il d in one beau
tiful word, the most beautiful in our lau-
znage. and that is duty- -duty. There is no
greatness that is really great without it.
My dear mother's daily life, thought and
.iced was one of duty—duty to God and
her family and neighbors. She never
spoke of it nor boasted of it. hut she acted
it ami we saw it and loved her—yes, we
loved every feature of her sweet and
homely face, i do not owe sill to her, hut
( do owe the hotter part—yes. all that is
tender and loving and true.”
Mr. Jnrrall spoke of Gen. Grant’s great
ness as a military commander and his
magnanimity toward us after we wore
2onqucrcd. In that was the heroism of
ais character. Then lu* spoke of Toombs’
wonderful gifts as an orator and states
man and patriot, but lamented that for
so long a time he failed to set a high
moral example to the young men of the
State. After he had joined the church he
)ceasionally was overcome by tempta
tion—liis besetting desire for stimulant,
snd in all seriousness In* spoke of it to
Bishop I’on roe. his life-long friend, and
wanted a theological explanation.
“Now, George.” said he. “if I am reallv
converted, why is it that I crave whiski
»nd why is it that I can’t resist the de-
fire. It seems to me that a true Christian
should havo no unholy desires. Maybe I
»rn not converted.”
Mr. Fite is an office-holder and an of-
ice-seeker. both of which are honorable
;o all honorable men, and he has been
following old Grover so l<nig that In* will
jot forsake him now. Mr. Carey is not
troubled much with present politics. Hi
deal is dead and lu* loves to worship at
lis shrine. There are many of his mind.
)ut they make but little noise in the noisy
vorld.
“I, too. love to worship there, and at
Mr. Calhoun’s, too. I love to read what
•he great men. his rivals, said about Mr.
“alhoun when it was announced *!> the
Senate that he was dead. Mr. Webster
■aid: "He was a man of great genius
md commanding talent. All the world
idniits that. When lu* last addressed us
we could imagine that we saw before us a
Senator from Rome win n Rome survived,
[lis high character was one of unimpeach-
*d honor and unspotted integrity. 1 do
lot believe he ever hud a selfish motive
>r selfish feeling.” Henry Clay said:
‘His genius was of the very highest or-
ler and the charm of his presence and
lis powers were felt by all who conversed
ivith him.” Edward Even tt said: “Cal-
loun. Clay and W bsterl I name them
n their proper order, t he great thinker,
he great leader, the great orator.” Duty,
jutriotn- duly, was his lifo work. I've
jeen wondering what In* had to do with
he Monroe dootrin ?. He was Monroe’s
Secretary of State when it was enunciat-
fd, and I reckon was its inspiration. But
ifter all, Mr. Calhoun’s most lovable
(ualities were seen in his private life as
tusbnud, father, friend and neighbor, in
ill these he was pure and without re
proach. What more need be said of him?
f wished to say this much in justification
if my idolatry. 1 have boon to Fort Hill,
vhere In* usi d to live, and sat at the great
able that was made of walnut taken from
’he tlooks in hfs library and looked at th»
eautifnl paintings in his picture cilery.
I have walked down the steps and drank
• ater fm a the fountain that he drank
from, and 1 feel like a pilgrim feels who
<oe8 to Mecca.
Now, let younger men indulge in the*e
pleasant episodes and when they havo
jhoson an idol let them study his charac-
lor and be able to give a reason for the
faith that is in them. We used to debate
auestions when we were hoys at school
‘hat were akin to these: “Who deserves
;he most praise, Columbus for discovering
Ainerlcu. or Washington for defending
it.” The answer of young America now
is Gomez and Macco. They don’t care
anything about Columbus. lie came as
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Condensed Schedule of Pucsenger Trains.
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Traffic M’g’r,
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between New ork and New Ortcanj, via VVasfi-
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Atl.uiia and Bumii ghuui. on tng curs.
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man slvei'ing ours between Atlanta, New Of*
lea*i* amt Now York.
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Richmond, Danville and Greensboro
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